The ORS-1 minisatellite is part of a larger effort by DoD to build and launch satellites faster, typically within 24 months of approval, and to put those satellites under the direct control of warfighters for faster response time in tasking and receiving information. ORS-1 represents a fundamental change in the U.S. military satellite acquisition process.
The ORS-1 mission was led by the ORSO (Operationally Responsive Space Office) and partners including the U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Central Command, the Space and Missile Center's Space Development and Test Directorate, the Air Force Space Command's 50th Space Wing, U.S. Army, NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Goodrich Corporation's ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) Systems (Danbury, CT), ATK Spacecraft Systems and Services, L-3 Communications, OSC (Orbital Sciences Corporation), Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, The Aerospace Corporation, and TASC Inc.
The ORS-1 spacecraft bus, referred to as ATK A200, was built by ATK Space Systems and Services (Beltsville, MD) and was based on their TacSat-3 bus (launch May 19, 2009). The modular bus provides precision pointing with an agile three-axis stabilization system , power and thermal management, orbital maneuvering and payload support functionality. The ATK designed and built spacecraft bus meets the ORS-1 goals of being operationally responsive, low-cost and high performance. It includes an integrated propulsion system [the propulsion subsystem is comprised of an Aerojet procured PROP plus and an ATK-provided propulsion control unit (PCU) and Prop deck] as well as other critical subsystems for communications, attitude control, thermal control, and command and data handling. ATK's innovative hexapetal bus design enables rapid integration and modular packaging of both bus and payload components - an enabling capability for future ORS (Operationally Responsive Space) missions that must meet a seven-day call-up requirement.
Other innovative features of the ATK spacecraft design include the adoption of Integrated Systems Engineering Team standard interfaces, that were developed in parallel by a joint government-industry team of engineers; an agile three-axis stabilization system to enable payload sensors to collect precision data on-orbit and downlink processed information in the same orbit pass; a robust power capability with modular power options that can be tailored for specific mission requirements; and a high-strength structure with adaptable interfaces to support a variety of sensor payloads.
ORS-1 was built with a one year design life and a two year lifespan goal; it has a mass of about 475 kg and features robust power capability with 900 W (max). The first SpaceCube 1.5 system is flown on the ORS-1 minisatellite.
Final assembly and testing of the ORS-1 space vehicle was completed at the Goodrich Danbury, CT facility. Although MIL-STD-1540 was the basis for qualification testing requirements, extensive tailoring was adapted to reduce cost and schedule.
ATK's spacecraft bus met the ORS program goals of being operationally responsive with affordable technology and unprecedented rapid execution from design to launch. ATK built the bus in just 16 months at its Beltsville, Maryland facility and shipped it ahead of schedule to Goodrich Corporation, the prime contractor for the ORS-1 satellite.
RF communications: Information obtained by ORS-1's SYERS-2 modified sensor is transmitted to the ground via a space qualified CDL (Common Data Link) radio, similar to the kind of radio used to deliver ISR-modified data to the ground from airborne platforms like unmanned aerial vehicles and the U-2.
The second generation CDL (of TacSat-3 heritage) provides data rates of up to 274 Mbit/s (downlink and uplink in X-band). The TT&C function is provided in S-band. For more than a decade, the CDL program has been the DOD standard for assured wideband communications of tactical intelligence data. Through technology insertion, this family of common hardware and software modules continues to serve on various airborne ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance) platforms.
Orbit: Near circular orbit (LEO), altitude of ~ 425 km, inclination = 40º, period = 92.93 minutes.
- ORS-1 provides USCENTCOM an assured ISR capability that cannot be preempted by support to other users. It is an enabler for sustaining operations and objectives in a highly volatile region and is laying the path for future rapid reaction space systems.
- Although originally dedicated to USCENTCOM support, ORS-1 capabilities have been extended beyond a single combatant commander. The vehicle was designed to support CENTCOM, but the ORS-1 team recognized it could do so much more. The program office sent word out to U.S. PACOM (Pacific and U.S Africa Commands), and reached out through the Joint Functional Component Command directly to combatant commander staffs to let them know we could support their tasking's too. As a result, ORS-1 now provides effects for PACOM on a regular basis and does so occasionally with AFRICOM and Special Forces commands. ORS-1 earned early combatant command acceptance in less than 90 days after liftoff and was named one of nation's top new technologies by the C4ISR magazine.
- ORS-1 added an integrated propulsion system to the ATK bus that has allowed ORS-1 to perform orbital decay maneuvers, contributing significantly to the overall operational lifetime of the spacecraft.
• The ORS-1 satellite and its payload are operating nominally; as of July 29, 2015 the ORS-1 mission completed its 4th year on orbit. The ORS-1 satellite is the first and only dedicated space-based ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) capability for INTERCOM (U.S. Central Command); successfully demonstrating tactical IRS from space.
- "One of the most important lessons of ORS-1 was the ground system. That was the first operational system flown on the Multi-Mission Space Operations Center. It's now one of five satellites that have flown on that system. As a matter of fact, the next system we're building, ORS-5, is going to fly on that system as well because we learned the lesson of open architecture and flexibility built in up front. That benefit has been huge across a lot of Space and Missile Systems Center programs and it's turning into a look at how we do ground systems across the board. "
The team's intimate knowledge of ORS-1 and its capabilities directly led to the unhampered success of the 45-day on-orbit test with the transfer of SCA (Satellite Control Authority) to the 50th Space Wing in mid-September and early acceptance by USCENTCOM on September 23, 2012.
• The combined ORS-1 government/contractor team moved to Shriever AFB following the June 29th launch from NASA Wallops and quickly completed early orbit checkout involving initialization of the bus, GN&C system; checkout of safe mode, payload, and fault management, and propulsion systems; and GN&C characterization. A key event was the deployment of the aperture door and subsequent checkout of the SYERS-2 like payload. The team also provided procedural support as the 1/7 SOPS crews gained certification and proficiency from July through October 2011.
The ORS-1 sensor payload leverages the Goodrich SYERS-2 multispectral sensor, the primary imaging sensor on the U-2 reconnaissance plane. The flight heritage of the SYERS-2 sensor on airborne platforms, coupled with existing interoperable ground systems, enables the nearly seamless integration of the ORS-1 data products into the battlefield picture.
The SYERS-2 instrument is a pushbroom VIS/SWIR/MWIR high-resolution MSI (Multispectral Imager) developed at Goodrich, Danbury, CT. ATK's San Diego facility in California provided the ORS-1 payload's telescope structure under subcontract to Goodrich.
Ground command and control activities use Air Force Space Command's MMSOC-GSA (Multi Mission Space Operations Center - Ground Support Architecture). The spacecraft team leveraged the MMSOC- GSA resulting in minimal development of unique software for the mission (Ref. 1).
The MMSOC ground system architecture was developed by the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Space Development and Test Directorate to replace an aging ground system with a new, open system that could support unique technology demonstration flights and respond to space operational communities using limited personnel while lowering development and sustainment costs and reducing schedule without increasing technical risk. The MMSOC framework is flexible and compatible with both Research and Development, and Operations satellites, and uses a net-centric, service-oriented architecture.
The MMSOC ground system architecture provides telemetry, tracking, and control through the use of open-system and COTS components. It accommodates the integration of newly developed command and control systems through an incremental development process. The DOD experimental and demonstration satellites are typically one-of-a-kind missions designed to last about a year. The MMSOC ground system architecture supports every aspect of such missions, including planning, training, mission preparation, launch and early orbit operation, normal operation, data collection and dissemination, and vehicle health and safety monitoring. Some missions end the experimental phase with a residual operational capability.
