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Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst
Yuli Xiong, Daping He, Robben Jaber, Petra J. Cameron, Karen J. Edler
Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies (CSCT)
Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Sulfur-doped titania thin films with cubic mesostructures were prepared by dip coating via the evaporation induced self-assembly route. The effect of sulfur doping on structure, morphology, porosity, optical properties, and photocatalytic activity of the mesoporous films was studied. Compared to undoped titania films, the S-doped films showed better long-range ordering, bigger pore size, higher porosity, less shrinkage of the structure during calcination, a red-shift of the band gap, and a more hydrophilic surface. These characteristics led to an improved photocatalytic activity when the S-doped and undoped titania films were tested for degradation of methylene blue in aqueous solutions under the irradiation of 1 sun from a solar simulator. The photocatalytic activity of the sulfur doped titania film was stable during three consecutive experiments under solar light irradiation, confirming the mechanical stability and reusability of the doped nanostructured thin film photocatalysts.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01615
Photocatalysts
solar simulators
Mechanical stability
red shift
Xiong, Y., He, D., Jaber, R., Cameron, P. J., & Edler, K. J. (2017). Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121(18), 9929-9937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01615
Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst. / Xiong, Yuli; He, Daping; Jaber, Robben; Cameron, Petra J.; Edler, Karen J.
In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 121, No. 18, 18.04.2017, p. 9929-9937.
Xiong, Y, He, D, Jaber, R, Cameron, PJ & Edler, KJ 2017, 'Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 121, no. 18, pp. 9929-9937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01615
Xiong Y, He D, Jaber R, Cameron PJ, Edler KJ. Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2017 Apr 18;121(18):9929-9937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b01615
Xiong, Yuli ; He, Daping ; Jaber, Robben ; Cameron, Petra J. ; Edler, Karen J. / Sulfur-Doped Cubic Mesostructured Titania Films for Use as a Solar Photocatalyst. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2017 ; Vol. 121, No. 18. pp. 9929-9937.
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My heart breaks every day that I walk by my daughter's room and no one is in it! I miss her each day and I know she misses us, and I am having a real hard time adjusting to not having her here. We have talked a lot on Facetime and I can see she is just a bit homesick so I started thinking about sending her an extra special package and then I thought about how little time I had to get it together including those dreaded post office lines(eyeroll). I remember way back when, I used to send a kid that I dated care packages and wow what a pain in the spanker that was as I would have to go all over to get things I wanted to toss in there. Working full time, and taking care of 2 other younger children has me a bit limited for time and running, not to mention a run to the post office, so I headed online and now I want to share my story of lavishly living college care packages out loud. Are your ready to learn where to get college care packages that take minutes to order without running all over town?
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2015 is coming to the end and we have all achieved a lot and maybe not so much of what we wanted look these up. So I'm keen to know what your fashion goals for the coming year are. My goals are to revamp my wardrobe and making sure at least 50% of the apparel and accessories are firstly; Made in Zimbabwe by Zimbabweans, secondly made in Africa and lastly by artisans in other Third World countries. My desire is to continue promoting talent from Zimbabwe and Africa and work hard to develop and grow the vision of Zimbabwe Fashion Network and a Zimbabwe Fashion Renaissance.
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This Is Anfield • Liverpool FC News •
LFC manager search: Villas-Boas in profile
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So the King has departed and FSG are faced with the unenviable task of appointing the right man to replace Kenny. It's anyone's guess in the football betting markets as to who could fill the King's shoes. Reports indicate that they have invited Roberto Martinez, the Wigan boss, and Andre Villas Boas, the former Chelsea manager – among others – to hold talks and are likely to take their time making their choice.
While sacking Kenny was a surprise, FSG do seem to be in control of the situation and are acting with a clear vision in their mind. Here I will try to bring to fore what each candidate for the job brings to the table and what could prove to be his undoing. While I may be disappointed with Kenny's premature sacking, I will support the new manager wholeheartedly – because he is the LFC manager and I support the club.
André Villas-Boas
Managerial career:
Born in Porto, Portugal, André Villas-Boas (aka AVB) began his managerial journey when Sir Bobby Robson, who was then manager of Porto, impressed by his footballing acumen, appointed him to Porto's observation department. Robson also arranged for Villas-Boas to obtain the FA coaching qualification, the UEFA C licence in Scotland and for him to study the training methods of Ipswich Town. Villas-Boas later also obtained his B licence, A licence and UEFA Pro Licence in Scotland, under the tutelage of Jim Fleeting. Unusually for a manager at the top level, he has no prior experience as a professional footballer.
After a short stint as head coach of the British Virgin Islands national team, he moved onto a career as an assistant coach at Porto under José Mourinho. As Mourinho moved from Porto to Chelsea and then later Inter Milan, Villas-Boas followed.
Villas Boas finally got his break when Rogério Gonçalves resigned as the manager of Academia de Coimbra, who were in the relegation places and without a win. Boas then turned their season helping the finish seventh and going up to semi-finals of the Portuguese league cup. Brought into limelight by his success, he was appointed the coach of FC Porto where he 4 titles and finished the season unbeaten with 27 wins and 3 draws.
Then came the cash rich Chelsea and bought him out from Porto. After a decent start to the league, his season started turning for the worse when they lost to Liverpool both in the League Cup and Premier League. The slide of results coupled with a backroom unrest, where in an effort to bring in a new style and philosophy to the club he alienated the clubs uber powerful senior players. And thus came the premature end to Villas Boas' short rein as Chelsea manager when he was sacked on 4 March 2012 after a league loss to West Brom.
He has be out of a job since but had been rumoured to be close to accepting the managerial post at Italian side Roma.
Managerial Philosophy:
Villas Boas is known to operate with a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1 system. He has an attacking approach to the game and likes to keep a tidy defence record. Unlike Jose Mourinho he gives his fullbacks more freedom and prefers them take part in the attack. His tactics are more free flowing and easy on the eye and not as mechanical as Mourinho's.
He prefers to play with ball playing defenders who can bring the ball out of attack and maintain a high defensive line. He expects his defenders to bring the ball out of defence and try to outnumber the opposition midfield. Here with the numeric advantage he will try to either pass the ball in front of defence and try to bait them out of their positions or rely on the skills of individual players to create chances. There is no doubt that AVB is an astute reader of the game and is no afraid to ring in changes early. He also tends to prefer to protect a lead and plays defensively once they have taken the lead. This tactic has backfired on him many a times where he has tried to rely on his defenders keep a clean sheet. Trying to do this with the aging Terry who has long lost his pace and David Luiz whose game sense is comparable to a Chipmunk's can be suicidal – as Villas-Boas found out. With a strong defensive pairing in Agger and Skrtel, along with the protection of Lucas, it would be interesting to see how we perform with such tactics. He also carries out a thorough examination of his opposition and is known to show players videos on how the opponents play and educate them on how best to deal with them.
A lot was expected out of him when he arrived at Chelsea. He was expected to be the face of the revolution that Chelsea so desperately craved. His transition to the English game was questionable. Every team has got its own strengths and weaknesses and Villas-Boas did not adapt his strategy to suit the needs of Chelsea. Arguably, he tried to bring in too much too quickly. Whether his players understood what he wanted and deliberately defied him or whether they did initially try and did not understand his style is not exactly clear but his ideas were clearly not reproduced by the Chelsea squad.
Villas-Boas is also a workaholic who spends a lot of hours on the training ground trying to get it absolutely right. It is also difficult to say just how much he had say in signing youngster like Courtois and De Bruyne as they have been widely acclaimed to have been signings of Chelsea director of football Michael Emenalo and Boas is thought to have no input in their signings. One must not forget that at Porto he inherited a squad that was challenging for the title every year and the squad had a winning mentality. Also Porto being a selling club has a squad with higher adaptability. His major transfer were Nicolas Otamendi and Joao Moutinho as replacements for the departing Bruno Alves and Raul Meirelis in like for like replacements. The two have generally performed well and are integral to Porto's squad. Amongst his Chelsea signings Mata has been the main man for Chelsea while Meirelis has been lukewarm this season.
