Poor air quality is badly affecting our health. Emma Davies finds out how science at Leeds is informing decision-makers about tackling a global challenge.
More than 90 per cent of people living in urban areas are exposed to air pollution levels that exceed World Health Organization (WHO) limits. Outdoor air pollution is one of the largest causes of deaths worldwide, claiming more than four million lives per year, including almost a quarter of all stroke deaths and 29 per cent of all disease and deaths from lung cancer, according to WHO figures.
The statistics are stark, and evidence of the problem is mounting daily. Monitoring stations in cities around the world are collecting reams of data around the clock, yet sorting through the information and putting it to good, practical use is a tricky task.
This is exactly what Professor Dominick Spracklen's team does in the School of Earth and Environment. The UK's air pollution issues "pale in comparison" with other regions in the world, he says. Using pollution data and complex computer models, he is on a mission to understand the "bigger problems" faced by countries including China and India.
Bogor, Indonesia pictured on a day with clear air, and one when outdoor air quality is poor.
He really hopes to make a difference in India, where pollution is off the scale and getting worse. 14 Indian cities are amongst the 20 most polluted in the world, according to WHO data. Last year, a public health emergency was declared in Delhi as pollution levels exceeded 70 times the safe limit.
The city ranking is based on levels of particles under 2.5 microns in size (PM2.5), measured in micrograms per cubic metre of air. The particles, 20–30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, are known to increase the likelihood of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
Dominick's team revealed that India's most serious pollution problem is caused by people burning solid fuels in the home for cooking and heat. "There are millions of people burning wood and charcoal in their homes, and that aggregates to be a really big pollution source," he says.
The global picture is complex, as can be seen when looking at the different contributors to poor air quality in different countries.
In China the greatest contributor is industry (43%). Residential activity contributes 38%, while other sources (including power, transport and fires) make up 19%.
In India, the picture is different, with residential activity accounting for 51%, power generation 20.75% and other causes 28.25%.
Luke Conibear is a PhD student in Dominick's group. He has used computer models and local measurements to study the impacts of air pollution on human health. "One million premature deaths are attributable to ambient air pollution exposure in India alone each year," he says.
The team used advanced modelling to study the disease burden due to PM2.5 exposure in India. They focused on seven different types of emission sources, from industrial power plants to transport and home energy use. Using their models, they found that preventing emissions from home fires gives the largest reduction in ambient PM2.5 exposure.
However, solving the air pollution crisis is not that simple. Their calculations also suggest that reducing emissions may provide fewer health benefits than expected, at least initially. "In general, air needs to be really clean for good health. As air quality gets worse, the effect on health increases sharply and then flattens off at really high levels. This is because the cardiovascular system is very sensitive to low levels of air pollutants," explains Luke. He likens it to smoking, where there is a substantial increase in health risk with the first cigarette, while the change in risk is relatively smaller for the thirtieth. This means that India will have to make really deep cuts in pollutant emissions before large benefits to health will be realised.
Until a few years ago, Indian pollution data was extremely hard to come by. The country still doesn't publish as much data as China, which now has a very well-established air quality community. The Chinese government has taken action to cut pollution levels, for example by banning people from burning coal in their homes, and closing some of the most polluting power plants. It now publishes daily pollution data from monitoring stations across the country.
Most studies of recent trends in air pollution across China have used satellite data, which suggest that levels of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 have all begun to decrease. But there have been few attempts to use data from the surface monitoring stations to assess recent trends.
In a project funded by AIA, the pan-Asian life insurance group, Dominick's team has used data collected at over 1,600 surface monitoring stations between 2015 and 2017.
"Because things are changing so rapidly in China, even over that very short period we could see a deep reduction in PM2.5, showing that particulate pollution has got quite a lot better," says Ben Silver, the PhD student who led the work. But with weather playing a key role in air pollution, the researchers are cautious in their interpretations.
"We were able to demonstrate that slowing deforestation has saved thousands of lives a year through improved air quality. That's an important public health benefit that no one had really expected."
Many cities in western Europe are seeing a return to home heating with solid fuels. If you must burn wood, use a stove rather than an open fire. Also, avoid burning wet wood, which is more polluting than dry.
One easy way to reduce your contribution to air pollution is to walk or cycle instead of driving. Staying off busy roads will reduce your exposure to air pollution during your journey.
New policies to improve air quality, such as the Leeds Clean Air Zone, are an important way to help our transition to cleaner air.
The research also indicates that levels of ozone, another pollutant dangerous to health, appear to be creeping up, although the reasons why are not clear. "The next bit of work we are planning is to use our model to try to unpick what has happened over the last few years," says Dominick.
Ben is now working on climate mitigation policies, using a model to simulate how different strategies might alter air quality. "There might be big win-win scenarios where carbon emissions can be reduced and air pollution improved at the same time. We want to help identify those strategies," he says.
In Brazil, Dominick focuses on deforestation and fires. Combining satellite data with complex computer models, he analysed connections between deforestation and air pollution. The fires are used to clear forests to make way for agriculture, but they cause "very strong pollution events," he says.
In a new project in Indonesia, he is also studying the harmful effects of fires used to clear vegetation, often to make way for palm oil plantations. To make matters more complex, a lot of the land is peat-based. As the UK witnessed with this summer's Saddleworth Moor fires, if the peat dries out, it burns frighteningly well. In some Indonesian forests, the peat layers can be metres thick and the fire can burn down 50 centimetres or more, releasing an "incredible amount of pollution into the atmosphere," he says.
Dominick has set up a collaboration with Bogor Agricultural University with the aim of understanding how land-use change, fire, peat and pollution all link to each other. The Bogor experts are computer scientists who use detailed data mining techniques. He also has a five-year grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on the climate and air quality impacts of tropical deforestation.
"It's becoming increasingly clear that deforestation causes local climate change," says Dominick. He estimates that "local increases in temperature due to deforestation could be as large as the increases that are due to global increases in carbon dioxide.
Not only does clearing the forest cause a significant increase in local temperature, it can also affect local rainfall, he adds. Some non-governmental organisations are particularly "excited" by the deforestation findings and plan to use them to help persuade policy makers to see the benefit of protecting forests.
One NGO, the World Land Trust, even funds a PhD student in Dominick's group to research a forest conservation area in Vietnam.
Dominick's work would simply not be possible without collaborations with other researchers, both at Leeds and across the world. "As much as possible, we always try to collaborate with local institutions. For example, for a lot of the work that we are doing in China, we are working closely with researchers from a number of Chinese universities and so hopefully, as we get the results, we will work with those partners to communicate to relevant stakeholders," he says.
The University of Leeds Living Lab for Air Quality launched in November 2017 and aims to help shape and inform the University's plan to limit exposure to poor air quality.
The Lab is running a monitoring programme gathering, analysing and mapping air quality in and around campus. The data collected is uploaded to the website of The Centre of Excellence for Modelling the Atmosphere and Climate (CEMAC) so that it is accessible to staff, students and those external to the University for research and teaching purposes, and for wider interest.
The University is currently working with Leeds City Council to scale the project out to different areas of the city, and is sharing our progress and learning with colleagues at Shanghai Jaio Tong University and the University of Nairobi.
The Living Lab is a collaboration between the Sustainability Service, the School of Earth and Environment, the Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science (ICAS), the Institute for Transport Studies and the School of Civil Engineering.


