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Q: Как превратить подобный кусок html в json, а затем обратно? У меня есть такой кусок html:

<button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary"></button>

Тестовый заголовок вопроса

Первый вариант ответа

Второй вариант ответа

Третий вариант ответа

Четвёртый вариант ответа

Он образуется после того, как я изменяю textarea на элемента h4 и p, но теперь мне надо это отправить в базу данных. Таких кусков в одной ячейке может быть очень много, и у меня появился вопрос, можно ли так хранить html в ячейке базы, или нужно это преобразовывать в json? И как это сделать так, чтобы потом можно было это преобразовать обратно в html?

A: это чтобы удобнее было смотреть :)

    <button class="btn btn-sm btn-primary">

    </button>

Тестовый заголовок вопроса

Первый вариант ответа

Второй вариант ответа

Третий вариант ответа

Четвёртый вариант ответа

А что вы хотите вообще от json и для чего?
Если хотите, чтобы этот код формировался с помощью jquery автоматически, то достаточно хранить только варианты ответа, что-то типа
data = {
    question: Тестовый заголовок вопрос,
    answers: [
        Первый вариант ответа,
        Второй вариант ответа,
        Третий вариант ответа,
        Четвертый вариант ответа,
    ]
};

И из этой записи генерировать html код,


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Platform: Nintendo DS
Pokémon Ranger marked another interpretation of Pokémon's RPG gameplay. Cast as a titular ranger, the player used a device called a styler to temporarily capture Pokémon and complete objectives. The styler was controlled via the DS touch screen, requiring the player to draw a series of loops around the Pokémon they were trying to capture. Ranger had over 200 Pokémon that could be seen during gameplay, each with a corresponding abilities to be used by the player to explore the environment. Ranger's gameplay came dangerously close to destroying many a player's touch screens, but the experience was fun enough to keep them hooked. The game's graphics were bold and colorful, and did a particularly great job of showcasing the variety in size of the Pokémon. The Ranger and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games might skew more towards younger Pokémon fans, but they're fun titles that further enrich the Pokémon franchise's mythology.

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When astronomers start searching for evidence of live orbiting other stars, they'll start with familiar terrain: other stars like our Sun. Astronomers from the Australian National University have identified a nearby candidate that's a virtual twin of our Sun in age, size, temperature and chemistry; although, it's 2% more massive. The star, HD98618, is located 126 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Big Dipper), and is bright enough to see with binoculars.
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Le gouvernement Filat  () est le gouvernement de la République de Moldavie entre le  et le , durant la septième législature du Parlement.

Historique

Formation
Dirigé par le nouveau Premier ministre libéral-démocrate Vlad Filat, il est soutenu par l'Alliance pour l'intégration européenne (AIE), une coalition regroupant le Parti libéral-démocrate de Moldavie (PLDM), le Parti libéral (PL), le Parti démocrate de Moldavie (PDM) et l'Alliance Notre Moldavie (AMN). Ensemble, ils disposent de  sur 101, soit 52,5 % des sièges du Parlement.

Il est formé à la suite des élections législatives anticipées du .

Il succède donc au second gouvernement de la communiste Zinaida Greceanîi, constitué et soutenu par le seul Parti des communistes de la république de Moldavie (PCRM).

Au cours du scrutin parlementaire, le PCRM perd la majorité absolue dont il disposait au Parlement depuis . Les quatre partis de l'opposition décident alors de constituer une majorité parlementaire alternative. Le , le président du PL Mihai Ghimpu est élu président de l'assemblée parlementaire. Également président de la République par intérim, il confie à Vlad Filat la charge de former le nouvel exécutif.

Après que la Cour constitutionnelle, saisie par le Parti des communistes, a confirmé la légitimité du chef de l'État intérimaire à désigner un chef de gouvernement, Ghimpu nomme Filat Premier ministre le . Ce dernier fait approuver son équipe ministérielle de , dont une seule femme,  plus tard.

Succession
Au premier tour de l'élection présidentielle le , l'ancien président du Parlement, ex-membre du PCRM et désormais président du PDM Marian Lupu se présente au nom de l'AIE et remporte , la majorité requise était de 60. Lors de la répétition du scrutin le , il réalise exactement le même résultat et la coalition au pouvoir renonce à la tenue d'un nouveau scrutin au profit d'une révision constitutionnelle permettant l'élection du chef de l'État au suffrage universel direct.

Un référendum constitutionnel est donc convoqué le . 88 % des votants approuvent le changement du régime électoral présidentiel, mais la participation atteint à peine 30 % des inscrits, alors que 33 % sont nécessaires pour valider le résultat du vote. L'élection du chef de l'État se révélant impossible, le Parlement est dissous et des élections législatives anticipées sont convoquées le .

À l'issue de ce scrutin, l'AMN échoue à conserver sa représentation parlementaire mais les autres forces de l'AIE renforcent leur majorité à l'assemblée. Pourtant à l'ouverture de la législature le , il n'y a aucune majorité pour élire un nouveau président du Parlement et Filat devient président de la République par intérim. Finalement  après, Lupu prend la présidence de l'institution parlementaire et il confie au Premier ministre sortant le soin de constituer un nouveau cabinet. Le gouvernement Filat  entre en fonction le .

Composition

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Politique de la Moldavie
 Élections législatives moldaves de juillet 2009
 Alliance pour l'intégration européenne

Filat I
2009 en Moldavie
2010 en Moldavie
2011 en Moldavie
2009 en politique
2010 en politique
2011 en politique

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Una interfaz notebook (también llamada  'cuaderno computacional' ) es un entorno virtual de cuaderno utilizado para la programación literaria. Combina la funcionalidad del software  procesamiento de textos con ambos  shell y  kernel del lenguaje de programación de esa computadora portátil. Millones de personas usan interfaces de notebooks para analizar datos de ciencia, periodismo y educación.

Historia
La interfaz notebook se introdujo por primera vez en 1988 con el lanzamiento de Mathematica 1.0 en Macintosh. Fue seguida por Maple en 1989 cuando se lanzó su primera interfaz gráfica de usuario de estilo notebook con la versión 4.3 para Macintosh. A medida que la interfaz de notebook aumentó en popularidad durante las siguientes dos décadas, se introdujeron  kernel/backends para notebooks en muchos idiomas, incluidos MATLAB, Python, Julia, Scala, SQL y otros.

Uso
Los notebooks se usan tradicionalmente en las ciencias para documentar procedimientos de investigación, datos, cálculos y hallazgos. Los notebooks siguen la metodología para facilitar la reproducción de resultados y cálculos con diferentes conjuntos de datos.

En educación, la interfaz notebook interface proporciona un entorno de aprendizaje digital, particularmente para la enseñanza del pensamiento computacional. Su utilidad para combinar texto con código los hace únicos en el ámbito de la educación.

Notebooks digitales a veces se usan para presentaciones como una alternativa a PowerPoint y otros software de presentación, ya que permiten la ejecución de código dentro del entorno del cuaderno.

Debido a su capacidad para mostrar datos visualmente y recuperar datos de diferentes fuentes modificando el código, los cuadernos (notebooks) también están entrando en el ámbito del software de business intelligence.

Ejemplos notables
Ejemplo de proyectos o productos de notebooks:

Notebooks gratuitos/de código abierto
 Apache Zeppelin — Apache License 2.0
 Apache Spark Notebook — Apache License 2.0
 IPython — BSD
 Jupyter Notebook (anteriormente IPython) — Modified BSD License (modelo de copyright compartido)
 JupyterLab — Revised BSD License
 Mozilla Iodide — MPL 2.0; desarrollo en etapa alpha
 R Markdown — GPLv3
 SageMath — GPLv3

Copyleft parcial
 SMath Studio — Freeware, no libre: licencia bajo Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives

Notebooks patentados

Títulos
 Mathematica notebook

Títulos posteriores
 Carbide
 Databricks cloud (fundado en 2013).
 Datalore
 Nextjournal
 Observable — Utiliza componentes de código abierto, pero la apariencia es patentada

