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The Gray Reef Shark
The Gray Reef Shark, also known as the Bronze Whaler Shark, Short Nose Blacktail, or Carcharhinus Amblyrhynchos, is a beautiful medium sized shark which can be distinguished from other sharks by the plain white-tipped dorsal fin and the dark tips on all other fins.
The Gray Reef typically grows no larger than 2.5 meters (8 feet) and 35 kilograms (77 pounds) in weight. This species can live to about 25 years of age. What really sets this shark apart is its keen sense of smell.
Raw Video Of A Gray Reef Shark
Like all Reef Sharks, it loves the warm and shallow waters near coral reefs or atolls. This is the most common shark in the entire Indo-Pacific and spends most if its time in depths up to 800 meters (2,635 feet).
This is a very social species, often seen building "schools" of more than 100. They are active both during the day as well as at night. Social hierarchies and dominance varies depending on the habitat of various shark populations, but a social structure is almost always apparent.
Because they are larger than most other species of Reef Shark, they are considered the most dominant species in the sensitive reef ecosystem.
Gray Reef Shark Facts
Hunting Behavior
The main food source is bony fish, octopus and squid. At times, they will also feed on lobsters and crabs. This shark is an excellent open water hunter due to its extremely sensitive sense of smell. They can smell and track prey from a very long distance. But they are also excellent at trapping schools of fish next to reefs, especially when they hunt in groups.
Mating and Offspring
As with other reef species, this shark is Viviparous, meaning eggs develop inside the female and a live birth takes place. This shark only copulates every other year, at which time, 1 to 6 pups are born. Pregnancy lasts between 9 to 14 months.
The population of the Gray Reef Shark is considered "near threatened" mostly due to commercial fishing and depletion of coral reefs caused by humans. They are commercially fished for shark fin soup and fish meal. Severe poaching has become more of a concern and new protective laws are being considered to slow the population depletion.
The threat to humans is extremely minimal. They often are curious of divers and may swim closely, but usually lose interest quickly. Most attacks occur when they are speared by spear fishers, in open waters, or when food is present.
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The European Platform for Democratic Elections (EPDE) condemns the refusal of the Armenian authorities to invite its international citizen observers to monitor the parliamentary election scheduled on 2 April 2017. Together with its Armenian member organisations Transparency International Anticorruption Center, Yerevan and the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor, EPDE strongly protest against the arbitral decision of the Armenian government.
The reason for the refusal is the allegedly high number of already accredited observers and, therefore, the lack of need for additional international observers. Both the refusal and its justification contradict the obligation of Armenia as a member of the OSCE to invite international observers from other OSCE countries, in particular the agreements set up by the 1990 CSCE/OSCE Copenhagen Document, later reafirmed in the 1999 OSCE Istanbul Document and in the Decision No. 19/06 (Paragraph 10) of the OSCE Ministerial Council Document "Strengthening the Effectiveness of the OSCE" signed in Brussels in 2006. This gives cause for serious concerns that the Armenian government might not consider the presence of international observers as an important contribution to enhancing the electoral process.
The EPDE calls upon the international community, particularly the OSCE-Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE-ODIHR), the European Union and the Council of Europe to consider this arbitral denial of accreditation for international citizen election observers during relevant meetings and negotiations with the Armenian authorities in the future.