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StatCounter Analytics Code Hijacked to Steal Bitcoins from Cryptocurrency Users
November 08, 2018Mohit Kumar
Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using.
ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou this weekend spotted malicious JavaScript code on up to 700,000 websites that were bundled with the traffic tracking code from the leading web analytics platform StatCounter.
However, after analyzing the code, the researchers found that hackers managed to compromise StatCounter and successfully replaced its tracking script with malicious JavaScript code primarily designed to target customers of the Gate.io cryptocurrency exchange.
Like Google Analytics, StatCounter is also an old, but popular real-time web analytics platform reportedly being used by more than two million websites and generates stats on over 10 billion page views per month.
Here's How Hackers Tried to Steal Bitcoins from Crypto Exchange
Though the malicious code was also injected into other hundreds of thousands of websites using the StatCounter service, the script only gets activated when the URL or content of the webpage contained a specific Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): myaccount/withdraw/BTC.
The "myaccount/withdraw/BTC" URI is exclusively associated with a gate.io webpage that offers users to make Bitcoin withdrawals and transfers.
The malicious script was intended to replace the destination Bitcoin address of transfers with an address belonging to the hackers.
"The script automatically replaces the destination Bitcoin address with an address belonging to the attackers, for example, 1JrFLmGVk1ho1UcMPq1WYirHptcCYr2jad," Faou explains in a report released Tuesday.
"The malicious server generates a new Bitcoin address each time a visitor loads the statconuter[.]com/c.php script. Thus, it is hard to see how many bitcoins have been transferred to the attackers," he adds.
"As a new Bitcoin address is generated each time the malicious script is sent to the victim, we were not able to see how many bitcoins the attackers have gathered."
According to the researcher, the malicious script was added to the middle of the legitimate StatCounter's JavaScript, which typically makes the malicious code harder to detect via "casual observation."
Gate.io Removes StatCounter Following Security Breach
Attackers successfully breached StatCounter on November 3, and ESET notified the company on November 5 when it discovered the hack, which the security firm labeled as a "supply chain" attack because the malicious script has appeared on the service used by the target.
"Even if we do not know how many bitcoins have been stolen during this attack, it shows how far attackers go to target one specific website, in particular, a cryptocurrency exchange," the researcher says.
StatCounter removed the malicious script on November 6, several hours before the Gate.io cryptocurrency exchange platform stopped using the popular analytic service to prevent further damage.
Gate.io also claimed the company subsequently scanned its website with 56 antivirus products, and "no one reported any suspicious behavior at that time."
The exchange also reported that its "users' funds are safe," but it did not reveal how many customers who performed transfers between November 3 and 6 had lost their funds, neither promised to reimburse those users.
Gate.io also urged its customers to maximize the security levels on their accounts by enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) and two-step login protection.
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His first new song of the New Year, "Don't Say" arrives on the road to Started In The South, the Stockton, CA native's next EP. Arriving during a period of sustained growth from Nel, the new EP finds him reflecting on his success and paying homage to the streets that raised him. The "south" in the EP's title refers to its position at the bottom of the map–Nel started at the bottom, but he's quickly emerging from his circumstances off the strength of his authentic anthems. Featuring an appearance from OTF standout Doodie Lo, Started In The South is coming soon via Muddy Boyz/EMPIRE.
MBNel ended 2022 on a hot streak, releasing songs like the devastating ballad "Fadeaway," dedicated to the memory of a fan who recently passed away, and "Toxic," a relationship drama and duet with the rising singer Haben. Born and raised in Stockton, a city in Central Cali with a busy rap scene, MBNel built a reputation on the West Coast for his combination of hummable melodies and relatable trench tales. The 25-year-old artist has a loyal following who respond to his naked authenticity, a quality on display on his 2021 project No Hard Feelings. In the wake of last year's success, Nel is challenging himself artistically, pushing the boundaries of his sound as he continues to express his truth.
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Gartner Says Global Smartphone Sales Fell Slightly in the Fourth Quarter of 2019
Apple and Xiaomi Were the Only Vendors in the Top 5 to Achieve Growth
Global sales of smartphones to end users contracted in the fourth quarter of 2019, declining 0.4% year over year, according to Gartner, Inc. In full year 2019, smartphone sales declined 1%.
"2019 ended a little better than expected, due to slightly improved performances from North America and emerging Asia/Pacific," said Anshul Gupta, senior research analyst at Gartner. "However, India, which sold 151.9 million units, overtook the U.S. to become the No. 2 country for smartphone sales in 2019. China maintained the lead, with sales of 390.8 million smartphones over the full year."
Apple and Xiaomi were the only vendors in the top five to achieve growth in the fourth quarter of 2019. Even with a decline in sales, Samsung held on to the No. 1 position with 17.3% market share. Apple secured the No. 2 position with 17.1% of the market (see Table 1).
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 4Q19 (Thousands of Units)
4Q19 Market Share (%)
70,404.4
145,482.1
Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely to the totals shown
Source: Gartner (March 2020)
After four consecutive quarters of decline, Apple's iPhone sales returned to growth, with an increase of 7.8% in the fourth quarter. "A slight lowering of the prices of the iPhone 11 series, compared with the iPhone XR, and other price reductions for previous-generation iPhone models, increased demand. It also helped Apple regain the No. 2 position," said Annette Zimmermann, research vice president at Gartner.
Sales of iPhones were particularly strong in China, where they grew 39% in the fourth quarter. Apple also performed strongly in certain mature and developing markets, such as the U.K., France, Germany, Brazil and India.
Gartner analysts expect Apple will launch its first 5G smartphone in the third quarter of 2020. This will encourage users to upgrade in countries where 5G network services are available.
Xiaomi's smartphone sales totaled 32.4 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019 — a 16.5% increase, year over year. "This strong performance enabled Xiaomi to overtake OPPO and take the No. 4 spot," said Mr. Gupta. "The price and performance of Redmi models drove Xiaomi's smartphone sales growth, and the company did particularly well in emerging Asia/Pacific."
In China, Xiaomi started increasing its smartphone prices to increase profits. The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in China presents some challenges to retail-focused vendors such as OPPO and Vivo, but creates opportunity for Xiaomi, which has been expanding its online channel strategy.
Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi Grew in 2019, Even as Total Smartphone Sales Declined
Despite a small (0.5%) year-over-year contraction in its smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2019, Samsung maintained its No. 1 position in the global ranking for 2019. It increased its full-year sales 0.4% to 296.2 million units (see Table 2).
Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 2019 (Thousands of Units)
2019 Market Share (%)
1,540,657.0
Samsung successfully revamped its midtier and entry-level smartphones in 2019. To attract price conscious buyers of premium smartphones, it launched the Galaxy S10 Lite and Galaxy Note 10 Lite in early January 2019. In addition, it recently announced a new foldable smartphone to counter the threat from Huawei. "The fierce battle between Samsung and Huawei in the foldable phone market will be interesting to follow this year, as each vendor takes a different approach," said Mr. Gupta. "Samsung has switched from a horizontal to a vertical fold in the Galaxy Z Flip and reduced this phone's size and price. Huawei has launched the Mate Xs — with Huawei Mobile Services now accessible via the Huawei AppGallery worldwide and increased its price."
Huawei experienced the highest growth in 2019 with an overall annual increase of 18.6%. This helped it secure the No. 2 spot for the year, ahead of Apple. While facing an extended ban from the U.S., Huawei aggressively pursued its smartphone strategy in China, where it grew its market share 37% in 2019. "If Huawei continues to face a ban on accessing technology from the U.S. in 2020, its smartphone prospects in the international smartphone market will be severely impacted," said Mr. Gupta.
"Looking forward, while the COVID-19 outbreak will impact smartphone demand negatively in China in the first quarter of 2020, we do not expect a demand contraction in the international smartphone market during that period," said Ms. Zimmermann.
Further information is available in the Gartner report titled "Market Share: PCs, Ultramobiles and Mobile Phones, All Countries, 4Q19 Update."
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Mississippi Highway 27 (MS 27) is a state highway in Mississippi. It runs from south to north for  across the western and south-central parts of the state, serving 5 counties: Walthall, Lawrence, Copiah, Hinds, and Warren.  The segment between Vicksburg and Crystal Springs is known vernacularly as the "Utica cutoff" because it facilitates a circumvention of Jackson for I-20 / I-55 traffic flowing between Vicksburg and Hammond.

