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The first thing I noticed about the library's copy of Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 5 is that it feels slimmer than the Swamp Thing books that came before it (also it's the first one where the significant black ink seems to have smudged the pages). Indeed this book is only 166 pages, whereas previous volumes have been 200 pages or more.
The six chapters here, however, are distinctly all of a piece, perhaps more so than any other volume in the series (Vol. 3 comes in second), and the fact that there's just six adds to and enhances this. The volume is far from self-contained -- in fact, it reaches back to the Martin Pasko stories that preceded Alan Moore's more so than any other volume so far -- but it lacks the single-issue stories and diversions of the previous books; Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 5 tells one story, very taut and methodically, through to its conclusion.
After the considerably esoteric conclusion of "American Gothic" that saw Swamp Thing fighting beside angels and demons in the supernatural realms, Saga Vol. 5 returns relatively "down to earth." Abby Arcane skips bail in Louisiana after being charged with "unnatural acts" for her relationship with Swamp Thing, is recaptured in Gotham City, and is held there while Swamp Thing wages war on Gotham for Abby's return.
Moore does here what Moore does best in Swamp Thing -- interspersed with Swamp Thing facing off against Batman and bad guys (including Lex Luthor) plotting Swamp Thing's demise, Moore poetically narrates a gradual "greening" of Gotham City. As more parts of Gotham turn to jungle, the citizens revert to their baser forms with surprising swiftness; by the end, Gotham has become this wonderful and twisted Eden that I suggest only Alan Moore could conceive of.
The book shifts from the war on Gotham in the first three chapters to the aftermath of the death of Swamp Thing in the second three. I can only imagine how DC might handle Swamp Thing's death these days, with die cut covers and tie-ins across the DC Universe; rather instead Moore offers two (somewhat, kind of) quieter single issue stories featuring Abby, and then Swamp Thing's bizarre cosmic return in the last. Doubtful anyone thought Swamp Thing was really dead in his own title, but I imagine this would have been fun to experience in monthly issues, in which the reader paused to reflect on the missing Swamp Thing for two months before he finally re-emerged.
Issue #54 here is "quieter" only in the sense that it's more self-contained than the other chapters here; it is, to be sure, action-packed. The story is one of more traditional horror, and in this way it feels the most familiar in this volume among all the Swamp Thing stories. Moore uses Pasko's Liz Tremayne and Dennis Barclay here, not seen since issue #20 and not perhaps how Pasko might have meant them to be used, but Saga readers have only experienced them filtered through Moore anyway.
With their presence, and with the callback with the desk ornament in issue #53 to the last time Moore killed Swamp Thing, also in issue #20, there is the sense of Moore's Swamp Thing coming to an end, as we know it will in the next volume, but as monthly readers might not have known then.
In the years after these issues, readers have seen so much superhero death that again, these issues seem familiar when in fact they cast the mold that others used. The Swamp Thing memorial issue, #55, evokes both the statue erected for the dead Superman and also the one that Swamp Thing himself created for Hal Jordan after Final Night (it would be crazy if Scott Snyder demonstrated there's still a Swamp Thing statue somewhere in Gotham).
"Blue Heaven," issue #56, in which Swamp Thing awakens on an alien planet, is a work of lyrical genius by Moore and master class in (all-blue) coloring by Tatjana Wood, but I'm also reminded of Hal Jordan's "Emerald Twilight," in which he, too, built himself a false reality only to see it torn down to the ground.
Much as I praised Swamp Thing's uniqueness as the DC Universe's "peaceful warrior" in the last volume, the memorials and speeches in Swamp Thing's honor here do evoke again the difficulties I have with Swamp Thing's character. I think Moore has a tendency here to portray Swamp Thing as "too good," especially as the quintessential "perfect husband" in Abby's memory as opposed to the crazed Dennis. When Swamp Thing lashes out at Gotham, this is positive because it makes Swamp Thing appear more "human"; but ultimately if I had one nitpick, it's that I expect Swamp Thing to return to calm, Earth-friendly, non-judgmental, essentially perfect being before too long.
If Vol. 3 contained good examples of "regular" Swamp Thing stories, then Saga of the Swamp Thing Vol. 5 is a good example of a Swamp Thing "adventure" -- conflict (with Batman!), crisis, and Swamp Thing's rebirth. The persecution Swamp Thing and Abby face for their love certainly still resonates, too.
This is my favorite of the volumes as well and I agree that Swamp Thing's terrorizing of Gotham is exactly the humanizing that the character needed to balance his growing invulnerability. Moore is one of those writers, whether he's handling Superman, Dr. Manhattan, or Swampy here, who never needs to 'power down' characters to tell a compelling story.
His characterization of Batman troubled me at first, though. As much a fan as I am of the obsessive, territorial Batman of the Miller-verse (even Strikes Again and All-Star B&R) I found Batman's willingness to destroy Swamp Thing--with a gun-like weapon, no less--for the sake of the law which he rarely obeys himself uncharacteristic. His defeat, however, was hilarious and Batman eventually does own up to his mistake.
I'm glad you mentioned Tatjana Wood's coloring work in "Blue Heaven" as well. Even as Swamp Thing is losing his mind trying to replicate Abbey, there's a calmness from the blue color scheme that is unique to that issue.


2. Remove and discard the tea bags and mint.
3. Whisk the eggs and sugar together, and gradually add the tea/evaporated milk mixture and the cream.
5. Place the ramekins in a deep roasting pan and fill with warm water till it comes about halfway up the sides of the ramekins.
6. Bake until a knife inserted into the custard comes out clean – it took my oven about an hour and a half, though it has some issues, so yours might be done sooner. Remove the pan from the oven and let them cool while keeping them standing in the water.
7. Chill for at least 3 hours before serving and sprinkle with chocolate before serving.
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I google myself now and then, and I was thrilled beyond belief to see my recipe on your blog. The recipe in the clipping had been worked on a bit by the magazine. They called to ask me if they could adapt it to make it a "lite" dessert.
Any one who knows me knows that "lite" isn't in my vocabulary. If you are going to have dessert, then go ahead and really have it.
I lost my original recipe, but this looks much closer to it.
I'm so glad you found it! And glad that the recipe clipping I had included the name of its creator. I will definitely be making it again. And I couldn't agree more on your dessert philosophy. Lite dessert isn't dessert…might as well just eat a salad. Which would probably taste better anyhow.


