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Rishi Sunak is hailed 'PM in waiting' for storming debut Budget as even his predecessor Sajid Javid backs him
Sajid Javid praised his successor after this afternoon's fiscal showcase
Sunak, 39, was parachuted into the role after Mr Javid quit last month
Bromsgrove MP was on the backbenches this afternoon
Javid: 'He had only four weeks to write this and he has risen to the challenge'
By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline
His critics wrote him off as a youthful baby chino (chancellor in name only) when he took over the Treasury in January.
But Rishi Sunak, 39, won praise from the man he replaced today for delivering the Budget after just weeks in the top job.
In 65 minutes this afternoon he set the economy on a path to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, opening the Government spending taps with a series of eye-catching changes with a £30billion bonanza.
He even found room for populist moves, including freezing both alcohol and fuel duty.
Sajid Javid praised his successor after this afternoon's fiscal showcase, saying he has 'risen to the challenge' despite only taking over in February.
Although widely tipped as a future chancellor, Mr Sunak, 39, was parachuted into the role after Mr Javid quit after losing a Downing Street power struggle with Boris Johnson's powerful chief aide Dominic Cummings.
Bromsgrove MP Mr Javid, who quit rather than fire his own aides, was on the backbenches this afternoon.
He hailed Mr Sunak for being 'absolutely right to focus his attention on the threat posed by the coronavirus'.
'He had only four weeks to write this Budget and he has risen to the challenge,' he added.
'Although I do recognise much of it, it is different in one significant respect - there has been a dramatic change, as he set out, in the global economy, and this means we have to, of course, face these challenges as a nation,' he said.
His critics wrote him off as a youthful baby chino (chancellor in name only) when he took over the Treasury in January. But Rishi Sunak, 39, won praise from the man he replaced today for delivering the Budget after just weeks in the top job
Although widely tipped as a future chancellor, Mr Sunak, 39, was parachuted into the role after Mr Javid quit after losing a Downing Street power struggle with Boris Johnson's powerful chief aide Dominic Cummings
Bromsgrove MP Mr Javid, who quit rather than fire his own aides, was on the backbenches this afternoon alongside Andrea Leadsom, who was also axed in February's reshuffle. He hailed Mr Sunak for being 'absolutely right to focus his attention on the threat posed by the coronavirus'
Rishi Sunak, 39, (left, outside No 11) won praise from the man he replaced today for delivering the Budget after just weeks in the top job
The NHS and other public services will get a £5billion emergency response fund, with Mr Sunak vowing he 'will go further if necessary'.
Sunak's rise to the top
Rishi Sunak, a GP's son who married an Indian tech billionaire's daughter and built a multi million-pound fortune that saw him dubbed the 'Maharaja of the Dales', has enjoyed a meteoric rise to become Chancellor at the age of just 39.
A graduate of £42,000-per-year Winchester College and Oxford University, where he studied PPE, he is believed to be one of the richest members of Parliament, and lives with his family in a magnificent Georgian manor house in the small village of Kirby Sigston, just outside Northallerton in North Yorkshire.
His Instagram account depicts a sport-loving family man who dotes on the two daughters he shares with his wife, Akshata Murthy, whose father NR Narayana Murthy is India's sixth-wealthiest man thanks to his ownership of multinational business technology giant Infosys.
A multi-millionaire in his own right thanks to his investment career, Mr Sunak was known to be close to his former boss Sajid Javid, with the pair joining each other on nights out and sharing Star Wars jokes on Twitter.
And although he has taken the job at Number 11 thanks to the bombshell departure of his former mentor, few at Westminster doubted he would reach the top in the end.
Mr Sunak has experienced a dizzying rise since taking William Hague's Yorkshire seat of Richmond at the 2015 general election, which is when he first acquired his 'Maharaja of the Dales' moniker.
Akshata herself runs fashion label Akshata Designs and is also a director of a venture capital firm founded by her father in 2010. Her shareholding in Infosys alone is estimated at £185million.
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In a huge £2billion bailout, ministers are footing the sick pay bill for up to two million small and medium sized businesses, covering the 14 days of a quarantine period.
Half of businesses will pay no rates for the next year to help them weather the storm - with pubs benefiting from a freeze in alcohol duties to step them going under while millions of people are having to self-isolate. Job seekers will no longer have to attend job centre to get benefits.
Mr Sunak said in total the £12billion for coronavirus, plus a splurge on other big-ticket items including a tax cut for millions of workers, amounted to a £30billion 'fiscal stimulus', and would boost economic growth by 0.5 per cent over the next two years.
Despite a bewildering array of high-spending policies - which effectively unwind a decade of austerity - he stated that the government will still be on track to meet its borrowing and debt rules.
Staunch Brexiteer Mr Sunak was promoted to Boris Johnson's Cabinet after the dramatic reshuffle in July and took over the top job in January.
Mr Javid, who became chancellor last summer, refused to sack his own staff and replace them with No 10 yes men and women and walked out, paving the way for Mr Sunak to take over.
There was speculation that he would postpone the Budget to give himself more time to get his feet under the table.
But he decided not to and went ahead this afternoon to rave reviews from his colleagues.
Conservative former prime minister Theresa May commended him for the 'difficult' Budget he had to deliver, adding: 'I trust in the discussions that were held prior to the delivery of the Budget that there was the necessary tension between No 10 and the Treasury in developing this Budget.
'Generally speaking, prime ministers want to spend money and chancellors want to manage the public finances prudently.'
Mr Javid, who was sat behind Mrs May, could be heard joking: 'So true.'
But he also warned the Government not to forget the importance of the fiscal rules laid out in the Conservative manifesto.
The Bromsgrove MP said the rules 'help us keep our economy strong, help us to keep taxes low and they preserve our flexibility for when we need it most'.
Congratulating his replacement Rishi Sunak on completing his first Budget, Mr Javid urged the new Chancellor to 'stand ready to do more' as coronavirus continues to spread.
He added that he has 'every faith' that the Prime Minister and Mr Sunak will 'do the right thing and that whatever happens as a country we will emerge stronger on the other side'.
He also proposed a temporary cut in employers' national insurance, to help relieve the impact of coronavirus on workers and the economy.
Responding to the Budget, Mr Javid said the UK is 'facing the most severe threat to our economy since the global financial crisis'.
He also warned that the Government must 'get on to the front foot to support the financially vulnerable, who will be as fearful for their economic security as they are for their health'.
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Not unexpectedly, other Tory MPs praised the Budget, including Andy Carter, who represents Warrington South.
He said: 'Great Budget from Chancellor Rishi Sunak gettting the balance right, levelling up and protecting our country from the coronavirus threat.
'Very pleased to hear big steps to support small business sector.'
There was also some mock praise from Labour benches, with many Corbynistas trying to claim the increase in spending was a result of its own policies.
They also claimed it vindicated Jeremy Corbyn's manifesto, despite the party suffering its worst election defeat in 80 years in December.
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, who is running to be the Labour deputy leader, said: When I entered parliament in 2015, only a few MPs were prepared to speak out against austerity.
'Today, though we're still a long way from reversing a decade of cruel Tory cuts, no one backs austerity.
'That's what was meant when it was said Jeremy won the argument. He did.'
The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) says the national debt will crest the £2trillion mark in 2024-25
But more serious members of the party backed some measures.
Dame Margaret Hodge tweeted: Increased funding for HMRC & Companies House is long-overdue.
'Hopefully it leads to better enforcement against tax avoidance & money laundering.
'A stamp duty surcharge for overseas buyers of properties and the economic crime levy are novel ideas. Only time will tell if they work
'Pleasantly surprised there's a new strategy for tackling the promoters of tax avoidance schemes.
'I've long called for new measures to crack down on the shady world of the promoters!
'However I'm not so sure that our Chancellor's City mates would meet these more stringent rules...'
Rishi Sunak is hailed 'PM in waiting' for storming Budget debut


