Australia is GREAT. I remember going to Australia loads as a little kid and loving it! I even returned on my gap year (gap year posts are incredibly cringey… you can find my Australia ones here)! The East Coast is full of so many gems- you MUST have an East Coast Trip at some point in your life.
So how long does this take?
Ever want to see the Great Barrier Reef? Cairns is the best place to take that excursion from, and it's 100% worth it! Please be mindful of the tour you're taking to ensure you're being a sustainable traveller.
Cairns is also a great place to do a rainforest hike from. Australia has amazing flora and fauna, and this would be a great way to see it.
If you have the time, island hopping to Fitzroy Island or Green Island is an easy trip. Green Island Snorkelling is amazing.
If you're looking for white sand beaches, turquoise water, and the ultimate relaxation holiday, head here! The Whitsundays also have incredible rainforests (and thus, great hiking trails!). There are 74 different islands that make up the Whitsundays!
Brisbane is one of those places that surprised me. Honestly, I didn't really think I'd love it as much as I did; I was SO pleasantly surprised! Brisbane is a great place, but you don't need too long here. I spent about a week in total here, but you can condense what I did into about 2 or 3 days. I loved the CityCat river ferry and the ultimate highlight was Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. You can hold a koala or hang out with some kangaroos!
Gold Coast has loads of different areas, each with different things to do! For example, Surfers Paradise is a beach/party place, but Burleigh Heads is much more relaxed. Find a place that suits you!
Byron Bay is a weird place, but I adored it! It has a hippie/surfer vibe, but at luxury prices. If you have the cash, it's an amazing place to relax, eat healthy food, and have an absolute blast. I especially loved going into town and seeing old VW buses loaded with surfboards around.
Sydney is an ICONIC place in Australia. There are so many amazing gems here… The Opera House, Bondi Beach, Manly, the Aquarium, Chinatown… the list goes on! I could spend ages in Sydney- there are amazing restaurants and the city is always busy. I love Darling Harbour.
Melbourne is becoming a more and more popular tourist destination, and for good reason! The food markets are some of my FAVOURITES, the "underground", "hipster" vibe of the city is amazing. If you love street art, Hosier Lane is for you! Definitely stop for a flat white; the coffee scene is fabulous here.
The beauty about travelling up or down the East Coast of Australia is that you can tailor it exactly to you. It can be as short as two weeks or as long as two years- there are so many gems on the East Coast to visit, but here are the stops you MUST take.


Started from a single town to a chain of stores with a global foot prints is truly fascinating. It all started way back in the 18th century; the group got its name as P N Gadgil from the late Purshottam Narayan Gadgil, a doyen of the family and the chief architect who captured the hearts and imagination of the people with his ethics and his jewellery. We have collections of jewellery like Balgandharva Jewellery, Golden Jazz – Italian Collections, Wild Gold – Tribal Art Jewellery, Swarajya – Maharashtrian Collections, Mangalsutra, Temple Jewellery, Royal Jewellery, Ashirwad Jewellery, Silver Gift Articles & Jewellery and Diamond Jewellery.
In the state of Maharashtra, India the name Gadgil has become synonymous with purity and generations of jewellery buyers have bestowed their immense trust and goodwill in P N Gadgil Jewellers. This rich legacy of fine craftsmanship and finer values earned over 175 years is the group's greatest treasure.


The last couple of wildflowers that I identified popping up in our lawn were introduced species, which means they're not native to North America. You could call them aliens, or exotics.
The main problem with introduced plants is that they often go wild, literally. Typically, no pests or predators consume enough of the plant or control it by other means, so the new kid on the block acts like an invader. Seeds are easily spread by animals, birds or the wind. Runners and suckers help the aliens invade new territory.
Invasive plants crowd out native plants and the problem with that is that we lose biodiversity. A highly diverse ecosystem has been shown scientifically – over and over again – to be more stable than a less diverse ecosystem. What that means for all of us is that when we lose biodiversity we lose a little stability. When nature becomes unstable, bad things happen.
So far, we've done some really bad things, like polluting the waterways so badly that a river actually caught fire in the 1970s and fish populations in the Great Lakes were totally decimated to recover some decades later. Enacting legislation, like the Clean Water and Clean Air Acts, to right these wrongs aided in the recovery.
Looking at things long-term, one sees that it would be much better for us, as the human race, to strive to stabilize our environment.
Perhaps an over simplification, but the endpoint is clear. We need to keep our environment of a high quality and stability if we are going to survive.
Concerning plant invaders, the worst of the bunch has been identified and legislated against. The U. S. Department of Agriculture has compiled a list of links to federal and state noxious weed lists.
I've seen many thistles growing by the roadsides in the country out here and probably at least a few of them are on this weed list. The Mile-a-minute and Loosestrife I've seen in nearby areas, but I only recall seeing the Kudzu vine in Virginia and places further south.
We have Multiflora Rose growing all along the dirt road up to the house and I do think it grows very quickly judging from the last three years changes. We're going to tear some out this fall and replace it with raspberry plants. That way, we can still enjoy the flowering, have some delicious fruit for the picking, and help reduce the invasive plant burden on the Pennsylvania natives.
Where you live, do you see any of these bad weeds?
I read an article in a recent Conservationist magazine, from New York State, that addressed an additional problem with Giant Hogweed. Some people are so sensitive to the plant that contact with it produces blisters. Kind of like the burns you can get from parsnips in the garden if you handle them with the morning dew still on them! If you're going to get rid of some Giant Hogweed, send me a picture first and I'll post it here for all to see. Oh yeah, wear long sleeves and gloves, too!
We don't take a lot of pains to keep a manicured lawn, not even in the front of the house. Being in a rural setting, we don't have a neighbor's neatly trimmed lawn right next to ours to make it look too long. Let's just say the yard has a rough look to it!
Besides saving time, money on gas and oil, and polluting the air less than the Jones, I'm having a little fun letting the wild flowers grow. I actually mow around the volunteer plants that look interesting or seem like they'll flower.
New wildflowers have been allowed to pop up through the thin grass. Some fleabanes have gotten five feet tall – as tall as a little peach tree that I transplanted last year – and there's a few I have yet to identify.
A couple of very similar looking "tall dandelions" appeared in the lawn and they have been saved from the cut of the mower – for now. These plants are composites, or members of the daisy family.
Both of these plants have rather thick and fuzzy, or hairy, leaves arranged in a basal rosette. A single stem rises up from the basal leaves to a somewhat branched head having a few to several yellow, dandelion-like flowers.
Looking down on this flower you might think it's a dandelion, but on closer inspection the tall stem and the thick, hairy leaves tell you it's not a dandelion.
Photo, taken 26jul08, looking down on a dandelion-like, yellow flowering weed.
From a side view the stems obviously come up from a single point. The stems themselves are thin and quite different from the hollow tubes of a dandelion's flower stem.
Photo, taken 26jul08, from Juniata County, Pennsylvania.
Bright yellow flowers of a 'hawkweed-type' wildflower, taken 26jul08.
Flowering of the two plants was separated in time by a few weeks. The taller of the two bloomed in June and the flowering of the shorter stemmed plant is just now petering out.
Leaf shape and the arrangement of the flowers helps to identify each of these plants.
Shorter stem with 2-5 branches each having a single flower. Leaves are lobed, but in a such a way that each leaf looks unique, and very hairy. Stems reach up to 16 inches, but some stems may be half that tall. A few scales are scattered on an otherwise smooth stem. Identified as Cat's-Ears, Hypochoeris radicata, an alien.
Tall stem, 1-3 feet tall, with a group of flowers in a compact head. Untoothed, linear leaves are hairy on both sides. The stem and bracts have hairs as well, black ones at that. Identified as Field Hawkweed or King Devil, Hieracium pratense, an alien.
Flowering during the first week of June the Field Hawkweed stands about 2 feet tall, as seen from across the backyard on 07jun08.
Taken last year (02jun07) this photo shows four large mats of flowering Field Hawkweed.
Taken 20jul08, this photo shows the limited branching of the Cat's-Ears stem that rises up from the rosette of leaves. In this case there were four terminal blossoms.
Basal rosettes of hairy leaves of the Cat's-Ears, taken 20jul08. Note the variety of lobe shapes on these leaves.