5 Tips for "Making the Time"
One common need I've found working with clients, and have also experienced in my own life, is finding a way to make the time for what we really want to do, or get done. It's interesting, if you look at it, how our society operates in regards to time and money. We fill up all of our time, to the point of thinking we don't have enough, because we're not spending it how we want to. And we have a tendency to max out our finances, because we always want more "stuff," but then we don't budget enough, maybe, to take all those vacations we'd like to be going on quarterly.
The irony is, that we all want time and financial FREEDOM! Right? I do! So what do we do?
Let's start out with time, and then maybe let it carry over into the financial area of life. Here are 5 Tips to help organize your life to create more "free" time to do more of what you really want to do. But I'm warning you, you'll want to have an idea of what you want the extra time for, or you will end up filling it with what you think you "should" do, or what someone else wants you to do with it. So start out by writing down 1-3 things that you want to create some time for in your busy life.
1. Stop – Think Ahead – Make a Plan for the upcoming day, week – even month: (You will save time with planning!) Look at your Morning Schedule, and get organized ahead of time; your Evening/Weekend Schedules; your Work Schedule; then schedule in some You-Time for what you really want to do.
2. List Your To-do's & Prioritize: Ask yourself: What is serving me and what isn't – Get Rid of what Isn't! *Take a critical look at what you're doing. People actually spend a lot of time doing things that really aren't serving them – this is the simplest way to find more time.
Stop wasting your time and energy getting upset when you run into obstacles – Start to realize that "obstacles" are just "opportunities" to do something different. There are no obstacles with determination. Set your mind with a "get it done" attitude and you'll gain energy in the process. Wishing a thing wasn't so is an energy drain.
Don't waste your time and energy feeling guilty about anything or worrying about things. Engaging in guilt or worry is a useless waste of time and the biggest energy drains! They absolutely don't help anything or accomplish anything (except you feeling bad = Energy Drain!) – so why do it? *If this self-defeating thinking is a chronic habit of yours and you need help to re-gain control of your thinking (One of the things you actually DO have control over), you may want to take advantage of my HOUR OF POWER! and I can coach you into a new perspective.
Not Making/Working a Plan of action will often drain your energy as you run around in circles trying to get everything done when you don't really know what you're supposed to be doing next. You may get lost in Non-Priorities for hours, while the Real Priorities loom over your head and drain you. *Take 10 minutes to plan to Save Hours in confusion.
"Waiting" for Someone Else To Do it – Drain! Decide if it's important enough or worth the wait, then do it yourself if you can or delegate/hire the task to someone else.
4. Be Accountable to Yourself & Make Your Priorities Happen: Only you are accountable for making what you want to happen, happen. Take that responsibility and then follow through for yourself. You are so powerful in your own actions (the other thing you DO have total control over). Understand cause & effect/action & response (consequences).
5. Motivate Yourself with Success: If you know why you're doing something, and the payoff is big enough for you, you will automatically be motivated to do it. Success is the pursuit of your worthy ideal. Start thinking: What am I doing? What am I working toward in doing this? It may be that you find one of those "Not Serving Me – Get Rid of It" tasks that you can eliminate to make more time!


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Supporters of a public plan, such as Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, argue that many places in the United States have monopolies in which one company, or a small set of companies, control the local market for health insurance. Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman also wrote that local insurance monopolies exist in many of the smaller states, accusing those who oppose the idea of a public insurance plan as defenders of local monopolies. He also argued that traditional ideas of beneficial market competition do not apply to the insurance industry given that insurers mainly compete by risk selection, claiming that "[t]he most successful companies are those that do the best job of denying coverage to those who need it most."[20]
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In March 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives passed The Small Business Health Fairness Act (H.R. 1101), which established "requirements for creating a federally-certified AHP, including for certification itself, sponsors and boards of trustees, participation and coverage, nondiscrimination, contribution rates, and voluntary termination."[79][84]
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Form 1095-C is a tax form under the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") which contains information about your health care insurance coverage. Form 1095-C is distributed to all full-time employees working an average of 30 hours or more per week, for all or part of the calendar year. For information about Form 1095-B, please contact your health care provider directly.
Between October 28 and November 13, 2009, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin's campaign organization polled Americans to rank their support for various forms of the "public option" currently under consideration by Congress for inclusion in the final health care reform bill. The 83,954 respondents assigned rankings of 0 to 10. A full national option had the most support, with an 8.56 average, while no public option was least favored, with a 1.10 average.[52]
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Read this info about the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus shots before you panic about the possibility of a severe allergic response.
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12/21/2020 01:31pm EST | Updated December 22, 2020
The arrival of coronavirus vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna has offered a much-needed dose of optimism in an otherwise grueling pandemic. But many people have questions after reports of some instances of allergic reactions to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which was granted emergency authorization use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month.
Some people who were administered the vaccine reportedly experienced anaphylaxis or a less severe allergic reaction, which was not seen in the vaccine trials.
The FDA is investigating the cases of allergic reactions, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that anyone who had a severe reaction (which is defined as needing the medication epinephrine or treatment in a hospital) should not get the second dose of the vaccine.
So, does this mean we be super concerned? Here's everything you need to know right now about the vaccine and any allergic reactions that may come up:
The percentage of people who have actually experienced an allergic reaction to the Pfizer vaccine is low.
The FDA is looking into about five cases of allergic reactions reported in people who received the first dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine. The cases occurred in several parts of the country.
This is concerning, yes. However, when you compare the number of these cases to the total number of people vaccinated so far ― roughly at least 128,000, or even more when you count the people who participated in the trials ― the percentage of people experiencing this issue is pretty small.
"With large numbers of people being vaccinated, reports of allergic reactions are very rare and have been easily treated with resolution," Daniel Griffin, chief of infectious disease at ProHEALTH Care and national process expert for Optum Vaccine Administration, told HuffPost.
Most people, including those with specific allergies, shouldn't be too stressed out about the vaccine right now, Griffin said.
"Only people with a severe reaction to a prior vaccination should be concerned, and we recommend they discuss this with a doctor prior to vaccination," he said. "People with other allergies, such as to food, pollen or even antibiotics, need not worry."
It's not clear if Moderna's vaccine will cause the same issue.
Kavita Patel, HuffPost medical contributor and a practicing internal medicine physician in Washington, D.C., said in a recent HuffPost Q&A that Moderna's data from the vaccine trials submitted to the FDA showed no severe allergic reactions.
That said, this isn't a guarantee that no one will experience a reaction if they get the Moderna vaccine ― which was also just granted emergency authorization use by the FDA ― rather than the Pfizer vaccine. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a recent press conference that a chemical used in both vaccines, called polyethylene glycol, could be what's causing the reactions, Reuters reported.
Griffin said experts will know more once a greater number of people are vaccinated. As of now, the FDA is advising that the Moderna vaccine should not be given to people with a known history of severe allergic reactions to any components of the immunization.
Most vaccines cause allergic reactions in some people.
Allergic reactions like this aren't unique to the COVID-19 vaccines. Overall, this news shouldn't cause extreme vaccine hesitancy or alarm for the general public.
"Most vaccines cause allergic reactions in a few people, so there is nothing new with the COVID vaccines," Griffin said. "These reactions appear rare, and may be even less common with the COVID vaccines than other vaccines."
If you've experienced an allergic reaction to a vaccine in the past, talk to your doctor before you get a COVID vaccine.
We still have a long way to go before a COVID-19 vaccine is available to most people, so this won't really even be an issue for quite some time. When it's your turn to get the shots, talk to your doctor about your specific case, including your known allergies and any history you might have of vaccine reactions.
"If you have had a serious reaction to prior vaccines, you might not be able to receive the vaccine, or at a minimum might need to discuss the reaction with your provider and determine if it's still reasonable to get it," Patel said.
Griffin said some patients with a history of vaccine reactions "may be advised to take an antihistamine such as Benadryl 30 minutes prior to vaccination." Your physician may also monitor you for an additional 30 minutes after you get your dose, to make sure you're OK.
And remember, there are other ways to protect yourself from COVID-19 in the meantime: Wear a mask, wash your hands and keep your distance from people who aren't in your household. We'll likely have to continue these measures for some time anyway, even with an available vaccine.
Experts are still learning about COVID-19. The information in this story is what was known or available as of publication, but guidance can change as scientists discover more about the virus. Please check the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the most up-to-date recommendations.
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Ilaria Capua (ur. 21 kwietnia 1966 w Rzymie) – włoska badaczka, wirusolog i lekarz weterynarii, należąca do najbardziej znanych naukowców zajmujących się m.in. ptasią grypą, a także deputowana.

