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Swine Flu 101 From Michigan Auto Law Personal Injury Lawyers
April 28, 2009 by Steven M. Gursten
As personal injury lawyers who handle automobile negligence lawsuits, we normally write about car accidents and truck accidents in Michigan. But given the recent headlines regarding the national outbreak of swine flu, our lawyers wanted to pass along these important tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's our most sincere hope that our clients and friends are protected from this new strain of influenza.
Swine Flu FAQs:
What is Swine Influenza?
Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus that regularly causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. Swine flu viruses cause high levels of illness and low death rates in pigs. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swines throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months, similar to outbreaks in humans. The classical swine flu virus (an influenza type A H1N1 virus) was first isolated from a pig in 1930.
Can humans catch swine flu?
Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans. However, sporadic human infections with swine flu have occurred. Most commonly, these cases occur in persons with direct exposure to pigs (e.g. children near pigs at a fair or workers in the swine industry). In addition, there have been documented cases of one person spreading swine flu to others. For example, an outbreak of apparent swine flu infection in pigs in Wisconsin in 1988 resulted in multiple human infections, and, although no community outbreak resulted, there was antibody evidence of virus transmission from the patient to health care workers who had close contact with the patient.
How common is swine flu infection in humans?
In the past, CDC received reports of approximately one human swine influenza virus infection every one to two years in the U.S., but from December 2005 through February 2009, 12 cases of human infection with swine influenza have been reported. (According to the World Heath Organization, the number of deaths suspected to be from swine flu rose Monday to 152 in Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, with nearly 2,000 people believed to be infected. The number of U.S. cases rose to 48 after further testing at a New York City school. Other U.S. cases have been reported in Ohio, Kansas, Texas and California. Worldwide there were 73 cases, including six in Canada, one in Spain and two in Scotland.)
What are the symptoms of swine flu in humans?
The symptoms of swine flu in people are expected to be similar to the symptoms of regular human seasonal influenza and include fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing. Some people with swine flu also have reported runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
Can people catch swine flu from eating pork?
No. Swine influenza viruses are not transmitted by food. You can not get swine influenza from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork and pork products is safe. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160?F kills the swine flu virus as it does other bacteria and viruses.
How does swine flu spread?
Influenza viruses can be directly transmitted from pigs to people and from people to pigs. Human infection with flu viruses from pigs are most likely to occur when people are in close proximity to infected pigs, such as in pig barns and livestock exhibits housing pigs at fairs. Human-to-human transmission of swine flu can also occur. This is thought to occur in the same way as seasonal flu occurs in people, which is mainly person-to-person transmission through coughing or sneezing of people infected with the influenza virus. People may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.
What medications are available to treat swine flu infections in humans?
There are four different antiviral drugs that are licensed for use in the US for the treatment of influenza: amantadine, rimantadine, oseltamivir and zanamivir. While most swine influenza viruses have been susceptible to all four drugs, the most recent swine influenza viruses isolated from humans are resistant to amantadine and rimantadine. At this time, CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir or zanamivir for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with swine influenza viruses.
Protecting Yourself from the Swine Flu
The CDC says there are everyday things Michigan residents can do to stay safe:
o Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
o Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
o Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.
o Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
o If you get sick, stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
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The first financial product which I tackled at length here on Elementum Money was Life Insurance. If you are looking at detailed information on the product, then you may want to look at the 5-post #LIMonday series that I started within the first month of the blog.
However, over the last month or two, I have realized the merit of a single comprehensive post outlining details of a financial product for my readers to have basic information about it in one go. Life Insurance is one of the most important products that I will talk about here considering in India, the penetration is deplorable amid rampant mis-selling and inadequate covers.
In the event of death, a person needs an income substitution to continue providing for his/her loved ones. Simply put, Life Insurance shifts your risk of death to a larger group and covers for your risk which is why it is alternately referred to as a life cover.
Suppose there is a village called X with 1000 people living in it. The annual rate of death in the village is 0.1%. This implies that 1 person in the village dies every year. To simplify the example, suppose every villager will die with a liability of Rs. 50,000. Then all villagers will pay Rs. 50 as an annual premium to insure themselves. In case one of them dies, that guy gets his liability covered for his family.
Life Insurance is a modern version of the above example, which covers a much higher number of people and more variation in their liability amounts.
While the old adage often quoted in this regard is "earlier the better", I don't agree or subscribe to it.
To me it boils down to a simple question – Is there anyone financially dependent on you? If you die, is there someone in your life whose quality of life could deteriorate drastically and irreversibly so? This could be a spouse, children or old parents. Even in the case of housewives with children, do not forget that you undertake a lot of activities while looking after the children which would incur a huge cost in your absence. This counts as a financial impact and does need life insurance to cover the risk.
Personally, I still don't need a life insurance policy as everyone in my life earns for themselves or is financially independent, which is why I am waiting before shopping for life insurance. However, if your answer to the above question is yes, then every day you waste with no life insurance is a terrible risk to your family.
The Indian landscape, when it comes to Life Insurance in India, is extremely varied and mostly confusing. A lot of things are sold, often disguised as life insurance, for instance, bad high-cost equity investments.
The ORIGINAL life insurance policy where you pay premiums through a term until your earning age to cover the risk of death. This is the one and only life insurance policy that I agree with an recommend.
Life insurance is not an investment. It is a cost to protect your cash flows. Let's ensure that financial products do the job they were envisioned for and do not mix up roles.
There are two more things to know about a Term Life Insurance Policy.
Riders: Think of your term insurance policy as vanilla ice cream or maybe a frozen yogurt. Riders are then toppings that make the purchase much better. Some of the most common riders include critical illness rider, disability benefit, accidental death benefit and waiver of premium.
Monthly income plan: Some life insurance companies also provide the option of getting the life insurance in monthly installments rather than a lumpsum. While it's a handy feature, it might still be a good idea to do a quick check as to the premium difference between the same amount given out as lump sum vis-à-vis small monthly amounts.
This is also called the unlimited term Life Insurance policy. While a term insurance policy typically covers you for a defined term, say till 60 years of age, a whole insurance policy covers you till eternity. Whenever you die, your beneficiary gets the insurance corpus.
You might be wondering – if she is yapping about how important life insurance is, then why not have it cover us for a lifetime? Most of us expect to stop working and accumulate a corpus by the time of retirement as well as pay off our loans and not have any dependents. In that case, a whole life policy essentially becomes redundant after retirement.
These plans typically work on the psychology of – "if I have not used it, why should I pay for it?". In a nutshell, you pay a 10% (of the desired life insurance amount) premium for the insurance period and either get death benefits in case of demise or the entire benefit + accrued bonus at the time of policy maturity. Compare this to the 0.12% to 0.20% premium for a regular term insurance policy. For a simple 1 crore insurance policy, how many of us can pay 10 Lakh every year? We end up losing sight of the objective of insurance which is to protect the financial interests of loved ones in case of a tragedy.
Is the rate of return on the bonus any good? Nope. Sometimes even worse than the savings account interest rates. Isn't your money then better used for the exact purpose you want it to – separately for insurance and separately for investment. Read this article to understand who you, the policyholder lose out yet the commissions paid on this product are very high.
This is very much like an endowment policy with the difference that payouts are at regular intervals. So, in a 20-year term, you would end up getting 20% of your sum assured in years 5, 10, 15 and the rest in year 20 along with any accumulated bonus. The rate of return is and the rate of premium is as poor as an endowment policy.
ULIP stands for Unit Linked policy. Essentially it is a life insurance policy with an insurance component and an investment component (which gives market-linked returns). While they were known to give lower returns and a very little component of insurance, a 2010 IRDA overhaul of the category has improved the situation, albeit slightly.
After the 2018 budget, where the new LTCG rules mean return on Mutual Fund beyond Rs. 1,00,000 in a year would be taxed at 10% and no taxation on insurance returns, most ULIP players have come out to communicate aggressively. They claim that this ruling makes ULIPs more attractive than Mutual Funds.
There is no research to say that ULIPs perform better than regular Mutual Funds. However, most of them do have higher costs with different heads like premium allocation charge, policy administration charge, fund management charge, mortality charges and surrender charges which not even be communicated up-front. Also, the main purpose of insurance to provide a cover remains undermined with this type of policy as barely any of us are going to pay lakhs for a basic 1 Crore cover.
None of this has changed with the new ruling. If you want to read a more detailed analysis, ET Wealth did a wonderful report highlighting all angles possible in the comparison.
Buying a life insurance can be simple to do if we remember why we are doing it and what route might be best for the purpose.
Always go for a term life insurance policy until an age when you hope to retire. Anything else is either an overkill or a costly mistake.
There are enough instances where the money after a policyholders' death is not used an envisioned. I just came across a case where a ladies' father-in-law was the nominee on the husband's life insurance policy and refused to part with the money for the deceased's young child. Make sure you take steps so that the right people get and use the money as you had hoped for.
At many points, you will see the advice of going with the life insurance provider with the highest claim payout ratio. While you must check it out and go only with a company having at least 90-92% claim payout ratio, this cannot be your only point for consideration.
If you buy a term insurance policy, premiums will mostly be priced very reasonably. However, ensure you are aware of your premium amount and then make the decision whether you want to pay it annually or in smaller chunks monthly.
Go through the documents very very carefully. Also, make your nominee go through them so that he/she is also aware of the policy in entirety. If you do not understand even a single term, ask the agent or google it before you sign. You alone are responsible for your financial well-being.
Life insurance is not something that you take once and forget. Review your life situation to check if the cover is still adequate or if there is a need to increase it. Most providers allow you to increase the life insurance coverage on the basis of a change in life stage like having a kid.