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MS 27 begins in Walthall County at the Louisiana state line along the banks of the Bogue Chitto River, with the road continuing south toward  the town of Franklinton as Louisiana Highway 25 (LA 25). It heads northeast as a two-lane highway to pull away from the Bogue Chitto River as it travels through farmland for several miles, passing through the community of Lexie, before entering the Tylertown city limits. The highway enters town along Franklinton Street, passing by the city cemetery and through neighborhoods before entering downtown, where it has an intersection with MS 48/MS 198  (Beulah Avenue). MS 27 heads north from this intersection as Ball Avenue, which quickly becomes Tyler Avenue as it leaves downtown and re-enters neighborhoods. The highway has an intersection with MS 583 (Tyler Avenue), becoming Union Road before having an intersection with US 98 and leaving Tylertown. MS 27 travels north through mostly wooded areas for the next several miles, passing through the community of Salem before entering Lawrence County.

MS 27 has an intersection with the western section of MS 44 near the community of Topeka before traveling through remote woodlands for several miles to enter the Monticello city limits, with MS 27 completely bypassing the town along its western side, having an intersection with MS 184 (W Broad Street), as well as an interchange with US 84. The highway now leaves Monticello as it heads north through rural farmland and woodlands parallel to the Pearl River for the next several miles, with it traveling through the communities of Rosella (where it has an intersection with N.A. Sandifer Highway and crosses the Fair River), Wanilla (where it has an intersection with unsigned MS 904/Smith Ferry Road), and Oma before entering Copiah County.

MS 27 travels through woodlands as it passes through the communities of Cowanville and Rockport , where it has intersections with both MS 478 and MS 472, before passing through the town of Georgetown, where it has an intersection with MS 28. The highway curves northwest as it passes through the community of Hopewell, where it pulls away from the Pearl River, before traveling along the northern edge of the Crystal Springs city limits, where it temporarily widens to a four-lane divided highway, has an intersection with MS 801 and an extremely short concurrency (overlap) with US 51, as well as an interchange with I-55 (Exit 72). MS 27 narrows back down to two-lanes as it leaves the Crystal Springs area and travels northwest through remote woodlands for several miles to enter Hinds County a few miles south of Dabney Crossroads.

MS 27 travels west through a mix of farmland and wooded areas for several miles to the town of Utica, which it bypasses along its eastern side via a concurrency with MS 18. The highway leaves Utica and travels northwest through mostly wooded terrain for the next several miles to have an interchange with the Natchez Trace Parkway before crossing the Big Black River into Warren County.

MS 27 continues through woodlands to travel through the suburb of Beechwood, where it passes by the Vicksburg campus of Hinds Community College and widens to a four-lane undivided highway, before entering a business district and the Vicksburg city limits at an intersection with MS 822 (Old U.S. 80). MS 27 comes to an end shortly thereafter at a large interchange with I-20/US 80/US 61 (Exit 5 A/B), with the road continuing north as northbound US 61.

