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Virtual town hall on Mendocino Co. cannabis cultivation permits & CEQA on Feb. 10 — county releases consultant applications
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MENDOCINO Co., 2/3/21 — Mendocino County's cannabis cultivation permit program has been the source of public debate, revisions, and overall regulatory confusion for several years, and as the county approaches the re-opening of much larger permit applications as part of "Phase 3," there are still many hundreds of cultivators who applied in the first rounds of permits who still have no clear path to achieving an annual state permit due to confusion over how to meet certain statewide environmental regulations.
Mendocino County's Cannabis Ad Hoc Committee, consisting of Supervisors John Haschak and Ted Williams, are holding a virtual town hall meeting on at 4 p.m. on February 10, including "an update on their current discussions with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) regarding the State's requirement for site-specific California Environment Quality Act (CEQA) review in order for applicants to be eligible for a State Annual Cannabis Cultivation License," according to the county's announcement. The committee previously held a meeting in December on the same issue, which can be viewed at the bottom of the article.
County officials also released a application process today for county-approved consultants to be approved by Mendocino County to help cannabis cultivators to navigate the CEQA process, which can be found here on the county's website.
Last week, a majority of supervisors, except John Haschak, voted to initially approve the re-opening of permits in Phase 3, which would allow up owners of qualified parcels to seek permits to cultivate on up to 10% of their properties. However, almost all of the current "Phase 1" cultivators, many of whom first applied for the program in 2016 for permits for much smaller grow sites, remain stuck in compliance at various stages of the permitting process, as they await guidance on how to adequate fulfill California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) regulations within the county's permitting framework.
The first phase of the county's cannabis ordinance attempted to cover permit applicants under a negative mitigated declaration, in part due to a local requirement that meant only cultivators with "proof of prior cultivation" were eligible to apply. The initial phases of permit applications brought in over 1,000 applicants, who were limited to much smaller cultivation permits than those that will be opened this year under Phase 3. However, due to lack of clarity around whether CEQA requirements must be fulfilled and how, the majority of these cultivators have not been given full state permitting approval, which is required for commercial operation beginning in 2022, despite hundreds having paid fees, taxes, and received various types of provisional approval from county officials.
Local officials have presented a variety of potential pathways for these cultivators, including re-applying under Phase 3, independently undertaking CEQQ approval, a workaround involving a modified checklist of environmental compliance, and a possibly legislative fix on the state level. However, so far county supervisors have not been able to provide clear answers as to whether these methods will allow local cultivators to receive annual state permits, whether adequate staff is available to process permit applications on a local or state level, and how long achieving approval might take. An update will be included in the upcoming meeting, according to the county press release.
Mendocino County also received $2.2 million from the state of California towards a cannabis equity grant program in 2020, which is supposed to provide financial assistance to qualifying legacy and low-income cultivators who need help with the permitting process, although additional details on this program have not yet been released.
Here's the details of the upcoming town hall:
Cannabis Ad Hoc to Host Cannabis Cultivation Virtual Town Hall
On Wednesday, February 10th at 4:00 pm, the Board of Supervisors Cannabis Cultivation Ad Hoc Committee consisting of Supervisors John Haschak and Ted Williams will host a virtual Cannabis Cultivation Town Hall Meeting. The Supervisors will give an update on their current discussions with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) regarding the State's requirement for site-specific California Environment Quality Act (CEQA) review in order for applicants to be eligible for a State Annual Cannabis Cultivation License.
The Supervisors and County staff will also give information regarding CEQA pathway options for Mendocino County Phase 1 or Phase 2 cultivators including the third party consultant framework that was directed by the Board of Supervisors on January 5, 2021.
Virtual Town Hall Details:
What: Cannabis Cultivation Virtual Town Hall
When: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Who: Mendocino County Board of Supervisors John Haschak and Ted Williams
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How to attend:
To join via Zoom, click the link: https://mendocinocounty.zoom.us/j/88027314543
To join via phone, dial: +1 669 900 9128 and enter the webinar ID: 880 2731 4543
The webinar will also be streaming live on the County's YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/mendocinocountyvideo) and the County's Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/mendocinocounty/).
For more information, please contact Mendocino County Planning and Building Services Cannabis Program at (707) 234-6680.
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Oil snapped its longest run of gains this year as OPEC output rose amid a boost from members exempt from supply cuts.
Futures slid 0.3 percent in New York after advancing almost 11 percent the previous eight sessions. OPEC production in June climbed to the highest level this year as Libya and Nigeria ramped up output, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In the U.S., crude inventories probably fell by 2.5 million barrels last week, a Bloomberg survey showed before a government report Thursday.
While prices have surged in the past week, oil in New York and London posted a monthly loss in June after tumbling into a bear market on concerns that rising global supply will counter curbs from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners. U.S. crude inventories remain more than 100 million barrels above the five-year average.
"Given the run of gains and the highest OPEC production in 2017, there might be some closing of positions that temporarily puts pressure on prices," said Jan Edelmann, an analyst at HSH Nordbank AG in Frankfurt. Nonetheless, the higher supplies from Libya and Nigeria probably aren't sustainable "given the ongoing political tension in this region," he said.
West Texas Intermediate for August delivery was at $46.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 12 cents, at 7:36 a.m. local time. Total volume traded was about 39 percent below the 100-day average. The contract gained $1.03 to $47.07 on Monday.
Brent for September settlement was down 13 cents at $49.55 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The global benchmark crude traded at a premium of $2.38 to September WTI.
OPEC output rose by 260,000 barrels a day to 32.55 million a day in June, according to a Bloomberg News survey of analysts, oil companies and ship-tracking data. Half of the increase came from Libya and Nigeria, which aren't bound by the group's accord to cut, while Saudi Arabia boosted production by 90,000 barrels a day.
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Hot off Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas' daughter Malti Marie's first birthday celebration earlier this month, Chopra is ready to talk in detail about the baby's arrival and first months in the NICU. Chopra and Jonas welcomed their daughter via surrogate last January; she was premature, born a full trimester before her due date.
"I was in the OR [operating room] when she came out. She was so small, smaller than my hand," Chopra revealed to British Vogue, holding out her palm for scale. "I saw what the intensive-care nurses do. They do God's work. Nick and I were both standing there as they intubated her. I don't know how they even found what they needed [in her tiny body] to intubate her."
Malti spent three months in the NICU, with Jonas and Chopra visiting daily. "We spent every single day with her on my chest, on my husband's chest," Chopra said. "I didn't know if she would make it or not."
Chopra also addressed her choice to use a surrogate, explaining it was due to health issues she'd rather not share publicly. "I had medical complications, [so] this was a necessary step, and I'm so grateful I was in a position where I could do this," she said. "Our surrogate was so generous, kind, lovely and funny, and she took care of this precious gift for us for six months."
Regarding commenters on the internet inventing their own theories about her personal choices, Chopra said firmly, "You don't know me. You don't know what I've been through. And just because I don't want to make my medical history, or my daughter's, public doesn't give you the right to make up whatever the reasons were."
Malti luckily pulled through and has been home with her parents since last spring. The couple publicly revealed that Malti had been in the NICU in May around Mother's Day.
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Sometimes less is more. Sometimes a single sentence can sum up a topic quite nicely. For this band, that sentence is: Griftegård is a traditional doom band, in the mold of fellow Swedes Candlemass. That pretty much says all one needs to know. The album consists of six songs and it's 46 minutes long, so you know you're getting drawn-out, ponderous, epic doom metal, with solid (though not quite Messiah-quality) melodic vocals. For better or worse, there won't be a lot of surprises here, but then a lot of quality doom bands do what they do without stretching too many boundaries. If anything, these guys are slower than traditional doom, almost approaching funeral doom in spirit on tracks like "Noah's Hands" (which, ironically, is the shortest song on the album). Not earthshattering, but solid doom metal.
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Q: ¿Cómo asigno un valor de clave OneToOneField automáticamente en django? Soy nuevo en django y me cuesta llevar a cabo una funcionalidad que en un principio pensé que era más básica y resulta que se complico bastante.
El problema consiste en que tengo en models.py un modelo llamado Usuario(funciona como si fuera el perfil del user) con clave llamada user de uno a uno que se conecta con la clase User.
class Usuario(models.Model):#TABLA DE LA BASE DE DATOS