Basal leaves of the Field Hawkweed are entire and do not have lobes or teeth.
Field hawkweed leaves are quite hairy and the hairs are very noticeable.
Close-up side view of a grouping of flowering Field Hawkweed, taken last year (02jun07).
Neither plant appears to have any medicinal or edible value, but they do have ornamental value. When they're done flowering, they'll be mowed and looked for again next year.
The Downy Rattlesnake Plantain started opening its blooms this week. Each of these orchids has a few dozen quarter-inch long blooms at the top of a fuzzy stem with about a third of the blooms open.
You can see why this orchid is called 'downy' as all parts of it seem to be fuzzy with soft, downy hairs.
Here's a similar photo taken without a flash. Details of the open flowers are more visible.
Three sepals are the same white color as the petals, except for a tinge of green at the sepals' edge. The two upper petals are merged into a hood. The lower petal is enlarged into the typical cupped lip of an orchid.
The Passion Flower blossom that opened the day before yesterday has now closed up, so the blooms are only open for a day or two.
The bloom on the left is the finished one and that on the right is just now opening.
Notice the spikes at the ends of the sepals. Sepals are white on the inside, which make the passion flower appear to have 10 white petals.
I didn't capture the action when the passion flower opened its blossom today, but it opened fast enough to shake the whole vine.
Five elongated, yellow-orange stamens contrast with the dark purple and light blue fringe. The brown-tipped purple stalks are the stigma and style female reproductive parts of the flower.
The stigma are sticky tips of the stalks, or stigma, which are tubes that lead the sperm to the ovary – the bulbous, creamy white structure – where the fruit will eventually develop.
Well, we didn't have to wait very long for the passion flower to open a bloom. The pictures I posted earlier today were taken on 20 July, three days ago.
It's been raining since last night and for the last few nights we've had some window-rattling storms. Maybe all the rain helped the first passionflower blossom open up today, 23 July 2008.
The common passion flower, Passiflora caerulea, is a large blossom, measuring nearly 3 inches across and almost as high. They're very interesting with all that multi-colored fringe.
A friend collected a roadside passionflower a few years ago near the northern state line of Maryland, probably along Route 15. For several years he's kept the plant going strong enough to take cuttings each Spring. I was a lucky recipient of one cutting that accepted RootTone's magic and it started growing very well.
Palmate leaves of the passion-flower alternate along a vine-like stem with two small half-moon shaped leaves clasping the main stem. The palmate leaf fingers are skinny.
At the leaf and main stem junctions tendrils coil out to anchor the plant to anything within reach. It would be important to trellis this plant to keep it growing where you want it to stay.
I did not expect it to bloom the first year, but there are half a dozen blossoms already in development. Flowers rise up from the leaf axils, one blossom per leaf.
I'll get more pics when the blooms are out. Stay tuned!
We've had some really hot weather lately, and with the nightly downpours, that was enough of an excuse that I'd stopped mowing the lawn for about a month. Yes, the grassy areas did get deep and I know I'll regret it when I have to twice-mow that long grass to get it back into shape. But there's a silver lining to that cloud – I've met a few more meadow plants!
In the front yard we have Indian-tobacco, a type of Lobelia. I remember seeing it last year there, but didn't take any pictures then.
Indian-tobacco, Lobelia inflata, is the most common lobelia and it can be found along roads, at the edge of woods, and in meadows, like where the front yard meets the woods in our case.
Lobelias are characterized by their flower shape, having five petals joined at the base so they form a tube, or corolla. Two upper petals can be thought of as 'ears' and the three lower petals as 'lips'. Different Lobelia species vary in their overall flower and leaf shapes, as well as the placement of the blossoms.
Flowering from July to October, Indian-tobacco has its flowers in the leaf axils.
After flowering the blossoms swell at the base into pea-sized seedpods with the remnants of the flower sepals at the top of the round pods.
Alternating leaves are toothed, oval shaped, and larger than the leaves of most Lobelia, especially nearer the ground.
Looking down on this common plant, you can see that blooms further down the stem are on longer stems that hang over the leaves. Further up the top of the stem the blooms are nearer the main stem, and at the top they're right on the stem.
You can see that flowers are blooming at the top and sides of this Indian tobacco.
The bright sun blanched out the pale blue color of the flower petals, but you can see the progression of budding flowers to opened blooms to swollen seedpods.
Last year I must have lopped off too many branches on a couple elderberry plants because this year they have only a few bare sticks and very little greenery. I hope they come back stronger next year or I'll have to go hunting for more bushes if we want some elderberry jam. That shouldn't be too hard as elderberry, Sambucus canadensis, grows wild all around Pennsylvania at the edges of fields and along roads.
Pinnately compound, toothed leaves on branches that reach 10 or 12 feet tall will help you find them. The plants are easy to spot when in bloom, even from a distance, because of the broad clusters of white blossoms.
Once you find your elderberry plants make note of their location because they're not as easy to find when in berry. Guess I should have mentioned that a couple weeks ago because the elderberries are growing fast with all the rain we've had.
Elderberry branches are starting to get weighed down with their fruit, even though the berries are still green.
Once they're big enough the berries will turn a deep purple and then they'll be ready to harvest.


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Q: Project elements from Array of Arrays in MongoDB I am currently struggling with a search through an array of arrays within a JSON file that is imported into MongoDB compass. At the code below you can see the array "track" contains multiple other arrays. Now I want to get the 4th value of each of this arrays, for example, I want to get "load" from the first, "mouseover" from the second and so on...
{
"name":"nutzer1_50ms",
"ip":"::1",
"date":"Sat, 16 Dec 2017 21:53:19 +0100",
"screen":"1920x1080",
"window":"1920x966",
"document":"1024x786",
"track":[
[1513457569930,0,0,"load",""],
[1513457569953,79,229,"mouseover","p3"],
[1513457570274,79,228,"mousemove","p3"],
[1513457570280,79,226,"mousemove","p3"],
["end","end","end","end"]]
}

I would be very glad to get some help on this :)

A: You can try below aggregation query.
$map iterating over track values & $arrayElemAt to project the 4th element from array.
db.collection_name.aggregate([
  {
    "$project": {
      "4th": {
        "$map": {
          "input": "$track",
          "as": "track",
          "in": {
            "$arrayElemAt": [
              "$$track",
              3
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
])

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sees a good chance for the P5+1 group of countries and Iran to agree on a common document settling the nuclear problem of Iran, which would not include any artificial additions and would not be imposed from the outside.
Lavrov met recently with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton in New Delhi to address Iran.
"Our common impression is that there is a very good chance, which cannot be missed," Lavrov said in an interview on the TV Center television channel on Saturday.
"Common points have been determined, and there are no fundamental disagreements on issues that need to be resolved in practical terms. The matter is about correctly formulating the understanding that has been achieved in the diplomatic language to make it a truly joint document rather than one imposed from the outside," he said.
Lavrov declined to answer why France has assumed a special position on the matter, saying, "I do not comment on individual approaches by the P5+1 members. They certainly have their nuances, but our common position is that there is a solid and substantive basis to diplomatically word the transpiring agreement."


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2014 First Quarter Update
On the back of the successful exploration activities in Kenya during 2013, the Company and its partners ramped up its exploration program in Kenya and Ethiopia. Entering the year, the Company and its partners had seven drilling rigs operating in the region. Four Tullow-Africa Oil joint venture rigs are operating in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya in Blocks 10BB and 13T, one of which is a testing and completions unit. In addition, the Company and its partners have a rig operating in Block 9 in Kenya. In Ethiopia, the Company and its partners in the South Omo Block and Block 7/8 have a rig operating in each block. Drilling operations in Block 7/8 have recently been completed, and the rig is in the process of being released. The Company expects to have six drilling rigs operating in the region through the remainder of 2014.
