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Some of the best things to see and do in Woking
James Knighton
Woking Town Centre (Andy Newbold Photography)
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A town reaching for the skies with its latest developments and whispers of a bid for city status in the air, Woking has a fascinating history to couple with its modern-day ambitions
A quick perusal of Woking's history and you'll find a town that's always had one eye on the future. Whether it's the musings of the author HG Wells in his world-famous War of the Worlds, the state-of-the-art Formula 1 and supercar engineering at McLaren or the town's impressive ability to transform itself into a dream destination for food lovers for the annual Woking Food and Drink Festival, Woking is a forward-thinking place that's constantly evolving.
And yet, this innovation and relentless dreaming is deeply rooted in history. For one, Woking is home to Surrey History Centre and its seemingly endless shelves of documents and curiosities, which paint the story of our county.
There's also the Shah Jahan Mosque, which, built in 1889, was England's first mosque; the atmospheric Brookwood Cemetery, which first opened in 1854 and was at one time the largest cemetery in the world (some have likened its evocative nature to Paris' famous Père Lachaise); and the remains of Woking Palace, which was once a countryside retreat for royals.
It's fair to say that over the years, like many Surrey towns, Woking struggled to find the balance between preserving its historic character and meeting the demands of modern Britain and ever-increasing population growth. The past decade or so, however, has seen monumental efforts to transform Woking's town centre into a more cosmopolitan destination – and those efforts continue today.
As these words hit the page, they are reaching for the stars in Woking and a cityscape skyline continues to take shape. The tallest tower in the new Victoria Square development, for example, reaches some 34 floors high. When completed, in the next year or so, this will introduce two giant apartment blocks and a Hilton Hotel (with a Skybar on the 22nd floor) into the mix of Woking life.
These are by no means the only modern high rises coming to town. Suffice to say, such blue-sky thinking means that it's going to get busy in the future. Some have even suggested that Woking could make a bid to become Surrey's first city…
Secret Surrey
Found down an unassuming street, about a 15-minute walk away from Woking railway station is Surrey History Centre on Goldsworth Road, which is an absolute TARDIS of local history information. While you can chart your family tree there, if they've lived in the area through the generations, you'll also find treasures such as the papers of author Lewis Carroll and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, Tudor letters of the More-Molyneux family of Guildford's Loseley Park and records of the Surrey infantry regiments. Entry is free but make sure to take some ID or a library card with you.
24 hours in Woking
• Morning - If you're making a weekend of it, Woking is well stocked with hotels, whether town centre (DoubleTree or Premier Inn) or nearby countryside (Gorse Hill or Foxhills). Let's pretend we're waking up a little late for a hotel breakfast in the centre of town though and are looking for somewhere to brunch. If you're looking for something a little different, try Seasons Café at The Lightbox, which opens at 10am. You can always have a light stroll along the canal beforehand and then browse the art after.
• Afternoon - You might fancy checking out an early afternoon matinee at New Victoria Theatre. The theatre is in the heart of Woking Shopping Centre, and there's plenty to explore there if you're so inclined. If, however, the sky is blue, the sun shining and a crisp winter chill in the air, then wrap up and go for a stroll in search of Martians at Horsell Common (you'll also find a statue of one in the town centre itself).
• Evening - While there are some lovely country inns to be found not far outside the town, we're going to keep things central – in fact, on one of Woking's short side streets near the station. Start the evening with a few exotic flavours at the Lebanese restaurant, Jeitta, and then take a few steps down Church Path (past Boz's Fruit and Veg greengrocer) and you'll find the intimate and unique Cellar Magneval. It's a wonderful place to spend a few hours exploring wine. There aren't many tables, but if you are able to grab one you may never leave.
• The Lightbox - From mid-January, the focus at Woking's award-winning art gallery and museum, The Lightbox on Chobham Road, will be one of the unsung heroes of 20th century British art, Cyril Mann. To coincide with this exhibition, the museum will also be showcasing the best artwork by photography students from University for the Creative Arts (UCA), Farnham.
• New Victoria Theatre - While the Ambassadors Theatre Group is now known far and wide (they run 46 venues in Britain, the US and Australia), it started its life in Woking with the opening of New Victoria Theatre in 1992. Found in the centre of town, there are a whole host of shows lined up for January, including Rain Manand Anton & Erin – Dance Those Magical Musicals.
• Market Walk - A town food market but not as you probably know it. Located between the linked Wolsey Place and The Peacocks shopping centres (aka Woking Shopping), it's an excellent place to pick up a street food lunch or snack – or, indeed, something to pack up and take home for dinner – and fully under cover.
• HG Wells Walk - This circular walk, which can be joined at any point, takes in HG Wells' former home, the Martian landing sandpits at Horsell Common, a few pubs and the local artwork that celebrates the author's life and works. A map can be found at celebratewoking.info and it's an inspiring way to explore the town.
• Brookwood Military Cemetry - Okay, so perhaps it's not your first thought for a day trip, but Brookwood Military Cemetery, found just to the west of Woking, can be a deeply inspiring and moving place to visit. Among many spectacular monuments, it features the Brookwood Memorial, which commemorates 3,428 Commonwealth men and women who died during World War Two and have no known grave.
• 10 reasons to love Sutton - Where city meets country, Sutton is a town surrounded by history and beautiful places to escape


I actually find it hard to believe that I have been doing hair professionally for over three decades.
I grew up in a small town in upstate New York and it seems I have spent my whole life in beauty parlors. I have always loved them. When I was a kid, I helped shampoo, sweep the floor, run errands for the stylists, all the while soaking up all that was going on around me. I was always fascinated by fashion and beautiful women—what they wore, how they acted, how they spoke. As soon as I could, I studied hairstyling—at Sassoon, Jingles, and Trevor Sorbi in London as well as Sassoon and Jingles in the States.
At the same time, I have always been a natural entrepreneur. I owned my first salon when I was 19 years old and derive great satisfaction from running a successful business. I have worked hard to master my craft and technique and to stay current on beauty and style. I think of what I do as an art, and I believe that to be really good at it—to be the artist I strive to be—I have to be stimulated spiritually, visually, emotionally, creatively—even musically. So, when I'm not working with my clients, I travel, entertain, enjoy culture, design beautiful spaces, and experience life in New York and all over the world to the fullest.
When it comes to working with clients, I have always believed that you can be technically the best haircutter in the world but if you don't really connect with the person you are working on—really look into her face and get to know who she is— your technique is worthless. Putting the right cut with that face, that person—it's magic. I look at the person sitting in my chair, her face, hair type, what she's wearing and how she presents herself to me—and then we work together to choose exactly the right look. There is nothing I love more than making a client see her own beauty in a new light. Running a close second to that is watching the stylists on my staff engage with and satisfy their clients in the same way.
I do my best to keep everything simple at Salon Above, and I find that my clients stick with me for years, appreciative of the perfectionism that I put into everything I do—from the fresh flowers and antiques that adorn my shop to the highly professional stylists at my chairs, to the subtlety of my cutting and coloring technique.
I am aware that people patronize a beauty salon for the overall experience, not just the haircut, so I have worked hard to make Salon Above a beautiful, open, comforting, light-filled space where a lot of creativity happens. I am extremely proud of my diverse, internationally trained staff, each one gifted and a pleasure to work with. We are all here to welcome and be of service to our clients, and send them out into the world radiant and confident.
Humbly, gratefully, and with high aspirations, I look forward to seeing you at Salon Above.