The MMSOC ground system architecture has been designated as the primary satellite command and control capability for Air Force missions within the ORS Office. The Block I architecture was also used to support STPSat-2 in early 2010. MMSOC is a revolutionary approach to space operations - an operations center focused on forging a one-of-a-kind operations and acquisition team to demonstrate and field emerging space missions and satellite command and control technologies in a rapid, decisive manner. It is structured to operate a variety of satellite missions, including satellite initiatives without a program office, satellite missions of small scale (small constellations), new missions transitioning from concept toward full-scale operations and all research, development, test and evaluation satellites with operational utility remaining after test and evaluation are complete. The key to the ground system's effectiveness lies in its flexibility. The vision for MMSOC is to fly multiple missions, where an operator controlling ORS-1 with one computer while sitting next to someone who is controlling a completely different vehicle.
The VMOC, an automated tool for mission planning, tasking, and scheduling activities,developed by NRL (Naval Research Laboratory), was modified for the ORS-1 mission and existing tools were used for exploitation and dissemination. VMOC is a common planning, tasking, and scheduling interface that is integrated with tasking tools such as PRISM (Planning tool for Resource Integration Synchronization and Management) and with the MMSOC ground system architecture at Schriever Air Force Base. The automated interface between the tactical and mission components of the VMOC allows scalable mission planning with a "Fed-Ex" style capability that will allow users to track the status of their data requests. Using the tactical component of the VMOC as the tasking and sensor visualization tool in actual operations greatly assists in the refinement of organizational roles and responsibilities. It will provide insight into ORS availability and limitations, allowing operators to evaluate emerging requirements and apply the correct asset at the right time—without putting the platform at risk of being overtasked.
Both MMSOC and VMOC are trailblazing capabilities that will serve as the basis for streamlined support of multiple future space programs. The near-term focus for VMOC is on supporting the ORS-1 and TacSat-4 missions (launch Sept. 27, 2011).
VMOC's path to space operations has followed a multi-year process that began as a simple request to make space capabilities more accessible to users and evolved into proving a mechanism to collaboratively manage disparate space and ground systems consistent with increasingly dynamic and responsive operations. In support of the responsive space goals, the VMOC has served as a forcing function to bring intelligence, operational, and science agencies together to refine and implement operational relationships and roles that are required for rapid tasking processes.
With the successful launches of ORS-1 in June 2011 and TacSat-4 in September 2011, VMOC, now space-qualified, has fully demonstrated the power of web-based planning, as it continues to enable a new era of rapid planning and improved space responsiveness. It is now clear that the VMOC approach to worldwide tasking is not only feasible, but also practical.
ORS-1 is operated around the clock by the SOPS (Space Operations Squadron), located on Schriever AFB, CO. The ORS-1 program office worked closely with the Goodrich and its partners to ensure a viable space vehicle design derived from the proven TacSat-3 satellite along with reuse of 80% of its software. This enabled the launch vehicle interfaces and data analyses to also be preserved.
ORS-1 was able to fulfill massive intelligence requirements with the existing U-2 data processing system. This enabled the imagery to be instantly exploited by the existing CENTCOM intelligence infrastructure to Task/Process/Exploit/Disseminate. The technical team also effectively leveraged the Naval Research Lab's mission planning tool, VMOC.
In retrospect, it can be stated that ORS-1 proved its operational utility almost immediately, providing timely coverage and responsive fulfillment of theater taskings. The rapid acquisition avoided the burden of traditional top-down procurements and provides for future growth by leveraging upgrades in airborne/space assets achievable in the short term. The ORS-1 team devised an ingenious risk-based technical development and test program that tailored the approach to design decisions and performance verification (Ref. 1).
Between 2004 and 2008, the VMOC (Virtual Mission Operations Center) was developed through a series of operational demonstrations designed to support the standardization of spacecraft to ground interfaces needed to reduce costs, maximize space effects to the user, and allow the generation of new TTP (Tactics, Techniques and Procedures) needed to shape responsive space employment.
In 2008, VMOC development goals were refined to provide direct support to the TacSat-4 and ORS-1 missions. The launch of ORS-1 in June 2011 and TacSat-4 in September 2011 have now provided operations experience and lessons learned. These operations activities continue to serve as a forcing function for refining TTPs and concepts of operations.
The organizations that have been most involved in the VMOC development and testing include NASA, Air Force Battlelab, Army SMDC Battle Lab, ONR (Office of Naval Research), ORS (Operationally Responsive Space) Office, Blossom Point operations, MMSOC (Multi Mission Space Operations Center) operations, JSpOC (Joint Space Operations Center), and NRL (Naval Research Lab) as the program manager for VMOC.
Operational VMOC support to the ORS-1 imaging and TacSat-4 SATCOM missions has shown that it can reduce manpower and time requirements for scheduling satellite payloads during daily operations from hours to minutes. In the case of ORS-1, VMOC was designed and developed to support a single user though a single input interface.


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Two days with Kuki rebels: Bhut Jolokia and gunshots
We were already late as the Manipur DGP met us 45 minutes behind the schedule. India Today Photo Editor T. Narayan had already arrived from New Delhi and was waiting for me and Chitra Ahanthem, our guide and interlocutor, outside the DGP office. At almost 12 noon, we left for Churachandpur, a two-hour-drive from Imphal. Lunch was out of the question as the Kuki rebels had told Chitra that they would meet us at 2 pm. Driver Abung was fast but sane, and the road was good with picturesque landscape on both sides. We reached a good 15 minutes ahead of the schedule. At the Churachandpur junction, a white Honda City was waiting. It guided us to the home of Thongsei Haokip, the "defence secretary" of Kuki National Organisation (KNO), one of the two umbrella groups covering 21 armed Kuki rebel outfits in Manipur. It's a palatial house with a manicured lawn, solar lamps, and high walls surrounding the campus. A 42-inch Sony Bravia flat screen TV dominates his living room; a six-seater table and a double-door 340-litre refrigerator adorn the dining room. We were served chilled mango juice. In 10 minutes, Seilen Haokip, the London-educated spokesperson of KNO, joined us. He hopped into a Tata Safari with three armed guards and we were asked to follow. After crisscrossing some dusty lanes, we ascended a small hilltop, some 73 km from Imphal. We were asked not to disclose the actual location and name of the place. So, let's call it Y. Here, we found two small concrete structures, which the rebels used as transit camps. There was a water tank, a small make-shift kitchen and two wooden beds. For an uninterrupted and safe discussion, we trekked to the peak.
The cadres, dressed in olives and totting AK-47s, M-16s and 9mm pistols, ran to the top with plastic chairs. As we interviewed Seilen and Winson Kuki, a 60-year-old rebel, who earlier had fought for the dreaded MNF of Mizoram and was called a lionheart, the cadres took their positions to check movements down the hill. Seilen told us how some bureaucrats and state politicians were blocking the path to a final solution to their demand for a Kuki state. He even called Union Joint Secretary (North-east) Shambhu Singh disparaging names and asked me to note that on record. Once the interview was over at 4.30 pm, we were escorted down to the camp where we were served tea without sugar in aluminium mugs. The protocol was strictly maintained as Seilen and Winson got to sip tea from ceramic cups with saucer. It was dark already and we rushed back to Imphal.
The next day, we were taken to another place, 35 km away from Imphal, in the exactly opposite direction of Y. The last seven km of the road was a dangerous drive up to a hillock along a muddy road crisscrossed by a rivulet. It was a proper camp, inhabited by 40 gun-toting rebels. Winson, who was with us from Imphal, insisted that we shared a meal with the rebels as they had prepared it with great love and affection. It was chicken curry prepared with Bhut Jolokia, the hottest chilli in the world.
After one bite, I had to give up and shared the bland chicken curry specially prepared for Winson. But the bigger scare was still awaiting us. Out of curiosity, I wanted to peep into the arms store of the rebels through the gap between the tin roof and the brick walls of the room. As I was trying to climb atop a table and a chair to reach that gap, I heard a gunshot behind me. I'm told a rebel had misfired while cleaning his equipment but I could sense something else. The camp inmates, mostly in their teens, lead a hard life, far away from human habitat and tempers run high there. As we were almost done with our inspection, one rebel slapped another for some mistake which none was ready to disclose to us. The next moment I heard a gun being unlocked. Without wasting a second, I hopped into our car and told the driver to hit the pedal.