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FCC Medio Ambiente renews the contracts for the waste collection and street cleaning service, and the vehicle-towing service in Oviedo
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The Oviedo City Council has once again placed its trust in FCC Medio Ambiente and has extended the contract for municipal solid waste collection and street cleaning services for a five-year period. At the same time, it has decided to carry out the legal extension of the vehicle-towing service contract for the same period, therefore the extension of both contracts represents a portfolio worth over 102 million euro. The waste collection and street cleaning contract began in 2006 and this is the second extension agreed with the company. Both extensions will come into force from February 2021. FCC Medio Ambiente's relationship with the city of Oviedo go back to 1967, the year since which the firm has been providing uninterrupted service.
To service the 220.000 inhabitants and collect around 12.137 tons per year of recyclables (packaging, paper and cardboard, FORM and glass) and 61.129 tons of residual waste, there is a fleet of 43 vehicles including 31 Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) waste collection vehicles of diverse capacities, being some of them with double body for simultaneous selective collection; eight other different compactors, three open and closed box lorries for glass collection, two back tipping vehicles with crane and tail-lift and a container-washing vehicle.
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Varadkar reignites Ireland's abortion debate with referendum announcement
Demonstrators take part in a protest to urge the Irish Government to repeal the eighth amendment to the constitution, which enforces strict limitations to women's right to abortion Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne
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Pro- and anti-abortion groups in Ireland went into campaign mode this week after Prime Minister Leo Varadkar announced there will be a referendum at the end of May on liberalising the law on terminating a pregnancy.
"I don't believe we can persist with a situation whereby women in crisis are risking their lives through the use of unregulated medicines," Varadkar, a qualified doctor, said when he announced the referendum during a press conference in Dublin on 29 January.
"I believe this is a decision about whether we want to continue to stigmatise and criminalise our sisters, our coworkers and our friends."
Abortion is a highly sensitive issue Ireland, a traditionally staunchly Catholic country.
Ireland is moving away from its dark history of trying to control women.
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The referendum in May will not be on a question on whether abortion should be legalised but on whether the eighth amendment to the constitution, which "recognises the equal right to life of the mother and her unborn child" should be repealed.
The amendment dates back to 1983 when it was approved by another referendum.
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Critics say that it only resulted in a tightening of Ireland's already strict anti-abortion laws, criminalising abortion with jail terms up to 14 years. Women were forced to find other ways to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
"Women have travelled to the UK," says Linda Kavanagh, a spokesperson for Ireland's Abortion Rights Campaign.
"The UK has had abortion access since 1967, so women traveled to the UK to get abortion access that they can't get in Ireland. But it is such a costly procedure. The procedure itself costs about 800, even up to 2,000 euros, and then you have to travel, get childcare, get time off work, and it can be a very lonely experience.'
The use of abortion pills purchased online is also treated as a crime, Kavanagh points out.
"The reality is that this part of the constitution never stopped abortion, it just made it less safe," she says. "It made us exiled women. It stigmatised abortion. There's a lot of shame involved. But Ireland is moving away from its dark history of trying to control women in Ireland."
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Anti-abortion campaigners take the opposite view.
"This proposal is extreme and cruel," says Niamh Uí Bhriain, spokesperson for the Save The Age pro-Life campaign
Abortion "without any reason" would be allowed up to the 12th week of pregnancy and "right up till birth on vague health grounds", she says.
"I think when people realise that reality, they are going to vote against it. There is a very pro-life culture here in Ireland. You can see already in the polls that support for repeal is slipping quite badly, it is only 51 percent according to the latest polls."
Uí Bhriain says her campaign will go full force and she expects the proposal to be defeated in May.
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Q: type error and short-circuit evaluation? TS Code
image = this.selectedItem.image.url || null;

The Error
TypeError: Cannot read property 'url' of null

My question is, why isn't the || null kicking in instead of it throwing a type error?

A: The shortest option you have is:
image = this.selectedItem && this.selectedItem.image && this.selectedItem.image.url || null;

If any of the && fails, you'll get null instead, but you have to check every "level" of the object you're trying to access.
This works because the && takes priority over || for order of operation. The above statement is similar to:
x = (((a.b) && (a.b.c)) && (a.b.c.url)) || null;

What you had, on the other hand, was similar to:
x = (a.b.c.url) || null;

You can't get url if a.b does not have a property c. That's what the error was thrown on, and that's not something the "or" at the end can catch.

A: I think you're confused about what "short-circuit" means.  Boolean operators are evaluated from left to right (&& before || but left-to-right otherwise) until the result is either definitely falsy or truthy, and then it stops without evaluating anything else.  In your case, the error occurs while this.selectedItem.image.url is being evaluated, and the || operator is never reached.
JavaScript lacks a null/undefined-coalescing operator such as the Elvis operator "?.", which would let you do something like this.selectedItem?.image?.url to prevent dereferencing undefined values.
Instead, you need to check each possible nested property for existence, if it is possible for them to be undefined:
image = (this.selectedItem && this.selectedItem.image && this.selectedItem.image.url) || null;

(I'm sure other answers have mentioned something like this... ah, yes, @Cerbrus has it)  This is now short-circuiting in a way that helps you.  As soon as one of those items is falsy, the whole parenthesized term evaluates as falsy without throwing an error.  Then you get falsy-|| null which becomes null, as you want.
Hope that helps; good luck!

A: You are checking this.selectedItem.image.url, but for that to be possible, you need to make sure that this.selectedItem and this.selectedItem.image exist first.
You could try the following:
image = this.selectedItem && this.selectedItem.image ? this.selectedItem.image.url || null : null;

A: You need to check also if the field image exists I think. Try to use ternary operator instead:
image = this.selectedItem.image ? this.selectedItem.image.url : null;

A: Because the error occurred when this.selectedItem.image.url itself was evaluated.  You can fix it this way:
this.selectedItem.image = this.selectedItem.image || {}
image = this.selectedItem.image.url || null;

A: TypeScript:
image = this?.selectedItem?.image?.url || null;