Referencias

Interfaz gráfica de usuario


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Lancaster University staff plan strikes in pension row
By Zoe Wickens	 15th September 2021 9:00 am 14th September 2021 5:20 pm
Lancaster University employee strikes are reportedly "inevitable" amid an ongoing dispute over pension cut plans.
Last month (August), the University and College Union (UCU) emailed more than 50,000 members in Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) institutions inviting them to a meeting to outline their preparation to ballot and take part in industrial action.
Strikes during the current academic year, potentially in November or December, will be a result of proposals to cut thousands of pounds from the retirement benefits of staff in the USS pension scheme, with a member on a £42,000 lecturer's salary likely to receive a 35% loss to their retirement income.
Lancaster UCU branch president Sunil Banga commented that industrial action is "inevitable" after the USS Joint Negotiating Committee voted through the move.
"It is really frustrating, and aggravating, that once again employers' proposals to cut our benefits were voted through on the JNC chair's casting vote. Lancaster UCU condemns the employers' intransigence and unwillingness to work with us to find a solution to the pensions crisis, which is threatening to disrupt the higher education sector once again," he said.
According to a Lancaster University spokesperson, Universities UK developed a package of possible changes to the scheme to bring contributions down to more affordable levels and still deliver a "very competitive and sustainable" pension scheme.
The spokesperson explained that Lancaster and other universities have lobbied "strongly for the best deal possible", since neither employers nor scheme members can afford to pay higher contributions, adding that any potential impact on students due to strike action is "extremely concerning" and the university will seek to mitigate it as a priority.
"Employers and scheme members were facing escalating contributions from October, as members would have seen their payments rise from 9.6% of their salary to 11%, while for employers, it would increase from 21.1% of their salary to 23.7%. The changes mean new rates of 21.4% for employers and 9.8% for members will apply instead," the spokesperson said.
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Dio-Global Concepts Nig. Ltd v Access Bank Nig. Plc (CA/J/4/2010)[2016] NGCA 17 (27 June 2016) (CA/J/4/2010) [2016] NGCA 17 (26 June 2016);
CL Index Undefended List Parties Civil Procedure Fraud Delict and Tort Law Audi Alterem Partem Principle Justice and fairness Civil Procedure Have his cause heard (fair trial) Substantive rights Human Rights
The respondent/plaintiff had sued the appellant/defendant for a liquidated debt following its default in payment and successfully applied for the matter to be placed on the undefended list. There it was heard exclusively on the papers to the respondent/plaintiff's success. Two issues emerged on appeal: whether the trial court's judgment contradicted the evidence, and whether the appellant's notice of intention to defend disclosed a defence on the merits of the case, thereby justifying the matter's transfer to the general cause list.
The appellate court held in favour of the respondents on both issues, finding first that the court had been thorough in its analysis of the evidence before it, and had crafted a reasoned order reflecting this.
The judge elucidated the purpose of the undefended list as a vehicle for swift justice where a defendant has no credible case. This was one such instance; the court found that the appellant had failed to raise a triable issue warranting the matter's transfer to the general cause list. The appellant's allegations of fraud did not conform to the recognised rules for establishing such a claim and were found lack any substance.
The appellant unsuccessfully invoked s 36(1) of the Constitution, contending that its right to a fair hearing had been breached through its being deprived of a comprehensive trial. The court affirmed the lawful function of the undefended list, emphasising that parties are given equal opportunities to be heard via the papers. Where a defendant was unable to raise a triable issue against the plaintiff's claim, it could not resort to arguing that audi alterem partem had been flouted.
The appeal was dismissed.
Oluwasheun v Federal Republic of Nigeria (CA/J/268C/2014)[2016] NGCA 32 (20 May 2016) (CA/J/268C/2014) [2016] NGCA 32 (19 May 2016);
CL Index Fraud Delict and Tort Law Commercial crime Criminal law
The appellant was charged and found guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses; he then brought an appeal against the ruling of the High Court before the appellate court.
The court was faced with two issues, the first being whether the High Court was justified in convicting the appellant on allegations of misrepresentation not covered in the charge. The second issue was whether the high court was correct to convict the appellant for misrepresentation and seize his property.
The court held that the High Court was justified in convicting the appellant and that the allegations of misrepresentation were covered in the charge. The court further held that the High Court made no error in seizing the appellant's property following the conviction.
By evaluating witness testimonies and the evidence led in the High Court, the court stated that the appellant had indeed misrepresented himself to the witnesses so they could part with monies and invests with the appellant. The court was of the view that sufficient evidence was led in the High Court which justified the conviction of the appellant. Regarding the seizure of property, the court stated that the High Court exercised its inherent powers to make an order of forfeiture since the appellant bought and used the property to carry out his illegal operations for which he was convicted.
The appeal was unsuccessful and the judgement of the High Court (conviction and sentence) was upheld.
International Standards Securities and Another v Elipet Nigeria Limited (CA/L/532/2008)[2016] NGCA 79 (30 March 2016) (CA/L/532/2008) [2016] NGCA 79 (29 March 2016);
CL Index Fraud Delict and Tort Law Jurisdiction International law Human Rights
The issue was whether the state high court has jurisdiction over matters that are governed by the Investment and Security Act (the act). The case emanated from a dispute where the appellant was being sued in the court aqua for defrauding the respondents of units of shares. The appellant had raised a preliminary objection that the trial court lacked jurisdiction over the matter which was dismissed. The appellant thus was challenging the dismissal of the objection.
The appellant argued that the trial judge erred in dismissing its objection on the basis that jurisdiction of the high court is limited and excludes matters that are regulated by the act. The appellant pointed out that disputes around the act should be determined by the Investment and Security Tribunal (the tribunal).
The respondent opposed the appeal on the grounds that the trial judge was correct because the jurisdiction of the high court was unlimited. They argued that the dispute emanates from torts, conspiracy and fraud which fall within jurisdiction of the high court and that the act was unconstitutional.
The court ruled that s 270 of the act establishes the tribunal to resolve disputes that fall under the act. It observed that s 284 of the act give the tribunal exclusive jurisdiction to determine matters regarding capital markets. It held that the dispute revolved around capital market operator (appellant) and its clients (respondents) hence it falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal. It concluded that the trial judge erred and the appeal was upheld.
Republic v High Court (Financial Division) Accra, Ex-Parte: Xenon Invested Co. Ltd and Another (J5/46/2015) [2016] GHASC 77 (22 March 2016);
CL Index Jurisdiction International law Human Rights Freezing of Assets Banking, Finance and Insurance Law Money Laundering Currency Banking, Finance and Insurance Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law
The issue was whether the High Court had jurisdiction to order the freezing of the bank accounts of the applicant.
The dispute emanated from an order to freeze the applicant's three bank accounts after allegations of money laundering by the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC). The applicant was accused of illegally receiving approximately US$ 43 000 and remittance of US$ 39 000 from a Canadian company. The applicant tried without success to apply to defreeze the bank accounts.
The applicant further applied arguing that the Anti-Money Laundering Act (the act) only allowed the bank accounts to be frozen for one year. It pointed out that the High Court exceeded its jurisdiction when it dismissed the application because the statutory period of 12 months had lapsed. They also challenged the decision to freeze all the accounts including money that was not part of the laundering investigation on the basis that it was an infringement of the right to natural justice.
The FIC argued that that investigation of allegation of fraud, which is criminal in nature, is not affected by time constraints.
The court held that one year was enough for FIC to investigate any alleged wrong-doing. It ruled that High Court lacked the jurisdiction to order the continuous freezing of the accounts of the applicant beyond the one year. It further ruled that moneys which stood in the accounts of the applicants before any alleged illegal transfers into the accounts should not form part of the freezing order.
Sic Insurance Company Ltd. Vrs Ivory Finance Company Ltd.and Others (NO. J4/48/2017) [2018] GHASC 12 (21 February 2018);
CL Index Consent Order Civil Remedies Natural Justice Constitutional Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law
This was an appeal based on an action to set aside a consent judgment obtained before a court of competent jurisdiction on grounds of fraud.
The court determined whether such a consent judgment could be set aside despite its finality. The court observed that an appeal would not ordinarily lie against a consent judgment and that bringing a fresh action to challenge the validity of a consent judgment was a standard and accepted procedure. Thus, the court held that the court of appeal erred in treating the case as res judicata. The court also determined whether the Court of Appeal erred in striking the matter summarily when fraud was in issue. It was held that Court of Appeal erroneously denied the plaintiff a hearing leading to a violation of fundamental rule of natural justice.
Accordingly, the appeal was allowed, the judgments the High Court and the Court of Appeal were set aside and the court ordered a trial on the merits based on the pleadings as they stood at the High Court.
Fredrick J.k Zaabwe v Orient Bank Ltd and 5 Others ((Civil Appeal No.4 of 2006)) [2007] UGSC 21 (10 July 2007);
Bank-Customer Relationship Bank Banking, Finance and Insurance Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law Agency Fiduciary Duties Breach of Fiduciary Duties Fiduciary Duties Fiduciary Duty of A Bank Fiduciary relationships Fiduciary Duties Mortgage Mortgage, loans and bonds Property Law CL Index
This is a second appeal by the appellant, both
his original suit in the High Court and his
subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal
having been dismissed. The background is
that the appellant thought to borrow money
from the respondent and gave security as his
land, the issued cheque bounced and the
respondent used the security to secure a
mortgage from the first respondent which he
failed to pay and the first respondent sold the
land. The appellant was evicted and the
business closed and the appellant alleged
fraud but was unsuccessful both at high court
and court of appeal hence this appeal on the
grounds of the sale of land using the power of
attorney, the validity of the mortgage on the
appellants land, holding on fraud, improper
consideration of the evidence on record and
complete disregard of the facts.
Kampala Bottlers Ltd v Damanico (U) Ltd ((Civil Appeal No. 22 of 1992)) [1993] UGSC 1 (11 January 1993);
CL Index Fraud Delict and Tort Law
This case considered whether the appellant had obtained the title of suit property by fraud. The court considered the grounds which would constitute fraud. It was found that fraud means actual fraud or some act of dishonesty. The court held that fraud must be proved strictly, the burden being heavier than on a balance of probabilities generally applied in civil matters. Accordingly, the fraud requires some act of dishonesty.
Kampala District Land Board and Anor v National Housing and Construction Corporation ((Civil Appeal No.2 of 2004)) [2005] UGSC 20 (25 August 2005);
CL Index Possession of Property Title to real property Property Law Estoppel Enforcement of contract Contract Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law Lease Leases and tenants Property Law
The court considered whether; the land occupied by the respondent was registered land, the grant of the lease was fraudulent, and estoppel is applicable.
