According to the Union Budget 2015-16, the tax benefit for health insurance has been raised. This means you have got another opportunity for saving additional tax. With the revised tax benefit scheme now you can save up to Rs 65,000 under the section 80D.
How much can you save for health insurance premium of your family?
The tax deduction is applicable for paying premium of health insurance. You can claim maximum Rs 25,000 as deduction for health insurance premium for yourself and your family comprising of your spouse and dependent children. In case you are a senior citizen the maximum limit for claiming deduction will be Rs. 30,000.
How much can you save for health insurance premium of your parents?
Aside from your family, you can also claim deduction on tax for premium of health insurance of your parents. The maximum limit is Rs 25,000 for this deduction and of your parents are senior citizens you can claim as much as Rs. 30,000 for tax deduction.
However, this tax deduction does not encompass group health insurance. Although, an insured individual employee pays for the premium he or she cannot claim tax deduction as the health policy is in the company's name.
Sameer works with a private company and he and his family are covered by a group health insurance scheme provided by his company. Even though, his parents are covered by same health plan, Sameer bought a separate health insurance only for his parents. Sameer pays Rs 38,000 as the total premium of his two health insurance plans. How much can he claim for tax deduction?
In this scenario, Sameer's first health cover is group cover so he cannot make any claim. However, for the separate health cover for his parents he can claim Rs. 25,000 and if his parents are senior citizen he can claim up to Rs 30,000.
Mukul is 61 year old and is a businessman. His parents are 86 and 82 year old respectively. Mukul pays premium of health insurance for himself and his parents. The premium of his own health cover costs Rs 25,000 for himself and he pays 35,000 for the premium of his parents' health insurance. How much tax deduction Mukul is eligible for?
Since, Mukul is a senior citizen and he is eligible for claiming the entire amount he pays for premium as it is less than Rs. 30,000. He can also claim tax deduction up to the maximum limit of Rs. 30,000 for health insurance premium of his parents which is Rs. 35,000. In total, Mukul can claim Rs. 55,000(Rs. 25,000 + Rs. 30,000).
Vinay and his wife Ritika work in a multinational company. Both have corporate health insurance covers. Having understood the significance of a separate health cover, Vinay opts for a family floater health plan for him, wife Ritika and children. Vinay pays Rs 21,000 as premium for a family floater health plan. Ritika bought another health cover for mother in law and father in law who are senior citizen and pays Rs 33,000 for premium. How much tax deduction Vinay and Ritika are entitled to claim?
Vinay is entitled to claim up to Rs 25,000 so his total expenditure of Rs 21,000 on premium is eligible for tax deduction. But, Ritika can't make any claim because section 80D does not allow tax deduction for payments of premium of in-laws.
There is another scope for tax deduction under section 80D. You can make tax deduction claim for the money you spend for health check up. You or your spouse or children or parents can opt for health check-up and the maximum deduction that you can claim is Rs. 5,000.
However, you cannot claim Rs. 5000 tax deduction for the check-up of every individual. You can claim this amount for the total expense on health checkups of your entire family. For an example, if you spend Rs. 10,000 for the check-up of your wife and mother, you can claim only up to Rs. 5000.
This makes the table of total tax deduction more lucrative.
The Union budget 2015-16 not only raised the tax deduction limit but also the rate of service tax. The service rate is increased to 14% from 12.36%. This means all policyholders have to pay more on service tax and those who pay high premiums for their family and parents will be benefitted by the higher tax deduction limit.
The higher tax deduction is particularly beneficial for older people in late-30s who buy family floater plan worth over Rs 5 lakh including senior citizen parents. Usually these people pay around Rs 45,000-Rs 50,000 annually for the premium of family-floater health plan. People with specific health conditions pay higher premiums as well and they have also found the higher tax deduction limit advantageous.
Senior citizens, in spite of being healthy also pay higher premiums. These people have also made the most of higher limit on tax deduction.
According to survey, India's total expenditure on health now stands at Rs. 4000,000 crore per year. However, health insurance cost is only Rs. 20,000 crore or 5% of the entire expense on health. The most prevalent way of medical expense is "out-of-pocket" which is the most incompetent way of managing medical expense.
A rise in the tax exemption limit has proved to be a great way to encourage people to consider health policies with higher sum insured and avoid ever-increasing medical cost.


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Alena Bulířová, po mężu Paříková (ur. 24 grudnia 1961 w Jabloncu nad Nysą) – czeska lekkoatletka, sprinterka, medalistka halowych mistrzostw Europy. Podczas swojej kariery reprezentowała Czechosłowację.

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Specjalizowała się w biegu na 400 metrów. Odpadła w eliminacjach tej konkurencji na halowych mistrzostwach Europy w 1983 w Budapeszcie. Nie wzięła udziału w igrzyskach olimpijskich w 1984 w Los Angeles z powodu ich bojkotu przez Związek Radziecki. Wystąpiła w zawodach Przyjaźń-84, zorganizowanych w Pradze dla lekkoatletów z państw bojkotujących igrzyska olimpijskie. Zajęła 2. miejsce w sztafecie 4 × 400 metrów i odpadła w eliminacjach biegu na 400 metrów.

Zdobyła brązowy medal w biegu na 400 metrów na halowych mistrzostwach Europy w 1985 w Pireusie, przegrywając jedynie z reprezentantkami Niemieckiej Republiki Demokratycznej Sabine Busch i Dagmar Neubauer. Startując w reprezentacji Europy zajęła 3. miejsce w sztafecie 4 × 400 metrów w zawodach pucharu świata w 1985 w Canberze (sztafeta biegła w składzie: Rosica Stamenowa, Erica Rossi, Bulířová i Jarmila Kratochvílová). Odpadła w półfinale biegu na 400 metrów na halowych mistrzostwach Europy w 1988 w Budapeszcie.

Była mistrzynią Czechosłowacji w biegu na 400 metrów w 1985, 1987 i 1988, wicemistrzynią w tej konkurencji 1984 i w sztafecie 4 × 100 metrów w 1985 oraz brązową medalistką w sztafecie 4 × 400 metrów w 1988. W hali była mistrzynią w biegu na 400 metrów w 1985 i 1988, wicemistrzynią na tym dystansie w 1982 i 1983 oraz brązową medalistką w tej konkurencji w 1980 i 1981.

Rekordy życiowe Bulířovej:
 bieg na 400 metrów – 51,79 s (14 września 1985, Praga)
 bieg na 400 metrów (hala) – 52,38 s (20 lutego 1985, Budapeszt)

Przypisy

Czescy sprinterzy
Czechosłowaccy sprinterzy
Ludzie urodzeni w Jabloncu nad Nysą
Urodzeni w 1961

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Arrest Us, Please! Extinction Rebellion's Path to Success
October 8, 2019 Admin Science & Environment 0
LONDON — In February 2015, Simon Bramwell climbed into a tree near Bristol, in southwest England, to prevent workmen from cutting down a whole row of trees for a bus lane.
"I'm terrified of heights, so it was quite a prospect," Mr. Bramwell, 47, said in a telephone interview.
Along with other activists, he made platforms to sit on, then spent days and nights in the trees. He relieved himself in a bucket. It was so cold, he added, that he often woke up with frost in his beard.
The protesters were evicted after a few weeks, and the trees were cut down. But that failure set Mr. Bramwell on a new path. "It was this hammer blow of, 'O.K., that's it, I'm done with this kind of organizing,'" he said. "'There's got to be a different way.'"
Three years later, following numerous meetings with like-minded activists and research into methods of achieving social change, Mr. Bramwell and 20 others assembled in a cafe in Bristol to discuss how to proceed.
It was, he said, the first official meeting of Extinction Rebellion, the climate activist group that in its short existence has arguably become the most prominent and radical climate movement worldwide. The approach those activists hit upon — using nonviolent mass disruption to increase awareness of climate change and force action on the issue — has catapulted the group to worldwide recognition and leadership on the issue.
On Monday, members of Extinction Rebellion shut down roads and bridges around Parliament in London and said they would occupy the sites for up to two weeks, resisting efforts by the police on Tuesday to move them to Trafalgar Square, another prominent site where they would have less effect on traffic.
Boris Johnson, Britain's voluble prime minister, has called them "uncooperative crusties" — a synonym for hippies — and urged "importunate nose-ringed climate change protesters" to clear the roads.