    fecha_nacimiento =models.DateField(help_text='Fecha de nacimiento',null=True,blank=True)
    foto_perfil=models.ImageField(help_text='Elije una foto',null=True,blank=True)
    profesion=models.CharField(help_text='Profesión',max_length=30,null=True,blank=True)
    presentacion=models.TextField(help_text='Acerca de ti',max_length=200,null=True,blank=True)
    enlace_referencias=models.CharField(help_text='Link',max_length=50,null=True,blank=True)
    user= models.OneToOneField(
        User,
        on_delete=models.CASCADE,null=True
    )

    def __str__(self):
      return self.user.username
def crear_usuario_perfil(sender,instance,created,**kwargs):
  if created:
    Usuario.objects.create(user=instance)

def guardar_usuario_perfil(sender,instance,created,**kwargs):
  instance.usuario.save()

#Éste es el formulario forms.py:
class SignUpForm(UserCreationForm):
    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=140, required=True)
    last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=140, required=False)
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = (
            'username',
            'email',
            'first_name',
            'last_name',
            'password1',
            'password2',
        )

class Perfil(forms.ModelForm):
   user=forms.CharField(max_length=140, required=True)
   class Meta:
        model = Usuario
        fields =('fecha_nacimiento','foto_perfil','profesion','presentacion','enlace_referencias',)

#Y ésta es la vista de views.py que renderiza:
class AddPerfil(CreateView):
    template_name='home/perfil.html'
    model= Usuario
    form_class=Perfil
    #form=AddPerfil(initial={'user':id_user})
    success_url='/'

    def get_initial(self):
        initial = super().get_initial()
        initial['user'] = self.kwargs ['slug']
        return initial

#Esta es la urls.py:
path('perfil/<slug>',views.AddPerfil.as_view(), name='perfil'),

Y éste es el base.html:
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                        Como funciona
                        {% if user.is_authenticated %}
                            {% if user.Usuario.id is None %}
                                Hola {{ user.username }}
                                Cerrar sesión
                            {% else %}
                                Hola {{ user.username }}
                                Cerrar sesión
                            {% endif %}
                        {% else %}

                            Registrate
                            Iniciar sesión
                        {% endif %}

Resumiendo, necesito que el user del usuario reconozca al user que se ha registrado(esta parte está funcionando bien, los usuarios si se registran correctamente) de forma automática. No se si asignárselo como lo estaba haciendo o no.
Como verán puedo pasarle correctamente un valor, en este caso el username, pero parece que no corresponde con el valor que necesito para que la relación se realice.

¿De qué manera entonces puedo asignarle un valores automáticamente cuando se trata de claves ya sean foraneas o uno a uno?¿Qué tendría que pasarle para que la relación sea completa?

A: Prueba sobreescribiendo el metodo form_valid de la vista generica CreateView, de este modo:
class AddPerfil(CreateView):
    template_name='home/perfil.html'
    model = Usuario
    form_class = Perfil
    success_url='/'

    def form_valid(self, form):
        self.object = form.save(commit=False)
        self.object.user = self.request.user
        return super(AddPerfil, self).form_valid(form)

y en el models.py
class Usuario(models.Model):
   .
   .
   .
   user= models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, editable=False)