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Engro & TCF inaugurate a purpose-built campus in GhaggarPhattak
The campus built at a cost of PKR 22 million will provide education opportunities to the residents of GhaggarPhattak and adjoining areas.
KARACHI: May 11, 2015: Engro Polymer & Chemicals– through its CSR wing, Engro Foundation – inaugurated the new TCF campus in GhaggarPhattak – a small village near Port Qasim in Karachi. The new facility constructed by the petrochemicals business of Engro will serve as a primary school for girls and boys in the vicinity which lacks educational infrastructure that can provide a functional schooling experience to children of the colony.
The school was jointly inaugurated by the President of Engro Corporation, Ali Ansari; CEO of Engro Polymer & Chemicals, Khalid Siraj Subhani and the Chairman of TCF Mushtaq Chhapra while MPA SajidJhokio was also present at the occasion. The purpose-built campus of the school has the capacity to accommodate up to 180 students while 70 students are currently enrolled in the academic year.
Speaking at the occasion, Khalid Siraj Subhani, CEO, Engro Polymer & Chemicals said: "Nearly half of Pakistan's population cannot read or write while number of children out of school in Pakistan ranges anywhere from 07 million to 25 million. These statistics alone call for drastic measures on a war footing. It is only by educating these young minds today that we can move forward and at Engro we are working tirelessly to benefit our future generations."
TCF Chairman, Mushtaq Chhapra added: "TCF has always strived to remove barriers of class and privilege to make the citizens of Pakistan agents of positive change. We believe quality education can lead to a better future and the Engro TCF GhagharPhattak campus is just another step in that direction."
The school will be expanded into a secondary school in the near future while there are also plans to invest in construction of a polytechnic institute that will benefit the youth of GhaggarPhattak and Port Qasim vicinity.
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Angola's economy is diversifying due to falls in oil prices and production – and now its President, government and businesses at home and abroad are looking to reshape its agricultural sector due to the African country's massive untapped swathes of arable land. We discover how 'green oil' could take centre stage.
In his two-and-a-half years since taking office as Angola's President, João Lourenço has proved to be a strong leader who doesn't mince his words. So his message towards the end of December on the massive potential the southwestern African nation has in the way of agriculture did not fall on deaf ears. The President travelled to the vast Quiminha region, about 40 kilometres from capital Luanda, and sunk his boots in the dirt of one of the many arable fields as the scorching tropical sun burned overhead. After he surveyed the land, he said: "Angola can produce a lot more than it has been producing until now." And it can. Lourenço is clearly preparing to make it happen.
Lourenço's visit to Quiminha, which is home to a much-publicised integrated agricultural and regional development project, was part of a tour of productive facilities, both agricultural and industrial, in Luanda province. It served to help highlight a vision for the development of a country that has historically relied on both oil exports and, in spite of its immense availability of land, food imports. A country that spends an estimated US$3 billion (MOP 24 billion) every year on food imports yet has thousands of hectares of highly productive land lying idle.
Angola can produce a lot more than it has been producing until now.
Angola is 1.247 million square kilometres in size and 575,900 square kilometres – which is not far off the size of France – of this is arable land. But only between eight and 14 per cent of this land is being exploited, according to a World Bank report a couple of years ago. However, this could all change. As Lourenço said during his visit, Angola can produce a lot more on its fields through both agro-industry and smaller-scale family production.
Angola has an abundance of land and water, as well as diverse climatic and soil conditions excellent for producing a large variety of crops. The Quiminha project in Luanda's Icolo e Bengo municipality, which was launched in 2012, stretches over 5,000 hectares of land – including greenhouses – and has been steadily increasing its fruit and vegetable production over the past few years. Last year, it produced 35,000 tonnes of vegetables, cereals, tubers and fruit compared to 27,000 tonnes the previous year, thus increasing the agricultural supply to Luanda. It also produced 24,000 eggs on average every day last year. The purpose of the project was to reintegrate 300 families who had previously been working under difficult conditions into farming, as well as contributing to Angola's process of economic diversification. Thirteen families have been settled in the farming zone since October 2017 and 180 were expected to move in over the coming months.
The government's partner in the Quiminha scheme is Israel-born, Amsterdam-headquartered agricultural firm Tahal. In the wake of Quiminha's progress, the group furthered its involvement in the country by signing an agreement in 2017 with government-owned land management company Gesterra – Gestão de Terras Aráveis SA for three large-scale agricultural development projects, valued at around US$291 million (MOP 2.3 billion), in the provinces of Cabinda, Huambo and Lunda Sul. Each of the projects aims at developing over the coming months a regional agricultural centre, including new farms, irrigated and drip-irrigated cultivation areas, greenhouses, chicken hatcheries, chicken coops, logistics centres and training centres.
Today, projects like Quiminha are sprouting up in other provinces too. With Angola's economic growth contracting since 2016 due to the combined effect of drops in its oil production and sharp falls in international oil prices, the Portuguese-speaking country's agro-industry is now more important than ever. Economic diversification and agricultural potential have long been touted by Angolan officials but there's a new sense of urgency and a desire to put the nation's food industry at the forefront – which is clear as the president conducts his visits to farmlands and agricultural projects like Quiminha. There may be many hurdles ahead but the government, foreign partners and the country's private sector seem aligned in their mission to create a more sustainable economic future in Angola by way of its massive expanse of arable land.
Farm buildings and land in Quiminha
The must-read report
Last year, the International Financial Corporation – or IFC, a member of the World Bank Group – commissioned what has become one of the most exhaustive studies of Angola's private sector and its potential for economic diversification. In the context of the Lourenço administration's efforts to bring in foreign investment for agriculture and industry, 'Creating Markets in Angola: Opportunities for Development Through the Private Sector' has become a must-read among experts. "Agribusiness should be at the centre of Angola's economic diversification," it states.
The conditions are in place for an excellent agricultural sector in Angola.
According to the study, at present about 80 per cent of all Angolan food production comes from subsistence agriculture and small-scale farming. Smallholders – people who own or manage an agricultural holding that's smaller than a farm – represent 92 per cent of all the land under cultivation. The sector, however, remains the main source of income for 90 per cent of the 9.6 million Angolans – out of the total population of more than 32 million – living in rural areas. It also remains the main source of employment in the country – with an estimated 44.9 per cent of the total employment – but accounts for only three per cent of all people with stable jobs.
Large government projects and investments, the IFC report says, have 'generally underperformed' and there are 'few successful agribusiness firms'. Poor infrastructure and lack of finance limit the ability of medium and smallholders to be more productive and participate in markets. A 'new approach', says the IFC, is needed.
With five main river basins, Angola has 80,000 hectares of irrigated land, with the largest areas in the provinces of Cuanza Sul, Bengo and Benguela. Over the years, the government has invested in medium-sized areas such as Bom Jesus and Caxito in Bengo and Matala in Huíla, which cover about 3,000 hectares each. It's also invested in much larger irrigated areas such as Capanda in Malanje province, which has the potential to span 13,500 hectares. However, most of these lands, according to the IFC report, are underutilised. The government is restructuring agricultural state-owned enterprises – principally Gesterra, the main entity managing medium and large-scale government farms and public agricultural land. Some of these state-owned enterprises are closing, however, and, according to the IFC report, the private sector, from here, is expected to take centre stage.
At a 'strange crossroads'
While the IFC's comprehensive study is generally optimistic about the private sector's opportunities in Angola for companies in the agriculture industry – among others – the report also serves as a tough reminder of the many difficulties faced by all those involved in the industry, whether big or small. For instance, all these companies and individuals may be hampered by the poor state of the country's road infrastructure which can make, say, transporting goods to market problematic. Financing is another obstacle – the agriculture sector's share of overall credit has remained low, at less than five per cent last year, and has been seen by many as a major constraint for both farmers and agribusiness enterprises.
Other problems can be even more basic, like the fact that quality seeds, fertilisers and agriculture equipment are, as the IFC report puts it, 'out of the reach of most farmers', a situation the IFC claims has 'aggravated' since the onset of the economic crisis and associated restrictions by the foreign exchange market. The report also highlights a shortage of technical and management skills in the industry, which forces commercial farms to 'incur high personnel and training costs'.
Eugénio Costa Almeida
Portugal-based researcher Eugénio Costa Almeida, who is an expert on Angola and has done a lot of research on the country under the current administration, says the conditions are in place 'for an excellent agricultural sector' in the African nation. But he also tells Macao Magazine it 'is still very incipient and deficient for national needs' – meaning that its development is only just starting to happen. Livestock production actually suffered a small decrease last year, says Costa Almeida, due to persistent drought in the southern provinces of Huíla, Cunene and Cuando-Cubango.
The potential exists for cereal production, as well as coffee, according to Costa Almeida. Banana, he notes, has also been named by the Angolan government as the 'new green oil' because of its export potential. Before its independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola was a major fruit producer and was once the third largest producer of coffee beans in the world. Now, it is far behind the globe's biggest coffee producers, which include other African nations like Uganda and Ethiopia. But there have been calls in the country to boost coffee and fruit production as this won't just create jobs, increase exports and help the local economy but will also mean that less foreign currency is spent. However, Costa Almeida warns there could be 'countless cases of complaints by small and medium-sized producers' who will be left with surplus production that cannot be marketed due to a lack of transportation and poor road infrastructure.
Today, some factories for processing agricultural products 'are beginning to appear', says Costa Almeida, both for domestic consumption or for export – but he says they have a hard time competing with lower-priced imported products. Other than government support, the sector needs new investors with new technologies, claims the researcher. "At the agribusiness level, Angola is at a strange crossroads," he says, adding that on one hand the country is keen to develop its national agriculture industry but on the other its constitution limits land ownership to the state, which could deter investors.
Angolan coffee beans
Angola's 'green oil' | Photo by Quartz Africa
Workers on a farm in Uige province
Chinese support
China has consistently been one of Angola's main partners in the agricultural sector. Early last year, it pledged a grant of RMB 100 million (US$14.7 million) to the African country for a number of projects to help develop its agricultural industry under an agreement signed between the two countries in Beijing. And in September last year, the Chinese ambassador to Angola, Gong Tao, pledged to support the Angolan government in its economic diversification, mainly with the restructuring of agricultural production. For this purpose, he said, Angola 'can count on the support of the Chinese government for its rich experience alongside natural technologies to bolster productivity'.
Gong Tao spoke at the opening ceremony of the second cycle of training for 30 Angolan technicians on potato cultivation, organised by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, through the Jiangsu Jiangzhou Agricultural Science and Technology Development Company and the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Heilongjiang Province. The Heilongjiang academy is the largest agricultural research institution in that Chinese region and is recognised internally and externally in the field of research, especially on corn, soybeans, rice, potatoes, seed farming, plant preservation and custom fertiliser formulation.
Chinese agricultural experts have also visited Angola for training programmes. At the end of 2018, a delegation of seven experts provided a two-week training programme for 20 Angolan technicians in Huambo, the country's third-largest city, to help cultivate more local talents and strengthen agricultural co-operation between the two countries. The training mainly focused on crop production and livestock breeding technologies which cater to the local technicians' needs to build up their productive capabilities.
Last summer, the Angolan government launched a tender to privatise four farms across the country. The Agro-Industrial Project of Fazenda do Longa in Cuando-Cubango province, the Camaiangala Agricultural Development Farm in Moxico province, the Cuimba Agro-Industrial Farm in Zaire province and the Sanza Pombo Agricultural Development Farm in Uíge province together cover about 43,000 hectares of land. Ana Paulo, the head of the privatisation department of the State Asset Management and Participation Institute (IGAPE), said the reference prices of these farms are valued at between US$22 million (MOP 176 million) and US$35 million (MOP 280 million). This privatisation project could raise around US$110 million (MOP 881 million) for the state coffers. In November, the government announced that seven Angolan and foreign companies were found to be eligible to participate in the public tender.
In spite of the challenges, however, a handful of commercial operators have been successful. In many instances, the IFC report cautions, the success stories 'probably benefitted from favourable conditions such as access to prepared land, partnership in government ventures or leveraging commercial success in other sectors'. With or without this kind of support, they have found markets at home – from supermarkets to street vendors – as well as abroad. Companies like Nuviagro, Agrolider, Fazenda Girassol, Turiagro and Jardins da Yoba have been particularly active in the horticulture and fruit segment, producing fruits like bananas and mangoes, as well as vegetables like potatoes and onions. Another important player is Aldeia Nova, a government joint venture that supports a community of 700 smallholders and their families. The company produces its own soy and maize for animal feed, gives it to the farmers with power, water and equipment and then buys the resulting produce, which is then processed and packaged for the local market.
Currently, the banana is the main fruit that is produced in Angola. The country is one of the biggest producers of the crop in Africa. Nova Agrolíder, the leading national producer of this fruit, reached a production of 71,000 tons in 2017 in its Bengo and Caxito farms, a 77 per cent increase over two years. Under the banana's brand name 'Angolanita', the firm has started exporting small quantities to Portugal and Namibia – about 2,600 tons a year. According to the IFC, Nova Agrolíder, which is part of Grupo Lider, is now the largest fruit and vegetable producer in Angola, with an annual production of 200,000 tons of 50 different fruits and vegetables, as well as employing 4,500 people. They use their own truck fleet to distribute to other firms. Grupo Lider, which owns the chain store Frescos do Dia, is expanding into other agribusiness sectors, including coffee, dairy, poultry, livestock, aquaculture and frozen foods.
Another notable project is that of Fazenda Girassol, which has three farms and 800 employees and has captured investment from private equity fund Angola Capital Partners. Using its own truck fleet, the firm now supplies to supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and individual homes through online sales. It is currently expanding its range of horticulture products using greenhouses and it is expected to produce maize soon. Turiagro operates farms in the provinces of Luanda, Bengo, Kwanza Norte and Kwanza Sul and distributes to major supermarkets. Nuviagro, which has Portuguese-Angolan capital behind it, operates a farm in Quibala and also has expansion projects on the horizon.
In an article published in January on the changes underway in the Angolan economy, the IFC asserted that, together with the World Bank, it is working in collaboration with the Angolan government and the country's private agro-industrial sector to strengthen the chain of agricultural supplies, promote investment in the sector and link small businesses to agricultural markets. According to the IFC's representative in Angola, Hector Gomez Ang, 'Angola has great potential to produce high-value agriculture and on a large scale'. He said: "The recent reforms have triggered the entrepreneurial spirit of Angola, creating an exciting and fast-paced environment'. To stimulate investment in agriculture and the country in general, the IFC recommends comprehensive reforms and improved regulations, particularly in the transport, energy, information and communication technology sectors.
Angola may still be encountering many challenges but help is out there for its agricultural sector and soon the world may see massive growth as the country reaches its true farming potential. Likely inspired by these new projects sprouting up across the nation and in particular by his visit to Quiminha a few days earlier, President João Lourenço delivered a hopeful Christmas message to the Angolan people. New developments, he said, contradict 'the pessimistic vision of those who doubted that Angola is entering a new period in its history'. The new developments are there to see – time will tell how quickly they are cultivated.
Fine lettuces are produced in Zaire province
Angola's dense greenery
Angola: the facts
Angola is a Portuguese-speaking country in southwestern Africa.
It covers a broad variety of landscapes, including deserts, rugged highlands and beautiful river valleys, not to mention its massive swathes of arable land.
The capital and commercial centre is Luanda, a large port city on the northern coast that blends Portuguese-style landmarks with traditional African housing styles.
Angola has fairly recently been ravaged by war and the related effects of landmines and malnutrition. It has often been dependent on the international community for the basics of survival.
It is rich in natural resources like precious gems, metals and petroleum, ranking among the highest of the oil-producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
It acquired its present boundaries in 1891 and in 1975 the nation became independent from Portugal.
It is a roughly square-shaped country with a maximum width of about 800 miles, or 1,300 kilometres.
Apart from a few small exceptions, all Angolans speak Bantu languages of the Niger-Congo language family which dominates much of Africa.
Angolan poet Agostinho Neto, who was also the country's first president, described Angola in an ode he wrote in prison in 1956. He said the country was 'red with coffee, white with cotton, green with maize'. Soon, if president João Lourenço's ambitions are realised, it could be 'yellow with bananas, thriving with livestock' and much more.
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BOSTON -- The overhang of student debt on young workers may inhibit consumption and future borrowing, researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York warn, potentially imperiling the economic recovery for years to come.
In a new study, New York Fed researchers said Wednesday that younger workers with student debt are less likely than their unburdened peers to have home mortgages or auto loans -- the first time that has been observed in at least 10 years and a worrying development for policymakers who have traditionally associated student debt with college education and higher incomes.
Borrowers with student loans also shed other forms of consumer debt at a much higher rate than borrowers without educational debt, the researchers found, in a sign that consumers with student loans may have lowered their expectations for higher future earnings and may have less access to loans as a result of rising student debt despite their "comparatively high earning potential."
Student debtors also may have decreased their consumption, the researchers said.
"Lowered expectations of future earnings and more limited access to credit may have broad implications for the ongoing recovery of the housing and vehicle markets, and of U.S. consumer spending more generally," the New York Fed researchers cautioned.
"While highly skilled young workers have traditionally provided a vital influx of new, affluent consumers to U.S. housing and auto markets, unprecedented student debt may dampen their influence in today's marketplace," they warned.
The researchers join a growing group of policymakers who have been highlighting the risk that unprecedented student borrowing presents. Among consumer debt, only home mortgages today exceed the $1.1 trillion in outstanding student loans. That is worrying officials in Washington, who are beginning to question the benefits of a college degree in light of the potentially negative macroeconomic impact of rising student debt levels.
The share of 25-year-olds with student debt has increased from 25 percent in 2003 to 43 percent in 2012, according to the New York Fed. The average student loan balance among 25-year-olds with student debt has grown by 91 percent over the same period to $20,326.
This month, newly released minutes from the March meeting of the Fed's interest-rate setting panel, the Federal Open Market Committee, revealed that some members mentioned "the high level of student debt" as a risk to aggregate household spending over the next three years.
Millions of student borrowers are also paying record relative interest rates on their government loans, according to a Huffington Post review, frustrating efforts by the Fed to reduce borrowing costs for households and businesses.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the Treasury Department's Office of Financial Research have all warned about the possible danger that rising student debt levels pose to financial stability and the broader economy. The CFPB has launched a consultation to determine how to stimulate modifications and refinancings of student debt.
As the New York Fed researchers found, consumers with student debt may be less likely to take on additional debt obligations, limiting future credit creation and perhaps hurting financial institutions that rely on making loans in order to stay in business.
"There is increasing consensus that student loan debt is having a broader impact on the economy than we think," Rohit Chopra, the CFPB official responsible for the student loan marketplace, said in a recent interview.
Borrowers without student loans at age 25 on average reduced their debt load by 40 percent from their peak in 2007 through 2012, the New York Fed found. By comparison, those with student debt on average reduced their non-education debt load by at least 43 percent from their separate peak in 2008.
The National Association of Home Builders, a Washington trade group, said earlier this month that "higher student debt loan burdens impair the ability of recent college graduates to qualify for a loan, thereby increasing the time required for such new households to become homeowners."
The New York Fed found that the homeownership rate for 30-year-old student debtors is now nearly 2 percentage points lower than that of those without student loans, a reversal of pre-Great Recession rates.
Student debt burdens may also be affecting access to credit, according to the New York Fed. At ages 25 and 30, borrowers with student loans on average have lower credit scores than their peers without student debt, even though student borrowers are more likely to have better-paying jobs.