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Partnering with Shelter Movers to Take Action Against Gender-Based Violence
The relationships we have with our clients and partners make our work possible and inspire us to give our very best. It is an honor and a privilege to power purpose and impact for organizations around the world, and we are committed to furthering social purpose.
Each year, we contribute a portion of our annual profits to a nonprofit organization and the selection is guided by staff. Financial support is essential, but there is so much more that can be done when a true partnership is formed.
To support our team's vision for change, we donated to Shelter Movers, and will be building a deeper partnership with the organization. Shelter Movers is a national, volunteer-powered charity that provides moving and storage services at no cost to individuals and families leaving abusive homes. Every day, thousands of survivors face the prospect of losing everything they own if they flee their abuser. As allies to Shelter Movers, our team will also provide assistance to families as they transition to a life free of violence.
Shelter Movers removes barriers to new beginnings
The only service of its kind in Canada, Shelter Movers works in collaboration with local businesses and community agencies to help survivors of gender-based violence transition to a better, safer life.
Many people countrywide face gender-based violence every day, be it specifically due to their gender, gender expression, gender identity, or perceived gender. While violence affects people of all ages, genders, religions, cultures, ethnicities, geographic locations, and socioeconomic backgrounds, women are more likely to experience intimate partner violence. Every year, more than 100,000 cases of intimate partner violence are reported in Canada¹ and in 2021, a woman or girl was killed every other day², most often by an intimate partner or family member. The home is the most likely place for violence to occur.
When survivors are considering whether to flee their abuser, significant barriers stand in their way: the emotional aspect of losing precious items and keepsakes, instability, and loss of normalcy for children; the high financial costs of moving, storing, or replacing expensive belongings such as furniture, clothing, and appliances; and the elevated risk of violence, including femicide, in the six months following the end of the relationship. Making the decision to move takes courage and Shelter Movers is there to coordinate everything from movers, drivers, and vehicles, to security, storage, pet fostering, and language interpreters. All at no cost.
Shelter Movers is powered by volunteers. Over the past six years, 2,200 volunteers have safely moved 5,000 individuals and families across seven cities throughout Canada. reSolved's donation will cover the cost of moving 50 families to a safe, violence-free home. More than donating a portion of our annual profits, this partnership is an opportunity for our team members to be involved in a cause they care about. Some of our team members will be trained to provide hands-on support for moves, while others will volunteer professional skills – IT, marketing, logistics, and more – to meet Shelter Movers' growing operational needs as they continue to increase access to services throughout Canada.
Learn more about Shelter Movers here.
¹ Stats Canada, 2019
² Canadian Femicide Observatory, 2022
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Date posted: 4th January 2022
Welcome to the seventh edition of our Bay Health and Care Partners (BHCP) newsletter where we will update you every month on the collaborative work that is taking place in Morecambe Bay's Place-Based Partnership and the outcomes and benefits for communities.
Across the system, colleagues are facing pressures. Lancashire County Council and the Homecare Agency is working with partners to tackle challenges within homecare services including staff shortages and self-isolation and the number of people needing homecare support. Short-term changes include prioritising calls for people with the highest level of needs. Our hospitals and community services are also experiencing extreme pressures and despite the extremely hard work of all of our teams, this has led to long delays in the Emergency Departments and difficulties discharging patients who are medically fit to be discharged but require further support at their place of residence (defined as not having criteria to reside). There is work ongoing to reduce the pressure on teams and services including avoiding admissions, reducing length of stay, making the best use of capacity in our hospitals and accelerating transfers of care to the community/home.
Despite the pressures BHCP have faced due to coronavirus (COVID-19) and challenges faced across health, care and in the community, the Partners continue to work together to ensure that services keep improving in areas such as urology, stroke, mental health and frailty so that they are as safe as possible for patients, service users, families and colleagues for years to come. You can find out the latest updates about coronavirus, the Omicron variant and the latest restrictions here.
Looking forward to this year we are excited to see how the Place-Based Partnership development programme for 2021/2022 progresses and that good practice continues to be shared across BHCP. You may remember we announced in Issue 4 that there had been a change in terminology to describe Bay Health and Care Partners and the other four partnerships (Pennine Lancashire, Fylde Coast, West Lancashire and Central Lancashire) in our region. Short videos are being developed to help support the understanding of Place-Based Partnerships which will be available shortly. Please do take the time to visit the BHCP website here to find out more. We would encourage you to share these links and the videos once available within your organisations and your communities.
Every month we will explore a different area of our programmes of work that are transforming services. This month we are highlighting work that is ongoing to improve stroke services. A stroke dashboard has been developed to provide an overview of patients who have suffered a stroke, or suspected stroke, across Morecambe Bay. The dashboard pulls data from a number of sources to provide a single point of reference, which helps colleagues in managing the patient journey from arrival at one of the Emergency Departments to completing the necessary scans and onto one of our wards. You can find out more by watching the following video at the BHCP YouTube site here.
We will listen to the voices of our communities and involve them in the development of services. Here we will highlight the work that is ongoing to engage with people across the Bay. In this edition, we focus on a report of a community engagement weekend (Greaves/Scotforth West) led by the Cornerstone in Lancaster, partners and community groups. The report outlines some of the key findings drawn out from recent conversations, listening and activities based at Scotforth Road.
Our GPs are an important part of Bay Health Care Partners and here our GPs and primary care colleagues have the opportunity to talk about issues and specialties that they are working on or interested in. This month, Dr Arun Thimmiah shares tips on how to stay well this winter including how to keep your safe during adverse weather conditions and less daylight time and how to avoid slips, trips and falls. You can read the full feature at the BHCP website here.
The Cornerstone is working with the community of Greaves towards a more equitable neighbourhood, identifying and growing existing strengths of residents towards better outcomes across the area in terms of health and wellbeing for all which builds upon the Cornerstone's 'Fullness of Life' strategy. You can read the full report on the BHCP website here.
GP focus with Dr Arun Thimmiah
The spotlight on…
Every month we will feature a different voluntary, community or faith sector organisation across the Bay. This time the spotlight is on…Green Recovery for Morecambe Bay's Woodland Project Butterfly Conservation.
Green Recovery for Morecambe Bay's Woodland Project Butterfly Conservation wants to offer opportunities to groups and individuals within the Morecambe Bay area who don't usually have access to nature to come out and carry out woodland management work, not only to benefit the local nature but also to benefit their mental and physical health and help combat loneliness and isolation. You can read the full case study at the BHCP website here.
There are a variety of roles across BHCP and other organisations we work with in the community. Here we shine the spotlight on the people who carry out a range of roles to keep our communities healthy and supported.
Caroline Elliott volunteered as a Covid Marshal at Kendal Vaccination Centre for five months before embarking on a career with North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) as an Emergency Medical Technician 1 Apprentice. Here Caroline tells us more about the role she undertook as Covid Marshal and her new role with NWAS. You can read the full case study at the BHCP website here.
Our Integrated Care Communities (ICCs) are integrated teams of health and care workers, voluntary organisations and wider community assets who work together to aim to improve physical and mental health outcomes, promote wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across an entire population. In this edition, we look at how swimming lessons are helping Carnforth residents adversely affected by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Participants were identified by Ash Trees Surgery and referred to the pilot sessions led by a professional swimming teacher at Carnforth Community Swimming Pool. You can read the full story at the BHCP website here. The latest editions of the ICCs' newsletters can be read here.
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Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - Latest news
Cumbria County Council - Grange Fire Station looking for new on-call firefighters
Lancashire County Council - Lancashire winter plan to ease social care pressures
Barrow Borough Council - High Streets Task Force boosts Barrow's transformation plans
South Lakeland District Council - Wild meadow boosts biodiversity in coastal town
Lancaster City Council - Historic town and gown agreement will benefit community


There are of course the odd exceptions due to mining methods such as caving, or volume as in porphyry coppers where the ideal used to be 0.5g/t gold and 0.5%/t copper. The only mine we knew that was able to successfully mine at 3g/t was GMK's Cassidy shaft beyond the top of Hannan's Street in Kalgoorlie, and that was mainly due to it having been pre-developed and using a bulk sub-level open stoping mining method.
The underground mine at Bronzewing originally closed when the grades dropped to ~3g/t, after it had depleted the higher grade parts of the orebody.
However, our (ERA) past two reports both involve underground mines that we visited in March 2010 with expected head grades of 3.1g/t to 3.3g/t, one in South Africa and one in South America.
Vantage Goldfields' (VGO's) ~3g/t Lily mine in the Barberton greenstone belt, is located south of Nelspruit in eastern South Africa. The underground mine has declined off the floor of an open-cut, and the gold mineralisation is non-refractory, in massive pyrrhotite with recoveries >90% contained within an almost vertical shear zone in Greywacke's.
At Lily, the east-west strike length is at least 2km long as shown in Figure 1, being open east and west on strike and open at depth. Within the shear zone, there appears to be plunging ore shoots. The width is ~8m to 10m and the current mine plan involves focusing on a 500m long area, which has ~15,000tpvm, initially at only ~400,000tpa. Ground conditions are good, solid hardrock.
Although the head grade is expected to be ~ 3.1g/t to 3.3g/t, there is some room for grades to be occasionally be higher, as the lower grade areas within or adjacent to some of the ~5g/t blocks were being left as pillars (when we visited the mine). Production was in the process of ramping up and was expected to result in cash costs of ~A$580/oz from the second half of 2010. Gold production was expected to be ~35,000ozpa from Lily.
Total costsincluding D & A and allowing for the new up to 5% mining royalty in South Africa, increase to ~A$670/oz, which is still an extremely healthy margin at current gold prices of ~US$1100/oz or A$1220/oz @ US$0.90/A$.
At the time of writing this column (18 April 2010), VGO was undertaking an IPO on the ASX with the aim of raising a maximum of $30m and an expected listing/trading date from 19-May-2010.
Mundo Minerals' (MUN's) ~3g/t Engenho underground mine lies within the Iron Quadrangle Of Brazil, SW of Belo Horizonte, and has been producing mostly at 3.1g/t to 3.3g/t for the past 2 years.
Cash costs are ~A$750/ozbecoming close to break even when applying a D & A of A$230/oz. The gold mineralisation appeared to be usually associated with pyrite at Engenho and lies within folded structures, like Challenger in South Australia (except without the high grade). However Enegenho has also been microfaulted probably due to its proximity to a regional major structural lineament.
The Engenho grades were expected to be higher at ~5g/t (even the open-cut averaged ~4g/t) but appear to have been reduced by internal dilution as ground conditions looked good with minimal external wall dilution. MUN's next mine adjacent to Engenho is Crista which starts as an open-cut and then goes underground. Expected grades are higher at 4.5g/t +/- 0.5g/t and it appears to be structurally simpler (being away from the lineament and striking almost north-south).
The grades at both MUN's Engenho and VGO's Lily may increase at depth, but it was regarded as too early to "call" at this stage.
With the gold price apparently likely to stay above US$1000/oz (in our [ERA] opinion it should be capable of trading between US$1200/oz and US$1300/oz on a long-term basis – that being equivalent to ~US$400/oz in real money terms since 1980), the ability to mine at 3g/t underground seems to have become viable.
Certainly that appears to be the case for VGO's Lily and even for MUN's Engenho on a cash cost basis. That being the case, more mines appear likely to come back into production including perhaps Navigators' (NAV's) underground mine at Bronzewing and a number of other mines in Australia that are currently perceived as being too marginal.