The court held that s 31(1) of the Land Act gives security of tenure to a tenant on registered land. Moreso, the implications of the abolitions of statutory leases in terms of art 237 of the Constitution remains a grey area. The court also held that security of tenure protects a bona fide occupant 's interest. Also, under s 176 of the Registration of Titles Act, a registered proprietor is protected against ejectment except in certain cases including fraud. Further, to procure registration of title to defeat an unregistered interest amounts to fraud. The court also held that registration tainted with fraud does not give rise to the doctrine of estoppel.
The court found that respondent must continue occupation because they were in undisturbed possession and occupation before the 1995 Constitution. The abolition of statutory leases did not automatically extinguish such right. Also found that fraud was attributable to appellants because the grant and registration of suit land in the name of the second appellant was intended to defeat the unregistered interest of the respondent.
Accordingly, the court dismissed the appeal with costs. Further ordered the first appellant to give due consideration to the respondent's application for a lease over the suit land including giving it a priority in the granting of the lease.
Lubega Matovu v Mikwano Investment Ltd (MISC. APPLICATION NO. 156 OF 2012) [2012] UGCOMMC 81 (11 July 2012);
CL Index Corporate Veil Company Law Liability of Company Directors Company directors Company Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law
This case looked at the whether the veil of incorporation could be lifted and the defendants held liable for the debt of the company as a result of their alleged fraudulent dealings.
The court considered that when the device of incorporation is used for some illegal or improper purpose, the court may disregard the principle that a company is an independent legal entity and lift the veil of corporate identity. A corporate personality can never be used as a cloak or a mask for fraud. The veil of incorporation will be lifted where it is proved that the company is being misused by its directors to perpetuate fraud.
The standard of proof in fraud cases requires a higher degree of probability than the proof required to demonstrate negligence.
The applicant failed to adequately plead the allegation of fraud. Accordingly, the veil of incorporation could not be lifted. The case was dismissed with costs.
Stanbic Bank Uganda Ltd v Ducat Lubricants (U) Ltd & 3 Ors (MISC. APPLIC. No. 845 Of 2013) [2013] UGCOMMC 199 (25 November 2013);
This case considered the instance when the veil of incorporation can be lifted. The mind of a company where guilty intent or responsibility is being considered cannot be separated from the minds of the directors. The corporate veil ought to be lifted where there is proof of involvement of the directors in fraud. Once there has been an allegation of fraud against the company, the directors are ay virtue alleged to be involved. Accordingly, the veil of incorporation will be lifted where it is proved that the directors, acting as the mind and body of the company were involved in an act of dishonesty.
Tropical African Bank Ltd v Ali Hajji Abdi (CIVIL SUIT NO 569 OF 2002) [2017] UGCOMMC 29 (13 April 2017);
CL Index Fraud Delict and Tort Law Breach of Fiduciary Duties Fiduciary Duties Unlawful Or Unfair Dismissal Termination and dismissal Labour and Employment Law
This was an action claiming monies allegedly siphoned from the plaintiff's bank account with the participation and/or collusion of the defendant; and damages for the defendant's breach of the fiduciary duty as branch manager. The defendant filed a counterclaim that his continued suspension and dismissal was unlawful.
The issues for consideration were whether the defendant caused financial loss to the plaintiff; whether the suspension and/or dismissal was lawful; and the available remedies.
Regarding the first issue, the court held that the suit rested on the allegation that the defendant kept 26 cheques. The court held that it was not proved that the defendant kept the cheques beyond the three days alleged by the plaintiff; however the court found that the defendant knew the cheques were kept beyond the three days. As a result, the defendant was jointly liable with a Mr Patrick Kigongo.
On the second issue, the court held that the plaintiff was entitled to suspend the defendant as he was charged with a criminal offence. Management may dismiss an employee who was facing criminal prosecution if their continued employment would prejudice the interests of the bank. However, the defendant was suspended without pay contrary to regulation 30 of the terms and conditions of service; and the termination was without notice of disciplinary action, without a right of defence, and was thus unlawful.
The plaintiff was awarded general damages. The defendant was awarded his full salary from the date of suspension until the date of termination.
Wavenets Communication Ltd Vs Zimwe Enterprises Hard ware & Construction Ltd & 2 Ors (CIVIL SUIT NO 48 OF 2015) [2017] UGCOMMC 86 (23 August 2017);
This case looked at the whether the veil of incorporation could be lifted and the defendants held liable for the debt of the company. The court looked at the instances when lifting of the corporate veil was applicable. There are three instances when the veil of incorporation can be lifted. 1) when a court in construing a statute, contract or other documents; 2) when the court is satisfied that the company is a mere façade concealing the true facts and 3) when it is established that the company is an authorized agent of its members/directors.
Further, the veil of incorporation can be lifted when the veil of incorporation is used as an instrument of fraud. The standard of proof required in cases of fraud is more onerous that the ordinary balance of probabilities. Section 20 of the Companies Act ('the act') empowers a court to lift the veil of incorporation against directors where there is any involvement in fraud by the directors. Fraud was defined to mean any act of dishonesty or actual fraud.
The court found in this case that the plaintiff was barred from instituting action against the defendants. Accordingly, the claim was dismissed with costs.
Kampala City Council & Anor Vs Bwogi & Sons Enterprises Ltd (CIVIL APPEAL NO. 52 OF 2009) [2017] UGCA 22 (1 August 2017);
CL Index Burden of Proof Evidence Law Possession of Property Title to real property Property Law Fraud Delict and Tort Law Breach of Contract Contract Law Lease Leases and tenants Property Law
In 1998 the appellant filed a suit against the respondent, to which the responded reacted with a counter-claim. The appellant's claim was withdrawn in 2006 but the respondent's counter-claim was not. The trial judge ruled in favour of the respondent. The appellants were dissatisfied with the decision and filed an appeal.
The Court of Appeal considered whether the burden of proof of fraud alleged in the counter-suit rested on the appellants. The court held that the burden of proof rests on the party who alleges that fraud was committed. In this case, the appellants had withdrawn their case against the respondent and only the respondent's counter-claim remained. Consequently, the court upheld the appellant's complaint and placed the burden to prove that fraud was committed on the respondent.
The court then considered whether the lease of the suit property to the first appellant was fraudulent and reviewed the lower court's order in cancellation. The court held that fraud must be specifically pleaded and strictly proved and cannot be left to be inferred from the facts. Neither party attempted to prove fraud against the other. Therefore, the courts held that the lease of the suit property to the first appellant was not fraudulent and that the trial judge should not have cancelled the first appellant's certificate of title.
The court also considered whether the respondent's lease agreement was breached because the first appellant denied the respondent possession of the suit land and reviewed the lower court's order to extend the respondents lease. The court found that the respondent was in breach of contract and, therefore, had no right of possession and overturned the trial judge's order to extend the respondent's lease because the respondent had failed to request it in due course.
All grounds of the appeal succeeded.
Jade Petroleum Ltd v Salim Ramzanli & Anor (CIVIL SUIT NO 157 OF 2012) [2017] UGCOMMC 114 (18 August 2017);
CL Index Fraud Delict and Tort Law Nemo Dat Quod Non Habet Rule Title to real property Property Law Sale of Property Sale of personal property Property Law Conversion Theft or illegal sale Property Law Bona Fide Purchaser Sellers and purchasers Property Law Damages Civil Remedies
In this case the plaintiff claimed for special and general damages against the defendant for fraud and conversion of the plaintiff's petroleum products. The case deals with fraud, where the party that benefited was not a bona fide purchaser of the products in this case. The court considered whether the defendant had good title for the products sold to him by the third party. Whether the defendant had a claim against the third party and whether there were remedies available to the parties.
In dealing with the first issue the court considered whether the defendant had acquired a better title than the mysterious seller had because the mysterious seller did not have any title to the good. The court applied the general rule in the latin maxim nemo dat quod non habet which was reflected in section 22 (1) of the Sale of Goods Act. The court found that the mysterious seller had no title to pass to the defendant and thus the defendant never acquired good title to the property. Therefore, the defendant was liable to make good any loss suffered by the plaintiff as a result of the conversion of the plaintiff's goods.
In considering the second issue, the court found that the defendant had proved the transaction it had made with the third party and was therefore indemnified against the third party.
In considering the remedies available to the parties, the court held that general damages are compensatory to fulfil the principle of restitution in integrum which aims at restoring the plaintiff as nearly as possible to the position he or she would have been had the injury not occurred.
Therefore, the court upheld the plaintiff's claim with costs.
The court also held that for the indemnity suit against the third party, the third party was to settle all liabilities ordered against the defendant less the amount against the defendant.
Nile Energy Ltd Vs Phoenix Petroleum Ltd & 2 Ors (MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATION No. 596 OF 2015) [2017] UGCOMMC 147 (25 July 2017);
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In this case, the court made a determination on an application to set aside a consent judgment that made provision for share transfer, land transfer and a special resolution.
The court determined whether the fourth defendant had the authority to enter into the consent judgment. The court applied the indoor management rule to make a finding that the fourth defendant had such authority and that parties outside did not have to enquire about the fourth respondent's authority.
The applicants raised an objection that the consent judgment contained unpleaded issues in the prior suit by including legal entities or companies which were not parties to the suit. This objection failed since the parties had elected to be bound by what they agreed.
On the issue of whether the fourth respondent had colluded with the other respondents to defraud the applicant, the court held that it lacked merit since the fourth respondent was duly authorised by the applicants to represent them. The applicants claimed that there was no special meeting to sanction the change of name and offering the first applicant interest in land but on the evidence tendered, the court was satisfied that the meeting took place.
The court dismissed the application to set aside the consent judgment thereby denying the consequential order sought to set aside transactions validated by the consent judgment. Accordingly, the application was dismissed with costs.
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The First Bicycle Mayor of India. Mission to Involve One-third population to commute using cycles!
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"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."
These lines are largely credited to Herbert George Wells. I wouldn't be far from the truth if say that he was cycling enthusiast, a fanatic, for you could find considerable references to cycling in most of his work.
For the culture of cycling isn't just beneficial towards reducing one's carbon footprint and health quotient. Most feminists would agree when I say, how crucial this piece of fossil-fuel-free machinery was in liberating women in late 19th century in America.
With the advent of new and faster tech, we should ideally move ahead and live up to it. But somehow we're getting more and more confined to indoorsy setting. Exercising in closed spaces, more online and less face-to-face interaction, more air conditioners doing all or most of the work of even purifying air apparently.