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U CALLED URSELE A JOURNALIST .! Shame on u coward!
chin kuki mizo
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I think ur story is not attractive http://www.bankinfoonline.com/
idiot..! u cal urself a journalist, eat my shit!!.. y dont u mor focus on ur intended visit, the sufering on the pple, hw r we mistreated rathr than ur fucking childhood dreams.. typical indians!
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Too bad you had to travel so far to eat bland chicken curry. You could have get it packed from OK hotel, MG Avenue, Imphal.
What is the aim of this article?
Thadou Pa
Tell us something about your interview.
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More like of a diary entry of a journey. Being a journalist he should have focus on his cause of visits and why people in the corner of India took up arms....no offence intended
Letminlun Haokip
Poor coverage on the part of the writer....i should say, an investment gone waste.....coz it doesnt really show anything worth reading/informing at all...
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An insider's view on the socio-political developments of India's North-east.
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Kaushik Deka hails from Tihu, a small town in Assam which was once considered a hub of ULFA and several other terrorist outfits. In the 22 years he spent in his motherland, he has had several close encounters with terrorism of various forms. Though he believes that the anti-State violent movements are a result of decades-long apathy by the Centre towards the region, insurgency in the North-east has now become an industry with many stakeholders. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Deka has co-authored a book The Secret Killings of Assam.
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Is there such a thing as a normal life when you live with an ancient vampire and a temperamental hellhound? Victoria Westernly was just starting to think so. With Samhain just around the corner and the promise of a Halloween Ball, her life was looking good. Even the addition of a new master vampire couldn't bring her down. When Victoria and Darien become the victims of a series of unfortunate accidents, they know something's up. Where there's smoke, there's fire. But, the question is, who is burning what?
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Second Round of Aspen Institute Opportunity Youth Grants Awarded
The Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund of the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions has announced a second round of grants in support of community-based efforts to reconnect youth to education and employment opportunities.
In 2013, OYIF awarded grants totaling $6 million to twenty-one cities and counties to engage youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither enrolled in school nor working. The nineteen communities that received one-year planning grants in the initial funding round will receive new awards to continue their efforts to reconnect these "opportunity youth" to their communities through public-private collaborations that connect the various systems that touch their lives and create effective pathways to jobs and long-term success.
To that end, the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions plans to provide up to $13 million in support to the twenty-one sites over the five-year course of the fund, which was launched by the Aspen Institute in 2012.
"One system alone cannot address the great challenges facing young people with some of the worst odds in life, such as youth who have been involved with the child welfare or juvenile justice systems," said Patrick McCarthy, president and CEO of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. "The collective impact approach holds great promise, aligning multiple systems to better support these young people's needs and interests and give them a real shot at succeeding in school and in life. We look forward to the evidence and lessons that will emerge from these community efforts in the coming years."
For a complete list of OYIF grantee communities, visit the Aspen Institute website.
"Aspen Institute Re-Invests in Innovative Community Collaboratives to Engage 'Opportunity Youth'." Aspen Institute Press Release 07/24/2014.
Subjects: children / youth; education; human services
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(3418) Izvekov es un asteroide perteneciente al cinturón de asteroides, descubierto el 31 de agosto de 1973 por Tamara Mijáilovna Smirnova desde el Observatorio Astrofísico de Crimea (República de Crimea).

Designación y nombre
Designado provisionalmente como 1973 QZ1. Fue nombrado Izvekov en honor al astrónomo soviético ruso Vladimir Andrejević Izvekov.

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides del (3401) al (3500)
 Cuerpo menor del sistema solar

Referencias

Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por Tamara Smirnova
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde el Observatorio Astrofísico de Crimea
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1973
Wikiproyecto:Asteroides/Artículos de asteroides

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In a strange quirk, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, located in Kittery, ME, is often confused with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, which is located in Portsmouth, VA. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is the oldest continuously operating naval shipyard in the United States, and actually predates the existence of the United States Navy by over a century.
In 1690, the British warship was built on the site for the Royal Navy. Other ships followed, including the British HMS America in 1749. During the American Revolution, John Paul Jones' Ranger was produced on the site, and Jones himself resided briefly in Portsmouth while supervising the construction of one of the Continental Navy's ships of the line, also named America. That ship, when completed, was given to France as partial payment for the services of the nation during the revolution.
The current Naval Yard was established in 1799 and began operation in 1800. The War of 1812 significantly slowed production at the yard, although the site itself was spared from British attack due to its strong harbor defenses. After that war, the yard continued to build wooden warships for the US Navy and built the largest shiphouse constructed to that time.
During the Spanish-American War, in 1898, the yard housed prisoner of war facilities. In 1905 the prison grounds were expanded and the Portsmouth Naval Prison was established and built. The prison was used to house Navy and Marine Corps personnel convicted of crimes until its closure in 1974.
When President Theodore Roosevelt arranged a peace conference between the belligerents of the Russo-Japanese War, Portsmouth was chosen as the site. The Treaty Building, originally a storage warehouse, remains in use as the Administration Building.
From the onset of World War I until the late 1960s, Portsmouth concentrated on the building and maintenance of submarines. Submarines built in the yard contributed significantly to the success of the American submarine campaign against the Japanese during the Second World War. Archerfish, built at the yard, sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano, the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine. Seawolf, another product of the yard, sank 18 Japanese ships during its war career. In all, over 70 submarines were built at the yard which saw service during the war.
After the war, the yard continued building, overhauling and maintaining submarines, constructing its first nuclear submarine, Swordfish, in 1958. U.S.S. Thresher, the first nuclear submarine to be lost at sea, was built at Portsmouth. In 1963 Thresher, departing from Portsmouth for sea trials following overhaul, sank with all hands, including some embarked shipyard personnel, during diving trials. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was instrumental in developing and implementing SUBSAFE procedures which resulted from the lessons learned as a result of that tragic accident.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard built delivered the last submarine constructed there in 1969. Since that time the yard has been instrumental in maintaining, converting and modifying submarines for the US Navy.
Like all shipyards, from the late 1930's to the late 1970s, asbestos was present not only in the building of ships, but in the construction of many of the buildings and facilities comprising the yard itself. Warehouses stocked asbestos materials in the form of cloth, gasket material, powders, muds, sheets for cutting into panels, brake linings, clutch materials, and fireproofing. Cements and solvents contained asbestos.
Asbestos was a favored material in the construction of buildings at the same time, used in roofing materials, flooring, insulation for heating and ventilation, electrical wiring and other uses. Although inert when untouched, asbestos becomes friable when it is cut, broken or otherwise manipulated, releasing a micro-sized powder into the air which, when inhaled, remains lodged in the lungs.
Although the greatest exposure would be to individuals actually working with the material, the dust suspended in the air would have been hazardous to anyone in the area. As the use of asbestos was extensive and prevalent throughout the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, anyone present prior to the late 1970s, and in some cases beyond, would have been exposed to this potential hazard.


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8 notable women in Christian history
CP World | Friday, March 08, 2019
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter | Friday, March 08, 2019
Catherine Booth (1829-1890), the co-founder of the Salvation Army. | Public Domain
March is Women's History Month in the United States, a time in which Americans focus on the many contributions women have made in the past.
The observance has its federal roots in a February 1980 proclamation by President Jimmy Carter meant to celebrate "National Women's History Week" during the week of March 8, which is International Women's Day. It became an official annual month celebration by an act of Congress in 1987.
Through the centuries, women have made substantial and various contributions to church history, from evangelism to leadership. Indeed, there are too many to list in a single piece.
With that noted, here are eight notable women from Christian history. They include a French warrior, a prolific hymnist, a famed abolitionist and a Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian.
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Adherence to medication in adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and pro re nata dosing of psychostimulants: a systematic review
Eur Psychiatry. 2012 Jul;27(5):343-9. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2012.01.002. Epub 2012 Apr 20.
