With the returns of both the Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man to the big screen, it really seems like our favorite Asgardian is getting the short of the stick. Nobody's really talking about Thor. That's going to change when you see the first trailer for Thor: Ragnarok. We've been looking forward to seeing what a new director and a new direction were going to do to the God of Thunder and we think you're going to like what you see. Check out the madness below.
Everything about this trailer makes Thor: Ragnarok look like it might be the best thing that Marvel has going this year. It opens with the apparent destruction of Thor's hammer and the destruction of Asgard by fire. That's pretty much exactly what Ragnarok is supposed to be, so we saw that coming. Still, while an opening like that could lead one to think that we're in for something dark and depressing, that's not what we have here. The rocking guitar of Led Zepplin's "Immigrant Song" never lets you believe for a moment that this movie isn't going to be about action.
From there, Thor ends up on his own and in the clutches of the Grandmaster, played exactly how we thought Jeff Goldblum would do it. Thor's imprisoned and put to work fighting in an arena for the entertainment of others. This, of course, leads to our first look at the other big member of the story, the big green guy.
Needless to say, this is not the same Thor that we have seen in his debut or in The Dark World. Everything about the tone feels different. We knew that when Taika Waititi was tapped to helm the new movie that we were going to get something that was a bit different. It isn't just the comedic bit at the end, where Thor rejoices at seeing his friend The Incredible Hulk, that makes this feel different. Everything here makes the new film feel like it's going to be fun and exciting. We're now really looking forward to the end of the year so we can watch Thor's third adventure. From everything we know about the story, this teaser is only showing us the beginning of the film, so there's plenty more where that came from. Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters November 3.
In addition to the new trailer, we also got the first poster for Thor: Ragnarok. Click over to page two to check it out.


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Q: QGIS points disappear after changing CSV file location, changing data source doesn't help I moved my database and shape files, and wanted to relink them to my QGIS project. The shape file worked fine, but the CSV file wasn't reloading properly no matter what I tried. I could see the fields and the attribute table all fine, but the points just wouldn't appear, and there wasn't even a checkbox to the left of the layer in the layers panel like there usually is.
I don't want to remove the layer and re-add it, although that did work in making it visible. But then I would lose all the properties that I've already set to that layer.
I'm using QGIS v3.14.
I'm new to QGIS and mapping in general.

A: you could in the still working project right click your csv-layer -> export -> Save as QGIS Layer Style File and save all the styling/forms etc to one single file. Then move your project, load the csv again, right click it -> Properties. Here in the very left bottom you will find the button "Style". Click on it, "load style", navigate to where you saved the layer style file and you should be good :)

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This is the first book I've read by Robert Bryndza, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The story was well written, engaging and well developed.
The characters were likeable, interesting, and the protagonist (Erika) perfectly imperfect.
As I was reading this book, I kept thinking that this story would make a fantastic crime drama on the BBC.
Even though this is the sixth book in the series, it can be read as a standalone, and I had absolutely no trouble following the series' arc.
The Author did a great job of informing the reader of any pertinent background details from previous books that might be important in this story.


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Atheist Hitchens Credits Evangelical Francis Collins for Cancer Hope
By Ethan Cole, Christian Post Reporter | Monday, March 28, 2011
World famous atheist, Christopher Hitchens, made a surprising revelation recently that his former debate opponent, outspoken evangelical scientist Francis Collins, is behind a new experimental cancer treatment that he is using.
In an interview with U.K. Telegraph Magazine, Hitchens said that Collins, who was formerly the director of the National Center for Human Genome Research and now serves as director of the National Institutes of Health, is partially responsible for developing a new cancer treatment that maps out the patient's entire genetic make-up and targets damaged DNA.
Hitchens, author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, said that he was asked a few weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer last year to be a guinea pig for a new genome sequencing treatment that could possibly cure cancer.
In June 2010, Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. The cancer is at stage 4.
"And the thing to note about stage four is that there is no stage five," commented Hitchens during the interview published on Friday.
Although he was told to not have any expectations for the treatment, he found out earlier this year that there was already medicine out for the genetic mutation expressed by his tumor.
Prior to falling ill, Hitchens had debated Collins, author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, about the existence of God. Hitchens said he and Collins have become good friends despite their religious differences.
"It is a rather wonderful relationship," said Hitchens. "I won't say he doesn't pray for me, because I think he probably does; but he doesn't discuss it with me."
He added, "He agrees that his medical experience does not include anything that could be described as a miracle cure – he's never come across anything."
Hitchens has been polite about the idea of Christians praying for his cancer treatment. But he has remained resolute that his cancer battle will not sway his religious opinion on God.
Last year, Collins wrote in a special piece for The Washington Post for "Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day": "My prayer is not so much for a supernatural intervention – as a physician I have not seen evidence for such medical miracle in my own experience.
"Instead I pray for myself and for Christopher along the lines of James 1:5."
The verse James 1:5 says: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."
Hitchens has said that he will not convert on his deathbed unless he is "very ill" or "half demented, either by drugs or pain where I wouldn't have control over what I say."
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Protesters demonstrate against vaccine mandate in nation's capital: 'This is loving your neighbor'

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Police in Algeria''s capital have used teargas to disperse a crowd of young men who threw stones and petrol bombs to try to stop bulldozers demolishing dozens of illegally built homes.
Wednesday''s riot was unusually violent and took place at a time when Algerian authorities are wary of any sign of contagion from the unrest elsewhere in the Arab world.
A police spokesman said 50 officers were injured in the clashes. Reporters on the spot said the demonstrators replied with iron bars and stones.
The newspaper El Watan said at least five vehicles had been set on fire, including a police truck attacked by young people.
The confrontation, in the Oued Koriche suburb of Algiers, began when local officials ordered the demolition of more than 30 houses built on publicly-owned land without a permit.
Police in protective gear formed a shield around bulldozers which moved in to demolish the houses, but they came under attack from about 100 young men.
After a few hours all the illegal buildings were knocked down and the confrontation ended.
The shortage of housing is a major problem in Algeria, especially in the capital where the buildings are packed tightly together on hills sloping down to the Mediterranean Sea and where there is fierce competition for living space.
Since the start of this year there have been daily rallies after bloody protests against the cost of living claimed five lives and left 800 injured, involving all social classes.
The authorities subsequently announced a series of measures to meet the demands, including more housing.