Życiorys
W 1989 ukończyła weterynarię na Uniwersytecie w Perugii. Odbyła studia podyplomowe z zakresu zdrowia i higieny zwierząt na Uniwersytecie w Pizie, doktorat uzyskała na Uniwersytecie Padewskim.

Jako badaczka naukowa współpracowała w charakterze eksperta m.in. z WHO i Komisją Europejską. Od 1999 zaangażowała się w badania poświęcone ptasiej grypie. Rozwijała tzw. strategię DIVA (Differentiating Vaccinated from Infected Animals) dotyczącą odróżniania ptaków szczepionych, zakażonych i niezakażonych. Procedury te zostały oficjalne przyjęte jako zalecane przez m.in. Unię Europejską. W 2000 postulowała szczepienie ptactwa hodowlanego, które to rozwiązanie nie było wówczas jeszcze powszechnie stosowane.

W 2006, krytykując funkcjonowanie prowadzonej przez WHO zamkniętej bazy danych, opublikowała zsekwencjonowany genom wariantu wirusa H5N1 w otwartym dostępie. Zaapelowała również do innych naukowców, aby przez wzgląd na dobro publiczne uczynili tak samo, nawet kosztem liczby publikacji. Jej czyn wywołał ożywioną dyskusję w globalnym środowisku naukowym. W latach 2005–2009 kierowała OFFLU, siecią informacji na temat grypy zwierząt zorganizowaną przez FAO i OIE. W 2006 zainicjowała list do "Nature", w którym kilkudziesięciu naukowców (w tym 7 noblistów), krytykując dotychczasowe rozwiązania jako niewystarczające, zapowiedziało powołanie GISAID – globalnej instytucji wymiany informacji o grypie.

W 2008 znalazła się wśród laureatów nagrody przyznawanej przez miesięcznik "Scientific American". W 2011 University of Pennsylvania przyznał jej "Penn Vet World Leadership in Animal Health Award", zaliczaną do najbardziej prestiżowych nagród w medycynie weterynaryjnej.

W 2013 z listy Wyboru Obywatelskiego w ramach koalicji Z Montim dla Włoch uzyskała mandat posłanki do Izby Deputowanych na XVII kadencję. W kwietniu 2014 na łamach tygodnika "L'Espresso" dziennikarz Lirio Abbate ujawnił, że badaczka znalazła się wśród osób objętych śledztwem w sprawie domniemanej sprzedaży wirusa firmom farmaceutycznych, które miały go wykorzystać do wywołania epidemii celem zwiększenia sprzedaży szczepionek. Ilaria Capua została następnie zaatakowana w parlamencie przez jedną z posłanek Ruchu Pięciu Gwiazd, której wystąpienie w Internecie spopularyzowali Beppe Grillo oraz Giulia Grillo. Po stronie badaczki stał natomiast dziennik "Corriere della Sera", przedstawiający jej przypadek jako świadectwo panującej we Włoszech "nienawiści do nauki". W lipcu 2016 sąd oczyścił Ilarię Capuę z zarzutów (oddalając je w postępowaniu wstępnym, wskazując co do zasady na brak podstaw oskarżenia oraz sugerując podejrzenie sfabrykowania części materiałów). Ilaria Capua zrezygnowała jednak z mandatu deputowanej we wrześniu 2016. Karierę naukową kontynuowała na Uniwersytecie Florydy (objęła funkcję dyrektora centrum One Health Center of Excellence for Research and Training na tej uczelni). Oskarżyła także Liria Abbatego o zniesławienie; sędzia śledczy w 2018 oddalił zarzuty, uznając, że dziennikarz działał w interesie społecznym.

Życie prywatne
Zamężna z Richardem J.W. Currie, z którym ma córkę (ur. 2004).