H Caisley 1 , U Müller
1 Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Research Clinic, Cambridge, UK.
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2012.01.002
Adherence to a regular medication regimen may be challenging for adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Some report taking psychostimulants on a pro re nata (PRN) basis. This review aims to establish the rate of adherence, and reasons for and consequences of non-adherence to medication for ADHD in adults, and to review literature on PRN dosing of psychostimulants in these patients. A systematic literature search was conducted. Four primary research studies have investigated the rate of adherence to medication in adults with ADHD. Mean adherence rate in two studies ranged from 52% to 87%. A number of possible reasons for poor adherence have been suggested. Prospective studies are needed to further define the rate of adherence and causes of poor adherence. Evidence examining whether differences in adherence affect clinical outcomes is equivocal. Therefore, caution should be applied to the assumption that maximising adherence to regular medication regimens will improve clinical outcomes. Two articles acknowledge that patients take medication on a PRN basis. Studies comparing the effectiveness of a regular and PRN regimen of psychostimulants are needed. If PRN dosing is as effective as a regular regimen, advantages might include enhanced doctor-patient communication, reduced side effects and cost savings.
Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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Private Banker International looks at some of the biggest news stories of the month as M&A continues despite the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the tightening of margins, money is still being utilised to gain competitive advantages
Rothschild & Co Bank to take over Swiss rival Banque Pâris Bertrand
Rothschild & Co Bank, the wealth management subsidiary of Rothschild & Co, has agreed to purchase Geneva-based private bank Banque Pâris Bertrand.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
With offices in Geneva and Luxembourg, Banque Pâris Bertrand caters to wealthy families, family offices and institutional investors, majorly from Switzerland, and other European markets.
The firm is active in the wealth management business and also runs three asset management businesses namely, LongRun Global Equity Fund, Pâris Bertrand Systematic Asset Management and Hermance Capital Partners Private Equity investment solutions.
Four in five women from wealthy families expect to inherit substantially
Four in five women (82%) from wealthy families expect to inherit substantial wealth over the next 20 years.
However, only two in five (41%) are currently not involved in family financial decision making.
This is according to research from Barclays Private Bank entitled Smarter Succession: The Challenges and Opportunities of Intergenerational Wealth Transfer.
The study also found that four in five (83%) main decision makers around family wealth are men. Furthermore, these main decision makers, whether men or women, are more likely to turn to their sons (29%) rather than their daughters on matters of wealth, finance and investment.
Asset managers representing over $9trn join forces for net zero emissions goal
Thirty asset managers, collectively overseeing $9trn in assets, have joined forces with the aim of accomplishing net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or before.
The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative will be managed globally by six founding partner investor networks including Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
AXA Investment Managers, BMO Global Asset Management, Fidelity International, Legal & General Investment Management, Schroders, UBS Asset Management, M&G, Wellington Management and DWS are the major names in the 30-member coalition.
External global factors become principal driver in compliance progress changes
The impact of external global factors has surpassed regulatory hurdles as the principal driver in compliance progress changes.
This is according to the 6th Global Compliance Survey from Nasdaq. Representing both sell and buy side firms and market infrastructure, respondents of the survey cited external factors, notably COVID-19, as the main catalyst for the changes, unusually surpassing regulatory hurdles.
Expanding on the deviation, Valerie Bannert-Thurner, senior vice president and head of buy-side and sell-side solutions, market technology at Nasdaq, commented: "Year on year, the findings of the annual Global Compliance Survey typically show regulatory hurdles being the major factor in compliance planning and practices – but this year is different."
Produced in collaboration with Greenwich Associates, the survey gathers qualitative and quantitative feedback from more than 200 compliance professionals and executives in the financial industry worldwide.
Hang Seng Bank unveils personalised wealth management service for HNW clients
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Bank has introduced new signature wealth management services for HNW customers.
Dubbed Signature, this new service combines personalised wealth and banking solutions with lifestyle and health services.
The bank is offering the new service to clients with total relationship balance of HK$8m ($1.03m) or above.
Hang Seng Bank's most senior and experienced relationship managers are dedicated to serving these clients.
CIBC Canadian wealth arm shows resilience in challenging market; US wealth unit falters
The Canadian Commercial and Wealth Management arm of CIBC has been able to withstand the Covid-19-induced turbulence, demonstrating a strong performance in Q4 2020.
Gains in this unit, supported by the capital markets division, helped temper a lackluster quarter for the overall group that was hit by a slowdown at its US commercial banking and wealth management arm.
The Canadian Commercial and Wealth Management arm of CIBC reported a net income of C$340m ($264.6m), a rise of 11%. The unit's total revenue increased to C$515m from C$502m over the period.
Schroders unveils new Shariah-compliant fund
British fund manager Schroders has rolled out a new Shariah-compliant fund that serves as a diversified investment strategy.
Dubbed Islamic Global Equity Fund, the new vehicle integrates Shariah Law compliance with multi-factor investing.
Managed by the Schroders Systematic Investments (SSI) unit, the strategy incorporates a multi-factor investment approach.
It looks to outperform the Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index in three to five years.
Impact investing firm Asteria taps Amundi for portfolio management system
Asteria Investment Managers (IM), the impact investing affiliate of Swiss private bank Reyl Group, has turned to Amundi for the management of its assets using the latter's portfolio management system.
Under the partnership, Amundi will supply its Amundi Leading Technologies & Operations (ALTO) to Asteria using cloud technology.
ALTO offers a range of services spanning the entire order and execution lifecycle. This includes portfolio analysis, pre- and post-trade compliance, risks, performance, processing of transactions, and holding of positions, reporting, and data management.
Deutsche Bank receives fund custody licence in China
A Chinese unit of German banking group Deutsche Bank has reportedly obtained a domestic fund custody licence, in the latest sign of China's financial services sector liberalisation.
The licence from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) will enable the bank to hold securities on behalf of mutual funds as well as private funds based in China after completing the relevant administrative process, noted Reuters.
Deutsche Bank is the second to secure this licence in China. In September this year, Citi became the first US bank to get the licence.
Deutsche Bank China chief country officer Rose Zhu said: "Many of our global institutional clients are actively exploring and acting on the unfolding opportunity to tap into the exponential China market, which is still fast growing and opening up.
Guernsey enhances Private Investment Fund regime
Guernsey has announced plans to upgrade its Private Investment Fund (PIF), expanding the regime with two supplemental models.
The revisions remove the need for manager involvement and will create the most comprehensive and flexible suite of options of any private fund regime.
Typically, the fund manager makes declarations in respect of prospective investors' ability to sustain losses, the maximum number of investors, and the completeness and accuracy of the application.
Under the two new supplemental models, the PIF now provides an alternative for qualifying investors, and a "truly private structure" for family relationships.
Credit Suisse found tailing more employees than earlier revealed
Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has reportedly been carrying out physical surveillance of more employees than formerly revealed.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, two prior instances of surveillance were found by law firm Homburger.
These instances were said to have taken place before the spying scandal that erupted last year, and involved the surveillance of its former wealth management head Iqbal Khan in the wake of his defection to rival UBS.
In October 2017, Credit Suisse had an employee in New York tailed outside work after it suspected the employee of misusing confidential data, stated the report citing people familiar with the matter.
JP Morgan inks deal to buy tax-smart technology specialist 55ip
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has agreed to purchase fintech firm 55ip, which offers a tax-smart investment strategy engine to support financial advisers.
The transaction, whose financial terms were not shared, comes shortly after a partnership signed between the two parties to offer tax-efficient access to model portfolios.
55ip CEO Paul Gamble said: "Joining forces with J.P. Morgan will provide greater resources for our current clients and enterprise partners, accelerate our innovation and broaden access to our solutions.
"55ip's purpose is to break down barriers to financial progress, by finding better ways to help more people through intelligent automation. Being part of J.P. Morgan will accelerate our ability to do just that, as the industry standard tax-smart investment strategy engine."