In January, the Company announced further drilling success with its sixth and seventh consecutive discoveries in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya at Amosing-1 and Ewoi-1. Amosing-1 is located seven kilometers southwest of the Ngamia-1 discovery along the Basin Bounding Fault Play in Block 10BB. Logs indicated 160 to 200 meters of potential net oil pay in good quality sandstone reservoirs. Well testing and an appraisal well are planned for the first half of 2014. Ewoi-1 is located four kilometers to the east of the Etuko-1 discovery in the Basin Flank Play on the eastern side of the discovered basin in Northern Kenya also in Block 10BB. Logs indicated potential net pay of 20 to 80 meters to be confirmed by well testing which is planned for the first half of 2014.
In February, the Company announced the results of five well tests conducted on five Lokhone pay intervals at Etuko-1 located on the Basin Flank Play in Block 10BB. Light 36 degree API waxy crude oil was successfully flowed from three zones at a combined average rate of over 550 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In March, the Company announced the results of the Etuko-2 exploration well drilled to test the upper Auwerwer sands overlying the previously announced Etuko discovery. Etuko-2 penetrated a potential significant oil column identified from formation pressure data and oil shows while drilling and in core, with good quality reservoir but flowed only water on drill stem test. The results are considered inconclusive and analysis is underway to consider further options to evaluate this reservoir.
In March, the Company announced the results of the Emong-1 well located four kilometers northwest of Ngamia-1 field discovery in Block 13T (Kenya). The well encountered oil and gas shows while drilling, however the Auwerwer sandstones that are the primary reservoirs in the Ngamia field were thin and poorly developed in Emong-1 and the well was plugged and abandoned. It is believed that the reservoir was poorly developed due to its proximity to the basin bounding fault and its location within what appears to be a local isolated slumped fault margin. This well, which was trying to establish an additional play, has no impact on the potential of the Ngamia oil accumulation or any other prospectivity in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya.
In May, the Company and its partner drilled a new prospect in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya, the Ekunyuk-1 well, which is located on the eastern flank play on trend with recent discoveries at Etuko and Ewoi. The well has now reached a final total depth of 1,802 meters and has encountered some 5 meters of net oil pay, within approximately 150 meters of reservoir quality water-bearing sandstone and an equal thickness of a basin-wide rich oil shale.
Four rigs are currently operating in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya. The rig that recently completed drilling Ekunyuk-1 is mobilizing to drill Agete-2. Appraisal wells at Ngamia-2 and Twiga South-2 and testing operations at the Agete-1 discovery made in 2013 are also ongoing.
The initial wellbore at Twiga-2 was drilled near the basin bounding fault and encountered some 18 meters of net oil pay within alluvial fan facies, with limited reservoir quality. A decision was made to sidetrack the well away from the fault to explore north of Twiga-1 and some 62 meters of vertical net oil pay has been discovered in the Auwerwer formation, similar in quality to the initial Twiga-1 discovery. The well is currently being deepened to evaluate the Lower Lokhone sand reservoirs and a testing program for this successful well is planned to be conducted later this year.
Given the significant volumes discovered and the extensive exploration and appraisal program planned to fully assess the upside potential of the basin, the Tullow-Africa Oil joint venture has agreed with the Government of Kenya to commence development studies. In addition, the partnership is involved in a comprehensive pre-FEED study of the export pipeline. The current ambition of the Government of Kenya and the joint venture partnership is to reach project sanction for development, including an export pipeline, by the end of 2015 or early 2016. The Government is already making progress, having recently announced its intention to invite Expressions of Interest for the feasibility study, engineering design and development of a Kenya crude export pipeline. If further exploration success opens additional basins there will be scope for the development to be expanded.
In addition to further exploration and appraisal drilling in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya, the Company and its partners plan to drill new basin opening wells in 2014 in the Anza (Block9), Chew Bahir (South Omo), South Kerio (Block 10BB), North Kerio (Block 10BB/10BA) and West Turkana (Block 10BA) basins.
In Block 9 (Kenya), the Company, as operator, and its partner are currently drilling the Sala-1 exploration well which will test a large prospect on the northeastern flank of the Cretaceous Anza rift, which is up-dip of two wells that had significant hydrocarbon shows. Results from Sala-1 are expected in June.
In the South Omo Block (Ethiopia), the Company and its partner are currently drilling the Shimela-1 exploration well to test a new basin in the Tertiary trend, the Chew Bahir Basin, located on the eastern side of the South Omo Block. Results from Shimela-1 are expected near the end of May. The rig will next drill the Gardim prospect in the southern portion of the Chew Bahir Basin. Both wells are basin bounding fault prospects similar to the Ngamia, Amosing, Twiga, Ekales, and Agete discoveries in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya.
Additionally in Ethiopia, the Company and its partners have recently completed the drilling of the El Kuran-3 appraisal well on Block 8. El Kuran-3 was an appraisal of a discovery made by Tenneco in the 1970's, and encountered a significant but tight gas-condensate zone in Jurassic Hammanlei carbonates. The well has been suspended pending a decision on conducting a fracture stimulation, which will be required to assess the long-term productivity of the formation. Discussions are ongoing with the Government of Ethiopia to secure an extension to the Exploration Period under the PSC to assess the economic viability of the discovery.
The Company and its partners continue to actively acquire and process seismic data in Blocks 12A, 10BA, 10BB and 13T in Kenya. In Block 12A, a 425 kilometer 2D seismic program was completed in the first quarter and the crew has recently demobilized. In Block 10BB, a 676 kilometer North Kerio Basin 2D seismic program was completed in the first quarter and the crew is mobilizing to acquire a 600 kilometer 2D program split between Blocks 10BA, 10BB and 13T over the North Lokichar Basin. In Blocks 10BB and 13T, acquisition of a 550 square kilometer 3D seismic program over the discoveries and prospects along the Basin Bounding Fault Play in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya is ongoing and is scheduled to complete at the end of the third quarter. In Ethiopia, the Company, as operator, and its partner are making preparations to acquire a minimum 400 kilometer 2D seismic program over the Rift Basin Area commencing in the fourth quarter. Also in Ethiopia, the Company and its partners have commenced a 1,000 kilometer 2D seismic program on the Adigala Block.
In September 2013, the Company announced details of an independent assessment of the Company's contingent and prospective resources on its Kenyan and Ethiopian exploration properties. The Company is currently working with its independent resource evaluator and expects to release an update to the contingent and prospective resources for the discovered basin in Northern Kenya in Blocks 10BB and 13T during June.
The Company has a significant exploration and appraisal program set out for 2014 which will see over 20 wells completed. The program is focused on drilling out the remaining prospect inventory in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya, appraising existing and future discoveries with the aid of the new 3D Seismic survey, drilling six new basin opening wells and progressing the development studies towards project sanction in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya. This significant exploration program in 2014 is fully funded.
On the back of the very successful exploration results in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya, the Company and its partner have accelerated the pace of exploration along the Basin Bounding Fault Play in Block 10BB and Block 13T. The Company and its partner currently have four drilling rigs operating in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya, one of which is currently being utilized as a testing and completion rig.
In February, the Company announced the results of five well tests conducted on five Lokhone pay intervals in Etuko-1 located on the Basin Flank Play in Block 10BB. Light 36 degree API waxy crude oil was successfully flowed from three zones at a combined average rate of over 550 barrels of oil equivalent per day. In March, the Company announced the results of the Etuko-2 exploration well drilled to test the upper Auwerwer sands overlying the previously announced Etuko discovery. Etuko-2 penetrated a potential significant oil column identified from formation pressure data and oil shows while drilling and in core, with good quality reservoir but flowed only water on drill stem test. The results are considered inconclusive and analysis is underway to consider further options to evaluate this reservoir.
In May, the Ekunyuk-1 well, located south of the Ewoi and Etuko discoveries on the eastern Basin Flank Play, reached a final total depth of 1,802 meters and has encountered some 5 meters of net oil pay, within approximately 150 meters of reservoir quality water-bearing sandstone and an equal thickness of a basin-wide rich oil shale.
An appraisal well is currently drilling at Ngamia-2. Results are expected by the end of the second quarter.