It was the second time Extinction Rebellion had shut parts of London in six months. In April, the group installed a bright pink boat emblazoned with the words "Tell the Truth" in Oxford Circus, a junction at the heart of a major shopping district.
The group's actions this week stretched outside London, too, with protests blocking roads as far afield as Germany, Australia, the Netherlands and New York.
In a major departure from past British climate movements, the group urges its members to try to get arrested so they can use the judicial system as a platform to force change. They tell the police about all actions in advance and view police officers as equal victims of the climate crisis. At least 280 activists were arrested in London on Monday, the police said, adding to more than 1,000 who were arrested during the April protests.
The group also calls for actions to focus on capital cities to maximize disruption, rather than more traditional sites of climate protest like power stations.
Roger Hallam, one of the group's co-founders, who is widely seen as the driving force behind its tactics, recommends that activists emulate past movements like the United States civil rights movement and the Yellow Vests in France. "We need only a few hundred thousand people to actively break the law and/or support such activities to put us in the ballpark of structural change," he wrote in a 78-page document, built on his research as a doctoral student, explaining why such protests were needed.
Mr. Hallam also recommends hunger strikes, like the one he undertook to push his university to divest from fossil fuel companies.
While the group's actions may seem stronger and far more annoying than those of Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist from Sweden, and the School Strike movement, it has so far been largely tolerated in Britain.
In July, Policy Exchange, a right-leaning think tank, issued a report calling Extinction Rebellion "an extremist organization," but acknowledging that it was enjoying a "honeymoon" period with the public, politicians and celebrities.
Extinction Rebellion has received support from high-profile figures like the band Radiohead, who donated proceeds from a set of tracks to the group, and Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury. In May, the British Parliament declared a "climate emergency," one of the group's three demands.
Needless to say, XR, as its members call the group, has come a long way from tree protests.
Mr. Bramwell said its success was far from guaranteed. In its first months, there were sometimes only a handful of people at its meetings. But growth suddenly "snowballed." That was the result of a number of factors, he said, from the group's striking hourglass logo to simply "hitting that zeitgeist moment."
The group's first major event — a "declaration of rebellion" outside Parliament, attended by Ms. Thunberg — occurred weeks after the publication of a United Nations report saying that a climate crisis would arrive by 2040.
Extinction Rebellion's blunt language and apocalyptic message were also critical, Mr. Bramwell said, because they reflected how many people feel about climate change. "Children are facing the bleakest of bloody futures," he added.
Members regularly talk about the future in "end of days" terms. "We won't survive long as we are," said Dave Buchan, 37, protesting on Lambeth Bridge, London, on Monday, adding that food rationing would be needed.
It was Mr. Bramwell who suggested using the word "extinction" in the group's name, emphasizing the grave nature of the threat as well as concern about wildlife and habitat. "It's completely the opposite of Greenpeace," he said.
Indeed, one of Extinction Rebellion's first actions, last October, was to occupy Greenpeace's offices in London. Activists entered the building, handed out flowers and read out a statement urging the older organization to support mass disruption.
"Failure to do things differently, when everything is failing, can only be described as complicity," the statement said.
Extinction Rebellion campaigners continually debate whether actions should be undertaken that might risk alienating the public. There is "a constant waltz" between members who want more direct action and those who don't want to annoy the public, Mr. Bramwell said.
In April, there was heated discussion over whether to target London's public transport system. In the end, two activists stood on the roof of one train. A plan to fly drones in an exclusion zone around Heathrow Airport was also dropped after internal debate, though it was carried out in September by members using the name Heathrow Pause.
Extinction Rebellion has threatened further acts of disruption at London City Airport, a far smaller transit hub favored by business travelers.
Melanie Edwards, 48, a Welsh activist who was among those arrested in September in the Heathrow action, said that Extinction Rebellion's tactics explained its success.
"You can have a million people marching through the city each week and no one cares," she said, "but you block a road, people stand up and take notice." Such activities have also inspired people to join, she added.
Perhaps the best way to see the movement's impact is not on London's streets or online, where it has hundreds of thousands of followers, but at the City of London Magistrates' Court in the heart of London's financial district.
There, every Friday for the past two months, several courtrooms have been dedicated to processing Extinction Rebellion members arrested during April's protests for disobeying a police order to move on. Some 279 cases had been concluded by Oct. 4, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said in an email, with 478 yet to be finished, 295 of those adjourned for trial.
One day recently, a young man wearing a suit — his only one, bought while at university, he said — waited nervously outside a courtroom along with about a dozen other activists, He did not want to be interviewed, he said, because he was worried his employer would find out.
Inside, his hands shook as he pleaded guilty then read out a statement to the judge and a handful of supporters. He had become aware of the climate crisis during school geography lessons, he said.
Shortly afterward, Vanessa Stevenson, 58, a gardener who had traveled several hours south from Derbyshire for the hearing, pleaded guilty too. The police had found her "lying on an inflatable mattress under an Extinction Rebellion banner" in Parliament Square, the prosecutor said. She had refused to leave.
Ms. Stevenson read out her own statement, saying among other things that her daughter had promised not to have children because of climate change. "We are supposed to make the world a better place for our children, not use up their future," she said, starting to cry.
After Ms. Stevenson finished her speech, the judge thanked her and the other two defendants. "I understand why you did it," he added, but then pointed out they had still broken the law and fined them each 85 pounds, plus a victim surcharge, a total of about $130.
Outside, Ms. Stevenson said the fine would not deter her from joining protests. "I have to," she said. "Until things change, I've got to keep doing this."
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November 29, 2021 by A. Smith
Camelia Company is a large commercial real estate contractor that reports its income by the percentage of completion method. In 2016, the company entered into a contract to construct a building for $900,000. Camelia estimated that the cost of constructing the building would be $600,000. In 2016, the company incurred $150,000 in costs under the contract. In 2017, the company incurred an additional $500,000 in costs to complete the contract. The company#8217;s marginal tax rate in all years was 35%.
[removed]a.Camelia must report $300,000 of income in 2016.
[removed]b.Camelia should amend its 2016 tax return to decrease the profit on the contract for that year.
[removed]c.Camelia is not required to report any income from the contract until 2017 when the contract is completed.
[removed]d.Camelia must recognize $75,000 of income in 2016.
[removed]e.None of these choices are correct.
Problem 14-32 (LO. 1, 2)
Pam owns a personal use boat that has a fair market value of $35,000 and an adjusted basis of $45,000. Pam#8217;s AGI is $100,000. Calculate the realized and recognized gain or loss assuming the boat is disposed of under the following independent scenarios:
If an amount is zero, enter #8220;0#8221;.
a. Pam sells the boat for $35,000.
The realized is $____________and the recognized is $_____________
b. Pam exchanges the boat for another boat worth $35,000.
The realized is $__________and the recognized is $_____________
c. The boat is stolen and Pam receives insurance proceeds of $35,000.
Pam#8217;s realized loss is __________ and her recognized is $_____________
d. The fair market value and the selling price of the boat were $48,000.
Pam#8217;s realized is $__________and her recognized is $ __________
Problem 16-41 (LO. 2, 4, 5)
Bridgette is known as the #8220;doll lady.#8221; She started collecting dolls as a child, always received one or more dolls as gifts on her birthday, never sold any dolls, and eventually owned 600 dolls. She is retiring and moving to a small apartment and has decided to sell her collection. She lists the dolls on an Internet auction site and, to her great surprise, receives an offer from another doll collector of $45,000 for the entire collection. Bridgette sells the entire collection, except for five dolls she purchased during the last year. She had owned all of the dolls sold for more than a year.
Indicate whether the following are #8220;Yes, a tax issue#8221; or #8220;Not a tax issue#8221; that Bridgette should consider in deciding how to report the sale.
Whether the dolls are considered a capital asset.
The tax basis for the dolls.
The holding period for the dolls.
Whether the collector will resell the dolls.
Whether the dolls are collectibles.
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For the following scenarios, compute the maximum total deductible contribution to the the traditional IRA contributions for 2016.
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Juan, age 41, earns a salary of $28,000 and is not an active participant in any other qualified plan. His wife, Agnes, has no earned income. Juan wishes to contribute as much as possible to his own IRA.