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Luís Adams is a partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados. In the Brasília Office, he is responsible for matters related to Superior and Supreme Courts. Adams has extensive tax experience, working as counsel for the Federal Treasury at the Ministry of Finance for 24 years, from 1993 until his resignation request in 2017. He worked as Secretary-General of Litigation for the Attorney-General of Brazil (2001-2002) and as Legal Counsel and Adjunct Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (2003-2006). In 2006 he was named General Counsel of the Ministry of Finance until he was chosen to be Attorney-General of Brazil, a position he kept from 2009 to 2016.
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Phoenix man with local connection dies in Haiti
Jacob Lammers
A Phoenix man with familial connections to Cuyahoga County died Wednesday in the aftermath of an earthquake that struck Haiti earlier this week. Thus far, Daniel Ryan Kloos, 24, is one of six Americans who died as a result of Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake, according to news reports. Kloos' grandmother Dolores Shannon of Mayfield Village, said the family is doing as well as can be expected. "We are very fortunate that the family is close by. We were able to all get together on Wednesday," she said. "It was very comforting, very healing for the family to be together." Daniel Kloos was visiting his 27-year-old sister Erin Kloos, who is an international volunteer for Chicago-based nonprofit Friends of the Orphans, according to a news release from the group. Erin was rescued from the rubble on Wednesday and remains in stable condition in a south Florida hospital. Shannon said Erin's parents reunited with their daughter at the hospital. Daniel and Erin were staying at the Father Wasson Center in Petionville near Port-Au-Prince when the earthquake struck, causing the building to crumble, according to a release from Friends of the Orphans. Daniel, a 2008 graduate of the University of California-San Diego, had just been accepted to medical school and planned on attending in the fall, Shannon said. "He was just the type of person you liked to be around," said Shannon, who planned to gather Friday night with many of her family members. "We were so honored and blessed to have known him. He was a wonderful, wonderful person. We have very good memories of him. "I wish we could all be down there." Shannon estimates it could be as long as a month before any funeral arrangements are made in Phoenix.
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The 570S GT4 scored McLaren an historic result at the Daytona International Speedway racing in the inaugural Michelin Pilot Challenge race (formerly Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge), with GT4 customer team Compass Racing and McLaren Automotive Factory Driver Paul Holton taking victory and Motorsports in Action securing the final podium spot. The result marks the first win of 2019 for the 570S GT4 and Holton, as well as the first ever win for McLaren at the world-famous Florida circuit.
A strong performance during qualifying saw Holton secure the perfect start for the inaugural round of the Michelin Pilot Challenge, setting a new lap record and pole position for Compass Racing ahead of the four-hour endurance race. The result marked an eighth career GS pole, and a record fourth consecutive pole position in the class for Factory Driver and Florida-local Holton.
An early penalty for a jump-start saw the #75 Compass Racing car drop to P30, but a close battle throughout the duration of the race saw four cars fighting for overall victory entering the last 30 minutes. With 10 minutes to go, and after a number of Full-Course Yellow periods. Holton and teammate Kuno Wittmer had recovered to P3. A bold overtake on the ninth and final restart saw Holton leapfrog the leaders, reclaiming the race lead for the final charge to the chequered flag, and an historic victory.
Behind Holton, teammates Corey Fergus and Jesse Lazare steered the #69 570S GT4 of customer team Motorsports In Action to third place, narrowly missing out on a 1-2 finish at the line due to a bold strategy call mid-race leaving the car light on fuel at the end. Like Compass Racing, the Motorsports In Action pair too had to fight through the 35-car GS class field, after starting from the very back of the grid after an issue in post-Qualifying scrutineering.
By gambling with an early pitstop in the race during a Full-Course Yellow, the Canadian team was able move up the order and be in a strong position to fight for the win at the end. Fergus and Lazare progressed through the pack of GT4 and touring cars, and even led the race, before slipping to P3 on the final lap after suffering a fuel surge.
Commenting on the landmark victory for the 570S GT4 and McLaren at Daytona, McLaren Motorsport Director Dan Walmsley explained: "This win is extremely significant. To secure the first win of 2019 for the 570S GT4, and the first ever for McLaren at the iconic Daytona International Speedway is hugely important. More than just this, however, this is the result of the hard work of the past 18 months in the background; building and launching the Customer Racing division at McLaren Automotive, and working with our customer teams and drivers who have stayed with the brand.
"It has been a great day for so many reasons and congratulations to everyone at Compass Racing for the historic result, and also to Motorsports In Action who showed true grit and determination throughout to claim the final step on the podium after a tough battle. Both teams showed the passion and desire to win from the minute the lights went green, all the way to the flag."
Commenting on Factory Driver Paul Holton's performance, Walmsley added: "We have a very strong stable of Factory Drivers that we are working with across the GT3 and GT4 customer racing programmes, and Paul has proven himself to be one of them.
He has been working with us over the past year as part of the 720S GT3 development programme in Europe and he develops every time he gets behind the wheel. He has proven he is fast, he can wring a lap-time out of the car too and, what we are seeing now, is a well-rounded driver who can manage a race."
The next round of the 2019 Michelin Pilot Challenge season is set to take place at Sebring, Florida, as part of the 12 Hours of Sebring weekend on March 13-16.
Wayne Bruce, photos LAT Images © 2019 Jake Galstad / Michael L Levitt
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Can I repost my ideas from week four, since the challenge is pretty much the same?
By the way: CORRECTION: The Aztec Warrior is a FAST AND QUICK sword-wielding warrior!
In this challenge you are supposed to design the final boss for the last stage of the game.
You have start there with the Evil Robot From Hell, but you would have to focus you submission on the boss only.


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Talking Tech video – The regulation of cryptoassets: a view of the EU
Talking Tech article – Japan Financial Services Agency releases draft ordinances to implement new regulation of initial coin offerings and securities token offerings
Clifford Chance article – Regulatory, investigations and financial crime in the UK – horizon scan: top 10 topics for 2020, including the extension of the EU anti-money laundering regime to cryptoasset firms and the allocation of risk in artificial intelligence
Clifford Chance briefing – Artificial intelligence risk: what does 2020 hold?
Talking Tech article – Crypto exchange providers and 'custodian wallet providers' become subject to the UK money laundering laws
Case analysis: Stolen Bitcoin frozen as court finds that Bitcoin is property: ransomware hackers told to let it go
In an English judgment published last week, an insurer has obtained a proprietary injunction over $950,000 worth of Bitcoin paid in "ransom" after a cyber attack.
(24 Jan 2020) Bank for International Settlements report on its survey regarding the use of central bank digital currencies.
(21 Jan 2020) A new central bank group comprising the central banks of Canada, England, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland, along with the European Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements has formed to share experiences as they assess the potential cases for central bank digital currencies in their home jurisdictions. | Press release.
(20 Jan 2020) World Economic Forum (WEF) Head of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Sheila Warren, and WEF Blockchain and DLT Project Specialist, Sumedha Deshmukh, opinion article on the WEF's plans to create a blockchain 'bill of rights', which will set out how users can and should be protected as blockchain technology develops.
(16 Jan 2020) Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act (H.R. 5635) introduced to Congress by Suzan DelBene. The Bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide a de minimis exemption for personal transactions made with virtual currency whose gains are less than or equal to US$200, and would require the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations for those virtual currency transactions whose gains exceed US$200.
(16 Jan 2020) House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting information on the benefits and drawbacks of alternative data in mortgage lending and the role of the federal government in overseeing the use of alternative data by credit reporting agencies and lenders. | Press release.
(14 Jan 2020) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation consultation on the establishment of an innovation pilot program framework to allow firms to test innovative products and services within a regulatory environment.
(21 Jan 2020) Australian Prudential Regulation Authority submission to the Senate Select Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology, setting out a proposed regulatory framework for fintech and regtech.
(22 Jan 2020) Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Bank of Thailand (BOT) report on their joint central bank digital currency research project. Amongst other things, the report details the HKMA and BOT's successful development of a cross-border blockchain network prototype to facilitate payments arising from trade activities between Hong Kong and Thailand. | Press release
(24 Jan 2020) The Bahrain Economic Development Board and the Government of Karnataka, India, have signed a memorandum of understanding in which they agree to encourage growth, nurture start-ups and develop education programmes in the areas of artificial intelligence, fintech and other emerging technologies in both jurisdictions | Press release | See our table of fintech cooperation agreements for more information and a full list of international agreements.
(23 Jan 2020) Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman, Ajay Tyagi, speech on the potential benefits of using blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning in the securities market.
(14 Jan 2020) The Financial Services Agency of Japan has released a set of draft ordinances that will amend the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to introduce a new regulatory framework for initial coin offerings and security token offerings | Press release (in Japanese). | Clifford Chance summary
Thailand:
(23 Jan 2020) EU Parliament draft resolution which is intended to establish a framework to protect consumers from the rapid development of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making (ADM) technologies. Amongst other things, it requires that humans must always be ultimately responsible for, and able to overrule, decisions that are taken using ADM processes, especially in particular sectors, such as the banking sector. | Press release.
Luxembourg:
(15 Jan 2020) Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier communique on recent developments in the regulation of virtual assets and their service providers, including the adoption of recent Financial Action Taskforce documents and the imminent implementation of the fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive.
(23 Jan 2020) The Financial Conduct Authority and Bank of England have announced they are establishing a forum to facilitate dialogue with the public and private sectors regarding the use, benefits and impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial services sector. | Forum's terms of reference | Press release.
(22 Jan 2020) Bank of England Executive Director for Financial Market Infrastructure, Christina Segal-Knowles, speech on the future of payments regulation, in which she discusses unbundling, payments innovation and stablecoins.
(13 Dec 2019 – published on 17 Jan 2020 following the lifting of reporting restrictions) A case heard in the High Court (Queen's Bench Division) has ruled that Bitcoin is a property and granted a proprietary injunction to an English insurer (acting on behalf of its client, a Canadian insurer who was granted anonymity in the proceedings) over US$950,000 in Bitcoin, which the Canadian insurer paid in ransom following a cyber security attack. | Judgment | Clifford Chance summary.
London – Launching our joint white paper on smart derivatives contracts (29 Jan 2020):
Clifford Chance, ISDA, R3 and the Singapore Academy of Law are hosting a drinks and canape reception in London to mark the upcoming release of our joint white paper on the private international law aspects of smart derivatives contracts utilising distributed ledger technology (DLT). The reception will be preceded by a panel discussion which will cover the specific private international law issues raised in the white paper that may occur when trading derivatives in a DLT environment, as well as recommendations for clarifying or resolving these issues. The panel will also consider two different examples of derivatives transactions, both of which use ISDA documentation and are built on Corda, an enterprise blockchain and smart contract platform developed by R3. | For more information and to RSVP see the event webpage.
London – In conversation with Huw van Steenis (5 Feb 2020, 5:15pm to 6:30pm):
Clifford Chance is delighted to host a conversation with Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive of UBS and former Senior Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of England, Huw van Steenis. Huw's recent review of the future of the financial system for the Bank of England showed that he is one of the leading thinkers in the world on where the financial system goes next – from technology and data regulation to climate change and cyber attacks. Clifford Chance partner Simon Gleeson will be in conversation with Huw, discussing topics such as the future of money and payments, whether the current bank business model is sustainable, how finance might be raised in the future, and how the interaction between the internet giants and the financial system might play out. | For more information and to RSVP please contact our events team.