The 2D seismic crew operating in Block 10BB completed 676 kilometers of 2D seismic during the quarter. Fast-track processing of this newly acquired survey is being integrated into subsurface mapping to finalize exploration drilling locations for the 2014 campaign, the first of which will be the basin opening test of the Dyepa prospect in the South Kerio Basin which is expected to spud mid-2014. This 2D seismic program identified a significant number of follow-on prospects should Dyepa be successful. The seismic crew is now mobilizing to the North Lokichar Basin for an infill program that will further define prospects for the 2015 drilling campaign. Using a second crew, the Company and its partner have completed approximately 25% of a 550 square kilometer 3D seismic survey that covers the Amosing, Ngamia, Ekales, Twiga South and Agete discoveries along the Basin Bounding Fault Play in Block 10BB and Block 13T combined.
The current exploration phase under the Block 10BB PSC, which expires in July 2014, includes a commitment to drill one exploratory well and acquire 300 square kilometers of 3D seismic. The planned work program in Block 10BB will exceed the PSC commitment. The intention of the Block 10BB partners is to enter the final two year exploration period under the PSC.
An appraisal well is currently drilling at Twiga South-2. The initial wellbore was drilled near the basin bounding fault and encountered some 18 meters of net oil pay within alluvial fan facies, with limited reservoir quality. A decision was made to sidetrack the well away from the fault to explore north of Twiga-1 and some 62 meters of vertical net oil pay has been discovered in the Auwerwer formation, similar in quality to the initial Twiga-1 discovery. The well is currently being deepened to evaluate the Lower Lokhone sand reservoirs and a testing program for this successful well is planned to be conducted later this year.
Testing operations at the Agete-1 discovery made in 2013 are also ongoing. Results are expected by the end of May.
During the first quarter, the Company and its partner on Block 10BA demobilized a seismic crew that completed a 1,450 kilometer 2D seismic program in 2012/2013. The plan in 2014 is to acquire a further 200 kilometers of 2D seismic in the North Lokichar Basin that extends onto Block 10BA. Preparations are underway to drill two exploration wells in the West Turkana Basin commencing with the Engomo (previously referred to as Kiboko) prospect later this year. The 2D seismic acquired to date exceeds the work obligations of the initial exploration period under the Block 10BA PSC which expired in April 2014. The Company and its partner have notified the Ministry of Energy for the Republic of Kenya of their intention to enter the next two year exploration period under the PSC.
The Company and its partners on Block 12A have recently completed a 425 kilometer 2D seismic acquisition program that began in 2013. The 2D seismic program is mainly focused in the Kerio Valley in the southwestern portion of the block. The 2D seismic acquired to date exceeds the work obligations of the initial exploration period under the Block 12A PSC which expires in September 2014.
Block 9 is in the Cretaceous rift basin on trend with the South Sudan oil fields. The Company and its partner are currently drilling the Sala-1 well which has a planned total depth of 3,450 meters and is expected to complete in June. The Sala prospect is a large three way dip closed structure against the rift bounding fault in the Cretaceous Anza Basin in a similar structural setting to the Tertiary Ngamia-1 discovery in Block 10BB. The Sala prospect is up-dip of the Bogal-1 and Ndovu-1 wells both of which encountered significant hydrocarbon shows. The Company and its partner are currently in the final exploration period under the PSC which expires in December 2015. Drilling of the Sala-1 well will fulfill the remaining work commitments in Block 9.
The Company and its partners are currently drilling the Shimela-1 exploration well to test a new basin in the Tertiary trend, the Chew Bahir Basin, located on the eastern side of the South Omo Block. Results from Shimela-1 are expected near the end of May. The rig will next drill the Gardim prospect in the southern portion of the Chew Bahir Basin. Both wells are basin bounding fault prospects similar to the Ngamia, Amosing, Twiga, Ekales, and Agete discoveries in the discovered basin in Northern Kenya. The current exploration period under the PSC expires in January 2015 and the work completed on the block to date has exceeded the minimum work obligation.
The Rift Basin Area is located north of the South Omo Block and is on trend with highly prospective blocks in the Tertiary rift valley including the South Omo Block in Ethiopia, and Kenyan Blocks 10BA, 10BB, 13T, and 12A. The Company completed the acquisition of a 36,500 line kilometer Full Tensor Gradiometry ("FTG") survey in October 2013. The Company has completed an exhaustive environmental and social impact assessment over the block in preparation for a 400 to 1,200 kilometer 2D seismic program, which is expected to commence in the fourth quarter. The initial exploration period, which expires in February 2016, will be met by the planned work program.
The Company and its partners continue to focus on the El Kuran oil accumulation on Block 8, discovered in the early 1970's. After completing reservoir characterization studies, the Company and its partners focused efforts on testing and completion strategies for producing commercial quantities of oil and gas. The Company and its partners have recently completed the drilling of the El Kuran-3 appraisal well, which encountered a significant but tight gas-condensate zone in Jurassic Hammanlei carbonates. The well has been suspended pending a decision on conducting a fracture stimulation, which will be required to assess the long-term productivity of the formation. Discussions are ongoing with the Government of Ethiopia to secure an extension to the initial exploration period under the PSC to assess the economic viability of the discovery.
The Company and its partners continue to evaluate the encouraging results of the two wells drilled in 2012 on the Dharoor Valley block which proved all the critical elements exist for oil accumulations, namely a working petroleum system, good quality reservoirs and thick seal rocks. Based on these encouraging results, the Company, through its ownership interest in Horn, and its partners committed to enter the next exploration period, which carries a commitment to drill one exploration well in each block within an additional three year term ending October 2015.
Efforts are now focused on making preparations for a seismic acquisition campaign in the Dharoor Valley area which will include a regional seismic reconnaissance grid in the previously unexplored eastern portion of the basin as well as prospect specific seismic to delineate a drilling candidate in the western portion of the basin where an active petroleum system was confirmed by the drilling at the Shabeel-1 and Shabeel North-1 locations in 2012. The Company and its partners continue to pursue efforts to drill an exploration well in the Nugaal Valley block and are working with the Puntland government to move this project forward. During the quarter, the Company and its partners completed an on the ground review of the operating environment which is encouraging regarding community support to conduct work.
Somalia is going through an unprecedented period in its history with a real opportunity for all stakeholders to assist in the rebuilding of the country. The first internationally recognized Federal government took power in 2012 following over 20 years of transitional or no government. The Company and its partners actively engage with a range of governments and organizations, domestic and international, around how Somalia can best develop a stable Federal state including the institutions and systems it needs to properly manage its natural resources.
Commenced Trading on the TSX
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014, the Company's common shares commenced trading on the TSX. The common shares were concurrently delisted from the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company's trading symbol and CUSIP remain the same. The Company's common shares also currently trade on the NASDAQ OMX First North and, as with the graduation to the TSX, the Company intends to apply for a graduation to the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm main board.


Fans of How to Get Away with Murder have come to expect game-changing final moments, but the last minute of "Ask Him About Stella" was especially thrilling. Just as Annalise's class action lawsuit started to fall apart, Michaela came up with a solution: go to the ultimate problem-solver for help. That meant none other than Scandal's Olivia Pope. But will Olivia Pope help Annalise on HTGAWM? That seems like a guarantee.
Annalise's ongoing lawsuit in Season 4 has been full of stops and starts, with the Keating Four (plus Oliver) working around the clock to try to make it happen. But when it all seemed hopeless, Michaela was there to save the day. Like any regular viewer of ABC's Thursday night lineup, she knew that there was one person who could navigate all of the problems Annalise was having. Luckily, that person seemed to be arriving just in time to put her own twist on Annalise's old class. Olivia Pope was in town to teach everyone how to survive a scandal, which is a lesson these characters could really use.
Fans knew the moment when Annalise and Olivia crossed paths would be coming at some point because it had been announced ahead of time, but when it happened it was still thrilling. And it was really little more than a tease, because they still haven't shared so much as a word. Next episode, however, that will change.
"Ask Him About Stella" ended with Annalise going to sit in Olivia's class, files in hand, clearly planning on trying to talk to her when it finished up. Olivia didn't get to utter so much as a sentence but in the promo for the next episode, it looks like she'll have some strong words for Annalise.
Olivia very firmly informs Annalise that this is her town, her game, and her rules — and it seems like Annalise is going to have to learn to abide by them. Fans will have to wait until March 1 to see how it all shakes out, but with those two powerhouse actresses going head to head, it couldn't be anything short of amazing.