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Drug addiction is characterized by besetting use, use for non-medical purposes, and connected use admitting corruption or accident of harm. Biologic addiction is a treatable diseases, utilizing with a multidisciplinary approach, but backsliding is common. "Drug seeking" behavior is actual accepted in addicts and biologic abusers. Drug-seeking approach accommodate emergency calls or visits abreast the end of appointment hours, abnegation to abide adapted examination, testing or referral, again "loss" of prescriptions, analytical with prescriptions and abhorrence to accommodate above-mentioned medical annal or acquaintance advice for added alleviative physician(s). "Doctor shopping" to access added prescriptions is accepted amid biologic abusers and bodies adversity from basic addiction.
Abuse and addiction are abstracted and audible from concrete assurance and tolerance. Physicians should be acquainted that addiction may not be accompanied by circumstantial altruism and affection of concrete dependence. The antipodal is additionally true. In addition, corruption of opioids can activity in the absence of accurate addiction and is characterized by abusage for non-medical purposes, generally in aggregate with added consciousness-expanding substances. Careful recordkeeping of prescribing information, including quantity, frequency, and face-lifting requests is acerb advised.
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DDOT has made a very exciting choice in hiring a new Associate Director for Planning, Policy and Sustainability. Sam Zimbabwe, the director of the Center for Transit-Oriented Development at Reconnecting America, will fill the hole left when Karina Ricks departed in May.
Ricks is also staying in Washington: She's been hired by transportation consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard, which is well-known for its high-quality work on progressive transportation issues.
The planning head is an extremely critical post for DDOT and for the city. A good planning director could maintain the department's energy and forward motion, while a bad one could cement a sluggish pace and bad, outmoded policies for many years to come.
The planning department (or, in DDOT parlance, "administration") handles bicycle and pedestrian project design and parking policy. Its members review proposed developments to approve or disapprove transportation elements like curb cuts. Their decisions shape buildings that will last 50 years or more, for better or worse.
One of the trickiest pieces of DDOT's task is to balance the use of public space. How do we trade off the needs of people driving, walking, biking, riding buses, sitting in sidewalk cafes, and more? It's the planning department that makes most of these judgments (except if engineers overrule them and refuse to implement elements of a plan).
As more top people left DDOT, many became nervous that the department would lapse into a period of stagnation. While Director Terry Bellamy and most of the rank and file DDOT employees believe in the right goals and visions for the city, would DDOT simply choose the path of least resistance and low activity, like shelving the L and M Street bike lanes (which are now back on track)?
The jury is still out until DDOT actually implements some potentially controversial yet significant innovations, like those cycle tracks or bus priority lanes. But by choosing Zimbabwe, Director Bellamy has sent a signal that he's looking for top-notch people who strongly believe in DC's stated visions of improving non-automotive options for everyone.
Reconnecting America, Zimbabwe's previous employer, is a DC-based national nonprofit that helps communities implement a smart growth and sustainable transportation vision. He and his center helped local transportation and planning agencies think about designing their communities around making good use of their transit systems and maximizing choices.
Zimbabwe holds a Master of City Planning degree in Urban Design from the University of California, Berkley and a Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Studies from Cornell. Before Reconnecting America, Zimbabwe worked as an urban designer for Community Design + Architecture Firm and Van Meter Williams Pollack, and was a planning associate with the Port of San Francisco.
One of Zimbabwe's first priorities will be to fill some of the open positions funded in the DC budget that took effect this month. Councilmember Tommy Wells (Ward 6) funded 6 vacant positions in planning, including a "parking czar," ward planners for wards 2, 3, and 5, and two development reviewers. All of these folks have the opportunity to make significant positive (or negative) impacts on transportation in DC.
Please welcome Sam, and wish him best of luck in helping keep DC a leader in innovative and effective transportation policies and programs.
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The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an  18th-century literary genre  which celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Sentimentalism, which is to be distinguished from sensibility, was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction beginning in the eighteenth century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age.

Sentimental novels relied on emotional response, both from their readers and characters. They feature scenes of distress and tenderness, and the plot is arranged to advance both emotions and actions. The result is a valorization of "fine feeling", displaying the characters as a model for refined, sensitive emotional effect. The ability to display feelings was thought to show character and experience, and to shape social life and relations.

History

Among the most famous sentimental novels in English are Samuel Richardson's Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740), Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759–67) and  A Sentimental Journey (1768), Henry Brooke's The Fool of Quality (1765–70), Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling (1771) and Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent (1800). Continental examples are Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel Julie, or the New Heloise, his autobiography The Confessions (1764–70) and Goethe's  novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774). Tobias Smollett tried to imply a darker underside to the "cult of sensibility" in his The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771). Another example of this type of novel is Frances Burney's Evelina (1778), wherein the heroine, while naturally good, in part for being country-raised, hones her politeness when, while visiting London, she is educated into propriety. This novel also is the beginning of "romantic comedy", though it is most appropriately labeled a conduct novel and a forerunner of the female Bildungsroman in the English tradition exemplified by later writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot.

While this genre is particularly associated with the second half of the 18th century, it continued in a modified form into the 19th century, especially in the works of  Mrs Henry Wood, who is remembered especially for East Lynne (1861). However, the question as to whether Charles Dickens is a sentimental novelist is more debatable. Valerie Purton in her 2012 book Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition, sees him continuing aspects of this tradition, and argues that his "sentimental scenes and characters [are] as crucial to the overall power of the novels as his darker or comic figures and scenes", and that "Dombey and Son is ... Dickens's greatest triumph in the sentimentalist tradition". on the other hand, the Encyclopædia Britannica online comments, that despite "patches of emotional excess", such as the reported death of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (1843), "Dickens cannot really be termed a sentimental novelist".