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Leo#8217;s employer makes a contribution of $3,500 to Leo#8217;s simplified employee pension plan. Leo is single, has earned income of $32,000, and has AGI of $29,000.
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Calculate the nonforfeitable percentage for each of the following participants based upon the years of service completed:
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Gene, age 34, and Beth, age 32, have been married for nine years. Gene, who is a college student, works part-time and earns $1,500. Beth is a high school teacher and earns a salary of $34,000. Their AGI is $37,000.
a. The maximum amount Gene can contribute to an IRA in 2016 is $______________
b. The maximum amount Beth can contribute to an IRA in 2016 is $________________
Dana, age 54, has a traditional deductible IRA with an account balance of $107,600, of which $77,300 represents contributions and $30,300 represents earnings. In 2016, she converts her traditional IRA into a Roth IRA.
What amount must Dana include in her gross income for 2016?$__________________
Janet, age 29, is unmarried and is an active participant in a qualified retirement plan. Her modified AGI is $63,000 in 2016.
Click here to access Exhibit 19.3. Do not round intermediate computations.
a. Janet can contribute $________to her traditional IRA, but she can deduct $________
b. Assume instead that Janet is a participant in a SIMPLE IRA and that she elects to contribute 4% of her compensation to the account, while her employer contributes 3%.
Janet will contribute $____________ to her SIMPLE IRA account. Her employer will contribute __________. The amount that will vest immediately is $___________
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Publication - Progress report
Scottish climate change adaptation programme: progress report 2017
Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Third annual progress report on the Climate Ready Scotland: Scottish climate change adaptation programme.
Part 1: Highlights in Policy and Process
Part 2: Case Studies
Part 3 : Work Underway on ASC Recommendations
Part 4: Next Steps
Annex: Adaptation Programme: Background Information
"Scotland's unique geography creates both resilience and vulnerabilities to the impacts of extreme weather and climate change. Scotland's iconic industries including timber and whisky, and its fisheries, rely on the abundance of climate-sensitive natural resources. The projected changes in weather patterns combined with sea level rise will test the nation's transport, communication, fuel and energy networks and challenge the delivery of health and social care services. There will also be opportunities for Scottish businesses investing in the products, services and new technologies that will be needed to adapt urban areas and grow rural economies in Scotland". These are some of the opening messages from the first independent assessment of the Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme, a report commissioned by the Scottish Government from the Adaptation Sub-Committee, laid before the Scottish Parliament in September 2016.
This year's Scottish Government Annual Report covers 12 months which have seen a huge body of work published on which Scotland can build its next Adaptation Programme due in 2019.
In addition to the independent assessment, in July 2016 the Adaptation Sub-Committee ( ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change published the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report and Synthesis Report and a National Summary for Scotland. In January 2017 the UK Government published the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 including a contribution from Scotland.
In last year's Annual Report we set out key recent developments in climate change adaptation in Scotland, including new climate adaptation indicators, new public bodies reporting duties, a new National Centre for Resilience, Scotland's Flood Risk Management Plan and our Mapping Flood Disadvantage report.
As Scotland prepares to host the 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation ( ECCA) Conference in Glasgow in June 2017, this Annual Report follows the detailed and comprehensive independent assessment last September, by setting out current highlights on progress of the Adaptation Programme, including Scotland's National Coastal Change Assessment, Climate Ready Clyde, Edinburgh Adapts, Historic Environment Scotland's climate change risk assessment for its 335 Properties in Care, and the appointment by ClimateXChange of two Adaptation Research Fellowships which will help address the ongoing research priorities highlighted by the Adaptation Sub Committee, as well as our preliminary responses to key recommendations of the ASC.
Scotland's International Leadership on Climate Action
The Paris Agreement highlighted the links between climate change mitigation and adaptation. Scotland is a world-leader in tackling climate change, with ambitious statutory emissions targets, strong progress to date, and a commitment to maintaining this position by bringing forward new legislation. Thanks to the efforts of everyone in Scotland, Patricia Espinosa, the head of the UN climate body, speaking from last year's UN climate conference, praised Scotland's great achievement in exceeding the level of our 2020 emissions target (a 42% reduction) six years early, with a 45.8% reduction as at 2014. The 2016 annual report from the Compact of States and Regions showed Scotland leading a group of six major states and regions who have already met or exceeded their 2020 emissions targets several years ahead of schedule.
The First Minister met Governor Jerry Brown of California in April, where they agreed to work together to support the Under2 Coalition of progressive and ambitious states, regions and cities, which now covers over 1 billion people and over a third of the global economy, prepare for a major summit in 2018, aimed at persuading national governments to increase their efforts to tackle climate change. Scotland's Climate Justice Fund is delivering £3 million per year to help developing countries and the poorest communities in Africa. The Scottish Government agrees with the United Nations and its partners that the momentum on cutting global emissions is unstoppable, with real progress at national, regional, state, city and local level.
Scotland's emissions cuts have been underpinned by a rapid decarbonisation of our electricity sector. Provisional figures for 2016 showed us generating 53.8% of gross electricity demand from renewables, representing a more than threefold increase in renewable capacity over a decade or so. We also delivered our 500 MegaWatts target for community and locally owned renewables five years early with 595 MegaWatts operating by June last year. We have already set new targets for community renewables of 1 GigaWatt by 2020 and 2 GigaWatts by 2030. Scotland's energy consumption was cut over the past decade by 15.2%, passing our 12% target six years early. Since the 1970s, Scotland has grown to become an international centre of expertise in subsea engineering. Statoil's Hywind Pilot Park, the world's first offshore floating wind park, will begin construction off the Scottish coast in 2017, creating a great deal of international interest in the ability to place wind turbines in deeper water offshore.
Scotland's draft new Climate Change Plan sets out how we propose to drive emissions down further, by 66% in 2032. The Climate Change Bill, and the Plan, with its proposals on forestry and peatlands, together with our Energy Strategy, and its aim of resilience, will deliver a low-carbon transition for Scotland which promotes social inclusion and sustainable growth and makes links between mitigation and adaptation actions.
Scotland's Changing Climate and the Need for Adaptation
Scotland has shown strong commitment in tackling climate change and protecting our environment. We want to avoid the worst impacts of climate change falling on the poor and vulnerable at home and abroad.
The Paris Agreement will reduce but not remove the risk of dangerous levels of warming. Commitments to date imply considerably more than 2°C of warming by 2100, with a central estimate of 2.7°C, and up to 6°C remaining possible.
Scotland's climate has already changed over the past 50 years and we expect that further change is inevitable, so adapting and being resilient to climate change is a very important part of our climate response.
Lord Krebs, then Chairman of the Adaptation Sub-Committee ( ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change, echoed this on the 11 th July, 2016, when he stated: " The impacts of climate change are becoming ever clearer, both in the United Kingdom and around the world. We must take action now to prepare for the further, inevitable changes we can expect. Delaying or failing to take appropriate steps will increase the costs and risks for all UK nations arising from the changing climate."
The first independent assessment of Scotland's Climate Change Adaptation Programme ( SCCAP) published in September 2016, carried out by the Committee on Climate Change, provided further insight stating that " Scotland needs to prepare for the impacts of climate change. The climate in Scotland has already warmed and become wetter and further changes are inevitable in the coming decades due to greenhouse gases from human activity already released to the atmosphere. … Average temperatures in Scotland have increased in line with global trends, with average annual temperatures around 0.7° C higher than they were a century ago. Annual rainfall over Scotland has increased since the 1970s, to a level 13% above the average for the early decades of the 20th century. All seasons contribute to the increase in rainfall. Long-term monitoring of sea level at stations around the UK including Aberdeen shows the mean sea level for 2006 - 2008 was more than 100mm higher than during the 1920s."
All stakeholders including Government, the public sector, businesses, communities and members of the public have a role to play in managing the risks posed by the different possible climate change scenarios, adapting to climate change and improving levels of resilience. In so doing, there will also be a host of opportunities with different climate conditions, in innovating and developing the products and services that are needed both domestically and internationally.
Scotland's Climate Change Adaptation Programme ( SCCAP)
Scotland's first statutory Adaptation Programme was published in May 2014. This set out objectives, policies and proposals under three themes: (i) natural environment (ii) buildings and infrastructure (iii) society.
Under Section 54 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, Scottish Ministers are required to provide an annual report on progress towards achieving the objectives and implementing the proposals and policies set out in the Programme.
