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Youth not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice
Alongside Greta Thunberg, who recently delivered a powerful address at the United Nations Climate Summit, a generation of young change makers are taking matters into their own hands and offering solutions to the climate crisis.
Youth climate strike in Brussels, 2019. Image: han Soete/ Flickr , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
By Danilo Ignacio
Last week's United Nations climate summit may go down in history—but not for the reasons intended. It was not the tipping point for action on global warming that organisers hoped it would be.
It will instead probably be remembered for the powerful address by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg, who castigated world leaders on behalf of the generation set to bear the brunt of inaction.
Young people are not sitting back and waiting for older generations to act on the climate crisis. Days before the summit, school students led a climate strike attended by millions around the world.
And at the first ever UN youth climate summit, more than 500 young people from 60 countries, including myself, explored how to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement.
This group of activists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers aged between 18 and 30 showcased potential solutions and put global political leaders on notice: they must fight off the climate crisis at the scale and pace required.
A young boy takes part in the global climate strike on September 20 at Parliament Square in London. Neil Hall/EPA
Youth voices matter
Youth aged 15 to 24 years represent 16 per cent of the world population and will reach 1.3 billion people by 2030. Obviously the action (or otherwise) of today's decision makers on climate change and other environmental threats will affect generations to come—a principle known as intergenerational equity.
Millions of young people around the world are already affected by climate change. Speaking at the youth summit, Fijian climate action advocate Komal Kumar said her nation was at the frontline of a crisis and worldwide, young people were "living in constant fear and climate anxiety … fearing the future".
"Stop hindering the work [towards a sustainable future] for short term profits. Engage young people in the design of adaptation plans," she said. "We will hold you accountable. And if you do not remember, we will mobilise to vote you out."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres attended the event and his deputy Amina Mohammed took part in a "town hall" with the attendees, alongside senior representatives from government and civil society.
Young people are not sitting idly by
Technological solutions presented by youth summit participants included 3D printing using plastic waste, data storage in plant DNA, a weather app for farmers and an accountability platform for sustainable fashion.
Participants learnt how to amplify their voices using Instagram and how to create engaging videos with their mobile phones. An art workshop taught youth how creativity can help solve the climate emergency, and a networking session showed ways that youth leaders to stay connected and support each other.
Elsewhere, you don't have to look far to see examples of young climate warriors, including in the developing world.
Programs funded by the UN development program include in Kazakhstan where youth are helping implement an energy efficiency project in schools, and in Namibia where young people are being trained as tour guides in national parks and nature reserves. In Nepal, young people cultivate wild Himalayan cherry trees as a natural solution to land degradation.
Harness the power of nature
Kenyan environmental activist Wanjuhi Njoroge told the youth summit of her nation's progress in restoring the country's forest cover.
Nature-based solutions to the climate crisis—such as conserving and restoring forests, grasslands and wetlands—were a key focus at the summit. Efforts to meet the Paris climate goals often focus on cutting fossil fuel use. But nature has a huge ability to store carbon as plants grow. Avoiding deforestation keeps this carbon from entering the atmosphere.
Thunberg and British writer George Monbiot released a film ahead on the New York summit calling on world leaders protect, restore and fund natural climate solutions.
A film by Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot calling for more nature-based climate change solutions.
To date, such solutions have received little by way of investments and funding support. For example in 2015, agriculture, forestry and land-use received just 3 per cent of global climate change finance.
Appearing at the youth summit, the global Youth4Nature network told how it mobilises young people to advocate for nature-based solutions. Their strategy has included collecting and sharing youth stories in natural resources management in more than 35 countries.
In 2015, agriculture, forestry and land-use received just 3 per cent of global climate change finance.
Youth 'will be watching' their leaders
When it comes to climate change, young people have specific demands that must be acknowledged—and offer solutions that other generations cannot.
But globally there is a lack of youth representation in politics, and by extension, they are largely absent from climate change decision-making.
Some youth summit participants reportedly questioned whether it achieved its aims—including the value of some workshops, why celebrities were involved and whether anything tangible was produced.
Certainly, there was little evidence that world leaders at the climate summit were listening to the demands of young people. This was reflected in the failure of the world's biggest-polluting countries to offer credible emissions reduction commitments.
Pressure from young people for climate action will not subside. Thunberg said it best when she warned world leaders that youth "will be watching you".But the youth summit went some way to granting young people space and visibility in the formal decision-making process.
"The eyes of all future generations are upon you," she said. "If you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you".
Danilo Urzedo is a forester and a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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Each day starts with a piping hot, hearty Belfast breakfast from our menu, using the finest locally-sourced produce, as well as a full Continental Breakfast Selection available from the sideboard, including fresh fruit juices, cereal, fruit, yogurt and locally baked fresh Wheaten Bread.
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Rings of Mara are special items in ESO which grant bonus experience, and are rewarded to those who have completed the Ritual of Mara. Two players can complete the ceremony, and at least one of them needs to have the Imperial Edition of Elder Scrolls Online.
To get a Ring of Mara, you must first complete the Ritual of Mara. For the ritual you need at least one player who owns the Imperial Edition of ESO, as mentioned above. Every Imperial Edition player receives an item called Pledge of Mara, which is needed to initiate the ritual. Imperial Edition owners can partner up with people who own the Standard Edition of the game, though.
The former shrines are located in the city you arrive in as you leave the Wailing Prison tutorial area. The latter Shrines of Mara are located right next to the skill point and attribute reset shrines, in the second major non-tutorial zones of each alliance. The shrines are also marked on the map, so you should be able to find them quite easily as long as you are in the correct city.
Once both players are next to a shrine of Mara, the player with the Pledge of Mara can target the other player and then evoke the Ritual of Mara. The only way to do this is to quickslot the Pledge of Mara, and then target the other player with it.
Note that the Pledge of Mara can only be used once. You can't just ninja ritual someone either, the partner actually needs to agree to pledge commitment to you through a confirmation window.
After the ritual has been performed, both players will receive a Ring of Mara, with their partner's name carved on them. The commitment is real. You will NOT be able to break the union. The names on the Rings of Mara can NOT be changed, ever. The ritual is between two characters, not accounts.
I have one character, my friend has a main and an alt.
Using his Pledge of Mara, he initiated the ritual with me, while on his main character.
He switched to his alt, and using my Pledge of Mara, I initiated with his alt.
Each of his characters has one ring, while my character has two. I can either wear both, or switch them out depending on which character I am playing with.
In ESO beta the Ring of Mara experience bonus boost was 10%, and the ring had no other stats on it.
You need to be in the same group with your partner.
You need to wear the Ring of Mara.
It makes no difference where your partner is. For all Mara cares, they could be on the other side of Tamriel. The distance between you and your partner does not affect the experience boost, according to an ESO Customer Support representative.
To get the most out of Rings of Mara, you want to partner up with someone who's able to play at the same time with you. 10% Experience boost is a pretty significant bonus to experience gained, and it will certainly speed things up. If you want to reach the veteran ranks fast, using Rings of Mara is the way to go, there is no question about that.
However, since the Rings of Mara have no stats on them, you are paying a price in combat performance. The other option is to use a normal ring which will help you out in combat, but provide no experience boost.
Levelling quick is not necessarily just a good thing. It can mess up your experience curve and you can find yourself in situations where you are not receiving experience from quests because you outlevel the content. To benefit from the experience boost, you might have to skip some quests.
As you can see, there are some trade-offs you'll have to make if you choose to use a Ring of Mara, and whether you think it's worth it or not is up to you in the end.