It seemed like fans of both shows were feeling the excitement, and they took to Twitter to express it. But as fun as it was to get a hint of the crossover in "Ask Him About Stella," it was totally torturous to know it would be weeks before viewers got to see the good stuff.
Unfortunately, if you're not already a fan of both shows, the fervor over the crossover might not have reached you yet. In some ways, the break could be good — another who isn't already familiar with Scandal can use the time to take a crash course so they're prepared to see Olivia and Annalise argue it out together.
Michaela may have been confident in Olivia's abilities to get Annalise's case to the Supreme Court, but the promo was definitely sowing some seeds of discord. There's always a chance that Annalise and Olivia won't get along, at least at first. One assumes that they'll be able to respect each other's awesomeness despite any disagreements, but a little conflict is bound to arise when such strong characters are going one on one.
But hopefully that promo is being a little misleading. Seeing Olivia and Annalise side by side is an opportunity for both shows to do some very interesting things, and the most appealing would be getting to see them use their considerable skills to work together. It may be a long wait until viewers get to find out how it goes, but it seems safe to assume it'll be worth it.


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Question: "What is a bar mitzvah? What is a bat mitzvah?"
Answer: The term bar mitzvah means "son of the commandment." The term bat mitzvah means "daughter of the commandment." Within Judaism the idea of a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah ceremony is relatively new. At the age of 13, a Jewish boy is considered to become mature enough to fulfill the obligation of mitzvah (the commandments), and a Jewish girl is considered capable of fulfilling the obligations of mitzvah. The ceremony of bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah is a recognition of adulthood; a boy becomes a man, and a girl becomes a woman. As an adult he or she shares the responsibilities and privileges of a full member of the Jewish community. The boy becomes a "bar mitzvah," a son of the commandment.
For the past hundred years or so, the bar mitzvah ceremony has become more important. In the past, the new bar mitzvah was eligible to wear tefillin (phylacteries) during prayer. Tefillin are small wooden boxes containing Scripture attached by leather straps to the forehead and one forearm. In addition, the bar mitzvah is allowed to read publicly from the Torah in the synagogue on the Sabbath. The more conservative movements within Judaism only allow bar mitzvah for boys, but no corresponding bat mitzvah for girls. The more liberal movements within Judaism observe both bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah.
The bar mitzvah ceremony usually involves the child's leading prayers or reading portions of the Torah during a Sabbath service. Generally, he also makes a speech, traditionally beginning with the words "Today I am a man." The father and grandfather may also have a part to play in reciting a blessing or passing the Torah to the child. Leading up to the bar mitzvah service is the completion of a charity project.
Not all Jewish people are religiously active. A great number within the Jewish community are secular and do not observe the religious components of Judaism. However, even secular Jewish families enjoy the bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah as rites of passage as their sons and daughters become adults within the community.


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BOSTON, Mass. (July 23, 2008)-- Ever since the human genome was sequenced less than 10 years ago, researchers have been able to access a dizzying plethora of genomic information with a simple click of a mouse. This digitizing of genomic data--and its public access--is something that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier.
But as molecules go, DNA is pretty straight forward. With its simple composition and linear structure, it easily lends itself to mathematical models. Not so with proteins. In fact, proteins are an order of magnitude more complex than DNA. It is proteins, not DNA, that carry out the cell's heavy lifting. However, with their intricately folded three-dimensional shapes determining a seemingly endless range of possible functions and their manifold interactions with other proteins and with DNA, the leg-work required to mathematically capture the protein universe seems absurd.
That is why a team of Harvard Medical School researchers have decided to attack this issue from an entirely new angle. Rather than build a mountain range of proteomic data one grain of dirt at a time, they have developed a computer program that can take on the responsibility of assembling such a gargantuan model.
Enter Little b, a computational language that can penetrate the "mind" of a cell.
"Through incorporating principles of engineering, we've developed a language that can describe biology in the same way a biologist would," says Jeremy Gunawardena, director of the Virtual Cell Program in Harvard Medical School's department of systems biology. "The potential here is enormous. This opens the door to actually performing discovery science, to look at things like drug interactions, right on the computer."
These findings will be published in the July 23 issue of Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
Most current computational methods of modeling biological systems are not unlike writing a document with pen and paper. Each new project starts from scratch; there are no facilities for cutting and pasting, for linking to other texts, for including images, etc.--things that come so "naturally" to electronic documents.
Harvard Medical School researcher Jeremy Gunawardena, a mathematician by training, teamed up with Aneil Mallavarapu, a cell biologist and computer scientist, to lead a project that would bypass these limitations.
"We knew that the secret to doing this would be to assimilate fundamental concepts of engineering, concepts like modularity and abstraction, into the biological realm," says Mallavarapu, who was recently awarded the Merrimack prize by the Council for Systems Biology in Boston for developing this program.
Modularity involves breaking a problem down into separate modules and constructing each module so that it can interact with the others. Abstraction refers to extracting generic biological properties and incorporating them into the modules, so that they can use this abstract information in concrete contexts. Put another way, abstraction means that, unlike the old days of pen and paper, each new model does *not* need to be built from scratch. Models can be built upon each other and their individual modules refined and re-used.
To do this, Mallavarapu used the programming language LISP, a language widely used in artificial intelligence research. LISP is famous among computer scientists due to its ability to write code that, in turn, can write code, enabling a programmer to derive new mini-languages.
"LISP isn't like typical programs, it's more like a conversation," says Gunawardena. "When we input data into Little b, Little b responds to it and reasons over the data."
For example, Gunawardena's lab works on kinases, a kind of protein that transfers phosphate chemicals to other proteins in order to regulate their activity. While this property is common to all kinases, there is a great deal of variety in how particular kinases carry this out. Little b, however, understands this basic property of kinases, this abstraction.
Here, the researchers demonstrated how they were able to interact with Little b to build complex models of kinase activity, using Little b as a kind of scientific collaborator, and not simply a passive tool.
On a larger scale, the researchers also used the program to query the development of fruit fly embryos. As a result, they discovered levels of complexity in these embryonic structures that previous research had missed.
"This language is stepping into an unknown universe, when your computer starts building things for you," says Gunawardena. "Your whole relationship with the computer becomes a different one. You've ceded some control to the machine. The machine is drawing inferences on your behalf and constructing things for you."
The researchers sometimes admit, half-joking, that Little b sometimes feels a little bit like "The Matrix"--referring, of course, to the film trilogy in which human beings lived in a computer-generated virtual world.
Mallavarapu and Gunawardena have a pretty clear vision for this project: they want every biologist in the world to use it.
But in order to bring the program out from the early adopter community, where it is currently being used by colleagues in the Harvard community, it needs to be more accessible.
"The next step is to create an interface that's easy to use," says Gunarwardena. "Think of web page development. Lots of people are creating web pages with little or no knowledge of HTML. They use simple interfaces like Dreamweaver. Once we've developed the equivalent, scientists will be able to use our system without having to learn Little b."
And the more people use it, the smarter it gets. As researchers around the world input their discoveries into Little b, the program will assimilate that information into its language.
The ultimate goal is to have an in silico, virtual cell--a dynamic biological system living in software.
"Sure, it's a long way off," says Gunawardena, "but we're getting there."
This research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and Harvard Medical School. The funding and data sources for this study had no role in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; and in the writing of the report.
"Programming with models: modularity and abstraction provide powerful capabilities for systems biology"
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Probashi Dibash, Mujib Year and Historic 8th January
প্রকাশিত হয়েছে : ৩:২৫:৩১,অপরাহ্ন ১৪ ডিসেম্বর ২০২০
Najrul Khasru
In 1970 there were approximately 40,000 Bangladeshi expatriates living in Britain. There was no significant Bangladeshi diaspora in any other part of the world. Yet this small number of expatriates played a vital role in Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. While many Bangladeshis crossed borders to take up arms, the expatriates were instrumental in creating international awareness of Pakistani occupying forces' barbarous atrocities and raising much needed financial resources for the freedom fighters.
Many expatriates simply handed in their unopened pay packets to the Bangladesh fund week after week (I learnt this from Justice Imman Ali, who, as a teenager at the time, was participating in collecting funds). They remain the unsung heroes of Bangladesh. Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury in his book, Probashey Mukttijudder Dinguli, recorded that soon after the independence, on behalf of the expatriates, a sum of £378,871 was sent to the finance ministry which formed the very first foreign currency of the Government of Bangladesh.
