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Smart Cities: Connecting Technology with Cities for Stronger Communities
Visions for smart, connected cities are gaining momentum as viable technologies emerge and policymakers, architects, and unlikely players open their minds to new approaches in city building. The incredible potential of IoT, open data, digital integrations, and machine learning offer countless new approaches to urban planning, city life, and community building. In many ways, Toronto is leading the conversation and welcoming innovation at the centre of its planning initiatives. As cities around the world attempt to integrate these technologies in ways that respect citizen privacy and enhance the experiences of every resident, Toronto is committing to major innovation projects that push boundaries and extend possibilities.
My personal interest in city building began two years ago. On a 6 month backpacking journey through Southeast Asia, I began to recognize the influence of place, space, and the built environment on my emotional state and interactions with others. Time and time again, I felt most comfortable, and even a sense of pride, in spaces that had a distinct design and made community connections possible and engagement visible. The sense of ownership and joy created by dynamic environments, creative expression, and teamwork seemed to extend to everyone who entered space - even those just passing through.
As I returned home to Toronto and discovered local coworking spaces and mixed-use buildings, my interest in the physical spaces and urban planning forces that impact us all only became more pronounced.
Toronto's Growing Influence
The current buzz around Alphabet's smart city has driven many people to take notice of the city plans that impact their daily lives and begin to consider the implications of data-driven, privately-run enclaves in an urban centre. UPPlift: Toronto's urban pilot program challenge is also elevating the conversation, asking community members to submit tech-enabled solutions to transform the existing infrastructure in the city. The nature of rapidly accelerating technologies means that new possibilities and innovations are constantly emerging to transform how we live, work, and play in the world and bringing our relationship with place and space to the forefront of the public consciousness. This unchartered territory comes with its own risks and rewards, though, and a new, more collaborative and conscientious approach to smart cities must be undertaken for success.
Key Approaches for Smart Cities
'City as platform' concepts have, thankfully, been rooted in a thoughtful approach to inclusion and sustainable development goals. As we forge ahead with new technology and collaborative approaches to city building, there are many careful considerations that must be made. What follows are three that ensure developments benefit the most people possible and create resilient cities that are not just smart, but brilliant for their (intended and unexpected) uses, neighbourhoods, and population segments.
The city is not a blank canvas. Approaching it as such is not only unrealistic but wasteful. When reimagining urban futures and integrating technology into daily city life, we need to leverage existing infrastructure to make it economically and ecologically sustainable. At all stages of development and decision-making, we must keep a lens on efficiency and long-term environmental impact. Population growth and concentration in cities means that systems must be resilient, adaptable, and efficient to be smart. As more and more projects and voices arise, strong focus must remain on solving existing problems, not just creating new solutions. Improving less aesthetic and less visible realities, such as resource consumption, traffic, and waste management, that are essential to a livable city must be at the top of the priorities list.
Civic-Minded
New models and technologies result in uncertain outcomes, creating space for diverging opinions and perspectives. Security and privacy concerns, as well as reinforced power imbalances, have been a big debate in many smart city conversations. People are raising concerns about access to information, risks associated with collecting and storing massive pools of data, consent, and the right to privacy in a democratic society. A meaningful debate helps to shine a light on the dark corners and potential downsides of tech integrations. Input and a reflective, open approach to account for all voices and concerns must be taken by the city to mitigate the potential for unforeseen and/or negative outcomes in this new era of city planning. Catalytic governance models, that unite stakeholders around conceptualizing plausible outcomes, must be used to ensure the city is being built, transformed, and co-created with those who will live in and define the spaces every day.
Beyond the physical reality of buildings, city plans and high tech integrations cannot ignore what already works in a neighbourhood. There are no shortcuts or perfect science when it comes to city life, so developing mindful and tailored solutions for different areas, even within a single city, are essential. Ignoring or striving to transform the multiculturalism, diverse income levels, and most recognizable qualities of an area through non-inclusive, inaccessible, or otherwise unexamined technology will not serve to enhance, but only degrade and mutate the city. Culture is essential, so keeping sight of how progress will impact interactions, existing populations, and relations with the built environment itself should be carefully taken into consideration when determining if plans are viable.
As Toronto gains recognition as a hub for technology and an epicentre for innovation, ensuring our city reflects the activity, passion, and diversity of its residents is essential. Citizen input and action are easier and more important than ever before. Dream up your ideal city and share your key considerations for urban planning innovations that will have a true, tangible, and direct impact on all residents.


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SME Association of Australian launches
The My Business web team
A new body for small business, the SME Association of Australia, has launched. And My Business will be its offical magazine.
A new body for small and medium enterprises, the SME Assocation of Australia (SMEAA), launched today - and has appointed My Business as its official magazine.
SMEAA inaugural Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Caroline Hong said "We have a very clear mission to provide services that will help them connect with each other and with big business locally and internationally, to help them grow and succeed, create sustainability, jobs and, ultimately, a prosperous healthy nation."
SMEAA's new logo
SMEAA membership is open to sole traders, small and medium sized enterprises, corporate partners, government bodies, associations, NFP organisations, SME suppliers and future business people, such as school and university students.
The Association is also very keen to work with retired entrepreneurs and small businesses run by migrants and women, as these groups represent a significant proportion of the SME sector.
"The ageing population, the number of highly qualified migrants who struggle to find employment and the increasing number of women juggling work, family and sometimes caring for elders, mean these groups often see small or home-based businesses as a very attractive option," Dr Hong said.
"We need to create a business-friendly platform to capture the knowledge of these groups and help them navigate the complex business, regulatory and technological landscape."
Dr Hong has more than 20 years of leadership roles covering health, business events, exhibitions, boards and association management.
Having started her career as a dental surgeon, she went on to acquire a postgraduate degree in Health Administration and other qualifications from the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and Meetings Events Australia (MEA).
Foundation memberships of SMEAA cost just $55 and include a subscription to My Business.
Digital disruptors dominate 2011 ActionCOACH My Business awards
Three reasons the iPhone 4S matters for small business

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Scarlett very first performing debut was to play 'Sophistry' in 1993, an off-Broadway play. In this Playwright Horizons stage, she was performing together with Ethan Hawke. After starred in several movies and gained a nomination for an independent movie, Manny and Lo (1997), she gained international recognition through Robert Redford's movie, "The Horse Whisperer" (1998). Her name got real buzzed by Sofia Coppola's movie, Lost in Translation (2003), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She acted as a lonely newlywed who stayed in Japan and had a relationship with an American actor (played by Bill Murray). Good scripts then were pouring into her like autumn leaves. She was cast as Griet in "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (2003) and starred in "A Love Song for Bobby Long" (2004) played with John Travolta. In those two movies, she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress in Drama. Also in Woody Allen's "Match Point" (2005), she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
For her love relationship, there are some boys' names such as Faiz Ahmad, Benicio Del Toro, Jared Leto and Josh Hartnett. Scarlett met Josh during the production of The Black Dahlia and they started their relationship in Nov 2006, but were rumored to be breaking up again by 2007.