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Lady Gaga to sing anthem, J-Lo to perform at inauguration
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WASHINGTON — Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden's inauguration and Jennifer Lopez will give a musical performance on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol when Biden is sworn in as the nation's 46th president next Wednesday.
The announcement of their participation comes one day after word that Tom Hanks will host a 90-minute primetime TV special celebrating Biden's inauguration. Other performers include Justin Timberlake, Jon Bon Jovi, Demi Lovato and Ant Clemons.
At the swearing-in ceremony, the Rev. Leo O'Donovan, a former Georgetown University president, will give the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance will be led by Andrea Hall, a firefighter from Georgia. There will be a poetry reading from Amanda Gorman, the first national youth poet laureate, and the benediction will be given by Rev. Silvester Beaman of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Techzine News Infrastructure Outage grounds US air traffic
Outage grounds US air traffic
Geert van der Klugt
airplanes, airports, FAA, KLM, United States
US air traffic is delayed nationwide due to an outage in the communication system of the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA). The regulator ordered all US airports to reschedule departures on Wednesday morning.
The problem has since been resolved. The FAA announced that aeroplanes were cleared to depart from airports in a statement on Twitter around 3 p.m. (Amsterdam time).
Earlier today, the regulator announced an outage in a key communications system called Notice to Air Missions. The FAA uses the system to notify pilots in US airspace of closed runways, equipment failures and other potential hazards.
The regulator confirmed that the system suffered an outage on the night of January 10-11. US airports were ordered to reschedule all departures on Wednesday morning, including flights from European airlines such as Air France-KLM.
The FAA said that air traffic in the United States was slowly recovering in an update posted at around 3 p.m. (Amsterdam time). The cause of the problem has not been disclosed at the time of writing. The FAA said the investigation is ongoing.
Dark day
According to tracking website FlightAware, more than 4,000 flights have been delayed, and more than 700 have been cancelled entirely. A video from news channel CNN depicts travellers at a Pennsylvania airport being informed that all departures have been rescheduled. "This is a nationwide problem", a spokesperson says over the intercom.
CNN spoke to a family who said they were trapped at an airport in Hawaii for more than five hours. The family intended to travel to Dallas, but were informed that the plane would not be departing just before the flight. A passenger in London told the news channel that his plane was grounded for three additional hours before departure.
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Q: Octave 4.0 crashing on audiowrite I'm trying to split up the long line of audiowrite but when I do Octave 4.0 crashes I'm using Octave 4.0 (which is like matlab) on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit.
audio_prop='BitsPerSample',16,'Artist','artist rt','Title','title section rt','Comment','Comments section rt';
audiowrite('/tmp/test.wav',[sig_full_L(:) -1*sig_full_R(:)],44100,audio_prop)