The first sentimental novel to be published in the United States, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, appeared in 1791 and dealt with themes of nationhood, seduction, and incest. Hill's novel was followed by Hannah Webster Foster's immensely popular The Coquette, whose events were loosely based on the tragic biography of Massachusetts native Elizabeth Whitman, who gave birth to an illegitimate child and died soon after at a roadside tavern. The American sentimental novel achieved massive sales and popularity during the Antebellum era. Landmark examples include Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1850), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar (1869), and Maria Cummins's The Lamplighter (1854).

Sentimental novels also gave rise to the subgenre of domestic fiction in the early nineteenth century, commonly called conduct novels. The story's hero in domestic fiction is generally set in a domestic world and centers on a woman going through various types of hardship, and who is juxtaposed with either a foolish and passive or a woefully undereducated woman. The contrast between the heroic woman's actions and her foils is meant to draw sympathy to the character's plight and to instruct them about expected conduct of women. The domestic novel uses sentimentalism as a tool to convince readers of the importance of its message.

By the end of the 19th century, sentimental literature faced complaints about the abundance of "cheap sentiment" and its excessive bodily display. Critics, and eventually the public, began to see sentimentalism manifested in society as unhealthy physical symptoms such as nervousness and being overly sensitive, and the genre began declining sharply in popularity.

The satirizing of sentimentalism

The novelist Henry Fielding, known later for his novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, satirized the sentimental style in his early novels  Shamela and Joseph Andrews.

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is most often seen as a "witty satire of the sentimental novel", by juxtaposing values of the Age of Enlightenment (sense, reason) with those of the later eighteenth century (sensibility, feeling) while exploring the larger realities of women's lives, especially through concerns with marriage and inheritance. This reading of Sense and Sensibility specifically and Austen's fiction in general has been complicated and revised by recent critics such as Claudia L. Johnson (Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel [1988] and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s [1995]), Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (Austen's Unbecoming Conjunctions [2005]), and Christopher C. Nagle (Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era [2007]), all of whom see unruly and even subversive energies at play in her work, inspired by the sentimental tradition.

James Joyce parodies the sentimental novel in the "Nausicaa" episode of Ulysses. The character of Gerty MacDowell was inspired by the protagonist of The Lamplighter, a nineteenth century best-seller.

Cultural aspects
The sentimental novel complemented social trends of the time toward humanism and the heightened value of human life. The literature focused on weaker members of society, such as orphans and condemned criminals, and allowed readers to identify and sympathize with them. This translated to growing sentimentalism within society, and led to social movements calling for change, such as the abolition of the death penalty and of slavery. Instead of the death penalty, popular sentiment called for the rehabilitation of criminals, rather than harsh punishment. Frederick Douglass himself was inspired to stand against his own bondage and slavery in general in his famous Narrative by the speech by the sentimentalist playwright Sheridan in The Columbian Orator detailing a fictional dialogue between a master and slave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 The Sorrows of Young Werther was highly sentimental and immediately extremely popular throughout Europe, and even inspired young people who could relate to Werther's sorrows to commit suicide. It is also an excellent example of an epistolary novel, an especially typical form for eighteenth-century novels of sensibility, beginning with the influential novels of Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1748), and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). The latter was an especially important influence on Jane Austen, who refers to it repeatedly in her letters and began a dramatic adaptation of the work for the amusement of her family.

Gothic novel

The Gothic novel's story occurs in a distant time and place, often Medieval or Renaissance Europe (especially Italy and Spain), and involved the fantastic exploits of a virtuous heroine imperiled by dark, tyrannical forces beyond her control. The first Gothic novel is Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), but its most famous and popular practitioner was Ann Radcliffe, whose early Gothic novels in the 1790s maintain the fashion.

Eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, following Edmund Burke, held that the sublime and the beautiful were juxtaposed. The sublime was awful (awe-inspiring) and terrifying while the beautiful was calm and reassuring. The characters and landscapes of the Gothic rest almost entirely within the sublime, with the heroine serving as the great exception. The "beautiful" heroine's susceptibility to supernatural elements, integral to these novels, both celebrates and problematizes what came to be seen as hyper-sensibility.

Relation to the Gothic novel
Gothic and sentimental novels are considered a form of popular fiction, reaching their height of popularity in the late 18th century. They reflected a popular shift from Neoclassical ideas of order and reason to emotion and imagination. Popular stylistic elements, such as the "discovery" of the original manuscript by the author (as in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto) or creating fragmented works by combining disjointed tales (seen in Sterne's A Sentimental Journey) were meant to suggest to the reader that there was no act of artistic creation to distort reality between the reader and the work, or that the emotional intensity and sincerity remained intact.