The biggest talking point of his stint as a Chelsea manager was the reported rift with the Chelsea old guard. While we have our own ageing players, I do not believe they will stand in the way of the future manager and development of the squad. AVB is known to have a very good relationship with his former charges at Porto and also the younger Chelsea players. While the majority of the blame lies with the Chelsea players, AVB share some part of the blame too in his handling of the whole issue. He could have been softer and more subtle in treatment of the players and alienating players who are liked in the dressing room is sure to lead to a rift between the players and the manager. Villas-Boas is also said to be highly motivational in his speeches.
So there we have it, a dossier on AVB. So what do you think? Could he fit well at LFC?
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As Steady As Herons
by Dion D'Souza
Man of Spiel
The eighteen new poems that comprise the first section of Adil Jussawalla's recently published I Dreamt a Horse Fell From the Sky, which brings together a selection of his verse, fiction and essays, open "into each other/ like rooms that share a door". That is how the narrator of the second poem, Shorelines, describes the looks exchanged by two women who give him shelter one stormy night. "We're all castaways here," a woman who gives him refuge on another shoreline says. The next poem, set in the bleak future, picks up this line; other poems, other themes, other images, creating a kaleidoscopic chain of echoes.
These new poems come rather close on the heels of Jussawalla's previous collection, Trying to Say Goodbye (2012), while also building on two major themes from that work: ageing and memory. Certainly, we are glad that the goodbye, which itself was attempted after a long gap of thirty-six years (Jussawalla's last volume of poems was published in 1976), never actually happened. The opening poem in the selection, The Deep, beckons us to slide down to a watery underworld where the "emptied mind" will have to confront both illumination and terror: "Well caught but bravely astir/ is how most of us try to live after all", the poem tells us. And so we stir and shudder, "our bodies subject to [growing] bends and cramps", until one day we lose the ability to "sail home as steady as herons" (Old Men on a Beach).
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The sea figures prominently here, sweeping its way into poem after poem, calmly and ineluctably, limitless in The Sea at Den Haag and almost invisible at night in Shorelines, but beyond which lie other unseen and imagined worlds, other wonders. The sea also becomes the site of religious conversion for the narrator's friend, Suleiman, in the mock-serious The Road to Versova. Saul becomes Suleiman, and Damascus, Versova, in this twenty-first century and local rendering of the famous biblical episode. The Kolis of the fishing village come giggling to the aid of the thunderstruck man, while in the clipped tones of the scriptures, we are told: "The air stank and fish dried". Was Suleiman, too, out on some sinister mission? Was he blinded? Did the Kolis see or hear what Suleiman did? We are not told. But, on some roads, "the thunder of the question doesn't stop".
Matters of faith are again taken up in the last two poems, which deal with snake worship and canonised specks of dust. In the first, the "flat pan" (Cobra Bhakti) of the narrator's brain shrinks the innumerable names of the snake god to the single and humble, but variously intoned, pronoun "You", while in St. Mote, we gain inspiration from a particle that drifts into "our lives on a chance ray of light".
Two poems talk about gardens. The papery narrator of Turning Seventy sits calmly in the face of imminent incineration, because he has taken up the Persian poet Sa'adi's invocation: "Breathe easy in the garden and be glad". In the second, The Garden's Earth Yawns and also breathes and pants like its resident dog, although this excitement is restricted to certain days.
Two other poems concern kites and kite fights. Soaring no more, watched by "people [who] have gathered/ as though wanting to see if someone will let it in" (Kite), a cut and plummeting kite becomes an object of idle curiosity, like a victim of an accident or a crime, "till a boy shouts and shows what it means to him". Defeated kites also recall The Deep, for they may be found "… balancing/ like nervous divers on the rims of wells" (Reply to a Postcard from Overseas).
Wandering from poem to poem, much like castaways ourselves, we encounter visions of haunting clarity: "acres of bloodless coral" (The Deep), "dud robots, pouches of spoiled powders" (Castaway City), "oils, turds, the slops of ritual" (Cuffe Parade) and a fish eye "fixed on you in wonder, as you scrape out what's left in its head" (Evolution, After a Fashion – 1). From a Manual of Maritime Signals consists of a series of eerily calm and slowly fading messages beamed to and from a vessel in peril. (It makes me think of Gary Lockwood's astronaut in 2001: A Space Odyssey, spinning mutely and helplessly through the vastness of space.) And in Just in Case, we find what could become a veritable catchphrase for our troubled age: "Why? Why? Why?/ It's a national puzzle". (That's two whys less, you will notice, than Sakichi Toyoda's celebrated problem-solving method. Will that get us any sooner, though, to the source of the burning issue?)
But to return to and close with that potent and recurring symbol, the sea: the narrator of Cuffe Parade, wakeful and watching the "flat eye" of cautionary but unconsoling light, muses:
But why be depressed?
So this curse be lightly lifted—
or to make us believe it will be—
so our days get no heavier,
it'll soon be sunrise.
Strain your ears a little, and you might hear the gentle rustle of a kite landing, or the garden's earth or Suleiman sigh, "Amen."
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As the school year begins to wind down and the months until graduation turn into weeks, the senior class at Pocahontas County High School is preparing for the future by applying for scholarships and awards to assist in their higher education.
Two students, Jacob Hise and Morgan Baldwin, both received scholarships from the universities they plan to attend.
Jacob Hise
Hise, son of Clay and Laura Hise, of Dunmore, received the Bucklew Scholarship from the West Virginia University Foundation. The scholarship is worth $10,000 a year for four years.
Hise plans to study civil engineering and hopes to return to Pocahontas County to work.
"I've always loved how things were made and how they hold themselves up," he said. "It's always interested me, so I figured that would be a field I would be interested in. I particularly like bridges and structures.
"I'd like to move back to Pocahontas County," he continued. "I don't think there are any bridge building firms in the county, though. I want to stay close if not in the county."
Hise has kept himself busy in school with extracurricular activities including the STEM club, Academic club, Senior Committee, serving as secretary of the senior class, as president of the National Honor Society, Spanish club treasurer and as a member of the Spanish Honor Society.
While he doesn't compete on any athletic teams, Hise said he stays active by hunting and fishing.
Morgan Baldwin
Baldwin, the son of Anita and Travis Workman, signed a letter of intent in February to play football at Concord University and he recently received the Bonner Scholarship from the university.
The scholarship is for $2,500 a year, plus $1,000 for the summer which Baldwin will use to travel to work.
Baldwin said he plans to double major in sports management and business, along with playing football.
"I feel like if I did both, I would have more opportunities, so if I go into the sports field and also have the business degree, then it would help, or vice versa," he said."
Baldwin will report to the university in August to begin practice with the team, but he said his training hasn't lapsed since the Warrior season ended.
With a focus in sports management, Baldwin said it would be difficult to return to Pocahontas County, but he hasn't decided yet where he may settle after receiving his degrees.
"You never know where life's going to take you," he said. "We'll just have to see."
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The use and management of metadata raises many ethical and eventually political issues. The security revelations by Edward Snowden in 2014 demonstrate the key role that metadata plays in surveillance. Privacy has become a particularly hot topic in recent months and much of the debate has centred on the misuse of metadata from social media and the potentially invasive effect this has on individuals. Metadata also has a key role in delivering reliable sources of information, although this has to go hand in hand with user education and improved information literacy. Access to information is a fundamental right and the appropriate use of metadata can help improve access to health, agriculture and education as well as contributing to economic development. Metadata is a route to good governance, but it must also be handled appropriately to maintain information privacy, a fundamental human right.
Haynes, D. Metadata: the political dimension. Alexandria, 27(3), pp. 198-206. Copyright © 2018, the authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.