The first annual progress report was published in May 2015: ( http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0047/00477541.pdf), and the second annual progress report was published in May 2016: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2016/05/7046/0.
UK Climate Change Risk Assessment
The UK Government is required under the 2008 Climate Change Act to publish a UK wide Climate Change Risk Assessment ( CCRA) every five years, assessing the 'risks for the UK from the current and predicted impacts of climate change'.
The ASC was asked to prepare an independent Evidence Report for CCRA2. This comprised a synthesis report for the UK as a whole, technical chapters and national summaries, including one for Scotland. The Evidence Report was published in July 2016 and used the concept of urgency to summarise the findings of the analysis, variously identifying 'more action needed', 'research priority', 'sustain current action' and 'watching brief' categories.
It highlighted:-
The need for more action to address flood risks;
The potential for water scarcity;
Heat related impacts on health and wellbeing;
Risks to the natural environment;
Risks of food price volatility; and
New and emerging pest and disease risks, especially for Scotland's forestry.
Notably many of the actions identified as priorities for other parts of the UK have been shown to be less critical for Scotland at this stage.
The CCRA was published in 2012 and the second CCRA2 was published in January 2017.
CCRA2 will feed into the development of the next UK National Adaptation Programme as well as the national adaptation programmes of the devolved administrations.
The ASC Independent Assessment and Recommendations
The first statutory assessment of the SCCAP by the ASC in September 2016, took into account the SCCAP second annual progress report and the CCRA2 Evidence Report.
It confirmed that steps were being taken to prepare Scotland for climate change, the SCCAP was a positive start with almost all of its 148 policies and proposals reported as being on track and it acknowledged that it provided a solid foundation for further progress.
However, the assessment highlighted a number of evidence gaps that meant it was difficult to determine whether key vulnerabilities are being suitably addressed and there was insufficient evidence to judge progress.' Additionally, there is a need for more adaptation action: specific, effective steps to directly confront and tackle the risks highlighted. Also, more could be done to make sure Scotland is ready to realise the opportunities that milder winters and warmer summers will bring.
Reference: ASC Recommendation 1 :
The ASC recommended that the Scottish Government in preparing the second SCCAP should:
address all urgent risks and opportunities for Scotland;
identify a senior owner for each objective to be held accountable for its delivery;
list the specific actions that will be taken to achieve each objective together with appropriate milestones and timescales;
introduce an effective monitoring regime to allow impact of actions and delivery of each objective to be properly assessed; and
present the actions being taken within each sector together and coordinate their delivery.
The ASC recommended that the Scottish Government work with partners and build on the suite of ClimateXChange Indicators to develop datasets where progress is most important and develop outcome based indicators where this is possible.
Opportunities in the Near Future
There will be a key opportunity to share emerging international and national good practice on adaptation at the 3 rd European Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow in June 2017.
Next year, the UK Climate Projections UKCP18 (updating UKCP09) will also be available which will allow us to further consider the direction we need to take in the next SCCAP in 2019 to make sure Scotland can meet the challenges and opportunities that climate change presents.
Email: Roddy Maclean
Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit
St Andrew's House
Regent Road
EH1 3DG


This Friday, audience all over had more options with them to go and watch for as this time there were 4 movies that have released including three movies of Bollywood namely Revolver Rani, Kaanchi and Samrat & Co. while 4th one is the latest Punjabi action thriller movie 'Jatt James Bond' of Gippy Grewal and Zareen Khan. As we know Punjabi audiences have a craze for Punjabi singers and actors so this is the movie which brings the viewers their favorite stars together with a strong script. Singers have been always seen in Punjabi movies for last so many years as firstly they sing and then after try their luck into the dream career of acting as a hero. It's really believable that we often see singer turned actors in successful films nowadays as which we seen in some weeks before released movie 'Disco Singh' of Diljit Dosanjh, a comedy movie went on a decent business. Jatt James Bond is also following the same speed and has done a fair good job in the first two days.
Gippy Grewal is a well renowned name in Punjabi film industry as he had sung many hit songs and also been a part of a vast number of hit movies in preceding years. He gave 4 hit movies in 2013 so we can expect that this movie would also go to be a big one. After a positive opening day response from the audience next day has also made fairly well business and the total 2nd Day business done by Jatt James Bond is 1.2 Crores. This is not an unknown fact that Punjabi cinema is growing at rapid pace from recent years as if a Punjabi movie were to be released in 2007 or 2008 period then it would have maximum collected in lacs but as an now they are easily surpassing Crores mark they possess watchable story. The similar performance can be seen by the latest movie Jatt James Bond which is running successfully in Punjab and other related areas.


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Elsevier's Postdoc Free Access Passport supports young scholars in between jobs or looking for their first postdoctoral position. Qualified applicants are granted six months free access to all our journals and books on ScienceDirect. They can use this access to work on grant applications and research projects.
This program has run every year since November 2012, when it became apparent that due to the economic downturn, many postdoctoral scholars suddenly found themselves without position and any access to research literature, and that this lack of access in turn jeopardized their ability to find a new position. As the international economic situation continues to be challenging for scientists starting their career, and as we continued to receive applications well after the deadline, we have decided to bring back this program for 2015.
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I don't cover Subway very much back in the States. Frankly, it isn't my favorite place for a quick sandwich. But there is no denying Subway's global presence. Here in Dubai you will find ordering your sandwich and the resulting assembly process to be familiar - it's identical to the way it is everywhere else. Even the topping and sauce choices are the same. For instance, I thought they wouldn't have honey mustard, but there it was, sitting in its little squirt bottle ready to go.
Above you can see some regional specialties, largely to cater to the Indian and Asian populations. Chicken Tikka and Chicken Teriyaki subs and a couple extra veggie choices. Of course at Subway ANY sandwich can be a veggie sandwich so that's probably what adds to the popularity.


Tustains are celebrating Swiss National Day on Saturday 2nd August by showing the new models to be released by Swiss brands Breitling, Omega, Tissot, TAG Heuer and Longines.
This day has been celebrated as a national holiday in Switzerland since 1994 when the nation has local festivals, often with firework displays to commemorate the founding of the nation in 1291.
Tom Milner, director at Tustains, was keen to promote the new and exciting watch models due to be launched in the UK in the autumn. "Switzerland has long been associated with leading the world in watch design and new innovation" he says "so it seemed appropriate to organise an exhibition for customers to see the newest and latest editions ahead of their official launch dates later this year. We know many customers look forward to seeing the new ranges each time".
In Schaffhausen, Switzerland, the spectacular 25m high Rhine waterfall is illuminated for the event and spectacular firework displays follow at nightfall. Swiss national day is also celebrated around the world, with the largest gatherings in Manhattan, New York and at the Swiss embassy in Washington.
No celebration would be complete without food and special "Augustweggen" bread rolls with large crosses at the centre are baked for the event. The Swiss also dye hard boiled eggs red with white, cross –shaped stickers in imitation of the Swiss flag.
The exclusive watch exhibition is being run in the Tustains store on 89, Regent Street, between 10am and 4pm on Saturday, 2nd August. Customers will be able to see the new Omega Seamster 300 and Breitling editions including the latest Superocean watch and the Avenger Blackbird.


Preop hemangioma of ear; no response to oral propranolol; (b) Two week postoperative result, awaiting additional laser therapy to residual skin. Photos by Dr. Gregory Levitin.
Hemangioma at 10 weeks and at one year, after treatment with propranolol.
12 month old with left upper eyelid hemangioma with visual obstruction; (b) 6 weeks postop one surgery (c) 6 months postop after additional laser therapy. Photos provided by Dr. Gregory Levitin.
12-month-old with extensive segmental hemangioma with ulcerations; (b) 1 year follow up after 2-stage reconstruction with left eye open and functional; removal of ulceration/scars of the scalp and reconstruction of nose. Photos by Dr. Gregory Levitin.
2 1/2- year- old child with an extensive hemangioma of her upper lip before and after surgical resection. She still requires further surgery but has shown considerable improvement.
A child with an extensive hemangioma of her upper lip before and after surgical resection. She still has some residual hemangioma in her skin but this can easily be treated with a pulsed dye laser.
A child with an extensive hemangioma and considerable scarring of the upper lip. The after photo shows the child after extensive surgery and skin resurfacing as well as pulsed dye laser treatments.