Fast forward to 2020. It is estimated that there are 12 million Bangladeshi expatriates living and working in 140 countries. The ever increasing remittances sent by the expatriates have been vital in elevating Bangladesh's position to one of the largest economies in the world today. The yearly remittances have passed $20 billion mark. If in 1972 Bangladesh's foreign currency reserve stood at £378,000 thanks to the expatriates, then that figure now stands at a staggering $45 billion, again largely due to the efforts of expatriate men and women.
It would not be out of place to suggest that Bangladesh should appreciate the enormous sacrifices of its expatriates by marking a day as Probashi Dibash (the expatriates' day). A day to be celebrated each year of the Probashis achievements by Bangladesh and by Bangladeshi diaspora everywhere. But celebration would not be the only purpose of such a day.
Dedicating a day to expatriates would not only be a huge morale booster for the Bangladeshi diaspora worldwide thereby increasing the remittance inflow, but it would also open an avenue for Bangladesh to tap into its enormous human resources abroad, which has heather to been unexplored. Such resources are likely to be just as significant in value as the remittances.
Many countries have recognised the benefit of devising a way of having a consistently close link with their expatriates not only to enhance remittances, but also to take advantage of their expertise gained through education, training and work in advanced economies. Taiwan has been well known for inviting academics of Taiwanese heritage from top American universities to spend regular sojourns in Taiwan sharing their knowledge and experiences with local universities, with tremendous results. Vietnam, Philippines and Turkey have similar programmes. Economists world-over agree that the Chinese emergence as an economic giant was possible because of its success in attracting billions of dollars of investment from Chinese-Americans in 1980s.
The case of India requires a special mention in this regard. In 2001 Indian government set up a high-level committee on Indian diaspora with a view to increase connectivity for mutual benefit. In accordance with the recommendation of the committee, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the then prime minister, announced 9th January 2002 as the "Pravasi Bharatiay Divas" (Indian Expatriate Day). The date was chosen to mark its most famous son and expatriate, Mahatma Gandhi's return from South Africa to India in 1915.
Since 2003 the day is marked with a three day event inaugurated by the Prime Minister of the day or the head of state of a country with a large Indian diaspora, usually attended by around 2000 Indian expatriate delegates. The event provides a cordial and apolitical environment where expatriates exchange ideas with Indian policymakers, business community and others as to how their skills and expertise could be utilise to benefit India. There is also clear evidence that these events have contributed to an increase in remittance flow to the country. The highlight of the event is the Pravashi Bharatia Samman Award given to the expatriates for outstanding achievements in various fields.
It is regrettable that Bangladesh is yet to recognise its worldwide diaspora as anything beyond row remittance earners. Undoubtedly, the declaration of a Probashi Dibash would be a significant step in the right direction.
Let us look at the Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK. It reads an amazing story. Thousands of miles away from their roots, Bangladeshis sit in British Parliament. They sit in judgement in British Courts, work as important government scientists and diplomats. There are thousands of them teaching wide ranging subjects in British schools, technical institutes and universities. They work as doctors and surgeons in hundreds of British hospitals. Similar successes are emulated in the USA, Canada and other countries by Bangladeshis. Establishing close connection with them would benefit Bangladesh enormously.
Unlike China and India, Bangladesh has not succeeded in enticing its expatriates into large scale investment in the country. Yet it is estimated that there are tens of thousands of expatriate millionaires in Bangladeshi diaspora worldwide. In the UK it is common now to see Bangladeshi names in the Sunday Times yearly top 1000 rich list. Piecemeal attempts by Bangladesh over the years have failed due to lacklustre efforts, and negative experiences of many Probashi investors. A forum that allows expatriate investors a dialogue with the country's policymakers and the business community would significantly alter that situation.
A further matter of note is that in many countries Bangladeshi diaspora consists of second, third and fourth generations. Many are destined to be leaders in diverse fields in the countries where they are born and raised. The potential benefit for Bangladesh in entrenching in them their Bangladeshi heritage would be boundless.
If the argument for a Probashi Dibash seems overwhelming, then there is also a particular date for commemoration of such day, relating to which the argument is just as compelling. This leads me to a story of a love affair like no equal!
On 8 January 1972 as the dawn broke, a plane landed at London. A dignified looking man disembarked and was gently escorted to the VIP lounge. This man was none other than Bangabandu Sheik Mujibur Rahman, the father of the newly independent Bangladesh.
It is no coincidence that after being freed from Pakistani prison, Bangabandhu had no hesitation in choosing London as his first destination before returning home. According to Zafar Chowdhury, who piloted the plane, on arriving at Heathrow, Bangabondu's first request was to contact a number of his "friends", who were restaurant owners. When the British Foreign office representative informed him that the arrangement had been made for accommodation at Claridge's hotel, he thanked the official but suggested staying at a modest hotel in Russell Square "where it would be easier for our people to see me". The official politely informed Bangabandhu that a Head of State's security can only be provided at Claridge's hotel but assured him that arrangements would be made for any number of people to meet him subject to security measures. Indeed, Claridge's hotel that day became a mini Bangladesh. Dr Kamal Hossain who was also released from Pakistani jail with Bangabandhu, revealed that he was fully aware that "London had been an active centre from which support for the liberation war had been pursued".
That the father of the nation was a visionary leader is an unequivocal truth. He understood the sacrifices that the expatriates made, and foresaw that one day they would play a pivotal role in shaping the country into Sonar Bangla. He granted dual citizenship status to expatriates at a time when only a handful of countries allowed such status to their expatriates. The expatriates also reciprocated Bangabandhu's love for them by hiring a British lawyer to defend him when Ayub Khan tried to eliminate him by instituting the infamous Agartala conspiracy case, by taking to heart his 7th March speech and playing a heroic role in freeing the country and continuing in that vein as remittance fighters.
The historic 8th January binds Bangabondhu, Probashis and Bangladesh in a romantic triangle. Although the Covid 19 pandemic has disrupted the Mujib Year celebration, the spirit of the occasion remains ablaze. It would be amiss of the government of Bangladesh if it fails to see the dynamism in declaring 8th January as the Probashi Dibash in Mujib Year. The father of the nation would have loved nothing more!
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The Indian economy has reported rapid growth in the last two decades, transforming from primarily an agrarian economy to a services-driven one. However, despite the super-normal growth, India's manufacturing sector contributes 16% to the GDP; as compared to China's 34%.
The manufacturing sector in India continues to struggle, pulling down the country's overall growth. In 2013–14, the manufacturing sector's output declined by 0.2% (compared to overall GDP growth of 4.4%) — its worst performance since 1999-2000. Some of the factors affecting manufacturing growth include policy inaction in infrastructure development, stringent labor laws, barriers in land acquisition and inefficient labor.
Lack of adequate infrastructure has led to declining productivity and competitiveness of the Indian manufacturing sector. Power and fuel shortage, poor transportation infrastructure (road and rail) and congested ports are major challenges that manufacturers face. A truck in India covers 250-400 km per day as compared to 700-800 km per day in developed countries.
To facilitate infrastructure development, India needs to have a single point ownership across different ministries resulting in timely execution of projects. The country can look at China which has a centralized agency in National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which coordinates and monitors policy implementation carried out by local provincial governments.
Gujarat has led the way in reforming land acquisition policy, simplifying procedures and ensuring minimum direct government participation. Land allotment has increased four folds since 2010 and possession of land now takes just 45 days.
In India, there are 47 central laws and over 200 different state laws that govern the employer-worker relationship. Liberalizing and simplifying these will be crucial in attracting investments and reviving the manufacturing sector in India.
Recently, Rajasthan government has proposed amendments to three major labor laws — Industrial Disputes Act, Contract Labour Act and the Factories Act. The amendment proposes that government's permission will not be required for retrenchment of up to 300 workers (current law allows retrenchment of up to 100 workers).
By 2020, India will have 64% of its population in the working age group. But the existing annual training capacity in the country is only 4.5 million which is low compared to the required number.