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Q: program to calculate the average of rssi values so here i a little code that I need to calculate the average of some rssi values:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main (void)
{

    int8_t rssi_linear_sum;
    int8_t rssi_val;
    int8_t rssi_avg;
    int8_t rssi_num = 0;

    int8_t get_rssi(int8_t i)
    {
            return i;
    }
    /* rssi_get() in my actual code is a function that gets rssi
    values through a bluetooth service, it returns an int8_t value, for the
    sake of concision, I replaced it with a loop that
    would return similar values to what I get.*/

    for (int8_t i = -100; i <-10; i+=10)
    {
        rssi_val= get_rssi(i);
        rssi_linear_sum += powf(10, (float)rssi_val / 20);
        rssi_num ++;
    }
    rssi_avg = 20 * log10f(rssi_linear_sum / rssi_num);

    printf("%d",rssi_avg );
}

so I know that to have a precise average to decibel values, you have to linear them first and then get the average. I am just not sure if my code expresses that perfectly. this is more of a logique question rather than a code question, but maybe you can introduce me to a function that does thi or verify that my logique does actually get me the average of values.


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Hong Kong Golden in UAE; Defend Title & Sweep Asian Sevens Series
[28 Nov 2022] The HKRU men's sevens team defended their Asia Rugby Sevens Series title after beating hosts UAE in the cup final in Al Ain, 21-7. The men swept the competition with a perfect three for three cups from the 2022 series. The series win also qualifies Hong Kong for the qualification tournament for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series next year.
"It was a good result in the end," said Hong Kong sevens coach Jevon Groves of a scrappy and penalty- strewn final.
"We were good in patches, but we made it difficult on occasion. The boys really stepped up in the end. UAE gave us a real challenge. They were in their first final and at home, it was an emotional moment for them, but I think we controlled the ball well when it counted.
"Three from three is hugely pleasing. In Thailand at the beginning of the series we talked about wanting to be consistent and I think we have showed that consistency in the three Asian series legs, and we showed glimpses of it at the Hong Kong Sevens. We used all 21 of the senior players in the squad this Series and everyone got a true opportunity, which is great for the team as a whole," Groves added.
With nearest rivals South Korea bombing out early, Hong Kong's men's team were assured of the series title before the first ball was kicked in anger. Nevertheless, the men did not let up on the gas jumping out to a hard fought 14-0 lead at half-time.
Hong Kong's first half scores came from a pinballing effort from Liam Herbert who shook two defenders on his way to the line after two minutes, and a Russ Webb finish of a patient attack in the sixth. A yellow card to Max Denmark for tripping towards the end of the first half put pressure on the defence on both sides of the interval but Hong Kong held strong.
Seb Brien led from the front, playing well above his stature with some excellent bruising runs helping to fold the UAE defence in on itself. After more exchanging of infringements, Hong Kong eventually pushed its lead out to 19-0 when a UAE penalty gave the visitors the ball inside the hosts 22-metres.
Fresh from the sin-bin, Denmark made the UAE pay for the indiscipline with an easy try from 20 metres out, crashing through arm-tackles for his eighth try of the weekend - his 17th over two tournaments - confirming his reputation as the most dangerous player in Asia.
The hosts salvaged a consolation score in the final minute, which was good reward for an eye-opening series from the boys in the desert, but Hong Kong had claimed its third gold medal of the Series and set the standard for Asian sevens once again.
Groves spoke about Denmark's impact saying, "Max is really rounding into form and his conditioning is superb. It is great to see him come back after suffering some pretty serious injuries.
"Of course, Max is only one of 12 or 13 players, and this was a team effort here and across the series, but the three tires he scored against Japan were excellent and it is fantastic to have a player like that in the squad, he is a real point of difference for us."
Earlier, the side dismantled Japan 33-7 in the semi-final. Hong Kong exerted pressure from the kick-off in what looked to be the complete performance that coach Jevon Groves had been calling for ahead of the weekend.
Japan controlled possession from the kick-off but conceded territory for the first two minutes before spilling the ball deep inside their half. Seb Brien swooped in on the loose ball and took it in for the opening score. Hong Kong looked to have scored a second shortly after Brien's effort through Fong Kit- fung in the corner but he was felled at the try-line. A knock-on in the ensuing ruck gave Japan the scrum and they produced a jailbreak 95-metre score to take the lead 7-5.
From there on out it was all Hong Kong. The SAR seven stormed back for 28 unanswered points. Max Denmark led the way once again with the burly back proving too much for the defence. He produced a hat trick (bringing his total to seven tries ahead of the final) with each scoring run coming through and, at times, over the Japanese defenders. Brien added a second score in the waning moments and Russ Webb accounted for four conversions as Hong Kong cruised into the cup 33-7 victors.
After a brave performance on day one to emerge from a tight pool with Japan and Kazakhstan, the Hong Kong women's seven's cup chase lost steam in a 31-0 loss to China in the semis. Encouragingly, it was the side's highwater mark for the season.
Thailand proved too strong for Hong Kong in the bronze medal play-off, winning 24-10 as Hong Kong finished fourth. Ay Yeung Sin-yi accounted for both of Hong Kong's scores in the bronze medal game.
China beat Japan 21-14 to claim the women's Asia Rugby Sevens Series title for a second straight year and a first under new coach in Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist and Fiji legend Osea Kolinisau.
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Auckland Live Kid's beloved FREE Pick & Mix programme is back in 2019 - this time with a twist!
Launching in April and running through to December, Auckland Live's Pick & Mix is showcasing some of Aotearoa's finest talent across the city with free monthly performances. From circus to hip-hop, mask making to ballet, there's something for every family to keep them occupied throughout the year.
Auckland Live has chosen a range of workshops and events spread across one weekend each month (with the exception of June and November) each with a different performance. Audience favourites will make a reappearance, while new faces grace the stage and entertain those of all ages. Between mimes, circus and the incredible art of poi, you're bound to keep the little ones entertained while picking up some tricks along the way!
Each event will host a 45 minute workshop after the performance so be sure to stick around to learn a new skill, like some new ballet moves with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, circus tricks with The Dust Palace or the White Face Crew's hilarious comedy tricks.
Auckland Live Pick & Mix aims to immerse kids into the world of performing arts, by providing families with engaging events across circus, dance, song and more. Featuring high quality performances and workshops, the programme hopes to open new doors for children through the magic of live entertainment!


Reminder: All NHS service logs and essays are due Thursday to Mrs. Shockley.
Board Game Club meeting in Mr. Wickens' room Friday directly after school until 8:00 pm, all are welcome.
The Medical Explorers Program is BACK! If you are interested in the medical field and would like to get hands-on experience, you might be interested in this volunteer program offered at Mercy St. Francis in Mt. View. Mrs. Munson will hold an informational meeting during both BEAR times on Thursday, October 8 in the Library. If you are not able to attend the meeting, see Mrs. Munson during transition times.
ALL High School Girls...you are invited to attend the first all-girls devotional meeting Thursday in the HS Library at 7:30 a.m. A breakfast item will be provided. The study will be Head to Soul Makeover, Becoming Real in a Fake World. Come Thursday and check it out!
High School girls you are invited to attend two of the classes that will be starting October 26th at the Willow Springs YMCA. Mrs. Miller will be teaching a morning Boot Camp class at 6:30 a.m. and will be offered every day. Coach Pitts will be teaching an AMRAP class on Monday and Thursday's from 6:15-7:00 p.m. Bring a friend, your mom, or your sister and come get healthy! See Coach Pitts if you have any questions.
Found: A bracelet and one earring. . .see Connie to claim.
The quarter ends Friday. Check the student portal for missing assignment.