Can I not split it up this way if not how can I split it up?
Someone asked for the full code so here it is (this causes octave 4.0 to crash)
fs =8000;                    % Sampling frequency
fs_rate=fs;
dursec=10; %%duration of signal in seconds

t=linspace(0,2*pi,dursec*fs);
freq=primes(fs/2*dursec);
freq=freq';

ya=zeros(1,length(t));
numfreq=numel(freq)

for ii=1:1:numel(freq)
    ya = ya+sin(freq(ii,1)*t);
end
audio_prop='BitsPerSample',16,'Artist','artist rt','Title','title section rt','Comment','Comments section rt';
audiowrite('/tmp/test.flac',[ya(:) -1*ya(:)],44100,audio_prop)

I was told by the octave people to fill out a crash / bug report link below
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?47875

A: @ederag solved this for me. "Even the first line is wrong. Brackets ({})are missing around it. And it should be audio_prop{:} in the second line."
The code with the error should be:
audio_prop={'BitsPerSample',16,'Artist','artist rt','Title','title section rt','Comment','Comments section rt'};
audiowrite('/tmp/test.wav',[sig_full_L(:) -1*sig_full_R(:)],44100,audio_prop{:})

A: Here is one way to wrap a long list of arguments into a single variable,
in order to shorter lines or to allow for reuse in a further function.
First put the arguments in a cell array.
options = {"a", "b", 2};

Then use the cell array expansion, which is a bit hidden there :

Accessing multiple elements of a cell array with the '{' and '}'
  operators will result in a comma separated list of all the requested
  elements

In our case,
options{:}

is interpreted as
"a", "b", 2

so calling
func(arg1, arg2, options{:})

is interpreted as
func(arg1, arg2, "a", "b", 2)

Which answers the question.

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Q: DatePicker input value not pass to Redux Form when submit I'm using DatePicker with ReduxForm. However, when I click submit button, the input value from Date Picker not pass to Redux Form.
I've search around and come across the answer from this (my code of renderDatePicker comes from there) but it still doesn't work for me.
My demo of the form on my Simulator:
Here's my code:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
    View, Text, Button, Icon, Container, Item,
    Input, Label, Content, Form, Picker, Footer, DatePicker
} from 'native-base';

import { Field, reduxForm } from 'redux-form';
import { addTransactionItem } from '../redux/ActionCreators';
import moment from 'moment';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';

const mapDispatchToProps = dispatch => ({
    addTransactionItem: (transactionItem) => dispatch(addTransactionItem(transactionItem))
})

class AddTransaction extends Component {
constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.renderField = this.renderField.bind(this);
    this.submit = this.submit.bind(this);
    this.renderDatePicker = this.renderDatePicker.bind(this);
}

renderDatePicker = ({ input, placeholder, defaultValue, meta: { touched, error }, label ,...custom }) => (
    <Item>
        {label}
        <DatePicker {...input} {...custom} dateForm="MM/DD/YYYY"
                                onChange={(value) => input.onChange(value)}
                                autoOk={true}
                                selected={input.value ? moment(input.value) : null} />
        {touched && error && {error}}
    </Item>
);

submit = values => {
    alert(`The values are ${JSON.stringify(values)}`)
    const transactionItem = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(values))
    this.props.addTransactionItem(transactionItem);
    const { navigate } = this.props.navigation;
    navigate('Home');
}

render() {
    const { handleSubmit } = this.props
    return (
        <>
            <Form>