Coutts plants first trees in largest "tiny forest" of Europe
Private bank Coutts has planted the first 10,000 trees of a wide NatWest project to create the largest "tiny forest" in Europe.
This was part of Coutts' promise to plant a tree for every client that chooses to go paperless. The NatWest Group collaborated with The Conservation Volunteers to carry out the project.
In addition, they are working alongside Barking & Dagenham Council, Thames Chase Community Forest, SUGI, and Wild Urban Spaces to create six new tiny forests in Parsloes Park.
The forests have been planted using the Miyawkai planting method to build dense, native forests and designed to encourage tree growth that is up to 10 times faster.
Standard Chartered pushes into crypto custody with Northern Trust partnership
UK-based banking group Standard Chartered, through its innovation unit SC Ventures, has collaborated with American asset manager Northern Trust to launch a cryptocurrency custodian for institutional investors.
Dubbed Zodia Custody, the new offering will enable institutions to invest in emerging cryptocurrency assets, including transaction and settlement activities.
It will initially support digital assets Bitcoin and Ethereal and then XRP, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash, which collectively constitute nearly 80% of the total assets traded across top crypto exchanges.
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Posted By: Ellen Wardon: March 27, 2018 In: Gaming, New Releases, News, Opinion, PCTags: Far Cry 5, Ubisoft2 Comments
Far Cry 5 was released today at midnight despite being a month late and a few hours later, reviews for the game start bombarding the internet from various gaming sites. Players that started playing the game through the morning have already formed an opinion on Far Cry 5 and the majority seem to like the game, as the reviews on Steam are currently stated at 'Very Positive'.
So, it was a surprise to see that Polygon gave Far Cry 5 a considerably low score of six and a half out of ten. IGN, however, gave Far Cry 5 an eight. Polygon commented on the story saying it "starts on a hollow note and never improves." Throughout most of the review, the article criticises the storyline and that it does not touch on any current American politics. Ben Kuchera, the author of the article, felt that the game was a wasted opportunity to talk about the issues that are going on and that the storyline "undercuts any grand statement" made.
Once the review went up a few fans took to Twitter to voice their opinion on the review. One fan exclaimed:"Is this how far 'gaming journalism' has sunk?" Erk Kain, a writer for Forbes, even commented on the score on his Twitter account stating that:
"Also, Polygon giving #FarCry5 a 6.5 is just rubbish. The story is definitely a weak point, but who cares? It's a wonderful game regardless. A big open sandbox full of hilarious possibilities. The story is silly, sure, but you have to be pretty joyless to give it a 6.5."
A lot of fans claimed that players do not play the game for the story, but for the gameplay instead. The review itself has 274 comments on it and it is growing every hour.
Ben Kuchera of Polygon giving Far Cry 5 a 6.5/10 because he didn't like that the story didn't make some grand political statement is hilarious. He even admits that other than that, it's the best Far Cry game ever.
Nobody plays Far Cry for the story.
— Falconbox (@_Falconbox) March 26, 2018
Polygon gave Far Cry 5 a 6.5/10? Seriously, that truly blows my mind. I challenge any regular FPS gamer to play this and tell me that score makes sense.
— Jez (@JezCorden) March 27, 2018
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In the Van With Neil Young: An Exclusive Interview
The anchor of CSNY talks about the solo record, the new tour and what might be next
Rolling Stone caught up with Neil Young in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I was impressed with how well the new songs came off live — the crowd really liked them. Do you get that sense from the stage?
On the stage, I'm mostly so into what I'm doing that I don't really realize what the crowd is up to, but I can hear them at the end, and each song, they seem to react more and more to, and there are some that they're kind of shocked at, like when we do "Families," and they see all of those soldiers over there and they see some of the images that go with it, it reminds them of what the songs are about. The songs are important songs, even though they're just folk songs. They're no big deal, but they're just talking about things that some people feel. When they hear what you say, what they think, it just frees them up, it's like someone having a voice for them.
"Find the Cost of Freedom" was very powerful. I have rarely heard a crowd so still and quiet.
It's the real deal, it's not about entertainment. This is what's so funny about what's going on today. People make a record, I make a whole album about this war, and some people are still stupid enough to say that I just did it for the money because I'm an old fart. They're out of touch. It's not about the entertainment business, it's about a fucking war that people are getting killed in. Musicians, you can only ignore things for so long, and things that people say start soaking in on you, and it just reflects everything you hear on the street. There's nothing new in any of this.
I think that of all the upsetting things going on, not letting us see the caskets. . .
If he went to a funeral, which he has never done, if he did, they're afraid it would cause more television coverage for the war. I'm pretty sure — I would even go out on a limb and say that by the time this is printed, that he will finally go to a funeral, because he's slowly starting to do the things that are obvious that he's done that don't make any difference to anything other than people's feelings. Those are the things he can fix. The other things, where he screwed the country out of billions and billions of dollars, and thousands of lives, and ruined our reputation around the world, those things aren't going to change by going to a funeral.
When you first booked this tour, you didn't have those songs yet, right?
No. I felt them.
How quickly did they come to you?
They came in a period of about a week and a half.
Is that the fastest you've done an album?
I don't know. Tonight's the Night was pretty fast. I've done a few fast ones. Quickness has nothing to do with it, it's how into it you are, and how important it is to be good. It's not important to have every note perfect, but it's important to have the message felt, and I like to record a version where I'm singing live. I don't like to overdub. So if I'm delivering and I can see the picture and I can feel like I'm talking to people with my performance, that's it for me. That's all I need, I don't need anything else. If I'm into something a lot, like I was this, then it happens real fast. That doesn't mean I threw it off or anything. It's physically draining and mentally exhausting to do it that fast, but when it's coming, it's a gift. It's all a gift. You can't turn it down. You've got to stay open all the time.
They worked well with Crosby, Stills and Nash, they took the place of the choir, really. I felt that when they translated to stage, they sounded almost better.
Yeah, well, it's live, and I love to hear the choir singing along with us, too. In some cases, in the audience, you can hear the audience singing the songs, and time is going by, and they're getting to know them better. So it's the real thing, real people and their feelings.
How did you put together the show's set list?
We rehearsed for about ten days for the tour. We tried sprinkling my songs throughout the show, and that didn't work, because they disturbed everything. We put them all together, basically, and isolated other ones. Having four in a row here and having the bulk of it done in one place, that took us almost two weeks to discover, that that was the way to do it. We mostly worked on remembering what we were doing and the old songs, you have to practice and remember them.
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For a good twenty-five years, you didn't tour with these guys. Why, in the past six years, have you done three of them?
I think it's a time of life where this reuniting with your friends that you had when you were a kid and when you were growing up, it's a big part of life, keeping those relationships going. I like playing with these guys, and I like playing with Crazy Horse. It's all different.
Have you thought at all about what's next?
I really don't know right now. Maybe by the end of the tour I'll have some idea, maybe I won't. I really haven't thought about it. I just wait for it to happen.
You've been off the road for about two years, right?
Yes. The longest I've been off the road since I started touring.
How does it feel to be back in the swing of things?
It feels pretty good. I feel good about the way we're doing it and everything, we still have energy to play. We played a show last night and traveled and still have energy, so I'm grateful for that. I'm enjoying it. I'm having a great time doing it.
How about the boxed set? It's been sixteen years —
Yeah, it's been a long time. It's a lot of music. It's going to come out, and we get closer and closer to having it finished. I'm not exactly sure when it's coming out, but I don't think it's going to be a year from now when it will be out, I think it will be out before then. We have a lot of it finished now.
Will it be chronological?
Yeah, there will be a series of sets. There are four volumes, and each volume has a number of CDs in it. It's a big set, but it's a chronological thing. It's a trip from my first recording up through the most recent ones. That's how we can divide it up.
Where will the first one stop?
The first one stops in 1971 or '72, I think it's '72.
Is there Squires stuff on there?