In assessing the prospects of Hong Kong's housing market, one hears all sorts of theories and various speculations. Cutting through the noise, we can say there are two "gray rhinos" that will determine the market direction. The two factors are government efforts to boost land supply, and changes in long-term interest rates.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor set up the Task Force on Land Supply after she took office last year. The panel has conducted a macro review of the sources of land supply, and evaluated land supply options, in a bid to achieve the broadest consensus and draw up a framework of recommendations on the overall land supply strategy for the government.
After five months of public consultation, the task force is believed to have laid out eight options for consideration on a prioritized basis.
These include brownfield sites development, reclamation outside Victoria Harbour and the massive reclamation project to the east of Lantau Island, according to reports.
The eight options are expected to provide up to 2,900 hectares of land for the city over the next decade. If everything goes according to plan, it would help mitigate the land supply shortage considerably.
All these options might face huge opposition from vested interest groups.
But Lam has reiterated her tough stance on the issue. "Don't count on the government to rescue the [property] market," she said last week.
Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping has praised Lam's administration for having the courage to tackle hard issues.
It seems unlikely that the Hong Kong government would change the long term housing policy unless home prices suffer a major crash or there is another financial crisis.
Another major factor determining the long-term direction of property prices is the US interest rate trend.
With global capacity still abundant, and growth momentum turning weak, the US inflation will probably stay under control, and the Fed funds rate should hover largely between 2.5-4.0 percent.
In other words, a relatively benign interest environment should persist.
With tough land policy on one hand, offset by low interest rates on the other, an orderly correction is the most likely and welcome scenario for the Hong Kong housing market.


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Laureation address – Professor Dusa McDuff
Professor Dusa McDuff
Laureation Address
Laureator: Professor Lars Olsen
Chancellor, it is my privilege to present Professor Dusa McDuff for the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.
Dusa McDuff is a mathematician who has produced seminal and ground-breaking work on symplectic geometry. Dusa has received numerous prizes and recognitions for her work. For example, she was the first person to be awarded the Satter Prize is 1991; she became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994; a Noether Lecturer in 1998, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1999. She was also a Plenary Lecturer at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians, and in 2012 she became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Margaret Dusa McDuff was born in London. However, she grew up in Edinburgh, where her father was a professor who taught genetics and wrote books about such diverse topics as art and philosophy. Unlike the mothers of her friends, Dusa's mother also worked as an architect, and perhaps it was through her that Dusa got a first glimpse of the difficulties of being a professional woman: her mother worked with the civil service in Edinburgh (taking part in the building of Council houses after the war) because she had no connections that enabled her to get a job in a private architectural practice.
In 1967, she earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh and entered graduate school at Cambridge. Here, under the guidance of George Reid, Dusa worked on problems in functional analysis. She solved a difficult and noteworthy problem on von Neumann algebras (namely, constructing infinitely many different factors of type II1).
While still a research student, Dusa followed her husband for a six-month visit to Moscow in 1969. There, she met the great Russian mathematician Israel Gel'fand. About this meeting Dusa says:
'The first thing that Gel'fand told me was that he was much more interested in the fact that my husband was studying the Russian Symbolist poet Innokenty Annensky than that I had found infinitely many type II1 factors, but then he proceeded to open my eyes to the world of mathematics. It was a wonderful education, in which reading Pushkin, Mozart, or Salieri played as important a role as learning about Lie groups or reading about Cartan and Eilenberg. Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry'.
This is a beautiful quote because it shows that mathematics is an art. The difference between mathematics and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognise it as such. Everyone understands that poets, painters, and musicians create works of art, and are expressing themselves in word, image, and sound. There is no question that if the world had to be divided into the poetic dreamers and the rational thinkers most people would place mathematicians in the latter category. Nevertheless, the fact is that there is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind-blowing as cosmology or physics, and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music. Mathematics is the purest of arts.
However, I digress. After Moscow, Dusa returned to Cambridge for a two-year Science Research Council Fellowship, working with Frank Adams and later Graeme Segal. She was appointed Lecturer first at the University of York (1972-76) and then at the University of Warwick (1976-78). This was the time during which Dusa struggled most to find her voice in mathematics. However, it was also during that time that Dusa's career took a major turn. Why the changes? In 1974, Dusa was invited to spend a year on the faculty at MIT. One position was open for a visiting professor and the space had been reserved specifically for a woman. During that year, a whole new world opened up to Dusa, showing her what she was capable of doing as a mathematician.
Dusa was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook from 1978-2008, starting as an Assistant Professor and ending as a Distinguished Professor, along the way serving two years as Department Chair. She retired from SUNY in 2008 and has, since 2007, held the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Chair in Mathematics at Barnard College.
Dusa's mathematical work centres around differential geometry and, in particular, symplectic geometry. What is symplectic geometry? It is the branch of geometry that studies symplectic manifolds; that is, differential manifolds equipped with a closed, non-degenerate 2-form. While this explanation certainly is correct, it does not tell a non-expert much. So let me try with another explanation.
A differential manifold is simply a smooth surface, such as the surface of a sphere, or the surface of an ellipsoid. It is a slightly more difficult to explain what a closed, non-degenerate 2-form is. In order to explain this, let me start by recalling that the concept of symplectic geometry arose in the study of classical mechanical systems, such as a falling apple, an oscillating pendulum, or a planet orbiting the sun. Let us, for example, consider an oscillating pendulum. To fully describe the motion of such a pendulum we need to know two pieces of information, namely, the angle between a vertical line and the string of the pendulum, and the rate at which this angle changes. These two pieces of information are collectively called a state. Once the state is known, the trajectory of the system can be determined by Newton's laws. It turns out that the states of a physical system (such as the pendulum) cannot take on arbitrary values, but are constrained to lie on a certain smooth surface, or manifold. As time progresses the states of the system move around on the surface according to the laws of nature and, loosely speaking, the closed, non-degenerate 2-form that I mentioned before is the mechanism that describes how the system evolves in time.
It is natural to ask how abstractly this can be set up. Can we axiomatise the properties of this example, and then just deal with it abstractly (without worrying about the precise classical mechanical setup that led to it)? In fact, we can, and symplectic manifolds are the appropriate abstraction.
However, I am confident that you did not come here to listen to a lecture in mathematics; in particular, not our Mathematics students who are graduating today. You, the graduating Mathematics students, are, in a very real sense, my students: we studied complex numbers in first year; we struggled with epsilons and deltas in second year; we learnt about the Riemann integral in third year and we marvelled at the beauty of the Lebesgue integral in fourth year.
Yes, you are my students. It has been an absolute delight to teach you and I will miss all of you now that you are moving on. Thank you for all your hard work and many congratulations on your great success. Your parents, your friends, and the Dean, will wish all of you good luck and happy lives ever after. If you achieve this you will indeed be blessed and fortunate. I, on the other hand, wish you this: may you all have fulfilling and rewarding lives.
But I digress once again. Throughout her career, Dusa has been concerned with educational issues at both undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as being active in encouraging more women to study mathematics. A few years ago, I attended a conference in Texas where I met a young colleague who attended SUNY as an undergraduate. I was curious and asked her about Dusa's teaching, and she said, 'Dusa is great. She's one of the best teachers'. She then added, 'I loved her British accent, and she wears hippie skirts like no other!'
Chancellor, in recognition of her major contribution to mathematics, and especially her work on symplectic geometry, I invite you to confer on Professor Dusa McDuff the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.
Dusa McDuff graduation honorary degree Lars Olsen