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Q: Java - Loop to create Action Listeners Is there any way to set up a loop to create multiple very similar action-listeners?
For purely academic purposes, I created a card game, each card is a button, when you click on the card, it should turn face-up. The game works fine, but each action listener is set up individually. Below is my attempt at a loop.
String string1;
String string2;

// called by the constructor
public void setupActionListener() {
    int loopVar = 0;

    while (loopVar <= 16) {
        string1 = "card"+loopVar;
        string2 = "c"+loopVar;

             string1 string2 = new string1();           //A
             // -> card0 c0 = new card0();

             card[loopVar].addActionListener(string2);  //B
             // -> card[0].addActionListener(c0);

    loopVar = loopVar + 1;
}

// the action listener

public class card0 implements ActionListener {          //C
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent c0) {       //D
        // perform actions
    }
}

EDIT:
First, I never thought "string1 string2 = new string1();" would work, I was just going for a general idea.
Judging from the comments, it seems I have asked this question in a confusing way, all I meant is I have this in the constructor:
card0 c0 = new card0();
card[0].addActionListener(c0);
card1 c1 = new card1();
card[1].addActionListener(c1);
card2 c2 = new card2();
card[2].addActionListener(c2);
card3 c3 = new card3();
card[3].addActionListener(c3);
card4 c4 = new card4();
...
card15 c15 = new card15();
card[15].addActionListener(c15);

And later this:
public class card0 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent c0) {
        move(0);
    }
}

public class card1 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent c1) {
        move(1);
    }
}

public class card15 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent c2) {
        move(2);
    }
}
...
public class card15 implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent c15) {
        move(15);
    }
}

And I wanted to know if it was possible to put all this into a loop. It seems the answer is no, but I was just asking.

A: The code you presented is not very rich so I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but maybe this pseudo-code would help you.
public class Card extends SomeComponent{
    public void turn() {
        //doStuff
    }
}

public class CardGame {

    private SomeComponent[] cards;
    public void prepareGame() {
        CardListener listener = new CardListener();
        for (int i=0; i<=16; i++) {
            cards[i] = new Card();
            cards[i].addActionListener(listener);
        }
    }
}

public class CardListener implements ActionListener {

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        ((Card) e.getSource()).turn();
    }

}

You can use adding MouseListener or KeyListener instead of ActionListener which doesn't give you much information about what has happened.

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Hundreds of thousands of LED Christmas lights return to Temple Square in Salt Lake City Friday, November 23, 2018, at 5:30 p.m. The lights will be turned on every morning from 6:00 a.m. until 7:30 a.m. and from 5:00 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. every evening through January 2, 2019.
Christmas on Temple Square features several activities, including the Christmas lights, the First Presidency's Christmas devotional, Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts, musical performances, nativity displays and movies in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Legacy Theater.
A schedule of the showings can be found on LDS.org.
"Mr. Krueger's Christmas" is a television special that was produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1980. It stars Jimmy Stewart and The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
"The Nativity" is a short movie that revisits scenes from the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ.
"Be One — A Celebration of the Revelation on the Priesthood" is a recording of the 40th anniversary celebration of the revelation on the priesthood that took place on June 1, 2018.
"Meet the Mormons" is a series of vignettes examining the diverse lives of devout members of the Church.


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Miss Brasil 1954 foi a 1ª edição do concurso Miss Brasil, válido para a disputa de Miss Universo 1954. O concurso que elegeu a baiana Martha Rocha  foi realizado no dia 26 de junho de 1954 no hotel Quitandinha, localizado em Petrópolis, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Sob patrocínio e organização da Folha de São Paulo e Diário Carioca, o certame conseguiu reunir seis (6) distintas moças de diversos Estados brasileiros em busca do título inédito. A grande campeã foi enfaixada pelo poeta Manuel Bandeira.

Histórico

Julgamento

 Diário Carioca (Edição Nº 7.967 - Capa).

A vitoriosa e as finalistas

 Diário Carioca (Edição Nº 7.967 - Capa).

Protesto

 João Martins para O Cruzeiro (Edição Nº 39 - P. 104).

Resultados

Candidatas
Disputaram o título este ano:

  Bahia - Maria Martha Hacker Rocha

  Distrito Federal - Patrícia Lacerda

  Estado do Rio - Zaida Maria de Souza Saldanha
  Goiás - Dorama Cury Nasser

  Rio Grande do Sul - Lygia Beatriz Carotenuto

  São Paulo - Baby Lomani

Jurados
Sete jurados avaliaram as candidatas:

 Helena Silveira, contista.
 Fernando Sabino, cronista.
 Armando Fontes, romancista.
 Paulo Mendes Campos, cronista.
 Pompeu de Sousa, jornalista.
 Tomás Santa Rosa, pintor.
 Manuel Bandeira, poeta.

Ligações externas
 Site do Miss Brasil

 Site do Miss Universo

1954
Brasil

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Buy a divination mirror or scrying glass to see visions of your past, present, and future. Divination mirrors will strengthen your psychic abilities and draw greater power to your Third Eye.
Dream Mirrors are the perfect tools for those who cannot remember their dreams but know there was something important they didn't want to forget. You need to keep the Dream Mirror near your bed when you sleep so the mirror can absorb the energy and imagery from your dreams. The mirror is enchanted with a complex blend of spells which absorbs your dreams and reflects them back to you upon command.
This hand-carved gemstone bowl features a rare and beautiful enchantment of Grecian origin. The binding is a powerful & revealing tool of supernatural power. The bowl provides psychic abilities, divine messages & thoughts, the power to exercise and utilize the powers of Oracles of ancient Europe, and the ability to summon those of great power to give you advice and guidance.
You will receive a beautiful pillowcase imbued with spells to encourage intense experiences during sleep cycle: hyper-lucid dreaming, astral time travel, past life recreation, visions of & from spirits, Immortals, and ancestors, surreal adventure dreams, and visions of yourself in different life paths. It is a really amazing combination of spells that makes your sleep time something to REALLY look forward to every night! We were originally going to make pillows, but this way you can use this pillowcase on any pillows, or you can choose to lay it flat under the mattress or under your current pillow; having the case instead of a pillow opens you to possibilities, and you can wash as needed.