Yeah, there's four Squires songs. There's a lot of stuff people haven't heard before.
Is there going to be a video component?
Yes. There's a lot of video stuff that's going to be in it. There's going to be a live performance, actually, two live acoustic performances, solo acoustic performances, that are groups of songs, long groups of songs, full sets. And it's kind of interesting to see the early Seventies and late Sixties that way. With this funky old 16-millimeter film and everything.
I've heard about that Fillmore East show from '70 with Crazy Horse — is that going to be on there?
I believe that's going to be in the first volume. That's a very, very hot little number right there.
I've heard some of the shows, but never with great sound quality.
These are good. These are eight-tracks — or eight-track multi-track mix downs.
So do you tape every show you do?
These ones, we're running a digital. I've done a lot of recording and filming of things over the years, just to keep a record. I like to collect things, so I just keep track of it.
Are you thinking of something like Bob Dylan's Bootleg series one day?
That's kind of like what the archives are like, really. It's that kind of a thing. It will be similar to Bob's thing. It's going to be a series of live records — there are live records over a period of about four years. That's a numbered set that will come out periodically. Some of them will be free; they will be on compilation records where there are new things in them. They're all new things, but some of them are things that have never been on record.
How about the unreleased albums?
Those are all in the archives, and as you chronologically get to that period, if there was a finished album, it will be there, and it will also be possible to listen to the songs in the order they were recorded, so everything in the order it was recorded, that's the way the archive works. You can get to a certain period in time and you see, "Oh, four of these songs were in Homegrown, and that was released a year and a half later," and with the DVD and computers and everything, you can jump around and see how things are connected. It's good, the technology makes it real possible to develop all that. It's almost like a video game of music or something, where you can choose tracks, where they come from in chronology and what albums they were in, even though they're all spread out chronologically. Stuff like that. It's interesting for collectors.
I'm fascinated by your Hank Williams guitar. Can you tell me how you got that?
I bought it from a friend in Nashville. A friend turned me on to this old dude who had it, and I went right down there and I didn't know which one it was, and I tried it all, and I chose that one, and I said, "This is the one I like, I don't know if this is the one." And it was the one so he had it there, and he had several D-28's. But he didn't want anybody to take it if they didn't know what it was. And then I had to buy it. It was a good guitar. It plays really well. I've been using it. I know some people think I shouldn't, because it's Hank Williams' guitar, but I think it's made to play. I get a lot out of it.
Have you given any thought to where it's going next? You sang in the song that "It's just yours for a while.'
I don't know, I don't know where it's going. I hope it's not going too far.
I've heard you say that you were hesitant about working again with Crazy Horse because of the noise onstage and everything. Is that still a concern?
It's one of the concerns, but I don't think that would stop me from working with them. I think it's just that we have to plan on it. There's a lot of physical abuse that happens during those shows, and it's just a matter of how long you can do that. I still love doing it. I'm not going to stop doing it. I love playing with Crazy Horse, they're great. They don't sing like these guys, but they play like — it brings out a whole other part of me.


A Tees Valley college has been recognised by the Government for its education service.
Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, in Darlington, is one of 20 colleges nationwide to be awarded beacon status for learning and skills.
The college, on Vane Terrace, has 1,500 full-time students aged 16 to 18 and also teaches 400 adults in part-time study.
This year Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College had its best ever Ofsted inspection report and was recognised as one of the country's top sixth form colleges.
The college received its beacon award in London from Dr Kim Howells, minister for lifelong learning.
College principal David Heaton said: "We are delighted to have been awarded learning and skills beacon status. It is a recognition of our good practice and will allow us to share our skills and expertise with others."


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We are in an arms race to find a new means of raising the bar for productive, competitive manufacturing. Some say AI is the last tech human beings will ever really invent, learning from and adapting to our every decision. People aided by low-intelligence computers are making way for robotics, machine learning, and autonomous systems. In a market that is 3.0-saturated, Industry 4.0 is the natural next step.
Efforts to modernize your facility are all for not if executive management is not onboard. Gather information and find reputable resources to showcase the benefits - including the competitive advantage - that Industry 4.0 capability can generate for the operation.
If able, identify and pilot test tools and equipment to identify advantages and first signs of success. Pilot testing many Industry 4.0 technologies present risk mitigation as they are flexible, scalable and intelligent, meaning they provide insight via data that was not necessarily tracked or available before - this data can be used as the key to drastically improving performance within the facility.
Lastly, be honest about potential challenges. Production line leadership will best be able to gauge the business impact of Industry 4.0, as well as assess the impact on employees.
If you are looking to introduce Industry 4.0 into your workplace but are balking at the costs and other unknowns, start small in order to scale up. Consider the tools or individual pieces of equipment that can be integrated into a larger strategy. Industry 4.0 technologies are flexible and enable data-based decision-making, so they can scale with your operation. Fully autonomous solutions, for instance, offer newfound flexibility to the manufacturing industry, in turn, manufacturing flexibility is able to reduce NPI setup by 75%.
The notion of data and automation are not overwhelmingly complicated but they are complex items to integrate. Down the line, you'll need executive sponsorship for cloud-based interoperability, as opposed to human-in-the-loop automation and control. It is, after all, a complete conceptual and cultural change. For now, make small agile changes, test them and report the results. For example, evaluate new-age tools and equipment, determine bandwidth requirements for connected pieces that share and report data, then build a plan to move your facility toward a wifi-capable operation.
Connect your operations teams (OT) with the information technology (IT) department over a series of workshops to begin integration with a new platform. Give them joint responsibility so that conversations can flow more naturally. Once they are confident in the plan moving forward, your workforce will begin evangelizing the idea. Together, the teams can act as advocates driving change forward and inspire investment in new Industry 4.0 capabilities.
Find a reliable partner that is willing to work with you, through the planning, implementation and growth of your Industry 4.0 strategy. It's important to find suppliers and integrators who are credible, have a proven track record, and are accessible to your inquiries. Industry 4.0 technology isn't a one-time product, it's a investment that lasts over time - you will need to build a lasting relationship with your partners.


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Amanda Abbington and Mark Gatiss join campaign to fight 'scrapheap challenge' for older actresses
Amanda Abbington at the Olivier Awards, 2015. Photo: Pamela Raith Photography
by Georgia Snow - May 24, 2018
Actors including Amanda Abbington, Ricky Gervais, Frances Barber and Mark Gatiss have lent their support to a new campaign demanding more and better acting roles for middle-aged women.
Actor and writer Nicky Clark created the campaign, Acting Your Age, after trying to re-enter the industry following 20 years spent caring for her children and mother.
She said: "Just at an age when we have the wealth of experience to really inform our performances, we face the scrapheap challenge. Yet our stories – diverse, intricate and often tales of survival – are ignored or traduced to the worst of ourselves.
"[Older] men still get to play romantic leads, while women over 40, if featured at all, are seemingly cast as supportive ex-wives, bitter ex-wives or therapists."
She is calling on writers, commissioners, directors and performers to embrace this "invisible generation of women".
Others throwing their weight behind Clark's campaign include comedians David Baddiel and Shappi Khorsandi, and actors Sarah Parish, Catherine Russell and Michael Sheen.
Sheen said: "These women are the overlooked and under-appreciated secret engine of transformation in our society, but you would never know this from how they are represented in film and television. Is their reality too challenging and upsetting to the status quo? What are we so frightened of? If we want real, effective change and a fairer, more equal society then they are who we must look to and champion."
Support has also come from MPs Jess Phillips and Dawn Butler, shadow minister for women, as well as Equity's Women's Committee and gender equality charity the Fawcett Society.
Speaking to The Stage, Clark described a gulf between the ages of 35 and 60 in which parts dried up.
"There is a disparity between younger female actors and much older female actors – Judi Dench, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Helen Mirren. It's the women in the middle that are losing out," she said.
Clark said there were more roles for women in theatre than on screen, and condemned a lack of parity on TV – "the biggest influencer that we have in all of our homes".