1950s: Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijir? Umezu sign the Instrument of Surrender as Douglas MacArthur, USA navy and photographers stand on deck of USS Missouri.
hd00:35CIRCA 1940s - US Marines and Army ground forces storm beach heads in the Pacific.
hd00:171940s: Man inspects hanging meat carcasses. Hostess scans busy restaurant dining room.
hd00:221920s: Dock with people and boat anchored. People on boat. Horse pulls carriage, people walk on dock. Ship full with people anchored next to dock.
hd00:30CIRCA 1943 - Men come to meet the crew of B-17s that have just landed on their air field.
hd00:241950s: booking officer at desk passes restraining belt through slot in security window. police officers in uniform wrap leather strap around torso of man in handcuffs.
hd01:01CIRCA 1926 - Children shake snow from trees as they walk with adults in a wintery forest at Christmas.


BUDAPEST, Hungary – Prosecutors in Hungary have questioned suspected Nazi war criminal Sandor Kepiro about the murder of civilians in Serbia during World War II.
Gabriella Skoda of the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office says 95-year-old Kepiro was questioned Tuesday about allegedly relaying orders as a Hungarian officer to soldiers who killed four civilians in Novi Sad, Serbia, in 1942. In all, some 1,200 Serb and Jewish civilians were killed by Hungarian forces who raided the region in the wake of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia.
In 1944, Kepiro was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in those atrocities, but the conviction was later annulled.
The Wiesenthal Center has accused him of playing an active role in the "mass murder of at least hundreds of civilians" there.


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I've pc based system with installed RT Advanced.
This machine has a screen resolution of 1600x900, but i've just notice that this resolution is not selectionable inside TIA. It just have 1600x1200 or 1440x900.
Is there any way to get the properly resolution working?
I've already tried to change the RT pc resolutions, but looks horrible and unreadable.
What kind of PC is it? It's not a Siemens IPC with WinCC RT preinstalled, isn't it?
with WinCC Runtime Advanced you can only use the predefined resolutions.
If you're talking from SCADA, you mean WinCC Professional, right?
You can use predefined screen resolution in Wincc.
The 1680x1050 seems not selectionable..
EDIT: Ok i found the resolution 1680X1050, but there's still a problem.
When the RT is running, it shows me the vertical and horizantal scroll bars, because (i suppose) the monitor has a lower resolution.
Is there any way to hide these bars?
did you activate the full screen mode? If you did, I think you need to change the resolution of the monitor to solve this.


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Good reminder of the value of reaching out for help. Jim McCarthy says it is an act that makes the world feel abundant.
I'm just touching on the point here. The article where I originally read it gives the point a much better treatment and I highly recommend it. It also points out several problems that tend to accompany most advice.
Many thanks for the gift of your reply! The McCarthys' work certainly resonates with the joys of Social Gardening! As for reaching out for help as "an act that makes the world feel abundant" – it certainly challenges the conventional definitions of "plenty" and "enough".


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Blog | UAE Journalist Reflects on Eye-Opening Year
Iman Ben Chaibah is a recipient of a 2017–2018 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship. Chaibah is also CEO and editor in chief of Sail, an online magazine produced in the United Arab Emirates.
In September, I completed my Rosalynn Carter Fellowship in Mental Health Journalism. The fellowships were started by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter about 20 years ago to provide journalists with resources and opportunities to accurately and holistically report on mental health in their countries and their regions.
My fellowship project was for Sail Magazine to create a series of mental health articles focused on university students. At the time we started the project, I had recruited two of the magazine's writers for this project aside from myself. We sat and discussed topics and themes and had many feedback rounds from the fellowship's advisory board that helped us shape the project in the most realistic way. We chose topics like social perceptions, academic pressures, reasons, triggers, and so much more.
Iman Ben Chaibah's online magazine featured articles about university students' mental health.
When the planned articles began posting in April this year, we received an outpouring of support from our readers and our writers. Some wanted to contribute with their own reflections or stories. Some expanded on academic pressures, reflected on social expectations, discussed mental health in the context of Harry Potter, took an analytical approach on mental health as a field, and one shared the detailed story of her struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I went into the fellowship thinking we would publish five articles. We ended up with more than 15.
It might have been one year of focused fellowship in mental health journalism, but I know it's just the start of better understanding, reflecting, and talking about mental health problems. The goal is to eradicate the shame and normalize them enough so that people can talk about their mental health without fear of judgment and actively look for help without delay and denial. I'm hopeful. How about you?
Learn more about the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism >


There are signs of wear and a couple of dents but you don't notice them at all because of the reflections from chrom. Used in non smoking/non pet home. Very good condition! We used this at home. Retails for €1.14.
Em77 stelton vacuum jug 1 l. There is writing on the box~ see photo. "If you have any questions, please ask before you bid - i'm online every day and should be able to answer them easily"
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A lot has changed since 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march in Selma, Alabama, which led to President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act. But director Ava DuVernay's Selma, a fictional film about the events of that year, feels especially relevant to America in 2014. Much of the film, which stars David Oyelowo as Dr. King, depicts protests and marches that were met with stark violence from white authority figures and police. It's impossible to watch the movie without being reminded of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the protests that resulted from them this year. Out in limited release Christmas Day and nationwide January 9, Selma is a reminder of all the progress we've yet to make.
Common plays Dr. King's associate James Bevel and wrote the film's closing-credits song, "Glory," with John Legend. The track was recently nominated for a Golden Globe. We recently talked to Common about that nomination, which apparently he's still trying to wrap his head around, as well as the state of racial strife in America now.
ESQUIRE.COM: I have to say, this movie feels very important when you watch it.
COMMON: Yeah. We recently did a press conference and throughout the whole press conference questions were being asked about socially relevant subject matter and life-changing subject matter. It seems that Selma is supposed to be here as a film and as a masterful piece of art. I think it's more important than just a movie. I believe that because Dr. King and all the people who stood up for justice during that time worked and created this environment, that spirit is what you're getting in Selma. It's connecting right now.
ESQ: When you were making the film, were you thinking about its connection to current events?
COMMON: I was so into the movie when we were filming that I was just giving everything I could give to those characters and what they did, the work that those women and men did. But I have to say, I felt connected from the standpoint of, "How can I apply what they did to today?" They had a certain conviction, they had a certain strategy and a certain way of thinking. It was about teamwork. Every time I would leave the set I was thinking, "Okay, how can I use this knowledge and this information and take this spirit and use it toward bettering situations today?"
ESQ: How did you get cast in the film?
COMMON: I believe Ava DuVernay just thought that I would be a good choice. We had a Skype conversation and she thought I was the right person to play James Bevel. I believe the energy I put into the world as a person is something she recognized would fit for the character and the type of film she wanted to do. I didn't go through a fight to get the role. When we wrote "Glory," the thought just came to me to call John Legend, and it didn't take a long time to write. Certain things just happen naturally because they're supposed to happen. I'm supposed to be here doing this because it's part of my purpose.
ESQ: How familiar were you with the history of Selma prior to shooting?
COMMON: I knew some information about Selma, but I wasn't in-depth with it. I really learned a lot by taking on this character and being a part of Selma. I didn't know there were that many people who contributed to it. I didn't know that the SCLC and all those people worked together to make it happen. I didn't know the women and men who were all a part of it. It took so many people to strategize. You always think it was Dr. King, but it was so many people who helped and contributed. It was very educational for me and it sparked me and charged me to realize that everyday people are the ones who change the world. I would feel like, "We're doing a superhero movie." That's what I was saying on the set sometimes. These were extraordinary people who really changed the world with courage and strength.
ESQ: What did it feel like to recreate those historical moments, like the famous march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge?
COMMON: It was a wonderful feeling. It was a feeling of carrying on this tradition, like, "We're depicting history but we're also creating history." I felt that we needed to pay homage and respect to the people who were there and marched across the bridge. I felt blessed to be part of the story. There was truth in it and it was significant. So more than anything I felt honor to be one of the ones who got to carry this torch.
ESQ: The song you wrote for the film, "Glory," specifically mentions Ferguson. What did you want to convey with that?
COMMON: When I was writing the song, I wanted to pay honor and tribute and respect to those who were of the Civil Rights Movement and fought for us. But I also wanted to show the connection that we're still in this fight. Injustice still exists and it's going to take all of us—black people, brown people, white people, Asian people, natives, all of us—to really come against injustices and work together. I really was saying that we're still in the fight. Throughout history we've shown resilience and strength and courage. I was saying, "Yeah, black life does matter. Brown life matters. White life matters. Our lives matter." I just wanted people to be inspired and be motivated and say, "I have a part in this and I can do something powerful."
ESQ: What does it mean for you to get a Golden Globe nomination for the song?
COMMON: To have my name said like, "Common and John Legend, Golden Globe nominees," is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had as an artist, as a person. For it to be for this song makes it so special to me. A song that's a soundtrack to what's going on right now. It's a song of freedom. It's a song I want people to sing when they're thinking about improving the world and thinking of a better day. Ava DuVernay came up to me and said, "Look, I'm talking to a Golden Globe nominee!" But she's the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe as a director so I'm looking back at her like here's someone who's creating history. I always want to be a part of that. I want to walk this earth and spread love out. Being part of this film and having "Glory" is that. It's in line with my purpose.
ESQ: If you're being honest, how much have you considered the possibility of getting an Oscar for the song?
COMMON: That's something I think about every day. I'm going to be real with you. The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.
ESQ: When you look back over the events that have transpired this year, what do you think we should learn as a society from 2014?
""America has come a long way, because there was a day when you wouldn't have a film with a black woman director or produced by Oprah Winfrey, who is a billionaire black woman who came from Mississippi. There was a day when nobody would have imagined that. So we've come a long way, but we have a long way to go."
COMMON: We can learn that we have a lot of things we have to discuss and put out on the table. We can learn that we all have to step up and do more to improve humanity and the way people are treated in America. That America has come a long way, because there was a day when you wouldn't have a film with a black woman director or produced by Oprah Winfrey, who is a billionaire black woman who came from Mississippi. There was a day when nobody would have imagined that. So we've come a long way, but we have a long way to go. I think we can learn that there is a way for us to achieve this and we've seen it. It's been done in history. It's been done in different movements throughout time and Selma is an example of one. We have to learn that even if we may not be going through it in our specific situation, somebody else is and it's our responsibility to not allow that to happen. If we see somebody being oppressed, we're part of the problem at that point. And I say that to myself, too.
ESQ: And what would you say to white people about what they should do to help in the racial situation in America right now?
COMMON: You need to use your voice to stand up for issues that are human issues. Whether it's a black person or an Asian person or a Latino person, if you see that person being wronged, you have to stand up and speak up. It's important as a white person that you try to get some understanding. Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with that—some pain and anger that come with that and we as black people have to deal with it to heal that. White people have to understand it and have some compassion toward it. I think as a white person you can just recognize as a human being that you can go out and support political activity that is around improving society. Support political people who do care about the communities. In the [Millions March] in New York, I was told it was 60 percent non-black and that's a beautiful thing. People saying "black lives matter" makes us brothers and sisters. Black is our color and it's our nationality in this country, but ultimately we're all human beings. We're all children of God. I don't want us to use black or white to separate us. It's a way to acknowledge where you come from and let people understand you and respect you because you have that understanding. It's important as a society that different nationalities understand that we come from different cultures but we're still the same.