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Song Jiayuan (en ), née le , est une athlète chinoise, spécialiste du lancer du poids.

Biographie
Médaillée d'argent aux championnats du monde juniors de 2016, elle se classe troisième des championnats d'Asie 2019, derrière sa compatriote Gong Lijiao et la Bahreinienne Noora Salem Jasim. Elle participe aux championnats du monde 2019 et s'incline dès les qualifications.

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Notes et références

Liens externes

Lanceuse de poids chinoise
Naissance en septembre 1997
Athlète (femme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2020
Étudiant de l'université de Shanghai

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Giants News | New York Giants – Giants.com
Giants Now: Dexter Lawrence shining in 2nd year
Matt Citak
Giants.com
Dexter Lawrence shining among 2nd year defenders
Giants defensive lineman Dexter Lawrence is enjoying a strong second season in the NFL.
Through the first 10 games of the year, the No. 17 overall pick in the 2019 draft has racked up 33 total tackles (20 solo) and six quarterback hits. Lawrence has also accumulated 3.0 sacks and four tackles for loss, both of which beat his marks from all of last season.
Lawrence's stats in his sophomore season look impressive, and the analytics back them up as well. According to Pro Football Focus, Lawrence is among the highest-graded 2nd year defenders across the league, earning a 78.2 through Week 11. Only Tennessee's Jeffery Simmons (87.7), Carolina's Brian Burns (84.6) and Green Bay's Kingsley Keke (78.7) have received a higher defensive grade this season.
Other notes from PFF
* Veteran cornerback James Bradberry has enjoyed a stellar first season with the Giants. Bradberry leads the NFL with 14 forced incompletions, two more than Tampa Bay's Calrton Davis and Chicago's Jaylon Johnson.
* Within the NFC East, the Giants rank first in passing grade and second in receiving grade through the first 11 weeks of the season.
Bonus: The Giants made some headlines earlier this week, designating rookie safety Xavier McKinney, along with second-year linebacker Oshane Ximines, to return to practice. McKinney has been on injured reserve all season due to a foot injury, but appears set to make his return to action in the near future. After designating McKinney to return on Monday, the Giants have 21 days from that time to activate him or keep him on IR for the rest of the season.
Here is a quick refresher on what PFF had to say about McKinney heading into the 2020 NFL Draft.
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Daniel Jones on recharging for final stretch
It's been an up and down season for second-year quarterback Daniel Jones.
After throwing for 279 yards and two touchdowns against the Steelers' stingy defense in the season opener, Jones went four consecutive games without a touchdown. He then proceeded to either score or rush for at least one touchdown in each of the next five games heading into last week's bye, totaling seven touchdowns during that stretch (six passing, one rushing). More importantly, Jones has gone two straight games without a turnover after recording one in each of the first eight games of the season.
While his passing numbers are a bit down from his rookie campaign, Jones has been able to find more success on the ground than he did last year. Through 10 games, Jones has already topped his 279-yard rushing total from last season, gaining 384 yards on 49 carries, good for an average of 7.8 yards per carry.
Following last week's bye, the Giants enter the final six games of the season tied with Washington and Dallas for second place in the NFC East and just a half-game behind the Eagles for the division lead.
"I think the bye week came at a good time," Jones said this week. "It gave us a chance to recover a little bit physically, to get some time off on your body. Even as a quarterback, you get some bumps and bruises here and there that need some time off, so that was good. Just mentally to recharge a little bit and focus back up on this final stretch here."
Check out the video below to watch Jones' interview with Paul Dottino about mentally and physically recharging over the bye week in preparation for the final six-week stretch of the regular season.
Sights & Sounds: Best of Giants' first 10 games
Check out the video below to take a behind-the-scenes look at the best moments of the Giants' 2020 season from before the Week 11 bye.
Watch highlights on demand in the 'Giants TV' Streaming App
Watch exclusive videos with the GiantsTV app for Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV. Also available in the Giants mobile app
Giants Now: Senior Bowl rosters taking shape; 3 Heisman Trophy finalists to participate
The news of the day for Giants fans on Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
Giants Now: What's next for Eli Manning?
The news of the day for Giants fans on Tuesday, January 19, 2021.
Giants Now: Fond memories from Divisional Round
The news of the day for Giants fans on Friday, January 15, 2021.
Giants Now: Sterling Shepard makes PFF's list of highest-graded WRs
The news of the day for Giants fans on Thursday, January 14, 2021.
Giants Now: Xavier McKinney weighs in on former Alabama teammates as draft prospects
Giants Now: Eagles part ways with Doug Pederson; more NFC East news
Giants Now: Prospects to watch in CFP National Championship Game according to draft experts
The news of the day for Giants fans on Monday, January 11, 2021.
Giants Now: Wild Card Weekend flashbacks
The news of the day for Giants fans on Friday, January 8, 2021.
Giants Now: Several Giants make The Athletic's 2020 All-Rookie Team
The news of the day for Giants fans on Thursday, January 7, 2021.
Giants Now: James Bradberry named PFF All-Pro
The news of the day for Giants fans on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.
Giants Now: Players set sights on building for 2021
The news of the day for Giants fans on Tuesday, January 5, 2020.
Giants Now: Players react on social media as team awaits playoff fate
The news of the day for Giants fans on Sunday, January 3, 2021.