"We're seeing such an amazing, seismic change now in the industry with the recognition that women aren't toys or property. I felt it was the right time to be able to say that, actually, a woman who has had a career as an actor shouldn't suddenly have to stop being able to pay her mortgage because of the onset of wrinkles and grey hair," she added.
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Amusurgus maculatus är en insektsart som beskrevs av Lucien Chopard 1927. Amusurgus maculatus ingår i släktet Amusurgus och familjen syrsor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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When seen this way, "disillusionment" is a good thing. Help me today and always to be disillusioned and set free from hero worship (except you) and partisan, I'm right, they are wrong thinking. And be like you, trusting no one but believing and hoping the best for everyone. And staying curious to see what you are about in the circumstances that you bring me to.
Lord, why is it that I see the difficulties of this life…"as my cross" to bear, instead of seeing difficult circumstances as an opportunity to trust You again, and again and again? I would love for curiosity to be my first reaction to difficult and trying circumstances of this life, and the second reaction to be the knowledge that You are in control. And help me to find the confidence knowing and trusting that you have plans for good for me.
?? "Strict and difficult work of a saint"?? That doesn't sound too attractive at first reading. " as easy as child's play." sounds better.
The Christian life is both … easy and difficult. It has both parts and both aspects. A lot of whether you see it as easy or difficult depends on your perspective … where you are looking from. If you are looking from a place where the burden is all on you and your will power and abilities … then life will be hard. If you put your major effort into staying connected with me and hearing my voice and staying surrendered … then life gets easier. Circumstances get easier to handle. At first, connecting and surrendering so that I can pour my power thru you will seem difficult. But it gets easier, the more you do it. That is our life long project … conforming you to the image of Jesus.
The most wonderful secret of living a holy life does not lie in imitating Jesus, but in letting the perfect qualities of Jesus exhibit themselves in my human flesh. Sanctification is "Christ in you . . ." (Colossians 1:27). It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification— imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God's grace. Am I willing for God to make sanctification as real in me as it is in His Word?
Good morning Lord, The first sentence seems to be contradicted by the last sentence. Instantly … and Slowly but Surely. Which is it?
It is both. It is instantly credited to your account. And slowly but surely you learn to draw it out and let it live in you. The key is surrender. and let me empower it. If you try in your own power to live a better life … it just wont work. Even as you achieve some apparent success, it wont be the same as a life powered by my life. And if you do it in your own power, you'll be proud of what you created. If you let me power it … there is no room for pride. So stay connected, stay surrendered, stay curious, and confident. I've provided the power. Go and live it out.
Lord, thank you for the reminder that You will mold me and shape me into your image. Thank you for the scripture in 1 Thessalonians 5 (NIV) 23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
And God says…"I am the great I Am. Trust in me with all your heart, do not rely on your own devices…and I will make your paths and heart straight. You cannot come to me out of more discipline, more Bible studies, or my gritting your teeth and trying harder to be a man after My own heart. You come to me with a tiny sliver of trust and hope knowing you cannot do any good thing. Give Me your trying, effort and sliver of hope and I will be the light of your life. You can do all things through Christ Jesus. Delight yourself in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart.
It is such a human characteristic to idolize talent. That talent is mostly gifting from you … but people dont see that. Whether a person is preaching or feeding the poor, we tend to say, "What a great speaker, or what a giving person." It seems that the more talented and gifted we are and the more we hone those talents … the more likely we are to get in the way of people actually seeing and meeting you thru us. So what should we do to prevent that? It doesn't seem we should make a second rate sermon to avoid the hero worship that comes with excellent sermons? Paul didn't do that.
You dont need to dial back the gifts I've given you. Or do second rate work to avoid compliments. If you just stay connected with me and listen for my voice and follow it … I'll keep you safe from that. When you've found yourself worshipped in the past, wasn't it after a season of poor connection between us?
Yes, sir. I get it. We are back to the Centrality of Connection. In theology they talk about the Centrality of the Cross, but you keep talking to us about the Centrality of Connection. I suppose they are both important.
Yes, and I talk to each of my children about what they need to hear. So for you, Stay connected and you will do well. Run on your own and … well you've seen how well that worked.
Not too well at all… So help me stay connected, and I wont worry about the rest of it.
I am not a superior person among other people— I am a bondservant of the Lord Jesus. Paul said, ". . . you are not your own . . . you were bought at a price . . ." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). Paul sold himself to Jesus Christ and he said, in effect, "I am a debtor to everyone on the face of the earth because of the gospel of Jesus; I am free only that I may be an absolute bondservant of His." That is the characteristic of a Christian's life once this level of spiritual honor and duty becomes real. Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
Lord this devotional from Oswald Chambers could lead one to feel inadequate about reaching out to others with the Gospel. After all, who can measure up to the Apostle Paul? And do you really want me to feel inadequate, or incomplete regarding my own experience? Am I not complete in You? Must I do something else to become "good enough"?
A saint is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him. The Holy Spirit is determined that we will have the realization of Jesus Christ in every area of our lives, and He will bring us back to the same point over and over again until we do. Self-realization only leads to the glorification of good works, whereas a saint of God glorifies Jesus Christ through his good works. Whatever we may be doing— even eating, drinking, or washing disciples' feet— we have to take the initiative of realizing and recognizing Jesus Christ in it. Every phase of our life has its counterpart in the life of Jesus. Our Lord realized His relationship to the Father even in the most menial task. "Jesus, knowing . . . that He had come from God and was going to God, . . . took a towel . . . and began to wash the disciples' feet . . ." (John 13:3-5).
The aim of a spiritually vigorous saint is "that I may know Him . . ." Do I know Him where I am today? If not, I am failing Him. I am not here for self-realization, but to know Jesus Christ. In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances.
It is interesting that we might wind up doing the exact same activity from just seeing the need and deciding to act, or feeling guilt and deciding to act … or hearing your voice and being obedient and doing the same act. But the motivation is totally different. One difference seems to be how tired we are at the end of the activity. If it is powered by you, we feel energized and ready for whatever you want to do next.


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Originally written to protect small farmers, India's land rights are failing them. Now, more of them are seeking work in cities instead.
Words: Apekshita Varshney
Illustration: Maria Grejc
"I had always dreamt of owning a car," says Lakshmikant Kauthakar, a farmer in the village of Adgaon Khurd in the west central Indian state of Maharashtra. We are on his family's farm, watching a network of valves slowly drip water onto flourishing sugarcane and banana crops. At some distance, the black soil, usually hardened by the unrelenting heat of the sun, is freshly ploughed and heavy with moisture. The time is perfect to sow the region's cash crop, cotton, but Kauthakar's mind is on other matters.
Several years ago, an old friend who worked in Mumbai was passing through a nearby town and called to arrange a meeting. Kauthakar was happy to hear from him and offered to come to the train station to pick him up. But the friend said not to worry, he would be travelling "in his own car".
After a few years of service in the nearest megacity, his friend had achieved something Kauthakar had never believed possible. He didn't know how to react: "As the vision of a sleek sedan flashed in my mind, I blankly stared at my family's vast 48-acre land, mentally calculated the hundreds of thousands of rupees of farm loan I was yet to pay off and called it a day."
Half of the Indian population is dependent on agriculture and allied activities for their livelihood. This same 50% also earns far less than the other half. According to data by the National Sample Services Organisation, the average farm income is Rs 5,240 ($77) per month whereas those in other professions can earn up to Rs 9,463 ($139).
Multiple Indian governments have tried to improve farmers' livelihoods by extending handsome benefits: keeping farm income exempt from taxation; offering lavish subsidies on seeds, fertiliers, electricity and water; loan waivers; crop insurance; and support prices. In 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party government announced a basic income of Rs 6,000 ($84) for small farmers as an attempt to double their incomes by 2022. And yet, as the numbers show, farmers still make the least money of all India's professions, rarely reaching the basic taxation limit.