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News From Russia: What You Missed Over the Weekend
Around 700 people re-enacted the Siege of Leningrad — a key World War II battle that lasted for 872 days and left hundreds of thousands of people dead from starvation or bombardment — near the Russian city of St. Petersburg. Alexander Demianchuk / TASS
Pardon request
A U.S.-Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges for having cannabis in her luggage during an airport layover has asked for a pardon, Interfax reported, citing a statement from her lawyers.
Naama Issachar Artyom Geodakyan / TASS
The Kremlin said earlier that it was impossible for Naama Issachar to be granted a presidential pardon without her first formally requesting one. Israel has called on Russia to release Issachar, who was sentenced by a Russian court to seven and a half years in jail for drug offenses in October.
Virus evacuations
Russia is consulting with China about possibly evacuating Russian citizens from the Chinese city of Wuhan and Hubei province, the center of an outbreak of a new flu-like virus, the state-run RIA news agency cited the Russian Embassy in Beijing as saying.
No Russians have yet been infected with the new coronavirus, RIA quoted the embassy's press attache in China as saying.
Protest review
President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Prosecutor General to investigate whether the guilty verdict for Moscow protester Konstantin Kotov was lawful, the Kremlin said.
Konstantin Kotov activatica.org
A Moscow court sentenced Kotov, a 34-year-old programmer, to four years in prison in September for "repeated" participation in unauthorized rallies, under a widely criticized law that criminalizes nonviolent protests. The court said Kotov "disregarded basic constitutional principles" because he continued to take part in unauthorized protests after being found guilty of violating legislation on public gatherings.
Cardinal out?
Contradictory reports emerged of longtime Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov's resignation after years of handling Russia's role in the conflict between pro-Moscow separatists and Ukrainian government forces in eastern Ukraine.
Surkov's aide Alexei Chesnakov told Bloomberg that he resigned over unspecified policy differences, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied both the resignation and a change of policy on Ukraine.
Death in church
Former Russian Orthodox Church spokesman Vsevolod Chaplin has died at the age of 51 outside his church in Moscow, TASS reported.
Vsevolod Chaplin Andrei Nikerichev / Moskva News Agency
The preliminary cause of Chaplin's death was determined to be cardiac arrest, an unnamed medical source told the state-run news agency.
Siege re-enacted
Around 700 people re-enacted the Siege of Leningrad — a key World War II battle that lasted for 872 days and left hundreds of thousands dead from starvation or bombardment — near the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
The re-enactors brought 30 pieces of historical military hardware to re-enact the Jan. 27, 1944, lifting of the blockade, which became one of the longest and deadliest sieges in the history of warfare.
Includes reporting from Reuters.
Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Jan. 17
Belarus Announces Joint Drills With Russia in February
Navalny Says 'No Regrets' on Anniversary of Return to Russia
russia's response
'breakdown in relations'
Sanctions on Putin Would be Step Too Far, Kremlin Warns U.S.
Russian Ruble, Stocks, Slide as Security Talks Fall Flat
'Intelligence findings'
U.S. Says Russia Readying 'False-Flag' Operation to Invade Ukraine
taken offline
'Massive' Cyberattack Hits Ukraine Government Websites
LIVE | Coronavirus in Russia: The Latest News | Jan. 17
Omicron fears. Covid passes. Vaccination push.
'allied resolve'
The drills near NATO's eastern borders and Ukraine come at a time of potent tensions between Moscow and the West.
restored access
Russia's media regulator had described the block as an "act of censorship" by the U.S. tech giant.
past in perspective
The opposition figure has been in jail since his Jan. 17, 2021, return to Russia following months of recovery in Germany from a near-fatal poisoning.


Have you ever had a case of the slumps? For me, a case of the slumps looks like this: I eat junk food, I don't exercise, and I spend a LOT of time in front of a screen. At first, this feels fun and indulgent, but after a day or two, I slump. I feel lethargic and dull– sometimes even hopeless. I know now that these emotions tell me I've run out of fuel, but I've had to go through the case of the slumps many times before understanding that message.
The week before Michael left, I paid a visit to my angel of a therapist. I told her that I knew a case of the slumps would be waiting for me after he left on his trip. "Well, yes," she answered pragmatically, "so you need to come up with a game plan before he leaves." So I did. I bought a nice new journal, some colorful markers, and I created my "Wellbeing Game Plan": a prescriptive formula for keeping myself healthy during Michael's absence.
Creating wellbeing for myself is my goal while Michael is gone, but you may have another goal in mind. Toward what goal could you use a little more action, discipline, and inspiration? What _____ Game Plan could give you the boost you need to thrive?
Where in your life could you use a GAME PLAN?
1. Make a name. Choose a goal from last week for which you want to make a game plan, and name your Game Plan after that goal.
2. Add your prescriptions. What "medicines" can help you go through your obstacles? I chose going to yoga, seeing friends, scheduling in down time, reading and taking morning journaling and meditation time. My friend, who also created a Wellbeing Game Plan, added watching the sunset to hers. Choose 5-10 tools you want to practice regularly to get closer to your goal.
3. Choose how often. How many times per week can you do each activity to maximally benefit? I found I've had to adjust mine a little bit over these weeks, so be open to flexibility 🙂 Remember that you have lots of other obligations in life, too!
4. Represent it. Write/ draw/ create your game plan somewhere you can come back to it regularly. Have fun making it look like something you want to look at!
5. Create a weekly chart. The first week I tried my wellbeing game plan, by Wednesday I realized I wasn't doing much on the list. I decided to make a chart to keep track of what I had accomplished each day, and I make a new one each week. I put x'es to keep track each day, but my friend actually found cute stickers to put in hers that she loves! The chart, as with an accountability tool, increases the chances of following through.
6. Decide how long your game plan will last. Do you want to try your game plan for a week? For a month? Have compassion for yourself by creating an attainable goal. You can always decide to extend it later!
7. Share you game plan + inspire others! Post a picture + see others' game plans on the Emotional Intelligence Network on Facebook!
Put on your game face… you've got a world to change!
What insights did you gain from creating your game plan?
Do you foresee any challenges for yourself in using your game plan? For example, being too lax about it or too rigid?
If so, what tools will help you move through that challenge?