Lambretta Clothing is the British clothing company formed in 1997, named after the classic Lambretta motor scooter. The clothing company uses the Lambretta brand name under license from owner Scooters India Limited. They are the third primary fashion brand in the uk currently. The company makes menswear, footwear, watches, eyewear, grooming products and accessories.
In 1922, Ferdinando Innocenti of Pescia built a steel-tubing factory in Rome. In 1931, he took the business to Milan where he built a better factory producing seamless steel tubing and employing about 6,000. Throughout the Second World War, the factory was heavily bombed and destroyed. It is said that surveying the ruins, Innocenti saw the future of cheap, private transport and chose to produce a motor scooter - competing on cost and weather protection from the ubiquitous motorcycle.
The principal stimulus for the design style of the Lambretta and Vespa dates back to Pre-WWII Cushman scooters produced in Nebraska, USA. These olive green scooters were in Italy in huge numbers, ordered originally by Washington as field transport for the Paratroops and Marines. The United States military had used them to get around Nazi defence tactics of destroying roads and bridges in the Dolomites (a part of the Alps) in addition to the Austrian border areas.
Aeronautical engineer General Corradino D'Ascanio, in charge of the design and construction of the first modern helicopter by Agusta, was presented with the task by Ferdinando Innocenti of designing a simple, robust and affordable vehicle. It had to be simple to drive for both males and females , be able to carry a passenger but not get its driver's clothes soiled.
D'Ascanio, who hated motorbikes, developed a revolutionary vehicle. This had been built on a spar frame making use of handlebar gear change while the engine mounted directly onto the back wheel. The front protection "shield" kept the rider dry and clean in comparison to the open front end on motorcycles. The pass-through leg area design was designed for women, as wearing dresses or skirts made riding conventional motorcycles challenging. The front fork, just like an aircraft's landing gear, allowed for straightforward wheel changing. The interior mesh transmission eliminated the typical motorcycle chain, a source of oil and dirt. This basic design allowed a series of features to get deployed around the frame which could later allow quick continuing development of new models.
However, General D'Ascanio fell out with Innocenti, who as opposed to a moulded and beaten spar frame wished to produce his frame from rolled tubing, allowing him to revive both areas of his prewar company. General D'Ascanio disassociated himself with Innocenti and took his design to Enrico Piaggio who produced the spar-framed Vespa from 1946 on.
Taking a year longer to create, the 1947 Lambretta featured a rear pillion seat for a passenger or optionally a storage compartment. Original front protection "shield" was a flat section of aero metal; later this developed in to a twin skin providing additional storage at the 'back of'/behind the front shield, similar to the glove compartment in a vehicle. The fuel cap was underneath the (hinged) seat which saved the cost connected with an additional lock for the fuel cap or necessity for additional metal work on the smooth skin.
As wealth increased in Western Europe during the late 1960s, the need for motor scooters fell as the small car became available to more people and Lambretta did start to struggle financially as did parent Innocenti. The British Leyland Motor Corporation took advantage of Innocenti's financial difficulties in addition to their production and engineering expertise and contracted Innocenti to manufacture cars under licence from BLMC. The Innocenti Mini used the mechanical components of the initial but was in a number of ways superior to it.
The Indian government bought the factory for fundamentally the same reasons that Ferdinando Innocenti had built it right after the War. India was a country with poor infrastructure, economically not prepared for small private cars yet with a need for private transport.
Automobile Products of India (API) began assembling Innocenti-built Lambretta scooters in India after independence in the 1950s. They eventually acquired a licence to build the Li150 Series 2 model, that was sold under the Lambretta Series 2 name until about 1976 and at a later point changed the name to Lamby for legal reasons as Scooter India Ltd acquired the total Innocenti Unit in 1972. API also built the trademark model [API-175] 3 wheeler that was based upon Innocenti's Lambro. API continued to build Lambretta-derived models until the 1980s but have been non-operational since 2002.
In 1972, Scooters India Ltd. (SIL) a state-run enterprise based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, bought the entire Lambretta manufacturing and trademark rights. Former Innocenti employees were chosen to set up an Indian factory as most of the manuals and machinery instructions were in Italian. The first scooter built was the Vijay Delux/DL, that was badged the Lambretta GP150 in export markets. This sold poorly owing to build problems and was enhanced to turn into the Vijay Super. Further improvements were made in the final years of production by incorporating a contemporary Japanese CDI unit and an advanced front suspension. SIL also distributed CKDs that were assembled in several parts of India and sold as the Allwyn Pusphak, Falcon, and Kesri. They were of a lower quality compared to the SIL produced models and sometimes incorporated significant styling changes.
SIL production seems to have peaked within the financial year 1980-1981, with around 35,000 scooters being built. However by 1987 this had dropped to around 4,500 units with production finally ceasing in 1997. As of 2010 S.I.L.'s production now centres on the Vikram 3-wheeler, powered by way of the Lambretta engine. SIL also produces limited spares for the GP/DL variety of scooters.   Addititionally there is a well established export trade in second-hand Lambrettas (and their derivatives), primarily into the UK market.
Within the U . S ., Scooters India Ltd licensed the Khurana Group USA LLC to manufacture and distribute scooters under the Lambretta brand. The initial release in 2008 were rebadged Adly models  of contemporary design, including a 49 cc DUE50, a 49 cc UNO50 plus a 150 cc UNO150.
You will still find clubs across Europe and also the UK, both national and local clubs, devoted to the Lambretta scooter. The clubs still participate and organize ride outs and rallies which regularly occur during weekends over the summer months and get high attendance, some rallies achieve 2,500 paying rally goers. Across the UK there are lots of privately owned scooter shops which deal with everything Lambretta, from sales, services, parts, tuning, performance as well as nut and bolt restorations.