So when Nikita Lalwani told me she was appointed the Bicycle Mayor of Vadodara (the first and only city mayor from India) by Cycle Space's Bicycle Mayor Program to attend the first bicycle mayor conference Netherlands, I was all up to help her get there, for these people will inspire the next billion people to pick up cycle around the globe.
Nikita Mobilizing Vadodara
Netherlands and Denmark lead the charge with the best countries promoting cycling and the key is a set of tried and tested methods, infrastructure coupled with the citizen's enthusiasm to inculcate cycling as a crucial part of their lives. Copenhagen and Amsterdam leading the charge as two most bike-friendly cities in the world.
Even as a young one, Nikita was very conscious about how people consume resources and energy nonchalantly without keeping in mind the end consequences. In 2011, Nikita was selected as a Yatri in Jagriti Yatra where she learnt and deepened her understanding of why her choice of awareness towards renewable ways of life was important.
"Even in school, as my teachers remember me, I used to be the kid leaving the class in end to switch off lights and fan switches", she remembers.
"In the final year of my college, I used a senior's cycle after she left. But the turning point came after college when commuting to work became a hassle because of a bridge construction which doubled my 4 km commute time to work, I moved to cycling to never look back."
She started cycling in 2014, and 5-6 enthusiastic people joined in with her. Looking at their efforts a lot of other people were intrigued and interested in cycling to work. People had a lot of doubts about cycling, its benefits, misconceptions, and myths which she cleared. She started Cycling Cities, an online concept to spread awareness about cycling and TRING (Try Cycling), an offline project to help people to cycle to work who lived relatively close by. About 50 people rented bicycles. That is when she realized how important it was to take this mission to cater to a wide set of audience, clear their doubts, and help them transition to cycling. Even the senior members of the company joined in on the project. She even organized events such as heritage rides, awareness seminars, interesting engaging activities, and cycling myth busters, to involve more and more people into cycling.
Here's a video compiled by The Better India which covers one of her campaigns, Gift a cycle where donated cycles were refurbished to procure cycles for students in need.
The Bicycle Mayor(Link)
I don't know about research data, but even while growing up, I've seen people around me pick a two wheeler or a car even to commute to a place merely 1-2 kms away.
"A friend from Prague came and within two days she pointed out the people in general weren't walking. And this wasn't her observation of one or two people, she said she didn't see anyone picking walking or cycling even to go the opposite end of the street."
The cab, metro, local train, the auto, your bike, carry you to work. On a bicycle, you go.
"Thinking about health benefits, I don't go to gym and I can eat a little extra cheese, because I know I'll burn it off."
Here's a movie I was reminded of thinking about health benefits or health hazard of our sedentary lives. Wall-E. Remember the captain's fight with the control panel!
Nikita has so far facilitated all the expenses from website to cycle refurbishment all on her own, but she needs help in attending the conference in Amsterdam, if you feel you can help her bring her concept of Cycling Cities to your city, help her by donating here and visit her website to get in touch with her.
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Nicholas Yoder
Nov 7, 2020 • 6 min read
This week's Presidential election saw Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump by a comfortable margin (306-232).
In the weeks leadings up the election, a myriad of polls showed Mr. Biden ahead both nationally and in key swing states. FiveThirtyEight.com gave Biden an 89% chance of winning. Numerous pundits predicted a landslide win.
But with the election now over, a familiar complaint has returned: The polls were wrong.
Many critics, not least of which the outgoing President, have revived the attack that polls are inaccurate and biased. This is the same argument that pundits enjoyed lobbing after 2016. But both are untrue.
In reality, polls were accurate in 2016 and 2020.
What follows is a capitalist's defense of the Science of Polling.
This summer I decided to build a quantitative model to bet on the presidential election. The code would ingest polling data and spit out predictions for every state, electoral vote and the presidency at large.
As the senior portfolio manager for a quant hedge fund in New York, I often create mathematical models for trading, strategy decisions or just for fun. I've found that many difficult problems can be cracked with some quality data and a statistical framework to understand it.
For this project, I utilized a blend of current polls from FiveThirtyEight and historical correlations between states. For betting I used PredictIt.org, which allows legal wagers on a wide range of political markets.
The plan was to value the markets and place a few bets for fun, not more than $2,000.
This year I also started writing articles to teach topics in statistics, financial markets and betting. One such article discussed the Kelly Criterion, a formula to balance risk and uncertainty. It would become popular in poker circles. Other articles covered volatility trading, Shiller PE and Hidden Markov models.
The election project was a perfect subject for another article. It offered a clean 'Sandbox' example for concepts of probability, covariance, risk/hedging and portfolios. Eventually it would become a four-part, 25,000 word series.
The goal of the series became to teach quantitative trading as a science. The election and betting markets were just a convenient illustration of complex principles used on Wall Street.
Here's the series:
Part I: What is a Model?
Part II: Building the basics
Part III: Why are there so many opportunities?
Part IV: The best bets and optimal portfolio of bets
As the writing project expanded, so did the size of my bets. By the end of summer, I had wagered over $20,000 in my "Optimal Portfolio".
Statistics & Variance
Despite the size of the bets, the actual risk was minimal. I had constructed positions with high expected value and very little probability of loss.
The model took betting positions in 130 different election markets (each state outcome, electoral votes, popular vote, etc). It utilized covariance assumptions to balance wagers which typically move in similar or opposite directions.
Each wager was calculated and the specific risks quantified. Whether Biden won or Trump, I profited. If voter turnout was high or low, it worked.
Blue wave in the South? Recount in Pennsylvania? No problem. The model works.
It was built on a solid foundation of polling science.
The model was soon corroborated when FiveThirtyEight published their election model later in the summer. FiveThirtyEight had not taken the additional step to value wagers or create an investment portfolio, but the fundamental model looked very similar to mine.
At last, November 3rd arrived...
The volume of web traffic Tuesday night crashed PredictIt's website for hours.
Content in the portfolio, my friends and I happily spent the night with board games, wine and no phones or news allowed.
As we played, the talking heads said Trump was up, then down. The Great Lake States looked strong for Biden. Trump won Florida.
Predictably, Pennsylvania was Trump +13 on in-person votes but projected for Biden to win overall. Each race played out within the margins of the expectation.
The polls were right. The model was robust. The bets paid off.
Total profit ~$50,000.
Ultimately, this statistical/polling model was correct on over 90% of bets.
Now that the dust has settled, Biden is projected to win 306-232 and easily carry the popular vote with 51%-to-47%. A comfortable margin.
Yet something very un-scientific is happening today...
News pundits, social media and Trump's twitter account have resurrected the claim "The Polls were Wrong".
FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver is (again) being lampooned for being "Way off".
I find this chorus to be baseless for three reasons:
Statistics: The outcomes were in-line with poll predictions and the Sample vs Population variance.
Engineering: The model which I built in July matched almost exactly to the FiveThirtyEight model released later this summer. The corroboration between our two models was so thorough as to be spooky.
Capitalism: Placing bets based with the polling data, I won nearly every single market with a healthy $50,000 return. The consistency between outcome and prediction was over 90%.
Many economist argue that markets are the ultimate source of statistical truth.
The "Efficient Market" weights all current information and viewpoints. When a new trader enters the market, they will be rewarded or punished in proportion to how much they improve the collective base of information.
Through this lens, the polling model 'beating the market' to the tune of 250% with very little risk is a strong endorsement of the validity of polls.
In fact, the final election outcome was actually the median outcome from FiveThirtyEight's model:
Reality matched the model almost perfectly
This was also not a one-off bet which could be attributed to luck, but rather a carefully constructed portfolio of 130 separate markets.
In truth, modern polls are very accurate and deeply scientific. Especially when sourced from reputable pollsters and properly weighted.
If the conversation were more numerate or scientific, we would be congratulating Nate Silver and his team of statistician journalists for hitting a home run!
Accuracy & Adjustment
I will take this opportunity to propose two types of adjustment for improving survey data. One which is applied cross-sectionally to polls and another cross-sectionally in time.
First, individual polls are sensitive to the survey method used. Whether conducted in-person, by phone, internet or by some other means or combination, the survey will bias toward certain age, gender and personality characteristics which correlate with the questions being asked. Even time of day will affect the polling results.
The best method to remedy these consistent biases, is through calibration. Each pollster and method can be compared to final outcome at the election to determine the systemic error. That delta is then subtracted from those pollsters going forward.
These types of sampling errors are, fortunately, quite consistent. FiveThirtyEight already utilizes this adjustment in their combined polling.
This adjustment is a classic example of Precise but not Accurate.
For further reading: A famous example of selection bias occurred in the 1936 Franklin Roosevelt election.
The second adjustment is something I'll call the "Delta of Disgust".
Delta of Disgust is how much individual events/polls/questions need to be adjusted for a factor of shame (or pride).
When a political position (support for a politician/policy, opposition to a war, etc) carries a negative social connotation, people will often lie to pollsters. They will hold opposite internal and external positions.
Since there is no gain in accurately answering a survey, it is common to lie and save some small embarrassment. Periods of public passion, disgust or sadness are ripe for this type of error.
Examples include support of sweeping military action after 9/11 or public sentiment after George Floyd's death.
For a deeply divisive figure, like Donald Trump, it was common for his supporters to lie about their loyalties when asked. It appears that about 12% of Trump supporters were untruthful in surveys.
An opposite example occurred after John Kennedy's death. Exactly 50% of voters had supported Kennedy for President in 1960, but asked after his assassination in 1963, 65% of voters claimed to have voted for Kennedy.
Put another way, 30% of Nixon voters claimed to be Kennedy voters as public mourning gripped the nation.
Scientific Progress
Even without the proposed adjustments, polling science has proven itself to be powerful and reliable. Like other sciences, it is continually improving...
Unfortunately, we live in a time where these discussions are rarely numerate and logical.
Despite the success of pollsters and statisticians in 2016, 2018 and 2020, the claims of inaccuracy continue to be appealing and numerous.
I share my model and betting results is not only defend polling, but sciences in general. Too often, a sloppy media story or misreading of scientific data sets us back as a society.
Similar anti-science rhetoric is spreading in vaccines, climate science, biology and the COVID-19 pandemic. The eroding of public trust is costing lives and hurting the economy.
This week's events and distrust of polls are mostly innocuous. But the larger anti-science movement will continue to gain momentum. I truly hope that as technology connects the world, our discussions will become more factual and numerate, not less.
Until then, I remain a solid fan of the journalism and statistics practiced by FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver and other similar publications.
For my Python code or information about the model, check out the full series.
To reach me personally: nickyoder10@gmail.com