i. Indigenously developed weapon system Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), was successfully flight tested for the second time from the Ahmednagar range, Maharashtra. All the mission objectives have been met.
ii. The two missions have been successfully flight tested for different ranges including the maximum range capability.
i. External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj, along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the website for the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2019, www.pbdindia.gov.in.
1. Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Kumar Jugnauth will be the Chief Guest.
2. Member of Parliament of Norway Himanshu Gulati will be the Special Guest.
3. Member of Parliament of New Zealand Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi will be the Guest of Honor.
The convention 15th PBD 2019 will be held at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh from January 21 to 23, 2019.
i. In an attempt to combat human trafficking, the West Bengal government has rolled out a scheme, Swayangsiddha, in different districts of the State. Swayangsiddha, which means self-reliance, will be executed by the West Bengal Police.
ii. The scheme aims to empower young boys and girls to make informed choices so that they are less vulnerable to trafficking and child marriage. As the per the NCRB data, West Bengal has highest recorded case of trafficking among the States.
West Bengal CM: Mamta Bannerjee, Governor: Keshari Nath Tripathi.
i. For the first time in India, dog owners will have a dedicated dog park to visit. Set up in Hyderabad, the park is spread across an area of 1.3 acres.
ii. The park houses dog training equipment, play equipment, splash pool, fountain, areas for exercise, amphitheatre, lawns, separate kennels for small and big dogs and a dedicated dog clinic.
The man behind the development of dog park is an IAS officer Harichandana, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Zonal Commissioner.
i. India ranks third globally in terms of number of family-owned businesses with 111 companies having a total market capitalisation of $839 billion. India closely follows China with 159 firms and the US with 121 firms,according to the 'Credit Suisse Family 1000 in 2018' study, published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI).
ii. As per the report, in terms of number of family-owned businesses within the non-Japan Asian region, the list is dominated by China, India and Hong Kong. These three jurisdictions together account for around 65% of the non-Japan Asian section of CSRI's database.
i. Cisco, a U.S.-based firm, that makes networking telecommunications equipment, has signed two agreements with the NITI Aayog and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to speed up its Country Digital Acceleration programme in India.
ii. The current set of investments will focus on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship through the Atal Innovation Mission .
i. Union Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh inaugurated two Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) pilot projects along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu region.
ii. The pilot project includes two 5.5 kilometre-stretches in Jammu, the performance of which will be monitored, and based on the feedback improvements will be made for the rest of the system.
i. The second edition of Nepal-China joint military exercise (JME) named Mt Everest Friendship Exercise-2018 (Sagarmatha Friendship-2018) commenced in China's southwestern Sichuan province.
ii. The 12 day long joint exercise will focus on combating terror and disaster management trainings. Sagarmatha is the Nepali name for Mt Everest, which stands in between both the countries.
The first Sagarmatha Friendship exercise was held in April 2017 at Nepal Army's Para Training School in Maharajgunj in Kathmandu (capital of Nepal).
Nepal Capital- Kathmandu, President: Bidya Devi Bnadari.
China President: Xi Jinping, Capital: Beijing, Currency: renminbi.
i. The Jaipur Literature Festival began in Houston at the Asia Society of Texas. The festival, touted as the world's largest free literary gathering, started with a soulful music performance by Indian Sufi singer Zila Khan.
ii. The inaugural session also saw Congress leader and writer Shashi Tharoor discuss his book "Why i am a Hindu" with writer Namita Gokhale.
i. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer was observed on 16th September throughout the world.
ii. The theme for International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer 2018 was 'Keep Cool and Carry On: The Montreal Protocol'.
i. PayU India has received Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) approval to operate its own non-banking financial company (NBFC).
ii. The move will help PayU promote inclusive growth in the country by catering to the diverse financial needs of various segments of the society. The approval from the central bank is subject to "certain pending RBI compliance".
PayU India is a digital payments firm owned by South Africa's Naspers Ltd.
PayU India managing director Jitendra Gupta.
i. Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne agreed to acquire Time magazine from Meredith Corp. for $190 million in cash, joining Jeff Bezos among tech billionaires buying venerable print publications.
ii. The move thrusts the brash 53-year-old entrepreneur, who helped lead the shift of software to an on-demand model, into a new role: media baron. TIME magazine publisher Time Inc was sold to Meredith for $1.8 billion in January 2018.
Time was founded in 1923.
i. Infosys has acquired Finnish company Fluido, a top consulting partner of Salesforce, for 65 million euros (about Rs 545 crore). This is Infosys's second acquisition under CEO Salil Parekh.
ii. Recently, it had acquired US digital creative and consumer insight agency WongDoody for $75 million.
Infosys CEO: Salil Parekh, Headquarters: Bengaluru.
i. Federal Bank, which is in the process of formation of a wholly owned subsidiary company, has executed MOU with Infopark Kakkanad for leasing space in their campus.
ii. The Bank has already obtained in principle approval of the Reserve Bank of India for the creation of a subsidiary company. The proposed company will integrate and handle all the back-end operations of the Bank.
Shyam Srinivasan is the Managing Director & CEO of Federal Bank.
It Headquarters in Aluva, Kerala.
i. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has approved Rs 65,634.93 crore loan so far to 93 prioritised irrigation projects under the government's flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY).
ii. The NABARD is funding the central and state share of 99 prioritised irrigation projects under the PMKSY through long term irrigation fund (LTIF). It is mandated to provide Rs 70,000 crore loan to these projects to be completed by 2019.
NABARD Chairman- Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Headquarters- Mumbai, Established on- 12 July 1982.
i. NASA launched its Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, known as ICESat-2, which will use an extremely precise laser to collect measurement data to track the Earth's shrinking polar ice from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
ii. The laser, known as ATLAS (Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System), splits into six beams and fires 10,000 pulses per second to collect very precise measurements for scientists to analyze.
It was founded on 1958.
Jim Bridenstine is the present Administrator of NASA.
i. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched PSLV C 42 with two British earth observation satellites NovaSAR and S1-4 in precision from the Sathish Dhawan Space Centre Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.
ii. The satellites were put into sun-synchronous orbit just over 17 minutes after liftoff from the first launch pad.
Chairman of ISRO: Dr. K Sivan.
Headquarters of ISRO- Bengaluru, Karnataka.
PSLV stands for Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
i. State-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) bagged the "Rajbhasha Kirti" award for outstanding performance in implementing the Official Language Policy during 2017-18. The award was given on the occasion of Hindi Diwas (14th September).
ii. The award, under the category of 'Nationalised Banks and Financial Institutions in Region A', was presented by Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu to PNB Chief Executive and MD Sunil Mehta.
Sunil Mehta is the CEO of Punjab National Bank.
i. State Bank of India announced that Prashant Kumar has taken charge as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Bank. Before Kumar, Anshula Kant, who has been promoted as Managing Director of SBI, was the CFO.
ii. Prior to this appointment, Kumar was designated as Deputy Managing Director (HR) & Corporate Development Officer of India's largest bank.
i. Moutaz Mousa Abdallah has become Sudan's new Prime Minister. A 21-member cabinet was sworn in at the presidential palace in Khartoum. Mousa Abdallah is also holding the finance portfolio.
ii. Sudan has been grappling with an acute foreign exchange shortage and inflation above 65% for several months.
Omar al-Bashir is the present President of Sudan.
Sudan Capital: Khartoum, Currency: Sudanese pound.
i. Indian five-time world boxing champion M C Mary Kom clinched her third gold medal of the year in 48 kg category, while Jyoti Gulia picked up the country's lone gold in 51 kg of the youth category of the Silesian Open boxing Tournament for women in Gliwice, Poland.
ii. In the youth competition, Jyoti, a former world champion and India's only boxer to have qualified for Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, out-classed Poland's Tatiana Pluta.
i. Maldives have lifted the 2018 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup. In the final at the Bangabandhu Stadium in Dhaka, they defeated defending champions India 2-1. The win for Maldives comes 10 years after their first SAFF Cup title in 2008.
ii. Seven-time champions India had started as favourites in the summit clash. The Indian team, comprising mostly under-23 players, was the only unbeaten side in the tournament.
Maldives Capital: Male, Currency: Maldivian rufiyaa.
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Published Mar 16th, 2020 7:15PM EDT
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iOS 14 leaks, at this point, have already revealed a ton of fresh insight about Apple's product and software roadmap for the rest of 2020.
The tech blog 9to5Mac has also found, based on a look at an early iOS 14 build, that Apple is also apparently working on a larger version of the iPhone 9, which we'll call the iPhone 9 Plus for now even though the name hasn't been confirmed yet.
The phone, which along with the iPhone 9 would replace the iPhone 8 models, is expected to be released sometime this spring.
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A slew of leaks related to the next generation of Apple's iOS software has produced a pretty comprehensive look at this point at the iPhone maker's hardware and software roadmap for the rest of 2020, including everything from myriad HomeKit improvements to new iOS gestures as well as the possible addition of blood oxygen level tracking to the Apple Watch soon.
Meanwhile, an analysis of an early iOS 14 build has revealed the existence of an iPhone 9 Plus model, which would be in addition to the iPhone 9 we already expected and which confirms rumors that had already been circulating in support of a larger variant of the 4.7-inch entry-level iPhone 9. The expectation is that the name of this larger handset will carry "Plus" in the branding, and that it will run on the A13 Bionic chip — the same used in the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro.
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The report also emphasizes that the iPhone 9 model names are still not 100% confirmed at this point, with some rumors pointing instead to iPhone SE 2 as the name instead of "iPhone 9" (though, again, "Plus" is still expected to be part of the naming convention for this new, larger model).
The iPhone 9 is expected to retail for $399, the same price as the original iPhone SE when it debuted in 2016. Apple was rumored to be ready to unveil the iPhone 9 and other new products during a media event in March, which is now said to be canceled due to coronavirus concerns. The good news, however, is that Apple will supposedly unveil new products this spring even without a proper press conference, though release timing is now unclear.
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On Tuesday, the Boston Globe published a letter from Francisco Rodriguez, who had written it from a jail in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, where he has been held for the past week. Rodriguez, who is forty-three, has lived in this country for a decade. For the past five years, he has worked as a custodian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he belongs to a labor union. He pays taxes and runs a carpet-cleaning business on the side. He is married, with two children, and his wife is pregnant with a third. Prior to his current incarceration, he wrote, he had never been arrested for any crime.
The reason, in fact, is no mystery. The same day that Rodriguez's letter appeared in the Globe, the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare collapsed in the Senate. Trump issued Lear-like tweets, threatening to allow the health-care system to implode in order to create conditions in which a compromise is born of necessity. It was the latest evidence that the Administration, and the divided Republican Party, are failing to govern. A number of the Trump campaign's promises—health-care reform, infrastructure spending, the wall—appear to be foundering. Immigration is one area where the President can deliver, to a substantial extent, on his incendiary words, without Congress. (Trump wants to increase spending dramatically on immigration police, to accelerate deportations, and Congress will have a say about that, but the President's authority to reset detention priorities is broad.) And the more Trump fails at other parts of his agenda, and the more he doubles down on a strategy of pleasing his core supporters, the more unconscionable cases, like that of Francisco Rodriguez, there will be.
Two very large groups of undocumented immigrants are particularly vulnerable. First, there are more than three hundred thousand people, mainly from Central America and Haiti, who legally reside in the United States under "temporary protected status," which was granted because of Central America's civil wars and, in the case of Haiti, the devastating earthquake of 2010. These official reprieves expire on a rolling basis, usually every eighteen months, and, although the Trump Administration decided last spring to extend affected Haitians' protected status for six months, advocates for immigrant rights are skeptical that this policy will continue.
Then there are the "Dreamers," undocumented American residents who came to the United States as children and who therefore cannot be held accountable for having arrived without papers. According to the Center for Community Change, there are about seven hundred and eighty thousand Dreamers. Obama used his executive power, during his second term, to create a program that allowed these residents to obtain work permits and to enroll in universities. After Trump's election, there was widespread fear that Dreamers would be arrested, but, this spring, Trump said he would extend the program. He seems to have a soft spot, appropriately, for this segment of the population. After the spring announcement, "everyone breathed a sigh of relief," Kica Matos, the director of immigrant rights at the Center for Community Change, said.
Rodriguez is not a Dreamer, but his story is a moving one. The support extended to him is encouraging, wherever it leads. It shows that large numbers of Americans understand the moral and economic imperatives of normalizing the lives of law-abiding undocumented residents, here in a country founded on, and made great by, the aspirations of immigrants—those with papers and those without. Yet the Rodriguez case is also saddening. It unfolded in Cambridge, a hotbed of liberal activism, but it still constitutes a difficult struggle with uncertain results. The case suggests how many hundreds or thousands of other people may now, or may soon, be detained and deported without visibility, without legal advice, without reasonable cause, at the expense of their families—and to the deepening shame of America's place in the world.