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Of Sails, Tall Ships On The Riverfront, Tricentennial And Spring
Tall Ships New Orleans 2018
The Schooner Lynx – The square topsail schooner has been designed and built to interpret the general configuration and operation of a privateer schooner or naval schooner from the War of 1812. Serving effectively as a blockade-runner and offensive weapon of war, she was among the first ships to defend American freedom.
The time has come, Jim Huger said, to talk of many things… of sails, Tall Ships on the Riverfront, Tricentennial and spring.
At a recent press conference, Huger, the head of the New Orleans Tricentennial Tall Ships Committee and the president and CEO of Premium Parking, announced that Tall Ships New Orleans 2018 will sail into New Orleans from April 19-22, and dock alongside Woldenberg Park to coincide with NOLA Navy Week and the city's Tricentennial celebration. The free maritime experience is expected to draw record numbers of tourists to the city and highlight New Orleans on the global stage.
"A no-charge event, Tall Ships New Orleans 2018 is a gift to New Orleans, with the chance to share our rich maritime history on the Mississippi River with students and the community," said Huger. "Our goal is to share the educational mission of each of the visiting ships to learn more about science and history and the impact both have had on our city."
Produced by the nonprofit Tricentennial Tall Ships Committee, Tall Ships New Orleans 2018, in coordination with Whitney Bank, Premium Parking, The New Orleans Advocate and the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC), along with other community partners, will say "Ahoy" to up to eight historic sailing ships from the U.S. and the Netherlands to the Mississippi Riverfront of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.
Anchored at Woldenberg Park next spring will be an admirable display including the Elissa from Galveston, Texas that will soon celebrate her 132nd birthday, the Oosterschelde from The Netherlands and Oliver Hazard Perry from Newport, Rhode Island, named after the commander who won the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Three smaller Tall Ships will be available for daytrips on Lake Pontchartrain setting sail from South Shore Harbor Marina, 6701 Stars and Stripes Blvd.
The ships sailing to New Orleans, ranging in length, as the crow flies, from 68 – 205 feet, with rig heights up to 130 feet, will welcome visitors aboard, free of charge, to explore the ships from bow to aft. The initiative is all part of the Tall Ships America's Tall Ships Challenge 2018 Gulf Coast Race Series. A nonprofit organization based in Newport, Rhode Island, Tall Ships America coordinates gatherings of member vessels to promote their education, history and science curriculums.
Other stops in the Gulf Coast for the collection of traditionally-rigged sailing vessels will include Galveston, Texas and Pensacola, Florida before the scheduled port of call in New Orleans, and a portion of the fleet will continue up the Atlantic Ocean to arrive in Philadelphia in May.
"We are thrilled to bring the Tall Ships Challenge series to the Gulf of Mexico for the first time ever, especially to celebrate New Orleans' Tricentennial," said Bert Rogers, executive director, Tall Ships America. "New Orleans was built on maritime trade, and the mingling of world cultures through this commerce shaped the city throughout its history. Just as important, this visit allows us to share the ships' history and missions with New Orleans' students. We are helping local teachers develop a curriculum that can be used both in the classroom and dockside."
"We are excited to welcome the magnificence of Tall Ships America to New Orleans," said Mark Romig, NOTMC president and CEO. "The sight of a tall ship is magical and visiting one on the Mississippi River during our Tricentennial will be a once in a lifetime experience for everyone."
To help fund the Tall Ships visit to New Orleans, a black-tie and boat shoe fundraising gala will take place on Saturday, April 21, on-deck and dockside, with live music by Louisiana Spice, food from local area restaurants, a birthday cake to celebrate the 300th birthday of New Orleans and a Mississippi River fireworks show.
"Whitney Bank is pleased to support this community effort to bring the Tall Ships to New Orleans for the Tricentennial," said Gary Lorio, regional president of Whitney Bank. "What better way to showcase our waterfront and our city's history."
The Tall Ships America to New Orleans schedule includes:
Tall Ships Parade of Sail – Tall Ships sail into downtown New Orleans and dock along Woldenberg Park.
Friday, April 20 – Sunday, April 22
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tall Ships open to the public, and admission is free. To see the Tall Ships like a VIP, Fast Pass tickets are available for front-of-line access for Tall Ships (only), and VIP hospitality in Woldenberg Park. Purchase Fast Pass tickets here
6:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tall Ships celebrate New Orleans' 300th birthday. There will be an on-deck and dockside black-tie and boat shoe gala fundraiser on the visiting Tall Ships at Woldenberg Park. Tickets include birthday cake by Salon by Sucré, fireworks over the Mississippi River at 9:00 p.m., and dancing to Louisiana Spice. Gala tickets are available here
Tall Ships depart for St. Petersburg, Florida and other ports on their own schedule.
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Q: Show that $D$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^3$ Given a set $D$ defined by
$$D = \{(x,y,z) \in \mathbb{R}^3 \mid x^2 + y^2 < x + y + z\},$$
Show that $D$ is an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^3$.
I have to use the fact that the pullback image of an open set is open, and I have to use the fact that a union of open sets is an open set. I am not sure where to start.