Swift skill development of the Indian workforce can be achieved by adequately measuring the skill gap, acquiring requisite funding and integrating vocational training with school learning. Government's proposed NETAP program aims to enrol 200,000 apprentices annually into real time training at the workplace for the next 10 years. India currently has only 250,000 apprentices compared to China's 20 million and Germany's 3 million.
With China losing its cost competitiveness to rising labor and input costs, India can leverage the opportunity to strengthen its participation in the global manufacturing sector. However, there is a need to resolve fundamental challenges which would require equal commitment on the part of the industry and the government. Without this, India might miss out once again to capitalize on the global manufacturing restructuring.


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'It's heartbreaking': Jill Biden tours migrant camp in Mexico with local leaders
Bishop offers prayers of hopes for asylum-seekers living in filth on border
Posted: Dec 22, 2019 / 06:46 PM GMT-0600 / Updated: Dec 30, 2019 / 09:57 AM GMT-0600
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was updated at the request of the Trump campaign on Monday afternoon.]
MATAMOROS, Mexico (Border Report) — Trekking through thick mud and puddles left after recent rains, Jill Biden, wife of former vice president Joe Biden, joined a group of religious and local leaders on Sunday to pass out tamales and Christmas gifts to children as she toured a refugee camp across the border from Brownsville, Texas, where thousands of asylum-seekers live.
Wearing thick black boots, Biden spent almost two hours in the camp, led by Brownsville Catholic Bishop Daniel Flores, U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, and well-known local Catholic nun Sister Norma Pimentel, who oversees volunteer efforts here for several nonprofit groups that help the migrants each day.
Jill Biden, second from right, tours a migrant tent encampment on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico, with Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, to her right, U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, far left, and Team Brownsville lead volunteer Mike Benavides. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
At noon the bishop led a prayer for the families who lined up for a Christmas meal plate of tamales, rice and beans. Flores asked God "to watch over these families during these difficult times."
Over 2,000 migrants live in the camp — most of which are called MPPs, because they are forced to remain in Mexico as part of the Trump Administration's Migrant Protection Protocols program — as they await their U.S. immigration hearings. This past year over 60,000 MPPs from California to Texas have been sent to wait in Mexico, Trump administration officials said recently.
Some of the families have been living in tents in this filthy and smelly encampment — at the base of the Gateway International Bridge — since mid-July when MPP was first implemented in South Texas.
"It's heartbreaking. It's really heartbreaking," Biden said as she stood on the banks of the Rio Grande where clothes hung from trees, children played in mud pits and migrants peeked out of their tents to get a glimpse of her. "Across the river is the flag of the United States. The flag of the United States offers people hope. They're bringing their families and their loved ones here for hope of a better future and a better life for themselves."
Jill Biden shakes hands with a 5-year-old girl, April, from Guerrero, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. April now lives at the refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, while her family seeks U.S. asylum. Catholic nun Sister Norma Pimentel, far left, helped to translate for the little girl who recited her ABCs in Spanish to the wife of the former U.S. vice president. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
"We are all immigrants and our nation was built on immigration and immigrants and we are welcoming nation, but that's not the message we are sending here at the border. We're saying 'Stop, don't come in!' And that's not who we are," said Biden, whose husband is running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Texas, is next to Jill Biden, far right, on Dec. 22, 2019, as they listen to Sister Norma Pimentel explain the giant pavilions built by the Mexican government in Matamoros, Mexico, for the migrants recently under which many have pitched their tents. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Vela told Border Report that he helped to organize Sunday's event to hopefully bring a little Christmas cheer to the families as the holidays approach.
"Given the fact that it's Christmas time, it was important to do something special for these people," Vela said as he ladled plates full of three tamales for adults and two tamales for the children.
"A few months ago we had to come to the frank realization that long-term, unless something happens to MPP soon, we couldn't expect things were going to change for them. That's why everybody here has stepped up," Vela told Biden as he showed her around the camp.
A little girl cries with joy as she opens a Christmas present brought to the tent encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Kids carry plates of tamales on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at the Matamoros, Mexico, refugee camp. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Tents are seen on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at the Matamoros, Mexico, refugee camp. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, greets migrants on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at the Matamoros, Mexico, tent encampment. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Migrants wait for food on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Brownsville Bishop Daniel Flores greets a migrant boy in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
A woman carries her 8-month-old baby in a sling on her back on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
A girl migrant walks in the mud on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
A migrant mom and her children inside a tent in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Clothes hang on a metal barricade on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico, after days of rain at the migrant tent encampment. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
A woman carries freshly washed clothes through the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Clothes dry on lines at the migrant tent camp on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
The Catholic bishop from Matamoros, far right, joined Jill Biden, center, and Sister Norma Pimentel of Catholic Charities of the RGV on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, at the migrant tent camp in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Trash piles up in the mud in the migrant tent encampment on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Matamoros, Mexico. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Socks hang from trees in Matamoros, Mexico, where a migrant girl plays on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Mud was everywhere at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Women migrants in Matamoros, Mexico, wash clothes on the street on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Tents in Matamoros, Mexico, are covered with extra tarps on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, after days of rain. (Border Report Photo/Sandra Sanchez)
Several children's shoes could be seen stuck in the thick mud, along with piles of trash and empty water bottles. Wet socks hung on trees to dry; children played with toys in the mud, and several women walked around with plastic sandwich bags on their feet to keep them dry.
"It's been awful. The rain came so hard and fast. Everything got drenched. We all got wet," said Vanessa Villalobos, who has been living in a tent here since early August with her husband and their 6-month-old baby.
Helen Perry, a nurse practitioner, who runs Global Response Management, a nonprofit that has set up free medical services at the camp, said she saw a few children with hypothermia earlier this week when temperatures dipped into the 30s. She said there also is lice, chickenpox and several cases of influenza in the camp.
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Biden asked Perry about giving out vaccinations, but Perry said the flu vaccinations are very costly and there aren't enough to go around.
Biden became only the second person affiliated with a Democratic presidential campaign to so far visit this refugee camp. In October, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, also visited this Matamoros camp.
Read a Border Report story about Castro's visit.
On Monday afternoon, President Trump's campaign sent an email to Border Report in reaction to Biden's trip, and took the opportunity to call her husband's record on immigration into question.
The "photo op with asylum seekers in Mexico highlights how far left Joe Biden has shifted away from the asylum and detention policies he touted just a few years ago," Trump campaign deputy communications director Matt Wolking wrote.
Sunday also was Bishop Flores' first visit to this migrant camp, he told Border Report. His offices in Brownsville are just blocks away from the Gateway International Bridge where the immigration hearings are held via court video conferencing with immigration judges who are located throughout Texas and the country.
"In some ways it's shocking. In some ways it's just, well, this is just the reality," Flores said, adding he hopes Biden's visit to the camp on Sunday will stir more awareness about their plight.
"We certainly appreciate her presence and the presence of Congressman Vela because it does help to make people aware of what's happening on the Matamoros side of the Rio Grande Valley and draw some attention to the human aspect," Flores said, as he shook hands with the migrants and blessed the foreheads of the children as they waited in a long line for food. "The more people know about this place, the more people have a chance to participate."
Sunday's event just days before Christmas Eve coincided with traditional Mexican ceremonies called Las Posadas, which signify the Biblical figures of Mary and Joseph searching for a place to stay prior to the birth of baby Jesus.
"Hopefully, especially the children will have a sense that even though they're far away from home that God is very close to them," Flores said as he paid $1 to walk over the bridge from Brownsville to Mexico with Pimentel on Sunday morning. "The Christmas message also is for us, in terms of our responsibility, to in some way be aware of how we can recognize the face of Christ, especially the Christ child, in persons who are struggling, persons who are far away from home, persons who really we should be in some way expressing our care of and attention to. … We can't ignore this."
"We can't ignore this."
Brownsville Bishop Daniel E. Flores on Matamoros refugee camp
"It's about the families. It's about being present to them, especially to them, in this time we are celebrating Christmas. It's important we are present," said Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, who spent most of the afternoon translating for Biden.
The tour included visiting a couple plastic portable units that the nonprofits have built on the muddy banks, which they hope the Mexican government will allow them to build more of to help keep out the rain and cold.