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## Introduction

This guide provides necessary information to enable accelerated linear algebra processing for Spark MLlib.

Spark MLlib defines Vector and Matrix as basic data types for machine learning algorithms. On top of them, [BLAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprograms) and [LAPACK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK) operations are implemented and supported by [netlib-java](https://github.com/fommil/netlib-Java) (the algorithms may call [Breeze](https://github.com/scalanlp/breeze) and it will in turn call `netlib-java`). `netlib-java` can use optimized native linear algebra libraries (refered to as "native libraries" or "BLAS libraries" hereafter) for faster numerical processing. [Intel MKL](https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/tools/math-kernel-library.html) and [OpenBLAS](http://www.openblas.net) are two popular ones.

However due to license differences, the official released Spark binaries by default don't contain native libraries support for `netlib-java`.

The following sections describe how to enable `netlib-java` with native libraries support for Spark MLlib and how to install native libraries and configure them properly.

## Enable `netlib-java` with native library proxies

`netlib-java` depends on `libgfortran`. It requires GFORTRAN 1.4 or above. This can be obtained by installing `libgfortran` package. After installation, the following command can be used to verify if it is installed properly.
```
strings /path/to/libgfortran.so.3.0.0 | grep GFORTRAN_1.4
```

To build Spark with `netlib-java` native library proxies, you need to add `-Pnetlib-lgpl` to Maven build command line. For example:
```
$SPARK_SOURCE_HOME/build/mvn -Pnetlib-lgpl -DskipTests -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.7 clean package
```

If you only want to enable it in your project, include `com.github.fommil.netlib:all:1.1.2` as a dependency of your project.