Unlike Kauthakar, most farmers would not dare to dream of owning
a car. There are multiple reasons for this clear economic divide, but a large proportion of Indian farmers believe that a lack of land rights tops the list.
From 1757 to 1947, the British exploited India's natural and human resources and drained its economy. When it finally gained independence in 1947, 70% of the country was living in abject poverty with a 12% literacy rate and a life expectancy of 29. Its new political class tried to break the hegemony of upper-caste landowners by enacting laws that would benefit its poorer citizens. The Land Ceiling Acts were enacted to stop farmers from accumulating excessive amounts of land and to allow for its equitable redistribution. Under the law in Maharashtra, for instance, individual farmers can own a 54-acre non-irrigated plot, but if they have an assured water supply and are capable of growing more than two crops a year, they are only permitted to hold 18 acres each.
Today, these laws, "act as a barrier to the growth of farmers' income," writes Ila Patnaik, the former principal economic adviser to the Congress government. "Successful farmers who own land as per the ceiling limits
are unable to buy more land and increase their income."
India's contentious land acquisition laws are also prohibitive, allowing governments to prioritise corporate interests over farmers' needs. In many states, farmers can only buy and sell land among themselves. Of course these rules don't apply to governments who have historically acquired land
for industries without providing just compensation or following due process. If the original intention of these laws was to prioritise the needs of farmers, they have failed.
"From 1757 to 1947, the British exploited India's natural and human resources and drained its economy. When it finally gained independence in 1947, 70% of the country was living in abject poverty."
Nevertheless, Namita Wahi, the lead author of the report analysing land acquisition cases in the supreme court of India, believes, "it's important to understand the context in which they were written. We needed to rehabilitate refugees and conducted land reforms to support the country's growing population, to produce enough food, prevent famines and improve subsistence." This is no longer the case.
India is now the world's seventh largest economy by GDP and has lifted 271 million people out of poverty in the past 10 years, but the country still needs large-scale industrial and infrastructural growth. This has led to a swathe of conflicts between farmers and industry. Land Conflict Watch, an initiative that maps battles for land around India, shows that the country is brimming with conflicts between sectors where farmer groups of up to 10,000 people are contesting projects worth up to Rs 100,000 crores (roughly $121bn)
to corporations. Currently, those closest to the land are toiling away under
the sweltering sun while politicians and corporations reap the benefits.
Since land reform broke up big farms after independence, the landholdings of large farmers have been in steady decline, with more small and marginal farmers coming into the fold. From 2,766 large holdings (of more than 5ha) in 1970–71, large farms have reduced to 831 in 2015–16.The landholding of small and marginal farmers has tripled. India now has some of the world's smallest farms with an average landholding of 1.1 acres. To put this into perspective, the average farm size in the UK is 197 acres.
Larger farm holdings are more productive and thereforemore profitable. Research by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) establishes that the world's poorest are concentrated on small farms and need to be equipped with ways to expand landholdings. Most developing countries face this challenge, but India's situation is particularly miserable. Here, the poorest of the poor are surviving by farming on a patch too small to produce a surplus to sell in order to liberate them from poverty.
India's large and medium-scale farmers — who make up 13.2% of all the nation's farmers — own 43.6% of the country's crop area. Kauthakar is a large-scale farmer, benefiting from his higher caste and the resulting upward mobility. He might be the joint owner of a large plot of ancestral land, but he believes that the situation is bleak for all farmers. "There is no farmer in Maharashtra who is not repressed by loans at least ten times his income," he says.
Kauthakar's own loans were taken out to invest in a variety of new farming methods, but he continues to be in debt. "When I started to question why farmers are so poor, I realised that it was a lack of land rights, market access, and extensive government regulation. These problems affect all kinds of farmers." As a result, he joined Shetkari Sanghatana (SS), a farmer organisation mostly active in Maharashtra that demands liberalisation of land policies and market access for farmers.
In a crisp white shirt and blue trousers, Lalit Bahale, a farmer and senior member of SS, is addressing a group of 40 to 50 cotton farmers in the Maharashtran village of Akoli Jahagir. They've gathered to discuss the hot topic of genetically modified seeds, but the conversation spirals into the other causes of their precarious economic condition. Bahale is describing the hunched back and wrinkled, sunburnt skin of daily wage labourers and farmers. "Fried like potato fritters by the scorching sun," he says, and the farmers laugh ironically at their own misery. Later, he takes aim at the Land Ceiling Act. "Has anyone stopped the rich in cities from owning more than one apartment?" he asks. The land acquisition laws, which anger many, are in his crosshairs next.
Successive governments have acquired land from multiple farmers in the nearby villages of Akoli Jahagir, Adgaon Khurd and Panaj for a dam that currently runs dry. While some were poorly compensated under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, others got a better rate when the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR) was passed in 2013. But despite the LARR supposedly offering four times the market value to farmers, many believe that they didn't get fair rates.
"India is now the world's seventh largest economy and has lifted 271 million people out of poverty in the past 10 years, but the country still needs large-scale industrial and infrastructural growth."
Farmer Srikant Deshmukh is one of them. "I am now fighting a court battle for better compensation but I recognise that most farmers lack the resources to do it," he says.
A report by the Centre for Policy Research finds that land acquisition cases are inevitably prone to litigation for better compensation. The study has reviewed the land acquisition cases that reached the supreme court of India from 1950 to 2016 and earmarked a range of concerns. The need for administrative and bureaucratic reforms is one of them. Bureaucrats in charge of deciding on compensation, the report finds, violate court orders for paying market rates and instead pay minimum rates called circle rates. As a result, 67.3% of challenges in the court for fair compensation are on market value.
And even after the passing of a law that the report's authors think is "a step in the right direction", many Indian states have diluted it to easily acquire land for corporates. They've passed ordinances and got rid of some important provisions like consent of the residents, social impact assessments and cost-benefit analyses of the projects requiring acquisition.
But SS's argument against this is more fundamental: Should the government be acquiring land for industries in the first place? "Why can't the transaction be like any other transaction in the market: between the buyer and the seller? And how can fair market prices be decided when the true value of land is minimised by these laws and regulations?" Bahale asks.
A little before evening falls in Akot, groups of young boys can be seen ambling around the town. Most of them are glued to their smartphones. "They don't want to work on farms like their parents and grandparents. They see no future there," Lakshmikant Kauthakar concludes. "There's only one overarching desire: to find a job in the city, like my friend did."
This original article appears in Weapons of Reason's seventh issue: Inequality.
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BARBOSA, Duarte
BARBOSA, Duarte. Lisbon c. 1480? — Cebu, Philippines 1.5.1521. Portuguese Traveller in the East. Son of Diogo B. He came to India as a young man, apparently with Cabral in 1500, stayed mainly in Kerala and probably returned in 1517. Still in 1517 he wrote his account of Africa, Arabia, and India. In 1519 he joined the expedition around the world of his brother-in-law Fernão Magalhães. Treacherously killed by local raja in Philippines. The work remained manuscript, but was used by several Portuguese historians. It is written in an impersonal style, probably combining much secondary (but for us very valuable) material. Apparently he knew Malayālam.
Publications: Extracts from his manuscript published by Ramusio, Delle navigationi e viaggi. 1550; and the whole in 1812 as Vol. 2. of Coleção de notícias para a história e geografia das nações ultramarinas. English translation by H. E. Stanley: A Description of the Coasts of East-Africa and Malabar. L. 1866, new ed. by M. L. Dames. 1–2. L. 1918-21.
Sources: Oaten 1909, 66-68; Grande Encyclop. Portuguesa e Brasileira 4; Dames' introduction; Wikipedia.
BARBORKA, Geoffrey Avery
BARDELLI, Giuseppe
Language studies British colonial time Western explorers and traders islam University of Leipzig Jainism Indian studies Buddhism University of Munich Tibet University of Vienna University of Bonn University of Berlin University of Paris Historical studies Colonial India