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Kenya: most developed private healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
Egypt, Kenya (including Mombasa), Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, Tunisia
Domestic medical tourism, Strategy
Cardiac surgery, Cosmetic surgery, Transplantation
A report, "Tourism for Transformative and Inclusive Growth" by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency has noted that the private health sector in Kenya is one of the most developed and dynamic in sub-Saharan Africa. The country should take advantage of existing assets in the medical sector to attract other African nationals seeking specialised treatment services abroad.
Kenya is a leading destination which African nationals visit seeking high-end specialised medical services. Inbound African medical tourism is also increasing in Egypt, Mauritius, Morocco, South Africa, and Tunisia.
Kenya is strategically placed given its accessibility from many African countries and a balance between quality and price. Kenya is well connected within Africa by air, road and water providing good connectivity for patients. The biggest strategic advantage that Kenya has is its base in tourism as it attracts 2 million travellers internationally and regionally.
Yet, despite this, according to the Health Ministry, 10,000 Kenyans travel abroad annually in search of medical treatment, spending USD 10 billion. Many Kenyans go abroad for cheap treatment in India and Thailand.
Kenya is emerging as a preferred healthcare destination for patients from East and Central Africa, and the government has begun to mention medical tourism, but so far little has happened to promote it.
Kenya can offer elective surgeries of joint replacements, cardiac related issues, cancer management, neurosurgery, IVF, organ transplant, cosmetic surgery, and dentistry. The only active renal transplant programme in the region is in Kenya.
The new report says that there should be collaborations between the Health Ministry and the Tourism Ministry to market the country as a medical destination for international and domestic medical tourism. For Kenya, it would save on lost foreign currency and increase inbound medical tourism from neighbouring countries in Africa.
The government also needs to work with private hospitals. Mediheal Hospital and Fertility Centre in Eldoret, for example, provides high-quality medical services in Kenya and East Africa. Mediheal has invested heavily in access to sub-specialised treatment including 120 dialysis chairs, 20 operating theatres and 120 ICU beds. Mediheal was the first hospital to perform laparoscopic donor nephrectomy in East Africa for kidney transplant.
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Granek, M. (1994). Persistent Shadows of the Holocaust: The Meaning to Those not Directly Affected: Edited by Rafael Moses. Madison, CT: International Universities Press. 1993. Pp. xxii + 276.. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 75:635-639.
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Persistent Shadows of the Holocaust: The Meaning to Those not Directly Affected: Edited by Rafael Moses. Madison, CT: International Universities Press. 1993. Pp. xxii + 276.
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In 1988, on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, the Hebrew University's Sigmund Freud Center held its IVth Conference under the name: 'The meaning of the Holocaust for those not directly affected. A psychoanalytic view'. There were four plenary presentations, each followed by a plenary discussion and then by a small group discussion. The Conference was closed by a final plenary panel discussion. This book presents the proceedings of the Conference, including the plenary and twelve small group discussions. Thus, the reader is invited to be a nonparticipant observer in the Conference, and to have a glimpse not only of the theoretical thinking about the Holocaust but also of the emotional involvement with it. On this matter it is important to emphasise that the Conference gave an opportunity for many Israeli and/or Jewish participants to meet German colleagues, sometimes for the first time, which served to increase the emotional responsiveness to the subject.
After a Foreword by A. Solnit and an Introduction by R. Moses, the first paper, by the late Gottfried Appy (Germany), 'The meaning of Auschwitz today: clinical reflections about the depletion of a destructive symbol', presents Nazism as an attempt to actualise the narcissistic desire of an 'immeasurable and indestructible harmony and order for which all trash had to be eliminated' (p. 5). Only the confrontation with the horror of the Holocaust lead to the rupture with Nazism, its ideology and idealisation. However, Auschwitz, which was initially a symbol of dehumanisation and suffering, of degradation and perversion, has been gradually reduced to be but a metaphor, the metaphor of the menaces threatening the psyche during the mourning process.

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WATCH | LUKE HANNANT ON RETURN TO FITNESS AHEAD OF PRE-SEASON
Luke Hannant completed a full football training session for the first time in six months at the Inc. Training Ground this morning, and caught up with iFollow afterwards.
As well as the long break from action caused by the covid-19 outbreak which led to the curtailment of the 2019/20 season, the U's energetic forward had also missed a significant period prior to that, having sustained an ankle injury in late January.
Hannant has therefore in recent months had to work through both a rehabilitation programme provided by Head of Medical, Mikey Burroughs, and the first team off-season programme put together to keep the player's fitness level on track by Head of Performance Matt Walker.
Following his first full session back with the ball at his feet this morning, he spoke to iFollow and the full interview can be viewed above.
Meanwhile, you can check out the brand new hummel training wear range for the 2020/21 season online now, which this year proudly displays the logo for the national mental health campaign Heads Up. Click here to buy now.
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You have displayed time on front part.
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Has the app been updated to reflect the Caltrain schedule changes effective March 2nd, 2009?
Yes, it is updated for the March 2nd change. Apple approved the updated App on Wednesday, it should be appearing as a free update to existing users.
Great app, nice interface, WRONG train time-table.
Sergey - The app was discontinued months ago and it should not be available for download int the App store. The time table was correct up to the discontinuation.
Where and when did you download it?
However, thanks for the other nice compliments.
This was a nice app. Thinking about releasing it again?
I'd love to update it but since writing the app I've had a kid which has resulted in me no longer riding Caltrain myself and I no longer have anytime to do any development.
I'm willing to donate the code to someone to continue it, but note that Apple want $100 to be part of the development program, and that making $100 back on this is actually quite hard.
MyCaltrain was the best schedule app by far. Offline access, personalized station lists, smooth navigation. In fact, I still use it and have just memorized which trains have been discontinued!
Having just bought a mac and gotten xcode up and running, I'm interested in trying my hand at iPhone development. Updating your app would seem to be a fun starter project that would also be useful to a broader community.
If your offer to share the code still stands, please drop me a line. Hopefully my info will be shared with you when I make this post.
Wendy Ju has taken the time to update the app with the new timetable and add a nicer icon.
This app can be extremely helpful. The only request would be to update the time table as the schedule on the map doesn't match with the schedule on the app.