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Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease
Andreas Schmid, Dimirela Meili, Matthias A Salathe
The second messenger cAMP is integral for many physiological processes. Soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) was recently identified as a widely expressed intracellular source of cAMP in mammalian cells. sAC is evolutionary, structurally, and biochemically distinct from the G-protein-responsive transmembranous adenylyl cyclases (tmAC). The structure of the catalytic unit of sAC is similar to tmAC, but sAC does not contain transmembranous domains, allowing localizations independent of the membranous compartment. sAC activity is stimulated by HCO3-, Ca2+ and is sensitive to physiologically relevant ATP fluctuations. sAC functions as a physiological sensor for carbon dioxide and bicarbonate, and therefore indirectly for pH. Here we review the physiological role of sAC in different human tissues with a major focus on the lung. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: The role of soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease, guest edited by J. Buck and L.R. Levin.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.07.010
Adenylyl Cyclases
Physiological Phenomena
Second Messenger Systems
Bicarbonates
GTP-Binding Proteins
Soluble adenylyl cyclase
Schmid, A., Meili, D., & Salathe, M. A. (2014). Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, 1842(12), 2584-2592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.07.010
Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease. / Schmid, Andreas; Meili, Dimirela; Salathe, Matthias A.
In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, Vol. 1842, No. 12, 01.12.2014, p. 2584-2592.
Schmid, A, Meili, D & Salathe, MA 2014, 'Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease, vol. 1842, no. 12, pp. 2584-2592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.07.010
Schmid A, Meili D, Salathe MA. Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2014 Dec 1;1842(12):2584-2592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.07.010
Schmid, Andreas ; Meili, Dimirela ; Salathe, Matthias A. / Soluble adenylyl cyclase in health and disease. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 2014 ; Vol. 1842, No. 12. pp. 2584-2592.
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Bahá'i Temple of South America
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The Baha'i Temple of South America - with magnificent view of the Andes Mountains and onto Santiago de Chile - was inaugurated in 2016. The temple of Baha'i religious community which is spread all over the world, consists of nine transparent veils which seem to directly rise from the ground and resemble closed petals of flowers. The veils are glazed with translucent cast glass units which look like transparent stones. During the day, they allow light to pass through and during the night, they are suffused with warm light. The support structure of the 30 m high building consists of a highly sophisticated framework with rectangular steel hollow sections and mechanically processed steel nodes. All components of the individual veils have their own unique and highly irregular shape.
The temple, designed by the Canadian firm Hariri Pontarini Architects has been built on a 10 ha area at an altitude of approx. 900 m. The building has a diameter of 33 m and is designed to accommodate 600 visitors.
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Steel space frame structure, outer cladding with cast glass, inner cladding with stone panels, entrance areas with double curved glazing and bronze cladding, for an overall area of over 5,000 sqm (53,800 sq ft).
At the outside, the façade is clad with 3,022 sqm (32,500 sq ft) of cast glass and at the inside with 2,015 sqm (21,300 sq ft) of marble. The translucent cast glass units have undergone a time-consuming process; several layers of glass fragments have been melted down to a 32 mm (1 17/64") thick glazing while the original fragments remain clearly visible. Following the proposal made by Gartner, the steel structure of the temple has been technically optimized using a three-dimensional framework. The 3D tube and node system allowed to reduce the steel tonnage. In total, 420 t of steel have been used – approx. 165 t for the three-dimensional framework, 110 t for the primary support structure, and 100 t for the nodes.
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Moving for Summary Judgment Prior to an Answer – A Difficult Burden
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Another case in point where a summary judgment entered in favor of a mortgagee was reversed on appeal. In Dominko v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 102 So. 3d 696 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012), a mortgagor appealed from a grant of summary judgment in favor of the mortgagee. In February 2010, Wells Fargo filed a mortgage foreclosure action against the defendant. The defendant failed to serve an answer to the complaint. Wells Fargo, however, did not move for a default. Instead, in April 2010, Wells Fargo filed a motion for summary judgment, and subsequently filed the original note (endorsed in blank), and an amended affidavit as to amounts due and owing.
The defendant also filed a motion for summary judgment in November 2010 arguing that the suite should be dismissed because Wells Fargo failed to comply with the pre-suit notice requirement in the acceleration clause of the mortgage. Defendant did not set his motion for hearing, and in April 2011, he filed an opposition to Plaintiff's motion, without submitting any supporting affidavits.
The trial court granted Wells Fargo's motion, and entered a final judgment of mortgage foreclosure. On appeal, the defendant argues that summary judgment was improper because a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether Wells Fargo complied with the condition precedent of providing a pre-suit default notice. In that regard, the mortgage required the lender to give the borrower thirty days' notice and an opportunity to cure the default prior to filing suit. The appellate court agreed with the defendant.