## Install native linear algebra libraries

Intel MKL and OpenBLAS are two popular native linear algebra libraries. You can choose one of them based on your preference. We provide basic instructions as below. You can refer to [netlib-java documentation](https://github.com/fommil/netlib-java) for more advanced installation instructions.

### Intel MKL

- Download and install Intel MKL. The installation should be done on all nodes of the cluster. We assume the installation location is $MKLROOT (e.g. /opt/intel/mkl).
- Create soft links to `libmkl_rt.so` with specific names in system library search paths. For instance, make sure `/usr/local/lib` is in system library search paths and run the following commands:
```
$ ln -sf $MKLROOT/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so /usr/local/lib/libblas.so.3
$ ln -sf $MKLROOT/lib/intel64/libmkl_rt.so /usr/local/lib/liblapack.so.3
```

### OpenBLAS

The installation should be done on all nodes of the cluster. Generic version of OpenBLAS are available with most distributions. You can install it with a distribution package manager like `apt` or `yum`.

For Debian / Ubuntu:
```
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-base
sudo update-alternatives --config libblas.so.3
```
For CentOS / RHEL:
```
sudo yum install openblas
```

## Check if native libraries are enabled for MLlib

To verify native libraries are properly loaded, start `spark-shell` and run the following code:
```
scala> import com.github.fommil.netlib.BLAS;
scala> System.out.println(BLAS.getInstance().getClass().getName());
```

If they are correctly loaded, it should print `com.github.fommil.netlib.NativeSystemBLAS`. Otherwise the warnings should be printed:
```
WARN BLAS: Failed to load implementation from:com.github.fommil.netlib.NativeSystemBLAS
WARN BLAS: Failed to load implementation from:com.github.fommil.netlib.NativeRefBLAS
```

If native libraries are not properly configured in the system, the Java implementation (f2jBLAS) will be used as fallback option.

## Spark Configuration

The default behavior of multi-threading in either Intel MKL or OpenBLAS may not be optimal with Spark's execution model [^1].

Therefore configuring these native libraries to use a single thread for operations may actually improve performance (see [SPARK-21305](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-21305)). It is usually optimal to match this to the number of `spark.task.cpus`, which is `1` by default and typically left at `1`.

You can use the options in `config/spark-env.sh` to set thread number for Intel MKL or OpenBLAS:
* For Intel MKL:
```
MKL_NUM_THREADS=1
```
* For OpenBLAS:
```
OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=1
```

[^1]: Please refer to the following resources to understand how to configure the number of threads for these BLAS implementations: [Intel MKL](https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/recommended-settings-for-calling-intel-mkl-routines-from-multi-threaded-applications) or [Intel oneMKL](https://software.intel.com/en-us/onemkl-linux-developer-guide-improving-performance-with-threading) and [OpenBLAS](https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki/faq#multi-threaded).

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You know Coretta Scott King for her civil rights activism and being a wife to Martin Luther King Jr., however, few know that in her early life, Coretta was a well-known singer and violin player.
Another interesting twist is that the young soprano won a fellowship to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, the city where she met future husband King, who was a doctoral candidate at Boston University's School of Theology.
According to Coretta, she inherited her musical talents from her mother, who sang in the church because "there was no place else to sing for her when I was growing up."
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Life in segregated Alabama was tough but it was here she had her early music education, singing solos in the church as well in school. "I became the star pupil that the teacher showed off with when the dean supervisor came around."
Upon hearing classical music for the first time, she purposed to study music because she liked it and also because of a teacher she encountered.
In an interview conducted in Chicago in 2004, Coretta explained more. "In high school, I had a teacher who influenced me greatly, Miss Olive J. Williams, and she was versatile in music, and I wanted to be like her. She exposed me to black performers, which I didn't know about at the time: Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes and Dorothy Maynor and others."
"So I got my foundation and my beginning there, and then, at Antioch, I built on that with another teacher named Walter Anderson. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply when I graduated from Antioch to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston," she added.
For Coretta, music was her first love and it was also through music that she met her second love and future husband, King. They married in June 1953, after announcing their engagement in the Atlanta Daily World on Valentine's Day of the same year.
A move to Montgomery, Alabama was the next step after Coretta finished her degree in voice and piano. Whiles King was called to pastor the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, she continued to perform.
However, there was a challenge. "I performed concerts the first year, got pregnant, had to stop, performed between babies – I have four children – and I was doing standard concerts when I had my fourth child. I realized I could not continue to do that that way."
Said to have sacrificed her dreams as a singer and musician, Coretta explained in her National Visionary Leadership Project interview, "If you're a performer and particularly a singer you have to rest a lot, you can't sing tired. Often I don't get the amount of rest I need. It's not easy to get back into it unless you have some time just to give to that."
But the phenomenal woman donned her civil rights hat, not totally neglecting her singing gift.
"… I developed the 'Freedom Concert' concept, where I narrated the story of the civil rights movement that we were involved in, and sang freedom songs in between the narrations that told the story of our struggle from Montgomery to Washington at that time. In 1964, I did my debut with my Freedom Concert at Town Hall, raised money for the cause, and the rest of the time I raised money for my husband's organization doing Freedom Concerts across the country and so forth," she stated.
When her husband was assassinated on April 4, 1968, Coretta led her husband's planned march through Memphis to support striking sanitation workers four days later.
She went on to build the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violence Social Change in Atlanta and the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Association for Non-Violence Incorporation. She also traveled to countries "speaking about unity and equality, taking a stance for women's rights, and fighting against segregation and injustice," according to a report by The Philadelphia Tribune.
Coretta suffered a heart attack and stroke in August 2005 and died on January 30, 2006, while seeking treatment for ovarian cancer in Mexico. She was 78.
Her funeral held on February 7, 2006, at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia, had over 14,000 people in attendance, including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, as well as Barack Obama, then a senator.