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Q: Accessing ManagedObjectContext I am in the process of integrating Core Data into an app that was not created with a Core Data template. I am having issues with this and there is probably a very simple answer. However, since most tutorials on this subject are geared towards using the template, I am stumped.
I have followed recommendations for creating a simple app with Core Data checked and copying the generated code into my existing app. However, I can't figure out how to access the NSManagedObjectContext outside of the AppDelegate. I have several view controllers and it is in those that I need access to the managed object context.
The generated code that I copied into the app was placed into AppDelegate, as well as a reference to CoreData in the .pch file. Am I missing something? How do I get access to the managed object context?
Thanks! V

A: I ran into the same issue you are facing a couple of weeks ago.  Based on my research I found that it is a best practice to avoid rigidity by having your AppDelegate pass the ManagedObjectContext to the class where you want to access it. You can accomplish this like so:
Create a property in the .h file for the class where you want to access the managedObjectContext:
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSManagedObjectContext  *managedObjectContext;

Then synthesize:
@synthesize managedObjectContext;

Assign the managedObjectContext to the instance variable within the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method in AppDelegate:
MyClass.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;

There may be better ways to accomplish this out there, but it worked well for me.  Also, my class/view controller doesn't need to know anything about AppDelegate.
Edit: Removed the setter method based on comment below.

A: There are several ways you can share your object context around your app.  Note that you'll need to make sure you don't use the context on different threads; you'll have to add some complications if you want to use Core Data in both the background and foreground threads.
Which option you use is up to you:

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*I typically move the Core Data objects (persistent store coordinator, managed object model, contexts for foreground and background threads) into a singleton object, so any class that needs it can get the objects without adding much in the way of upward dependencies.

*You can use dependency injection to pass the context into your view controllers as you create them in your app delegate, and from those view controllers down into other objects that need them.

*You can expose the Core Data getters in your app delegate's header; then in your classes you can get the app delegate with [[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] and get the CD objects directly from the app delegate (I don't like this approach, but it involves the fewest code changes, probably).