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President's Family's Secret Assets Exposed, Militants Kill 8 Soldiers, Injure 5
Posted On: October 4, 2021 3:07 pm WAT
Posted By: Ayomide Tayo
Uhuru Kenyatta Family's Secret Assets Exposed By Leak
The family of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, that has dominated the country's politics since independence, secretly owned a network of offshore companies for decades, according to a huge leak of financial papers.
The Pandora Papers – 12 million files – is the biggest such leak in history.
Mr Kenyatta and six members of his family have been linked to 13 offshore companies.
They have not yet responded to requests for comment.
The Kenyattas' offshore investments, including a company with stocks and bonds worth $30m (£22m), were discovered among hundreds of thousands of pages of administrative paperwork from the archives of 14 law firms and service providers in Panama and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and other tax havens.
The secret assets were uncovered by an investigation, published earlier on Sunday, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Finance Uncovered, Finance Uncovered, Africa Uncensored and other news organisations.
Documents show that a foundation called Varies was set up in 2003 in Panama, naming Mr Kenyatta's mother, Ngina, 88, as the first benefactor – and Kenya's leader as the second benefactor, who would inherit it after her death.
The purpose of the foundation and the value of its assets are unknown.
Source – BBC
Militants Kill 8 Soldiers, Injure 5 In North Burkina Faso
Militants killed at least eight Burkina Faso soldiers and injured five others in an attack in the north of the country, five security sources said on Monday.
The attack on the military detachment took place in the center-north Sanmatenga province early on Monday, and the death toll could climb, one of the security source said.
The Burkina Faso government was not immediately available to comment. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source – Reuters
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Locals saddened as Carrigaline's Karwig Wines announce they will be closing their doors
Karwig Wines have been 40 years in business providing quality wines
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Karwig's Wines, Kilnagleary, Carrigaline, Co. Cork (Image: Google Maps-taken in 2009)
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Sad news this morning as an independent retailer has announced they are shutting their doors for good.
After 40 years building a reputable business selling quality wines South of the City - Carrigaline's Karwig Wines will be shutting up shop later this year.
Announcing the news on social media owners Betty and Jurgen said: "We are proud of what we have achieved as a family business and are thankful for the opportunity to finish well."
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Paying tribute to the many people that helped them create such a reputable business they said: "We would like to thank our dedicated staff for their work and to our suppliers for entrusting us with their wines.
"Most importantly we would like to thank our customers. We could have not achieved any of this without your business and loyalty to us throughout the years."
Following the announcement, many customers and suppliers paid tribute to the business.
Finishing their statement the owners said: "It has been a memorable journey with you all and we think Joe would be proud of the legacy he has left behind."
All of the wines sold at the shop with now be reduced to half price until the shop closes its doors for the last time.