                <Field keyboardType='default' label='Date' component={this.renderDatePicker} name="date" />
            </Form>
            <Button full light onPress={handleSubmit(this.submit)}>
                <Text>Submit</Text>
            </Button>
        </>
    );
}
}

AddTransaction = connect(null, mapDispatchToProps)(AddTransaction);

export default reduxForm({
    form: 'addTransaction',
})(AddTransaction);

A: I think this is because you do not have "change" attribute in the Field component.
Try to add change function as shown below:
renderDatePicker = (
  {
    input,
    placeholder,
    defaultValue,
    meta: { touched, error },
    label ,
    ...custom,
    change
  }
) => (
    <Item>
        {label}
        <DatePicker {...input} {...custom} dateForm="MM/DD/YYYY"
                                onDateChange={change}
                                autoOk={true}
                                selected={input.value ? moment(input.value) : null} />
        {touched && error && {error}}
    </Item>
);

render() {
    const { handleSubmit, change } = this.props
    return (
        <>
            <Form>
                <Field
                  keyboardType='default'
                  label='Date'
                  component={this.renderDatePicker}
                  name="date"
                  change={change}
                />
            </Form>
            <Button full light onPress={handleSubmit(this.submit)}>
                <Text>Submit</Text>
            </Button>
        </>
    );
}

Hope it will work for you.
I see that there is no onChange listener for DatePicker. May be you should use onDateChange. http://docs.nativebase.io/Components.html#picker-input-headref


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Customer Stories	Financial Services
Financial Services organization optimized workforce staffing scenarios
Gained more accurate workforce plans
Established monthly planning cycle
Optimized staffing scenarios and future costs
A 50,000-employee financial services company needed to staff using a combination of full-time employees and contractors to maintain profitability.
Visier People® Organization, Talent
The organization needed to match staffing levels with growing demand from customers, including both employees and contract staff around the globe. It had been using spreadsheets to build people strategy and workforce plans. However, planning with spreadsheets made it difficult to establish a consistent process, keep track of versions, and ultimately, ensure the workforce could meet its new goals as it evolved.
Workforce planning was driven largely by the Finance department. Analysts in Finance partnered with business groups, which in turn had their own processes, calculations, and timelines for creating plans.
When the organization tried to create a consolidated plan, the results were chaotic—due to differences in data, manual errors, and version control issues. The organization wanted to do monthly forecasting, but it proved to be too difficult.
When the organization hired a director to lead capacity planning and people strategy, it was already using Visier to give leaders access to self-service workforce analytics. With Visier, the company had a unified view into data from its many workforce data sources (representing multiple human capital management systems and countless HR processes) and was able to see an accurate picture of its entire workforce.
The new planning director saw the value of integrating a planning solution with the people analytics solution, and decided to implement Visier Workforce Planning.
A transformed process
The company used Visier to implement a workforce planning process with the right level of governance and rigor. After first building relationships with the Finance leaders who had been in charge of planning, the planning director started by connecting larger groups with 500 to 750 employees into the consolidated planning environment within Visier.
Using Visier as the single source of truth for workforce information, he worked with each group to refine their headcount plans each month.
More accurate plans
More than 100 vice presidents, directors, and managers throughout the organization now use Visier Workforce Planning to capture their headcount needs. The planning director creates a top-level plan in collaboration with each vice president, who then delegates further sub-planning to several directors, who in turn assign managers in their reporting line to refine the plan even more.
This layered process of refinement increases the accuracy of the workforce plan exponentially as information is collected from deeper and deeper levels of the business. The distributed effort means that a single person can coordinate a large plan, but also that the organization can more closely match talent demand as customer demand grows.
Unified view of headcount plan and cost of workforce.
The company's monthly workforce planning cycle
The company now uses a monthly planning process to capture workforce demand for the different groups within the organization. Visier Workforce Planning enables multiple people to collaborate on the same plan to create a more accurate picture of demand. Department leaders can review and refine projections that Visier makes based on historical data—and then assign other leaders who report to them to refine the plan further.
During the month, the planning director checks in with leaders to make sure they can meet the plan deadline and runs a meeting on staffing governance. He pulls in other stakeholders as needed, encouraging everyone to share input and provide insight. If hiring isn't progressing as fast as necessary, he talks to Recruiting about how to stay on plan. If leaders recommend a plan that's over budget, he discusses options with stakeholders from Finance.
Easy sharing of plans
Because of the improvements to workforce planning and analytics, it's easy for leaders at the company to share their headcount plans with other areas of the business so they can plan their own work. For instance, by reviewing up-to-date hiring targets, the Learning & Development team can plan the right number and type of onboarding and training sessions.
Ability to optimize scenarios and costs
After analyzing the total cost of the workforce, planners are able to compare scenarios for future states of the workforce. For instance, planners can see how the cost of using contractors or full-time employees would compare over time.
"Using Visier Workforce Analytics in combination with Visier Workforce Planning has helped us manage flexibility with staffing and workforce costs as the organization grows."
"By planning more intelligently and further ahead," the planning director says, "we can ensure budget that would otherwise have gone unused is used effectively.
Workforce planning practices
If your organization is looking to create a more effective workforce planning practice, the planning director recommends several practices.
Build relationships and train leaders
When the planning director began to roll out Visier Workforce Planning, he says leaders weren't necessarily enthusiastic about adopting a new process. To them, he says, "It was just another task they'd need to do every month." That's why it was critical to explain how monthly planning would ultimately save them time and frustration. To that end, he invested time in doing demonstrations, reviewing the benefits of the process, and building relationships with leaders who were key to its success.
Create a sense of urgency
Because stakeholders will inevitably have competing priorities, an effective workforce planning process needs to have a sense of urgency built in. Emphasize to leaders why an up-to-date plan is critical for each area of the organization. Facilities, for instance, needs to know how many new staff are joining—and what departments they'll be in—so they can make the right workplace preparations. Book month-end meetings in advance so that planners are motivated to finish their plans on time.
Streamline the planning team
The planning director says at least one person should be dedicated to workforce planning—to configure the plan, do plan cleanup each month, and collaborate with contributors. At larger organizations, he recommends other employees—such as HR business partners— act as part-time capacity leads.
Each capacity lead can support several VP-level leaders by providing data, translating demand into people numbers, and fitting that demand to plan. The capacity leads can also run regular staffing governance meetings with the leaders, facilitate planning discussions, and make sure plans—and outcomes—are progressing as intended.
Get ahead of the talent acquisition curve
At the most effective organizations, the planning process is so effective—and well-communicated—that talent acquisition teams don't need to wait for requisitions to know they need to hire. That's because headcount targets in the workforce plan already take into account turnover assumptions like resignations and retirements, allowing recruiting teams to predict future hiring needs and budget requirements more accurately.
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As luck and life would have it, I did a lot of research into aerodynamics when I was in the latter part of my high school years. At that time, back in the day, I had considered going into automotive design and aerodynamics research was going to be a big part of that. Along with that was a developing passion for the technology and design of Formula One racing cars. When I was considering my future as a designer/engineer, I had contacted a number of people in the field including the faculty of the University of Maryland's Department of Aerospace Engineering .
As I look back on what I learned about fluid mechanics back in those days, I find myself pondering some rather stunning points of contention.
First (and probably foremost) is the undisputed evidence (remember, this is from the fluid mechanics world, not the triathlon coaches and marketing gurus) that any significant aerodynamic benefits will only occur once the "vehicle" is averaging 22 to 25 mph. Now, last I looked, that is a VERY small percentage of triathletes.
The primary factor that will affect aerodynamic drag is frontal area - or how much area is exposed to the wind as you move through the air. A good road position is going to not only be comfortable and provide good power output, it's also going to have similar drag characteristics to a basic aero position given that the frontal area remains fairly similar. Once we get past the issue of frontal area, the biggest challlenge is the rotating front wheel. There is so much "dirty air" and turbulence created by the front wheel that it is hard to establish decent flow around the rider or any other part of the bike, It's hard to envision a little aero tubing helping someone riding at 18 mph because the aero experts would be concerned about the significant degree of turbulence created by the two rotating wheels.
The "aero benefits" also assume one significant thing - that the air is flowing directly from the front. Sure, you may have a bit of a cleaner airflow around your head with that fancy helmet on, but what happens when the wind shifts slightly, or you turn your head to grab something out of your rear bottle holders, or you look down to grab something out of your Bento box? Voila - you have now just become a sail!!! Kiss that airflow goodbye, welcome more drag to your world, and enjoy the effects of it.
The final point I would like to make is the effect of airflow (or lack thereof) on heating and cooling. If there is one thing that is critical in an endurance sport, it is maintaining homeostasis and core temperature. If the operating temperature of the body becomes elevated too much, then it requires far more cooling. There is a small window of operating temperatures. Using a helmet that limits the cooling effect of airflow even more is going to have some degree of negative effect. Again, the question is whether the benefits outweight the costs.
Now don't get me wrong, there are, without a doubt, aerodynamic benefits to be had while cycling. Of that there is no doubt. For example, we all know it's easier to ride behind someone, to be pulled by another rider, than it is to lead. Drafting makes life a lot easier - for cyclists and NASCAR drivers! If you look at the science of aerodynamics and fluid mechanics for the greatest percentage of triathletes, you'll find that there is minimal benefit but a potentially greater cost. In many ways, you're better off using the good old fashioned "hard work" to build your power. Get a bike fit that optimizes biomechanical comfort without sacrificing power output. Then, remove some weight from the bike - primarily rotating weight, then frame/component weight. Those things will have a huge impact on your time. Once you are averaging 22 to 25 mph, then we should be having the aero discussion and realizing the benefits of the aero helmet or the aero tubing. For the average triathlete moving along at under 20 mph, the benefit-to-cost ratio just isn't in their favor - over and above the cost of a good bike fit (which, to me, is a given).
It's fascinating to me how the cycling industry (as compared to the triathlon world) just doesn't seem to have much focus on aero. So why is "aero" all the rage in the triathlon community? Let's face it - when Ironman writes in their Athlete Guide that the median income in their demographic is $160,000 (yes, those numbers are correct - circa summer 2008), then you realize that there are a lot of dollars that are being spent in the triathlon world on the latest and greatest. But let's face it - based on the information presented, most people would benefit far more from "building the engine" than in spending $170+ on an aero helmet.