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Doctor's Orders: Brain's Wiring Makes Change Hard
by Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Produced By Bjoern Kils, Broadcast Operations Manager, MedPage Today January 30, 2010
Doctor's Orders is a feature in the collaboration between MedPage Today and ABC News. In this monthly segment we explore medical issues of interest to physicians and their patients alike. This month, we look at addiction and addictive behaviors, and what neuroimaging studies have revealed about why it's so hard to break bad habits.
By the end of January, many New Year's resolutions have been tossed out with the leftover holiday cookies. That's because change is hard -- and neuroscientists are learning why.
Advances in neuroimaging have enabled researchers to peer inside the brains of addicts and patients with addictive behaviors. They can see in real-time what gets patients hooked: how the brain's reward system -- based largely on the neurotransmitter dopamine -- thirsts for more, while inhibitory control centers experience a system failure.
The pattern is similar across all kinds of behaviors -- from cocaine and tobacco addiction to overeating. That's why changing your mind may be the first step toward breaking a habit, but altering the brain's neural machinery is the real challenge.
Hijacked Pathways
Drug-taking and other addictive behaviors "hijack" the brain's reward system, says Petros Levounis, MD, director of the Addiction Institute of New York at St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals in Manhattan.
In normal patients, dopamine plays a major role in motivation and reward, surging before and during a pleasurable activity -- say, eating or sex -- to make patients want to repeat a behavior that's crucial to the survival of the species.
Dopaminergic pathways connect the limbic system, responsible for emotion, with the hippocampus, etching rewarding behaviors into the brain by creating strong, salient memories.
The problem arises when the memory and the craving to recapture it takes over a person's life.
"Imagine what a strong hold these hijacked reward pathways take on our brains and our whole existence when they're so closely connected, geographically and anatomically speaking, with our memories and our emotions," Levounis says.
As the dopamine surge repeats and repeats, it gains speed, but the brakes begin to fail: Normal function in the brain's frontal lobes, responsible for inhibitory control and executive functioning (read: willpower), tends to decrease in addicts.
"Ultimately," Levounis says, "the war on drugs is a war between the hijacked reward pathways that push the person to want to use, and the frontal lobes, which try to keep the beast at bay. That is the essence of addiction."
Similar Patterns
These neural pathways have been well studied in the brains of hardcore addicts. Now, researchers say they see similar pathways involved in other bad behaviors.
Gene-Jack Wang, MD, of Brookhaven National Laboratory on New York's Long Island, has conducted several brain imaging studies of obese patients using PET scans.
The scans have revealed similarities in brain function -- or a lack thereof -- between patients addicted to cocaine or alcohol, and those "addicted" to eating. Normally, the PET scan lights up when a radiotracer binds to the brain's reward center, revealing an area of red activity in the center of the brain.
But in both drug-addicted and obese patients, the scans show much less red activity, because there aren't enough receptors to which the radiotracer can bind. Wang says the decreased availability of dopamine receptors is the brain's way of coping with a constant dopamine overload.
"If a person constantly has an excess of dopamine, the brain will down-regulate," Wang says, explaining the principle commonly referred to as tolerance. "Once the system is down-regulated, we have to do more in order to get the same amount of feeling in our normal state."
Thus, obese patients "will want to eat more in order to compensate for their down-regulated system."
In other experiments, Wang and his colleagues have also found that a higher body mass index (BMI) correlated with lower prefrontal cortex function -- the area associated with inhibitory control.
"If they're obese," Wang said, "they have a problem controlling their eating behaviors."
Those studies also revealed that a higher BMI was linked to a decrease in memory and executive functioning.
Ed Susman was 293 pounds when he decided to join a clinical trial for an investigational weight-loss drug and chronicle his year-long experience for MedPage Today. (See Journalist Participant to Present Insider View of Weight-Loss Trial)
Eating, to him, was a "compulsion" -- as was biting his nails, a habit he picked up at age 4.
Over the course of the trial, not only did Susman lose 52 pounds, he also stopped his nail-biting.
He doesn't yet know if he was in the drug arm of the trial, but he strongly suspects he wasn't experiencing a placebo effect.
"I believe I was on the drug because it controlled a compulsion that I had had for 50 years," Susman says of the nail-biting. "This stopped it cold."
Unfortunately, he says, the same didn't happen with his eating habits, but he's gained back only 10 of those 52 pounds in the year since his participation in the trial ended.
The still-investigational drug is lorcaserin -- a combination of benzazepine and hydrochloride, two neurological agents. Susman says it is "supposed to improve your willpower, your ability to overcome compulsions."
Lorcaserin is a selective 5-HT2C receptor agonist, working through the serotonin system, which regulates appetite, mood, and motor behavior.
Two other investigational obesity drugs target the dopamine reward system -- Contrave, which is a combination of bupropion and naltrexone, and Qnexa, which combines phentermine and topiramate.
"Some medications that have used similar dopamine modulation, until now, have failed," Wang said. "These two companies are using the command of the modulation of the dopamine system with other neurological systems, such as the opiate or norepinephrine system. According to the trials, they've been very effective."
Wang called the new medications "a bright light for the treatment of obesity."
Kicking the Habit
Basically, the idea of medications that act on the dopamine system is "to cool down those reward pathways," Levounis says. There are two strategies for doing so: an agonist strategy, or an antagonist strategy.
The agonist strategy is "feeding the beast, providing activity in the cell so that the cravings go down," Levounis said. Classic examples are nicotine patches, or methadone for opioid dependence.
On the other hand, the antagonist strategy is to block the receptors. Naltrexone, for example, will block opioid receptors so that the drug addict won't feel anything if he or she attempts to get high.
"After a while, you say, 'This is not worth my time, my money, my trouble,' so you stop using," Levounis explains.
These have been the two main strategies in addiction pharmacotherapy, but there's now a "third avenue" -- the partial agonist approach.
The partial agonist is one molecule that blocks most receptors while still providing just a little bit of an "oomph" to calm cravings. That's how varenicline (Chantix) helps smokers quit, and how buprenorphine gets junkies off heroin or other opioids.
But what about inhibitory control? What if medications could ramp up will power?
"It's an area of active research," Levounis says. "There are some medications proposed, but nothing to write home about."
He said treatment is typically twofold. For addicts, psychiatrists will try to "cool down" the reward pathways, often with medication. Then, they target the diminished frontal lobes.
"We try to beef up the frontal lobes as much as we can, and we do that with psychotherapy," Levounis said.
Researchers agree that psychotherapy is key to regaining self-control, and it's the predominant treatment used in patients with addictive behaviors.
Mark Smaller, PhD, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Chicago, said psychotherapy often reveals an underlying cause for an addiction or compulsive behavior. Usually, it's anxiety or depression.
Acknowledging those problems may help change behaviors. Once they're realized, a patient can start working against them, with the help of the brain's own neuroplasticity. Essentially, neurons can disconnect and reconnect, or loosen their connections and tighten them, which often manifests in noticeable change.
"[Psychological] insights can actually begin to change brain chemistry and diffuse compulsions," he said. "If you address those issues, you can have a positive impact on your life that can change the chemistry of your brain."
Smaller said it "creates a new psychological -- if not neurological -- structure that can help regulate behavior."
Although research on neuroplasticity is relatively young, the concept of "rewiring" the brain is not new.
In fact, too often, the electrician metaphor has been employed as an excuse for indulging, an explanation for a New Year's resolution deferred: "I can't stop eating chocolate, I'm just not wired that way."
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Supervalu to Blackwells: Company transformation is already underway
Jeff Wells @JeffWellsWH
In response to activist investor Blackwells Capital's call for dramatic changes to its company board and operational approach, Supervalu said it is already taking the necessary actions to maximize value, according to a company release. The retailer/wholesaler confirmed it met with Blackwells in December but was unable to come to an agreement on a path forward. "Despite our efforts to reach a constructive path forward and to discuss overlapping objectives, Blackwells has decided to threaten an unnecessary and counterproductive proxy contest," Supervalu noted in its release.
As proof of its improvements, Supervalue noted that wholesale now makes up 75% of its annual sales, up from 44% two years prior. The company also pointed to assets it has added through acquisition, including Unified Grocers, and a beefed-up retail leadership team.
As for its struggling retail stores, Supervalu says it is focused on maximizing value from its retail stores. This includes investing in promising locations and managing underperforming locations for cash.
And so the proxy fight begins.
Following Blackwells Capital's broadside and call for a board shakeup, Supervalu has hit back, noting its wholesale-first strategy has been carefully planned and involves "initiatives that have been underway substantially since before Blackwells became a stockholder," Supervalu noted in its statement.
The retailer/wholesaler said it has made profitable moves in the division, adding valuable customers like The Fresh Market while also acquiring valuable assets like Unified Grocers — a deal Supervalu closed last year. Over the past two years — the time CEO Mark Gross has been at the company's helm — Supervalu has increased its run rate by more than $5 billion, to $13 billion.
Seeming to acknowledge that its 213 retail stores have not performed to expectations, Supervalu says it is allocating capital on a performance basis, noting that underperforming stores are being sold. "Retail assets that are not well positioned for long-term success are being operated to maximize cash flow, including limited capital investment," the company wrote. "Capital invested into our retail stores will continue to be targeted, prudent, and focused in areas designed to generate incremental sales."
This all seems perfectly sensible, but Blackwells notes in its letter that Supervalu has had plenty of time to show results, and hasn't. Noting the current board's lack of experience in retail, the activist investor has called for a board shakeup, and says it plans to nominate its own members for election during Supervalu's shareholders meeting this summer. "We believe the board as currently constituted is either incapable of or disinterested in implementing the changes needed to rescue the company," Blackwells states. "New directors that are prepared to work with the full board and management to unlock value for all shareholders are desperately needed."
Blackwells estimates that the changes its advocating could improve Supervalu's share price by 215%, to more than $45 per share.
Supervalu is probably kicking itself for its recent execution woes. The company added a significant amount of new business during its most recent financial quarter, but struggled to keep up with demand and ended up paying more worker overtime and other fees than it had anticipated. If Supervalu can fix these issues and show significant wholesale growth in this current earnings period, it could convince shareholders that it's plan is working. If not, it'll have a tough sell on its hands ahead of this summer's board meeting.
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Muscat is a very ancient grape variety, first mentioned in 1510. Of eastern origin and very different to the sweet Muscats, it is the result of a blend of two grape varieties, Muscat d'Alsace grapes and Muscat Ottonel. (Blended in equal proportions at Domaine Schlumberger).
Muscat is a delicate, very sensitive,grape variety. This wine mainly comes from the BOLLENBERG and BUX plots. Being very difficult, our Muscat is unfortunately not available every year.
A blend, in equal proportions, of two varieties of Muscat d'Alsace and Muscat Ottonel. Pressed pneumatically, Static settling of the must. Fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel vats. Bottled at the beginning of Spring.
The robe is a pale yellow with green reflections of faint intensity. The disk is bright and limpid.
Tho nose is pleasant, expressive, distinguished and displays a dominant of floral flavours, rose, delicate vegetal, peppermint, spices, ginger.
Aeration reveals white flesh fruits, peaches.
The complex nose maintains a beautiful acidity with the feeling of a harvest with a beautiful maturity.
The onset in the mouth is moderately ample and the alcoholic base well balanced. One evolves on an honest and sharp medium, light and airy. The range of flavours is intense on the delicate vegetal, peppermint, fruity citrus fruits, spices.
The finish offers a beautiful length, a sharp and incisive vivacity. The range of flavours is remarkable.