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GITAI Sending Autonomous Robot to Space Station
The robotics startup will be launching into space next year an advanced manipulator with integrated sensing and computing
Evan Ackerman
This artist's rendering shows how GITAI envisions its future robots working on board the International Space Station.
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We've been keeping a close watch on GITAI since early last year—what caught our interest initially is the history of the company, which includes a bunch of folks who started in the JSK Lab at the University of Tokyo, won the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials as SCHAFT, got swallowed by Google, narrowly avoided being swallowed by SoftBank, and are now designing robots that can work in space.
The GITAI YouTube channel has kept us more to less up to date on their progress so far, and GITAI has recently announced the next step in this effort: The deployment of one of their robots on board the International Space Station in 2021.
GITAI's S1 is a task-specific 8-degrees-of-freedom arm with an integrated sensing and computing system and 1-meter reach.Photo: GITAI
GITAI has been working on a variety of robots for space operations, the most sophisticated of which is a humanoid torso called G1, which is controlled through an immersive telepresence system. What will be launching into space next year is a more task-specific system called the S1, which is an 8-degrees-of-freedom arm with an integrated sensing and computing system that can be wall-mounted and has a 1-meter reach.
The S1 will be living on board a commercially funded, pressurized airlock-extension module called Bishop, developed by NanoRacks. Mounted on the inside of the Bishop module, the S1 will have access to a task board and a small assembly area, where it will demonstrate common crew intra-vehicular activity, or IVA—tasks like flipping switches, turning knobs, and managing cables. It'll also do some in-space assembly, or ISA, attaching panels to create a solar array.
Here's a demonstration of some task board activities, conducted on Earth in a mockup of Bishop:
GITAI says that "all operations conducted by the S1 GITAI robotic arm will be autonomous, followed by some teleoperations from Nanoracks' in-house mission control." This is interesting, because from what we've seen until now, GITAI has had a heavy emphasis on telepresence, with a human in the loop to get stuff done. As GITAI's founder and CEO Sho Nakanosecommented to us a year ago, "Telepresence robots have far better performance and can be made practical much quicker than autonomous robots, so first we are working on making telepresence robots practical."
So what's changed? "GITAI has been concentrating on teleoperations to demonstrate the dexterity of our robot, but now it's time to show our capabilities to do the same this time with autonomy," Nakanose told us last week. "In an environment with minimum communication latency, it would be preferable to operate a robot more with teleoperations to enhance the capability of the robot, since with the current technology level of AI, what a robot can do autonomously is very limited. However, in an environment where the latency becomes noticeable, it would become more efficient to have a mixture of autonomy and teleoperations depending on the application. Eventually, in an ideal world, a robot will operate almost fully autonomously with minimum human cognizance."
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Nakanose says that this mission will help GITAI to "acquire the skills, know-how, and experience necessary to prepare a robot to be ISS compatible, prov[ing] the maturity of our technology in the microgravity environment." Success would mean conducting both IVA and ISA experiments as planned (autonomous and teleop for IVA, fully autonomous for ISA), which would be pretty awesome, but we're told that GITAI has already received a research and development order for space robots from a private space company, and Nakanose expects that "by the mid-2020s, we will be able to show GITAI's robots working in space on an actual mission."
NanoRacks is schedule to launch the Bishop module on SpaceX CRS-21 in November. The S1 will be launched separately in 2021, and a NASA astronaut will install the robot and then leave it alone to let it start demonstrating how work in space can be made both safer and cheaper once the humans have gotten out of the way.
GITAI's Autonomous Robot Arm Finds Success on ISS - IEEE Spectrum ›
This Autonomous Robot Might Soon Make Food Deliveries in Airports - IEEE Spectrum ›
Evan Ackerman is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Since 2007, he has written over 6,000 articles on robotics and technology. He has a degree in Martian geology and is excellent at playing bagpipes.
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Marketing innovation will receive more investment for marketers this year because majority of them are either staying or adding more funds into the basket. The deal is that they will be investing on the goal for innovation by using only tested channels such as email and they will not be willing to risk their investments by using new and unreliable marketing strategies.
Many businesses are renewing their focus on marketing because it has been proven to stimulate growth in the company. Majority of marketers, around 99 per cent of them, have pledged that they will either retain or increase their allotted budget for this year's marketing. A large percentage of the budget will be allocated for innovative strategies and technologies.
The goal to innovate is proven by the fact that marketers are willing to spend more of their budget. As a proof, technology innovation has taken the highest spot among options given to service providers of marketing while analytic services take the second spot.
Though they may be centering their attention on innovation, marketers are not expecting something magical to happen thus they have realistic expectations which they plan to make possible with the use of reliable channels only.
Virtual reality and augmented reality is starting to make a name in the industry as well as other latest trend in technology but marketers are still not willing to try these new marketing channels. Currently, only 8 per cent of marketers are tapping into virtual reality while over half of marketers are not sure of the relevance of the technology to their brand.
Instead of taking risk on new untested channels, majority of marketers are developing marketing innovation with the help of reliable channels such as email and social media. Based on a survey, 68 per cent of marketers are willing to invest more attention as well as funding to make use of email for this year. The same survey revealed that almost half or 49 per cent of marketers acknowledges the fact that they have a weak spot when it comes to personalization. One third of them pointed out that they will be focusing more on email personalization for 2017.