See also

Domestic realism

References

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Triamcinolone acetonide is a more potent derivative of triamcinolone. Although triamcinolone itself is approximately one to two times as potent as prednisone in animal models of inflammation, triamcinolone acetonide is approximately 8 times more potent than prednisone.
Although the precise mechanism of corticosteroid antiallergic action is unknown, corticosteroids are very effective. However, they do not have an immediate effect on allergic signs and symptoms. When allergic symptoms are very severe, local treatment with recommended doses (microgram) of any available topical corticosteroids are not as effective as treatment with larger doses (milligram) of oral or parenteral formulations. When corticosteroids are prematurely discontinued, symptoms may not recur for several days.
Based upon intravenous dosing of triamcinolone acetonide phosphate ester, the half-life of triamcinolone acetonide was reported to be 88 minutes. The volume of distribution (Vd) reported was 99.5 L (SD ± 27.5) and clearance was 45.2 L/hour (SD ± 9.1) for triamcinolone acetonide. The plasma half-life of corticosteroids does not correlate well with the biologic half-life.
When administered intranasally to man at 440 mcg/day dose, the peak plasma concentration was <1 ng/mL and occurred on average at 3.4 hours (range 0.5 to 8.0 hours) post-dosing. The apparent half-life was 4.0 hours (range 1.0 to 7.0 hours); however, this value probably reflects lingering absorption. Intranasal doses below 440 mcg/day gave sparse data and did not allow for the calculation of meaningful pharmacokinetic parameters.
In animal studies using rats and dogs, three metabolites of triamcinolone acetonide have been identified. They are 6(beta)-hydroxytriamcinolone acetonide, 21-carboxytriamcinolone acetonide and 21-carboxy-6(beta)-hydroxytriamcinolone acetonide. All three metabolites are expected to be substantially less active than the parent compound due to (a) the dependence of anti-inflammatory activity on the presence of a 21-hydroxyl group, (b) the decreased activity observed upon 6-hydroxylation, and (c) the markedly increased water solubility favoring rapid elimination. There appeared to be some quantitative differences in the metabolites among species. No differences were detected in metabolic pattern as a function of route of administration.
In double-blind, parallel, placebo-controlled clinical trials of seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis, in adults and adolescents in fixed total daily doses of 110, 220 and 440 mcg per day, the responses to aerosolized triamcinolone acetonide demonstrated a statistically significant improvement over placebo. In open label trials where the doses were sometimes adjusted according to patients' signs and symptoms, the daily doses and regimens varied. The most commonly used dose was 110 mcg per day.
Nasacort Nasal Inhaler, at a dose of 220 mcg once daily, has also been studied in two double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of two and four weeks duration in children ages 6 through 11 years with seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis. These trials included 162 males and 91 females. Nasacort administered at a fixed dose of 220 mcg once daily resulted in consistent and statistically significant reductions of allergic rhinitis symptoms over vehicle placebo.
In attempting to determine if systemic absorption played a role in the response to Nasacort , a clinical study comparing intranasal and depot intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide was conducted. The doses used were based on bioavailability studies of each formulation. The final doses of Nasacort 440 mcg once a day and Kenalog®-40, 4 mg intramuscularly once a week, were chosen to deliver comparable total amounts of weekly triamcinolone acetonide. However, the weekly injection yielded sustained plasma levels throughout the dosing interval while the daily Nasacort application resulted in daily peak and trough concentrations, the mean of which was 3.5 times below the Kenalog plasma levels. Both topical Nasacort and intramuscular Kenalog-40 were clinically effective. In addition, in some studies there was evidence of improvement of eye symptoms. This suggests that Nasacort , at least to some degree is acting by a systemic mechanism.
In order to evaluate the effects of systemic absorption on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis, Nasacort administered to adults in doses of 440 mcg once a day was compared to placebo and 42 days of a single morning dose of prednisone 10 mg. Adrenal response to a six-hour cosyntropin stimulation test suggests that intranasal Nasacort 440 mcg/day for six weeks did not measurably affect adrenal activity. Conversely, oral prednisone at 10 mg/day significantly reduced the response to ACTH.
No evidence of adrenal axis suppression was observed in 26 pediatric patients exposed for 6 weeks to systemic levels of triamcinolone acetonide higher than the systemic levels observed following administration of the maximum recommended dose of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler.
INDIVIDUALIZATION OF DOSAGE
Individual patients will experience a variable time to onset and degree of symptom relief when using Nasacort . It is recommended that dosing be started at 220 mcg once a day and the effect be assessed in four to seven days.
Adults and Children 12 years of age and older: Some relief can be expected in approximately two-thirds of patients within four to seven days. If greater effect is desired an increase of dose to 440 mcg once a day can be tried. If adequate relief has not been obtained by the third week of Nasacort treatment, alternate forms of treatment should be considered.
A dose-response between 110 mcg/day (one spray/nostril/day) and 440 mcg/day (four sprays/nostril/day) is not clearly discernible. In general, in the clinical trials the highest dose tended to provide relief sooner. This suggests an alternative approach to starting therapy with Nasacort , e.g., starting treatment with 440 mcg (four sprays/nostril/day) and then, depending on the patient' response, decreasing the dose by one spray per day every four to seven days. Although Nasacort may be used at 220 mcg/day or 440 mcg/day divided into two or four times a day, the degree of relief does not seem to be significantly different compared to once-a-day dosing. As with other nasal corticosteroids, the vehicle used to deliver the corticosteroid, may cause symptoms that are difficult to distinguish from the patient' rhinitis symptoms. Thus, depending upon the balance between these vehicle side effects and the benefits of treatment, in determining the optimal dose for the relief of symptoms, individual patients may need to have a trial of high and low doses.
Children 6 through 11 years of age: In children 6 through 11 years of age, it is recommended that dosing be started at 220 mcg given as two sprays (55 mcg/spray) in each nostril once a day. In clinical trials, significant relief of rhinitis symptoms in children was observed as early as the fourth day of treatment and generally, it took one to two weeks to achieve maximum benefit. If adequate relief has not been obtained by the third week of Nasacort treatment, alternate forms of treatment should be considered.
In general, it is always desirable to titrate an individual patient to the minimum effective dose to reduce the possibility of side effects. In clinical trials, after symptoms have been brought under control at the recommended starting doses, reducing the daily dose to 110 mcg (one spray in each nostril once per day) has been shown to be effective in controlling symptoms in approximately one-half of adult patients being treated long-term for allergic rhinitis. (See PRECAUTIONS , , Information for Patients and ADVERSE REACTIONS sections).
Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is indicated for the nasal treatment of seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis symptoms in adults and children 6 years of age and older.
Hypersensitivity to any of the ingredients of this preparation contraindicates its use.