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"But inside I want to compete and when I go out and pitch I'm going to try and win the game so it's not really try and prove my worth to the team in the last 30 days, I just want to go out there and win games."Lester will start in Washington for the first time since the 2017 NL Division Series. He is 2-2 with a 4.25 ERA in seven career regular-season starts against the Nationals. Lester was 0-0 with a 1.86 ERA in two appearances, including one start, in the 2017 NL Division Series against Washington.Lester hasn't lost since Aug. 11 when the Nationals pounded him for nine runs (eight earned) in 3 2/3 innings at Wrigley Field. In his last start, Lester gave up eight hits but threw six shutout innings in a win against the Phillies on Sunday. 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US programme management giant CH2M Hill has overnight named its former London 2012 boss Jacque Hinman as its new chief executive.
Hinman, formerly Rast, will succeed current chief executive and chairman Lee McIntire in January. McIntire will continue to serve as chairman.
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As expected, it hasn't taken long for Sigi Schmid's name to start surfacing among MLS teams looking for head coaches. Last week, Schmid's name was mentioned as one of five coaches currently being considered by Minnesota United. Now comes word that Schmid has already interviewed for Atlanta United's opening, and could be named head coach if former Argentina boss Tata Martino turns them down.
It's not hard to understand why either team would be interested in Schmid, who helped the Seattle Sounders put together the best expansion season in modern MLS history. Since the 1998 Chicago Fire won MLS Cup in their inaugural year — which came just two years after MLS kicked off — the Sounders are the only expansion team to qualify for the playoffs their first year. The Sounders would, of course, go on to qualify for the playoffs in each of Schmid's first seven seasons, before he was effectively fired with the team looking likely to miss the postseason in Year 8.
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Since the 1960s, Helène Aylon has produced a wide-ranging body of work grounded in notions of time, material exploration, and social and political concerns. One of her earliest bodies of work, the Elusive Silver series (1969–73), shows an early interest in change and a resistance to tradition. By laying paint on acrylic and aluminum, Aylon's works become reflective, semi-translucent surfaces that change based on the viewer's movement and the surrounding conditions. In a constant state of flux, the works celebrate transformation and the ephemeral qualities of light, rather than permanence and stasis. Aylon has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including three awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art. Works by Aylon have appeared in solo and group shows in museums and galleries throughout the United States, Europe, and Israel, and are in the collections of the Whitney Museum, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; and the Jewish Museum, New York, among many other institutions.
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Q: Addition and subtraction of chemical equations Is there a package that supports the addition or subtraction of chemical equations, perhaps with automatic tabbing and a alignment.  Whilst it is obvious I could set up tables or use mathmode's align feature, it seems so much more efficient to have a package handle the tabbing automatically, since it is rather predictable in this application.  mhchem does not seem to have such a feature...

Another advantage is you could maintain the readability of your equations and you would not have the added clutter associated with tables, especially tabs &, which diminish the readability of your .tex document.  And of course, the line should be automatically inserted before the last row.

A: Cancellation of species
To elaborate on Canageek's answer, yes, you can use the cancel package with mhchem, however it's a bit tricky. Specifically, using cancel inside the \ce{} environment will break the automagic formatting of mhchem, turning your species italic.
There are two ways around this:

*

*You can wrap your species in \mathrm and then wrap that in \cancel{} (the easiest way)

*You can break your equation into multiple \ce{} environments, and place the relevant species in $\cancel{}$ (\cancel{} is supposed to be used in mathmode). This is not a good solution as it makes your equation discontiguous and messes up spacing.
which means that you need to wrap each cancelled species in its own \ce{} and then place that inside a \cancel{}.
Here's what each option looks like:

Here's the code (please excuse the non-mwe nature of the code)
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{cmbright}
\usepackage{cancel}

\begin{document}

Standard:

\ce{HCOOH_{(aq)} + H2O_{(l)} <=> H3O^{+}_{(aq)} + HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}\\

\texttt{$\backslash{}$cancel} inside \texttt{$\backslash{}$ce}:

\ce{\cancel{HCOOH_{(aq)}} + H2O_{(l)} <=> H3O^{+}_{(aq)} + \cancel{HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}}\\

\texttt{$\backslash{}$mathrm} inside \texttt{$\backslash{}$cancel} inside \texttt{$\backslash{}$ce}:

\ce{\cancel{\mathrm{HCOOH_{(aq)}}} + H2O_{(l)} <=> H3O^{+}_{(aq)} + \cancel{\mathrm{HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}}}\\

\texttt{$\backslash{}$cancel} outside \texttt{$\backslash{}$ce}:

$\cancel{\ce{HCOOH_{(aq)}}}$ \ce{+ H2O_{(l)} <=> H3O^{+}_{(aq)} +} $\cancel{\ce{HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}}$
\end{document}

As you can see, this diminishes readability profoundly :(
You can change the colour of the cancellation line via \renewcommand{\CancelColor}, which is a bit of a pain.
Alignment
I was not sure if your reference to align in mathmode meant that you were using mathmode in align to manually set chemical equations, rather than mhchem, but mhchem has the \cee environment, which acts like a the \ce environment but allows you to use & as an alignment point in an align environment. It seems fairly simple.
Putting it all together:

With the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage{cmbright}
\usepackage{cancel}

\begin{document}

    \begin{align*}
    \centering
    \cee{\cancel{\mathrm{HCOOH_{(aq)}}} + H2O_{(l)} &<=> H3O^{+}_{(aq)} + \cancel{\mathrm{HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}}}\\
    \cee{\cancel{\mathrm{HCOO^{-}_{(aq)}}} + H2O_{(l)} &<=> \cancel{\mathrm{HCOOH_{(aq)}}} + OH^{-}_{(aq)}}\\
    \hline{}
    \cee{H2O_{(l)} + H2O_{(l)} &<=> H3O^{+} + OH^{-}_{(aq)}}
    \end{align*}

\end{document}

Getting the \hline to a more sensible length and adjusting the spacing between formulae is left as an exercise to the interested reader (I don't know, but someone else probably does. It's a start.)
Hope this is of some use.

A: I came about a way to achieve what you want, provided by Clemens Niederberger, that uses his chemmacros package and cancel and can be found on mychemistry.eu.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{chemmacros,cancel}

\let\oldcancel\cancel
\renewcommand\cancel[1][black]{%
  \def\CancelColor{\color{#1}}%
  \oldcancel}

\begin{document}

\begin{align*}
  \ch{\cancel[blue]{HCOOH\aq} + H2O\lqd{}  &<=> H3O^+\aq{} + \cancel[red]{HCOO^-\aq}} \\
  \ch{\cancel[red]{HCOO^-\aq} + H2O\lqd{} &<=> \cancel[blue]{HCOOH\aq} + OH^-\aq}\\[-1ex]
  \cline{1-2}
  \ch{H2O\lqd{} + H2O\lqd{} &<=> H3O^+\aq{} + OH^-\aq}
\end{align*}

\end{document}

The result looks like this:

A: I don't know about the addition and subtraction of chemical formula themselves, but there is the cancel package which can probably provide the ah, cancelling.