A child with an extensive parotid hemangioma before and after resection. The child is shown just 3-4 weeks after resection.
A child with an occipital hemangioma before and after surgical excision.
A child with an extensive lower lip hemangioma before and after surgical resection.
Venous malformation of the hand causing pain and limitation to range of motion; (b) 3 months after 2 stage surgical excision. Photos by Dr. Gregory Levitin.
Photos are courtesy Milton Waner, M.D.
A child with an extensive venous malformation of the upper lip and corner of the mouth. Before and after laser treatment and surgical resection are shown.
A child with an extensive venous malformation of the corner of her mouth as well as the buccal fat space. The lesion was treated with laser and then followed with surgical resection. The child is seen here with the end of the first resection just prior to the final correction to the corner of her mouth.
A patient with an extensive portwine stain of her cheek and upper lip before and after laser treatment with a copper vapor laser as well as a pulsed dye laser.
A patient with an extensive portwine stain before and after treatment with a pulsed dye laser.
Hana before and after surgery performed by Dr. Waner.


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THE WORLD SCHISM'S MILITARY-STRATEGIC CONFRONTATION
Like during the Cold War, the global schism has a military component that is gradually intensifying. The emerging East-West military standoff is building on the energy of the polarization exacerbated by the Russo-Ukrainian war for NATO expansion. Action in this military schism spans the globe—from Taiwan in the Pacific to Iraq in the Persian Gulf to Syria on the Mediterranean to Ukraine on the Black Sea. The core of the conflictive nexus is the West, in particular the U.S., countering Russia on the western part of the Eurasian 'world island' and countering China in eastern Eurasia and the eastern 'world ocean', the Indo-Pacific.
Washington and Brussels (NATO and EU) now view Russia as the immediate military threat that must be dealt with before the West can confront Beijing. China is "the more serious and long-term threat to the global order," as U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, against which the Biden administration seeks to create a "more broad coalition." The most recent counter-initiatives to the Sino-Russia network of networked IOs, perhaps intended to be integrated with NATO in some way, are AUKUS alliance of Australia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. in the Indo-Pacific region and the QUAD security dialogue forum consisting of the U.S., Australia, Japan, and India, which remained near moribund during Donald Trump's presidency and the Biden administration has sought to invigorate. A new U.S. strategy review proposes placing "a premium on growing the connective tissue on technology, trade and security between our democratic allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific and Europe because we recognize that they are mutually reinforcing and the fates of the two regions are intertwined" (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/12/fact-sheet-the-biden-harris-administrations-national-security-strategy/). This is becoming concensus thinking in DC policymaking and think tank circles as a way of re-consolidating American's weakening hegemony (https://www.cnas.org/publications/commentary/enlisting-nato-to-address-the-china-challenge and https://www.csis.org/analysis/natos-pivot-china-challenging-path). Although QUAD can be seen as an Indo-Pacific regional structure meant to counter China in a broader way, it also may serve as the geostrategic world ocean's effort to wean India away from the Eurasian 'world island' being organized by China and Russia.
On the eve of Putin's new special military operation, Beijing and Moscow declared an "unlimited" strategic partnership. Moscow and Beijing are intensifying the military and intelligence components of this near-alliance and have been conducting joint military maneuvers routinely now for several years. Although China has been careful not to appear too supportive of Moscow's operations in Ukraine, Beijing has blamed Washington and Brussels for provoking Russia. For Russia's part, Moscow has been morally supportive of China's claim to Taiwan and condemned U.S. policy regarding the breakaway island.
The extent of the military partnership's expansion can be seen in China's participation in Russia's annual 'Vostok' (East) military exercises and the intensification of that participation since its inception in 2018. As a first-time participant in the Vostok exercises in 2018, China sent 3,200 soldiers, along with more than 1,000 pieces of weaponry and 30 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. In Vostok 2022, building on a "no limits" pact their presidents signed this year, the Russian and Chinese militaries will drill side-by-side in what is their second joint show of force in the region this year. In May bombers from both countries conducted a 13-hour drill so close to Japan and South Korea that the latter two nations scrambled jet fighters, all as President Biden was visiting Tokyo. In a preliminary phase of Vostok 2022 held in August, the Russian ministry said that units of its Eastern Military District, in the nation's Far East near the borders of China and North Korea, as well as airborne, long range aviation and military transport aviation personnel and equipment, would participate in training maneuvers along with military contingents from other unnamed states. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-to-join-russia-military-exercises-as-u-s-rivals-deepen-ties/ar-AA10LyBL). China's participation in the Vostok-2022 drills reportedly encompassed 2,000 military personnel but also twenty-one fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, and 300 vehicles and other pieces of military equipment (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russia%E2%80%99s-vostok-2022-military-exercise-so-controversial-204632). Chinese J-10B aircraft were used to support ground operations, and the exercise was supported by joint patrols from Russian and Chinese warships (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/vostok-2022-are-china-and-russia-practicing-war-against-america-204778).
SCO members also joined in Vostok-2022. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that over 50,000 troops and 5,000 pieces of military equipment, including 140 aircraft, sixty warships, and most importantly military contingents from various SCO members and partners—Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kyrgyzstan, China, Mongolia and Tajikistan—acting as a coalition group conducting a joint strategic counter-operation (https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-russia%E2%80%99s-vostok-2022-military-exercise-so-controversial-204632). Of course, countries like India and Mongolia are very unlikely to ever join a Sino-Russian war with the West, but other partners just might under specific circumstances, and their participation demonstrates that they see not just military training experience in general but such experience with Russia and China as advantageous and a potential investment in developing cooperative military relations, which could someday become alliance relationships as participation in SCO suggests.
The Biden administration's provocative statements on Taiwan and arms shipments to China's breakaway island add further to the global polarization as do joint Sino-Russian naval maneuvers in the region. Russia has strongly defended China in tensions with Washington over Taiwan, and there can be little doubt that in a major confrontation or war over Taiwan that Moscow would back Beijing morally and materially, though pеrhaps not militarily beyond weapons and intelligence support. Moscow has been very supportive of China's claim to Taiwan and critical of U.S. meddling there and in the Asia-pacific region. And in response to U.S. Congress Speaker Nancy Pelosi's late summer visit to Taiwan, China responded with heightened military preparedness and land, sea, and air exercises, with Russia participating in the naval component, which included a demonstrative firing of weapons in the direction of Taiwan. Conversely, it is not difficult to see Beijing intervening in important, perhaps significantly in military and intelligence ways on Moscow's behalf, if Russia is on the verge of a disastrous military defeat against NATO and Ukraine. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated in late October that "China will firmly support Russia in international politics and in the work of strengthening its status as a great power (https://www.ng.ru/monitoring/2022-11-02/7_8581_monitoring.html). Beijing understands that Russia is China's ally against NATO in and around the 'world island.' It is perhaps indicative of all this that in early October, three Russian and four Chinese warships were noticed operating in unison off the Alaskan coast in international but also U.S. economic zone waters, if Washington still has not seen the picture clearly enough (www.westernjournal.com/us-coast-guard-discovers-3-chinese-4-russian-military-vessels-operating-single-formation-off-us-shore/).
The new global schism's military confrontation, building on the background of an already hot war between the West, on the one hand, and the 'Robin' (Russia) to the 'Batman' (China) of the rest, is becoming as geographically expansive and dangerous as was the world split apart during the Cold War.
The New Cold War Beyond Greater Eurasia
The 'new cold war' in the environment of a world split apart more globally has the potential to spread and indeed is beginning to spread from Greater Eurasia to the southern and western hemispheres. In these other regions, there is mounting competition and growing military strategic confrontation between Russia and China, on the one hand, and the West, in particular the U.S., on the other hand, that goes far beyond Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Transcaucasus (Georgia). In the Syrian and Yemeni civil wars, Russia, the U.S., and their proxies find themselves, for the most part, on the other side of the front. The U.S. has 'lost' and withdrawn for Afghanistan, and China and Russia are moving in to pick up the pieces. One can imagine Afghanistan as a SCO member and certainly an OBOR participant. China and Russia are expanding there economic, political, and in some cases military cooperation with other states in the global South, including Latin America in the western hemisphere. The most important elements of the Sino-Russian advance against the West in the South are the tripartite military-strategic alliance with Iran and the Sino-Russian-led international organizations (IOs) attracting states in the southern and American hemispheres into economic, political, and military cooperation: SCO, BRICS, and OBOR.