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Scandic receives damages in dispute with Folkets Hus & Park in Sundsvall
November 17, 2016 | 13:00 CET | Categories: Corporate press releases | Regulatory
On October 28, the district court in Sundsvall announced its judgment regarding damages in the dispute that arose between Scandic and Folkets Hus in Sundsvall in 2012.
The parties have reached an agreement in which neither party will appeal the judgment. Folkets Hus in Sundsvall is obliged to pay damages to Scandic totaling SEK 59,504,687 plus interest on the sum from September 30 2015.
The total amount of the damages including interest amounts to SEK 64,791,887, which will impact Scandic's results in full for the fourth quarter 2016.
In addition to the above-mentioned amount, Scandic has already received approximately MSEK 8.9 in compensation from Folkets Hus in Sundsvall. This amount had an impact on the results for the fourth quarter 2015.
Peter Jangbratt, Head of Sweden
Email: peter.jangbratt@scandichotels.com
Ann-Charlotte Johansson, VP Communications & IR
Email: ann-charlotte.johansson@scandichotels.com
www.scandichotelsgroup.com
Scandic Hotels Group AB is required to publish this information in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication by the contact persons mentioned above on November 17, 2016 at 13:00 CET.
Scandic is the largest hotel company in the Nordic region with 14,400 team members and a network of close to 230 hotels with about 44,000 hotel rooms in operation and under development. Scandic Friends is the biggest loyalty program in the Nordic hotel sector with 1.8 million members. Corporate responsibility has always been a part of Scandic's DNA and Scandic has been named Best Hotel Brand in the Nordic countries (BDRC). Since December 2, 2015, Scandic has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.scandichotelsgroup.com
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Renewable energy is moving from niche to mainstream markets. One of the clearest signs yet: the Middle East is embracing it. Can a transformation still in its infancy grow into a full-blown energy revolution?
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ISIS, the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Iraqi government, and numerous other regional and international players have all vied for control of Kirkuk's oil. But the struggle to rule this commodity has become a political chess game stretching across northern Iraq and beyond.
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Russia aims to position itself as a leader among energy-producing equals in Eurasia. Since 2015, Russia has sought to play a more active role in the Middle East, setting its sights on the region's energy resources to achieve this strategic goal.
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Press Center News Construction of Ozurgeti folk center will be completed in May
Construction of Ozurgeti folk center will be completed in May
Municipal Development Fund of Georgia under the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia is finishing rehabilitation of Ozurgeti Office of State Folk Center. Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia, Mrs. Maya Tskitishvili and Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, Mr. Gagi Buadze visited the site.
Construction works started in October 2016. The building was broke down. The project covers full rehabilitation of interior of the building; currently façade rehabilitation works are underway. The building is adapted for the people with limited abilities.
After completion of the works, an archive and a voice recording studio will be accomodated at the Folk Center. The Center will preserve unique material collected by Anzor Erqomaishvili. Local ensembles will not have to travel to Tbilisi to record a song. There are around 100 children enrolled in the Centre and the Director hopes that their number will, at least, double.
"Guria is distinguished by talented choiremasters. Fortunately the tradition of choirmasters still continues. Reconstruction of the Ozurgeti Folk Centre was carried out with the use of modern technologies and in compliance with modern standards. I believe that the Centre will become a new forge of talented people" – Mrs. Maya Tskitishvili said.
The project, which will promote development of folk tourism is implemented through the funding from the Government of Georgia and its total cost amounts to more than GEL 1.6 mln. Construction of Ozurgeti Folk Centre will be finished in May.


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Q: Using headers when reading from and editing CSV file with ruby Let's say I am using code like this to make inline edits of CSV file:
CSV.open(fn, 'r+') do |f|
  old_pos = f.pos
  while r = f.shift
    if r[0] == 'NOT_PROCESSED'
      f.seek(old_pos)
      r[0] = 'PASSED       ' # pay attention to the padding spaces!
      f << r
    end

    old_pos = f.pos
  end
end

Is there a way to somehow use headers with this approach? Like for example r['STATUS']? How should I rewrite code to make this possible?

A: CSV.open has a third parameter called options, where you can add various options, including :headers:

:headers
  If set to :first_row or true, the initial row of the CSV file will be treated as a row of headers. If set to an Array, the contents will be used as the headers. If set to a String, the String is run through a call of ::parse_line with the same :col_sep, :row_sep, and :quote_char as this instance to produce an Array of headers. This setting causes #shift to return rows as CSV::Row objects instead of Arrays and #read to return CSV::Table objects instead of an Array of Arrays.

CSV.open(fn, 'r+', headers: true) do |f|
  old_pos = f.pos
  while r = f.shift
    if r['STATUS'] == 'NOT_PROCESSED'
      f.seek(old_pos)
      r['STATUS'] = 'PASSED       ' # pay attention to the padding spaces!
      f << r
    end

    old_pos = f.pos
  end
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Travel Related Questions › Category: Accommodation Questions › What do I need to pack for a hotel?
The clothes : The first thing ,you pack in your bag, is the clothes but do you know if you choose your clothing wisely, you can make your trip more expedient. So if you are planning a vacation for a week, select your attire according to the weather of that place. If it's cold, keep warm clothes and two pairs of thick socks and shoes and if it's warm place keep light clothes, a pair of night suit, sleeper and don't forget to have swim suit too.
Toiletries : Despite the fact that hotels provide you some complementary toiletries, you should always carry your own too. Sometimes those toiletries are not good for our skin specially when we have sensitive one. Apart from that make sure to bring your toothbrush, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, shaving cream, facial kit and perfume or deodorant because these items hotel generally do not provide.
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public abstract class FabricaAbstrata {
    public abstract View criarView();
    public abstract Model criarModelo();
    public abstract Controller criarControle();