Furthermore, the court noted that when Wells Fargo moved for summary judgment, defendant had not filed an answer and a default had not been entered against him. A plaintiff who moves for summary judgment before a defendant files an answer has a "difficult burden" in that the plaintiff must not only establish that no genuine issue of material fact exists but that the defendant could not raise any genuine issue of material fact if the defendant were permitted to answer the complaint. The plaintiff must essentially anticipate the content of the defendant's answer and establish the record accordingly. In this case, while Wells Fargo made a general allegation in its complaint that all conditions precedent had occurred, there was no evidence in the record that Wells Fargo complied with the pre-suit notice requirements set forth in the mortgage; Wells Fargo's affidavit made no mention of the conditions precedent.
Accordingly, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed the final judgment of foreclosure and remanded the case for further proceedings.
The attorneys at Schecter Law bring hard work and insight to your legal dispute, no matter how simple or complex, to avoid or minimize the type of procedural issues highlighted by the above case. We strategize every case at its inception, and our case strategies are continuously refined and reevaluated at every stage so as to never lose sight of the end goals of our clients.
In Berkowitz v. Delaire Country Club, Inc., 4D11-3858, 2012 WL 5232251 (Fla. 4th DCA 2012), Stuart Berkowitz ("Berkowitz"), a member of the Delaire Country Club, Inc. (the "Club"), proposed 17 amendments to the Club's articles of incorporation in a 52-page packet. The Club asked that Berkowitz submit only a single page addressing each proposed amendment because the Club claimed the 52-page packet was too lengthy and difficult to understand. Berkowitz, however, resubmitted much of the same 52-page packet with a color-coded legend separating its materials. The resubmission was rejected because the Club claimed that it was vague, confusing, subject to multiple interpretations and exceeded the single page limit. Berkowitz then filed a complaint seeking declaratory and injunctive relief claiming that the Club failed to follow the required procedure under its articles of incorporation and by-laws. The trial court granted the Club's motion for summary judgment, which Berkowitz appealed. Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed the granting of the motion for summary judgment and remanded the case to the trial court.
The trial court concluded that the failure of the Articles of Incorporation and By-laws to address the scope and format of the materials which a member could submit created a latent ambiguity. Where a contract is ambiguous, summary judgment is generally improper. However, if a party moving for summary judgment presents competent evidence, the opposing party must come forward with counterevidence sufficient to reveal a genuine issue, and it is insufficient for the opposing party to merely assert that an issue exists.
In order to resolve the ambiguity, the Club offered purported past submissions by other Club members; no affidavit or other evidence established that the attachments were what they purported to be. The purported past submissions were unauthenticated and were not competent evidence. Therefore, the purported past submissions could not be used to resolve the latent ambiguity, and it was held that the trial court erred in considering unauthenticated attachments to resolve the contractual ambiguity.
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San Francisco remains a major draw for events despite high costs and other pervasive problems. Perhaps the Bay Area can turn to the creative thinking it's known for to solve some of these issues.
High costs, conspicuous homelessness, and limited hotel supply are a few of the issues San Francisco faces as a destination in the midst of a period of unprecedented economic growth.
For event professionals, it can be a challenge to find an affordable solution to holding an event in San Francisco. Room rates are consistently high, with hotel occupancy sitting north of 80 percent year-round. It's a good problem to have for a city, but not so much for groups looking to meet in San Francisco proper.
The popularity of San Francisco as a tourist destination, too, can make it hard for planners to find the rooms they need when sourcing an event. More than 26 million travelers visited the city in 2018, a 2.4 percent increase over 2017. To give some perspective, 16.5 million visited the city in 2012.
Research from the organization's 2018 business plan, though, bears out the problem. While hotel occupancy and rates ticked down slightly in 2017, group business declined 12.8 percent from 2016 to 2017. Group business represented 18.2 percent of the city's 2017 market mix.
This crunch has led to cooperation between San Francisco and neighboring cities to spread events around the Bay Area.
While the city's hotel supply has remained limited (let's not forget Airbnb was founded to provide housing during events in the city), various improvements are taking place to improve San Francisco's viability as a destination for meetings. The Moscone Center, the city's convention center, completed a $551 million expansion last year which adds 150,000 square-feet to the venue.
A new arena is set to open in Mission Bay to host the Golden State Warriors, which will also feature modular meeting space to accommodate both large and small events.
The city's public transit situation is also evolving, with a new subway line slated to enter service soon that runs north-to-south across the city, complementing the existing lines that run east-to-west.
As the city searches for solutions to better manage its economic growth, there is hope that the same minds that founded companies like Airbnb, Salesforce, and Uber will soon focus on the public good. There have been rumors that the city has lost business directly due to its homeless epidemic, although San Francisco Travel denies it, and a casual stroll through downtown San Francisco shows the troubling scope of the challenge.
While area corporations opposed a recent proposed solution to the displacement of San Francisco's homeless, the city will have to grapple with its issues to provide not just a better life for locals but a stronger value proposition as an event destination.