Foot slip is one of the major causes of falls in human locomotion. Analytical bipedal models can provide an insight into the complex slip dynamics and reactive control strategies for slip-induced fall prevention. Most of the existing bipedal dynamics models are built on no foot slip assumption and cannot be used directly for such analysis. We relax the no-slip assumption and present a new bipedal model to capture and predict human walking locomotion under slip. We first validate the proposed slip walking dynamic model by tuning and optimizing the model parameters to match the experimental results. The results demonstrate that the model successfully predicts both the human walking and recovery gaits with slip. Then, we extend the hybrid zero dynamics (HZD) model and properties to capture human walking with slip. We present the closed-form of the HZD for human walking and discuss the transition between the nonslip and slip states through slip recovery control design. The analysis and design are illustrated through human walking experiments. The models and analysis can be further used to design and control wearable robotic assistive devices to prevent slip-and-fall.
Trkov M, Chen K, Yi J. Bipedal Model and Hybrid Zero Dynamics of Human Walking with Foot Slip. ASME. J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 2019;():. doi:10.1115/1.4043360.


I just love visiting islands, and have set foot upon quite a few Scottish isles to date. Scotland was the second country I spent my main summer holiday after I commenced my working life, and at that time I got a commuter ticket to visit the Highlands and Islands by boat, bus and train. I managed to see the Isles of Skye, Harris and Lewis as well as Orkney. Since that I have visited Scotland and its islands many times, but there is such an endless number of them it would take a devoted lifetime to see them all. You might recall that last year I called to Islay and Jura of whisky and deer fame respectively.
On the August Bank Holiday weekend I got this year's fix of Hebridean island on the Isle of Gigha, midway west of the Kintyre Peninsula on the west coast of Scotland. On the Friday I flew on the first and cheapest flight with Aer Lingus on an ATR72 operated by Aer Arann. I am familiar with travelling on the latter airline and noticed they had cleaned up the normally grubby interiors to fit in with the Aer Lingus ethos.
I arrived in Glasgow in time for a leisurely breakfast which I took at the middling facilities at Glasgow Airport before took the commuter bus to Buchanan Bus Station. From there I caught an early afternoon Citylink coach destined for Campbeltown, but my get-off point was eight house village Tayinloan, some 20 miles or so from the end destination. The bus route is very scenic, passing most of the length of Loch Lomond, through the mountain pass by Rest and Be Thankful, and down the Kintyre Peninsula via Inveraray, Lochgilphead and Tarbert. The journey should have taken about 4 hours but a landslide at Rest and Be Thankful meant an extra hour of travelling. The ferry terminal was half a mile walk from Tayinloan, so that I speeded with suitcase to catch the second last boat to Gigha. It took just 20 minutes smooth sailing to reach the island and I walked uphill for less than half a mile to the Gigha Hotel.
The Isle of Gigha was bought over by the islanders from the laird, and more people have since settled there. The Hotel is community owned and therefore a feel-good factor about giving it your custom. It has a cosy bar, a wee lounge, a fairly large dining room and a good guest lounge. I was on a dinner, bed and breakfast single room package for £60 per night. Breakfast was substantial with decent options for evening meal, including the lovely island farmed halibut.
Having left very wet weather in Glasgow I had travelled under relatively clear skies, and enjoyed mainly fair weather for my three night day. The first morning was bright and sunny and I walked down the inviting path to the local cove of powder white sands on Ardminish Bay, named after the only village on the isle. A tortoise sand sculpture was etched out of the sand and a giant scallop shell looked very pretty nearby. In the near distance on the flat calm bay a row of sailing boats were moored in very safe shelter. I donned my bathing costume and waded out into the crystal clear bay with the icy water and some crabs nipping at me. In spite of the cold it felt very good to be there standing quite far out in the level bay looking around the the rocky shores dotted with sandy coves and a long jetty where children laughed as they launched themselves into the sea wearing hired wetsuits.
But I had more fish to fry and I walked on southwards past village houses with walls adorned with flourishing masses of red roses and orange mombretia and all sorts of wild flowers growing in the ditches. I bought a few goodies from an honesty stand, put my money in a box and took the due change. Onwards I passed a beautiful woods which would look dazzling with bluebells in May, my destination being the famed Achamore Gardens, pride of Gigha. Another honesty box was present for entry fees and souvenir booklets. In the gardens stands Achamore House, once manor of the laird and now a privately run bed and breakfast and production centre of floral essence. The gardens were thriving with all sorts of exotic plants which normally grow in more southerly climes. Gigha has a microclimate with little frost compared with the mainland. The photographs which I took best illustrate the range of plants, some of which I had never seen before. A beautiful walled garden was abundant with flowers.
Further up from the gardens I visited the ruins of 12th century Kilchattan Church, before succumbing to the temptation of seeking out a signposted craft shop. I walked past some beautiful self catering houses, and then heard a dog barking. The lady of the house came out and showed me into her aladdins cave of handmade goodies, some of which I purchased. She pointed out to the white bay beyond her, saying how lucky she was to be living in such a beautiful place.
Later I enjoyed an evening swim from a little cove by the campsite which was ablaze with bar-b-cues in celebration of someone's 30th birthday. The whole community had descended down and music throbbed in the nearby Boathouse café-bar. The water felt rather less cold this time and a quick shower washed me down as I got out of the water. Close by a small hovercraft sat beached on the sand, presumably ready to participate in rescue missions along with the voluntary fire brigade.
I was quite worried about catching my flight back from Glasgow on Monday as my timings depended on the bus being fairly punctual. Everybody was talking about the Rest and Be Thankful landslide and how it closed the road for days the las time it happened. I had visions of having to undertake a lengthy and expensive taxi journey to catch a flight to Glasgow from Campbeltown near the end of the Kintyre peninsula. I had no access to the internet and texted my cousins, asking them to google the relevant information. Cousin Johnny texted me back with the happy news that the road had now opened. I could now relax.
Sunday was a duller day, but dry throughout. I decided to walk five miles in the opposite direction to the slightly wilder north end of the island, where a series of rocky headlands and beaches like. I have developed quite a few aches and pains all over my joints which my consultant believes to be rheumatoid arthritis, though I am awaiting test results before starting injections to counteract it. I am very stiff and out of condition when I awake, but normally I "thaw out" somewhat as I get a bit of moving about. This walk I undertook was really too much for me that day, especially the five miles back to the hotel. Afterwards I spent hours asleep and could hardly eat a bite. It taught be a lesson in moderation of exercise. The walk provided some interesting sights including a wonderful standing stone and an isthmus connecting a small isle with two sandy beaches either side. I got waving and chatting to the odd cyclist and walker and came across the most magnificently flourishing wild flowers, including the most perfect Scottish thistles. I saw black and white sheep, horses, ducks and geese, but strangely no chickens in spite of the fluffy island egg omelettes at breakfast.
My journey home went without event and I enjoyed the beautiful scenery at Rest and Be Thankful before returning to Glasgow for my flight home. The city was awash with powerful rain storms; now hadn't I been lucky!