The replacement of a systemic corticosteroid with a topical corticoid can be accompanied by signs of adrenal insufficiency and, in addition, some patients may experience symptoms of withdrawal, e.g., joint and/or muscular pain, lassitude and depression. Patients previously treated for prolonged periods with systemic corticosteroids and transferred to topical corticoids should be carefully monitored for acute adrenal insufficiency in response to stress. In those patients who have asthma or other clinical conditions requiring long-term systemic corticosteroid treatment, too rapid a decrease in systemic corticosteroids may cause a severe exacerbation of their symptoms.
Children who are on immunosuppressant drugs are more susceptible to infections than healthy children. Chickenpox and measles, for example, can have a more serious or even fatal course in children on immunosuppressant doses of corticosteroids. In such children, or in adults who have not had these diseases, particular care should be taken to avoid exposure. If exposed, therapy with varicella-zoster immune globulin (VZIG) or pooled intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), as appropriate, may be indicated. If chickenpox develops, treatment with antiviral agents may be considered.
The use of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler with alternate-day systemic prednisone could increase the likelihood of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) suppression compared to a therapeutic dose of either one alone. Therefore, Nasacort Nasal Inhaler should be used with caution in patients already receiving alternate-day prednisone treatment for any disease.
General: In clinical studies with triamcinolone acetonide administered intranasally, the development of localized infections of the nose and pharynx with Candida albicans has rarely occurred. When such an infection develops, it may require treatment with appropriate local therapy and discontinuance of treatment with Nasacort Nasal Inhaler.
Triamcinolone acetonide administered intranasally has been shown to be absorbed into the systemic circulation in humans. Patients with active rhinitis showed absorption similar to that found in normal volunteers. Nasacort at 440 mcg/day for 42 days did not measurably affect adrenal response to a six hour cosyntropin test. In the same study, prednisone 10 mg/day significantly reduced adrenal response to ACTH over the same period (see CLINICAL TRIALS section
Nasacort Nasal Inhaler should be used with caution, if at all, in patients with active or quiescent tuberculous infections of the respiratory tract or in patients with untreated fungal, bacterial, or systemic viral infections or ocular herpes simplex.
Because of the inhibitory effect of corticosteroids on wound healing in patients who have experienced recent nasal septal ulcers, nasal surgery or trauma, a corticosteroid should be used with caution until healing has occurred. As with other nasally inhaled corticosteroids, nasal septal perforations have been reported in rare instances.
When used at excessive doses, systemic corticosteroid effects such as hypercorticism and adrenal suppression may appear. If such changes occur, Nasacort Nasal Inhaler should be discontinued slowly, consistent with accepted procedures for discontinuing oral steroid therapy.
Information for Patients: Patients being treated with Nasacort Nasal Inhaler should receive the following information and instructions.
Patients who are on immunosuppressant doses of corticosteroids should be warned to avoid exposure to chickenpox or measles and, if exposed, to obtain medical advice.
Patients should use Nasacort Nasal Inhaler at regular intervals since its effectiveness depends on its regular use. A decrease in symptoms may occur as soon as 12 hours after starting steroid therapy and generally can be expected to occur within a few days of initiating therapy in allergic rhinitis. The patient should take the medication as directed and should not exceed the prescribed dosage. The patient should contact the physician if symptoms do not improve after three weeks, or if the condition worsens. Nasal irritation and/or burning or stinging after use of the spray occur only rarely with this product. The patient should contact the physician if they occur.
For the proper use of this unit and to attain maximum improvement, the patient should read and follow the accompanying patient instructions carefully. Spraying triamcinolone acetonide directly onto the nasal septum should be avoided. Because the amount dispensed per puff may not be consistent, it is important to shake the canister well. Also, the canister should be discarded after 100 actuations.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis: No evidence of treatment-related carcinogenicity was demonstrated after 2 years of once daily gavage administration of triamcinolone acetonide at doses of 0.05, 0.2 and 1.0 mcg/kg (approximately 0.1, 0.4 and 1.8% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis) in the rat and 0.1, 0.6 and 3.0 mcg/kg (approximately 0.1, 0.6 and 3.0% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis) in the mouse.
Mutagenesis studies with triamcinolone acetonide have not been conducted.
Impairment of Fertility: No evidence of impaired fertility was demonstrated when oral doses up to 15 mcg/kg (approximately 28% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis) were administered to female and male rats. However, triamcinolone acetonide at oral doses of 8.0 mcg/kg (approximately 15.0% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis) caused dystocia and prolonged delivery and at oral doses of 5.0 mcg/kg (approximately 9.0% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis) and above produced increases in fetal resorptions and stillbirths as well as decreases in pup body weight and survival. At an oral dose of 1.0 mcg/kg (approximately 2.0% of the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis), it did not manifest the above mentioned effects.
Pregnancy Pregnancy Category C. Triamcinolone acetonide was teratogenic at inhalational doses of 20, 40 and 80 mcg/kg in rats (approximately 0.4, 0.75 and 1.5 times the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis, respectively) and rabbits (approximately 0.75, 1.5 and 3.0 times the recommended dose on a mcg/m 2 basis, respectively). Triamcinolone acetonide was also teratogenic at an inhalational dose of 500 mcg/kg in monkeys (approximately 18 times the recommended clinical dose on a mcg/m 2 basis). Dose-related teratogenic effects in rats and rabbits included cleft palate, internal hydrocephaly, and axial skeletal defects. Teratogenic effects observed in the monkey were CNS and cranial malformations. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Triamcinolone acetonide should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefits justify the potential risk to the fetus.
Experience with oral corticoids since their introduction in pharmacologic as opposed to physiologic doses suggests that rodents are more prone to teratogenic effects from corticoids than humans. In addition, because there is a natural increase in glucocorticoid production during pregnancy, most women will require a lower exogenous steroid dose and many will not need corticoid treatment during pregnancy.
Nonteratogenic Effects: Hypoadrenalism may occur in infants born of mothers receiving corticosteroids during pregnancy. Such infants should be carefully observed.
Nursing Mothers: It is not known whether triamcinolone acetonide is excreted in human milk. Because other corticosteroids are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is administered to nursing women.
Pediatric Use: Safety and effectiveness in pediatric patients below the age of 6 have not been established. Oral corticosteroids have been shown to cause growth suppression in children and teenagers, particularly with higher doses over extended periods. If a child or teenager on any corticosteroid appears to have growth suppression, the possibility that they are particularly sensitive to this effect of steroids should be considered.
Adults and Children 12 years of age and older: In controlled and uncontrolled studies, 1257 adult and adolescent patients received treatment with intranasal triamcinolone acetonide. Adverse reactions are based on the 567 patients who received a product similar to the marketed Nasacort canister