    public static FabricaAbstrata getFabrica(String fabrica){
        if (fabrica.equalsIgnoreCase("cliente")){
            return new ClienteFabrica();
        }else if (fabrica.equalsIgnoreCase("filme")){
            return new FilmeFabrica();
        }else if(fabrica.equalsIgnoreCase("locacao")){
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One of the most interesting political movies of recent years was the German film The Lives of Others, which gave a realistic depiction of the overwhelming espionage to which the government of East Germany subjected the citizens of that country, and of the corruption at the highest level, as officers of the state and the ruling party used their powers for unspeakable private purposes. The movie won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, along with a number of other prizes, and was acclaimed by many as a masterpiece.
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It is perhaps more from movies like The Lives of Others or novels like Animal Farm or 1984 that we get a mental representation and a feeling about the kind of regime that Communist parties in power generated in the second half of the 20th century. Perhaps details such as the hereditary rule implemented in a country like North Korea and the aspects of everyday life—and everyday espionage on citizens, like that illustrated by the aforementioned works—illuminate our view of these regimes as much as all the hundreds of volumes describing the political, social, and economic realities of the Stalinist regimes in Europe and Asia. In a similar way, movies such as the Argentinian Kamchatka convey to us, without statistics or political statements, the whole horror of the military dictatorship in which many thousand citizens were desaparecidos. If anything is clear in the murky and treasonous world of modern politics it is the need for a tough defense of civil liberties, the only warranty against governmental abuses of power.
In this context, the recent movie Citizenfour should give us a chill. Though any person with some familiarity with the possibilities of espionage on the citizenry that have been opened by modern technology should not be surprised by the facts presented by Citizenfour, to see Edward Snowden, William Binney, and Glenn Greenwald showing vividly how the U.S. government is spying on all of us provides much more that intellectual enlightenment. This is especially true because the movie has reached the screens at about the same time as the publication of the Senate report on torture used by the CIA to extract information from detainees. All this alarmingly illustrates the fact that the real existence of civil liberties in the United States is overshadowed by the existence of powerful institutions that compromise those civil liberties and might even eliminate them at a given moment without much effort. Indeed, passing recently in front of a large TV screen presenting the news, I read a caption stating that most Americans are okay with CIA methods. If that is so, the existence of civil liberties depends on a very weak conjuncture of factors.
The inheritance of political power, proper to ancient monarchies and modern ruling families like those in North Korea, Syria, or Cuba, is revealing of the concentration of power and the lack of real democracy. Jeb Bush has suggested he will be running for president in 2016. If he wins the G.O.P. nomination, it is very plausible that he will have as his opponent for the presidency Hillary Clinton. Thus we would have the brother of one former president and the son of another running against the wife of another former president. Does this suggest some analogy with other modern dynasties like those of North Korea or Cuba? Certainly analogies cannot go very far, because in the case of Kim Jong-un power is based on the iron grip of a political party that commands all the levers of power, while in the U.S. political families are powerful because they belong to the elite of the wealthy or to the handful of families that have demonstrated leadership in managing the collective business of the rich and powerful. Thus, as Glenn Greenwald has written in The Intercept, the wealthy instantly celebrated Jeb Bush's likely candidacy and Wall Street has shown its collective excitement over a likely Hillary Clinton presidency. Furthermore, unsurprisingly, the two families have developed, as Greenwald put it, "a movingly warm relationship befitting their position: the matriarch of the Bush family (former First Lady Barbara) has described the Clinton patriarch (former President Bill) as a virtual family member, noting that her son, George W., affectionately calls his predecessor 'my brother by another mother.'"
Perhaps we should be worried about all this, but sometimes the apprehension of reality requires more than rational knowledge. If democracy and civil liberties will prevail, to be usable for political developments in favor of the people, then perhaps it is hopelessness and not hope that will move to action. As the Polish writer Tadeusz Borowski once wrote from the Auschwitz concentration camp, it may be hope for a better world that sometimes leads us to suffer the worst indignities.
It is that very hope that makes people go without a murmur to the gas chambers, keeps them from risking a revolt, paralyzes them into numb inactivity. It is hope that breaks down family ties, makes mothers renounce their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands kill. It is hope that compels man to hold on to one more day of life, because that day may be the day of liberation. Ah, and not even the hope for a different, better world, but simply for life, a life of peace and rest. Never before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never also has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.
Citizenfour received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars. Probably we shall be grateful to Laura Poitras for being our present-day Borowsky, teaching us to be hopeless.
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Breaking the Algorithm: The Evolution of Our Digital Diet
Tim LawtonJul 21 2020
"If any of us believes we are not addicted to our devices and digital media experiences, we are kidding ourselves" - Edwin Wong, Vox Media's SVP of Insights & Innovation.
Recently, we partnered with Vox Media to engage 4,000 people across the United States to better understand our digital habits. Our research aimed to dissect both the positive and negative effects that digital algorithms have on consumers, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Only through a deeper understanding of our digital "diets" can content creators, platforms, marketers, and users create a meaningful shift towards "healthier" algorithms- ones that foster a sense of unity, active engagement, and build a better society both online and off.
It's always a pleasure to work with our trusted partners, clients, and friends to share important insights on human behavior to market research professionals and interested individuals alike.
We anticipate a continued evolution in consumer behavior in the months and years to come. Whether it's shopping habits or social media usage, researchers will need to keep a close eye on these trends.
This post and subsequent write-up have been adapted from a live presentation featuring Edwin Wong, Vox Media's SVP of Insights & Innovation during a weekly 'Smart Solutions for Extraordinary Times' discussion.
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Q: R: Extracting year and month from a numeric date I have dates in Numeric mode like this:
20/05/2012
What's the most elegant way to extract the year and month from this?

A: First you need to convert it to a date object:
x <- as.Date("20/05/2012", format="%d/%m/%Y")

Then to get the month number:
format(x,"%m")

And to get the year number:
format(x,"%Y")

If you want the month name (note, this is in your machine language):
months(x)