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Quilla Wagon
Nico walks next to her, in proximity as if they were holding hands, but both know this is not acceptable so they keep a cushion of air between themselves. Every day after school he brings her around Saint Kell, but every trip takes a different path. Yesterday, they'd visited the goats that live upstream on an island in the middle of the Argent River. The day before, they'd thrown old chunks of baguette to the ducks and swans. But her favorite walk with her student had been when he took her over a bridge, across the river, to a sparkling lake, la gravière, in the middle of the Ostwald forest. They'd momentarily gotten lost in the woods, which now seems to have been orchestrated by Nico. The forest is quite small.
Today he is bringing her to a tunnel that connects two pieces of path and runs under a railroad line.
"I painted this tunnel when I was in collège" he says.
"You weren't in college, Nico. It's called middle school or junior high." They enjoy correcting each other's false cognates, what Nico calls faux amis or "false friends," itself an example of the group of words that sound similar in French and English, but have different meanings entirely. It had started when Laney first came to dinner at Nico's and told his grandmother that French apricot jam had far fewer condoms in it than the American version. And when asked about the Swandish family, she'd mentioned her mom, Marka, her sister, Vicky and of course, her cat, Minnie. Marianne and Valéry had giggled as Nico tried to explain Laney's error. Apparently, she'd just informed the family that she had an orange pussy. Despite her embarrassment, she'd added, "her name is Minnie," which had made Mamama laugh so hard, her gold teeth had almost fallen out.
Their dialogue is a constant dance between French and English, each borrowing words from the other in a seamless banter that doesn't make sense to most people around them. Laney cannot tell anymore whether she is speaking Nico's language or he is speaking hers, only that they are communicating like no one she's met before. It's dizzying and worrisome, but she needs to get more.
"So you painted this tunnel? A giant mouth, Nico?" She takes in the toothy façade at the entry to the tunnel, wanting to take apart its symbolism, but coming up blank.
"Well, Mo designed it, actually. He said he was inspired by my mouth though. When I was a kid, I had too many teeth and they had to pull some out." A kid, like he wasn't still one now. Laney pictures the artist Mo, another boy in her English class. At 17, they're both almost adults, but also her students, and the thought makes her feel sick as Nico continues. "But see, if you walk through, you can see the other side. That's the side I wanted to paint. Our whole class worked on it at Hans Arp, but Mo and I did most of the heavy lifting. We wanted it to be perfect."
"What's Hans Arp?"
"That was our collège…sorry…our middle school. It was named after an artist who was trying to figure out the universe."
Laney smiles as she looks at the naïveté of Nico, knowing that all artists are trying to figure out the universe, that he was probably doing the same as he painted the tunnel. That every street in this part of St. Kell was named for dead men who had wandered around their worlds with paintbrushes, trying to make some sense of it. She is giddy to see Nico's brushstrokes, impatient to see the other side. But he stops her in the middle of the tunnel. The sun must be directly overhead because the light shines in from both sides, but leaves a patch of dark in the center for the teacher and student. He's looking at her intently, but not speaking. All she wants in this moment is to feel his wild thoughts swirl around in hers.
"I'm trying to figure out you, Nico. Tell me something I don't know about you."
"There are a million things you don't know about me, Laney. You'd have to live a million lives to know me well."
"Then you're a complex kid. Well, if you tell me one thing, it's a start. In other worlds, I'll learn something different about you. Maybe I'll put it all together and know a million details. My mom taught me that there are countless universes that we can't see. Membranes slapping together to create life and experience."
"I'd like to slap my membranes on yours, Laney."
"That's the worst line anyone has ever used to flirt with me, young man."
"That's not flirting. Flirt in French is something else."
"What do you mean, Nico? Another of your faux amis?"
"Not really, it's almost the same, but more like this." He covers her mouth with his and transfers an inordinate amount of passion for a schoolboy. Laney can't stop herself from kissing him back, not realizing her hand has reached the back of his neck, pushing him even closer. She holds him there in the dark too long. She's falling too fast and a wave of dread works its way through her body as she pulls back and looks at the boy's face.
"No, Nico. Not like this. In another life, I promise."
Nico takes a step back and is suddenly nonchalant, something adolescents pull off so well. "So are you coming for dinner tonight? Mamama's cooking." Laney's dread turns to anxious guilt as she realizes she's come too close, that she's to blame for this unsuitable relationship, and that she's come to dinner at the Arbogasts too many times.
"I can't, Nico. I can't…but I will." She grabs his hand in hers for a few brief seconds, still hidden by the shadows, then squeezes and lets go. "Come on, show me the other side."
They step into the sun and turn around to view the other entrance to the tunnel, and everything has changed again. Nico is just her tour guide, and they're on a platonic visit of the neighborhood. The tunnel is decorated like a rainbow. It looks freshly painted and pristine, almost new, like the pillowcases Marka Swandish gave the twins as welcome home presents after the adoption. Redorangeyellowgreenbluepurple. "I love it," she says to Nico, but she means it as another love, one she can't speak. The rainbow is so simplified, so delineated and two-dimensional. So easy to understand.
Nico's eyes are shining. They're beautiful eyes, dark but warm. Had she noticed them before? She can feel his will to keep the tears from spilling over. "Thanks," he says. "I thought you would. So, tell me about your mom. What's this membrane slapping all about?" She still doesn't know what language they're speaking.
"She studies brane cosmology; it's a way to try to understand what we're in, what we're part of. Like your old school's artist, I guess. When she'd bring us to Nigeria to see the family, they all thought she was a bit nuts. My grandparents in Lagos are super Christian and they say her work is dangerous. I think that's why she came to the States. That way she could do her work without everyone looking over her shoulder."
"Nigeria, Laney? I don't get it. You don't look like you eat bush meat."
"That should offend me, Nico. Not everyone in Nigeria eats bush meat. I do, by the way, and it's delicious. But that's besides the point. Anyway, I'm adopted. My dad died when I was four, from a brain infection. My family is my mom and my sister. And our extended family is in Nigeria. What about you, Nico? What's your story? I've met Mamama, but why aren't your parents ever around? You never even talk about them."
"Well maybe love skips a generation for them, I don't know. They didn't have any problem moving to New York and having Mamama raise us. They left France to grow grapes. They left the best white wine region in the world to go grow grapes in New York, go figure. They come back three times a year with lots of presents, but it's kind of bullshit. They've been there for a few years now, since we lost the house and moved to the apartment."
"Wow. I can't imagine my mom doing that. But then again, she left her family behind, in a way. And I guess coming here, I've left her behind too, although it's only for a school year. But my mom would never leave me or my sister. She gave up her whole life for us."
"What do you mean? She must have been so happy to raise you. To be your mom. She's lucky, Laney. She didn't give anything up."
"She was happy. She is happy. She tells us all the time. But she was really getting ahead in her field back when the accident happened with my dad. He was nuts and got this infection after drilling a hole in his skull. It was his own fault, but my mom still feels like it was hers, like she led him on in some way. Well, they had worked on all these way-out-there type of projects on light and color. She said they even tested some of their theories on Vicky and me because we had special eyes. They'd have us ride around in a fake hot air balloon and measure all this crazy stuff. I don't recall most of it, but she showed me some of the pictures."
"What's with the special eyes, Laney?"
"My sister and I are tetrachromats. It's not very interesting, really. Even goldfish have four cones and they're not revolutionizing the universe, but I guess it made us different from most people. I can't tell that I'm any different, but I guess I can see more colors than you can because of the extra cones in our eyes. That's not why I love your rainbow, by the way, just because it looks different to me. I'd love it even if were all grey, Nico." She pauses to see his reaction. She's said too much again and has to keep talking to erase the awkwardness.
"How does it look to you though? Does it look different?"
"I don't know Nico, I can't see it like you do. But, no, I think because it's painted I can see it as you intended it. A real rainbow though, that's hard for me to look at. There aren't wide arcs like you drew, like you painted. There are thousands of pinstripes, so many that they almost aren't there. Like I said, it's hard to look at. Even harder to describe.
"When my dad died, my mom didn't want to experiment on us and my mom knew she wouldn't be able to help herself, so she changed fields. She lost her funding. Had to start all over. She did that for us. She's always been concerned about being equal with us, with my sister and me. The first time I knew she was my mom was only two days after my dad died. We had a vacation bible school concert and she insisted we go, even though she said we didn't 'match,' that our hair was black, but different textures and people would look at us in funny ways. She said we had to get back on a routine, back to normal life. After the concert, she lifted us both up in a hug us and said, 'I could pick both of your pretty voices out of that whole choir, my little goldfish. Your wavelengths each entered a separate ear.' We were so happy to have her there, clapping her hands along to our ten variations of 'Jesus Loves Me.' I don't think our first mother ever came to those things, at least I don't remember if she did. I don't really remember her, I can't see her face. Just the sight of her walking out of the pizza place and never coming back. I don't think she planned on me seeing her leave. Our dad even had a social worker come over and tell us she was dead, that she drowned or something. But I saw her leave. I never told anyone that, so consider yourself lucky."
"I consider myself lucky just to talk to you," says Nico as his shoulder brushes up against hers. She feels a shiver that she shouldn't feel.
"It's nice to have someone to talk to here, Nico, but you know this could seem inappropriate to most people. I'm supposed to be a mentor, an employee, not a friend."
"How about a little friend? Une petite amie?" he said, grinning.
"I know what that means, Nico. In English, they call that a girlfriend and it's out of the question. You're a child."
"I"m not a child. I've had lots of petites amies already, Laney. It's not a big deal." This statement has the unfortunate effect of making Laney feel both jealous and perturbed that her heart thumps for a near juvenile. She is twenty-six after all, and had never contemplated falling for a student when she took this job. She fears and craves the things she imagines happening in the shadows of the rainbow tunnel. If only they had met later.
"I need some space, Nico. I think I need to cancel for dinner tonight. Tell Mamama bonjour and that I will actually try her rabbit sometime.
"You know she was just joking, Laney. She hasn't cooked rabbit since the move. She'd only cooked the ones she raised and there's no room in an apartment for bunnies. But I will tell her you said hi. She likes you. Moi, je t'aime bien aussi." Laney is stuck with the sticky task of deciphering the French "I love you so much too," knowing that the bien actually weakens the statement to a casual "like."
"I'll see you tomorrow, Nico, after school. Where are we going, anyway?"
"Do you want to go to the lake in the woods?"
"But we've already been there Nico, I thought you were the tour guide. Always something new."
"Yes, but I know you liked it there. If you really like a place, if you feel good there, what's wrong with going back to it?" His words carry more weight than usual, like he's speaking across dimensions.
"Okay, then, see you tomorrow. Meet at the school and then we'll cross the bridge together."
They've walked up the incline over the rainbow bridge to the train tracks and are having another tell-all discussion. "Nature or nurture, we're all carrying a burden of the past. My mom knows just about everything. Or at least a little about everything. She's a jack of all scientific disciplines. She told me that epigenetics marks people, that it's possible to feel our ancestors' pain. That generations of men and women who worked in Austrian salt mines are written on my DNA from my birth mother's side. She says my mitochondria know what it feels like to be buried in salt. I don't know if I believe her, by the way."
"I don't feel a burden, I never have. I don't know how some people carry so much weight with them. Look here, where the train goes. My brother, Val, is working for the SNCF. He's going to be a conductor for the Paris-Strasbourg route. It pays well, but they say statistically every conductor will come across a suicide at least once during their career. Someone so burdened to just lay down on the tracks."
"Are you kidding? There are that many?"
"Yes, and the worst part is that the conductors can see them from really far away. Sometimes they're even standing up, but the train has too much momentum. They can't stop something as heavy as a train in its tracks. Not in time anyway. So they're told to just blow the horn and close their eyes."
"Nico, if I hadn't left the US, I would have married someone who wears baggy khaki pants and prepares corporate tax returns. I guess that's my train."
"So you found a way to avoid the disaster. You had to derail."
"Maybe I saved the guy on the tracks, but killed everyone on board by changing course. Maybe, no matter what I do, it's wrong. Because what I want is you, and you're all wrong, Nico." She's said it. I want you. And saying it only makes it seem more wrong than before.
He takes her with a grip that means things will happen and there's burning, blood pumping into every capillary, every spot left neglected too long. Pulsing that makes her face pink as Nico starts to pull so many parts of her down.
His kisses are not refined by age and he's too wet, too eager. But she pulls him closer still, like she's pulling life itself into her. He meets no resistance as he slides in and out, nestled in sharp weeds by the train tracks.
They both know the sound of the evening train, a sound that means they've walked too long, that it's either dinner or scandal and they must move on. But both lie nearly motionless, just a fraction of Nico shrinking, but still inside Laney in the bushes as they breathe each other in. A tear that seems too hot is rolling down Laney's cheek. She cannot keep this moment. He kisses her again, almost like a man this time, with a long, slow, even pressure normally taught by time.
"Je t'aime," he says, so simply that it could be comedy, without adding a bien or a beaucoup. A full-scale I love you from what amounts to a teenage boy. Before she can protest or threaten a move back over the Atlantic, his mouth is secured around her left nipple and pulling it up in a 'pop' that shivers her core. His fingers have worked their way down and inside her, replacing his sticky appendage with powerful fingers. Laney is picturing the dirt of his hands riding up inside her and it only makes her glow warmer. Rough and rhythmic, it can't be lasting but a minute, but she begs for more time and looks at his face. His beautiful face, marked with experience by a long scar, but more handsome than anything she's seen. His eyes are on her, in her through his fingertips as she sees what she thinks must be some form of understanding.
Then, before she can tell him he's changed her, that he's shaken her to the core, he's re-pantsing and hopping on one foot, trying to get dressed before going to the evening meal in his tower block. He is so clearly seventeen. Laney stands and brushes grass off herself, feeling the textured imprint of broad weeds on her derrière. It takes her a moment to realize she's fully naked in the late summer sunlight at dinnertime.
Nico has applied one shoe and is looking for the other before the train crosses and blocks their path for four minutes or more. "Here it is," he says proudly as Laney's insides still pulse with longing for the boy who is already on his way home. They can see the train now and the time has more than come for Laney to clothe herself. Nico stumbles, inebriated onto the tracks as his nature-clad lover looks on with melancholy.
The train is too close now. Shouldn't he be moving? Why is he still standing there? Then she sees. Sees the bright white laces of his shoes, stuck on something in the tracks. He's tugging, working at the knot. Why doesn't he just take off the shoe? But the more he pulls, the tighter it gets and he's still tugging as the horn starts blowing, a sound so heavy it pushes Laney back.
She's standing there, half hidden in the bushes, naked and panicked with nipples that could not be more erect as she looks to the conductor. He has placed his arms in an X in front of his face so that he cannot see what transpires before him.
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Protein Required for a Female
By Erin Coleman, R.D., L.D.
How Much Protein a Day for an Active Male?
Daily Protein Requirements for Male Weightlifters
How Much Protein Per Day for a Teenage Girl?
Safe Upper Intake Level of Protein
Protein requirements for females are based on their age, size and activity level. Protein helps maintain lean muscle mass and is an important component of your skin, glands and blood, according to MedlinePlus. Meeting protein needs can also help female athletes maximize their athletic performance.
Adult women need at least 46 grams of protein each day, according to the Institute of Medicine. High-protein foods include lean red meats, fish, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, soy products, legumes, nuts and seeds. Women can meet this minimum protein requirement by consuming about 4 ounces of grilled chicken breast and two eggs or eating 3 ounces of red meat plus 1 cup of cottage cheese.
Due to increased protein needs during pregnancy and lactation, the Institute of Medicine encourages pregnant and nursing women to consume at least 71 grams of protein each day. Although fish is an excellent source of protein, pregnant and nursing women should limit fish consumption because of potential toxins, such as mercury. The Food and Drug Administration reports that it's safe for pregnant and nursing women to consume up to 12 ounces of low-mercury fish per week; examples of fish low in mercury include salmon, canned light tuna, shrimp and catfish.
Female infants, toddlers, children, preteens and teenagers require protein to grow and develop at a healthy pace. Infants ages 0 to 6 months need at least 9.1 grams of protein, infants ages 7 to 12 months require 11 grams, toddlers ages 1 to 3 need 13 grams, girls ages 4 to 8 require 19 grams, females ages 9 to 13 need at least 34 grams and teenage girls ages 14 to 18 require 46 grams of protein each day.
Female athletes need more protein than inactive women. The amount of protein an athlete needs each day depends on her size and activity level. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, endurance-trained athletes need about 0.55 to 0.9 grams of protein per pound of body weight each day, depending on the intensity level during training and duration of exercise. Based on these protein requirements, a 130-pound female athlete may require up to 117 grams of protein each day.
MedlinePlus: Protein in Diet
Food and Drug Administration: What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Eat Right for Endurance Training
Erin Coleman is a registered and licensed dietitian. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in dietetics and has extensive experience working as a health writer and health educator. Her articles are published on various health, nutrition and fitness websites.
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Codex Software provided staff augmentation, and developed numerous components of the cloud–based multichannel eCommerce platform.
communication and development to product delivery.
By the moment we joined the project, the Customer had long operated a sizeable in-house development team, and we had to establish efficient cooperation between the augmented team of up to 10 developers augmented simultaneously, and the inhouse staff.
For that, apart from the standard best practices (e.g. unifications of tools and methods used by both teams, use of continous integration and contionuous delivery, version control, accurate task distribution, detailed reporting), we arranged a local development center in Cheltenham, the UK.
During the following 4 years, every member of the augmented project team spent at least several weeks working from the Customer's premises along with the in-house employees. Also, several times we scaled the team up and down, with additional talent attracted in less than 2 weeks upon enquiry.
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Mindfulness meditation can involve breathing practice, mental imagery, awareness of body and mind, and muscle and body relaxation.
One of the original standardized programs for mindfulness meditation is the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD (who was a student of Buddhist monk and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh). MBSR focuses on awareness and attention to the present. Other simplified, secular mindfulness meditation interventions have been increasingly incorporated into medical settings to treat stress, pain, insomnia, and other health conditions.
1. Find a quiet and comfortable place. Sit in a chair or on the floor with your head, neck, and back straight but not stiff.
3. Become aware of your breath, focusing on the sensation of air moving in and out of your body as you breathe. Feel your belly rise and fall, and the air enter your nostrils and leave your mouth. Pay attention to the way each breath changes and is different.
There's no law that says you must be sitting on a cushion in a quiet room to practice mindfulness, says Hanley. Mindfulness mediation is one technique, but daily life provides plenty of opportunities to practice.
Doing the dishes. Have you ever noticed how no one is trying to get your attention while you're doing the dishes? The combination of alone time and physical activity makes cleaning up after dinner a great time to try a little mindfulness.
Savor the feeling of the warm water on your hands, the look of the bubbles, the sounds of the pans clunking on the bottom of the sink. Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh calls this exercise "washing the dishes to wash the dishes"--not to get them over with so you can go watch TV.
When you give yourself over to the experience, you get the mental refreshment of a mind-body practice and a clean kitchen. It's multi-tasking at its best!
Brushing your teeth. You can't go a day without brushing your teeth, making this daily task the perfect opportunity to practice mindfulness. Feel your feet on the floor, the brush in your hand, your arm moving up and down. Einstein said he did his best thinking while he was shaving--I'd argue that what he was really doing in those moments was practicing mindfulness!
Driving. It's easy to zone out while you're driving, thinking about what to have for dinner or what you forgot to do at work that day. Use your powers of mindfulness to keep your attention anchored to the inside of your car.
Turn off the radio (or turn it to something soothing, like classical), imagine your spine growing tall, find the half-way point between relaxing your hands and gripping the wheel too tightly, and bring your attention back to where you and your car are in space whenever you notice your mind wandering.
Exercising. Yes, watching TV while running on the treadmill will make your workout go more quickly, but it won't do much to quiet your mind. Make your fitness endeavors an exercise in mindfulness by turning off all screens and focusing on your breathing and where your feet are in space as you move.
Bedtime. Watch your battles over bedtime with the kids disappear when you stop trying to rush through it and simply try to enjoy the experience. Get down to the same level as your kids, look in their eyes, listen more than you talk, and savor any snuggles you get. When you relax, they will too.
Goyal M, Singh S, Sibinga EM, et al. Meditation programs for psychological stress and well-being: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Mar;174(3):357-68.
Kabat-Zinn J. Mindfulness Meditation: Health benefits of an ancient Buddhist practice. Mind/Body Medicine, eds. Goleman D, Gurin J. New York: Consumer Reports Books; 1993.