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TURKEYS ON THE SUNLOUNGER: the America I didn't expect.....: Broadchurch American-style?
The grim and gripping detective series has just finished here, on BBC America and now we're in the loop, along with you people at home. If you still don't know whodunnit, look away now. No sooner had I breathed a sigh of relief that it wasn't the Vicar (the Church gets enough of a bad press) but dodgy Joe who did for young Danny, I was alarmed to read that they are going to remake it, American-style, a bit like they did with that dark Scandinavian thing, the Killing. I suppose they thought some Americans wouldn't be able to cope with a Scottish accent.
So how will it turn out? For a start, no one's going to get anywhere near that cliff because of the safety barriers. They'll have to think up another crime scene. The press, with few worries about libel and reporting restrictions, will rake up everyone's seamy past far more quickly, thus considerably shortening the series to allow for more commercials. The church services will be packed full of happy-clappies and the insomniac Reverend will end up with his own cable channel (Megachurch?) Beth and Mark will get Oprah to work out their marriage problems on air, with viewers offering meaningful advice. The warring detectives (above) will definitely get together by the end, since sniping at each other is normal in American on-screen courtships, ala When Harry Met Sally. American hospitals will sort his ticker out in a jiffy - assuming he has the insurance. They both, however, will have to smile a lot more. Plus, dour Susan, on her nocturnal seaside dog walk, will surely be carrying a Smith & Wesson and will let rip with it when she spots the scarpering perp, saving everyone a lot of trouble.


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Los Angeles Landscape Architecture
The La landscape architecture and style community was surprised at the current announcement that Frank Gehry is developing a new masterplan for that redevelopment from the 51-mile stretch of the la River that runs with the city. Before released the particulars from the new Gehry-brought team, there have been no public discussions relating to this new approach or picking a the brand new design team. Also, it isn't obvious what's going to occur to the approved 2007 La River Revitalization Master Plan (LARRMP). The LARRMP, brought by engineering firm Tetra Tech, incorporated three landscape architecture firms: Civitas, Mia Lehrer + Affiliates, and Wenk Affiliates. The program is deeply rooted in hydrology and ecology, aims to bolster towns, featuring parks, trails, bridges, private and public facilities, and much more. The LARRMP was authorized by the La City Council and offers a blueprint located in watershed management, as plans move ahead.
The LARRMP led the introduction of the united states Military Corps of Engineers' La River Ecosystem Feasibility Study. The study's ambitious "Alternative 20" plan, that will ecologically restore a 11-mile stretch from the river and improve public access, was all authorized by the Corps recently.
Local landscape architecture professionals have voiced concerns with Gehry's appointment by the la River Revitalization Corporation. Additionally to threatening Congressional approval from the Corps' billion-dollar-plus Alternative 20 plan because of confusion with this particular new, unclear planning effort, there's worry about:
The possible lack of an open Process
The project's grand scope means the possibility effect on the town of La and also the eight southern gateway metropolitan areas towards the south is immense. The LARRMP was created from grassroots efforts and planned with intense community participation. Throughout public outreach, specific projects were recognized and championed through the communities most influenced. Any plan targeted at building around the LARRMP and Alternative 20 must seek public input right from the start to achieve support and assure significant final results.
The possible lack of Transparency
Assembling your shed worth focusing on needs a transparent process, no matter who leads your time and effort. A transparent process guarantees the choices made, and funding sources devoted, are clearly conveyed and understood. To achieve success, the look process should be overseen by all stakeholders and experienced professionals. The procedure will include community outreach and well-promoted possibilities for participation by all, especially local landscape designers who're familiar with local weather, environmental, and community conditions. Any efforts produced in the revitalization from the river should lead to new places for public entertainment, enhanced ecology and hydrology, and possibilities for local design professionals.
The nation's second biggest city faces two significant challenges: First, our towns lack significant public open space and, second, drought conditions and global warming make water management important to serving our current and future populations. The La River could be changed into eco-friendly infrastructure that gives methods to these two challenges.
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Agh! Those sharing buttons again.
I often come across a site, where I see those social sharing buttons on the side of the page, screaming like a naughty child, "look at me".
I'll not try to turn this post into a rant, but I have a real bugbear with social media experts and the use of social media buttons on websites.