A: You mention readability of the code. You could redefine (or activate) single characters to help here. The following is definitely not optimal, but redefines | and > to mean + and \rightarrow with the appropriate column alignment from an array:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}% http://ctan.org/pkg/mhchem
\usepackage{array}% http://ctan.org/pkg/array

\begin{document}
\[
  \catcode`\|=\active \newcommand{|}{&+&}
  \catcode`\>=\active \renewcommand{>}{&\rightarrow&}
\begin{array}{*{19}{@{\,}c}}
  &&&&   \ce{10e-} | \ce{16H+} | \ce{2MnO_4-} > \ce{2Mn^2+} | \ce{8H_2O} \\
  &&&&&& \ce{5H_2O} | \ce{5H_2SO_3} > \ce{5SO_4^2-} | \ce{20H+} | \ce{10e-} \\ \hline
  \ce{10e-} | \ce{16H+} | \ce{2MnO_4-} | \ce{5H_2O} | \ce{5H_2SO_3} >
    \ce{2Mn^2+} | \ce{8H_2O} | \ce{5SO_4^2-} | \ce{20H+} | \ce{10e-}
\end{array}
\]

Of course, the regular cancelling (via the cancel package) still holds, if required. The problem I'm having, hence noting this as sub-optimal, is from the mhchem package that actively changes + and - (to superscripts), forcing the use of | for the addition of chemical compounds. This needs some further investigation.


Exploring how collective memories that have significantly shaped the frequent friction within Muslim-Christian socio-political interaction in Southeast Asia, Barbara Watson Andaya, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i, reminded the audience in the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum on April 4th, 2018, that the past is always with us and that every present is full of possibility. Focusing on the seventeenth century, Andaya investigated how contentious memories of Muslim-Christian bloody battles in Europe and the Middle East traveled to Southeast Asia through the global circuits of trade, imperial occupation, and missionary rivalry.
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Andaya exposed how the Portuguese taking over Melaka in 1511 destroyed mosques and evicted Muslims. The Portuguese forces in Melaka, often led by priests, managed to convert local people to Catholicism to strengthen their position against Muslims in control of the spice trade. As a countervailing force, The Turkish Ottomans assisted Acehnese in the effort of retaking Melaka.
Andaya pointed out that the mission of Christianization was utilized as a justification for economic penetration. Having these tensions already, the Protestant Dutch through their East India Company (VOC) arriving in 1602 added a new problem. VOC was successful in establishing economic bases in major areas of the Archipelago. They managed to convert not only Muslims and indigenous people, but also Catholics, to Protestantism. "The rivalry set the stage for the contemporary division of Christianity into 'Katolik' and 'Protestan' in Indonesia," Andaya said. In that mission, Ambon, an island with a well-known vitriolic Muslim-Christian conflict in contemporary Indonesia, became a bastion of the Dutch Protestants and a center for training prospective priests and teachers.
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Andaya also noted that while many Europeans called Muslims deceitful and violent and Muslims saw Christians as infidels and liars, Nuruddin al-Raniri, a Muslim scholar and advisor to the Aceh sultanate, depicted Jesus as a devout man who wore a green turban, ruled over the earth peacefully, destroyed idols and pigs, and was married. Al-Raniri wrote that it was the apostle Paul who corrupted Christianity by introducing the concept of the Trinity. Andaya also described how Jesuits compiling books for missionaries said that Islam should be treated with respect though it did not represent Christian teachings properly. Similarly, training Protestant ministers trained in Leiden, Gisbertus Voertius (1589-1676) also argued for this kind of respect, though he too criticized Muslim teachings.
In the Q&A session, a participant asked about the methodology for reconstructing the history and collective memories that were multiple, have been reinterpreted and transformed, by many people. Andaya answered that in her study, she tried to be judicious with contemporary materials to try understanding written materials of the past. She was aware with collective memories containing individual memories that might conflict each other and change over time, yet individual experience very frequently coalesce into community history. She realized also that other fragments of the past, placed as not part of the official history, were thrown away. To deal with this problem, Andaya pronounced that historical and anthropological approaches in reconstructing oral history and memories in the grass root level are needed.