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Q: Why does a call to Javascript's Date library such as date.setMonth(date.getMonth()-1) return 1426456040720 here? Why does a call to Javascript's Date library such as date.setMonth(date.getMonth()-1) return 1426456040720 here?
I expect you may get different numbers due to the timezone and culture.
I feel like I must be missing something, I'm sure this is how I've always decremented a month.
Here is a codepen:
http://codepen.io/hally9k/pen/pvMxBP?editors=101
var thisMonth = new Date();

console.log('this month: ' + thisMonth);

var lastMonth = thisMonth.setMonth(thisMonth.getMonth() - 1);

console.log('last month: ' + lastMonth);

A: The return value from .setMonth() is the ms since epoch of the date object.  You can see that intended return value in the ECMAScript specification here.
.setMonth() modifies its Date object.  You can obtain the new month value from that object with .getMonth() if you want the new month value.
If you just want the new month after you've changed it, you can do this:
var d = new Date();
console.log('this month: ' + d.getMonth());
d.setMonth(d.getMonth() - 1);
console.log('previous month: ' + d.getMonth());

A: thisMonth.setMonth sets the month to thisMonth and return the new date with milli seconds.
so you have 2 choices.

*

*to print thisMonth

*print new Date(lastMonth)

A: Construct a new Date:
var lastMonth = new Date(thisMonth.setMonth(thisMonth.getMonth() - 1));

setMonth() returns a number that represents milliseconds since 01 January, 1970 UTC. Using new Date will transform that number in a Date format.
You can use lastMonth.getMonth() to get the month, but if you want it for display purposes take in consideration that getMonth() returns from 0 to 11. (0 is January).

A: The issue may be related to the fact that this solution could contain errors in edge cases, such as the 31st day of a month or leap years. As per this StackOverflow question, you would want your code from the CodePen to look something like this:
var thisMonth = new Date();

$('#date').html(thisMonth);

var currentMonth = thisMonth.getMonth();
thisMonth.setMonth(thisMonth.getMonth() - 1);

if (thisMonth.getMonth() != ((currentMonth - 1) % 12)) {
  thisMonth.setDate(0);
}

$('#prevDate').html(thisMonth);

A: DateTime.setMonth returns the unix timestamp of the month being set and changes the value of the DateTime object it is called on.
E.g. if you change the last line to this it will be the number 1:
console.log('last month: ' + thisMonth.getMonth());

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Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka were established on November 20, 2000.
In 2004, the Honorary Consulate of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka was opened in the Republic of Belarus.
On December 20, 2012, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of India and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (concurrently) H.E. Mr. Vitaly A. Prima presented his credentials to the President of Sri Lanka H.E. Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa.
In August 2013, Mr. Joel Selvanayagam, the Head of the company "Hovael Construction (Private) Limited", was appointed the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus in Sri Lanka.
On August 25-27, 2013, the first official visit of the President of Sri Lanka H.E. Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Republic of Belarus took place.
November 17-21, 2014, Sri Lanka was visited by the Belarusian Parliamentary delegation led by the Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus H.E. Mr. Vladimir P. Andreychenko. An agreement was reached on the return visit of the Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka H.E. Mr. Karu Jayasuriya to the Republic of Belarus. To support and develop contacts between the legislatures of both the countries, a working group on cooperation with the Parliament of Sri Lanka was formed in the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus of the sixth convocation.
On August 22, 2016, the third round of political consultations between the two countries were held in Minsk. The Belarusian side was headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Mr. Valentin B. Rybakov. The Sri Lankan side was led by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka H.E. Mrs. Grace Asirwatham.
In 2016, an invitation was received to the President of the Republic of Belarus to pay an official visit to Sri Lanka.
In August 2013, Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on Trade and Economic Cooperation was signed.
On January 28, 2014, the President of Sri Lanka participated in the presentation of tractors "Belarus" for Sri Lankan farmers.
In June 2014, the delegation of Sri Lanka headed by the Minister of Agriculture H.E. Mr. M.Y. Abeywardena. During the visit a Memorandum of Understanding in the Field of Agriculture was signed.
In July 2014, the first meeting of the Joint Belarus-Sri Lanka Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation was held in Colombo. On July 8, 2014 within the framework of the visit business forums and B2B meetings were held in the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka and the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka.
On August 18-19, 2016, the second meeting of the Joint Belarus-Sri Lanka Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation was held in Minsk.
On March 8-13, 2015 and March 28 – April 1, 2016 Ambassador H.E. Mr. Vitaly A. Prima visited Colombo for bilateral meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, other ministries and with the Sri Lankan business circles.
Dynamics of trade and economic relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
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The legal basis for the development of humanitarian and cultural cooperation is being formed. The sides consider the drafts of an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the field of science, technology and innovation, an interagency agreement on cooperation in higher education, an interagency agreement on cooperation in the field of health care.
In November 2015, Vitebsk State Medical University (VSMU) opened the preparatory department of the university in Sri Lanka.
In April 2017, the first foreign branches of the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) were opened in Colombo and Kandy.
Cooperation in the field of tourism is developing on the basis of the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Belarus and the Government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on Cooperation in Tourism signed in August 2013 and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Aviation of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus and the Civil Aviation Administration of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
On September 4-9, 2014 the Days of Sri Lankan Culture in Belarus were held and an interagency Agreement on Cooperation in the Sphere of Culture was signed.
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24 Movies On Disney+ For Parents To Enjoy — Sorry Kids
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Disney+ may have endless content to keep your little ones occupied, but there is plenty on the platform to appeal to family members of all ages. If you're sick of streaming cartoons and have Pixar overload, consider checking out one of the many movies on Disney+ parents will certainly enjoy. Between Marvel hits, National Geographic documentaries, and classics like 10 Things I Hate About You, there's plenty for parents to choose from on Disney+, too.
In its first year alone, Disney+ offered a library of more than 7,500 episodes and 500 films, as Collider reported. You can find flicks from Disney, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Star Wars, National Geographic, and even some content from 20th Century Fox. With so much available, there's surely something for everyone in the family.
While it's up to parents to decide what they deem "appropriate" to share with their children, many of the movies on this list are more likely to appeal to an older audience. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking Pixar by any means, but it can be hard to remember that Disney+ is more than just Micky Mouse Clubhouse when your kid has had it on repeat for days. This collection of movies is proof that there is plenty on the platform to appeal to parents as well.