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Geisel Students Chad Lewis and Alex Lindqwister Receive National Recognition
by Susan Green
Two Geisel medical students were recognized during the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting for their demonstrated leadership and commitment to diversity. Chad Lewis '20 has received a prestigious Herbert W. Nickens Scholarship award, and Alex Lindqwister '21, was elected national chair of the AAMC Organization of Student Representatives (OSR). Lindqwister is currently a Northeast regional delegate.
Left to right: Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MACP, Director of the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Chad Lewis'20; Cedric M. Bright, MD, FACP, assistant dean for admissions, director of special programs, and associate professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine.
"I feel very honored and inspired by being selected for this award. Dr. Nickens has left behind an impressive legacy and huge shoes for us to fill," Lewis says. "Increasing the number of underrepresented minorities entering medicine through mentorship and advocacy has always been a priority of mine, and it's something that I intend to keep working toward throughout my career. If it wasn't for the many outstanding people helping me along each step of my journey, I would have never made it this far. Upholding that tradition is the least I can do."
The competitive scholarship is awarded nationally to five outstanding third-year medical students who have shown leadership in eliminating inequities in medical education and healthcare and in addressing educational, societal, and healthcare needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S.
"Chad is an exemplary student who is passionate about social justice, health equity, and medical education, and has a longstanding history of pursuing professional and personal opportunities to impact meaningful change," says Roshini Pinto-Powell, MD, associate dean of students at Geisel. "He continues to make brilliant contributions and holds several leadership roles at the medical school that directly involve social justice, medical education, and health care equity. In each endeavor, Chad demonstrates a collaborative nature and innate leadership abilities. He is an authentic and engaging medical student who enjoys inspiring and equipping disadvantaged and low-income students to become health care professionals."
Lewis is a founding member of Black Students at Geisel, a group dedicated to enriching diversity at the medical school by providing mentoring and networking opportunities to minority students while hosting public cultural events to involve the broader community. He is also a co-founder of the Health Equity Task Force, and as a member of student government sits on the medical school's Diversity Council.
OSR, the student branch of the AAMC focused on academic medicine and medical education, represents undergraduate medical students in the U.S. to physicians, educators, and university faculty. Elected by fellow OSR representatives, Lindqwister begins his three-year commitment as chair-elect prior to transitioning to chair in November 2019.
Alex Lindqwister '21
"Being elected to represent medical students at a national level is both humbling and exciting," Lindqwister says. "I am honored to have this opportunity and will use this privilege to advocate for all students."
A Geisel Medical Education Scholar, Lindqwister has a deep-rooted interest in equity in medical education and medical futurism—he believes medicine should be taught to reflect not only an increasingly diverse student body, but a diverse patient population. And he is adamant about advising medical students on how rapid advancements in technology will radically change the practice of medical practice. "I plan to use my platform as incoming chair to push both of these issues to the forefront of discussion in medical education," he says.
"I am delighted that Alex Lindqwister will be national chair of the OSR at the AAMC. Alex is a co-leader of qMD and has been a collaborative partner in helping our community address health disparities in multiple content areas by leading skills night sessions and creating enrichment electives," Pinto-Powell says. "He is also a co-leader of the Med Ed Scholars program and the current Northeast regional medical education delegate—in those roles he has been involved in curricular reform, new pedagogical approaches, and medical education trends. These interests and skills will make him an effective national OSR chair and by extension a conduit of ideas to and from Geisel."
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Written by Susan Green
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COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
subpart 31.10
§ 31.10-5
Inspection of new tank vessels - TB/ALL.
View all text of Subpart 31.10 [§ 31.10-1 - § 31.10-50]
§ 31.10-5 - Inspection of new tank vessels - TB/ALL.
(a) Plans. Triplicate copies of contract plans and specifications shall be forwarded to the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, in whose district the construction will take place, for submission to the Commanding Officer (MSC), Attn: Marine Safety Center, U.S. Coast Guard Stop 7430, 2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20593-7430, for approval, but if the tank vessel is to be classed, such plans and specifications shall first be approved by a recognized classification society. If the plans and specifications are found to be in substantial agreement with the regulations in this chapter, they shall be approved, properly stamped and dated and distributed as follows: One set to owner or builder; one set to Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, of the district in which the vessel is to be built; and one set shall be retained at the Marine Safety Center. If such plans and specifications are not approved, the Marine Safety Center shall notify the owner or builder promptly wherein they fail to comply with the regulations in this chapter. For list of electrical plans see subchapter J (Electrical Engineering) of this chapter.
(1) The plans and specifications shall include the arrangement of the cargo gear. Prior to submission to the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, plans and specifications for cargo gear shall be approved by either a recognized classification society or the International Cargo Gear Bureau, Inc., whose home office is located at 321 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036, on the Internet at http://www.icgb.com.
(2) For vessels of 100 meters (328 feet) or more in length contracted for on or after September 7, 1990, a plan must be included which shows how visibility from the navigation bridge will meet the standards contained in § 32.16-1 of this subchapter.
(b) Inspection. During construction, and upon completion of each tank vessel, it shall be inspected by the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, to determine whether it has been built in accordance with the approved plans and specifications, and, if so, a certificate of inspection endorsed as a permit for the carriage of flammable or combustible liquids in bulk for the proper grade or grades of cargo shall be issued to the vessel or its owner.
(c) Certificate of class may be accepted. In the event such tank vessel is classed by the American Bureau of Shipping or other recognized classification society, the approved plans and certificates of such society may be accepted by the Coast Guard as evidence of the structural efficiency of the hull and reliability of machinery, except as otherwise provided for by law and the rules and regulations in this subchapter.
[CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 16662, Dec. 30, 1965, as amended by CGD 74-125A, 47 FR 15230, Apr. 8, 1982; CGD 85-099, 55 FR 32247, Aug. 8, 1990; CGD 95-028, 62 FR 51197, Sept. 30, 1997; USCG-2000-7790, 65 FR 58459, Sept. 29, 2000; USCG-2007-29018, 72 FR 53964, Sept. 21, 2007; USCG-2008-0906, 73 FR 56509, Sept. 29, 2008; USCG-2009-0702, 74 FR 49226, Sept. 25, 2009; USCG-2013-0671, 78 FR 60146, Sept. 30, 2013; USCG-2016-0498, 82 FR 35089, July 28, 2017]
AUTHORITY: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 2103, 3205, 3306, 3307, 3703; 46 U.S.C. Chapter 701; 49 U.S.C. 5103, 5106; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757, 3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1. Section 31.10-21 also issued under the authority of Sect. 4109, Pub. L. 101-380, 104 Stat. 515.
SOURCE: CGFR 65-50, 30 FR 16662, Dec. 30, 1965, unless otherwise noted.
CITE AS: 46 CFR 31.10-5