In the context of the digital use of copyrighted works, the concept of the "value gap" has been around for some time. The question is whether authors and rights holders are sufficiently involved in the revenues generated by the use and the display of their works on online platforms. The European Commission has recently addressed this issue within the framework of its strategy for a Digital Single Market, more specifically in the context of its draft for the Directive on copyright in the digital single market (COM (2016 593 final)), and it called for more rigorous monitoring for certain platform operators. Whether rigorous obligations will come into effect is still unclear. The fact that blockchain technology offers options for the traceability of the license chain to the author, and thus its participation in the revenue generated on the Internet, is undeniable. So a good question is: where does it make sense to use this technology?
Authors could continue to be involved through a number of methods. Existing solutions such as digital rights management, micro-payments, paywalls, subscription-models for news websites or streaming offerings have their strengths and weaknesses. In particular, they do not consider the author. A blockchain-based network, which reflects the chain of the rights transparently and invariably, could contribute to a fair distribution of revenue. In principle, the model can be applied to all works that can be digitally consumed, whether the work is audio, video, image or written text.
According to estimates, 850 start-ups worldwide are working on the use of blockchain technology. A look at a few start-ups handling copyright protected works and currently applying blockchain, albeit some still in the developmental stage, aims to provide a practical perspective on the above-mentioned issues.
The "Copyright-Blockchain" The idea behind the principle of decentralized copyright management is based on the storage of creative works as well as their metadata in a comprehensive blockchain. This would make it possible to track the distribution of digital content in real time, to verify authorizations, to allow certain uses and to calculate these precisely. The authenticity of a work could also be verified in this way. This is already under way, for example pay-per-use offers exist which use blockchain technology. These include PeerTracks, Ujo Music, Mediachain Attribution Engine, Blokur, Mycelia, Aurovine, Stem, Bittunes and Decent.
The London startup Ujo Music provides musicians with an online infrastructure where artists can publish their music independently, irrespective of any major labels and music publishers, and can then define and manage their own marketing and exploiting information. At the same time, a payment infrastructure is available in test phase. The author of the piece of music determines the price for a download, a commercial remix or the use by music portals. The payment at Ujo Music takes place via the cryptocurrency Ether. All transactions and splits can be tracked this way.
The platform PeerTracks is a music streaming service and music sales platform which allows direct payment on the basis of blockchain and guarantees the authors 95% of the revenue. The service uses blockchain for the transactions and transfers the money directly from the user to the artist. By means of smart contracts, artists can determine the conditions under which their songs can be used. Each individual uploaded song is then attached to a smart contract. The payment is automatically executed within a few seconds while listening to songs and shared between all right holders. In addition, it enables users of the platform to acquire value stamps from artists. They get access to the entire catalogue without advertising breaks, they can discover new artists and trade with the artists' value stamps. Holders of these coins will then receive special products, such as a special recording or a backstage pass for a concert. As the popularity of the artists grows, the value of the respective sub-currency grows.
By means of the startup Ascribe from Berlin, authors can register their digital works free of charge in a blockchain and make the associated usage rights public. In this framework, the data is neither lost, nor is it subsequently changed. The big challenge, however, is to verify in a decentralized network which data is genuine and which might be counterfeit. The blockchain currently solves this problem by means of economic incentives (bitcoins), to play not against, but with the rules.
The provider Binded uses the blockchain for writers and artists to record the creation of new works with time stamps. Each user has a profile which manages the respective certificates and allows access to specific content. Once uploaded, the use of the works can be tracked, copyright infringements can be detected automatically and the owner can be informed about unauthorized access.
Our last case example, The Brooklyn-based Mediachain Lab offers a stock photo service and uses blockchain technology to link media content to its respective authors. Users search for keywords or upload a picture to find identical or comparable content together with their right holders, place of origin, and the topic. The photos can then be used, with automatic attribution to the author. With this software, authors can reach a larger audience while maintaining control of their data.
Blockchain can serve as a means to trace the license chain and to pay for usage. As always in the context of blockchain, there is the problem of matching the technical solution, the smart contract, with the actual legal situation. This can be achieved if the programming anticipates the typical performance problems and offers alternatives, which also enable the reverse processing of transactions which were impermissible or invalid under the applicable law. It is also a good idea to focus on a solution mechanism for non-automated conflicts, which have been agreed upon by all parties. This could be a system-immanent arbitration or other arbitration.
It is important to note that the model blockchain, must offer sufficient legal certainty. Only then can it be used in comprehensive rights management systems such as those for collective rights management and administration through collecting societies.


The item that spurred this post is my current hunt for a pair of snakeskin pumps. I have a bunch of cute Pinterest outfits saved that have snakeskin shoes but when I've tried to recreate them with the leopard flats I currently have – they just haven't looked as good.
So I have 'snakeskin pumps' on my mental list of things I'd like to add to my wardrobe. I thought I'd share one of the methods I use when I'm interested in searching for and buying a wishlist items. Read on for the steps below!
3. Hit "Refine" to narrow down my results.
5. Hit "Sort" and then have results returned by "Lowest Price" so I can see the less expensive options first!
6. Scroll through the results clicking the heart on any pair that I think are cute and a reasonable price.
7. Go to the "Favorites" menu (bottom center button) and decide between the pairs I've tagged which ones are my top few favorites.
I like using this app because it consolidates a gazillion stores into one searchable location. Sorta like Kayak does for airline tickets. And since there is no way I can keep up with all the off and on sales that stores have every other week – getting the automatic notification when the one specific thing I want is on sale is super helpful.
So now the hard part is my deciding between all the cute pairs of pumps I found!
This has been very helpful. I didn't know about this app. Thank you so much. I will be downloading soon.
I love using Shopstyle from time to time if I'm looking for a particular type of item, but I didnt realize they had an app or that they had the "favorites" feature. Helpful post!
The screenshots are super helpful! I downloaded the app with your link but I haven't used it yet – there are so many items and so many sales 🙂 Thanks for the tips!
So did you get the pumps?
Nice to see Crown Princess Mary of Denmark on your blog.
I hope we will see more outfits inspired by her here.
Yep. The Jessica Simpson ones pictured in the last photo.


Wetwheels Solent is launching its Adventures Appeal to enable 600 local people to have a truly special experience with us, asking for supporters to donate to the £45 cost for each participant.
Those who come onboard have a range of disabilities and complex health needs, they might require help to improve their mental health, self-confidence and well-being, or support in times of loneliness and sadness.
Wetwheels Solent builds people's confidence and brings joy to the spirit, by providing the opportunity to access the sea in a fun, stimulating and rewarding way using a specially modified, fully accessible powerboat. Our adventurous trips afloat are staffed by specialists who ensure each person can share experiences, challenge their self-perceptions, and discover new opportunities.
Here at Wetwheels Solent, we are fortunate to have a wonderful place in the hearts of so many, at the centre of our community. We have the ability to inspire, to enable and empower all who come onboard, supporting those from any background, their families, teachers and carers.
But more than ever, we need your support. We are launching our 'Maritime Adventures Appeal'. We would be delighted to hear from any individual, company, community group or other organisation who would consider contributing to this cost of our summer operation - and make such a huge difference to the lives of so many. And we are already planning for 2019 where the need will be just as great, if not greater.
Total cost £27,000 - £45 per person.
This not-for-profit cost includes the provision of the best levels of support, health and safety, as well as the highest quality maintenance, equipment, training, and fuel.
"It was a fantastic experience and being allowed to drive Wetwheels was amazing, the freedom of being on open water was exhilarating with all my landly troubles melting away. I proved to myself I CAN do things and instead of watching other people have fun I was able to take part".
We work with such wonderful charities as Naomi House and Jacksplace hospices, and The Rose Road Association supporting young disabled people, and many more across the City and region. With our new Maritime Adventures project and the unique experiences for learning on the water, there are so many opportunities to grow. But without the kind and generous support from our friends and donors, we cannot achieve our future aims and aspirations, and help support more inspirational people like Katy.
How you can help If you are hosting an event or selecting to support a charity over the coming weeks we would be hugely grateful if you were to consider Wetwheels Solent. Through our JustGiving page as well as donating quickly and safely, you can also set-up a regular monthly donation. Or please do share news of our Appeal and introduce someone new to the wonder of Wetwheels!
"There is something special about being on the water, and how it brings people together, opening up so many new ideas, possibilities and dreams. Had I not had those dreams, I would not have achieved what I have. But we need your help to continue our journey."