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I have coached souls through spiritual awakening, healthy eating, exercise, relationship challenges, retirement plans, self-care, self limiting beliefs, entrepreneurs, life transitions, mindfulness, family issues, body image, fearful thoughts, self-limiting beliefs and so on.
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The answer to this question will depend upon the individual person and their life circumstances, passion for growth, commitment and strategy. All of these factors and more, will play a role to determine how long our valued partnership will last. I will say I require a six month commitment, as it will give you plenty of time to reflect upon your life and make the changes to lead your best days ahead!
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August 28, 2019 / 2:40 PM / 5 months ago
Indian state expands work scheme to tackle exploitation
Anuradha Nagaraj
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An Indian state with some of the country's highest levels of migration driven by poverty is doubling the amount of paid work it gives some of its poorest citizens, in a bid to curb debt bondage, a common form of slavery.
Authorities in the eastern state of Odisha said hundreds of thousands of people were estimated to be leaving to find work every year, with many trafficked into exploitative jobs in the brick kilns fuelling the country's construction boom.
To address this, they are expanding a national scheme that provides state-funded employment to the neediest, doubling the annual number of paid work days to 200 per household and increasing the daily rate from 180 Indian rupees ($2.50) to 286.
"As per our records, 140,000 people migrate for work after registering with the labor department," said Niranjan Sahu, Odisha's labor commissioner.
"But there are studies that suggest that three times that number migrate, many duped by illegal agents. We want to give them work near their homes."
The project will provide extra paid work in two of the worst hit districts in the drought-prone west of the state, from where tens of thousands of families leave their villages each autumn to seek work across India.
Odisha has one of India's highest migration rates, fueled by drought and a lack of jobs. An estimated 500,000 people migrate from this part of the state every year, more than half to work in brick kilns.
Most are duped into offering themselves for work as security against a loan they have taken or debt inherited from a relative, labor rights activists say.
Trapped in debt bondage, the most common form of slavery in India, they then spend the next six months or more working to pay it back.
India's rural jobs guarantee scheme was set up in 2006 and provides unskilled work to about 70 million rural people building everything from dams to school toilets.
Wages can take up to two weeks to be paid - a delay labor rights campaigners have argued pushes poor families into exploitation - but the Odisha government has pledged to ensure the are paid within 24 hours.
Migration expert Umi Daniel said the Odisha government had in the past provided only 34 days of work - not the 100 days the scheme is supposed to guarantee.
"People need work and are vulnerable to exploitation. But we will have to wait and watch to see if this new initiative protects them," said Daniel, regional head of Swiss-based charity Aide et Action International.
Reporting by Anuradha Nagaraj @AnuraNagaraj; Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights and climate change. Visit http://news.trust.org