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Summary of Important Reports
Human Development Index by UNDP 2018
Issues Relating to Development
The underlying principle of the HDI, considered path breaking in 1990, (created by Pakistani economist Mahbub ul Haq) is elegantly simple: National development should be measured not only by income per capita, but also by health and education achievements.
The HDI is the composite measure of every country's attainment in three basic dimensions:
Standard of living measured by the gross national income (GNI) per capita.
Health measured by the life expectancy at birth.
Education levels calculated by mean years of education among the adult population and the expected years of schooling for children.
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The Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI)
The Gender Inequality Index (GII).
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South Asia was the fastest growing region over 1990–2017, at 45.3 percent, followed by East Asia and the Pacific at 41.8 percent and Sub-Saharan Africa at 34.9 percent.
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Top five countries in the global HDI ranking are Norway (0.953), Switzerland (0.944), Australia (0.939), Ireland (0.938) and Germany (0.936).
The bottoms five are Burundi (0.417), Chad (0.404), South Sudan (0.388), the Central African Republic (0.367) and Niger (0.354).
The largest increase is in Ireland's rank between 2012 and 2017, which moved up 13 places.
Inequalities in human development — a grave challenge to progress
Human development gaps reflect unequal opportunity in access to education, health, employment, credit and natural resources due to gender, group identity, income disparities and location.
It can fuel extremism and undermine support for inclusive and sustainable development
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Inequality in income contributes the most to overall inequality, followed by education and life expectancy.
When accounting inequality, global HDI value of 0.728 falls to 0.582 which represents a drop from the high human development category to the medium.
The average HDI value for women (0.705) is 5.9 percent lower than that for men (0.749).
Much of the gap is due to women's lower income and educational attainment in many countries which is widest in low human development countries with average HDI value is 13.8 percent lower for women than for men.
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Despite witnessing a great increase in the number of avg. years in school since 1990s it transpires little as improved capabilities. This contrast is starker in low human development countries.
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2000-10 decade saw the highest annual growth rate at 1.64 %.
IHDI (Inequality adjusted Human Development Index), its value suffers a decline from 0.640 to 0.468 witnessing a 26.8% loss. Inequality is measured in the sphere of gender inequality, education, income etc.
Gender Development Index
Ratio of female to male HDI values.
Countries are divided in 5 groups based on their deviation from gender parity in HDI values with group 1 having highest equality with a deviation of less than 2.5% and group 5 having the least equality having a deviation of more than 10% in parity.
India is in the 5th group with GDI value of 0.841, which reflects the glaring inequality met to the women of the nation.
Life expectancy for women in the nation is higher than men with 70.4 years at birth with men's at 67.3 years.
Expected schooling years for women is higher at 12.9 years where men lags at 11.9 years, however avg. years of schooling shows a great contrast in both men and women where it falls by almost 3 quarters for women at 4.8 years and 1/3rd for men as well at 8.2 years of average schooling.
Estimated Gross National Income per capita Derived from the ratio of female to male wages, female and male shares of economically active population and gross national income shows a huge gap with women at as low as Rs. 2,722 and men at 9,889 rupees.
Gender Inequality Index (GII)
A composite measure reflecting inequality in achievement between women and men in three dimensions: reproductive health, empowerment and the labor market.
GII value for India is 0.524 and it is ranked at 127.
MMR (Maternal Mortality Rate) for India is estimated at 174 deaths per lakh in the year 2015, which has reduced to 130 in 2014-16 period according to a data released by the office of Registrar General of India.
India seeks to reduce its MMR by 70 per lakh by 2030 as its SDG target 5.5
Adolescent Birth Rate (Number of births to women per 1,000 women aged 15-19) for the period 2015-2020 is estimated at 23.1. India fares better than most of its neighbor except China which sits at 6.4 births per thousand.
Indian parliament has as many as 11.6 % women legislators in the house where table leader Rwanda has more than 55% women in their parliament demonstrating an immediate need to include more women in legislating process and making it more equitable.
Only 39% females had at least some secondary education (aged 25 or more) in comparison to 63.5% male that had exposure to some secondary education during the period 2010-17.
Labor Force Participation i.e. Proportion of the working-age population (aged 15 and older) that engages in the labor market, either by working or actively looking for work, expressed as a percentage of the working-age population is paltry 27.2 % for women and 78.8% for male.
Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI)
India is valued at 0.121
During the survey year 2015-16, 27.5% population of India was in multi-dimensional poverty.
19.1 % Indian population was at risk of suffering multiple deprivations—that is, those with a deprivation score of 20–33 percent.
8.6% people are in severe multi-dimensional poverty.
21.9% people lives below poverty line in India with 21.2 % people earning less than 1.90 dollar a day.
Indicators of Human Development
Indian population is estimated at 1339.2 million in 2017 and is estimated to reach 1513 million by 2030.
Average annual growth rate in 2005-10 was 1.5% and 2015-2020 is estimated to witness a marginal decline to 1.1%.
33.6% of Indian population is living in urban areas with a very young population.
119.8 million Population is below 5 with 886.9 million in working age population 15-64.
India has miniscule ageing population with only 80 million of its population above 65 years.
Median age for India in 2015 came at 26.7 in 2015 which is expected to further decline.
Indian TFR (Total Fertility Rate) is expected to be 2.3 during 2015-20.
Only 54.9 % of infants aged between 0-5 months are exclusively breastfed which is very essential for a child's optimal growth, development and health at least till 6 months of age.
9% of one year olds lacked immunization for DPT (Diphtheria, Polio, and Tetanus) and 12% for measles.
37.9% of children aged below 5 were suffering either from moderate or severe form of stunting.
IMR (Infant Mortality Rate) is 34.6 per thousand live births which are to be brought to 12 per 1000 by 2030.
Mortality rate for Under 5 is 43 per 1000 with task of cutting it almost to its half by 2030 to 25.
Female mortality rate in India is 139 and 212 for male per thousand respectively.
India being a tropical country is always under a constant threat of climate related epidemics such as dengue, malaria etc. Incidence of malaria is 18.8 people per thousand at 2016 levels.
India remains to be the highest TB burden country according to WHO, with as many as 211 people per lakh suffering from either newly contacted or relapsed TB.
India spends 3.9% of its GDP on health expenditure.
Education Achievement
Literacy rate during 2006-2016 was 69.3% for all adult aged 15 and above.
Youth literacy that is aged 15-24 during the same period for female was 81.8 % and for male was 90%.
51.6% people aged 25 and above had at least some form of secondary education.
Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in pre-primary was 13% of pre-primary school age children showing acute under admission and lack of importance given to early years of schooling in India during 2012-17.
GER for primary was 115% of pre-primary school age population, showing lack of promotion, over admission.
75% of secondary age population is enrolled for secondary education with tertiary education registering as low as only 27% enrolment.
Primary school dropout rate in India during 2007-2016 was 9.8%.
Survival rate to the last grade of lower secondary general education during 2016-16 was 97%.
Total government expenditure on education is a paltry 3.8% of total GDP.
National Income and Composition of Resources
Total GDP of India in 2017 was 8,605.5 billion dollars.
GDP per capita was 6,427 dollars.
Total tax revenue formed 11% f the total GDP during 2007-17.
In 2017, GDP per capita growth for India was 5.4%.
Total tax revenue was 11% of the GDP in 2017.
Domestic credit provided by financial sector was 75 %of the GDP during the period 2012-17.
Employment to population ratio is (the total percentage of people employed out of total population aged 15 or above) 51.9%.
Labor force participation rate (people eligible and willing to work) stands at 53.8%.
Of the total employed population 42.7% people are employed in agricultural sector and 33.5% in service sector.
3.5% of the total labor force is unemployed of which youth (aged 15-24) comprises of 10.5%.
27.5% of youth are neither employed nor in school.
42.9% of the total employed people are working poor i.e. are working for as low as 3.10 dollars a day.
Only 24.1 % of the statutory pension age population receives pension, leaving a major chunk of old-age people vulnerable.
80% of children aged 5 or below are registered at birth in India, unlike its smaller neighbor Bhutan which has a 100% registration rate at birth.
There are as many as 806 thousand Internally Displaced people living in India.
Every year 461 people out of every million are left homeless due to one or the other natural disaster in India.
33 people out of every one lakh people find themselves in jail, demonstrating low conviction rate.
Every 14.2 females per lakh females and 17.9 male per lakh males commit suicide in India.
Human and Capital Mobility
Trade (imports and exports) formed 40% of Indian GDP with FDI (Foreign Direct Investment), net inflows forming 1.5% of Indian GDP.
Official Development assistance (ODA) contributes 0.1% to the gross national income (2016).
Remittances and inflows formed 2.66% of GDP in 2017.
Net migration rate of India is -0.4 per thousand people i.e. there is an intake of migrants in India corresponding to 0.4% of the population.
In 2016, 29.5 % of total population used internet with as many as 85.2 people per 100 using mobile phones in 2016 showing great digital penetration in India and growing familiarity with digital architecture.
India witnessed a 39.4% positive change in mobile usage from 2010 to 2016.
Supplementary indicators: perceptions of well-being (2012-17)*
Perceptions of individual well beings
79% Indians feels satisfied by the quality of education.
With 65 % and 76% by health care quality and standard of living respectively.
69% of females felt safe in India during the mentioned period while 77% male felt so.