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A watt (W) is a unit of power equal to 1 Joule per second, where a Joule is a unit of energy.
A big apple falling from a tree hits the ground with an energy of about 10 Joules. So if apples fall out of the tree at a rate of one/second, the power hitting the ground is 10 watts.
Electricity generation is measured in KW(kilowatts), MW(Megawatts) and GW(Gigawatts),
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What are Your "Best Practices" for Publishing Career Development?
In Discussion by Edward Nawotka February 8, 2010
By Edward Nawotka
In today's lead story, Andrew R. Malkin, VP of Book Content for Zinio, discusses the stages of his publishing career to date and offers five pieces of advice on how to navigate the choppy seas of the publishing world.
There have been plenty of individuals in publishing around the world forced to reinvent themselves in the last year, either because of a job loss or the transition from traditional to digital publishing, which has radically changed the future prospects for the industry.
So, the discussion question for today is: What are your personal "best practices" for publishing career development?
Personally, I would like to echo Andrew's first point about looking beyond Manhattan (or London or Berlin or Beijing) for opportunities. What I've found is that the recent recession and subsequent lay-off has forced many talented people out of the high-cost publishing centers and spread them around the United States, where they are opening up new companies in places you might not expect. You can find intelligent, talented publishing people all over these days. In fact, if the trend continues, the future of publishing may reside in thousand different nodes across the world and not in just a few big cities.
We'd love to hear what you think. Share your thoughts the comments below or via Twitter using hashtag #ppdiscuss.
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Q: Connected components of real Lie groups (This is a follow-up to this question of mine.)
Is there an example of a connected reductive algebraic group $G$ over $\mathbb{R}$ such that:

*

*$G$ is not isomorphic to a product $G_1 \times G_2$ of smaller groups (isogenous to a product is OK)

*$G$ is not a torus,

*the quotient of $G$ by a maximal compact-mod-centre subgroup has a complex structure,

*$Z_G(\mathbb{R})$ is not contained in the identity component of $G(\mathbb{R})$?

The condition $Z_G(\mathbb{R}) \subseteq G(\mathbb{R})^\circ$ is vacuously satisfied if $G$ is adjoint, because then $Z_G = \{1\}$; but it is also vacuously satisfied if $G$ is semisimple and simply-connected, because then $G(\mathbb{R})$ is connected as a Lie group by a theorem of Cartan. So any example would have to lie somewhere in between the two (which makes me wonder if there are any examples at all).
PS: Of course $GL_3$ is an example if the "complex structure" condition is dropped.

A: There is NO such example.
Note that any semisimple algebraic  ${\mathbb{R}}$-group $H$ of Hermitian type has a compact (anisotropic) maximal torus.
Indeed, by a definition of a group of Hermitian type
(see, e.g., Deligne, Travaux de Shimura, condition (1.5.3) on page 128), $H$ is an inner form of a compact algebraic $\Bbb R$-group $K$, namely, $H=\,_\sigma K$, where $\sigma={\rm inn}(x)\in {\rm Aut}(K)$,  $x^2=1$, $x\in K^{\rm ad}(\Bbb R)$,
$K^{\rm ad}=K/Z_K$.
Let $T_K\subset K$ be a maximal $\Bbb R$-torus such that $T_K^{\rm ad}(\Bbb R)$ contains $x$, where $T_K^{\rm ad}=T_K/Z_K$.
Then $T_K=\,_\sigma T_K\subset \,_\sigma K=H$ is a compact maximal torus of $H$.

Theorem. Let $G$ be a (connected) reductive ${\mathbb{R}}$-group. Write $G^{\rm der}=[G,G]$. Assume that $G^{\rm der}$ has a compact maximal torus $T^{\rm der}$.
  If the image of $Z_G({\mathbb{R}})$ in $\pi_0(G({\mathbb{R}}))$ is nontrivial,
  then there exists a nontrivial split ${\mathbb{R}}$-subtorus $T'\subset Z_G$ and
  a reductive ${\mathbb{R}}$-subgroup  $G''\subset G$ such that $G=T'\times_{\mathbb{R}} G''$.

Proof.
Write $T=Z_G\cdot T^{\rm der}$; then $T$ is a maximal torus of $G$.
We have maps
$$ Z_G({\mathbb{R}})\to \pi_0(T({\mathbb{R}}))\to \pi_0(G({\mathbb{R}})).$$
Since the image of $Z_G({\mathbb{R}})$ in $\pi_0(G({\mathbb{R}}))$ is nontrivial, we have
$ \pi_0(T({\mathbb{R}}))\neq 1$.
Write $T=T_0\times_{\mathbb{R}} T_1\times_{\mathbb{R}} T_2$,
where $T_0$ is a compact ${\mathbb{R}}$-torus, $T_1$ is a split ${\mathbb{R}}$-torus, and  $T_2\simeq (R_{{\mathbb{C}}/{\mathbb{R}}}{\mathbb G}_{m,{\mathbb{C}}})^{n}$.
We have $\pi_0(T_0({\mathbb{R}}))=1$, and $\pi_0(T_2({\mathbb{R}}))=1$.
Since $\pi_0(T({\mathbb{R}}))\neq 1$, we conclude that $T_1\neq 1$.
Note that the ${\mathbb{R}}$-torus $T/Z_G$ is isogenous to $T^{\rm der}$, and hence, compact.
It follows that $T_1\subset Z_G$.
Set $T'=T_1$ and  $T''=T_0\times_{\mathbb{R}} T_2$; then clearly $T=T'\times_{\mathbb{R}} T''$.
Set $G''=T''\cdot G^{\rm der}$.
Then
$$T'\cdot G''=T'\cdot T''\cdot G^{\rm der}=T\cdot G^{\rm der}=G\quad \text{and}\quad  T'\cap G''=T'\cap T''=1.$$
Since $T'\subset Z_G$, it commutes with $G''$.
Thus $G=T'\times_{\mathbb{R}} G''$, as required.


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Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley asked a congressional subcommittee Wednesday to continue a federal ban on Santa Monica Bay oil drilling even though he approved drilling adjacent to the bay in Pacific Palisades.
"Inland oil exploration in the Pacific Palisades does not--and should not--diminish in any way the City of Los Angeles' unyielding opposition to offshore drilling in the Santa Monica Bay," Bradley told the House subcommittee on Interior Department appropriations.
Bradley used the committee as a platform in his continuing effort to defuse environmentalists' and Palisades residents' opposition to his decision in favor of Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s drilling.
Only one subcommittee member was present to hear Bradley. But he was the chairman, Sidney Yates (D-Ill.), and Los Angeles lobbyist James Seeley said he expected Yates to be a powerful force in extending the one-year moratorium on offshore bay drilling. The subcommittee plays a major role in approval of legislation that would accomplish that.
Bradley devoted a substantial part of his testimony to the Occidental issue, evidence that the controversy remains a major political problem for him.
While Bradley leads his mayoral reelection rival, Councilman John Ferraro, by a large margin in public opinion surveys, aides have said that statewide environmental criticism could hurt him if he makes another run at the governorship in 1986.
- "There is absolutely no risk of oil spills or leaks contaminating our beaches" from the Palisades site, which is on the inland side of Pacific Coast Highway, while offshore drilling entails "substantial and frightening" risks of pollution.
- Occidental will not drill into the pool of oil under the bay. Deputy Mayor Tom Houston said that statement is based on geologists' beliefs that the Occidental and the offshore oil pools are separate.
- The state, in exercising its option to drill for oil in the tidelands, could avoid offshore drilling under a provision of the Occidental permit. Houston said the provision requires Occidental to slant drill into the tidelands from the Occidental site. Thus, Bradley said, if the federal moratorium is continued, "we have, in effect, further safeguarded the bay against any drilling--state or federal."
- The Occidental permit requires camouflaging of drill sites and other measures that Bradley said would protect the environment--"safeguards that the Department of Interior has refused to adopt except when threatened with legal action."
Bradley strongly criticized the Interior Department for failing to obey legislation requiring it to negotiate with state and local officials on the offshore drilling issue.
Yates, expressing surprise, said he would call Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel and urge him to talk to Bradley.
Bradley accused the Interior Department of making a "headlong rush toward indiscriminate leasing."
"I note with considerable apprehension that . . . Donald Hodel has already indicated his strong interest in drilling areas now protected by the moratorium," Bradley said. "And he has indicated his interest at a time when the world is awash in oil and offshore tracts are being sold at bargain-basement prices."
Meanwhile, Bradley challenger Ferraro continued to try to turn environmental concerns to his advantage by attacking Bradley's record. Earlier this week, he made his second accusation that the mayor had delayed cleanup of an illegal toxic dump site.
Bradley in 1980 vetoed $15,000 appropriated by the City Council to clean up residential yards near Capri Pumping Services in Boyle Heights.
Ferraro on Tuesday called Bradley's veto "a terrible shame. The fact that he vetoed the funds shows the callousness of the mayor." However, city records show that Ferraro voted to sustain the veto.
A Bradley campaign spokesman said the main reason for the veto was "the mayor thought Capri owners should be responsible for the cleanup costs."