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Food Innovation Hubs Put Farmers at Head of the Table for Systems Change
Amanda Russo, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum, arus@weforum.org
- Innovation is critical to bring about a fundamental shift in the way our food is produced and consumed
- The World Economic Forum, the government of Netherlands and several public and private sector partners are launching Food Innovations Hub to help transform the food ecosystem
- More than 20 organizations are leading the initiative with work already underway in parts of Africa, ASEAN, Colombia, Europe and India
- With country-led approaches, the Hubs will drive both high-end and low-cost grassroots and other innovations that could have scalable impact
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Geneva, Switzerland, 27 January 2021 – Globally, almost 2 billion people do not have access to enough safe, nutritious food, and 690 million suffer from hunger. With 10 years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to fundamentally change the way food is produced and consumed. This includes changing the practices of more than 500 million smallholder farmers and the consumption patterns of 7.7 billion individuals.
To support this, the World Economic Forum, the Government of Netherlands and several public and private sector partners are launching Food Innovations Hub as a key multistakeholder platform that will leverage technology and broader innovations to strengthen local innovation ecosystems for food systems transformation. This has been launched with multi-year funding from the Government of Netherlands with a Global Coordinating Secretariat based in The Netherlands.
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, said: "Global food insecurity has been rising again. This stresses the need to redesign how we produce and consume food. The Netherlands is committed to forming partnerships that will catalyze the innovations that are needed to address the food system challenges. I am therefore proud to announce that the Netherlands will host the Global Coordinating Secretariat of the Food Innovation Hubs."
The Food Innovation Hubs will be a flagship initiative of the Food Action Alliance leading to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, and beyond. The role of the Global Coordinating Secretariat will be to coordinate the efforts of the regional Hubs as well as align with global processes and initiatives such as the UN Food Systems Summit.
Dominic Waughray, Managing Director, World Economic Forum, said: "Food sustains life and is at the heart of our planet. But if we are to feed 10 billion people by 2050 within planetary boundaries, the way the world produces and consumes food needs to change. Innovation is critical in enabling this systemic transformation. As progress is accelerated towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, the World Economic Forum is committed to supporting collective action and promoting country led agendas through the Food Innovation Hubs in this pivotal year for food systems."
More than 20 organizations are leading on the Food Innovation Hubs with work already underway in Colombia, India, Europe, ASEAN and several countries in Africa. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has provided multi-year support for the development of a Food Innovation Hub in India and several public and private sector partners have committed in-kind resources to support the development of Hubs in various regions.
With country-led approaches, the Hubs will drive both high-end and low-cost grassroots and other innovations that could have scalable impact, as well as innovations encompassing supply chains, partnerships and business models that can enable systemic change.
Theo De Jager, President, World Farmers' Organization, said: "Innovation ranging from technological, social, and organizational can play a key role in unlocking the potential of agriculture as the heart of food systems transformation. Farmers are innovators by nature and necessity and have innovative solutions that have survived for centuries. The Food Innovation Hubs puts farmers at the center to both develop and inform innovation ecosystems for their benefit and the benefit of the natural ecosystems they work in."
For example, the Food Innovation Hub in Colombia will support stakeholders across the value chain on food optimization, smart logistics and information systems that connect consumers to nutritious foods from sustainable farms. In Zambia, initial work is focused on providing financial, advisory and capacity-building support to smallholder farmers to move towards more sustainable agriculture practices. An interoperable data and analytics platform in development will generate insights for Zambian farmers.
Ramon Laguarta, Chief Executive Office of PepsiCo, said: "Food is one of the main levers we can pull to improve environmental and societal health. With the right investment, innovation, and robust collaboration, agriculture could become the world's first sector to become carbon negative, whilst meeting the needs of a rapidly growing global population and providing meaningful economic opportunities. Unlocking this potential will take ambitious multi-stakeholder, precompetitive collaborations to transform the food system — exactly what these Hubs are designed to cultivate."
With the UN Food Systems Summit in 2021 as a key milestone to deliver action and broader engagement, these Hubs are working with local stakeholders to forge partnerships that develop impactful innovations.
David Beasley, Executive Director, UN World Food Programme, said: "Achieving zero hunger requires investment from the private sector – we will never reach our goal without them. The Food Innovation Hubs provide a vital opportunity to bring together some of the world's leading organizations, from many different sectors, to support the global movement to end hunger."
Over the next year, the Hubs will also develop a community of innovators and entrepreneurs across geographies to share learnings and build capacity, including through more South-South collaborations.
Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer of Unilever, said: "The Food Innovation Hubs will help to revolutionize the global food system by bringing innovation and new technology at scale to meet local needs. Unilever is proud to be a part of these Food Innovation Hubs, as we believe that through our collective efforts we can make food a force for good."
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Neel Trimarans is a young French company which broke new ground in 2009 with a prototype 50 footer and then managed to establish their 45 in a world where the catamaran occupies a predominant position. Now there's a new challenge. Neel have just launched a 65 foot trimaran, shown for the first time at Cannes Boat Show. We took a trip on board in early June for an amazing test sail.
The founder of Neel Trimarans is an experienced sailor and businessman. Having become the French sports catamaran champion in 1987, a specialist in Class C, he started at Fountaine-Pajot and launched the Corneel 26. A French development, blending the American Stiletto and the Danish Mycat, this little cat was a combining of the cruising cat and the sports cat, and an efficient and playful little machine which introduced the concept to many future multihull enthusiasts. Following this commercial success, over the next 25 years Eric reinforced the development of the yard, being in charge of exports, and then becoming Vice Director-General. He took a bit of a step back in the early 2000s to get involved with the new M50 class at the helm of his Trilogic, in which he won The Transat in 2004 and came second in the 2006 Route du Rhum, before launching himself into the adventure that is Neel Trimarans.
Neel 50: the XXL version cruising trimaran.