A: With $f(x,y,z)=x^2 + y^2 -(x + y + z)$ we have
$$D= f^{-1}( ( - \infty,0)).$$

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People queuing up at vaccination drives in Colombo
The much awaited vaccination drive for Sri Lankan healthcare staff began on January 29. The National Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (NACCD) also listed out four high risk groups including frontline healthcare workers, security personnel, people with cormobid diseases and other essential groups. However, with the Health Ministry's recent announcement that the vaccine is available to the public, many people seem to be queueing up at designated vaccination centres to get the jab. But medical experts opine that vaccinating the 30-60 age group doesn't have a scientific basis and warns that the local vaccine supplies are quickly
running out.
Govt. violating own protocol
"The Government agreed with people on a protocol and said that there are four groups of people who need the vaccination," opined Consultant Community Physician Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa. "They include frontline healthcare workers, security personnel, those with comorbid diseases and other essential people. But now they are violating their own protocols. It's alright to give it to people, but there has to be a proper plan. The vaccine is given to protect oneself against severe illness" said Dr.Haniffa.
When asked if people need to stick to safety precautions even after the vaccine is given, Dr. Haniffa responded in the affirmative. "You need to follow the Swiss Cheese Model of COVID-19 defence. The final outcome of the vaccine is to decrease severity and prevent deaths from COVID," explained Dr. Haniffa.
"Health experts want the Govt. to pay upfront in cash so that manufacturers prioritise Sri Lankan orders in the delivery queue, order from multiple manufacturers and order over 100% of requirements"
New variants will be more immune resistant
"Our vaccination strategy needs to be clear about its goals," opined international medical researcher and Executive Director at Institute of Health Policy Dr. Ravindra Rannan-Eliya. "These need to be both: (1) minimising deaths and serious illness, and (2) minimising transmission, since our National COVID Strategy, whose goal is Elimination, has failed to achieve its objective. If we had been able to maintain elimination (which would have required an investment in testing which we never made), then we would have had the option of delaying vaccination a little bit.
"There are and will remain huge shortages in vaccine supplies through 2021–2022. Our analysis at IHP is that under the most optimistic scenarios under which all manufacturers deliver on their promised production targets, there is barely enough vaccines to cover everyone in the world by early 2022. The optimal strategy needs to take into account the significant risks of non-delivery or delayed delivery by manufacturers." said Dr.Rannan-Eliya.
"But it can't be justified why someone between the 30-60 age group should be vaccinated. It is not scientifically proven. There are only a limited amount of vaccines and the mortality rate is also increasing by the day"
Government Medical Officers' Association Editor Dr. Haritha Aluthge
He also said that there is another problem that some vaccines might turn out not to be so effective against future variants that we may import in the future. "The best way to mitigate this risk is what other sensible countries are doing, including other developing countries, like Malaysia. That is to pay upfront in cash so that manufacturers prioritize Sri Lankan orders in the delivery queue, order from multiple manufacturers, and order over 100% of requirements to allow for likely delays and problems."
"The strategy needs to take into account the probability that new variants will be more immune resistant. This requires two types of risk mitigation: (i) border restrictions to prevent import of new variants, and (ii) purchasing vaccines which are most likely to perform well against future variants. The Government appears to have given up on or is not taking seriously preventing the entry of new variants, including additional cases of B117 which is already in the community," he added.
"Critics point out that the Government appears to have given up on or is not taking seriously the prevention of the entry of new variants"
Deviation from scientific priorities
The College of Community Physicians in a press communique mentioned that the key objective of the vaccination programme for COVID-19 across the globe is to minimize severe disease and thereby the deaths due to COVID-19. Prioritization is extremely important as there is a limited supply of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe (as indicated by the Vaccine Prioritization Framework of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization of the World Health Organization) and no clear timeline is available for the delivery of the required doses of the vaccine to countries. Thus, it is mandatory to use the available vaccines in the best way to optimize the outcomes to our country. Hence, the first priority as identified in National Vaccine Deployment Plan was to vaccinate the frontline healthcare workers and those who are directly involved in COVID-19 activities, which was completed in the first round of vaccination. The remaining priority groups includes those over 60 years of age and specifically those suffering from non-communicable diseases in which severe diseases and deaths are happening on a daily basis in the country.
" The mechanism has been violated now. Now everybody is trying to get it. On the other hand the Ministry of Health says the vaccination will be given in hotspots, but there's no criteria to determine a hotspot"
President of Government Medical Laboratory Technologists Association Ravi Kumudesh
The decision of the Ministry of Health to initiate vaccination targeting the individuals of 30 to 60 years was implemented in a few selected communities is a clear deviation from the scientifically agreed prioritization stated in the National Vaccine Deployment Plan. This strategy is neither an evidence based practice, nor a public health decision considering the wider public health and economic outcomes, and it totally derails the COVID-19 preventive activities in the country, dangerously undermining the public health response to COVID-19 especially with regard to the objective of reduction of complications and deaths due to COVID-19.
"Disregarding the recommendations of National Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases (NACCD) at this stage of pandemic response may jeopardies the entire COVID-19 control activities. We, the CCPSL, earnestly requests the government to urgently implement the scientifically recommended vaccine priority list rather than taking ad hoc decisions on vaccination policy.
"It is mandatory to use the available vaccines in the best way to optimise the outcomes to the country"
Vaccine is the only weapon
"The mode of spread of new variants is similar to the virus already in Sri Lanka," the Sri Lanka Medical Association stated. These new variants may have the ability to be more infectious and therefore will spread the infection more quickly among the community. When more people are infected, more patients will develop symptoms and complications and death. Same public health measures currently recommended namely wearing face masks correctly and consistently, social distancing (more than 1 meter), avoiding crowded places and taking sanitary measures (frequent hand washing) are equally effective in prevention of transmission of new variants and should be practiced at all times."
"The alarming increase recently in the number of new cases is most probably due to the ignoring of these precautions. Vaccination is the only weapon available at present to bring the pandemic including the infection with new variants, under control. The vaccine currently in use adequately covers new mutants as well. Even the South African strain, not isolated in Sri Lanka so far, is known to be covered to a great extent by the vaccine. Therefore, when the vaccine is offered, it is BEST that all eligible, take the vaccine as it reduces the severity of the illness and prevent deaths. They may even reduce the transmission of the infection. There is no need to be anxious about the new mutants of the virus circulating at present. This statement has been released to make the public aware of the new variants of the COVID-19 and how best to act upon them," the statement signed by Consultant Neurologist and President of SLMA Dr. Padma Gunarathne read .
" You need to follow the Swiss Cheese Model of COVID-19 defence. The final outcome of the vaccine is to decrease severity and prevent deaths from COVID"
- Consultant Community Physician Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa
The vaccine shouldn't be a business
"There's a discrepancy in the way in which vaccines are being given," said Ravi Kumudesh, President of Government Medical Laboratory Technologists Association. "It was the high risk people, security personnel and frontline healthcare workers who were going to be vaccinated first. However, the mechanism has been violated now. Now everybody is trying to get it. On the other hand the Ministry of Health says the vaccination will be given in hotspots, but there's no criteria to determine a hotspot. Any citizen has the right to demand the vaccine. However with the involvement of the private sector it will also compel people to pay and get the vaccine. This will again bring out the class difference as well. As such the State Pharmaceutical Corporation should have a regulatory price structure and should be the only institution to the distribution. This way irrespective of financial status, people will be able to purchase the vaccine. After all the vaccine shouldn't be a business." said Kumudesh.
"Our analysis at IHP is that under the most optimistic scenarios under which all manufacturers deliver on their promised production targets, there is barely enough vaccines to cover everyone in the world by early 2022"
Executive Director at Institute of Health Policy Dr. Ravindra Rannan-Eliya
supply running out
Government Medical Officers' Association Editor Dr. Haritha Aluthge said that a vaccine deployment plan was released on January 15. "With that a National Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases was also established. But now everybody is asking where they could get the vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine has 70-80% efficacy. The vaccine is given to reduce mortality and complications. As per the National vaccine deployment plan only high risk individuals were initially entitled to get the vaccine. But it can't be justified why someone between the 30-60 age group should be vaccinated. It is not scientifically proven. There are only a limited amount of vaccines and the mortality rate is also increasing by the day. Now the public is lost. I see people queueing up with their IDs to get the vaccine." said Dr. Aluthge.
When asked if Sri Lanka is running out of vaccines Dr. Aluthge responded in the affirmative while adding that it is quite uncertain as to when people would get their second doses. "We received 500,000 vaccines and out of them only 150,000 are remaining. Even though people in rural areas are being vaccinated they move about and the case load doesn't reduce either." he added.
patriot Thursday, 25 February 2021 10:33 AM
Are the people exposed to Covid-19 in such a crowd or waiting for a anti covid injection?
Nimal Perera Thursday, 25 February 2021 12:21 PM
It is regret to note that there is no notification given to the public, when and where the vaccination is given. When asked from Pradeshiya Sabah, they said they have announced. No proper communication system adopting by the health authorities. Please try to implement proper clear system to awareness to the public.
Jayadeva Sunday, 28 February 2021 08:26 AM
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A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The utility of the cookie is that the website is able to remember your visit when you browse that page again. Although many people do not know, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.
What IS NOT a cookie?
It is not a virus, nor a Trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.
Cookies usually do not store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they store is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customisation, etc.
The web server does not associate you as a person but with your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the web does not realise that you are the same person because you are actually associating the browser, not the person.
What kind of cookies exist?
Technical cookies: They are the most elementary and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user browses, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic website.
Analysis cookies: They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
Advertising cookies: They show advertising based on your navigation, your country of origin, language, etc.
What are own cookies and those of third parties?
Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and those of third parties are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
What happens if you disable cookies?
In order for you to understand the scope that deactivating cookies can have, we show you some examples:
You will not be able to share content from that website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
The website will not be able to adapt the contents to your personal preferences, as usually happens in online stores.
You will not be able to access the personal area of that website, such as My Account, or My Profile or My Orders.
Online stores: It will be impossible for you to make purchases online, they will have to be by phone or by visiting the physical store if you have it.
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You will not be able to write on the blog, you will not be able to upload photos, post comments, rate or rate content. The website will also not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
It will not be possible to show sectorised advertising, which will reduce the advertising revenue of the web.
All social networks use cookies, if you disable them you will not be able to use any social network.
Can cookies be deleted?
Yes. Not only delete, but also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.
To delete cookies from a website you must go to your browser settings and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to their deletion.
Cookie settings for the most controversial browsers
Here's how to access a certain cookie from the Chrome browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:
Go to Settings or Preferences using the File menu or by clicking on the customisation icon at the top right.
You will see different sections, click the Show advanced options option.
Go to Privacy, Content Settings.
Select All cookies and site data.
A list will appear with all cookies sorted by domain. To make it easier for you to find the cookies of a certain domain, partially or totally enter the address in the Search for cookies field.
After making this filter, one or more lines will appear on the screen with the cookies of the requested website. Now you just have to select it and press the X to proceed with its removal.
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In History choose Use customised settings for history.
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It may still be 89 days until Christmas, but we're having to put our festive brains into gear as the busy Christmas shopping period gets ever nearer! From advertising artwork deadlines to deciding the final details for our in-store promotions and decorations, we seem to have a little bit of Christmas cropping up every day. Fortunately I'm one of those people who rather enjoys everything festive, no matter what time of year, so I wasn't at all bothered by the tinsel lying around the office last week (in fact I was rather excited to dig it out of the store-room)! Christmas is always a busy time of year for us as we have website orders to ship out all over the word as well as lots of visitors to the High Street shop, but planning the Christmas windows is always fun and the shop will look very pretty with fairy lights when the nights get darker. Today I was also looking online to see what other events the city has planned for the lead up to Christmas, and it all looks quite exciting with a Christmas light procession, visits from Santa, Children's workshops and the second year of the Oxford Christmas market. If you don't feel it too painful to look at what's planned then Oxford City Guide has a good Christmas directory. You never know, it may even be a white Christmas!