Iran is probably the most anti-Western regime of the three leading anti-Western actors, now partners and half-allies. Teheran has been quietly supportive of China's Taiwan policy and has supported Moscow in Kiev by providing it with Shehad attack drones, with more assistance on the way, as announced on 1 November 2022. Beijing and Moscow have robustly supported economic and diplomatic ties with Iran, supporting the latter's positions at the UN, and both are major weapons suppliers to Teheran. They have helped Iran overcome the effects of sanctions, and Iran is advising Moscow on how to do the same. Last year Iran and China institutionalized the close binds on the basis of a 25-year treaty of strategic partnership, and Iran figures centrally in China's OBOR.
The Russo-Iranian partnership has up until now at least been an even deeper relationship, especially in military-strategic affairs. Russia has helped develop Iran's space satellite and civilian nuclear programs, the latter of which threatens to become a military program and capability every year. Teheran and Moscow have been close allies against the Syrian opposition and jihadists in defense of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. The Western-backed front of Muslim Brotherhood-led opposition and part of the Kurdish separatist movement opposes the Assad regime backed by Russia, while both Iran and Russia, but most of all Russia, carry on counter-terrorism operations against ISIS and affiliates of Al Qa`ida. The West's and Russia's partners stand on opposite sides through proxies of their partners in the Yemeni civil war, Saudi Arabia and Iran, respectively. As two of the world's leading natural gas powers, Moscow and Teheran, are also aggressively pursuing the organization of a gas OPEC, a global gas cartel to control prices and presumably counter Western economic power. Russia, Iran and Qatar control 60 percent of the world's gas reserves, and all three have long-term gas contracts and projects with China as well as Pakistan (https://inosmi.ru/20220825/gaz-255672976.html?in=t).
The Sino-Russian-led IOs bring in southern and American hemispheric powers and lesser powers such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, and Venezuela, among others. The limitations on support among the rest for the West in its war for NATO expansion to Ukraine were starkly demonstrated on 20 July 2022 when the MERCOSUR summit of Latin American states Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay refused to allow Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy address the gathering (https://www.barrons.com/news/mercosur-trade-bloc-denies-zelensky-request-to-address-summit-paraguay-01658343307). In a 'we can too' move, Russia signed a military cooperation agreement with Venezuela, and China, Russia, and Iran conducted naval military maneuvers in Venezuela with a focus on a fictional U.S. invasion on behalf of Columbia in late summer, mirror-imaging the activity of NATO in Eastern Europe and southwestern Eurasia (Transcaucasus) (https://10news.org/2022/07/for-the-first-time-russia-iran-and-china-will-conduct-military-maneuvers-in-venezuela/). Mexico has refused to join sanctions against Russia and proposed a Ukrainian peace plan to the UN.
Sino-Russian-Western confrontations in southern regions remain limited to economic competition and military maneuvering, but it may be just a matter of time before China and Russia will be able to forge broader IOs bringing in southern states willing to separate themselves and even undermine Western economic and financial hegemony and interests and to support military countermeasures and counter-alliances against the West.
Although China and the rest of the rest have no desire to get involved militarily in support of Russia's efforts in Ukraine, there can be no doubt that they view Russian efforts to halt NATO expansion and deal a blow to American hegemony as laudable. Beijing is likely to step in and join Teheran in providing military aide and if necessary military force should Russia be in danger of being seriously weakened or endangered existentially by the war, as Moscow remains an important source for technology, natural resources, Eurasian autonomy, and UN Security Council voting support for China. The war in Ukraine is seen in Beijing and some other countries almost as much as in Moscow to be a defense against the Western bridgehead in Eurasia.
Swing States and the Potential for a Third Pole or Non-Aligned Movement
Several regional great powers possess sufficient power and influence to be in a position either to move from straddling the West-rest divide, fundamentally transforming the West-rest balance of power, or continue straddling in more robust by forming a new non-aligned movement rather than make the great leap to one or the other camp. In Greater Eurasia, India and Turkey are such powers.
India has been careful to maintain a more or less neutral position on the NATO-Russian Ukrainian war, urging immediate negotiations and a ceasefire, and is deepening its ties with the Sino-Russian-led IOs. Even as New Delhi is a member of BRICS and SCO and an OBOR participant, it has joined QUAD and is negotiating with the U.S. a deal on joint production of microchips, which Washington will not permit to be sold to Russian companies. Any Indian decision to side clearly with a Sino-Russian-led rest or the West would clearly be a game-changer.
NATO member Turkey is playing a double game, to be sure, at least for now but appears to be gradually moving to support Sino-Russian global initiatives. In addition to seeking SCO membership and, as noted above, adopting a position of limited support for Ukraine, providing Bayrakhtar drones but undertaking the most robust efforts of any country to arrange a peace agreement, which was almost accomplished in Istanbul in April 2022. Erdogan also brokered the first Ukrainian grain export agreement, allowing transport through the Black Sea to the world, and played a role in restoring the agreement in November 2022 when a Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet caused Moscow to withdraw from the agreement. Erdogan's pan-Turkic ambitions require entering the great Eurasian game driven by current events, not least of all the rise of China. Ever since the Soviet collapse, Turkey has pursued expanding influence in Central Asia. Now Ankara is developing military ties to 'Turkish states' across Russia's southern arc, supplying Bayrakhtar drones to its ally Azerbaijan for use against Armenia (used in September 2022 ) and to Kyrgyzstan against Tajikistan (September 2022), both key allies of Russia in the CSTO, EEU, and SCO (https://realtribune.ru/esli-turki-poluchat-sjunik-rossiya-okazhetsya-na-obochine-istorii?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fdzen.ru%2Fnews%2Fsearch%3Ftext%3D).
Nevertheless, Erdogan has maintained good working relations with Putin, and Ankara has drastically increased imports from Russia and purchased S-400 air defense systems from Moscow, provoking Western sanctions against itself. In the wake of the apparently U.S. and/or UK-led attack on Russia's NordStream 1 and 2, Putin proposed and Turkey has agreed to develop an alternative route for gas export to Europe that will run through Turkey. Ankara has even joined tentatively Sino-Russian de-dollarization efforts. In 2019 the Turkish Central Bank signed an agreement with China's own establishing currency exchange and swap arrangements for trade accounts with Beijing. In 2020, the latter were used for the first time. Five Turkish banks have joined the Russian payment system 'Mir', though Ankara was forced to suspend that cooperation under the threat of secondary U.S. Ukraine sanctions. At the recent Samarkand SCO summit, however, Erdogan and Putin agreed that Turkey will pay in rubles for 25 percent of natural gas sales to Ankara (https://inosmi.ru/20220906/kitay-255943984.html?in=t).
India and Turkey are plagued by being vulnerable to their own regional conflicts, which might force them to join one or the other camp in order to achieve their goals. These are India's conflicts with China and Pakistan and Turkey's conflict with Greece over Cyprus and Ankara's continuing battle with Kurdish separatists ensconced in Syria and Iraq. Turkey, along with Hungary, is blocking Swedish and Finnish accession to NATO; Ankara doing so because of Stockholm's and Helsinki's support for Kurdish dissident emigres.
Other Greater Eurasian states that could sway the balance of power include Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. Other powers not located on the Greater Eurasian world island might be better positioned to organize and lead such a movement. Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Saudi Arabia could potentially play such a role, but their distance far from the Eurasian 'front' dictates or at least makes it easier to maintain neutrality for the foreseeable future.
EU and NATO member Hungary and EU member Serbia are minor swing states that could play a pivotal role of sorts. Both are hesitant to join the West's coalition of sanctioners and NATO efforts to support Ukraine militarily. Hungary—to take just one—has refused to join in natural gas and other sanctions against Russia and recently blocked EU sanctions on Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill proposed by Lithuania. Budapest, like Ankara, is refusing to sign the NATO accession protocol that will finalize Finland's and Sweden's entry into the alliance, because of Ukraine's violations of its Hungarian minority's language rights.
All the state's mentioned in this section could be organized by a great power such as India to form a third, unaligned pole in the international system. This a very real prospect.