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Couch Coaching: Colin in Black and White
I hope you find these self care lessons from Colin Kaepernick and Ava Duvernay's magnificent series Colin in Black and White helpful. Lá Breith Sona Duit! Penblwydd Hapus! Happy Birthday, Colin!
Disheartening as the Virginia election results are, this phenomenal programming will help the gazillions of people growing up (and grown up) now who, like Colin, KNOW racism is wrong struggle to articulate it.
While they (we) might not have the knowledge, wisdom or understanding, Kaepernick and co are helping to fill those gaps.
Scenes from his life are interspersed (The Good Fight style) with little explanations going behind what might appear like a small thing to some but which is deliberate.
I'm drafting this on Colin Kaepernick's birthday (3/11) and am in awe, as I was watching the entire Netflix series, of how much he's done in such a short (so far) life.
If you've not yet seen the series, in which Colin himself steps in and out of scenes from his high school years, you won't regret watching it as soon as you can.
Know that you're beautiful
Being a teenager is hard enough.
Being told that your hair is bad purely for the way it grows naturally is horrifying. Being forced to cut the cornrows he was so proud of and felt so himself in was a disgrace.
His parents' role in that reminded me of the awfulness of politicians like David Lloyd George forbidding Welsh people from speaking Welsh (or my Indian grandfather, who, like my Irish grandfather, died several decades before I was born, forbidding his children from speaking Konkani, the native language of Goa, where their family was from). In Lloyd George and my grandfather's case, it was internalised oppression. They believed their people would fare better in a world in which they adopted the styles and language of the oppressor.
I also hope that Crystal, whoever and wherever she is now, knows that SHE is beautiful.
As Kaepernick says:
'Maybe they didn't want us to see our beauty because they knew, if we did, if we controlled our own narrative, we'd be unstoppable.'
Know that other people's bigotry is NOT YOUR FAULT
One of the most heartwrenching elements of the series was his relationship with his white adoptive parents. At one point, Narrator Colin says he'd never been anyone's first choice.
While they were able to show their love for their son in some ways, in others, their cluelessness was painful to watch and I can only imagine how awful for him to live through.
Children – ADULTS – need to be seen and heard in our full humanity. Their attempt at living a colour blind life left Colin completely alone in facing the trauma of endless racist microaggressions.
Sometimes, THEY were the ones responsible (not putting up the dance photo of him and his beautiful Black high school girlfriend Crystal, saying he looked like a thug and vaguely commenting, 'She seemed nice' about a racist white lady at a hotel.'
Kaepernick said, 'I knew it wasn't right. But I didn't have the knowledge, wisdom or language to fight back.'
Interpersonal trauma is especially painful (natural disasters and the like aren't deliberate). We need other humans to help us heal. The fact that Colin's primary caregivers couldn't even recognise the daily assaults on his Self was horrifying.
I hope that they've been more supportive of Adult World Changing Colin.
His knowledge, wisdom and understanding now is helping countless others navigate this world.
Trust your power
The message behind the whole series is so important in 2021, when world leaders and governments seem utterly shameless when it comes to corruption and exploitation.
In scene after scene, Teenage Colin perseveres. He keeps training. He keeps studying.
Back in 2016, when he started to Take the Knee as a peaceful, silent protest against police brutality against Black people, he probably had no idea the gesture would be adopted around the world. He also may not have known he'd lose his job as quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers and be reviled by so many.
But game after game, he took this stand. In an intervew about the series last week, Ava Duvernay told Christiane Amanpour that Kaepernick still trains and is STILL ready to go back to the NFL.
Psychosynthesis draws on yogic philosophy and other Eastern traditions and an important element is strengthening the Will
Colin not only played High School American football but also basketball and baseball. He was so good at baseball that he had countless scholarship offers for that sport when the time came to go to college.
These sports and the training schedules would have given him a strong grounding in the importance of habit and practice. Some scenes showed it going too far (him being ordered to run through a headache and fever, playing a game after literally being sick) but his strength as a teenager has helped him become this man with world changing integrity at such a young age.
When you hear the phrase 'Trust your power' what springs to mind for you? What or who do you feel called to speak up for? What will help you feel grounded enough and safe enough to step into your power?
We live in a time where many people seem to be rewarded for being bullies. For being corrupt. For doing the wrong thing, time and time again.
This doesn't mean that you shouldn't do your best to live a life of integrity and few people exemplify this more than Kaepernick.
By keeping his word to himself, showing up and persevering as a teenager, he wasn't immune to the pain of rejection (so much rejection!) but he kept on doing what he could do.
Everyone was trying to push him towards baseball because that's where the offers were coming from. But he wanted to be a quarterback.
'Rejection is not a failure,' Narrator Colin said. It's a calibrator. It can help you learn who you are and what you want. Your path will sometimes be rough but trust your power.'
I also imagine the extra level of microagressions and downright racism he faced as a baseball player factored into his decision but even without that, he was good – excellent – at three sports (as well as having a 4.0 grade point average) and knew his heart was in American football.
It would have been SO easy for him to cave and accept a future that while others would have leapt at it didn't light HIM up.
What are you good at which simply doesn't feel like your path? Being good at something doesn't mean you have to do it! Even if you have to work much harder to be as good at what DOES light you up, it'll be worth it.
Write a letter to your Younger Self
The final episode has Grown Colin share a letter with Teenage Colin and it was incredibly moving. (You may have come across Gayle King's book, Notes to Self – if not, you may love this delightful anthology of success stories going back in time to share hardearned wisdom with their younger selves).
To do this, simply allow a time in your life to spring to mind for you.
It may have been a challenging time. You may have felt alone and misunderstood. Whenever it was, sit with it for a few moments. You might want to grab a photo if you can and look at ____ year old you.
Write Younger You a letter. Send love and compassion as well as wisdom and other resources down your imaginary timeline and help heal this Younger You.
Write a letter to your Future Self
According to author David DeSento, Emotional Success: The Motivational Power of Gratitude, Compassion and Pride, one of the reasons so many people struggle to do the kind of things Future You will thank you for is because we don't know our future selves well enough to have empathy and compassion for them.
Connecting with your Future Self can help you stay motivated to make all sorts of decisions that will contribute to a better LIFE for Future You (from eating well and exercising to saving for retirement and nourishing relationships).
One way to do this is to set an alarm each week and get to know Future You.
Imagine yourself at a point that springs to mind (90? 105?) and write Future You a letter.
Send this hard to imagine you love and compassion and get a sense of what she / he / they needs from you.
How have you found doing these self care practices?
What are you going to do differently as a result?
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'DropThatChamber' Detained Soldier Released
tvnewsgh Aug 13, 2019 6:03 am
Lance Corporal Isaac Wassah who was sentenced to 90 days in detention over the 'DropThatChamber' campaign has been released on Monday.
He was handed the punishment after he was seen in a viral video in military uniform speaking against the proposed construction of a new Parliamentary chamber amidst divided public view on whether or not his action was justified.
According to reports, Lance Corporal Lincoln Isaac Wassah of 2 Recce Squadron in Sunyani, did not show any sign of remorse when he faced a committee that was set up to investigate his action.
The committee, therefore, recommended his detention for 90 days and that he should be stripped of his rank.
The Economic Fighters League (EFL), a group which was openly against the proposed construction recent petitioned President Akufo-Addo to pardon the soldier and get him released.
The group had argued that the soldier should not be punished for expressing his views.
The Convenor of the EFL, Ernesto Yeboah told Citi News that; "Anything that has been taken away from him should be restored. This is somebody who deserves a national honour, not retribution or condemnation. We expect that all of us, good citizens including the president do what is right to the nation. What he did is a good thing and our nation must rise in commendation."
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—citinewsroom
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import migrate
from oslo_config import cfg
from oslo_log import log
import sqlalchemy as sql
from sqlalchemy import orm

from keystone.assignment.backends import sql as assignment_sql
from keystone.common import sql as ks_sql
from keystone.common.sql import migration_helpers

LOG = log.getLogger(__name__)
CONF = cfg.CONF

def upgrade(migrate_engine):
    meta = sql.MetaData()
    meta.bind = migrate_engine

    if migrate_engine.name == 'mysql':
        # In Folsom we explicitly converted migrate_version to UTF8.
        migrate_engine.execute(
            'ALTER TABLE migrate_version CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8')
        # Set default DB charset to UTF8.
        migrate_engine.execute(
            'ALTER DATABASE %s DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8' %
            migrate_engine.url.database)

    assignment = sql.Table(
        'assignment',
        meta,
        sql.Column('type', sql.Enum(
            assignment_sql.AssignmentType.USER_PROJECT,
            assignment_sql.AssignmentType.GROUP_PROJECT,
            assignment_sql.AssignmentType.USER_DOMAIN,
            assignment_sql.AssignmentType.GROUP_DOMAIN,
            name='type'),
            nullable=False),
        sql.Column('actor_id', sql.String(64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('target_id', sql.String(64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('role_id', sql.String(64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('inherited', sql.Boolean, default=False, nullable=False),
        sql.PrimaryKeyConstraint('type', 'actor_id', 'target_id', 'role_id'),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    domain = sql.Table(
        'domain', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean, default=True, nullable=False),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text(), nullable=True),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    endpoint = sql.Table(
        'endpoint', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('interface', sql.String(length=8), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('region', sql.String(length=255)),
        sql.Column('service_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('url', sql.Text, nullable=False),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean, nullable=False, default=True,
                   server_default='1'),
        sql.Column('description', sql.String(255), nullable=True),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    group = sql.Table(
        'group', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('domain_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    policy = sql.Table(
        'policy', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('domain_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text, nullable=True),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean, nullable=False, default=True),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    project = sql.Table(
        'project', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('domain_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    region = sql.Table(
        'region', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('description', sql.String(255), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('parent_region_id', sql.String(64), nullable=True),
        sql.Column('extra', sql.Text()),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    role = sql.Table(
        'role', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=255), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text),
        sql.Column('domain_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    rule = sql.Table(
        'rule', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('policy_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('service', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('permission', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('condition', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl, nullable=True),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    service = sql.Table(
        'service', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('type', sql.String(length=255)),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean, nullable=False, default=True,
                   server_default='1'),
        sql.Column('description', sql.String(255), nullable=True),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    token = sql.Table(
        'token', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('expires', sql.DateTime, default=None),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        sql.Column('valid', sql.Boolean, default=True, nullable=False),
        sql.Column('user_id', sql.String(length=64)),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    user = sql.Table(
        'user', meta,
        sql.Column('id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('name', sql.String(length=255), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('password', sql.String(length=128)),
        sql.Column('domain_id', sql.String(length=64), nullable=False),
        sql.Column('description', sql.Text(), nullable=True),
        sql.Column('enabled', sql.Boolean),
        sql.Column('extra', ks_sql.JsonBlob.impl),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    user_group_membership = sql.Table(
        'user_group_membership', meta,
        sql.Column('user_id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        sql.Column('group_id', sql.String(length=64), primary_key=True),
        mysql_engine='InnoDB',
        mysql_charset='utf8')