The School Board provides for the transportation of students as required by state and federal laws and regulations.
The superintendent collaborates with the local social services agency to develop and implement clear written procedures governing how transportation to maintain children in foster care in their school of origin when in their best interest will be provided, arranged and funded for the duration of time in foster care. The procedures ensure that children in foster care needing transportation to the school of origin will promptly receive transportation in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with 42 U.S. C. § 675(4)(A) and ensure that, if there are additional costs incurred in providing transportation to maintain children in foster care in their school of origin, the school division will provide transportation to the school of origin if the local social services agency agrees to reimburse the local school division for the cost of such transportation, the school division agrees to pay for the cost of such transportation or the school division and the local social services agency agree to share the cost of such transportation.
Students may be suspended from using school transportation services for violations of the Student Code of Conduct or when the student endangers the health, safety or welfare of other riders. In such cases the parent or guardian is responsible for transporting the student to school.
Legal Ref.: 20 U.S.C. § 6312.
Code of Virginia, §§ 22.1-78, 22.1‑176, 22.1-221, 22.1-254.


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Bug 591188 - Please apply fix for GNUTLS-SA-2006-2.
Summary: Please apply fix for GNUTLS-SA-2006-2.
This issues seems to be described in http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnutls-dev/2006-August/001190.html and solved in gnutls-1.4.2.
Practically, this allows DOS attacks against gnutls based servers by providing client certificates with unsupported algorithms (e.g. sha256 or sha512).
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.
Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.