Przypisy

Absolwenci i studenci Uniwersytetu w Perugii
Wirusolodzy
Włoscy lekarze weterynarii
Włoscy parlamentarzyści (od 1946)
Ludzie urodzeni w Rzymie
Urodzeni w 1966

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It is neither exaggeration nor cliché to say that Anna Netrebko remains the most exciting singer before the public today. Her concert at Carnegie Hall, built around selections about either night or day, came between two other high-power New York engagements in her evolving repertoire, the title roles in Verdi's Aida and Francesco Cilea's less well known but equally adored Adriana Lecouvreur, both enthusiastically anticipated role debuts at the Metropolitan Opera. Her demanding solo concert on December 9 stunningly combined much of her new direction in repertoire and stands a landmark in what is already a New York season of unusual excitement.
Netrebko was naturally most at home in the repertoire of her native land. Her round tones and perfect control delivered truly moving performances in the Rachmaninoff song cycle that opened the concert, and in the Rimsky-Korsakoff and Tchaikovsky selections that were interspersed through both halves. It is hard to imagine that she will ever yield these national treasures of Russian art, and that is a good thing. Rachmaninoff's delicious "Lilacs" yielded especially tempestuous passion from a voice that is expert in conveying it. Dvorák's "When my mother taught me to sing," sung in the composer's native Czech, added a nuanced Slavic element.
Richard Strauss wrote about 200 art songs in addition to his operatic and symphonic output, and Netrebko boldly moved in the direction of his music. Reportedly slated to take on the title role in the composer's Salome at a future time, she tackled "Morgen!" and "Die Nacht" with full-throttled sound and a roundness of tone that portends great things for the stage. In a similar vein, the Wagnerian depths required by the music of Charpentier, Debussy, and Fauré all turned out equally well, with splendid French diction that has improved since earlier in the artist's career. The Barcarolle from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, a duet sung with the capable mezzo Jennifer Cano Johnson, revisited an earlier career triumph. Leoncavallo's "Mattinata" added a stalwart Italian selection.


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using content::BrowserThread;
using content::WebContents;
using extensions::Extension;

namespace {

bool disable_failure_ui_for_tests = false;

// Helper class to put up an infobar when installation fails.
class ErrorInfobarDelegate : public ConfirmInfoBarDelegate {
 public:
  // Creates an error delegate and adds it to |infobar_service|.
  static void Create(InfoBarService* infobar_service,
                     Browser* browser,
                     const extensions::CrxInstallerError& error);

 private:
  ErrorInfobarDelegate(InfoBarService* infobar_service,
                       Browser* browser,
                       const extensions::CrxInstallerError& error)
      : ConfirmInfoBarDelegate(infobar_service),
        browser_(browser),
        error_(error) {
  }

  virtual string16 GetMessageText() const OVERRIDE {
    return error_.message();
  }

  virtual int GetButtons() const OVERRIDE {
    return BUTTON_OK;
  }

  virtual string16 GetLinkText() const OVERRIDE {
    return error_.type() == extensions::CrxInstallerError::ERROR_OFF_STORE ?
        l10n_util::GetStringUTF16(IDS_LEARN_MORE) : ASCIIToUTF16("");
  }

  virtual bool LinkClicked(WindowOpenDisposition disposition) OVERRIDE {
    chrome::NavigateParams params(
        browser_,
        GURL("http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/?p=crx_warning"),
        content::PAGE_TRANSITION_LINK);
    params.disposition = NEW_FOREGROUND_TAB;
    chrome::Navigate(&params);
    return false;
  }

  Browser* browser_;
  extensions::CrxInstallerError error_;
};

// static
void ErrorInfobarDelegate::Create(InfoBarService* infobar_service,
                                  Browser* browser,
                                  const extensions::CrxInstallerError& error) {
  infobar_service->AddInfoBar(scoped_ptr<InfoBarDelegate>(
      new ErrorInfobarDelegate(infobar_service, browser, error)));
}

void OnAppLauncherEnabledCompleted(const extensions::Extension* extension,
                                   Browser* browser,
                                   SkBitmap* icon,
                                   bool use_bubble,
                                   bool use_launcher) {
#if defined(ENABLE_APP_LIST)
  if (use_launcher) {
    chrome::ShowAppList(browser->profile());

    content::NotificationService::current()->Notify(
        chrome::NOTIFICATION_APP_INSTALLED_TO_APPLIST,
        content::Source<Profile>(browser->profile()),
        content::Details<const std::string>(&extension->id()));
    return;
  }
#endif

  if (use_bubble) {
    chrome::ShowExtensionInstalledBubble(extension, browser, *icon);
    return;
  }

  ExtensionInstallUI::OpenAppInstalledUI(browser, extension->id());
}

}  // namespace

ExtensionInstallUIDefault::ExtensionInstallUIDefault(Profile* profile)
    : skip_post_install_ui_(false),
      previous_using_native_theme_(false),
      use_app_installed_bubble_(false) {
  profile_ = profile;

  // |profile_| can be NULL during tests.
  if (profile_) {
    // Remember the current theme in case the user presses undo.
    const Extension* previous_theme =
        ThemeServiceFactory::GetThemeForProfile(profile);
    if (previous_theme)
      previous_theme_id_ = previous_theme->id();
    previous_using_native_theme_ =
        ThemeServiceFactory::GetForProfile(profile)->UsingNativeTheme();
  }
}

ExtensionInstallUIDefault::~ExtensionInstallUIDefault() {
}

void ExtensionInstallUIDefault::OnInstallSuccess(const Extension* extension,
                                                 SkBitmap* icon) {
  if (skip_post_install_ui_)
    return;

  if (!profile_) {
    // TODO(zelidrag): Figure out what exact conditions cause crash
    // http://crbug.com/159437 and write browser test to cover it.
    NOTREACHED();
    return;
  }

  if (extension->is_theme()) {
    ThemeInstalledInfoBarDelegate::Create(
        extension, profile_, previous_theme_id_, previous_using_native_theme_);
    return;
  }

  // Extensions aren't enabled by default in incognito so we confirm
  // the install in a normal window.
  Profile* current_profile = profile_->GetOriginalProfile();
  Browser* browser =
      chrome::FindOrCreateTabbedBrowser(current_profile,
                                        chrome::GetActiveDesktop());
  if (browser->tab_strip_model()->count() == 0)
    chrome::AddBlankTabAt(browser, -1, true);
  browser->window()->Show();

  if (extension->is_app()) {
    bool use_bubble = false;