Fernando Montoya says he has lost 33 pounds since he first got to the camp in August. He has lived in a tent in the same area, at the base of the bridge, and he said he doesn't want to move on the riverbank, where the Mexican officials are asking them to relocate.
"It's worse up there even," Montoya said in Spanish. "It is so muddy and when it is windy, it is dusty. And there are snakes there, the poisonous kind." His next immigration hearing is set for March 12, 2020, he said. It will be his third hearing since he has been waiting in Mexico on this border town to claim asylum in the United States.
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by Salvador Rivera / Jan 20, 2021
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from the Department of Homeland Security regarding the Migrant Protection Protocols program.
SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- A group that works with asylum-seekers has released a video featuring several people asking President Joe Biden to do away with the current "Remain in Mexico" order issued by the Trump administration in 2019.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — For the opening salvo of his presidency, few expected Joe Biden to be so far reaching on immigration.
A raft of executive orders issued Wednesday undoes many of his predecessor's hallmark initiatives, such as halting work on a border wall with Mexico, lifting a travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries and reversing plans to exclude people in the country illegally from the 2020 census.
McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials are planning to build more soft-sided tent facilities in the South Texas cities of Donna and Laredo to house an anticipated influx of migrant youth crossing the Southwest border.
CBP officials on Wednesday afternoon told Border Report that "CBP is moving forward with plans for the mobilization of soft-side facilities (SSF) in Donna, Texas. A lease with the city of Donna was awarded on January 15, 2021 and the notice to proceed was signed on January 19, 2021. Construction of the SSF should be completed in approximately 30 days."
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900 Granville Street – east side (2)
Off in the distance, behind the tram in this 1948 image, is the Vogue Theatre. To the south is Parr and Fee's design for T McWhinnie's Harvard Rooms which we looked at in an earlier post. (That's the Siesta Rooms and The Roxy today). Hidden by the tram is 944 Granville Street, probably designed by Thomas Fee as in investment around 1905, with four apartments upstairs numbered as 946 Granville. There were three nondescript single storey retail stores to the south, then another two storey building at 972 Granville, almost identical in design to 944 up the street, and therefore very likely also designed by Thomas Fee. Like that building it had four apartments upstairs, and retail below; in 1948 the Kiddies Arcade and Lynn's Ladies Apparel. In 1916 it was owned by G D Scott, a real estate broker, who may have been the developer.
There's a narrow two storey shopfront hidden by the tram, but visible in this c1915 image of the same block. It was yet another Parr and Fee design developed by builder Peter Tardiff, whose history we looked at in connection to the Broughton Apartments he developed in 1912. He was probably born in Quebec as Pierre Tardif. The building at 968 Granville started life as The Family Theatre in 1910, and continued to be listed as such through to 1915. There's an odd situation in that Irwin Carver & Co made $1,500 alterations to the building 2 months after the initial $25,000 construction permit. Peter Tardiff is still listed as the owner, but Irwin, Carver were the designers and builders – even though Tardiff was a builder himself, and had built the structure. It's possible that they were hired by the operators of the theatre to carry out fit-out alterations.
The Family Theatre itself is an oddity; there seem to be few records of its existence or operation. It opened in June 1910, and lasted less than 7 years. (The building is behind the octagonal sign advertising Cambie Ice Cream, which is attached to the store to the south). In the year it opened Mrs. Clara B Colby, an American who had lectured in Seattle a week earlier, spoke on "The Spiritual Significance of the Women's Suffrage Movement in England". As with a few other theatres on Granville Street, it was also used on a few Sundays to attract larger crowds to religious services, adding an orchestra to the hymn singing. In 1911 it was announced that "The feature for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Is Pathe's Animated Gazette. These weekly pictures of the world's doings, is proving a great attraction at the popular theatre, and deservedly so, for this theatre is the only one in the city that imports the Gazette direct from London, Eng., thus ensuring their patrons the news of the world first hand." In 1914 we know the theatre was showing movies, because the Manager, Peter Carter, was fined "$10 and costs with the option of ten days in gaol for allowing young boys in moving picture theatres after the curfew hour."
In January 1917 an advertisement appeared: "BICYCLES AND SUPPLIES GET A MOVE ON. YES. THAT'S WHAT we are doing. We remove Into the old Family Theatre, Granville Street, on Jan. 15. After that date Fred Deeley, The Cycle Man, will occupy the largest and best equipped cycle store In Western Canada." Fred was born in 1881 in Bromsgrove, England. After 10 years in business in England, he first visited B.C. in 1913, representing Birmingham Small Arms, manufacturer of BSA motorcycles. He moved and in 1914 opened Fred Deeley Ltd. in a 12-foot-wide store at 1075 Granville. In 1916 he acquired a Harley-Davidson franchise, moving to 1126 Granville. He moved to the theatre location a year later, but by 1923 had moved again to Hastings Street, selling BSA, Paragon and Red Bird bicycles as well as Harley Davidson motorcycles. By 1925 he owned a motorcycle shop, bicycle shop, and one of Canada's larger car dealerships.
The last building on the block dates from 1914, designed by Braunton & Leibert for G B Harris costing $17,000 and built by J Nelson Copp. When it opened Pill Box Drugs were on the corner here; later it was home to Kripps Drugs, who expanded and remodeled the property before moving to Kerrisdale a few years ago. At 990 Jack Stearman had his lock & keys business in the location that in 1915 was a Pool and Cigars store. Two clothing stores took the remainder of the space: Darlings's Style Shop and Vogue Menswear. G B Harris owned property in the city over many years; he carried out repairs to the Boulder Hotel on Cordova Street in 1901, and had N S Hoffar design a block of stores on Carrall Steet 'adjoining the old Burrard House', in 1889. George Berteaux Harris was from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, although after leaving home he worked in Boston in the US and then on the railway in Panama. He collected and classified birds in Trinidad for three years, working for a Boston ornithologist. He was back in Annopolis in 1881, shipping apples to England and first visited Granville in 1884, returning to his family in Nova Scotia every two years, eventually bringing his wife and children to live in 1895. When he built these stores he was Chairman of the Vancouver Rowing Club. He died in 1936.
Today there are a series of recently developed single storey but double height retail buildings.
Image sources: City of Vancouver Archines CVA 229-15 and SGN 1602 (extract)
Posted April 6, 2017 by ChangingCity in Downtown, Gone
Tagged with Braunton and Leibert, Fred Deeley, G B Harris, Peter Tardiff, T A Fee


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Starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, War Dogs tells of two Florida Jews who struck a giant arms deal with the Pentagon.
I can't say I didn't enjoy it, especially Hill's loathsomely brash performance as Efraim Diveroli, a man who'll stop at nothing to get an extra dollar for himself. He recruits his old school chum David Packouz (Teller) and rescues him from a life of massaging and selling bedsheets to retirement homes.
Suddenly, they're both shifting guns across borders and picking up small arms deals.
Teller, with his ridiculously pretty, pregnant wife (Ana de Armas), provides the moral compass, or at least a tinge of compunction about what they're doing, but as the millions roll in, that subsides. Soon, all he's got to worry about is his wife finding out what he really does.
With Hill on fine form, the ride is a fun one of cons and guns, directed with flashy, Goodfellas ambitions by Hangover director Todd Philips, who again calls in a favour from the star he made of Bradley Cooper, getting him for a cameo as a shady arms dealing legend with whom our boys finally fall into ruinous business.
When Hill's Efraim is on the up, the film jangles along like a chunky necklace. The episode running guns from Jordan to Baghdad for the US Army with a smuggler called Marlboro is great, the lads not knowing they're crossing the so-called "Triangle of Death."
Thing is, I just knew from the off that this was the sort of film that would somehow contrive to end up in Vegas. So many films do these days, hoovering up the Nevada tax breaks to revel in the sleaze of that particular capitalist hell hole. That's where the Afghan deal presents itself and that's where the descent begins.
But because these war dogs (it is based on a true story and an article from Rolling Stone) are so venal, we can't really care when real dangers lurk. That's the problem, the downer, the bummer, the bit where the film falls flat and the cocaine-fuelled rush runs out. But, like Efraim, some things work fine if you just don't give a f**k.