Since the end of the Cold War, the West has embarked on self-righteous and messianic democracy promotion and an unsettling power expansion campaign. This comes on the background of a neocolonial policy that seeks to dictate the form in which developing states—many former colonial holdings of these Western states—will take by imposing by developmental models that ensure financial and economic dependency on Western-led international institutions, such as the World Bank and IMF, and international corporations based in the West. This neocolonialism and hubristic cultural and political expansion, moreover, were accompanied in western Eurasia by a provocative NATO expansion that drove Russia east.
Over the course of nearly three decades, Russia gradually has intensified its resistance to NATO expansion and come to reject the values of its sponsors, suspecting that those values were compromised or at least that they threatened Russia's political and ontological sovereignty and security. Simultaneously, China's encounter with the West has seen a still harshly authoritarian regime never entertain the idea of repeating the USSR's perestroika or Russia's democratization. Yet unlike Russia, China was never confronted with world history's most powerful military alliance creeping towards its borders, despite a NATO promise not to expand beyond Germany. Western, especially American businesses stormed China's party-state market, fueling China's economic and military rise. But this then bumped up against the West's power-maximizing democracy promotion and influence expansion aspirations. As a result of Western policies and Russian and Chinese security vigilance traditions vis-à-vis` the West, the post-Cold War Western drive to unlimited hegemony has sparked a Sino-Russian backlash and strategic partnership. That partnership is now aimed at reconstructing the world into a multipolar or bipolar world in which their own pole is insulated from Western interference. In order to insulate from Western pressures, Russia and China have begun to institutionalize an alternative global infrastructure for economic, financial, monetary, military, and political affairs in a series, a network of networks of international organizations, attracting tens of countries into their orbit, including great powers such as India.
On the Western front in this 'new cold war', Russia is in the vanguard, placing Russia ahead of China on the front line. Despite the more forward position, being on the front line does not make Russia the leader of the rest. As in the old Cold War there may emerge some competition between Moscow and Beijing for the top leadership position, but in the 'new cold war' Russia is ill-equipped to win such a contest. The leader is China, and Russia in decades to come may indeed tire of bandwagoning with and functioning as Beijing's potentially threatened second fiddle player. On the eastern front, China continues its long march to superpower status and challenger to U.S. hegemony, aided and abetted by Russian resources and technology.
The Sino/Russian-West confrontation is becoming increasingly ideological, delineated along authoritarian-republican (democratic) lines, despite the creeping authoritarianization now unfolding in the West as a result of the COVID pandemic and now exacerbated by security concerns prompted by the new cold war. In this regard, the world may become less split apart, and the ideological component will fail to be consolidated, leading to a brutal battle for global supremacy in lieu of mature political leadership in the West, China, and Russia.
Jonathan Hillman has noted that there are constraints on the Sino-Russian partnership—trade concentrated in Russia'a energy and resource sectors, investment impinged upon by Russia's corruption and poor infrastructure, joint digital infrastructure construction compromised by each side's restrictions on information flows, and both parties' fixation with control–arguing: "(A)s China and Russia's economic connections strengthen, their partnership will become even more unequal. Russia's junior status will become more of a liability, and Russian officials could be incentivized to reduce the risk of greater reliance on China. China's sheer mass, proximity, and willingness to economically coerce its partners could eventually compel Russia to look again to the West, where most of its trade remains despite its growing ties with China" (Hillman, https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/200715_ChinaandRussia.pdf, p. 2). The current reality, however, is that as long as security threats emanate from the West, especially those now perceived by Russia in Ukraine and elsewhere, Moscow is unlikely to step out from behind Beijing's reassuring economic, political, and military stature and come hat in hand seeking rapprochement with the West. And with the prospect of a powerful Sino-Russian strategic partnership or alliance, other states in Eurasia and elsewhere around the world will have reason to rally around the Greater Eurasian project and expand the extent to which the world is split apart.
Source: Mronline.org
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while they cultivated their inheritance at Braintree. Our reception was equally flattering, and we received the same marked and distinguished attention."
The descriptions of noted persons given in these letters, – of the personal appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, their public receptions and their daily life, and of the public buildings then occupied by Congress, are exceedingly interesting, and if published at this late date, would give some information not to be obtained elsewhere, so far as the writer's search has extended. Possibly they may be transcribed for some future article.
We copy here her description of the curious Funeral Customs in New York, ninety-one years ago. After describing the habiting of the body and its being laid in the coffin, she says :
** The body is then placed in the entry and every person is at liberty to examine it. Eight pall bearers are chosen, all of whom, together with the ministers and physicians are not only presented with gloves but with fine linen scarfs. One of these scarfs will take three yards and three-fourths, and it is folded and tied upon the shoulder and side with six yards of black ribbon, much in the manner in which our children used to wear their sashies. The good woman that ties the scarf, and the woman that dresses the body receives of the same wbite linen the full length of the scarfs, together with gloves. These scarfs are worn at the funeral, and the ensuing Sunday ; the pall bearers and physicians attending at the meeting where the deceased was accustomed to worship. No female, not even a relative, who makes the smallest pretentions to fashion, ever attends a funeral except on the demise of a young lady, when her pall is borne by eight maidens dressed in snowy white, and wearing plain lawn hoods and scarfs, made in the manner that the black hoods used to be. These hoods and scarfs, as also the ribbons, gloves and fans, are likewise given, and they too make their appearance at church the following Sabbath. Every person who attends the funeral, both within and without doors, is, previous to the interment, plentifully supplied with wine. A waiter is appointed to every room, and they are very attentive. Large quantitios are often swallowed. Ten gallons of prime Maderia were lately expended at a funeral."
In 1794 Mr. Murray moved his family to Boston, where they took up their residence at No. 5 Franklin Place, now the lower part of Franklin street, and where they continued to reside till his death in 1815. There lies before us a letter written by Mrs. Murray at her Boston residence, in July 1795, to two young ladies, her cousin and niece. It describes several patriotic observances which had taken place that summer, and gives an account of Commencement exercises which she attended at Harvard College. A wide contrast is noticeable between Commencement then and now. She had been making a visit at Dr. Spring's, in Watertown, and says:
" During my stay in Watertown, in compliance with the solicitations of my kind friends, I accepted a seat in their coach and accompanied them to our Commencement. I have never before been a spectator of the confusion, which, on those public days, pervades the peaceful and hallowed scenes of Harvard; nor shall I be again solicitous to partake the pleasures of Commencement. I am ready to say they order these things better in Philadelphia, in which city I have frequently witnessed similar occasions. Methinks days appropriated to an exhibition of literary productions, and a conferring of literary degrees, ought not to be marked by riot and intemperance, either in meats or in drinks, or in the manifestations of unbridled mirth. The assembly on Commencement day was the most noisy in which I have ever mingled. It was with difficulty I obtained a place in the meeting house in the morning, and the tops of the pews were so closely filled as wholly to intercept from my view the smallest glimpse of the speakers ; — but this was not all, — the confusion of the surrounding voices split every sentence to pieces, so that I could scarcely catch a flying sentiment, or even a vagrant idea. In the afternoon I determined on securing a better stand, and accordingly I took my seat in the front gallery, an hour and three quarters before the commencement of the exercises. During this tedious interval the house was crowded and tumultuous. The theatre when compared thereto might be imagined a sequestered grot; - hissing, clapping, hallooing, stamping, shrieking, – but it is impossible for words to convey an adequate idea of the licentious and disonant uproar which disgraced the sacred rites of Science. It was in vain that upon the entrance of the Governor, President, Clergy,
&c., we had flattered ourselves with the return of the semblance of order. The wild, indecent uproar still continued, and the President declared his apprehension that the exercises must be suspended! The Governor arose and addressed the populace, but had he spoken in thunder he would not have been heard ; and his interference and manner, however dignified, did not effectuate the wished for calm. The authority of the high sheriff was as unsuccessfully interposed ; and, for me, I most devoutly wished myself amid the sylvan haunts which so delightfully variegate the lands adjacent the seat of Doctor Spring Authority thus frustrated in its attempts to clear the appropriated seats, and to procure silence, a trial of strength ensued. Numbers were tumbled headlong from the eminences they had so unwarrantably seized, and many were turned neck and shoulders out of doors. The noise, however, did not in the least subside, and we despaired of our afternoon's entertainment. Yet you are not to conceive that there are no rational pleasures to be obtained at Commencement, by no means, there are many, but I shall only note the most conspicuous. The lover of happy human faces will be amply gratified ; large and brilliant circles of ladies, among which are to be found the most finished forms aud beautiful countenances, graced the house. The most dignified characters were assembled, and a kind of conspicuous pride elates the heart while contemplating those personages who are an honor to our species. But this was not all, Mr. Paine, the orator of the afternoon, at length mounted the rostrum, and his appearance changed the loud clamor of tongues and combination of discordant sounds into a kind of dying murmur, which may be poetically compared to the subsiding waves after the storm on the ocean is no more. But the effect of his exordium was truly astonishing ; silence instantly pervaded the motley crowd, attention bent triumphant, and happy experience reminded us of those days in which a Demosthenes and a Cicero, arresting the frenzy of tumult restored an ungovernable populace to the exercise of reason."