Our wild blueberries here in Alaska tend to be much more flavorful than the commercial blueberries bought at the grocery store. They grow in such abundance that many find no need to attempt the very specific conditions required for growing blueberry cultivars in their back yards. Instead we troop out to the mountainsides with buckets in hand, hoping this is not the year someone else found our favorite spot first. Blueberry bushes can be 6 ½ feet tall or a mere 12 inches. They often have reddish stems, pink, urn shaped flowers, and ripen fruit in mid to late July through August.
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Rio Tinto revises down iron ore shipments for 2016
Published by Jonathan Rowland, Editor
Dry Bulk, Friday, 21 October 2016 11:00
Rio Tinto has cut its 2016 iron ore shipment guidance from its Australian iron ore mines to between 325 million t and 330 million t, the company said in its most recent operational review, after port and rail maintenance reduced third quarter shipments.
"Rio Tinto revises down iron ore shipments for 2016"
The company has previously anticipated shipments at the top end of the forecast at around 330 million t.
Despite the slight fall in forecast, Rio's year-to-date shipments remain ahead of 2015, totalling 239.9 million t – a 3% increase on the first nine months of 2015.
Production also remained strong, with 3Q16 output setting a new quarterly record or 83.2 million t. Production for the first nine months of the year stands at 243.9 million t – a 7% year-on-year increase on 2015.
Guidance for 2017 remains at between 330 and 340 million t, subject to final productivity and capital expenditure plans.
Beyond iron ore, the company reported strong bauxite production, setting both quarterly and year-to-date production records. Quarterly production hit 12.4 million t, 10% up on 3Q15, while nine-month output was 35.6 million t, also up 10% on 2015.
This strong production allowed the company to ship 22 million t to third parties in the first nine months of the year. The company also increased its full-year guidance by 2 million t to 47 million t.
Mined copper production for year to date was 4% higher than 2015 at 409 600 t, despite an 18% fall in copper production at Escondida mine in Chile. Thermal and metallurgical coal production was steady for the year to date.
Read the article online at: https://www.drybulkmagazine.com/dry-bulk/21102016/rio-tinto-revises-down-iron-ore-shipments-for-2016/


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Not Saying America Is Racist or Anything, but Over 240 Schools Are Named After Confederate Leaders
Joe Jurado
Photo: Mccallk69 (Shutterstock)
Over the summer, cities and states scrambled to respond to the protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd's death from police violence. Among the many symbolic gestures was the renaming of schools named after Confederate leaders.
According to CNN, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has found that over 240 schools are named after Confederate leaders. Making this even more suspect is the fact that about half of these schools serve student populations that are predominantly non-white. According to the EJI, this was intentional.
From the EJI:
Historically, the practice of naming schools to honor the architects and defenders of slavery has been part of a broader effort to maintain racial hierarchy in the U.S. In particular, many schools were given Confederate-themed names in the 1950s and 1960s as Southern states mounted what they termed "Massive Resistance," a coordinated effort by governors, legislators, and other white leaders to resist the racial integration of public schools. As federal law increasingly required school desegregation, white communities built new schools—schools that were either explicitly or implicitly intended for white children only—and named those schools after white Southerners who were notorious racists.
The schools are located in 17 different states, mostly throughout the south. Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Greenwood, Miss., is named after the president of the Confederacy. Its population is almost entirely made up of Black students.
Stonewall Jackson Elementary in Plant City, Fla., is named after Confederate general and slave owner Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. That school has an 85 percent non-white student population.
Until this year, Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., had a placard on it that encouraged students to "Never by word or by deed do anything to discredit the name of this great man."
I'm not sure what more students could do to discredit the name of a man who killed his fellow countrymen in the name of slavery.
For its part, the Montgomery County Board of Education voted to change the name of Robert E, Lee High School, as well as Jefferson Davis High School and Sidney Lanier High School, in July of this year. Since 2014, nearly 40 schools named after Confederate leaders have changed their names.
Following the death of George Floyd, the Southern Poverty Law Center has said that 59 Confederate symbols have been removed from public spaces. That's nice—until you remember that there are currently over 1,700 Confederate symbols still occupying public space.
It's almost like this country is trying to send a message or something.
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I'm gonna say that renaming the schools is a bit more than a "symbolic" gesture. Sure, it - in and of itself - is not going to solve systemic racism.
But the removal of the celebration of all those traitors to the nation will, over time, move the needle, by removing them from the public eye.


A commentary written by the Italian planners Rossella Marchini and Antonello Sotgia during a visit in Marseille, shared in Facebook on August 11, 2016.
Here we are in Marseille. After some years. We thought that this time we shouldn't settle accounts with the cités (the big residential estates built in the 70s, and inhabited by the immigrants attracted by the city's economic development). For us, to "settle accounts" with an urban area means to start walking. Going there and back again. With a reciprocal rule of employment: "no photos, nor debates on what we are seeing" (our debates are very lively, and those who see us get somewhat worried). This time we didn't have Izzo to guide us; we already saw the cités, we were guided by him. Les cités? "You have to live there, or have been born there, or be an educator, to enter those neighborhoods". We already entered them. Now we wanted to see the results of the project Euromediterranée, that, linked to Marseille 2013 European capital of culture, aimed to connect the two great urban areas North and South, through an ambitious project that costed over 3,5 billion euros, and that transformed 480 hectars. Dated 1995-2020. What happened, and what is happening, around the construction of the new system of museums on the waterfront? Can we simplify it by using the word gentrification? The term can convey the idea, but only partially; because if you walk, and speak with people, while looking around (it might not be a scientific method, but it's useful to us), you realize that now the city hasn't got any longer two spaces separated by the deep carving of its port. Now, the long stretched hand with which the Greek dug the territory, has an appendix: a new center. The spatial union created a new addition. New foundations, aimed at cultural consumption. Until here, nothing new. What is new is who is supposed to use these new facilities: the passengers of cruising ships. Now, after they visit the museum over water, the castle that during the Revolution served as a prison, after touring towards Notre Dame de la Garde, they have access to a huge commercial system made of two elements. The big road, excavated in the channel of the docks, hosts shops and cafés, and on the first floor luxury houses, hotels and offices. A great concentration of single-brand shops and huge malls. A long promenade that ends on a (how could we do without?) skyscraper by Zaha Hadid, the headquarters of the powerful Port Authority. Is this all? No, because all around the new project, there are masses of new buildings, houses, some higher, some lower. The old streets disappeared, and with them the multitude of low self-built houses, in Provencal style, where thousands of families lived. They were displaced, and relocated into – and we return to the starting point – the cités. But this is not the Game of the Goose. Even here, somebody calls it "urban renewal". You don't need to be born there, to enter those neighborhoods: you can enter also if the lords of finance and real estate evaluate that your life is surplus, and send you to the garbage dump of housing. Marseille, the capital of culture".
Jean-Pierre GARNIER (2013) "Marsella 2013: el urbanismo como arma de destrucción masiva" [article in PDF].