    # create all tables
    tables = [assignment, domain, endpoint, group, policy, project, role,
              region, rule, service, token, user, user_group_membership]

    for table in tables:
        try:
            table.create()
        except Exception:
            LOG.exception('Exception while creating table: %r', table)
            raise

    # Unique Constraints
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(user.c.domain_id,
                             user.c.name,
                             name='ixu_user_name_domain_id').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(group.c.domain_id,
                             group.c.name,
                             name='ixu_group_name_domain_id').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(role.c.name,
                             role.c.domain_id,
                             name='ixu_role_name_domain_id').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(project.c.domain_id,
                             project.c.name,
                             name='ixu_project_name_domain_id').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(policy.c.domain_id,
                             policy.c.name,
                             name='ixu_policy_name_domain_id').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(rule.c.service, rule.c.policy_id,
                             rule.c.permission,
                             name='ixu_rule_policy_service_permission').create()
    migrate.UniqueConstraint(domain.c.name,
                             name='ixu_domain_name').create()

    # Indexes
    sql.Index('ix_token_expires', token.c.expires).create()
    sql.Index('ix_token_expires_valid', token.c.expires,
              token.c.valid).create()

    sql.Index('ix_actor_id', assignment.c.actor_id).create()

    sql.Index('ix_token_user_id', token.c.user_id).create()
    sql.Index('service_id', endpoint.c.service_id).create()
    sql.Index('group_id', user_group_membership.c.group_id).create()
    sql.Index('policy_id', rule.c.policy_id).create()

    # Foreign keys
    fkeys = [
        {'columns': [user.c.domain_id],
         'references': [domain.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_user_domain_id'},

        {'columns': [group.c.domain_id],
         'references': [domain.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_group_domain_id'},

        {'columns': [user_group_membership.c.group_id],
         'references': [group.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_user_group_membership_group_id'},

        {'columns': [user_group_membership.c.user_id],
         'references':[user.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_user_group_membership_user_id'},

        {'columns': [project.c.domain_id],
         'references': [domain.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_project_domain_id'},

        {'columns': [role.c.domain_id],
         'references': [domain.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_role_domain_id'},

        {'columns': [policy.c.domain_id],
         'references': [domain.c.id],
         'name':'fk_policy_domain_id'},

        {'columns': [endpoint.c.service_id],
         'references': [service.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_endpoint_service_id'},

        {'columns': [rule.c.policy_id],
         'references': [policy.c.id],
         'name': 'fk_rule_policy_id'}
    ]

    for fkey in fkeys:
        migrate.ForeignKeyConstraint(columns=fkey['columns'],
                                     refcolumns=fkey['references'],
                                     name=fkey.get('name')).create()

def downgrade(migrate_engine):
    raise NotImplementedError('Downgrade to pre-Icehouse release db schema is '
                              'unsupported.')


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News & AnalysisASAP
DOL Withdraws Joint Employer and Independent Contractor Guidance
By Michael J. Lotito and Ilyse Schuman on
In a three-sentence press release, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta announced the withdrawal of two Wage and Hour Administrator's Interpretations (AIs) on joint employment and independent contractors. While the AIs were not binding law, they did represent a significant shift in wage and hour law advocated by the prior administration, and served as the Wage and Hour Administration's (WHD) justification for taking certain enforcement actions. While the AIs' rescission is being hailed by the employer community, it is just the first step in clarifying the new administration's position on both key issues.
Administrator's Interpretation No. 2016-01, issued in January 2016, established new standards for determining joint employment under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA). In this AI, the DOL took the position that "[t]he concept of joint employment, like employment generally, should be defined expansively under the FLSA and MSPA." In addition, for the first time, the WHD differentiated between "horizontal" joint employment and "vertical" joint employment.
Administrator's Interpretation No. 2015-1, issued in July 2015, addressed the classification of independent contractors as employees under the FLSA. The WHD took a similarly expansive view of employment in this AI, stating, "most workers are employees under the FLSA's broad definitions," essentially creating a presumption of employment for workers.
Both AIs were criticized for creating informal standards outside of the notice-and-comment process required for formal agency rulemaking.
Notably, in rescinding these documents, the DOL emphasizes that "[r]emoval of the administrator interpretations does not change the legal responsibilities of employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, as reflected in the department's long-standing regulations and case law."
The DOL's actions can be seen as the first in a series of steps the agency might take to steer the Department from the "fissured workplace" theory advocated by former WHD Administrator David Weil to a more "traditional" view of employment relationships. Under the fissured workplace premise, workplace models such as franchising and the use of independent contractors and temporary employees are believed to contribute to greater wage and hour violations. In essence, the AIs extended who could be considered an employer for liability purposes.
With respect to defining the employment relationship, Secretary Acosta's views appear to deviate from that of Weil's. During his confirmation hearing to be the next Labor Secretary, Alex Acosta was asked about his views on joint employment. Senator Lamar Alexander, Chairman of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, specifically asked Mr. Acosta about the standard that should be used to determine when an entity is rendered an employer. Mr. Acosta responded that he preferred the "direct and immediate" control standard, which he considers the "traditional" factor used in making this assessment, versus the "untraditional" indirect and unexercised control method.
In addition, he expressed his intent—if confirmed—to reinstate the practice of issuing Opinion Letters in place of sub-regulatory AIs. Therefore, it is expected that the AIs' removal will eventually be followed by Opinion Letters, possibly on the issue of joint employment and independent contractors. However, this process will likely have to wait until a new Wage and Hour Administrator is appointed.
The removal of the AIs does nothing to resolve the confusion surrounding joint employment in the labor law context. The National Labor Relations Board's pivotal decision in Browning-Ferris Industries fundamentally changed the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Although that decision has been appealed to the D.C. Circuit, its resolution is far from certain. During the last congressional session, lawmakers proposed legislation to clarify the joint-employer definition, but it did not advance.
Moreover, the AIs' rescission does not resolve the conflicting interpretations of joint employment and independent contractor status under various state laws, so employers are no closer to a bright-line standard on either issue. What the DOL's move shows, however, is that the current administration is taking steps to rein in the expansive interpretation of "employment" that had evolved in recent years.
Michael J. Lotito
mlotito@littler.com
Workplace Policy InstituteWage and HourStaffing, Independent Contractors and Contingent Workers


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What have you done in the past 16 years? Think about that for a moment. Did you get married? Did you have a child? Did you graduate from high school or college? Did you undergo any life-altering changes? If you're The Avalanches, you just released your second album entitled, Wildflower. This Aussie group has been working on this album since 2005. With band members coming and going, they've managed to release a couple EP's and a few mixtapes. Don't say they haven't been busy!
With 16 years between full albums, what would you expect to hear? World music? Disco? Hip-hop? Psychedelic rock? Funk? Electronica? Samples? Probably not, but this album is rife with all of it. And, at least in my opinion, it works. Maybe it's because the band has been on such a long hiatus and music trends have changed and splintered and changed again that I had no idea what to expect since 2000's Since I Left You. There's also a joie de vivre on the album that I can't help smiling at songs like Because I'm Me, Frankie Sinatra, and The Noisy Eater (to name a few). I haven't found an online resource to share as in other posts, so you can go here for Amazon samples from Wildflower or listen to the two offerings below.


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