Indians were greatly satisfied by the freedom of choice they got with as many as 83% female and 89% male.
Perception about the Community
Only 44% of the people in the country felt that there were good conditions in the country to find jobs.
Perception about the government
83% people had confidence in judicial system and 84% people having trust in national government.
77% of the people showed satisfaction in the level of work undertaken to preserve environment.
Status of Fundamental Human Rights Treaties
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 (ICERD)
Prohibits all forms of racial discrimination—defined as any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin.
It sets out the obligations of the state to combat this phenomenon.
The Convention also requires a state to take appropriate measures against racial discrimination, including the propagation of racist ideas advocated by groups and organizations.
Treaty came into effect 4th Jan 1969.
It was ratified by India in 1968.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 (ICCPR)
All individuals possess civil and political rights, such as the right to self-determination, the right to life, the freedom of religion, of speech and of assembly, the right to equality, and the right to effective legal recourse.
Some of the rights, such as the right not to be arbitrarily deprived of one's life, freedom from torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, may not be suspended or derogated even in a state of emergency.
The ICCPR, its optional protocols, the ICESCR and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights together form the International Bill of Human Rights.
Treaty is in force since 23rd March 1969.
India joined the treaty in 1979.
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966 (ICESCR)
It establishes economic, social and cultural rights such as the right to work in just and favorable conditions, to social protection, to participate in cultural life etc. The ICESCR is part of the International Bill of Human Rights.
It came into effect in 3rd Jan 1976.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1979 (CEDAW)
It is the first global and comprehensive legally binding international treaty aimed at the elimination of all forms of sex-based discrimination against women.
It requires states to incorporate the principle of gender equality in their national constitutions or other appropriate legislation and to ensure the practical realization of that principle.
It came into effect in 3rd of September 1981.
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 (CAT)
Defines and outlaws torture and other forms of ill-treatment under all circumstances and requires states to criminalize it under domestic law, prevent its occurrence and educate their law enforcement and other personnel about the prohibition of torture.
States commit to not extradite, deport a person if they are at risk of being tortured in the territory to which they would return.
It also puts the universal obligation to prosecute or extradite any individual accused of having committed torture.
It came into effect in 26th June 1987.
India is not a signatory to this treaty.
Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 (CRC)
It defines a child as a person under the age of 18 and sets standards for health, education, legal, civil, and social services for children in accordance with four general principles:
Non-discrimination between children.
The right to life, survival and development of the child.
Respect for the views of the child.
Treaty came into effect in 2nd September 1990
India signed the treaty in 1992.
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990 (ICMW)
It establishes minimum standards that states should apply to migrant workers and members of their families, regardless of their migratory status.
Such standards apply to the entire migration process, from preparation for migration, departure and transit to the total period of stay and remunerated activity in the state of employment and the return to the state of origin or of habitual residence.
It came into force on 1st July 2003.
India is not a signatory to the convention.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, 2000 (CRC-AC)
Requires states to take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces under the age of 18 do not take a direct part in hostilities.
To ban compulsory recruitment below the age of 18.
To take legal measures to prohibit independent armed groups from recruiting and using children under the age of 18 in conflicts.
It came into effect in 12th February 2002.
India signed the convention in 2005.
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, 2000 (CRC-SC)
It prohibits the sale of children for sexual and non-sexual purposes, child prostitution and child pornography.
It provides states with detailed requirements to end the exploitation and abuse of children.
It requires ratifying states to provide legal and other support to child victims and to criminalize and punish the activities related to these offences.
Protocol came into effect in 18th Jan 2002.
India signed the protocol in 2005.
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, 2006 (ICPED)
Prohibits enforced disappearance, defined as the abduction or deprivation of liberty of a person by state authorities,
It establishes minimum legal standards on its prevention, combating impunity, effective law enforcement and upholding the rights of victims.
The convention also enshrines the right of victims to the truth and to reparations.
Convention came into effect in 23rd Dec 2010.
India is not a signatory to this convention.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006 (CRPD)
Guarantees the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms to persons with disabilities and promotes respect for their inherent dignity.
It considers disability as the result of an interaction between an individual's condition and an inaccessible society.
The barriers that can make society inaccessible are manifold and the Convention identifies these barriers as discriminatory and requires their removal.
Convention came into force in 3rd of May 2008.
Human Development Dashboards
Quality of human development
Quality of health
India lost 13.9% in total life expectancy as health expectancy in 2016.
There were only 7.6 physicians per 10,000 people in the period 2007-17 falling behind Pakistan who have a better physician to people ratio with 9.8 physicians for every 10,000 people.
There are only 7 beds for every 10,000 people in India where a smaller nation like Nepal have 50 beds for every 10,000 people and has a lot to catch up with international standard.
There is only one teacher in primary schools for every 35 pupil in India falling in the bottom tercile. International model standard comes up to somewhere 15-18 pupils per children.
Only 70% teachers in primary schools are trained to teach in Indian schools.
Quality of standard of living
77.5% of the employed people are engaged as unpaid family workers and own account workers.
77.6% of the rural population had access to electricity in 2016.
87.6% of the total population was using improved drinking water sources in 2015, with only 44.2 % people having access to improved sanitation facilities in 2015.
Life-Course Gender Gap
For every female birth 1.11 male is born in India (2015-2020).
Gross enrolment ratio in pre-primary, primary, and secondary during 2012-17 was 0.94, 1.17, and 1.02 respectively.
For every unemployed male 1.02 females are unemployed.
Only 0.64 female aged above 25 have some secondary education in comparison to one male having same educational standard.
18.6% of total employment in non-agriculture sector comprises of women (industry, services).
85.7% 0f births were attended by skilled health personnel. (2012-17)
MMR during 2015 was 174 per lakh due to pregnancy related causes.
Contraceptive prevalence
53.5% of married or in-union females aged 15- 49 had access to some form of contraceptive method.
12.9% of the fecund women have the unmet need for family planning
27% of women aged 20-24 are married before the age of 18. (child marriage)
Violence by intimate partner
28.7% of female aged 15 and above have been victim of violence by their intimate partner
Socio-economic conditions
Of the total graduates in science, mathematics, engineering, manufacturing and constructions at tertiary level women contributed only 26.9%.
76.6% of women aged 15 and above in India report having an account at some financial institution or with mobile money service provider.
Mandatory maternity leave in India is at par with global practices with 182 leaves.
Environmental stability
Fossil fuel consumption makes 73.5% of the total energy consumption in India. (2010-2015)
36% of the total final energy consumption is renewable energy. (2015)
Carbon dioxide emission per capita is 1.7 tonnes which is the lowest in BRICS nation with Brazil accounting for 2.6, China- 7.5, South Africa -9 and Russian emission standing at 11.9 tonnes.
23.8% of its total land area is covered with forest and there has been a 10.5% change in the value from 1990-2015.
Environmental threat
184.3 people per 1,00,000 perished in 2016 due to home and ambient air pollution.
18.6 people per lakh died due to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene problem.
Red list index which measures the aggregate extinction risk across group of species based on actual change in the number of species place India in the bottom tercile with a value of 0.684.
Socio-economic sustainability
Total adjusted net saving (net national saving plus educational expenditure minus energy, mineral, forest depletion, CO2 and particulate emission damage) of India during the period of 2006-16 was 15.5% of the total GNI which is greater than 2/3rd nation's saving.
Total gross capital formation during the period 2011-17 was 30.8% of GDP.
Only 18.5% of the total labor force was skilled in India, Less than 2/3rd nations.
Concentration Index-India's export basket is not concentrated and has a homogenous mix in the products, sitting comfortably amongst the top tercile countries with a value of 0.120.
India spends a miniscule 0.6% of its GDP on research and development with a spending of 2.5 % of GDP on its defense.
India has cut down its overall loss in HDI value due to inequality by 1.4% in the 7 year period during 2010-17.
Takeaways of 2018 HDR (Human Development Report)
Significant increase in the development indicators can be seen throughout the nations. But the quality of human development reveals large deficits.
Progress is not linear or guaranteed, and crises and challenges can reverse gains.
Great Disparities between women and men in realizing their full potential.
Progress in human development cannot be sustained without addressing environmental degradation and climate change.
Steps Suggested
IHDI has been published in an effort to capture the distribution of human development within countries.
The greater the inequality, the lower the IHDI.
Shifting the focus towards the quality of human development is important in monitoring future progress.
Investment in human security to break cycles of vulnerability and conflict is essential to reduce vulnerabilities and sustain progress.
Human development to become truly sustainable, the world needs to break with business-as-usual approaches and adopt sustainable production and consumption patterns.