(AINA) -- The uprising of the Egyptian Youth, both Copts and Muslims, has been dubbed as the "Facebook Uprising" mainly because it was started by modern and educated youth who depended on the social network "Facebook" and "Twitter" to organize themselves. Until now it appears that they are nondenominational, do not belong to any political party and without a leader, demanding the "ousting of the present corrupt regime and the octogenarian President Mubarak, to make way for a democratic and secular Egypt, with social justice and equality for all Egyptians. The uprising which is now called "January 25th Youth Movement" has gained support from Egyptians of all walks of life.
Several Coptic organizations have been taking part in the demonstrations, believing that change in Egypt is coming and they have to be there. They perceive their participation will put weight and balance the scales for a secular state.
Activist Rami Kamel, one of those responsible for the Coptic Youth Movement, said thousands of its members participated in all protests and in all areas, including the "Day of Departure" demonstrations on February 4, which called for the immediate ousting of Mubarak, and confirmed their intention to do so, until all demands of protesters are met. He added they joined the demonstrations the first day. "We have to get rid of the President, and his regime, which was the cause of the decline of Egypt economically, socially, and caused all the sectarian problems suffered by the Copts."
After President Mubarak bowed to international pressure and the ongoing daily protests asking for his departure, he declared that he would not seek reelection but would finish his current term. Mubarak appointed a vice-president and brought in a new government which called on all parties to join in a dialogue for the future. All parties have been invited to take part in this dialogue except for the Copts.
This has angered Copts world-wide, especially since they believe their January demonstrations all over Egypt after the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve (AINA 1-2-2011) was the spark that ignited the present uprising "by breaking down the barrier of fear." This view is also held by the Coptic Church, whose Bishop Anba Suriel of Melbourne told "The Australian" on February 5 that "he believes the nascent revolution began with the New Year massacre of 23 Copts."
For his part, Coptic Dr. Naguib Gabriel, head of the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights Organization, addressed Major Omar Suleiman, Vice-President of the Republic, urging him to include the Copts in the dialogue with the national authorities, initiated by the Vice President on Wednesday, on grounds that the Copts are part of the national community, and must participate in decision-making, particularly in the constitutional committee.
Gabriel stressed in his message to the Vice-President, which was aired on some TV channels this morning, that it is not possible under any circumstances to exclude Copts from the national dialog. He pointed out that many Coptic youth were killed and wounded since the beginning of the January 25th Youth Movement, demanding with their compatriots constitutional, legislative and social reforms. He wondered how could the Muslim Brotherhood can be invited for dialogue and not the Copts, who comprise 15-20% of Egypt's population.
It was reported today that Islamist groups have asked Major Omar Suleiman to be included in the dialogue.
Rami Kamel told the Egyptian daily el Masry elYom the Coptic Youth Movement has legitimate demands consistent with those of the rest of the demonstrators, pointing out the regime has ruled out Coptic activists from the dialogue with the political authorities, which confirms the marginalization of the Copts.
Coptic Pope Shenouda III said on Egyptian state TV two years ago that the number of Copts in Egypt exceed 12 million. "This is based on baptisms and marriages in addition to lists of families in the church registers all over Egypt," said Father Antonius Isaac of St. Mary's Church in the Mohandeseen area of Cairo. "This number does not include Copts in small villages and hamlets who have no church and have never seen a priest, due to the government policies of limiting church building."
The main Coptic demands are a new secular and democratic constitution without the second Article of the present Egyptian Constitution, which states that Islamic Sharia is the source of legislation, and which makes them second class citizens.
"We are at least 15-20% of the Egyptian population and we demand proportionate representation and definitely no restrictions on church building," said activist Joseph Armanious. "We also demand what all other Egyptian protesters are asking for, but these demands come on top."
The Coptic Church had called on its followers not to join in the protests, angering many Copts who decided not to follow the soft attitude of their church towards the regime, saying that it only has to limit itself to spiritual matters. Faced with the pressure of the defiant Coptic youth, the church was later forced to relax its stance and allowed Copts to join but only in "peaceful protests, in a civilized manner and within the law."
Pope Shenouda gave his support for Mubarak at the beginning of the protests, which led many activists to accuse the church of believing Mubarak, "who managed to present himself to the Coptic Church and the Coptic people as the ultimate guardian of Copts in Egypt, despite this regime being responsible, first and foremost, of all sectarian terrorist incidents that took place against the Copts," says Coptic activist Fawzy Hermina. He added: "The scandal and the straw that broke the camel's back was what the British Embassy in Egypt said, that the Ministry of Interior is the organ which is responsible for planning and carrying out the bombing of the "Two Saints" Church in Alexandria on New Year's Eve, which killed thirty and wounded ninety Copts."
Many Copts share this view, including Coptic political analyst and activist Magdy Khalil, who said "Mubarak has been involved one way or another in the Alexandria church bombing."
Reuters/Arabic carried out an interview with Coptic demonstrators in Tahrir Square, published on February 4. It reported that most of them said that they want to see Mubarak toppled and his regime gone "now more than ever." One Coptic dentist explained that the New Year's Eve Alexandria church bombing brought to an end the lie that the regime was protecting the Copts, and that was why the Copts went out demonstrating against Mubarak at the time, while another Copt who came from Nag Hammadi, where six Copts were shot by a Muslim on Christmas Eve 2010 (AINA 1-7-2010) said "We came here to show that every Egyptian should be here and want to be here, no difference between Christians and Muslims."
Speaking about the fear of the Copts at the present moment, Coptic activist Wagih Yacoub said "Things are moving so fast and nobody knows what to expect next, everything is up in the air, however, Copts are desperate that an Islamic outcome should be avoided. We all say yes to change, but no to an Islamic state."
Asked in a television interview with CNN on January 31, Coptic business Tycoon Naguib Saweiress, who has been appearing recently as a Coptic leader, praised the "Facebook Uprising" as he also called it, but cautioned that "one has to watch the Muslim Brotherhood of not hijacking this uprising." This view is shared by all Copts and Muslims who do not agree with Egypt becoming an "Islamic Caliphate."