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Home / WORLD / Gorillas in US zoo test positive for Covid-19 in 'a world's FIRST' via suspected human-to-animal transmission
Gorillas in US zoo test positive for Covid-19 in 'a world's FIRST' via suspected human-to-animal transmission
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All eight members of the gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park are being re-tested and monitored after three of the primates turned up positive for the illness on Monday, the US Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) said in a statement, noting they are the "first gorillas in the United States to be confirmed positive" for the coronavirus.
"It is suspected that they acquired the infection from an asymptomatic staff member with Covid-19, despite precautions taken by the zoo," the NVSL said, adding "The gorillas are expected to fully recover."
The Safari Park observed in its own statement that while the test results confirmed infections in some of the animals, they do not "definitively rule out the presence of the virus in other members of the troop," suggesting the need for further screening. The gorillas are "doing well," but are experiencing symptoms similar to those seen in humans, such as congestion and coughing, according to the park's executive director, Lisa Peterson.
"The troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery," she said, adding in comments to the Associated Press that the animals "have their own resiliency and can heal differently than we do" and that the focus for now is to keep them "healthy and thriving" as they recover.
California Governor Gavin Newsom also noted the news during a Monday press conference, saying"Our beloved gorillas, obviously, we are concerned about," and that the infections would likely grab the attention of residents as the state sees a surge in daily coronavirus cases.
The NVSL assured that while "we are still learning about SARS-CoV-2" in wildlife, there is currently "no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus to people," adding that such risk is "considered to be low." Humans, however, can spread the coronavirus to some animals, the agency added, recommending those with the illness "avoid contact with pets and other animals."
While the gorillas in San Francisco may be the first known cases among the species, fears of a primate infection spiked last July at the Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens after one gorilla, 'Shango,' got into a brawl with his brother 'Barney,' though he ultimately tested negative for the virus. Other large animals in captivity have, however, contracted the illness previously, with at least one tiger at the Bronx Zoo testing positive last April, while six other big cats there developed dry coughs. Smaller creatures, such as pet cats, have also come up positive in a small number of cases.
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What the EU could learn from Switzerland's free trade agreement with China
Switzerland signed a free trade agreement with China in 2013, which came into force a year later. Marc Lanteigne writes on whether the Swiss experience could offer lessons for the EU. He argues that Switzerland's success in negotiating a free trade agreement and building new financial links with Beijing illustrate some of the benefits that could be gained from the EU adding China to its own list of free trade partners.
In July 2014, the free trade agreement signed between China and Switzerland formally took effect. The deal was the culmination of talks that began with a joint feasibility study in 2010, followed by nine rounds of negotiations between 2011-13. The agreement represented the second such deal by China with a European economy, (after Iceland, whose agreement also came into force in July of last year), and one of the largest of Beijing's free trade agreements with an OECD member state.
Despite expectations that Beijing would complete a free trade agreement with another non-European Union member economy, Norway, those talks have been in abeyance since late 2010 as a result of the diplomatic froideur following the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize that year to a Chinese dissident. The successful completion of the Sino-Swiss free trade agreement marks a significant economic and diplomatic achievement for Switzerland, and has factored into current debates within the European Union as to whether a China free trade agreement of its own should be sought.
What can the EU learn from Switzerland's free trade agreement with China?
For more than decade, there was accord between China and the EU that free trade talks should be explored, especially given the growing trade volume between the two economies and Beijing's interest in developing Europe as an alternative economic pole to the United States and East Asia. Yet the process has frequently been hampered by diplomatic and economic tribulations which have prevented it from evolving beyond the very preliminary stages.
Early obstacles included the EU's refusal since 2004 to grant China market economy status (MES), a prerequisite for the start of any free trade talks as far as Beijing is concerned, as well as widely different levels of enthusiasm among EU member economies for a free trade agreement with China. Since that time, China and the EU have also been embroiled in a series of trade disputes, most notably over accusations that Beijing was condoning the dumping of solar panels onto the international market, adding to the level of mistrust between the two sides.
Despite the beginning of the European recession in 2008 and ongoing questions about the financial health of the EU, which have also been warning lights for Beijing, the Xi Jinping government has called upon the EU to consider opening free trade agreement talks. President Xi won a promise of sorts, during his visit to Brussels in March of last year, that the EU would return to the question of an agreement in the near future, but since that time there has been little progress, as the EU has focused on a host of internal problems, with the slow-motion calamity of the Greek debt crisis at the top of the list.
Shanghai, Credit: Bernd Thaller (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
In addition, the EU has been much more focused of late on free trade talks with the United States, which if successful would result in the so called 'Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership' (TTIP). The question of how and when Sino-European Union free trade talks would begin is very much dependent upon the recovery of the EU economy and whether a broader agreement can be reached within the 28-member Union as to how to approach Beijing.