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Distinguished FDA Lawyer Moves to McDermott
Vernessa Pollard to Co-Lead Firm's FDA Practice; Latest High Profile Partner to Join McDermott's Preeminent Health Law Practice
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WASHINGTON, DC (March 15, 2016) — McDermott Will & Emery announced today that distinguished life sciences lawyer Vernessa Pollard has joined the Firm as co-head of its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) practice in Washington, DC.
Ms. Pollard comes to McDermott from another AmLaw 100 firm, where she advised clients on regulatory, compliance, and legislative matters involving medical devices, pharmaceuticals, digital health applications, health information technology, and other products. She formerly served as Associate Chief Counsel for Enforcement in the Office of Chief Counsel at the FDA for six years.
At McDermott, Ms. Pollard will co-head the Firm's FDA practice, a role in which she will be able to fully leverage her experience at the intersection of medical device, health IT and mobile technologies. She will also play a leading role in expanding the Firm's capabilities in the areas of pharmaceuticals/biologics, consumer products, compliance and enforcement. Ms. Pollard will counsel consumer product companies and retailers on FDA-regulatory matters, including labeling, advertising and product safety
At her prior firm, Ms. Pollard regularly counseled companies on product approvals, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Quality System (QS) requirements, advertising and promotion, adverse event reporting, FDA Warning Letters, FDA inspections, recalls, import detentions, and corporate compliance programs. She also represented companies and executives in FDA and Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and enforcement matters.
During her tenure at the FDA from 2002 to 2008, Ms. Pollard represented the agency in a variety of major litigation matters, and advised agency clients on compliance and regulatory issues. In conjunction with the DOJ, she handled civil injunction and consent decree actions involving leading drug and medical device manufacturers. She obtained the FDA's first administrative civil money penalty (CMP) judgment for violations of the medical device report (MDR) requirements. She also handled defensive matters involving labeling, advertising and product approval issues arising under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
"Vernessa is a gifted leader who will help us take our FDA practice to a new level," said Stephen W. Bernstein, partner and head of McDermott's Health Industry Advisory Practice Group. "She has built a reputation as one of Washington's most formidable FDA practitioners in just seven short years. She is a highly driven, highly effective advocate for her clients. Her enormous energy and experience will be major assets to the Firm."
"We are delighted to have Vernessa with us," added Peter J. Sacripanti, co-chair of McDermott Will & Emery. "She is a trusted advisor to some of the life sciences industry's most significant players. As our clients move into new growth areas, such as mobile health products, Vernessa's deep experience will be invaluable. She will play a leading role in helping clients navigate this new territory and the new opportunities it brings."
"Vernessa is a perfect fit with our strategy," added Jeffrey E. Stone, co-chair of McDermott Will & Emery. "Extensive FDA experience is increasingly vital to our clients, particularly for those who work with our core Health and White Collar practices. FDA knowledge is also often needed by our Corporate and IP litigation lawyers as they serve their clients in the life sciences industry."
Ms. Pollard is recognized in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business for Healthcare (2014-2015); LMG Guide, Life Science Star (2015); The Best Lawyers in America for FDA Law; and The National Law Journal's "D.C. Rising Stars" (2014) and "Minority 40 Under 40" (2011). She is a recipient of the FDA Commissioner's Award of Excellence (2008) and Outstanding Service Award for Outstanding Legal Representation and Dedication in Conducting Enforcement and Defensive Litigation (2005). Ms. Pollard chairs the FDA Regulatory Affinity Group of the American Health Lawyers Association, and is a member of the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Medical Devices and Diagnostics Committee.
About McDermott Will & Emery
McDermott Will & Emery is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. Numbering more than 1,000 lawyers, we have offices in Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan, Munich, New York, Orange County, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Further extending our reach into Asia, we have a strategic alliance with MWE China Law Offices in Shanghai.
© 2016 McDermott Will & Emery LLP. McDermott Will & Emery conducts its practice through separate legal entities in each of the countries where it has offices. This communication may be considered attorney advertising. Previous results are not a guarantee of future outcome.
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Partner | Washington, DC
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Partner | Boston