These patients were treated for an average of 48 days (range 1 to 117 days). The 145 patients enrolled in uncontrolled studies received treatment from 1 to 820 days (average 332 days). The most prevalent adverse experience was headache, being reported by approximately 18% of the patients who received Nasacort . Nasal irritation was reported by 2.8% of the patients receiving Nasacort . Other nasopharyngeal side effects were reported by fewer than 5% of the patients who received Nasacort and included: dry mucous membranes, naso-sinus congestion, throat discomfort, sneezing, and epistaxis. The complaints do not usually interfere with treatment and in the controlled and uncontrolled studies approximately 1% of patients have discontinued because of these nasal adverse effects. In the event of accidental overdose, an increased potential for these adverse experiences may be expected, but systemic adverse experiences are unlikely (see OVERDOSAGE section).
Children 6 through 11 years of age: Adverse event data in children 6 through 11 years of age are derived from two controlled clinical trials of two and four weeks duration. In these trials, 127 patients received fixed doses of 220 mcg/day of triamcinolone acetonide for an average of 22 days (range 8 to 33 days).
Adverse events occurring at an incidence of 3% or greater and more common among children treated with 220 mcg triamcinolone acetonide daily than vehicle placebo were:
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Adverse events occurring at a rate of 3% or greater that were more common in the placebo group were upper respiratory tract infection, headache and concurrent infection.
Only 1.6% of patients discontinued due to adverse experiences. No patient discontinued due to a serious adverse event related to Nasacort therapy
Though not observed in controlled clinical trials of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler in children, cases of nasal septum perforation among pediatric users have been reported in post-marketing surveillance of this product.
A decrease in symptoms may occur as soon as 12 hours after starting steroid therapy and generally can be expected to occur within a few days of initiating therapy in allergic rhinitis.
If improvement is not evident after 2 to 3 weeks, the patient should be re-evaluated. (See INDIVIDUALIZATION OF DOSAGE section
Adults and Children 12 years of age and older: The recommended starting dose of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is 220 mcg per day given as two sprays (55 mcg/spray) in each nostril once a day. If needed, the dose may be increased to 440 mcg per day (55 mcg/spray) either as once-a-day dosage or divided up to four times a day, i.e., twice a day (two sprays/nostril), or four times a day (one spray/nostril). After the desired effect is obtained, some patients may be maintained on a dose of as little as one spray (55 mcg) in each nostril once a day (total daily dose 110 mcg per day).
Children 6 through 11 years of age: The recommended starting dose of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is 220 mcg per day given as two sprays (55 mcg/spray) in each nostril once a day. Once the maximal effect has been achieved, it is always desirable to titrate the patient to the minimum effective dose.
Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is not recommended for children below 6 years of age since adequate numbers of patients have not been studied in this age group.
Directions for Use: Illustrated Patient' Instructions for use accompany each package of Nasacort Nasal Inhaler.
Acute overdosage with this dosage form is unlikely. The acute topical application of the entire 15 mg of the canister would most likely cause nasal irritation and headache. It would be unlikely to see acute systemic adverse effects even if the entire 15 mg of triamcinolone acetonide was administered intranasally all at once.
Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is supplied as an aerosol canister which will provide 100 metered dose actuations. Each actuation delivers 55 mcg triamcinolone acetonide through the nasal actuator. The Nasacort Nasal Inhaler canister and accompanying nasal actuator are designed to be used together. The Nasacort Nasal Inhaler canister should not be used with other nasal actuators and the supplied nasal actuator should not be used with other products' canisters. Nasacort Nasal Inhaler is supplied with a white plastic nasal actuator and patient instructions. Net weight of the canister contents is 10 grams.
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Avoid spraying in eyes.
Do not puncture. Do not use or store near heat or open flame. Exposure to temperatures above 120°F may cause bursting. Never throw container into fire or incinerator. Keep out of reach of children. Store at Controlled Room Temperature 20 to 25°C (68 to 77°F) [see USP].
Note: The indented statement below is required by the Federal government's Clean Air Act for all products containing or manufactured with chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's):
WARNING: Contains CFC-12, a substance which harms public health and the environment by destroying ozone in the upper atmosphere.
A notice similar to the above WARNING has been placed in the "Information For The Patient" portion of this package insert under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) regulations. The patient' warning states that the patient should consult his or her physician if there are questions about alternatives.
Caution: Federal (U.S.A.) law prohibits dispensing without prescription.
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Texas will apply for about $830 million in education aid from Washington even though officials are expecting a legal fight over the money.
Gov. Rick Perry has said that to comply with a provision in the bill that put stiffer requirements on Texas would be a violation of the state Constitution.
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Hesta super calls for inquiry into all deals Rio Tinto has made with Aboriginal traditional owners
Sep 10, 2020 Perth
Fallout from Rio Tinto's blasting of a 46,000-year-old sacred site in Western Australia has spread across the Pilbara mining industry, as shareholders call for companies to make public their dealings with traditional owners and demand an immediate halt to any operations that could damage existing sites.
One of Australia's biggest superannuation funds wants a public inquiry into all agreements Rio Tinto has made with Aboriginal traditional owners in the iron ore-rich Pilbara, saying: "A change in the ranks of Rio's senior leadership won't mitigate this risk for investors."
Hesta, which manages $52bn on behalf of more than 870,000 Australians, has written to the Rio Tinto board before its meeting, due to go ahead on Thursday in London. Rio's chief executive, Jean-Sébastien Jaques, has been widely tipped to be removed from his post over the matter.
"Mining companies that fail to negotiate fairly and in good faith with traditional owners expose [Hesta] to reputational and legal risk," Hesta's statement said.
"These risks increase the longer these agreements are in place. Without an independent review, we cannot adequately assess these risks and understand how they may impact value.
"We have lost confidence that the company can do this on their own."
The super fund wants a review of all current agreements Rio has negotiated with traditional owners in light of revelations that they contain gag orders preventing traditional owners from speaking about their concerns for sacred and significant sites.
Hesta said it had sought advice from the economist and lawyer Prof Allan Fels as an appropriate expert to consider the matter.
Fels told Guardian Australia: "There are potential unconscionable conduct issues, both at the legal and ethical level. They need to be investigated independently."
He said this included the use of confidentiality clauses. "Someone needs to look behind the confidentiality elements," he said.
An investigation by Guardian Australia found that more than 100 ancient Aboriginal sites in Western Australia could still be destroyed by mining companies, which have obtained legal permission to do so.