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Licencia renovada para matar, es una novela de espionaje escrita por John Gardner, publicada en el Reino Unido por Jonathan Cape en 1981 y en los Estados Unidos por la editorial G. P. Putnam's Sons. Publicado en castellano en México por la editorial Lasser Press con traducción de Margarita Álvarez Franco en 1982. Es la primera novela del agente secreto James Bond escrita por John Gardner.

Algunos elementos del argumento de Licencia renovada para matar tuvieron influencia en posteriores películas de Bond; en particular la trama de una catástrofe nuclear que fue la base para The World Is Not Enough. Otros elementos clave que aparecieron en películas de Bond fueron, las trampas en las carreras de caballos que aparecieron en A View to a Kill y la obsesión por las armas de Brad Whitaker en The Living Daylights.

Contexto
Esta novela relanzó con éxito la franquicia literaria de Bond, siendo la primera de las catorce novelas originales de Bond escritas por Gardner.

Argumento
El famoso agente, aparece para enfrentarse una vez más a un mundo convulsionado en el que "alguien" debe encargarse de solucionar los inminentes problemas. Terrorismo internacional, acción, violencia; dificultades que solo la astucia y la osadía son capaces de vencer. Con el más completo y sofisticado equipo, James Bond recorrerá grandes distancias que lo llevarán a conocer lugares y personajes inolvidables.

Personajes
 James Bond, agente del Servicio Secreto británico (MI6), conocido también por su identificador 007.
 M, nombre en clave de Sir Miles Messervy, antiguo almirante naval, es el jefe del MI6.
 Bill Tanner, jefe de Gabinete de M y antiguo agente de la sección Doble Cero, a la que pertenece Bond.
 Miss Moneypenny, secretaria de M.
 Q, nombre en clave del mayor Boothroyd, jefe de la Sección Q del MI6, encargado de la logística y la armería.