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Author Stories Podcast Episode 1012 | Melissa de la Cruz Interview
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Today Melissa de la Cruz joins me to talk about her new series The Chronicles of Never After and the new book Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy.
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Real life and fairy tales collide in Never After: The Thirteenth Fairy, book one in the new middle-grade Never After series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants series, Melissa de la Cruz.
Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. The sun shines every day, the grass is always a perfect green, and while her progressive school swears there's no such thing as bullying, she still feels bummed out. But one day, when Filomena is walking home on her own, something strange happens.
Filomena is being followed by Jack Stalker, one of the heroes in the Thirteenth Fairy, a series of books she loves about a brave girl and her ragtag group of friends who save their world from an evil enchantress. She must be dreaming, or still reading a book. But Jack is insistent—he's real, the stories are real, and Filomena must come with him at once!
Soon, Filomena is thrust into the world of evil fairies and beautiful princesses, sorcerers and slayers, where an evil queen drives her ruthless armies to destroy what is left of the Fairy tribes. To save herself and the kingdom of Westphalia, Filomena must find the truth behind the fairytales and set the world back to rights before the cycle of sleep and destruction begins once more.
Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, #1 Publisher's Weekly and #1 IndieBound bestselling author of many critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for readers of all ages. Her more than thirty books have also topped the USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestseller lists and have been published in over twenty countries.
The Isle of the Lost, the prequel to the Disney Channel Original Movie The Descendants, has spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, fifteen at #1, and has over a million copies in print. The Descendants starring Kristen Chenoweth and Dove Cameron is the #1 cable TV movie of 2015, and #5 of all time, and its soundtrack is the #1 bestselling album on iTunes. The Isle of the Lost's sequel, Return to the Isle of the Lost, is also a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times List. The third Isle of the Lost book will be published in May 2017.
De la Cruz is the author of the Blue Bloods series (with three million copies in print), among many others. Her first series for adults launched with Witches of East End, which People magazine called a "bubbling cauldron of mystery and romance." The bestseller was followed by Serpent's Kiss and Winds of Salem. Lifetime Television aired a two-season drama series based on Witches of East End, starring Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Rachel Boston and Mädchen Amick. De la Cruz's young adult spin-off of the series, Summer on East End has also been optioned for television.
Her recent books include Something in Between, a YA contemporary novel inspired by de la Cruz's own immigrant experience coming from the Philippines which launched the Seventeen imprint at Harlequin Teen, as well as Alex and Eliza, a historical novel about the romance between Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, forthcoming from Penguin Teen in April 2017.
Angel Falls, a television movie she wrote for the Hallmark Channel, will premiere this December as part of the network's Countdown to Christmas and will star Rachel Boston from Witches of East End. Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe, her latest novel for adults will be published by St. Martin's and Melissa has also written the script for the television movie.
A former fashion and beauty editor, Melissa has written for The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Allure, The San Francisco Chronicle, McSweeney's, Teen Vogue, CosmoGirl! and Seventeen. She has also appeared as an expert on fashion, trends and fame for CNN, E! and FoxNews.
In addition to her literary work, Melissa is the co-founder of YALLWEST, and the co-director of YALLFEST, two of the largest teen book festivals in the country. She is also on the Advisory Board of Facing History, which reaches five million school children nationwide with a curriculum devoted to teaching empathy and social justice.
She grew up in Manila and moved to San Francisco with her family, where she graduated high school salutatorian from The Convent of the Sacred Heart. At Columbia University, she majored in art history and English.
Melissa de la Cruz lives in West Hollywood, California with her husband and daughter.
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Modern cities are complex and big Systems of Systems consisting of many interconnected subsystems and IoT. There is no single, "just right" approach or standard to how to manage such complex systems. Many factors play a crucial role in a successful community management, among them committed leadership and clear goals and transparency of performance and accountability structure and effective tools supporting smart governance.
Rapid changes and accelerated urban dynamics show that anyone who needs to manage city processes effectively needs actual data about ongoing results in real time. Various indicators of performance are presented in the latest international standards of quality of life and governance. In addition, each city has its own individuality in the style of its management and needs for own key performance indicators. It is impossible to copy someone's success and paste it into another urban area that has unique own problems and opportunities.
At the same time, most of the cities have many common issues: public transportation, energy, environment, water supply and its quality, urban development, services for health, emergency, safety, recreation, education, waste, governing processes, finance, economy. The processes are interlinked and diverse making their holistic vision, monitoring and analysis difficult.
Developing information systems supporting effective performance and accountability management and command and control requires a lot of resources, time, expertise and commitment to replace non-productive activities. Its implementation and introduction of such systems have inherent risks and uncertainties.
Among the options existing nowadays, Smart City Monitor is a unique open digital transformation instrument answering the needs of small and medium cities for a simple, customisable and cost-effective data-driven management support system assisting the administration in smart local governance that allows effectively improving the performance and urban services under limited resources and budgets.
For which tasks can Smart city Monitor be applied?
Setting advanced command and operations control information centre for a city being cost-effective and easy maintained.
What is Smart City Monitor?
In short, it is a data-driven adaptive and flexible and AI-driven digital transformation software that automatically collects diverse data from many sources and digitally transforms in into customized services and controls in real time. The transformation includes estimation of sustainability of any target urban processes and its trends, evidence benchmarks. It assists management and employees in smart management of operations in compliance with international standards, condition monitoring of assets and processes, analytics and improvement of the performance of city administration, departments and service providers. The key system feature is its ability to deal with big data streams in real time and transform them into a holistic vision of sustainability of the whole big urban system and its subsystems and components.
The Smart City Monitor assists in making quick and validated decisions, addressing critical needs and seizing new opportunities. It is a flexible open solution that can be customized to the needs and operational priorities of each city. The city dashboard provides an overview of all urban objects selected by a user and supports any necessary drill-down analysis at any time using common mobile devices.
Smart City Monitor provides the cost-effective digital transformation solution answering the needs of many small and medium cities which are interested in the practical prototyping of Smart City concepts. Its customization and scalability power fosters experimenting with novel options in digital agenda and economy, services and new business models for different urban stakeholders. It brings new types of knowledge-intensive jobs for local communities.
What value brings Smart City Monitor to in the city management?
First, after beginning the first practical steps in the local implementation e.g. in a City Operational Command and Control Center, the municipality receives the Open Urban Model that complies with key international standards of quality of life such as ISO 37120. The model runs immediately on the local Smart City digital transformation engine after the City has its own engine in a cloud or at premises.
It includes complete urban structure and indicators accordingly to the ISO standard providing KPI of the performance for the whole city. The model structure can be easily expanded further to add districts, various urban areas, streets and buildings. After it is linked to local data sources, the model immediately runs at Smart City Monitor engine for the city transforming data streams into various information services tuned to each user needs and opens a holistic view of urban processes for the smart local governance. The local urban model can be gradually upgraded in multiple steps proving more detail for various local objects, urban processes, businesses by optional indicators and data sources which city management needs for the daily life and operations.
What's good in the city model by ISO 37120 that it is ready for use and provides the initial selection of key object areas, supports detailed analysis of results by standard KPIs and allows its further upgrading to accommodate local urban structure and indicators of performance. It saves time and money for the city budget to start immediate use of the technology for monitoring and analysis by the employees of the municipality, its consultants and utility management. New structural changes, further upgrading and advancement of the urban model can be easily introduced with interactive urban model builder instruments.
The city obtains its copyright for own Urban Model and rights for its further development by its local Smart City team or dedicated operational information centre or relevant service provider.
Second, the Smart City Monitor enables municipality employees to collect, digitally transform and analyze large amounts of local evidence data about ongoing urban processes automatically in real time. It decreases overhead costs for all relevant routine activities and provides decision-makers powerful tools for monitoring and analytics of trends, examining the cause of events and its effects, improving control and sustainability. Hidden problems that previously might have been missed can be brought now to the surface promptly fostering proper decisions and actions in right time. Smart City Monitor can be seen as an accountability tool which just can help in city management improve city services and enables administrations to provide citizens with required transparency over the results and achievements in real time.
The administration receives powerful capacity to control and command, monitor, benchmark and analyse all city processes as a whole or by each urban object of the urban model linked to its open data sources e.g. organizations, service providers, residence buildings, streets, moving vehicles, recreation and sports areas, etc. While having a holistic vision of the city, it provides drill-down options for analysis of causes of problems, prompt notification alarms and control results of corrective actions.
City municipality does not need much effort and costs to start own road to implementation of Smart City concepts. Our team is ready to guide in the planning of the project, identification of the local partners to provide support, relevant training, Smart City Monitor installation and selection and linking to necessary initial data sources that are available.
The city management and employees can quickly obtain first results, set own data to access policies for the city stakeholders and performance metrics based on the available data sources. Then the Smart City Monitor will run continuously collecting all big data streams and transforming it into necessary and useful information for each stakeholder group to provide transparency of results, the efficiency of operations and activities, assess the daily quality of life and overall sustainability of urban processes.
The initial experience will provide a new vision of smart governance options and empower expanding the urban model to add new urban processes, assets and options supports the enhancement of life in the new Smart City project implementation.
The online demo application "Smart City Monitor" provides a practical example of the solution implementation. For the purposes of clarity and simplicity, the demo was made accordingly to definitions of relevant standard ISO 37120:2014 "Sustainable development of communities — Indicators for city services and quality of life". It includes a definition of city sub-systems as theme-objects and all relevant core indicators. The demo city map illustrates the presentation of various city services and its performance for a sample city of 60 000 inhabitants. In practical project implementations in the cities, the Smart City Model has much larger number of objects, indicators, geo-locations, data sources, relevant events and customised dashboards, reports and mobile applications.


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Kóččeril Ráman Nárájanan (27. října 1920, Perumthanam, Britská Indie – 9. listopadu 2005, Nové Dillí, Indie) byl v letech 1997–2002 prezidentem Indie. Byl prvním členem kasty nedotknutelných, který tuto pozici zastával.

Život
Kóččeril Ráman Nárájanan se narodil ve vesnici Perumthanam, dnešním městečku Uzhavoor ve svazovém státě Kérala. Jeho rodina žila v doškové chýši, vyrůstal jako čtvrté ze sedmi dětí.

Díky stipendiu vystudoval politologii na London School of Economics. Do Indie se vrátil roku 1948 a brzy vstoupil do diplomatických služeb, ačkoli narážel na odpor představitelů z vyšších kast. Během své dlouhé diplomatické kariéry (1949–83) se stal velvyslancem v Japonsku, Spojeném království, Thajsku, Turecku, Číně a Spojených státech. Jeho přínos ke kvalitě zahraničních vztahů je oceňován zejména za dobu, kdy byl velvyslancem v Číně (1976–78). Zde dokázal zlepšit vzájemné vztahy po 15 let trvající roztržce.