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Located in the heart of York, St Leonard's Place comprises an imposing Grade II listed crescent which, together with the adjoining Grade II listed properties on Museum Street, were acquired by the Rushbond Group in 2006.
Previously occupied by City of York Council, Rushbond drew up plans to restore the building to its original 19th century splendour, transforming the offices into 40 elegant homes, including five townhouses, 29 apartments and six mews properties.
Home automation was a key feature of the project, with a £250k budget representing the largest home automation project outside London for our automation technology partner, Comelit.
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We were contacted at the beginning of 2015, as a trusted company that has previously worked successfully on a number of large automation projects.
We were also the only company within the criteria who could integrate each individual home automation solution required at the development in house. Those solutions included state of the art door locking systems in every property; heating, lighting and sound control; alongside sophisticated CCTV security systems in principal communal areas and car parks.
Our involvement in the 22-month project ranged from the scheme design to procurement and complete installation. Throughout the refurbishment, the effective and empathetic use of space was a key issue. This ranged from restricted access routes for vehicles and workers on site to restrictions on parts of the building that could not be altered in any way due to its listed status. For this reason, we selected high-end home automation products, some developed in-house for use throughout this scheme. These products were streamlined and compact in size, using smart and IOT-enabled technologies to deliver the functionality required within the listed building restrictions.
To further accommodate the restrictions imposed when working on a listed building we kept the wiring topology simple. This included installing a fibre integrated reception system (IRS) alongside minimal structured cabling. This ensures all properties had a strong signal with a full range of TV and radio services without interference from other communications and data and telecoms could be handled around the site. Our systems deliver greater capacity, over increased distances and more cost effectively than has previously been achievable.
The end user functionality at St Leonard's Place is market leading. The automation systems allow residents to configure heating, lighting and sound to suit their lifestyle. These systems enable the creation of individual 'scenarios', or sequences, that can include light dimming and graduated heating or cooling of the apartment. Residents can also remotely control and programme heating and lighting, and every home features intelligent data for monitoring energy consumption, even when away from home.
In addition, properties also benefit from Bose audio distribution systems: affording the ability to listen to music in every room, or choose different music in different rooms simultaneously from a range of supply sources, including online streaming services such as Spotify.
And, when it came to access control, we combined fob entry systems with video intercom, delivering an effective global entry systems that not only gives residents security but also complete peace of mind.
Following completion of the flagship project in February 2017, demand for the properties means that only a small number of the 40 properties remain available.