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The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh was created in the immediate aftermath of the Rana Plaza building collapse that led to the death of more than 1100 people and injured more than 2000. Hundreds of the world's largest apparel brands signed the agreement, however many American companies decided that they wanted to have no part in it. An initiative led by Wal-Mart and The Gap, created an alternative, corporate-led agreement, that gave all enforcement power to the corporate signatories.
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Hounslow shortlisted to be London Borough of Culture for 2021
Hounslow Council is delighted to announce that our bid to be London Borough of Culture 2021 has been shortlisted by the Mayor of London.
Published: Monday, 16th December 2019
London Borough of Culture is a programme run by the Mayor of London to promote culture across the capital. Waltham Forest is the first London Borough of Culture for 2019 with Brent shortly taking over as Borough of Culture for 2020.
At the end of October, a delegation from Hounslow led by Leader, Cllr Steve Curran, Mayor of Hounslow, Cllr Tony Louki and Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure Services, Cllr Samia Chaudhary brought Hounslow's bid to City Hall aboard a vintage 1963 Routemaster bus, courtesy of Redroutemaster, the Brentford-based bus hire company.
They were joined by representatives of our partners, Feltham Arts, Watermans, Creative People & Places, Tale Be Told Theatre, Kempton Steam Museum and Speak Out Hounslow as well as various writers, residents, local musicians, community groups and journalists from Hounslow.
Hounslow's bid outlines an exciting programme of cultural events and initiatives that will bring different people together, sharing their time, ideas and energy. It would be a great opportunity to get investment into the borough, showcase what makes Hounslow special, and use culture as a catalyst to bring great opportunities to the borough, developing skills and talents and developing collaboration between creative delivery partners, schools, colleges and industry.
If Hounslow wins the title, we will receive £1.35m to support the delivery of our programme in 2021. As welcome as this funding would be, winning Borough of Culture is more than additional investment; it's very much focused on unlocking our potential, the mobilisation and sharing of ideas and aspirations throughout the borough; creating a cultural superhighway and unleashing an unstoppable movement of people, ideas and opportunity.
Councillor Samia Chaudhary, Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure Services at Hounslow Council said:
"It's great news to hear that we have been shortlisted for the London Borough of Culture 2021 award. We are one step closer to making this happen for Hounslow and along with our cultural partners and communities, we are very excited and ready for this.
"Winning this award would be a fantastic boost for Hounslow and would enable us to kickstart an unstoppable movement of people, ideas and opportunity throughout the borough, creating better community cohesion, unlocking potential and opportunity while showcasing the borough's wonderful assets to the wider London community and beyond."
For more information on our London Borough of Culture 2021 bid, and our proposed programme, please see: GoHounslow.com
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