#if defined(TOOLKIT_VIEWS)  || defined(OS_MACOSX)
    CommandLine* cmdline = CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess();
    use_bubble = (use_app_installed_bubble_ ||
                  cmdline->HasSwitch(switches::kAppsNewInstallBubble));
#endif

    apps::GetIsAppLauncherEnabled(
        base::Bind(&OnAppLauncherEnabledCompleted, extension, browser, icon,
                   use_bubble));
    return;
  }

  chrome::ShowExtensionInstalledBubble(extension, browser, *icon);
}

void ExtensionInstallUIDefault::OnInstallFailure(
    const extensions::CrxInstallerError& error) {
  DCHECK(BrowserThread::CurrentlyOn(BrowserThread::UI));
  if (disable_failure_ui_for_tests || skip_post_install_ui_)
    return;

  Browser* browser = chrome::FindLastActiveWithProfile(profile_,
      chrome::GetActiveDesktop());
  if (!browser)  // unit tests
    return;
  WebContents* web_contents =
      browser->tab_strip_model()->GetActiveWebContents();
  if (!web_contents)
    return;
  ErrorInfobarDelegate::Create(InfoBarService::FromWebContents(web_contents),
                               browser, error);
}

void ExtensionInstallUIDefault::SetSkipPostInstallUI(bool skip_ui) {
  skip_post_install_ui_ = skip_ui;
}

void ExtensionInstallUIDefault::SetUseAppInstalledBubble(bool use_bubble) {
  use_app_installed_bubble_ = use_bubble;
}

// static
ExtensionInstallUI* ExtensionInstallUI::Create(Profile* profile) {
  return new ExtensionInstallUIDefault(profile);
}

// static
void ExtensionInstallUI::OpenAppInstalledUI(Browser* browser,
                                            const std::string& app_id) {
#if defined(OS_CHROMEOS)
  chrome::ShowAppList(browser->profile());

  content::NotificationService::current()->Notify(
      chrome::NOTIFICATION_APP_INSTALLED_TO_APPLIST,
      content::Source<Profile>(browser->profile()),
      content::Details<const std::string>(&app_id));
#else
  chrome::NavigateParams params(chrome::GetSingletonTabNavigateParams(
      browser, GURL(chrome::kChromeUINewTabURL)));
  chrome::Navigate(&params);

  content::NotificationService::current()->Notify(
      chrome::NOTIFICATION_APP_INSTALLED_TO_NTP,
      content::Source<WebContents>(params.target_contents),
      content::Details<const std::string>(&app_id));
#endif
}

// static
void ExtensionInstallUI::DisableFailureUIForTests() {
  disable_failure_ui_for_tests = true;
}

// static
ExtensionInstallPrompt* ExtensionInstallUI::CreateInstallPromptWithBrowser(
    Browser* browser) {
  content::WebContents* web_contents = NULL;
  if (browser)
    web_contents = browser->tab_strip_model()->GetActiveWebContents();
  return new ExtensionInstallPrompt(web_contents);
}

// static
ExtensionInstallPrompt* ExtensionInstallUI::CreateInstallPromptWithProfile(
    Profile* profile) {
  Browser* browser = chrome::FindLastActiveWithProfile(profile,
      chrome::GetActiveDesktop());
  return CreateInstallPromptWithBrowser(browser);
}


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Today's first National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program Report will change the way our nation fights the scourge of ice.
The ground-breaking report by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) has confirmed that ice is the most highly consumed illicit drug of those tested in all regions of Australia.
This new data will pinpoint targets for our law enforcement agencies so they can flush out the crooks responsible for this evil trade and protect the communities they are targeting.
Cocaine use was the highest in New South Wales, almost double the second highest jurisdiction the Northern Territory, in terms of doses consumed per day. The ACT recorded the third highest use.
The report also revealed a high use of prescription medications fentanyl and oxycodone across all jurisdictions, particularly in regional Queensland, suggesting a potential diversion into the illicit market.
The ACIC received a $3.6 million boost from the Coalition Government for this initiative to detect ice hotspots, and collect data on drugs being used within our communities following a recommendation by the National Ice Taskforce.
The results provide us with the greatest ever insight into what drugs are being consumed and where, with the covert testing covering 58 per cent of Australia's population - about 14 million Australians.
This is critical baseline data, the first of nine tests to be conducted over the next three years, which will ensure we can better target our law enforcement and health responses, and monitor their progress.
The report's first findings drive home the message that we cannot simply arrest our way out of this problem - we must tackle the demand for illicit drugs in Australia.
The Coalition Government is investing almost $300 million to support actions resulting from the National Ice Action Strategy to improve treatment, after care, education, prevention and community engagement.
We are also tackling the supply of ice through increased international cooperation, enhanced intelligence sharing, better controls of precursor chemicals and greater efforts to prevent ice reaching our regional and remote communities.
Make no mistake; the Coalition Government will use every weapon in our arsenal to break the business models of serious and organised crime gangs that thrive on the evil profits of ice and other drugs.