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Cloudy skies, rain over next few days in Delhi: IMD
The forecast shows that after a hot weekend of maximum temperature hovering around 41°C on Sunday at the Safdarjung observatory, the temperature is likely dip to 36°C with chances of thunderstorms and rain.
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The rainfall will also help to bring down the temperature from 40°C to around 34°C by Tuesday. Tuesday's forecast also shows possibilities of strong winds and rain.(HT Photo)
Delhiites are likely to get some respite from heat and humidity from Monday.
The weather department has forecast cloudy skies and rain for the next few days. Senior officials from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that fresh western disturbance is likely to trigger some rain in Delhi from Monday.
The forecast shows that after a hot weekend of maximum temperature hovering around 41°C on Sunday at the Safdarjung observatory, the temperature is likely dip to 36°C with chances of thunderstorms and rain. The minimum temperature will also come down to 27°C on Monday.
"There are chances of moderate rain on Monday. Intermittent rainfall could continue till Tuesday morning after which the sky will remain cloudy," said a senior official of the regional weather forecasting centre in Delhi.
The rainfall will also help to bring down the temperature from 40°C to around 34°C by Tuesday. Tuesday's forecast also shows possibilities of strong winds and rain.
The mercury had been rising over the past one week after the effects of cyclone Vayu faded. On Saturday, the day temperature at Safdarjung was recorded to be 40.3°C, two degrees above normal. At Palam, it was 42.4°C.
"As monsoon is approaching, easterly winds are blowing, which are bringing in moisture. Together these two – the western disturbance and moisture from easterly winds – will trigger rain in Delhi," said the weather official.
From Friday, however, the temperature levels will start rising again, with maximum temperature going up to 40°C.
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