Very few persons are now living who ever saw Mrs. Murray. A niece, the venerable Mrs. Worcester, is still living in Salem, Mass., who spent several years with her aunt after Mr. Murray's death. Two very intelligent aged women who well remember her, still reside in Gloucester. These unite in describing her as possessing remarkable personal beauty,
gifted with wonderful conversational powers, and much beloved and sought after by the better portion of society. The late Rer. Sebastian Streeter, who often met her, describes her as being of commanding person, of very strong determination and nerve, but always discriminating, intelligent and polite. She was very much attached to the peculiar views promulgated by her husband, and like him, quite impatient at any presentation of Universalism on any other than Rellyan grounds, as the following incident will illustrate :
Mr. Murray having occasion to visit Philadelphia left his pulpit in charge of Rev. Hosea Ballou, then a young man.
In one of his sermons he advanced views in exposition of the passage, " And when all things shall be subdued wto Him. then shall the Son also himself be subject unto Him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all ; " which were not the views entertained by Mr. Murray. While Mr. Ballou was closing his discourse, Mrs. Murray wrote a note to Mr. Balch, a prominent member of the congregation, who sat in the singer's seats, requesting him to "say to the audience, and more especially to the strangers present, that the views presented by the occupant of the pulpit of this church to-day, are not those that are usually promulgated here, and they are not in accordance with those entertained by Mr. Murray." Mr. Balch did as requested, and Mr. Ballou rising to announce the closing hymn, mildly responded :
" The audience will please take notice of what our brother has said," and proceeded with the closing service. This occured in the fall of 1798, and Mr. Murray mourned that, from that time his people were divided in their sentiments, many finding it impossible to be satisfied with Rellyanism. A movement was shortly after set on foot to induce Mr. Ballou to move to Boston and establish a new society, hut his reply was, that so long as his beloved brother Murray remained there he would not be a party to any division in his congregation.
Mrs. Murray had two children ; a son who died in infancy, in 1789, and a daughter, Julia Maria, born in August 1791, and inarried in 1812 to Adam Lewis Benjamin, of Natchez,
Mississippi. Their marriage took place the evening of the day that Mr. Benjamin graduated from Harvard College. After their daughter's marriage, Mrs. Murray arranged and supervised the publication of her husband's sermons and letters, he having been an invalid since 1809. After his death she published his memoir, written by himself to 1774, and brought down by her till the close of his life. She then took up her abode with her daughter, at Natchez, where she died June 6th, 1520. At her death she left a large and valuable collection of manuscripts, including her husband's diaries, covering nearly the entire period of his residence in America ; his correspondence, many of her own unpublished essays, poems and other papers, and a large number of letters from General and Mrs. Washington, General Nathaniel Greene and his widow, and many other illustrious persons. These papers, Mrs. Worcester, above referred to, informed the writer, were stored in an unoccupied house on her son-in-law's plantation, and when an effort was made to remove them a few years afterwards, they were found to be utterly rotted and spoiled by the mildew. The scanty material used in preparing this article probably covers, therefore, about all that is available to us as a source of our knowledge of Mrs. Judith Murray.
ARTICLE XIII.
New Testament Synonym8.
The time is happily past when an apology is needed for any attempt to elucidate the synonyms of the New Testament. It must be confessed, however, that while Universalists have by no means refused to play the part of "dividers and discerners
of words when they related to "punishment" or to the " end of the world," they have, nevertheless, made little use of the results of philological study with reference to more general needs.
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DEP: Sewage spills into Indian River Lagoon by Fort Pierce utility violated permit
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection didn't impose fines and is satisfied with the utility's remedial efforts.
DEP: Sewage spills into Indian River Lagoon by Fort Pierce utility violated permit The Florida Department of Environmental Protection didn't impose fines and is satisfied with the utility's remedial efforts. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/health/2017/11/16/sewage-spills-into-indian-river-lby-fort-pierce-utilities-authority-violated-operating-permit-dep-sa/868274001/
Tyler Treadway, tyler.treadway@tcpalm.com Published 4:51 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2017 | Updated 6:45 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2017
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The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority wastewater treatment plant is seen along the Indian River Lagoon on Seaway Drive on Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce.(Photo: ERIC HASERT/TCPALM)Buy Photo
The Fort Pierce Utilities Authority has been cited by the state for spills totaling about 10.5 million gallons of treated and untreated sewage at the wastewater treatment plant and several lift stations.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection did not issue a fine for the violations of the utility's operating permit but accepted a plan to prevent future spills, said Bowdoin G. "Bo" Hutchinson, FPUA's director of water and wastewater systems.
The state agency "has taken a firm but fair approach to dealing with FPUA on these violations and focused on the significant corrective measures that FPUA has proposed instead of punitive actions," Hutchinson wrote in a email.
The state agency "is satisfied with the plan and progress," Hutchinson said.
Jill Margolius, a DEP spokeswoman, countered that in an email late Thursday, writing, "The department's investigation is ongoing, and we have yet to make a decision."
A warning letter from the state sent in early October stated a review found "possible violations" of state statutes and regulations related to discharges of:
6 million gallons of treated wastewater from 10 p.m. Sept. 10 to 1 p.m. Sept. 11 at the utility's treatment plant on Hutchinson Island
3 million gallons of treated wastewater from 3:49 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sept. 13 at the plant
1.25 million gallons of treated wastewater from 3 to 6:45 a.m Oct. 2 at the plant
A total of 345,266 gallons of untreated wastewater Sept. 10-13 at five lift stations
The most significant of those discharges was at a lift station in downtown Fort Pierce, where a pump failure caused about 300,000 gallons of untreated effluent to flow into Moore's Creek.
The creek drains into the Indian River Lagoon at the Manatee Observation and Education Center, which is run by the utility, in near the municipal marina in downtown Fort Pierce.
Other lift station spills were:
3,000 gallons at 27th Street and Orange Avenue
3,000 gallons at Third Street and Virginia Avenue
2,250 gallons at 323 S. U.S. 1
2,016 gallons at Texas Court and Hibiscus Avenue
All those spills were onto the ground and not into any water bodies, according to a DEP spreadsheet.
The discharges on Sept. 10-11 and Sept. 13 at the treatment plant and the lift stations occurred during power outages during Hurricane Irma.
The Oct. 2 discharge also was the result of a power outage.
The plant at the southeast base of the South Bridge is designed to have access to two electric lines, but operators failed to fix a line that had been faulty since the hurricane. The plant lost all power when the single circuit went down.
"That's an operational error on our side," Hutchinson told the utility's board of directors in October.
The remedies being taken by the utility include:
Installing a dedicated power feed to the treatment plant, which has already been done
Putting a stand-by generator will be in place before the 2019 hurricane season
Having portable generators available in 2018 in case both power lines fail
The automatic switch and the generator will cost a total of about $1.5 million, Hutchinson told directors.
The water spilled at the plant had gone through all the treatment processes except having chlorine added and was supposed to go into a 3,000-foot-deep injection well. But because of the power outage, there was no way to push the effluent into the well.
The effluent discharged from the sewage plant was "completely biologically treated," FPUA spokeswoman Jann Widmayer told TCPalm in October, and posed no threat to people or wildlife. The plant had removed heavy metals as well as nitrogen and phosphorous, which can spur algae blooms.
FPUA collected water samples from seven sites in the area for 10 days after the spill and found no problems.
The plant can treat up to 10 million gallons of the area's wastewater a day, according to FPUA's website.
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