Switzerland, by contrast, in the tradition of its Sonderfall (exceptional case) politics and foreign policy, has sought to maximise the benefits of its agreement with China over the past two years. The agreement, in addition to removing bilateral tariffs and trade barriers on goods and services, also provides for intellectual property protection, which was a key demand from Switzerland since the start of the negotiations and a main reason why recent free trade talks between Switzerland and India have experienced delays. The deal was also accompanied by parallel agreements on employment and labour. Other provisions of the agreement include investment promotion, technical cooperation and environmental protection, and overall the deal has provided a platform for future bilateral economic cooperation, notably in the area of banking.
In July 2014, a three-year currency swap agreement was signed, worth approximately US$24 billion, between the People's Bank of China and the Swiss National Bank (SNB), also allowing for the SNB to purchase up to about US$2.4 billion in Chinese bonds. The swap agreement has provided China with improved access to the Swiss franc which has been viewed as a safe haven currency in comparison with the euro, especially since January of this year when the decision was made by the SNB to allow the franc to appreciate against the euro after an exchange rate cap implemented in 2011 was abruptly removed.
Also in January, after many months of anticipation, the decision was finalised to designate Zürich as a trading hub for China's currency the renminbi, joining a small number of cities, including London, Luxembourg, Toronto and Singapore, that hold this status. Shortly after that announcement was made, Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf announced that the China Construction Bank would open a Swiss branch during 2015 in the wake of the hub agreement, and the bank formally applied for a license in April this year. Finally, in March, Switzerland joined a long queue of European economies seeking founding member status in Beijing's Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, opening yet another door to economic cooperation.
The trade volume between China and Switzerland has been growing rapidly over the past decade, with Swiss exports to China rising from CHF 2.5 billion to CHF 8.8 billion, (US$2.7 billion to US$9.4 billion), between 2003-13, and Chinese imports in Switzerland jumping from CHF 2.5 billion to CHF 11.4 billion (US$2.7 billion to US$12.2 billion) during the same time period. It is too early to measure the degree to which the start of the Sino-Swiss free trade agreement will boost overall bilateral trade, but the trading relationship between China and New Zealand, which signed its own free trade agreement with Beijing in 2008, might be a useful indicator.
In 2010, Sino-New Zealand trade stood as NZ$10 billion (US$7.6 billion), and that year the leaders of both states set a target to bring that figure to NZ$20 billion (US$15.1 billion) by 2015. That target was actually reached ahead of schedule, in June 2014. With the Sino-Swiss free trade agreement coming into effect, a similar rise in trade volume is expected in the coming years, to the benefit of many sectors. Even Swiss luxury watch sales in China, which softened during 2012-2013 as the incoming Xi Jinping administration announced sweeping government austerity measures, showed signs of recovery by 2014. According to a June 2014 report by Credit Suisse, China is expected to overtake Germany as Switzerland's largest trading partner by 2035, based on current figures.
At the end of last year, President Xi announced that China would accelerate its free trade strategy and seek out new free trade agreement partners in the coming years. The rise of China as an economic power and its growing influence in Europe, coupled with the initial successes in Switzerland in completing its free trade agreement and building new financial links with Beijing, should weigh considerably on the question of whether the European Union may more seriously consider adding China to its own list of free trade partners in the near future.
Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics.
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Marc Lanteigne – Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Marc Lanteigne is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Oslo and is a current researcher on Sino-European relations and economic diplomacy. He is the author of China and International Institutions: Alternate Paths to Global Power and Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, and has also researched and written about China's developing Arctic policy, non-traditional security thinking, and free trade diplomacy with Iceland and Switzerland.
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ROME – The Vatican has invoked diplomatic immunity in refusing to deliver a French court summons to the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, in a case against a French cardinal.
The Holy See informed the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in September that it would not notify Ladaria of an order to testify before the Lyon court regarding a letter he sent while secretary of the CDF.
A Vatican court ruled that the summons was not valid, since the letter was sent in Ladaria's capacity as a minister of the Holy See and is protected under international law.
The Spanish cardinal was first called to testify last spring in a case against Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon and six other officials of the Archdiocese of Lyon, who are being prosecuted for allegedly failing to report accusations of abuse by a priest to the police.
The accused abuser, Father Bernard Preynat, was charged with having committed sexual abuse against minors from 1986 to 1991, though prosecutors dropped his case in 2016. Preynat was removed from ministry by Barbarin in 2015.
Victims of Preynat are the plaintiffs in the trial, which is scheduled to begin in January 2019, after two postponements after a lack of response from Ladaria. The court decided last month to continue without his testimony.
The plaintiffs' lawyers want Ladaria to testify as to whether the direction to prevent scandal was intended as an injunction to avoid going to court, in which case they accuse the CDF prefect of being complicit in failing to report the allegedly abusive priest to authorities.