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Though Home Again can easily be read in two to three hours, the amount of territory being covered is similar to what you would find in a full length novel.
The story, set in 1969, opens with April having driven nine hours to get to her sanctuary - a house in Albemarle Sound which had been in her family for 200 years.
We learn she is grieving for her brother, Andrew, who lost his life in Vietnam - a brother who never came home, not even to be buried. Nothing had been the same for her family ever since.
Even worse, April had written and mailed a letter to her brother, berating him for not accepting her boyfriend, a man she intended to marry. After her brother was killed, those last words burned on her conscience, guilt moving in to overshadow everything she did.
Still in her wedding dress, she walked onto the dock and began peeling away the layers of her dress. A creaking sound drew her attention and, taking a step closer to investigate, she went through the boards and landed in the water.
Rescue comes in the form of Hale, her brother's best friend, a man who had been at the family home trying to fight his internal dragons.
A pilot in Vietnam, Hale saw his best friend die. He knows the truth of what happened, something he had kept a secret - yet the memories haunt him, destroying him on the inside, rendering him unable to even sleep for more than a hour at a time.
April and Hale are surprised to find an attraction to each other but both are struggling with overwhelming secrets they are reluctant to share with the other.
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IVolunteer International
Project "සෙනෙහස"
Deadline August 20, 2016
A Community Service Project to support a primary school in Bibile
On Wednesday, June 29 2016 a team from IVolunteer International departed Colombo to Bibile, Monaragala in search for the "Thiththawalkiula Primary School." The school is located in a suburb in Bibile, Sri Lanka and it is reachable through the Kotabowa-Dewalaya Road, which is far away from providing a facility of comfortable transportation. The road is broken beyond repair and can only be transported by Three-Wheelers or Motor Bicycles, to avoid the deep edges and cuts. There is about 4-5 kilometers from the Bibile main road when you turn into the Kotabowa-Dewalaya road to reach the primary school.
The journey on the broken road was totally worth it, when we experienced the living conditions of the lovely people in this small village. The villagers didn't have basic facilities such as electricity, access to clean water, comfortable clothing and toilet facilities. The primary school is the only place with uninterrupted and facilitated electricity. The area is full of natural resources consisting of lakes, rivers and herbal trees. Most of the families generate their income from farming and harvesting. There has been multiple records of elephant-human conflict in the area and therefore, the officials of the government has provided them with elephant crackers, to scare away the elephants.
Then principal Mr. Yasarathne established the "Thiththawalkiula Primary School" in the year 1975. Since then, the school has been going on with the support of the parents and the government officials. The school was about to be closed down quite a couple of times due to the very low facilities available and the depletion of the interest of the villagers, to send their children to school and making a commitment for it. However, amidst all these difficulties the school has seen the light of day and is improving today, under the leadership of the present principal Mr. Siriwardena. Some of the facts about the school is as follows;
Families in the village – 44
Number of Students in School – 50
Number of Teachers (Female) – 7
Number of Teachers (Male) – 2
Age range of students – 5 Years to 10 Years
Grades Available – Grade 1 to Grade 5
Classrooms available (partition) – 4
The IVolunteer International team did a visit to the school to talk with the principal, staff and parents to see how best we could help them and to analyze and see if their needs can meet with our capacity of donation. Following are basic needs that we can help them with –
Lanterns (50 in Quantity)
School Bags (50 in Quantity)
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Blue 13M
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If machines can beat us at games, does it make them more intelligent than us?
By David Ireland
Computers are getting better at playing games such as chess. Shutterstock/Vasilyev Alexandr
The year 1997 saw the ultimate man versus machine tournament, with chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov losing to a machine called Deep Blue.
Earlier this year, in what was hailed as another breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) research, Google's AlphaGo defeated a professional Go player.
Go is an ancient Chinese board game that has hitherto been difficult for a computer to play at a high level due to its deceptively complex gameplay. Where chess is played on a board of 8 x 8 squares, Go is typically played on a board of 19 x 19 squares.
The 19 x 19 Go game board. Shutterstock/Peter Hermes Furian
These are all worthy engineering achievements, but what does it mean for research into genuine machine intelligence and the predicted artificial intelligence that will surpass human intelligence?
Arguably, not much. To understand why, we need to delve a little more into the complexity of the games and the differences between how machines and humans play.
It is estimated the number of possible games of chess is 10120 while the lowest limit of games for Go is 10360. These numbers are big, even for a computer. If you're not quite convinced of this, the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is merely 1079 – minuscule in comparison.
Game-playing AI still cannot foresee every possible game play and, just like us, has to consider the options and make a decision on what move to make. For brevity, we'll mainly stick with chess as it's more widely known. Let's look at how a computer plays first.
Most chess programs operate via brute-force search, which means they look through as many future positions as they can before before making a choice.
This results in a tree of possible combinations called the search tree. Here's an example:
An example of a search tree for a particular game. David Ireland, Author provided
The search tree starts with a root that represents current game play. And the branches are all the possible game plays. Each level of the tree is called a ply, which is a single move by a player.
Deep Blue's specialised hardware allowed it to search future game play at a staggering 200 million chess positions per second. Even today, most chess AI programs only compute about 5 million positions per second.
Not only does the AI have to search through a large collection of chess positions, but at some stage, it must evaluate them for their potential worth. This is done by a so-called evaluation function.
Deep Blue's evaluation function was developed by a team of programmers and chess grandmasters who distilled their knowledge of chess into a function that evaluates piece strength, king safety, control of the centre, piece mobility, pawn structure and many other characteristics — everything a novice is taught.
This allows a particular board position to be scored with a single number. Think of the evaluation function as something like this:
How a chess-playing AI evaluates the chessboard. David Ireland, Author provided
The higher the number, the better the position is for the machine. The machine seeks to maximise this function in its favour, and minimise it for its opponent.
The human
A person, in stark contrast, only considers three to five positions per second, at best. How, then, did Kasparov give Deep Blue a run for its money?
This question has fascinated cognitive scientists who have yet to agree on a computational theory on how even an amateur plays chess.
Nevertheless, there's been extensive psychological research into the cognitive processes involved in how players of various strengths perceive the chessboard and how they go about selecting a move.
Studies conducted on eye movements of expert players as they select a move showed little consistency with searching a tree of possible moves. People, it seems, pay more attention to squares that contain active attacking and defending pieces and perceive the pieces on the board as groups or chunks rather than as individual pieces.
In an even more revealing experiment, novice and expert players were shown a chess position taken from a game for five seconds. They were then asked to reproduce the board from memory. Expert players were able to reconstruct the board much more accurately than novice players.
Curiously, when they were asked to reconstruct a board that had the pieces randomly distributed, experts did no better than novices.
It is believed that through constant play, a player accumulates a large number of chunks that could be thought of as a language of chess. These chunks were not present with the randomly distributed board and, as such, the experts' perception was no better than that of the novice.
This language encodes positions, threats, blocks, defences, attacks, forks and the many other complex combinations that arise. It allows players to determine and prioritise pressures on the board and reveal opportunities and dangers.
The language of chess is a higher level of perception of the chessboard that still alludes AI and cognitive science researchers.
Let's take a look at an interesting position.
What is white's winning strategy?
Two kings are on either side of a pawn blockade. White has an opportunity to promote the pawn on F6 to a stronger piece. But that square is being guarded by the black king.
An example problem where human intuition often triumphs over AI. David Ireland, Author provided
For white to win, the white king must move around the blockade via column A and force the black king away. Defeat for black is then inevitable.
Simple enough? Not entirely for a chess AI, which has more difficulty perceiving white's advantage. This is because it would need to search to a depth of 20 ply to find white's advantage. In this position, at 15 plies there are 10,142,484,904,590 possible positions (we tried computing to 20 plies but after one week of computation, we gave up).
Most computer chess programs won't see the winning strategy. Instead, they will move the white king to the centre of the board which is the common strategy when there are only a few pieces on the board.
Human intuition is still a powerful force.
Higher level of perception
A famous AI researcher, Professor Douglas Hofstader, believes analogy is the core of cognition. We humans, certainly bring our own analogies to the game: gambits, sacrifices, and blockades, among other things.
Alas, research into the field of cognitive science has waned over the past decade in favour of more practical and profitable direct AI approaches as seen in Watson and AlphaGo.
Nevertheless, there has been sporadic research output on so-called cognitive architectures (CHREST) that model human perception, learning, memory, and problem solving.
Some play chess (CHUMP) not by searching for a plethora of combinations but by perceiving patterns and relationships between pieces and squares. And just like most humans, they play mediocre chess.
It's worth pondering: if true artificial intelligence is established, will it begin with an explosion of intelligence or something smaller and imperceptible?
David Ireland, Electronic Engineer and Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre, CSIRO
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Rise of the intelligent machines
11th January 2017 at 7:25 pm
The test position you posted is absolutely wrong. Many engines find the winning strat in less than 100ms.
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stevelockstep
9th January 2017 at 10:52 am
I only observe that the human response to advances in artificial intelligence is all-too-human. For many years, chess was held up as a benchmark of human intelligence, but when Deep Blue became unbeatable, we reconsidered. Go became a new standard, for we saw that it was a substantially more intuitive and supposedly less mechanistic game. But now inevitably Go too as succumbed to automation. But no matter, we're going to shift the goal posts again.
Now, I don't say any of this cynically, but rather to highlight the very human ability to change the rules.
I don't know how humans do it, but it can't be algorithmic can it? How could an algorithmic intelligence ever truly change its own rules? If we programmed a program to change its own rules, it could only do so within a framework that was programmed into it. That is, it would need to have a set of rules for breaking the rules.
But the rules for breaking rules couldn't be broken.
I like it that the author David Ireland referenced Douglas Hofstadter, who also believes that recursion and "strange" loops are inherent to consciousness. Maybe the rules for breaking the rules for breaking the rules is not in fact an infinite regression but instead bottoms out after a few loops, and can therefore be programmed.
Steve Wilson, Constellation Research.
peter carroll
7th July 2016 at 11:04 am
The discussion is predicated on a very poor mechanistic question.
Frank La Fontaine
6th July 2016 at 9:03 pm
It depends on the definition of true artificial (digital) intelligence. There are numerous animals which exhibit degrees of intelligence more superior, more responsive than machines capable of pattern recognition, game playing and counting. However, digital intelligence is much less, perhaps even unrestricted, as to what it can achieve. Having abilities to comprehend written text and to appreciate this, with an ability to respond accordingly, are well within the digital capacity of current moderate size machines.