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Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria born winger Dr John Bell began his football career with Scottish amateur club Queen's Park in 1918, making his Scottish League debut in a 3-2 victory over Hamilton Academical that August. A prolific goalscorer, he scored 40 goals in 64 appearances for The Spiders including three hat-tricks in 1919-20 against Ayr United, Raith Rovers and Dundee.
He joined First Division Chelsea in the 1920 close season, still an amateur, making his Football League debut at Manchester United, scoring in a 3-1 defeat at Old Trafford, and turned professional the following season. He scored 10 goals in 45 appearances over three seasons at Stamford Bridge before joining Hamilton Academical in 1923. He had a single season at Hamilton before joining Cowdenbeath in 1924 as the club entered the top flight in the Scottish League for the first time, where he finished his playing career.
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Advantages & Disadvantages to the Shareholder From an LBO
By Timothea Xi
The Major Advantages of Utilizing Debt in a Firm's Capital Structure
Rights of Stockholders in a Small Business
What Is a Convertible Promissory Note?
Decision Making in Publicly Traded Vs. Private Companies
Introduction to Corporation Finance
Leveraged buyouts, or LBOs, are a type of corporate takeover in which a nonoperating private equity company acquires a public company through debt financing. LBOs transform ailing companies by taking them private and restructuring them. During an LBO, shareholders face a grab bag of benefits and risks as they relinquish ownership to the private equity firm and management team.
Tax Shield, Value Creation
It is the nature of a leveraged buyout to use heavy debt financing, notes "Michigan Journal of Private Equity & Venture Capital Law." The predominance of debt provides a tax shield to shareholders that reduces taxable income due to interest owed on the debt, and this facilitates cash flow. Given the high debt-to-equity ratio of an LBO acquisition, it takes a relatively small amount of capital to acquire smaller firms, according to entrepreneurial funding resource Go4Funding, and if those firms generate returns in excess of the debt financing costs, all shareholders benefit from the increase in value.
Streamlined Management
Going private as a company via a leveraged buyout rids the company of the coordination issues of having to consult with shareholders on business decisions. One form of leveraged buyout is the management buyout, or MBO. In an MBO, the company's executives buy large portions of the company and subsidiaries from shareholders. Management buyouts impel greater commitment from the managers to achieve results. Yale University discusses how this narrows the gap between owners and managers, thus aligning the interests of shareholders and managers. At the same time, the reduced number of shareholders via the LBO gives the remaining shareholders a reason to closely monitor the managers.
Bankruptcy Risk
The large amount of leverage that allows some LBOs to capitalize on increased value also spells doom for other companies. Business publisher Elsevier notes that high leverage places LBOs at the mercy of business cycle fluctuations and the actions of competitors. If the returns of the acquired company do not exceed the debt financing costs or the cash flow is not sufficient to handle the high interest rates exacted by the LBO, bankruptcy could result and the credit rating of the buyout investors could be damaged. Under such circumstances, shareholders face blunted prospects for the company's growth.
Not every LBO or its variant, the MBO, works out well for the shareholders, despite the greater involvement of management. Managers may be motivated by personal gain to suggest a short-term buyout, while also mismanaging the company to the detriment of the company's stock and shareholders. On another level, notes "The Michigan Journal of Private Equity and Venture Capital Law," a built-in struggle exists between the LBO shareholders, who seek risk, and the bondholders, who want the company to be able to prudently pay off its debt. Amid this struggle, shareholders may lose some of the financial limberness gained from going private.
NYU Stern: Note on Leveraged Buyouts
Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution: Leveraged Buyout Analysis
Elsevier: Leveraged Buyout Structures and Valuation
Timothea Xi has been writing business and finance articles since 2013. She has worked as an alternative investment adviser in Miami, specializing in managed futures. Xi has also worked as a stockbroker in New York City.
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Sole Proprietorship & Partnership
Advantages & Disadvantage of Acquisitions As an Exit Strategy
What Are a Shareholder's Objectives?
The Importance of Shareholders in Business
Do Long-Term Shareholders Benefit From Corporate Acquisitions?
What Are the Disadvantages of Debt Financing for Working Capital?
Procedures for Establishing a Public Company
Partnership & LLC Business Structure
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2 Sole Proprietorship & Partnership
3 Advantages & Disadvantage of Acquisitions As an Exit Strategy
4 What Are a Shareholder's Objectives?


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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - JULY 14: Governor of Minnesota Mark Dayton speaks to Policy Fellows at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs on July 14, 2011 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The state of Minnesota shut down state services after Republicans and Democrats failed to come to an agreement on the budget. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

Gov. Mark Dayton says he is "heartbroken for Minnesota" over the fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb.
Dayton told reporters Thursday that "nobody should be shot and killed in Minnesota for a traffic taillight." He also added that Castile might still be alive today if not for the color of his skin.
"Would this have happened if the driver and the passengers had been white? I don't think so," Dayton said.
Philando Castile had been pulled over for an apparent broken tail light when he was shot by the officer Wednesday in the suburb of Falcon Heights.
The Democratic governor says "justice must be served," but that he wants the state investigation to take its course.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating. State Public Safety Commissioner Mona Dohman says investigators were working Wednesday afternoon to interview the officer who fired the shots.


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