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Less of a threat
By System Administrator	 2nd October 2008 9:30 am 16th December 2015 5:38 am
Researchers at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />NewcastleUniversity have found that wind farms pose less of a threat to farmland birds than previously feared.
Their new work helps resolve a potentially major environmental conflict: how to meet renewable energy targets at the same time as reversing dramatic declines in biodiversity on European farmland.
Dr Mark Whittingham and colleagues from NewcastleUniversity conducted bird surveys on arable farmland around two wind farms in the East Anglian fens.
They recorded almost 3,000 birds from 23 different species, including five red-listed species of high conservation concern – the yellowhammer, the Eurasian tree sparrow, the corn bunting, Eurasian skylark and the common reed bunting.
They found the wind turbines had no effect on the distribution of seed-eating birds, corvids (the crow family), gamebirds and Eurasian skylarks. Common pheasants – the largest and least manoeuvrable species – were the only birds whose distribution was affected by the turbines.
Whittingham said: 'This is the first evidence suggesting that the present and future location of large numbers of wind turbines on European farmland is unlikely to have detrimental effects on farmland birds.
'This should be welcome news for nature conservationists, wind energy companies and policy makers. With large numbers of wind farms needing to be built on lowland areas, the cumulative impacts on farmland bird species has the potential to be a significant constraint to development.'
The results are important because the European Commission has set a target of generating 20 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.
As agriculture is the major land use in the EU, more wind turbines will need to be built on farmland. At the same time, the EU is spending billions of euros on agri-environment schemes, whose major goal is to boost biodiversity on farmland.
If wind turbines harm farmland birds, the two environmental policies would be difficult to reconcile.
Previous studies by other researchers have concentrated on the impact of wind turbines on waterbirds and birds of prey.
Whittingham added: 'Much terrestrial research into the effects of wind turbines on birds has focused on geese, waders and raptors, whose populations are highest in upland and coastal areas.
'There is increasing conservation concern about the impact of wind farms on these species in these areas, so applications to build new turbines are increasingly focusing on other sites, especially lowland farmland in central and eastern England.'
As the study was conducted during the winter, further studies are needed on the impact of wind turbines on farmland birds during the breeding season.
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Hi guys, staying at my parents' house tonight so I made a little vlog entry for my fans.
Google adwords: They should be banished!!
Hey guys, just a rant to vent my frustration…. Google adwords, I hate them!!!
I used to be super busy as one of the world's most famous banner models, flying all over the world, starring in banners on the world's most visited sites. … But ever since Google came up with their adwords and "contextual advertising" *beurk* I've seen my income plummet… I do seriously mean they should be banned, I mean, they're just text! They're so ugly, they add nothing to a webpage. What is more beautifull that a nice banner with a girl like me or one of my colleages? Nothing right?
Man I'd hate to be a starting, young banner model today, those Google adword thinngies are ruining the business.
Here's some banners I did recently, some of these where tough jobs, some where a breeze.
For this one I worked with a great crew, though the make up lady really liked to powder the hell out of me.
This one was great though the shoot took like forever, I think I ate about 150 lollypops on that shoot. And they do really last a long time.
Ah, Lefty's deodorant, can't say I really like the smell of it, I prefer 100% natural with Aloë Vera. But I'm booked with the same company again in July to do their Righty's campaign.
W&H, worked for them before, but then it was for Thermal undies, loved the photographer on that one, Ricardo, such a sweetie.
This is just one of those jobs I took for the salt on my patatjes. They sell animated banners of me on which other companies can than paste their brand and as such associate their brand image with my timeless good looks.
Wow, this train has wifi!
An emotional roller coaster day. Again.
I'm already feeling muuuuuch better, i called Guy again and he told me that guy does that ALL THE TIME!!!!! can you believe it? all the time!!! he did the same to Caro last week, she came all the way from berlin just to do a casting at his studio and what does that no-good redneck do? Right: he makes her cry!!!!!! And not just the Parisian way of making girls cry, no no no…..he did it the AMERICAN way!!!!And that's just a thousand times more cruel tha just focussing on the body, as the french like to do, you know,the americans always play on your age man…i mean….everybody lies about their age. litterally everyone…that's just how it goes. that's what it means to be a model. you are simply never your age. and everybody is supposed to play along!! ( apart from the russian newcomers, they never have to lie coz the're really only 15!)So of course i fill in 21 instead of 26 on the castingsheet!!! helloooooo, that's absolutely allright!!! And that Antoine or what his name might be begins to tell all kind of nasty age related things, you know, i'm not even sure i remember all of them coz they were so horrible!! Ifelt so bad when i left the studio, that i ordered a cab to go straight to my B&B….i was compmletely upset, so i took a long bath and i cancelled the go sees!
Luckily today i feel a lot better, i also talked to my mum who always has the right words to make me feel good again. Danku mamake, da had ik echt nodig jong!!!
And now i'll stop talking about Antoine….although i just can't believe the things he sais to Caro…. what the hell was he thinking when he told her she should consider looking for a new job? I mean, Caro????? the super top of tops? THE body with a face? What the hell does he think he is? Caro???? Unsuitable for the job? She would just be perfect for ANY kind of job,believe me! He is actually also the guy who caused Josy's eating disorder!!! telling a 15 year old to eat watermelon the whole day because it so called cleanses the body????That's just unimaginable, isn't it….but that were my booker's words,and i know Guy, he would never tell a lie….although it's so hard to believe, i mean, everybody knows you have to be careful with watermelons! the're full of bacteria and they cause severe diahrrea!!! poor girl, she must have felt terrible after eating only watermelon the whole week….i know the "fruit is good" is a lie, i mean, a lot of fruits contain waaaaaaaaaaay to much sugar and are a no no for us, models, but telling someone to concentrate on only one kind of them is sooooooooooo wrong!!! I bet he's a super frustrated sexless gay, jealous for not having made it in the real fashion world and thus obliged to become "castingdirector"…. please, gimme a break, he will not be into this scene much longer, i tell you he has some seriously bad karma;;;what goes around comes around! How dare he disencourage us and make us feel FFU? (fat, formless and ugly) Doesn't he realise it takes a lot of effort to be pro, fit and friendly all the time? does he really think you can easily rebuild a bruised ego?
ooooh, i really gotta stop talking i mean writing, about him! He already spoiled my night yesterday, he ain't going to spoil today too!!
haha, but i'm happy i told you guys all about him, the whole world should know what a creep he is!!!
ooh and thank you for letting me moan about this accident, i feel sooo relieved, i mean, i really really really needed to let it out of my system!
What a fiasco. Doemme toch!
Yesterday i told you that i hated Amsterdam, but actually there's one thing i looooove about it: they are fabulous reform stores in town!!!!!!! So in between 2 clients i'll quickly jump in there to buy my favourite chinese green tea….ooh and mum, i'll make sure to buy you some of that wrinkle serum i bought here last time, you know, the one from that whole earth range they only sell in that little shop on the Rozengracht….
I'm off for the moment, i 'm not going to take a taxi to go and see the new clients, so i still have to go to the bike rentalstore (i use Ron Rental's, they're the most reliable in this whole stupid city!!!) which is a few streets from here!
bye bye sweeties, i'll write some more later tonight…..i'm not planning on going out coz i uploaded my special J.M.Jarre relaxation tunes and i'm really looking forward to have a cozy little night on my own…reading,relaxing and…..blogging, of course!
Hop, off i go, wish me luck….i'm having that veeeeeery important casting and my booker told me the castingdirector is a rather difficult person.
héhé, but i'm armed, got my "bible" with me!!!!
I'm sorry i didn't write the last 3 days, but i was just so tired! the Purple party was awesome, everybody was there: Claudia, Linda, Naomi and Christy represented the "oude garde", as we say;)))), and all teh tops of my (way younger generation) were there too: Hanne, Anouck, Veronica, and so on….I drank way too much champagne, like 5 glasses in stead of my usual 3!!!! My eyes were completely puffy and super red when i woke up the next morning, i had to use me emergency rescue cream on my whole face!!!! Hope you don't read this, Guy, i know……i usually only use a few drops, but this time i needed its so badly 😉 i promise i won't have to use it anymore for the coming weeks, i swear i'll go to bed early in Hawai!……hihi, Guy thinks this cream causes skin problems, but i'm sure it doesn't….it's totally oragnic with fairtrade sheabutter and stuff, it just can't be bad for you!!!! everybody's taking it, so!!!!!
So here i am now, the last evening of my supershort Hawai stay, and more than happy to leave….the re-shoot was a piece of cake, i could choose my own make up coz Annabel was there to do my skin and she's like the ebst of the best!!! Pat and Peter, eat your heart out!!!! She's always super nice to me, that's why i asked to work with her there, you know, she's also into this indian medicine cards and knows tarot like no one else!!!! it's just so cool to travel with her, she also read The Secret and so we talk about that book for hours and hours in the plane and on the way to the locations and stuff like that, it's great to have someone like her around, you know, when you're always gone from home, it's soooo important to have nice people around you, i mean, it's like they give you energy and stuff and that's veeeeeeery important!
She also makes me laugh coz she 's into this new karmareading interiordesign thing, but i'm not sure it's as effective as my good old feng shui, you know….you should see her, always changing the furniture of the hotelroom in the completely wron,g way, and then i have to re-do it everytime, coz she wakes up with headaches the first day!!! hihi, that's so cute, she is so naive and believes all this things people write in books and all!!!! Hey Annabel,don't get mad at me, okay, i wrote this coz i really really love u ok, i think you're great the way you are, just stay like that!!!!!!
Gotta go to bed, i forgot my favourite candles in Paris, so i wanted to buy some over here, but believe me, this country is like soooooooooooo not up with us, i mean, it's like they still live in 2006 or so, i just couldn't find any nice candle all over Waikiki!!!! The only thing they had were this cheap, fake natural but oooh so chemical FRUIT smelling ones. Can you imagine? a FRUIT smelling candle????? OMG, i thought i would collapse when i entered the 5the shop…..Djee, can you believe that? I bet they make you asthmatic and all!!!!
Tomorrow i'll fly back to Paris wher i will take the Thalys to Amsterdam the next day, i have a super important casting and some go and sees to do since i changed agencies and the new one works with a lot of clients i haven't met yet….so these are my plans for the coming days, i think i will stay in Holland for 2 days and then take 1 day off in Paris. I'll be like so completely exhausted that i will need a good day of rest!!!! I'm not exactely looking forward to go to Amsterdam, i f*ing hate that city, but hey, i feel really positive and strong after yesterday's meditationsession with Annabel….yeah!!!! i'm gonna get the job in Amsterdam, i just know it!!!!!!!
oooh, it's so nice to feel like this again, thank you Annabel, i looooooooove u!!!
The castings went terribly wrong yesterday, i got so lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know, it's stupid, but it wasn't my fault! Guy sent me the adresses on my i phone, but i had no access to my mails, so i had to call the agency for the right streetnames but Guy had already left and so i had his assistent, but his english is so bad, you know, like real french people's english, just not understandable at all! So i got an adress which sounded like the real adress, but wasn't the real adress, u see?
anyway, it's a commercial and it's shot in Bali!!!!!! I just love Bali and i have'nt been there this year, so i think i really deserve it!! I swear, it's a fan tas tic place, it's just perfect for meditatio between 2 shoots, you know….I always ask to go to the same resort, they have the best hotel ever ever there!!!!! I just love Australia!!! it's so weird, no…..i mean, they are australian and still not everybody understands english there! You have a lot of immigrants everywhere these days….
Anyway, i'm so excited, i really WANT the job, i simply need to go to that dream resort again! hmmmmmmmmmmm, i remember the delicious food (everything low fat!!!!), great fruits, their fantastic spa and their fabulous fitness!!!!! ooooh, i can't wait for the answer to come, OMG!!!!!!!!!
I'll call Carlos, my trainer this afternoon, because if i have the job, i gotta look better than ever, so i need some additional exercises…..
Anyow, i'm in a super hurry, i'm meeting mum for lunch today, and i have to go to the agency afterwards, to get all my details for next weeks job.
Pfff, thinking of that makes me a little stressed out already, it's gonna be a long weekend, i have to catch up with my friends, take care of Coco, prepare for the Purple Party AND make my suitcase for mondaymorning….