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility wants Fortescue Metals Group to halt mining activities that would disturb, destroy or desecrate cultural heritage sites in Australia until relevant laws are strengthened, and to lift any confidentiality provisions on Aboriginal traditional owners so they can speak freely and publicly about cultural heritage or other concerns on their land.
"As investors, we believe it's necessary that this shareholder resolution receives strong support – or is proactively adopted by FMG's board – because there is far too much at stake to allow any further destruction of Indigenous cultural sites, as [the federal MP Warren] Entsch has also made clear," said the ACCR's Brynn O'Brien.
"In engagement with us, FMG has been clear that it is happy for business to continue as usual. Shareholders, in the wake of Juukan Gorge, know that business as usual is absolutely unacceptable.
"FMG has a dubious history of engagement with Pilbara native title holders, specifically the Yindjibarndi people. Comments as recently as last year, coming from the chairman saying 'that is not a community I'm going to empower with tens of millions of your cash' demonstrate that the company and board have a long way to go in understanding and valuing the intricacies of cultural heritage and the agency of traditional owners."
The ACCR has also sought similar assurances from BHP.
Hesta said only a broader review of current practices and agreements with traditional owners "will provide certainty to investors that these risks are properly managed by Australia's mining industry with fair outcomes for all".
"The larger, systemic issue of how the company and the mining sector negotiates agreements with Traditional Owners needs to be urgently addressed," it said.
Hesta joins several major institutional investors who have criticised Rio Tinto about its conduct surrounding the destruction of Juukan gorge.
In May the company blew up a 46,000-year-old significant site against the wishers of traditional owners to access higher grade iron ore. The act triggered international condemnation and prompted a federal parliamentary inquiry.
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New Delhi, Oct 2 (udaipur kiran) Pakistan skipper Safaraz Ahmed achieved another feat on Wednesday when he led his team out on the field against Sri Lanka in the teams third one-day international at the National Stadium in Karachi as he became only the second wicket-keeper in the history of the game to captain his side in 50 ODI games.
Former India captain M.S. Dhoni tops the list as he led the Men in Blue in 200 ODIs where he won 110 matches, lost 74 and five matches ended in a tie.
Sarfaraz, on the other hand, has won 27 and lost 20 matches so far as Pakistan's skipper.
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'Rocky Horror' Icon Barry Bostwick Takes on Rob Zombie's 'Three from Hell'
Rocky Horror Icon Barry Bostwick Takes on Rob Zombie's Three from Hell
Mike Sprague
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As many of you know well and good by this point in time, writer-director Rob Zombie (Halloween, The Lords of Salem) has an all-new entry in his infamous "Firefly Family" franchise headed our way in early 2019, called Three from Hell. It's been a whopping thirteen years (holy hell) since we've seen these three psycho killers grace the big screen, and Zombie recently teased that they will be joined this time around by a bunch of "bizarre cameos" including Chaz Bono. And today Zombie let us know that he's added another classic genre actor to the cast with The Rocky Horror Picture Show star Barry Bostwick.
Rob Zombie took to Instagram to announce this new cast member writing:
"Another exciting 3 From Hell cameo! Here I am with the one and only Barry Bostwick! As a huge fan Rocky Horror, it was a blast to have Barry join the cast."
Barry Bostwick is best known for the role of Brad in The Rocky Horror Picture Show yes, but the man also had a lead role in Michael J Fox's long-running sitcom Spin City as well as roles in such classic films as Weekend at Bernie's II, Spy Hard, Hannah Montana: The Movie, and Grand-Daddy Day Care} as Dynamite Dan North. I'm kidding. But seriously, Bostwick has had some quality genre roles in the past few years such as Mr. Abbadon in "The Night Billy Raised Hell", director Darren Lynn Bousman's segment from the recent horror anthology Tales of Halloween, and Santa himself in Slay Belles. Good to see Bostwick back in the genre, I say. Keep it going!
Rob Zombie is writing and directing Three From Hell, and he is also producing alongside Mike Elliot. Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, and Sheri Moon Zombie will be back in full force as The Firefly Family, with all three confirmed to be reprising their roles. Zombie shot the movie last year before heading out on tour, and then he let the footage sit and simmer a bit, before jumping into the post-production process earlier this year. Hopefully the movie will be in theaters this fall.
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Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Vera-Ellen "Baby" Firefly were first seen in House of 1000 Corpses. That movie was originally supposed to be released by Universal, and was shot on their backlot. But there were a lot of problems behind the scenes. The studio dropped it, and it was later picked up for distribution by LionsGate only to become a huge cult hit. The Firefly family later returned in the much grittier sequel The Devil's Rejects, solidifying Zombie as a strong force in the horror movie world.
Danny Trejo will be back this round as Rondo, with Daniel Roebuck starring as Morris Green in this latest gruesome joyride. Other cast members getting down in the dirt this time around include Jeff Daniel Phillips as Warden Virgil Dallas Harper, Richard Brake as Winslow Foxworth Coltrane, Pancho Moler as Sebastian, Bill Oberst Jr. as Tony Commando, and Clint Howard as Mr. Baggy Britches. Other icons have also been announced, and include Dee Wallace reuniting with Zombie after her appearance in The Lords of Salem, along with Wade Williams, Austin Stoker, Emilio Rivera, and David Ury. Comedian Tom Papa is showing up in an unspecified role after Rob Zombie directed one of his comedy specials. Yes, that actually happened. And it was pretty amazing. Especially considering that Tom Papa is one of the few 'clean' comedians working today.
House of 1000 Corpses followed a tale of sick and twisted killers and the poor saps who had the unfortunate luck to run into them. That movie even starred Rainn Wilson in a pre-Office appearance that some have forgotten. The movie was a fine mix of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Dan Aykroyd's Nothing But Trouble topped with a White Zombie twist. The Devil's Rejects picked up the story further down the road, with Otis and Baby on the run and hiding out at a Hotel. They are later joined by Capt. Spaulding for some gruesome fun. The movie ends with the trio going out in a hail of bullets. How will they be resurrected in Three From Hell? We'll just have to wait and see.
Three From Hell was originally teased as an early 2019 release. But it's looking more and more like we'll be treated to this gory treat later in the year, perhaps around Halloween time. There is no release date set yet. Zombie announced Barry Bostwick's participation himself over on Instagram.
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I always do it like you say.
But I never knew I had to add the predefined names in that place like Vladimir showed.
I tried it and the it works, still I can't copy the other ones because they were added the wrong way.
No problem I type them over for now, next time it will be good.
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I'm also looking for the predefined names.
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No, this file does not get updated automatically, you as a developer have to manually update it.
If you want to edit this file then it's ok but as it will help you in exploring the application. Suppose you remove a component then after running you encountered an error, with this you learn how to resolve the errors. And if you want to add new components then you must implement in app.js so that it can be rendered and you can visualize it