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Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has announced its new Armis Partner Experience (APEX) programme. The company says the programme was created with simplicity in mind to help channel partners tap into the market opportunity of securing unmanaged IoT devices - estimated to make up between 80 and 90 percent of the average business environment by 2025. As a tiered programme with multiple go-to-market options, APEX is flexible for channel partners, resellers,...
Organisers of Security Serious Week set new Guinness World Records® title for an Online Cybersecurity Lesson
Security Serious 2021 run by Eskenzi PR and sponsored by leading cybersecurity companies KnowBe4 and OneLogin, has officially set the Guinness World Records title for the Most views of a cyber security lesson video on YouTube in 24 hours. The training lesson achieved 2136 views and was presented by security experts Javvad Malik, lead security awareness advocate at KnowBe4 and Niamh Muldoon, global data protection officer at OneLogin, on the 14th of October 2021 during Cybersecurity Awareness Month and...
Security Serious: Organizers aim to set new Guinness World Records® title for Viewership of an Online Security Lesson
Cybersecurity companies KnowBe4 and OneLogin have partnered with Security Serious in a bid to set a brand new Guinness World Records title for the Most views of a cyber security lesson video on YouTube in 24 hours. The record will be attempted on the 14th of October 2021, during European Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Security Serious Week, with the video available to view for a 24-hour period. This record has never been attempted before and will be an official Guinness World Records title...
Desiree Lee appointed as new CTO for Data at Armis
Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has announced Desiree Lee as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Data, reporting directly to Nadir Izrael, co-founder and Global CTO at Armis. Lee's appointment, the company says, reinforces its strategic commitment to ensuring total visibility of all assets and devices in its customers' eco-systems. Armis allows clients to see all their associated devices, along with risk and behavioural profiles, delivering an ability to rapidly...
Cybersecurity Investment: Supporting SME decision making
Small businesses (SMEs) form the backbone of the digital economy so it's crucial that they can make the right kinds of security investments to protect themselves from cyber attacks. However, the various frameworks to guide security investments are often too costly and difficult for SMEs to implement, and the potential of insurance and its financial incentives for cybersecurity has yet to be fully realised. Consequently, the National Cybersecurity Centre (NSCS) and the Research Institute in...
Beating ransomware – 6 issues to solve before it strikes
by John Dunn
Being struck by ransomware has been compared to having a heart attack. It's something that stalks everyone in theory and yet when it happens the shock of the experience is always a surprise. For the first seconds, minutes - and sometimes hours - organisations are on their own. It's a moment of unexpected trauma which many organisations find paralysing, something attackers plan for. This makes the attack's effects even worse. Eventually a growing number call...
KnowBe4 hosts KB4-CON EMEA to help strengthen organisations' Human Firewalls
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, will be hosting KB4-CON EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) on the 23rd of September 2021. The European virtual event is an extension of the highly successful KB4-CON US event, which the company says attracted over 10,000 registrants. The cybersecurity-focused event is designed for any CISO, security awareness training administrator and cybersecurity professional in the EMEA region. KB4-CON EMEA is a...
Password Security – Now's the time to get serious
Did you know that over 80% of breaches involve brute force or lost and stolen credentials, and that over 70% of employees reuse passwords at work? Passwords are on your first line of defence against cyber-attacks and won't be going away any time soon, getting this piece of the puzzle correct is foundational for cyber defence, the protection of your business and its data. Live Demo: Supercharge Your Active Directory Password Policy Join us for a 30-minute live demo...
How to Smartly Scale AppSec Testing
The IT Security Guru has paired up with Synopsys, a recognised leader in application security, to bring you the webinar, 'How to Smartly Scale AppSec Testing'. No matter what any blog or vendor says you know there is no silver bullet for application security. Complete one item on your to-do list, seven more things are there anxiously awaiting your attention. Since cloning yourself is out of the question, how are you scaling your AppSec program...
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The Metabolic Diet Study Center in the Department of Nutritional Sciences has an immediate need for students to prepare meals for human controlled feeding studies. The ideal candidate will be able to accurately weigh and measure food, properly handle and store food items and enjoy working in a fast paced environment. Previous food service or food prep experience a plus. Available hours/days are anytime between 6:30 am and 6:30 pm Monday through Friday. Students typically work 10-20 hours per week but this is flexible. Looking to hire immediately for the first two weeks of August with the possibility of Fall semester, if interested. Please email (jas58@psu.edu) or call (863-8056) Jennifer Fleming for more information.