broken only by the crack of a hunter's gun in the woods.
we haven't fully realized that we are bereft — as after a death.
and we wait for winter to pull a chilly sheet over its head.
Every day now we hear hunters firing in the woods and the wetlands around our farm, most likely aiming for the few ducks that have stayed in the marshes through the winter, or possibly a Canadian goose or a deer to bring home for the freezer. The usual day-long symphony of birdsong of the rest of the year is replaced by shotguns popping, hawks and eagle screams and chittering, the occasional dog barking, with the bluejays and squirrels arguing over the last of the filbert nuts.
Last weekend I was startled by the cacophony of a starling murmuration or "rumble", hundreds rising and falling together in mass over the farm, landing brashly in our treetops and bleaching the ground beneath with their droppings, shattering the silence for an hour before moving on to another piece of real estate. Our farm was quiet once again.
The chilly silence of the darkened days is now interrupted by gunfire percussion, no melody at all. There are no morning birdsong arias, leaving me bereft of their blending musical tapestry that in a few short months will wake me at 4 AM. There is no peeper orchestra from the swamps in the evenings, their symphonies rising and falling on the breeze.
It is too too quiet and I'm left bereft, hungry for a song, any song. I listen intently for the familiar early morning and evening serenades returning.


We have had a party in the garden, a meeting of our book club, and I have been hanging out in the new hammock. I REALLY start to appreciate what you have done with the sunny border! Into my late husband's idea of a green (evergreen) garden and my natural penchant for wildness you have inserted a very English profusion of colour and texture, as in the style of English country gardens. It's a lovely idea which I was half hearted about before you took over and I much appreciate the way it is developing now."
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I Asked a Veteran Cop About Doughnuts, Lethal Weapon, and MacGyver
By Jeremy Glass Published On 05/12/2014
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By Jeremy Glass @candyandpizza Published On 05/12/2014
Look, cop stereotypes exist for a reason. With movies like Lethal Weapon and Rush Hour planting the idea that all cops are dual-gun wielding doughnut-munching tough guys with rogue partners from hell, I decided it was time to straighten it all out and ask a veteran police officer his opinion on every cop movie stereotype out there. I took to the streets (of the Internet) and found a grizzled NY police officer who didn't mind answering my offensive questions. And, yes, I'm still technically under arrest.
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If you could gain one superhuman robotic skill like RoboCop — what would it be?
I would want RoboCop's borderline invincibility. Dude can take a bunch of shots and not be harmed. Knives can't go into RoboCop either. It's like this: a lot of people will go watch a bunch of cops movies and think it's all running and gunning, but in reality that's far from the truth. So if I were actually involved in a big shooting, I would rather be able to not be shot. Besides, I already have a sick sense of aim.
Have you ever had a rogue wildcard cop partner ?
Yes, but not remotely close to the ones portrayed in movies. I think the statute of limitations has run out as far what he's done but yes, he was a wildcard and put me in bad spots.
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Would you ever work with Mel Gibson?
Mel Gibson from Edge of Darkness, Thunderdome, or Lethal Weapon? Whatever the case may be — no. If there were ever a cop in real life that emulated any of his characters, that cop and anyone around him would be instantly fired.
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Is your boss a no-nonsense tough-as-nails hard-ass who threatens to knock you down to sergeant at the drop of a hat?
No, even my boss's boss's boss isn't like that. My parents were cops, my brother is a cop, and I've been a cop for almost nine years at three different departments and have been exposed to several other departments, and there has never been anyone like that. There are d!@k head supervisors out there that a lot of people don't want to work for, but not like the movies.
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Doughnuts… thoughts?
They're delicious. I try not to be caught dead eating them while in uniform. However, often times if a cop screws up (is late to work, loses a foot chase, sounds like a girl on the air when calling for help) he is tasked with bringing a box to roll call as penance.
Policymic
Have you ever gone so undercover that you've forgotten which side you're on?
No. But there are cops out there (that eventually get caught and fired) that simply slide over to the dark side. They make friends with prostitutes and start protecting them while "trying to offer help." They get caught with drugs in the house while their wife is out. Or, they try to be cool with some dude downtown and find out that said dude is the subject of a federal investigation and start providing the dude with secret info, which ultimately interferes with the investigation, and they'll get fired as a result. True stories. I got a bunch. But they're not as a result of going under cover as much as an idiot got hired as a cop and made idiotic decisions.
Would you take on Jackie Chan as a partner? That is, a cop who speaks little English, but is a master of the martial arts?
Yes. The language thing is a challenge but as long as there is some basic English, we can work around that. But, having a kung fu master by your side would be badass and an added sense of security.
Have you ever had to turn in your gun and badge?
No. If you ever have to give your badge and gun up, you're up sh*t's creek without a paddle, as you're either being suspended or terminated. Besides, that's a sign of resignation that, in today's world, you don't get back.
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If you HAD to choose a partner… Eddie Murphy from Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy from 48 Hrs., or Eddie Murphy from The Golden Child?
I would have to go with Beverly Hills Cop. He is funny, resourceful and most importantly, experienced. He comes from Detroit which is, as we all know, a dump. The crime rate and amount of violence he would have experienced at that time in that city is beyond comprehension. When he arrives in Beverly Hills, he is surrounded by arrogance and wealth but is still cool about it, which shows he can be a decent person. And then when he is partnered with Rosewood and Taggart, he isn't a dick to the inexperienced but teaches them things and is instantly liked. He knows how to be a good person while, through his training and experience, to be a damn good detective. Don't get me wrong, this isn't to say his other characters would be bad partners. It is my fear that if I got partnered with Golden Child Eddie Murphy I would end up fighting demons and stuff.
Have you ever shot a gun while flying through the air?
Okay, but have you ever shot two guns at once?
Yes. But it was not on duty and it was as awesome as it sounds. But there is no accuracy to it and I was only doing it so that if ever asked, I would be able to say yes.
Frankenberry.
Have you ever forgotten the Miranda Rights halfway through?
I think I might be able to recite the whole thing, but I carry a card that I read as I advise them of their rights. More often though I don't read/advise them of their rights because you don't have to just because they're under arrest. Without going into too much detail, essentially, they only need to be "mirandized" when you are conducting a custodial interview about the crime and you are planning on arresting them. So, if you arrest someone and don't talk to them about the crime, you're good.
Getleashedmag
Would you rather take on a dog as a partner or a dinosaur?
Dog. They are loyal and will defend you with their lives. They can find drugs, bombs, and guns. I relate dinosaurs to alligators or crocodiles. I have never heard of either being good pets. I also picture that scene from Jurassic Park when Dennis Nedry gets into his Jeep and that giant lizard with the fan for a neck gets all up in his face. Imagine having a dinosaur that you can train but one day you piss him off and to get you back, that same thing happens.
Are you more of a Starsky or a Hutch?
If we're going off the movie, I'd go with Starsky. He's by the book but drives a badass car and has moves you don't expect, as exhibited when they meet the cheerleaders for the first time. Hutchinson deals with too many shady characters, drives a jalopy of a truck, and his closest friend is a neighborhood kid.
Pandodaily
What's the most MacGyver situation you've been in?
I hesitate to answer but the closest is maybe using folded up paper to keep your headlights from falling, or tying rope to your water bottle in case it flies off the seat and instead of you bending over or stopping and getting out of the car, etc., you can just pull the rope up and get your water. I have never needed to use a stick of gum, a crayon, hair tie, or bleach to disarm a bomb... unfortunately.
Jeremy Glass is the Supercompressor Vice editor who once ran away from a mall cop during his sophomore year of high school.