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Orphans plays at Theater for the New City
On May 17th, 2018, Michael Luggio will be directing a production of Orphans by Lyle Kessler at the Theater for the New City. This moving drama will feature students Dennis Michael Hall, Lance Reneker, and Sean Connelly.
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package org.apache.drill.exec.server.rest;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.annotation.security.PermitAll;
import javax.annotation.security.RolesAllowed;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import javax.ws.rs.Consumes;
import javax.ws.rs.FormParam;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.POST;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.SecurityContext;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.ImmutablePair;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.tuple.Pair;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.options.OptionList;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.options.OptionManager;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.options.OptionValue;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.options.OptionValue.Kind;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.options.SystemOptionManager;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.rest.DrillRestServer.UserAuthEnabled;
import org.apache.drill.exec.server.rest.auth.DrillUserPrincipal;
import org.apache.drill.exec.work.WorkManager;
import org.glassfish.jersey.server.mvc.Viewable;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;

@Path("/")
@PermitAll
public class StatusResources {
  static final org.slf4j.Logger logger = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(StatusResources.class);

  public static final String REST_API_SUFFIX = ".json";
  public static final String PATH_STATUS_JSON = "/status" + REST_API_SUFFIX;
  public static final String PATH_STATUS = "/status";
  public static final String PATH_OPTIONS_JSON = "/options" + REST_API_SUFFIX;
  public static final String PATH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS_JSON = "/internal_options" + REST_API_SUFFIX;
  public static final String PATH_OPTIONS = "/options";
  public static final String PATH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS = "/internal_options";

  @Inject UserAuthEnabled authEnabled;
  @Inject WorkManager work;
  @Inject SecurityContext sc;

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_STATUS_JSON)
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  public Pair<String, String> getStatusJSON() {
    return new ImmutablePair<>("status", "Running!");
  }

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_STATUS)
  @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
  public Viewable getStatus() {
    return ViewableWithPermissions.create(authEnabled.get(), "/rest/status.ftl", sc, getStatusJSON());
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("resource")
  private List<OptionWrapper> getSystemOptionsJSONHelper(boolean internal)
  {
    List<OptionWrapper> options = new LinkedList<>();
    OptionManager optionManager = work.getContext().getOptionManager();
    OptionList optionList = internal ? optionManager.getInternalOptionList(): optionManager.getPublicOptionList();

    for (OptionValue option : optionList) {
      options.add(new OptionWrapper(option.name, option.getValue(), option.accessibleScopes, option.kind, option.scope));
    }

    Collections.sort(options, new Comparator<OptionWrapper>() {
      @Override
      public int compare(OptionWrapper o1, OptionWrapper o2) {
         return o1.name.compareTo(o2.name);
      }
    });
    return options;
  }

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_OPTIONS_JSON)
  @RolesAllowed(DrillUserPrincipal.AUTHENTICATED_ROLE)
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  public List<OptionWrapper> getSystemPublicOptionsJSON() {
    return getSystemOptionsJSONHelper(false);
  }

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS_JSON)
  @RolesAllowed(DrillUserPrincipal.AUTHENTICATED_ROLE)
  @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
  public List<OptionWrapper> getSystemInternalOptionsJSON() {
    return getSystemOptionsJSONHelper(true);
  }

  private Viewable getSystemOptionsHelper(boolean internal) {
    return ViewableWithPermissions.create(authEnabled.get(),
      "/rest/options.ftl",
      sc,
      getSystemOptionsJSONHelper(internal));
  }