A transformation is occurring in New York State. With more than 4 million millennials in the state's workforce*, new faces and perspectives are bringing a breath of fresh air to places like Buffalo, Plattsburgh, Syracuse and a variety of other cities and towns along the way, spearheading innovation and revitalizing local communities.
Here, four New York-based millennials talk about how they're contributing to their respective emerging industries, what makes their locales special, and how a new American Dream is building throughout the Empire State.
As a talent manager at Viaduct — a recruitment agency that specializes in consulting, talent acquisition and management for the startup community in Buffalo — it's basically a prerequisite for 29-year-old Tom Hausler to sing the praises of his hometown.
Life in Western New York has always suited Hausler. Originally from neighboring Williamsville, N.Y., he attended SUNY Fredonia, where he earned a B.S. in Exercise Science in 2009. Hausler saw many of his friends and fellow graduates head off to larger cities both in and out of state, but his heart led him right back to Buffalo.
After working his way up the ranks at his first job with the Superior Group — Buffalo's largest recruitment agency — Hausler transitioned to his current role with the company's newly-created subsidiary, Viaduct, to help staff emerging tech companies and businesses relocating to Buffalo. During his four years as a recruiter, Hausler has gained unique insights into the local job market, noting that, in addition to staffing larger companies within the area, Buffalo's startup community is quickly making a name for itself with competitions like 43North (a $5 million competition designed to encourage entrepreneurs with high growth potential to compete for enterprise funding in Western New York).
Although priority number one continues to be finding the best and brightest talent to help continue building Buffalo's growing workforce, Hausler admits that he does have a few, albeit personal, career benchmarks he hopes to achieve in the coming years — notably, involving recruiting those college friends who left for jobs in bigger cities.
Unlike Hausler's college friends, Katie Ehlers, 24, needs no convincing when it comes to staying and working in Buffalo.
Originally from Riverhead, located on the eastern end of Long Island, N.Y., Ehlers landed in Buffalo — and at her current role as a Speech Language Consultant at Voiceitt, the creators of Talkitt — a speech recognition app for people with motor, speech or language disorders that helps create paths for conversation using their own voice.
Ehlers found her calling in speech-language pathology through detective work familiar to her millennial peers – by Googling everything she knew about herself and taking a series of online personality quizzes and career-related tests. After graduating in 2015 with a B.S. in Communicative Disorders and Sciences from the University at Buffalo, a school she chose for its affordability and highly ranked speech-language pathology program, Ehlers was hired in her current role as a Speech Language Consultant, where she works directly with Talkitt users by building out the platform's words and vocabulary banks.
Ehlers has since immersed herself in the startup community in Buffalo, particularly among her cohorts at the incubator space at 43North (where Talkitt's parent company, Voiceitt, is located). Pointing to the community's focus on helping local businesses establish a healthy work-life balance for employees, she details events like mixers, outdoor activities and exclusive access to local museums and local attractions as ways to not only socialize outside of the office, but also give her and her coworkers the opportunity to learn more about their hometown.
When asked if she knew what she wanted to study in college, Samantha McDonough, 32, had no hesitation.
And it's with similar enthusiasm that she talks about where her career took her after receiving a B.S. in Physics from SUNY Brockport: no, not elsewhere in the state or even the country, but to Syracuse a convenient 25-mile drive from where she grew up in Canastota, N.Y.
As a burgeoning hub for next gen technology and development, thanks to both local and state initiatives, Central New York has quietly become a location for offerings ranging from healthcare applications to app and web-based educational platforms. McDonough plays a part in this emerging tech-focused community as a Lead Process Engineer at INFICON, a Syracuse-based provider of instruments for gas analysis, measurement and control that enhance productivity and quality in sophisticated industrial vacuums.
On a day-to-day basis, she oversees one-third of all product manufacturing and processing, ensuring deadlines are met and making sure processes are in check. McDonough also collaborates with INFICON clients, designing and building new semiconductor-based technologies.
As a high school pitcher with hopes to continue playing in college, Neil Fernandez, 22, learned that, in order to be successful, he had to adapt to a variety of situations, all while relying on a core skill set to get the job done.
As a student at SUNY Plattsburgh, he soon discovered that the same rules applied.
"I wanted to go to college and play baseball, but I got injured and had some health issues, so from there I focused on what I wanted my career to be," recalls Fernandez. "I used to help out family members and friends fixing their computers — whenever my friends had an issue they came to me — so I thought about studying either IT or Computer Science.
After graduating in 2016 with a B.S. in Computer Science, Fernandez landed an internship with Insum Solutions, a Montreal-based IT services provider, looking to establish an office in Plattsburgh that would be primarily staffed with current and former students from nearby universities. The opportunity to gain hands-on experience working on web development eventually led to a full-time role for Fernandez.
As far as activities available for a growing community of young professionals in Plattsburgh, Fernandez says there's plenty to do in the North Country region.
"If you're an outdoors person, Plattsburgh is a great place," says Fernandez. "There's 46 high peaks in the Adirondacks, so I have a lot of friends here that go hiking. They have the Bass Pro Tournaments at Lake Champlain, so fishing and kayaking are popular. There's also a lot of local, good food, restaurants, bars, and there's four or five breweries in Plattsburgh too that are popular.


This year's £100,000 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year has been awarded to London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
The winner of the annual Art Fund Museum of the Year has been announced as the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A).
The London museum was presented with the £100,000 award by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge at a presentation at the nearby Natural History Museum. It was chosen from a shortlist that also included the Arnolfini (Bristol), Bethlem Museum of the Mind (London), Jupiter Artland (West Lothian), and York Art Gallery (Yorkshire).
The prize, which is the largest single arts award in Britain, is awarded to one museum that 'has shown exceptional imagination, innovation and achievement across the previous 12 months'.
Last year the V&A attracted nearly 3.9 million visitors to its various sites and 14.5 million online visitors. It also now has over 90,000 V&A Members, which is the highest in the museum's 164-year history.
Previous winners of the award include Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery, who last year won the award following a £15m expansion project that doubled the size of its gallery spaces. Other past recipients are Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2014), William Morris Gallery (2013), Royal Albert Memorial Museum (2012) and The British Museum (2011).
The judges for Museum of the Year 2016 were: Gus Casely-Hayford, curator and art historian; Will Gompertz, BBC Arts editor; Ludmilla Jordanova, professor of History and Visual Culture, Durham University; Cornelia Parker, artist; and Stephen Deuchar, chair of the panel and director of the Art Fund.