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Each year on the fourth day of July, people across the country celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, parades and patriotic displays of red, white and blue. Importantly, we celebrate being a great nation that believes in freedom for all.
At MHA (Mental Health Association), "Independence Day" is actually something we celebrate throughout the year. Based here in Western Mass, MHA is a non-profit provider of residential and support services for individuals and their families affected by mental health challenges, developmental disabilities, substance use and homelessness. Guided by passion and promise, MHA fosters community engagement, access to recovery and health and wellness, and above all else – independence.
Declarations of independence are made every day and celebrated with those MHA serves: the young family whose tenancy was preserved so homelessness was avoided; the older gentleman with traumatic brain injury who is rebuilding his self-confidence and ability to socialize by participating in recreational activities; the young woman who is finally free of her addiction and living successfully in long-term recovery.
used a cup, she turned on the water, she took a drink.
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Many young people experiment with drugs but only a minority become dependent on drugs in young adulthood. Those who are most vulnerable to drug dependence are socially disadvantaged young people and those having family members and peers who use drugs. Individual factors, such as poor impulse control, also increase vulnerability, as does the use of substances at an early age.
Vulnerable young people who develop drug dependence are more likely to report anxiety and depressive disorders; psychotic symptoms and disorders; suicidal ideation and suicide attempts; blood-borne infections; and failure to complete their schooling and secure employment. It is not always clear to what extent these problems increase the risk of drug problems, or having a drug problem causes these problems
Response options
Selective and indicated prevention interventions can be used to intervene early to prevent vulnerable young people initiating use and progressing to regular and problematic drug use.
Brief screening questionnaires to detect illicit drug use problems in adolescents in primary care settings may be useful.
E-health approaches to screening and brief interventions are promising ways to reach vulnerable young people who are familiar with mobile phones and the internet and are reluctant to seek help from health services.
Treatment services for young people who have developed severe drug problems, which need to use appropriate treatment approaches, for example, multidimensional family therapy.
Needle and syringe programmes are needed for young people who inject drugs who are at high risk of acquiring blood-borne infections in the early years of their injection use. Hepatitis B vaccination should be routinely provided to young people who inject drugs.
Prisons, outreach programmes, needle and syringe programmes and health clinics may be good settings in which to intervene with young people at risk of injection- related harms.
European picture
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Portugal and Spain have implemented selective prevention interventions for pupils in vocational schools.
Ireland has taken a broader approach by working to improve literacy and numeracy among disadvantaged students.
Community-level interventions targeting high-risk groups of young people in Italy and northern Europe, combine outreach, youth work, and formal cooperation between local authorities and non-governmental organisations.
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Responses for vulnerable young people
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A number of personality traits that increase vulnerability can be detected and mitigated early in life, for example, by programmes that improve self- and impulse-control.
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Screening and brief intervention is a promising approach to indicated prevention that remains to be evaluated. The e-delivery of screening and brief interventions using both computer and mobile phone approaches also appears potentially valuable, but needs further research to assess its effectiveness.
lower quality evidence
Evidence-based approaches for vulnerable youth consist of providing support for educational success in general (especially for males), personal and social competence training, and training families in better managing and monitoring their offspring. Mentoring programmes can be helpful for vulnerable youth.
Evidence-based approaches for young children ('child protection') include home visiting programmes for vulnerable and socially excluded families.
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High quality evidence— one or more up-to-date systematic reviews that include high-quality primary studies with consistent results. The evidence supports the use of the intervention within the context in which it was evaluated.
Moderate quality evidence— one or more up-to-date reviews that include a number of primary studies of at least moderate quality with generally consistent results. The evidence suggests these interventions are likely to be useful in the context in which they have been evaluated but further evaluations are recommended.
Low quality evidence— where there are some high or moderate quality primary studies but no reviews available OR there are reviews giving inconsistent results. The evidence is currently limited, but what there is shows promise. This suggests these interventions may be worth considering, particularly in the context of extending services to address new or unmet needs, but should be evaluated.
Needle and syringe programmes, vaccination against HBV and opioid substitution treatment are effective in older people who inject drugs and are likely to be effective for under-18s, but this is yet to be demonstrated.
Implications for policy and practice
The main vulnerable groups of young people in Europe are young offenders, youth out of school or at risk for dropping out, youth with academic and social problems, homeless youth, youth in care institutions, youth from marginalised ethnic groups and vulnerable families.
Evidence-based selective and indicated prevention approaches targeting substance use among vulnerable young people should be provided rather than only awareness-raising and informational approaches. Go-approaches (approaching the target group at home or on the street) are more appropriate than come-approaches (where people are expected to show up to services).
Treatment and harm reduction services need to be provided for the small group of young people with severe problems.
Indicated programmes that target behavioural and temperamental vulnerabilities of neurobiological origin are rare in Europe but have high effect sizes in studies in North America. Expanding provision in Europe has the potential to make a significant impact.
There is a need to expand the evidence base on the effectiveness of treatment and harm reduction services for under-18s with severe drug problems and to identify and share models of good practice.
An improved understanding of the availability and levels of provision of drug treatment services for young people with drug problems is needed to identify where increased provision is required.
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Singapore medtech startup raises $1.37m
by Jacquelyn Cheok, 31/03/2015
The Singapore medtech startup behind migraine tracking app Migraine Buddy and the now-defunct emergency alert app JustShakeIt - has raised over US$1 million (S$1.37m) in its second round of seed funding.
Led by Wavemaker Pacific, the round also saw participation from GREE Ventures, the National Research Foundation, and the startup's original angel investor Shin Ryoku Trust.
This money will be used for expansion into overseas markets such as Japan, and eventually the rest of Asia and the US, co-founder and chief marketing officer Veronica Chew, told BT.
It will also be used for the hiring of new talent - mostly technical - to join the startup's existing team of 12, all of whom are based in an office at JTC's LaunchPad @ one-north.
Healint, whose vision is to provide the best "remote" patient care to sufferers of chronic disorders, seeks to do this by leveraging technology, data and health analytics. Its Migraine Buddy app, akin to a "virtual doctor", helps migraine sufferers track, analyse, predict and manage their migraine episodes.
Costing US$2.99 on the Apple App Store, Migraine Buddy has since last July amassed some 100,000 users from across the globe. "Most of them are from the UK, US and France - I think owing to the higher awareness of migraine there," said Ms Chew.
Healint recently partnered Migraine Action, a migraine support association in the UK, to advance research for UK migraine sufferers. It also partners pharmaceutical companies - among them Merck - to help them better understand patient behaviour and the effectiveness of various drugs, via projects and studies on sleep and gait for instance.
JustShakeIt, the startup's first app which had allowed patients - in the event of a stroke - to inform their emergency contact persons of their location just by shaking their phones, has since the second half of 2014 been discontinued.
"The incidence of stroke is not as high as that of migraines. As Healint is primarily data-driven, focusing on migraine tracking will give us more data to tap," explained Ms Chew. Healint had earlier raised about S$400,000 in angel funding from JFDI.Asia, Sublime IP, Shin Ryoku Trust and private investors.
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Business often comes down to numbers, with bottom lines, profitability, growth and more, all part of the ongoing calculation of making a company succeed. Unfortunately, the recent upheavals in global trade have made these calculations much more difficult. Unpredictability has become the new normal, with rising protectionism, saber-rattling from global leaders, and slow economic growth hindering financial projections. One factor that must be part of the equation for companies doing business globally is China.
China is widely regarded as one of the most powerful economies and countries in the world, and with this being said China's trade relationships face an uncertain time with the United States, forcing China to expand its relationship with the European Union. With these growing uncertainties and The New Silk Road on the horizon, navigating this dynamic market is more important than ever. However, paving your path through this market as importers and exporters alike is no easy task- implementing the proper policies and a China trade management solution is paramount to your company's success.
was approved in a close vote by the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on 15 February 2017. It was signed by both the European Union and Canadian representatives in October 2016, and first received a positive recommendation from the EU International Trade Committee in the European Parliament (EP) on 24 January 2017.
On his first full weekday in office, President Donald Trump swiftly abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with an executive order, standing by his Inauguration speech that "now arrives the hour of action." President Trump also signed an executive order to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The orders fulfill the pledge Trump made in mid-November to immediately make dramatic changes and put "America first" on his first day in office.
Minimizing duties is one of the fastest and easiest ways to squeeze significant financial returns out of a company's global supply chain. Duty minimization opportunities come in many forms, but many companies fail to take advantage of these programs due to the perceived difficulty of qualifying for and administering them.
The fifth video in our series explains how automating the duty management process is the best way to reap the benefits – like cutting duties and taxes by 80-100%.
Free trade agreements and foreign trade zones offer an attractive opportunity for US importers to reduce or eliminate duties and taxes, but these benefits hide behind a maze of complex protocols, dense paperwork, and red tape. Sourcing and supply chain executives must also balance duty considerations against material quality, production capacity, and number of components.
The 40-year old Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program has helped many developing countries get a foothold in the US retail market with special duty-free status on imported goods. Established by the Trade Act of 1974, GSP promotes economic development by eliminating duties on up to 5,000 types of products when imported from one of 122 designated beneficiary countries and territories.
All the acronyms used to reference trade and duty programs can sound a lot like alphabet soup. But they represent a variety of opportunities for exporters to grow their business overseas by making their products more affordable in growing markets. Furthermore, FTAs and FTZs allow importers to dramatically lower the duties and taxes they pay.
Savings from these programs can be significant, and are often measured in the millions to tens of millions of dollars annually. And yet, many shippers don't participate because the complexity of each unique trade agreement and the difficulty navigating the regulatory intricacies.
The British Vote Brexit: How Will This Affect Trade?
As you have heard by now, the British public voted in favor of a Brexit, or exit, from the European Union (EU). Of the British electorate, 17.4 million (51.9%) casted their votes in favor of Brexit compared to 16.1 million (48.1%) in favor of continued membership with an overall turnout of 72.2%, which is higher than most expected. So what does this mean for the future of the UK and global trade?
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