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_OPTIONS)
  @RolesAllowed(DrillUserPrincipal.AUTHENTICATED_ROLE)
  @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
  public Viewable getSystemPublicOptions() {
    return getSystemOptionsHelper(false);
  }

  @GET
  @Path(StatusResources.PATH_INTERNAL_OPTIONS)
  @RolesAllowed(DrillUserPrincipal.AUTHENTICATED_ROLE)
  @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
  public Viewable getSystemInternalOptions() {
    return getSystemOptionsHelper(true);
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("resource")
  @POST
  @Path("option/{optionName}")
  @RolesAllowed(DrillUserPrincipal.ADMIN_ROLE)
  @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
  @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_HTML)
  public Viewable updateSystemOption(@FormParam("name") String name,
                                   @FormParam("value") String value,
                                   @FormParam("kind") String kind) {
    SystemOptionManager optionManager = work.getContext()
      .getOptionManager();

    try {
      optionManager.setLocalOption(OptionValue.Kind.valueOf(kind), name, value);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      logger.debug("Could not update.", e);
    }

    if (optionManager.getOptionDefinition(name).getMetaData().isInternal()) {
      return getSystemInternalOptions();
    } else {
      return getSystemPublicOptions();
    }
  }

  @XmlRootElement
  public static class OptionWrapper {

    private String name;
    private Object value;
    private OptionValue.AccessibleScopes accessibleScopes;
    private String kind;
    private String optionScope;

    @JsonCreator
    public OptionWrapper(@JsonProperty("name") String name,
                         @JsonProperty("value") Object value,
                         @JsonProperty("accessibleScopes") OptionValue.AccessibleScopes type,
                         @JsonProperty("kind") Kind kind,
                         @JsonProperty("optionScope") OptionValue.OptionScope scope) {
      this.name = name;
      this.value = value;
      this.accessibleScopes = type;
      this.kind = kind.name();
      this.optionScope = scope.name();
    }

    public String getName() {
      return name;
    }

    @JsonIgnore
    public String getValueAsString() {
      return value.toString();
    }

    public Object getValue() {
      return value;
    }

    public OptionValue.AccessibleScopes getAccessibleScopes() {
      return accessibleScopes;
    }

    public String getKind() {
      return kind;
    }

    public String getOptionScope() {
      return optionScope;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return "OptionWrapper{" + "name='" + name + '\'' + ", value=" + value + ", accessibleScopes=" + accessibleScopes + ", kind='" + kind + '\'' + ", scope='" + optionScope + '\'' +'}';
    }
  }
}


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UN chief Antonio Guterres praises India's commitment to South-South cooperation
Describing India as a valued supporter of South-South cooperation, UN chief Antonio Guterres has praised the India-UN Development Partnership Fund for championing greater prosperity for all through its myriad projects benefitting the least developed, landlocked and small island nations. India has also been at the forefront of our efforts to reform the UN Development System, the UN Secretary General said. India is a valued supporter of South-South cooperation. The India-UN Development Partnership Fund is a welcome contribution that is championing greater prosperity and opportunity for all, Guterres said in his message. The message was read out on the occasion of the commemoration of the second anniversary of the India-UN Development Partnership Fund here Thursday organised by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN together with the UN Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC). Guterres said with its focus on Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, the Fund embodies the core promise of the 2030 Agenda to leave no one behind and reach those furthest behind first. He commended India for its strong commitment to international cooperation, shared prosperity and the vision of One UN as the world strives to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is a dedicated facility within the UN Fund for South-South Cooperation. It is managed by the UNOSSC and implemented in collaboration with the UN system. In the last two years, the Fund has developed a portfolio of 36 projects in partnership with 37 developing countries and 21 of these projects are under implementation with many nearing completion. The Government of India has committed a total of USD 150 million for this Fund over the next decade to support projects that are in alignment with the 2030 Agenda. The amount includes 50 million dollars under a separate The Fund adheres to the principles of South-South cooperation, and places a priority on national ownership and leadership, equality, sustainability, development of local capacity, and mutual benefit. Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin called the Fund a start-up effort at tangibly strengthening South-South cooperation at the UN. Indias development cooperation is rooted in our social ethos, defined variously, but encompassed by the philosophy of Sarvodaya, meaning Our working with fellow developing countries translates this philosophy into reality, he said. Akbaruddin stressed that through the Fund, India supports Southern-owned and led, demand-driven, and transformational sustainable development projects, with focus on least developed countries and small island developing states. Hailing Indias contribution in advancing cooperation among developing countries through the Fund, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner said, From the broader perspective of multilateralism, from the objective of strengthening South-South Cooperation, from the unique development attributes and assets that India has accumulated in its own remarkable path of development, to the way you have committed to work through the Fund, Steiner said. Echoing the sentiment, Executive Director of United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), the operational arm of the world body, Grete Faremo said Indias experience with its own development can help inform development goals and aspirations of other southern countries. President of the UN Economic and Social Council Inga Rhonda King said the Fund is a shining example of the 2030 Agenda and Southern-owned and led sustainable development. She added that the Fund has served numerous developing countries, including her own nation Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Speakers at the commemoration agreed that the India-UN Fund portfolio is a prime example of South-South and triangular cooperation with development projects and partnerships in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Project sizes range from less than USD 500,000 to USD 1 million under the India Fund and USD 2 million under the Commonwealth Window. The projects cover a range of SDGs\/thematic areas including climate resilience, environmental sustainability, gender equality, renewable energy, improving womens and maternal health, water and sanitation, education, employment and livelihoods, disaster recovery and risk management, agricultural development and infrastructure. The Fund leverages the strengths of the UN system to implement projects at country level, in close partnership with national governments. Over the past two years, we have seen the remarkable progress of the Fund in implementing the transformative commitments of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, UNOSSC Director and Envoy of the Secretary-General Jorge Chediek said. India is partnering with UNOSSC, as the Fund Manager and Secretariat of the fund, because UNOSSCs global and UN-wide mandates allow for the office to respond to requests and implement projects through the various UN system agencies, funds, and programs. Currently, UN agencies such as UNDP, United Nations Population Fund, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNOPS, International Labour Organization, United Nations Industrial Development Organization and World Health Organization are implementing projects supported by the Fund.
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