Stal se také autorem nebo spoluautorem několika publikací na téma indické politiky a mezinárodních vztahů.

V roce 1992 byl zvolen viceprezidentem, o pět let později prezidentem země.

Dílo
 India and America: Essays in Understanding (1984)
 Non-Alignment in Contemporary International Relations (1981)

Externí odkazy

 Životopis K. R. Nárájanana, vicepresidentofindia.nic.in (anglicky)

Prezidenti Indie
Narození v roce 1920
Narození 27. října
Úmrtí v roce 2005
Úmrtí 9. listopadu
Úmrtí v Novém Dillí
Muži


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An advocacy group is hoping that a move to start paying home support workers mileage and wages might lead to more secure jobs in the sector.
The announcement was made yesterday by Health Minister Tony Ryall along with plans for a review of the industry's structure.
Rural Women New Zealand national president Wendy McGowan said most of the industry operates on a casual basis, and that could start to change with more money being spent in the sector.
"We may be able to put people on more guaranteed hours and as they train and up skill themselves the pay levels will go higher," she said.
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Q: Select string from multiple columns I just recently started learning SQL, and I tried to find a random string in the table - which might have accidentally put into a wrong column and I tried to find the value in the table and I used to following SELECT like so;
SELECT * FROM tablename
WHERE 'val' IN (column1, column2, column3, column4, ...)

My question is, can you search within a table without having to name all the column names in parentheses?

A:
WHERE 'val' IN (column1, column2, column3, column4, ...)
can you search within a table without having to name all the column names in parentheses?

In a nutshell: no. In pure SQL, you need to enumerate the columns. The database engine needs to see all the column and table names to be able to parse the query and prepare its execution plan.
You can, however, do what you want with dynamic SQL. This means run a query that lists the columns of the table from the catalog view of the database, and use the results to build the final query, using string concatenation. Here is a small example:
declare @tab varchar(max), @sql varchar(max);
set @tab = 'mytable';

select @sql = string_agg(column_name, ', ')
from information_schema.columns
where table_name = @tab and column_name <> 'id';

set @sql = N'select * from ' + @tab + ' where ''val'' in (' + @sql + ')';
select @sql;
-- exe sp_executesql @sql;

A: If performance is not paramount, you could try something like:
Declare @search varchar(100) = 'smith'

Select *
 From  YourTable A
 Where (Select A.* for XML Raw) like '%'+@search+'%'

Now, to be clear, if you have a column FNAME and you search FNAME, every row will be returned.
If you want an exact match, that would like:
 Where (Select A.* for XML Raw) like '%"'+@search+'"%'

If 2016+, there is a JSON alternative.

A: Yes this is possible.
Example
CREATE TABLE YourTable(
Id INT,
column1 VARCHAR(50),
column2 VARCHAR(50),
column3 VARCHAR(50),
column4 VARCHAR(50),
);

INSERT INTO YourTable
VALUES (1, 'Val', 'NotVal', 'NotVal', 'NotVal'),
       (2, 'Val', 'NotVal', 'NotVal', 'Val');

To search for the string "Val" you can then use
SELECT CA2.Cols,
       T.*
FROM YourTable T
    CROSS APPLY
(SELECT T.* FOR XML PATH('row'), ELEMENTS, TYPE) CA1(X)
    CROSS APPLY
(
    SELECT STRING_AGG(N1.n.value('local-name(.)', 'sysname'), ',') AS Cols
    FROM CA1.X.nodes('/row/*[text() = "Val"]') N1(n)
    GROUP BY()
) CA2;

which returns
+-----------------+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
|      Cols       | Id | column1 | column2 | column3 | column4 |
+-----------------+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+
| column1         |  1 | Val     | NotVal  | NotVal  | NotVal  |
| column1,column4 |  2 | Val     | NotVal  | NotVal  | Val     |
+-----------------+----+---------+---------+---------+---------+

The Cols column tells you the columns that matched the search string in that row.
There is a performance overhead to this approach though so shouldn't be used in most production code scenarios.


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spike and julia
He threatens to expose Julia and Spike's plot, leading to both of their deaths at the hands of Syndicate assassins, if she does not personally betray Spike. Julia was an affiliate of the Red Dragon crime syndicate. The series begins with an array of multicolored flashbacks involving Spike waiting for Julia's decision, and getting it in the form of his torn note and a quick and violent peppering of bullets. However, Jet and Spike's early friendship is left to be inferred by the viewer. Can we apply the same example outside of anime and guns - 2 ordinary men involved with the same woman. He can't hide how he feels forever, though. [citation needed] As a child, Faye was shy but very positive and outgoing with her friends. The irony, of course, is that the complication of Julia … After he learns of their relationship, he tries to use Julia to complete the job. We know it comes shortly after the scene in the graveyard, and the transactional nature of bounty hunting allows him to put his skills from the Syndicate to use without getting entangled in further relationships. It's clear from his reaction that Vicious knowing puts both Spike and Julia in danger. Just as a less- adventurous person would dream of taking a walk on the wild side, the two "star-crossed lovers" dreamed of strolling along a sidewalk of safety. She ends up on the run from the syndicate anyway. Spike also charges headlong into several dangerous situations just at the mere mention of Julia's name. She was relationships with both Vicious and Spike Spiegel.. Recessional of the Red Dragons. Both were mentored by Mao Yenrai. She's certainly romanticized in the series as being "his woman". Spike's encounter with fellow young Red Dragon members Julia and Vicious would permanently alter the course of his life. Because of the way he's hurt by Julia's seeming betrayal, he starts cultivating an air of detached indifference. The simmering romance of Julia and Spike Spike has strong feelings about Julia from the first moment he saw her. Just about every interaction Faye and Spike have is steeped in … She goes back and Vicious tells her to kill Spike or they both die. Julia represents art/music in this relationship because Spike's and Vicious' behavior towards art/music is exactly the same as with Julia. Rather than sell out the man she's grown to love, Julia opts to run away. We then spend the rest of the series rooting for this guy, who seems to break up a relationship for his own selfish gain, and ultimately ends up getting everyone killed. For one thing, Julia only actually appears in the final two episodes of the original anime series, though she is referenced a few times throughout (building her up into a figure of ominous importance to Spike), so this seems to suggest that the live-action version will be tackling the core "mythology" episodes of the original (to steal a term from The X-Files). Spike and Julia Child in their new home. Spike isn't and never was meant to be shining white knight. Gren was betrayed by Vicious and is now upset over it and seeking a sort of vengeance. Spike had wanted to take her with him when he left the syndicate, but she was blackmailed by Vicious into almost shooting Spike. All roads lead to Vicious as Spike searches for Julia, Jet tracks down Faye and Faye confronts Gren. Season 1 See also. Little is known about Spike's decision to join his travelling companion Jet aboard the Bebop. She works in the Alpha Division in Angel Grove. 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