The government will hold a new auction for 2x15MHz of spectrum in the 700MHz band that remained unsold after the 2013 Digital Dividend auction.
The government had raised the prospect of selling 2x10MHz of 700MHz spectrum directly to Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA).
However, today it said that a consultation on the draft ministerial direction by communications minister Senator Mitch Fifield "indicated strong market interest from other industry players".
As with the Digital Dividend process, the new auction will be run by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Vodafone was the only mobile carrier to walk away from the Digital Dividend without additional spectrum, pulling out of the auction. The auction saw Telstra obtain 2x20 MHz of 700MHz spectrum and Optus 2x10MHz.
Earlier this year Vodafone approached the government with the proposal to purchase 700MHz spectrum for around $590 million.
However during the government's consultation Optus, Telstra and TPG all indicated opposition to the draft ministerial direction.
Optus said the draft direction "has been prepared in haste and appears to rely on factual errors". It said it backed an ACMA-run process to allocate the unsold spectrum.
TPG said that it was a prospective purchaser of the remaining spectrum. Its submission revealed that it had only become aware of the proposal to sell the spectrum to VHA after it had approached the Department of Communications and the Arts earlier this year. TPG had contacted the department to express interest in purchasing the spectrum.
TPG is also seeking spectrum in Singapore.
Vodafone, Optus, Telstra and TPG, picked up 1800MHz spectrum earlier this year in an ACMA-run auction.
All four companies have been approached for comment.


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System Shock 2: Source restoration mod abandoned, assets released to the public
By Phil Savage 2013-06-17T16:20:28.167Z
If you've been playing PC games for a while, there are two things you take for granted:
Someone, somewhere, will be upgrading a classic late-90s game into a more modern, and mod friendly engine.
Most mods will, at some point in their life, be abandoned by their creator(s).
As such, it's hardly a surprise when these two likelihoods collide. That's what happened to SShock2Res - a Source engine remake of System Shock 2. But, while modder Mark Valentine is no longer planning to work on the project, he has released the complete asset work, giving others the chance to carry it on to completion.
Valentine states that the recent GOG rerelease has made SS2 archival less of a concern, saying that, along with a lack of time, is his reason for dropping the project. As for why he's releasing his work: "I'm releasing all my assets because I hate it when people make something cool and they just sit on their assets and all that work is lost forever," he writes . "I refuse to do that."
Two versions of the assets exist. The map files will let you wander about, browsing through Valentine's progress like a virtual archaeologist. If, however, you feel up to the task of repurposing Irrational's classic in Source, you'll be wanting to grab everything .
Alternatively, just watch last year's video of the mod's progress:
Thanks, PCGamesN .