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Q: react-native build failed after installing admob module info Running jetifier to migrate libraries to AndroidX. You can disable it using "--no-jetifier" flag.
Jetifier found 1001 file(s) to forward-jetify. Using 4 workers...
info JS server already running.
info Installing the app...

> Configure project :react-native-firebase_admob
:react-native-firebase_admob package.json found at /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/@react-native-firebase/admob/package.json
:react-native-firebase_app package.json found at /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/package.json
:react-native-firebase_admob:firebase.bom using default value: 26.3.0
:react-native-firebase_admob:ads.consent using default value: 1.0.6
:react-native-firebase_admob package.json found at /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/@react-native-firebase/admob/package.json
:react-native-firebase_admob:version set from package.json: 10.5.1 (10,5,1 - 10005001)
:react-native-firebase_admob:android.compileSdk using custom value: 29
:react-native-firebase_admob:android.targetSdk using custom value: 29
:react-native-firebase_admob:android.minSdk using custom value: 16
:react-native-firebase_admob:reactNativeAndroidDir /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/react-native/android

> Configure project :react-native-firebase_app
:react-native-firebase_app package.json found at /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/package.json
:react-native-firebase_app:firebase.bom using default value: 26.3.0
:react-native-firebase_app:play.play-services-auth using default value: 19.0.0
:react-native-firebase_app package.json found at /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/@react-native-firebase/app/package.json
:react-native-firebase_app:version set from package.json: 10.5.0 (10,5,0 - 10005000)
:react-native-firebase_app:android.compileSdk using custom value: 29
:react-native-firebase_app:android.targetSdk using custom value: 29
:react-native-firebase_app:android.minSdk using custom value: 16
:react-native-firebase_app:reactNativeAndroidDir /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/suck/node_modules/react-native/android

> Task :react-native-firebase_app:compileDebugJavaWithJavac

> Task :app:processDebugResources FAILED

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.2/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
37 actionable tasks: 29 executed, 8 up-to-date
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'.
> A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Workers$ActionFacade
   > Android resource linking failed
     /home/muhamed-kveshkshaano/.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/820765fbb4c63d086027395fb7f0dacc/play-services-ads-lite-19.6.0/AndroidManifest.xml:27:5-38:15: AAPT: error: unexpected element <queries> found in <manifest>.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 32s

error Failed to install the app. Make sure you have the Android development environment set up: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup. Run CLI with --verbose flag for more details.
Error: Command failed: ./gradlew app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.

here is the error, the main problem is each i install admob module @react-native-firebase/admob, it throws this error after trying a lot i couldnt find any solution, it only happens after installing admob module except that it build well, anyone knows whats wrong with that module

A: downgrade all the rnfirebase libraries that you are using to less than 10.0.0 (admob 7.6.11 and app 9.0.0), as I show in the image

A: I was with the same problem and it work for me
in android/app/build.gradle
defaultConfig {
  ...
  multiDexEnabled true // added for admob problem
}

...
dependencies {
  ...
  implementation "androidx.multidex:multidex:2.0.1" // fix firebaseAdmob
}

in android/build.gradle
dependencies {
  classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.2')
  // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
  // in the individual module build.gradle files
  classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.3'
}

now open the android folder in Android Studio and wait for gradle will update
when finish the gradle update run npx react-native run-android


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Oct. 31, 2021 17:48 PM EST
Eagles Run For 4 Tds In 44-6 Victory Over Winless Lions
By LARRY LAGE
Duane Burleson, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay (2) runs back to the bench after intercepting a pass and returning for a touchdown during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
DETROIT (AP) — Boston Scott and Jordan Howard made the most of filling in for running back Miles Sanders and took advantage of Philadelphia dominating Detroit's defensive line.
Scott and Howard each had two touchdowns on the ground, helping the Philadelphia Eagles run over the Detroit Lions in a 44-6 win Sunday.
"We were able to push some guys around up front," coach Nick Sirianni said.
The Eagles (3-5) ended a two-game losing streak against a team that was very accommodating, enjoying their most lopsided win on the road since beating the St. Louis Cardinals by 42 points nearly 40 years ago.
The Lions (0-8) go into their bye week as the NFL's only winless team.
"If this doesn't get better, we're going to be 0-17," Detroit safety Tracy Walker said.
The break gives first-year coach Dan Campbell extra time to figure out how to avoid making history during the league's first 17-game schedule after being a tight end on the first 0-16 team in Detroit 13 years ago.
"I can take a week and look at everything," Campbell said.
When Campbell looks at film of the latest loss, he will see how inept his lines were on both sides of the ball.
With Sanders on injured reserve with an ankle injury from last week, Scott and Howard had 12 carries each and combined for 117 yards rushing combined. Scott had just seven carries this season before Sunday and Jordan made his season debut after being promoted from the practice squad. They became the first pair of Eagles to run for multiple touchdowns in the same game since 1980.
"Whenever that opportunity knocks, you got to step up," Scott said. "Me and Jordan motivated each other during the time leading up to this moment."
Scott broke a scoreless tie late in the first period with a 1-yard run and and Howard's 4-yard run late in the second quarter put Philadelphia up 17-0. They each had a short touchdown run in the third quarter.
Just to make the setback sting a little more for the Lions and their fans, former Detroit cornerback Darius Slay scooped up D'Andre Swift's fumble that was forced by Detroit native Avonte Maddox and returned it 33 yards make it 38-0 late in the third.
"It was a blessing," Slay wrote in a text message after the game. "I appreciate how the fans shouted me out and showed major love."
The offensively challenged Lions avoided a shutout midway through the fourth quarter when rookie Jermar Jefferson scored on an 8-yard run for his first NFL touchdown.
Alas, the Lions failed to convert the 2-point conversion as Jared Goff was hit, as he often was by the Eagles from every direction even when they rushed just four against five offensive linemen.
Goff was sacked a season-high five times and finished 23 of 34 for 222 yards. The sixth-year quarterback and many of his teammates made mistakes, including when he threw a ball away in the third quarter on fourth down instead of throwing toward a receiver with nothing to lose.
"Throwing the ball into the stands on fourth down is a bad decision, but I'm not sure what else he was supposed to do," Campbell said.
The Eagles didn't need to pass much to beat Detroit, so they didn't as Jalen Hurts was 9 of 14 for 103 yards. He ran seven times for 71 of his team's 236 yards rushing.
"We got pushed around bad," Campbell acknowledged.
JOHNSON SPEAKS
Three-time Pro Bowl right tackle Lane Johnson had his first news conference after the game, his second since returning from a three-game absence related to anxiety and depression.
"The real message is, don't bottle it up," he said.
Johnson said he stopped treating his condition with medication, leading to withdrawal symptoms that left him feeling as if he had the flu.
DULL ROAR
The Lions gave their fans something to cheer about when former linebacker Chris Spielman was inducted into the Pride of the Lions. The 1991 All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowl linebacker now has his name displayed at Ford Field along with 18 other former players, including Hall of Famers Barry Sanders and Joe Schmidt.
NOTEABLE
The Eagles had six sacks, including one against David Blough, for the first time in nearly 10 years. Philadelphia had its highest-scoring game since a 51-23 win over Denver nearly four years ago.
Eagles: WR Jalen Reagor had an ankle injury in the first quarter on a touchdown drive he boosted with 11- and 10-yard runs on end-around plays.
Lions: RB Jamaal Williams (thigh) and CB A.J. Parker (neck) were inactive.
Eagles host Los Angeles Chargers next Sunday.
Lions have their bye next week and are off until Nov. 14 at Pittsburgh.
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