Navaratri are over and in a few days we would celebrate Deepawali, the festival of lights. It is now that time of the year when we clean up the house, buy new clothes and jewellery for the family and prep up for the festival.
Any celebration or festival is incomplete without sweets, savouries and good food. And Deepawali is the biggest festival for Hindus, so obviously, it is that time of the year when I gear up to make a lot of sweets and savouries for the family.
There are a few things which I definitely make every year, the first being the Namakpaare, the goda or sweet shankarpaali as called in Maharashtra or shakkarpare as called in Hindi and the Maharashtrian Chivda. The sweet shankarpaali are of two kinds, one which the dough is sweet and the other are the sugar coated ones. In this post I'm sharing the uncoated version, i.e, which the dough itself is sweet. And I would share the Maharashtrian Chivda in a few days too.
This method of making shankarpaali is the easiest. It is a fuss free recipe which has extremely easy proportion of ingredients to remember.
Take equal portion of ghee, sugar ( I took a little less as I prefer less sweet) and water.
Heat the ghee in a pan to melt it. In another pan dissolve the sugar in water by heating it gently. Mix the sweet water in the melted ghee.
Let the mixture come to room temperature completely and then add a pinch of salt to it.
Gradually add the maida to this mixture and as much maida which will get mixed to form a soft dough, which is pliable.
Break the dough into 4-5 equal sized balls and roll out a circle of 1/4inch or about 3mm thickness.
Cut out the uneven edges and then using a knife, or a pizza cutter or a shankarpaali cutter, cut 1" wide strips.
Cut the strips horizontally to get diamond or square shaped shankarpaali. Separate them so that they do not stick each other.
Mean while, heat about 4cups of oil on a low flame. Increase the flame to medium and put a batch of cut shankarpaali in oil. The temperature of the oil should be such that the shankarpaali should gradually come up to the surface.
Reduce the flame to low heat and fry the shankarpaali till golden in colour.
Using a slotted spoon, remove all the excess oil and put the fried shankarpaali on a kitchen towel. Repeat the process with the entire dough.
Cool them thoroughly and store them in an air tight container.
Once the dough is kneaded, make the shankarpaali immediately else the ghee in the dough would solidify and the dough will harden.
Maintaining the appropriate temperature of the oil is important else the shankarpaali will not turn flaky or khasta.
Cover the cut shankarpaali and the dough with a damp cloth to prevent drying.
One can also use milk to knead the dough but the shankarpaali made that way get spoilt faster.


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The former president and secretary of state are reportedly attending the presidential inauguration on January 20.
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Left, by Brooks Kraft; Right, by Chip Somodevilla, both from Getty Images.
According to reports, former president Bill Clinton and former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will attend Donald Trump's inauguration on January 20. Now that the Clintons' attendance is all but official, many are debating the pros and cons, namely Hillary showing up to witness the swearing in of her fierce opponent.
Should the Clintons duck the inauguration—also bucking a tradition of former living presidents as well as defeated candidates attending the new chief executive's ceremony—it would undoubtedly lead to headlines about Hillary Clinton withdrawing the support she promised Trump in her concession speech. Their attendance is the safest P.R. bet, especially in the world of vitriolic Trump supporters looking to panic over something of this nature.
This move could be more than a formality on the part of the Clintons; it could be a message. As Clinton said during her post-election remarks, "We owe [Donald Trump] an open mind and a chance to lead." She wore purple at the time, which many interpreted as a sign of unity and bipartisanship.
President Barack Obama has communicated that same bipartisan sentiment throughout the transition. He has offered his aid to the president-elect throughout the process, though recent moves by Obama might have made things tense between the two camps. He made his own comments on November 9—speaking out for the importance of a peaceful transfer of power. "We have to remember that we're actually all on one team," he said in the aftermath of the election. "We're not Democrats first, we're not Republicans first, we are Americans first. We're patriots first. We all want what's best for this country." Obama will be in attendance at the inauguration.
CNN reported that former president George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush will also attend the ceremony, alongside former president Jimmy Carter, who confirmed in December that he would attend. George H.W. Bush, the only other living former president, won't be attending due to health reasons, per USA Today.
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Updated: 19:00 EST, 11 January 2000
Car dealer Reg Vardy plans to offer new and used vehicles on the Internet by next May through its private contract plan which gives motorists the use of the car rather than own it.
But chairman and chief executive Peter Vardy believes that buyers still want to 'feel, touch, ride round the block and kick the tyres' before they purchase.
Despite private buyers driving across the Channel to take advantage of lower prices, Reg Vardy increased vehicle sales by 23.3% to 82,293 in the six months ending October.
Pre-tax profits rose 17.9% to £14.97 million accompanied by a 9.4% increase in the interim dividend to 3.5p. The trend continued this month with car sales up 12 1/2%. Vardy shares added 7p to 213 1/2p.


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Q: Normalize a "Point" I have a C++ / OpenGl / Glut application that has an orthographic projection.
The window is 500 x 500 pixels wide. Currently when a mouse click occurs, the point will be between (0,0) and (500, 500).
I would like to either take that point and convert it to be between (0,0) and (0,1) (normalize it), or request the glutMouseFunc() send back x and y values in the range [0,1]. Is this possible? Or should I look at a more mathematical way to convert the x and y values one at a time to a normalized value?

A: Just divide the coordinates through the window size. Just make sure you keep the window size up-to-date (i.e. hook the resize event.) This has zero cost and there's no way it's ever show up in a profile.

A: take window size and divide it by mouse coordinates.


It doesn't take an expert to realise that Dublin needs to start building upwards. Urban Sprawl on the fringes of the city is swallowing up villages and towns and pushing the commuter belt further and further outwards. So how much will it take to reverse this? Here are 5 reasons why I think Dublin needs to reach for the skies.
Dublin's Docklands, after many decades of redevelopment.
A brief explanation for those who are not familiar with this: as a city expands further outwards, development moves away from the centre. Eventually, inner-city areas become left behind as the ring of development moves outwards. This was clearly visible in Dublin before the redevelopment of the Docklands. However, after decades of work the area is the most modernised in the city. If we keep building out then more and more of the inner city will fall into disrepair and will end up being more costly in the long run than investing in taller buildings now.
While maybe not appearing to be a favorable attribute at first, Dublin's population density is far lower than other European cities. Take Lyon for example. It has a similar sized population to Dublin, but is spread over just 47 square kilometers, in contrast to Dublin's 120! The obvious difference being the number of taller of buildings. Lyon, while maybe not being the most high-rise heavy city in Europe, still manages to maintain a historic city centre dating back to Roman times, and also have an ultra-modern "new" city centre filled with taller, sleeker buildings. It is an example Dublin needs to follow before it's too late to start building taller.
This is a straight up lie. The parts of the city that qualify as "historic" ( The GPO, Custom House, and Christchurch to name a few) are all far enough apart that if buildings were to get taller in these areas, it would not have an overall detrimental effect. In fact, modern, taller buildings could improve Dublin's skyline. Look at examples such as The Shard in London, The Obel in Belfast or even Capital Dock next to the Grand Canal Basin! Not every new building is a concrete-clad box of gloom and the recent developments around the Grand Canal basin testify to this.
There are many people in Dublin who don't have access to the DART or the LUAS simply because it doesn't go into their area of the city. The low density of the outer city is partially to blame for this (as well as a spate of other issues). Take this for an example. Let's say there are 1000 people who live within a 100-metre radius of a LUAS stop. Now let's knock a building in that circle and replace it with a taller building. A taller building means more space, therefore potentially more people residing in it. As a result, there are now 1500 people living within that 100-metre circle. It gives more people access to public transport and as a result makes the area that bit more desirable to live in, and also indirectly supports funding for expanding the public transport network.
Construction work beginning on the former site of Boland's Mills.
I don't think there is a single person in Ireland who isn't aware of the homelessness crisis or the shortage of housing nationwide. For the first time ever in 5 years, house prices fell last month but this could be a one-off, and not the start of the sector cooling off. To coincide with this, Ireland now has a net inward migration with more emigrants returning than those leaving. All of these reasons require one thing and that thing has been the focus of raging debates for the past 2 years: housing. We need to break down the status quo that you must own a house and have a back garden/driveway etc. We need to adapt to the European model of housing where a much larger portion of the urban population lives in apartments and flats.
There is only so much more land that Dublin can expand further out onto and this is unsustainable. In order to become a city of the 21st century, Dublin needs to build denser, higher and smarter. I look forward to the day when I can be in awe of our capital's skyline.
What do you think? Tweet me @DylanCarrig or @Trendster with your opinions!