It's well known that hormones can affect everything that goes on in a woman's body, from sexual libido to weight gain and overall mood. Now, though, a new study shows that in the right combination, they may also help with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in post-menopausal women.
The study was published in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
MCI is defined as that intermediate stage between normal aging and dementia. Persons with MCI have an increased risk of progressing to Alzheimer's disease or other dementia, with roughly 20% of this population crossing over from MCI to a more severe level each year. To date, no pharmacologic treatment has proven effective in managing MCI.
According to a news release from NAMS, the article, "Menopausal hormone therapy and mild cognitive impairment: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial," reviews the results from a recent Korean study regarding the effect of hormone therapy on cognitive function. The study followed postmenopausal women who were diagnosed with MCI and taking donepezil (Aricept) over a 24-month period and showed that cognitive test scores for the women who received hormone therapy [plus donepezil] significantly increased during that time. Although the study group was small, the study offers promising results, demonstrating that the combination of transdermal estradiol and an oral progesterone can slow down cognitive decline. This is the first known study to evaluate the effect of hormone therapy on MCI.


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The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 billion—that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that generous aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, anthropologist Mark Schuller captures the voices of those involved in the earthquake aid response, and they paint a sharp, unflattering view of the humanitarian enterprise. Schuller led an independent study of eight displaced-persons camps in Haiti, compiling more than 150 interviews ranging from Haitian front-line workers and camp directors to foreign humanitarians and many displaced Haitian people. The result is an insightful account of why the multi-billion-dollar aid response not only did little to help but also did much harm, triggering a range of unintended consequences, rupturing Haitian social and cultural institutions, and actually increasing violence, especially against women. The book shows how Haitian people were removed from any real decision-making, replaced by a top-down, NGO-dominated system of humanitarian aid, led by an army of often young, inexperienced foreign workers. Ignorant of Haitian culture, these aid workers unwittingly enacted policies that triggered a range of negative results. Haitian interviewees also note that the NGOs "planted the flag," and often tended to "just do something," always with an eye to the "photo op" (in no small part due to the competition over funding). Worse yet, they blindly supported the eviction of displaced people from the camps, forcing earthquake victims to relocate in vast shantytowns that were hotbeds of violence. Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti concludes with suggestions to help improve humanitarian aid in the future, perhaps most notably, that aid workers listen to—and respect the culture of—the victims of catastrophe.
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New year, new trends, new visuals, new fonts, new styles.
Here are the top web design trends 2015 and their meanings, that you may just be hearing time and time again throughout 2015, regarding Web Design.
Flexible Typography: Because content is king, this emphasis on typography should come as no suprise, and it's a philosophy that isn't going anywhere.
Responsive Web Design: Responsive design is now expected and if your site isn't responsive, you need a redesign to accommodate to all the different screens and devices.
Flat Design: Flat design is less clunky and much easier for a web server to deliver to devices like mobile phones and tablets.
Webgraphics: Webgraphics is an interactive infographic that contains code instead of static images. It's the newest trend that conveys information.
Ghost Buttons: Ghost Buttons have a practical application in that they are the best option for calls to action being implemented over top of large background images and video.
Large Images: Capture your user's attention by being purely aesthetic. A prominently displayed tag line and ghost button call to action over top of a powerful and elegant image can really set your site apart.
With the new year ahead of you, make it a point to evaluate your current website, and look for elements that need enhancement.