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Toto je seznam zemí podle Indexu lidského rozvoje upravený podle nerovnosti (IHDI) zveřejněný rozvojovým programem OSN (UNDP) v roce 2019. Index lidského rozvoje upravený podle nerovnosti (IHDI) je rozšířený "upravený" index lidského rozvoje (HDI), který zohledňuje nerovnosti v jednotlivých zemích. IHDI je ukazatelem lidského rozvoje, který zahrnuje nerovnost ve vzdělávání, zdraví a příjmu. Čím větší je nerovnoměrné rozdělení, tím nižší je IHDI ve srovnání s HDI. Oba indexy jsou zveřejňovány ve výročních zprávách Rozvojového programu OSN (UNDP).

HDI, ze které vychází IHDI, je složenou statistikou průměrné délky života, vzdělání a ukazatelů příjmu na obyvatele, které se používají k zařazení zemí do čtyř úrovní lidského rozvoje. HDI byl vyvinut pákistánským ekonomem Mahbubem ul Haqem a je zakotven v práci indického nositele Nobelovy ceny Amartya Sen o lidských schopnostech.  Ačkoli by to bylo rozumné, index nepočítá s několika faktory, jako je čisté bohatství na obyvatele, relativní kvalita zboží, emise CO2, míra kriminality, nebo riziko platební neschopnosti v zemi. Tato situace má sklon snižovat pořadí u některých nejvyspělejších zemí, jako jsou členové skupiny G7 a další.

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Index IHDI zachycuje HDI průměrného člověka ve společnosti, který je nižší než souhrnný HDI, pokud existuje nerovnost v rozdělení zdraví, vzdělání a příjmu. Při dokonalé rovnosti jsou HDI a IHDI stejné; čím větší je rozdíl mezi těmito dvěma, tím větší je nerovnost. IHDI se odhaduje přibližně u 150 zemí a zachycuje ztráty v lidském rozvoji v důsledku nerovnosti v oblasti zdraví, vzdělávání a příjmu. Rozdíly ve všech třech dimenzích se pohybují od několika procent (v případě Japonska, Česka nebo Slovinska) do více než 40 % (v případě Komor a Středoafrické republiky).

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Související články
 Index lidského rozvoje
 Seznam států světa podle indexu lidského rozvoje

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 Seznam ze správy OSN

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Did everyone have a nice weekend? Are we ready for more cruising talk? I know I always am.
So right back to it... After we enjoyed our relaxing morning sans the big kids we would then have lunch with only Dom so we could actually taste our food before going to pick them up from the Camp for their lunch. It just worked out better that way for all parties. One of us would go get the kids and the other would start gathering their lunches together while someone in the family sat with Dom while he ate pizza face first. As in, face to cheese. Like taking a bite out of a wall. It makes no sense. I lived for those Guy Fieri burgers ohhhhhh mylanta (sorry dad)! So so tasty. Our evening waiter made sure we had several orders of the best mac and cheese and chicken nuggets waiting for the kids, which are two things you can't get in the buffet line so, thank you Senvil! All bets were off this week and we let the kids eat whatever garbage they wanted. Even if it was soft serve ice cream with every meal.
The big kids would be fed and then it was Dom nap time with Matt (he was Dom's person the entire week, move over mom). Dom didn't really want to nap in the room in the pack and play, and after a few days we learned he loved to fall asleep on Matt's lap in the lobby area with the live music and bar noise as background. Every day. So that is where Matt went each afternoon armed with a pink iPad and a drink or two.
I would take the big kids swimming if it was warm enough, they have one covered pool on board and utilize it we would. On some of the rougher days it was almost like swimming in the ocean the way the waves were going back and forth in the pool. But kids don't notice those things? I certainly did though. Thankfully they have life jackets for those poor unfortunate children of over-protective mothers such as myself.
Once the kids were sufficiently frozen we would change into dry clothes before another quick jaunt at Camp Carnival. Because the afternoons are when the real magic happens. For the kids I mean. The main events as it were. There would then be more relaxing on the part of the parent's that's for sure. Coffee and or wine. I hit up the Serenity Deck a few times which is an adult only area. Not in the nasty version but in the whole no yelling children or splashing and calming music and a full bar and comfy lounges version. On the final day I got myself a manicure with Matt's birthday gift card from Carnival. I know, I know. But he didn't want to use it and I couldn't let it go to waste!
By five we would have picked the kids up, showered and dressed in our finest and gone down to meet in the lobby bar for drinks, a tradition since the dawn of over 21 Trovato cruises. In order for the whole "drinks before dinner" thing to work we sat the kids down in front of their respective iPads. Or we went for multiple glass elevator rides. Or dancing. And see also martinis that we only discovered the last two days of the cruise. Alchemy Bar is where it's at. And I don't even like martinis. We had the early seating for dinner which had us in the dining room at 6 pm. Senvil would wow us with his service once more and with all that amazing food....and then some days we would head to bed. Occasionally we attempted a show and soft serve ice cream though. Or a movie and popcorn or something.
I just love that last photo of our crew with our wait staff. Leaving Senvil got me all sorts of emotional. He was just so good to us and to my kids and he has two little kids of his own that he is working so hard to send to a good school.... he only sees them once every six months! You'd cry too!!! He's the one in the back and if you ever go on a Carnival cruise and see him hug him for us will you? We are even Facebook friends, him and I. Hi Senvil!
Anyways, these days at sea took a lot out of them.
And me. They took a lot out of me too. Which is why there is wiiiiiineeeeee.
Every six months? Goodness. Do you get to tip those fellas? I'd be like have all my money!!!
Eating whatever you want is a part of vacation that I love! Wait, you guys have been on 21 cruises? Or did I read that completely wrong? Love the group picture!
we hugged our servers goodbye. they totally became our friends.
y'all know how to cruise, seriously. i want mac n cheese next time we cruise.