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AFP honored its 2018 class of Distinguished Fellows this week in New Orleans. Among them was APC member Abbie von Schlegell, CFRE.
The Distinguished Fellows program and Honorary Fellows program (for those who are not members of AFP) spotlights individuals who have made significant leadership contributions to the philanthropic and fundraising professions, and who will continue to advance AFP's mission and vision through their volunteer and advisory work.
"Our Distinguished Fellows this year represent the best of the fundraising profession," said Mike Geiger, president and CEO of AFP. "Not only are they extraordinary practitioners who have raised incredible sums of money for their organizations, but they have given back so much to the fundraising community. We wanted a program that properly recognized outstanding leaders in the profession, and I can't think of anyone more worthy of being a Distinguished Fellow than Ken, Jim and Abbie. They have given so much to the profession, and all of us at AFP look forward to working with them in the years to come."
Any AFP member with fifteen years in the profession is eligible for nomination as a Distinguished Fellow. For the Honorary Fellow, a minimum of fifteen years in nonprofit leadership is required. Nominations were required to address professional recognition, employment history, publications and speaking history, AFP memberships, honor and activity, and a concise description of why he or she should be selected a Fellow.
With more than 40 years of experience in the development field, von Schlegell has served as a consultant with several national firms for half of her career, and then and as a senior development officer with four institutions. She has held key development positions at Stanford University, The University of Chicago, The Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., and Enterprise Community Partners in Columbia, Md. In 2007, she returned to consulting and established her own firm in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. She is also currently a Certified Governance Trainer with BoardSource, in addition to her own work with clients. She very much enjoys her board service on nonprofit boards, currently Tapestry Health in Massachusetts and the Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires. She often provides pro bono consulting to others with "Buy me a latte and let's get together!" sessions.
A champion of women in philanthropy, von Schlegell was the editor of the first book on the subject, the best-selling handbook Women as Donors, Women as Philanthropists, published by Jossey Bass in 1993. She has spoken widely about the issue, written many articles and continued research in the field, serving on numerous panels and committees to explore how women give and engage with philanthropy.
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Dino Melaye files appeal at Supreme Court to stop recall from Senate
Sen. Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West in the Senate, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court, seeking an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from proceeding with his recall from the Senate.
Melaye's appeal is sequel to a judgment delivered by the Court of Appeal on March 16, which gave INEC the go ahead to continue with the recall.
In a notice of appeal filed by his Counsel, Mr Mike Ozekome, (SAN), Melaye wants an order of perpetual injunction restraining the INEC from commencing or further continuing with his recall or acting on the purported petition.
Melaye also asked the apex court to set aside the March 16 judgment of the Court of Appeal.
He further sought an order declaring the petition purportedly presented to INEC by some purported constituents for his recall as illegal, unlawful, wrongful, unconstitutional, invalid, null and void and of no effect.
Melaye, in addition, prayed for a declaration that the recall purportedly initiated against him by INEC and on the basis of the petition was illegal since it commenced on the basis of an invalid petition.
In addition, Melaye asked the apex court to declare that the 90 days period as provided for under Section 69(b) of the 1999 Constitution as amended had elapsed.
According to him, having elapsed, INEC can no longer proceed on the basis of the purported petition.
He said the Court of Appeal erred in law when it held that it was not for the court to verify the signature on the petition.
He said the court held that it was the duty of INEC, by reason of which the court failed to invalidate the petition presented to INEC.
It would be recalled that the appellate court had in its judgment delivered by Justice Tunde Awotoye, leading two other justices, dismissed all the grounds of appeal filed by Melaye.
The appellate court held that the 90 days stipulated by the constitution within which a recall process would take place had no time limitation, as it could be extended.
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Intelligent Cities Enable the Digital Economy and Drive Growth
Blazing a Trail for Intelligent Cities: Building a Digital Foundation and Integrating Apps
By Eric Xu, Rotating Chairman, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
At Huawei, we envision a fully connected, intelligent world. Intelligent Cities — in which all citizens, homes, and organizations are connected — are a key step toward building this intelligent world. To make Intelligent Cities a reality, Huawei takes a two-pronged approach: first creating a digital foundation that delivers ubiquitous connectivity, digital platforms, and pervasive intelligence; then integrating applications from leading industry partners. By doing so, we aim to start a new chapter for Intelligent Cities.
Three Dimensions for Consideration During the Development of New Intelligent Cities
Based on our experience in more than 200 Intelligent City projects around the world, Huawei believes that the following three dimensions should be priorities when beginning a new Intelligent City project.
• First Dimension: City Administration
First and foremost, a new Intelligent City needs to focus on the issues arising from urbanization, such as traffic congestion, pollution, risk prevention, and safety. Achieving targeted and efficient urban governance and administration should be the first priority of any Intelligent City.
Intelligent Cities should also prioritize fostering new businesses and industries, and integrating new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies into traditional industries. The idea here is to create new momentum for industry development.
Intelligent Cities also need to adopt new technologies that create completely new experiences to improve the lives of all citizens.
• Second Dimension: City Transformation
New Intelligent City development requires changes on multiple fronts:
• Siloed, fragmented technologies must give way to platforms and ecosystems;
• Government-led investment must evolve into multi-stakeholder investment such as Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs);
• Distributed Operations & Maintenance (O&M) will be superseded by centralized and intelligent operations
These new models are set to generate endless economic benefits for cities, paving the way for the sustainable evolution of Intelligent Cities.
• Third Dimension: Path and Pace of City Development
Every project has both short-term and long-term objectives. Fundamentally, an Intelligent City project should start with short-term priorities: namely, the most pressing needs of its citizens. Huawei recommends a phased or stepped approach that first focuses on dealing with less complicated issues, before moving on to address more difficult challenges. For an Intelligent City to follow this path and pace of development, its technology platform needs to have iterative and scalable AI capabilities.
Three Pillars of New Intelligent Cities
An Intelligent City relies on three pillars: a digital foundation, an open platform, and innovative business models. Meticulous planning must go into all three if we hope to turn Intelligent Cities into a reality.
• A Powerful Digital Foundation that Integrates Cloud, AI, and IoT
• Eliminate technology silos and integrate services that were once scattered here and there, so that everything can be connected;
• Facilitate data collection, pool data from all sources, and support data mining, analytics, and sharing to provide inputs for an Intelligent City's "digital brain";
• Support a wide array of applications, which provide technological means for city administrators to achieve easy, accurate, and efficient governance and decision-making.
The digital foundation is like a plot of fertile soil in which digital economies can take root. On top of this digital foundation, Huawei brings industry partners and applications together to empower all industries as they digitally transform and seek further growth.
• An Open Platform that Combines a Full Set of Capabilities Required by an Intelligent City
In the past, the traditional approach to Intelligent City development was to roll out individual ICT projects that targeted specific fields. A more effective approach is to build an open digital platform that aggregates the capabilities of all ecosystem players. This new approach will turn Intelligent Cities into a new enabler of industry development. An open platform such as this offers a full set of capabilities — including big data, AI, video, Geographic Information System (GIS), and converged communications — to a diverse range of applications. The platform also integrates all types of city status data to inform decision-making.
The benefits created by this open platform are enormous. It supports all sorts of Intelligent City applications across sectors, from agriculture and healthcare to education and transportation. The experience gained by a city as it becomes smart will be useful for fostering new industries and new capabilities.
In addition, the platform can open up its capabilities and data to businesses and organizations, who can use them to drive Intelligent City development and create new value. This multi-stakeholder model will also incubate new businesses and industries, and spur the transformation of traditional industries, ultimately creating new momentum driving the digital economy forward.
• Innovative Business Models that Support Sustainable Operations of Intelligent Cities
At present, government-led investment and PPP are major models for Intelligent City development. As an Intelligent City gradually matures — with ubiquitous connectivity, the continuing aggregation of massive amounts of data, and the growing value of device connections and data — its momentum will be sustained by new business models that will emerge to extract greater value from Intelligent City operations, rather than from new investments. As such, new value-added operating solutions will ensure sustainable Intelligent City development. An example is an operating solution that reduces the vacancy rate of urban parking lots. By resolving a persistent problem that citizens face, this type of solution increases the use of urban resources and thus creates huge economic gains for the city.
Facilitating Intelligent City Development for a Better Future
To date, Huawei — working closely with leading partners — has played a meaningful role in more than 200 Intelligent City projects across more than 40 countries, with outstanding results. Highlights include:
• Intelligent City in Rustenburg, South Africa
• Intelligent City for Bonifacio Global City, the Philippines
• Smart and digital Sardegna, Italy
• Top-level design for Intelligent Cities in Guangdong and Shanghai, China
• Big data modeling in Guizhou, China
• Smart traffic control in Longgang District, Shenzhen, China
• Smart rice cultivation in Chengyang District, Qingdao, China
• AI capability center in Binghai District, Tianjin, China
• City-wide IoT network in Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, China
Initiatives that focus on digital economies, industry transformation, and building an intelligent world have captured the global imagination. The wave of digitization is sweeping the world. Huawei aims to speed up the transition to digitization and AI, and blaze a trail for Intelligent Cities, which we believe will offer vast potential to improve governance, benefit residents, and promote industry prosperity.
To this end, Huawei will build a digital foundation featuring ubiquitous connectivity, digital platforms, and pervasive intelligence. We will also establish open ecosystems in which we can work with our partners for shared success. Cooperating with our partners, Huawei delivers innovative Intelligent City technologies to create new momentum for digital economies in an intelligent world.
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