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Enlaces externos

 Sitio web oficial de la novela
 Observaciones y análisis de la obra y sus influencias
 Reportaje sobre la novela en un magacín reputado
 Comentario sobre la obra en la prensa

Novelas de 1981
Novelas de Reino Unido
Novelas en inglés
Novelas de espionaje
Novelas ambientadas en Escocia

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Linda Brown, age 61, a resident of rural Pennville, passed away on Sunday, June 3, 2018, at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan following an extended illness.
Linda was born on July 9, 1956, in Bluffton, Indiana, the daughter of Alvin "Short" and Edith (Gilley) Watkins. Linda graduated from Pennville High School in 1975 and worked at the Pennville Pantry for over 31 years. She married Lowell "Dean" Brown on July 6, 1984.
Visitation will be held on Tuesday from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Pennville Chapel of Williamson and Spencer Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home. Burial will follow in the IOOF Twin Hill Cemetery in Pennville.
Memorials may be directed towards the Kristan Corwin Memorial Scholarship Fund or Seth Corwin Memorial Scholarship Fund.


A concert by solo-guitarist, Morgan Szymanski. The Sketches of Mexico Project is an exciting new collaboration curated by the multi-award winning Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski and Sarabande Records. The project intends to promote Mexican music and art in venues ranging from concert halls, art galleries, festivals and schools. The project focuses on the 20 Sketches of Mexico by Mexican composer Julio César Oliva for guitar, performed live alongside projections of twenty visual artists from Mexico and the U.K.


Just got back from a trip to the Caribbean, including four days of eating in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Not the greatest pic, but our first meal was a criolla omelette with Puerto Rican bread at Mi Casita. Basic, but tasty and affordable. Located in Isla Verde.
Excellent dinner right on the beach at El Alambique Beach bar and restaurant. First we tried the Puerto Rican 'national dish' mofongo, which are fried and then mashed plantains. In this version it was smothered with garlic butter, coriander, chilli sauce and topped with a couple of delicious prawns.
We also had ceviche with plantain chips as well as a couple of unsweetened (no idea why) but still quite good cocktails.
Prices as you can see above were about $10-20 excluding taxes and tips, as in mainland U.S.
Located in Isla Verde, right by the beach and also close to the airport.
This place sounds so much like the worst tourist trap, but it wasn't. Various online sources also states it's closed, which it's not (March 2018). Location is relatively good in Isla Verde as in accessible, but it's located next to the road, so if you sit outside you'll pretty much be in the middle of traffic. Food was really nice though and we tried 1. Carne frita (fried pork) with tostones (plantain fritters) and 2. Grilled chicken with rice and beans. Washed down with cold local Medalla beer. Rustic, inexpensive and delicious.
A nice place for a good breakfast is Playa Papaya. Also close to the beach in Isla Verde it serves standard American and Puerto Rican breakfast dishes. The place is quite relaxed and prices were decent. Above is one chicken and one Canadian bacon on buns with corn chips, guacamole and chilli mayo. Priced around $10 excluding taxes and tips.
Our favourite restaurant in San Juan during our visit. Had a fantastic "tender, juicy and messy" pulled pork with guava bbq sauce and red cabbage slaw in Puerto Rican slightly sweet Mallorca bread. Deep-fried plantain fritters – tostones – on the side. And a nice mojito too. Views over San Juan came as an added bonus. Prices $10-20 excluding taxes and tips.
Located in Old San Juan.
We had a quick lunch at Cafe Puerto Rico and really enjoyed their chorizo and beef-stuffed fried "empanadas" as well as chicken soup and fried chicken with beans and rice. Prices $6-20. Lunch beer was $4.
The alleged birthplace of Puerto Rico's national drink, the famous Piña Colada! Alleged because the Caribe Hilton, also in San Juan claims the same. The piña colada is made from a pre-made mix, which at first seems sort of dissapointing, but nevertheless it was the best piña colada I've had. Service was very nice too and the little courtyard bar is exactly what you'd like for your tropical cocktail. $7.5 for a standard piña colada (and you can also have them to go).


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Robert Lewis Reymond (October 30, 1932 – September 20, 2013) was a Christian theologian of the Protestant Reformed tradition and the author of New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (1998; 2nd edition, 2002). Reymond held B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees from Bob Jones University, was ordained into the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod in 1967, and taught at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri (1968-1990) and Knox Theological Seminary in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1990-2008). While at Covenant, Reymond also served in a pastoral role, pastoring an RPCES congregation in Hazelwood, MO between 1968 and 1973 and serving as interim pastor at another RPCES congregation in Waterloo, IL, between 1981 and 1985. In 1983, Reymond became affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America, as a result of the RPCES's merger with the PCA.. After resigning from Knox in January 2008, he accepted a call as regular pulpit supply of Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church, a Ft. Lauderdale congregation in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

Reymond wrote a book on Paul entitled Paul Missionary Theologian (2003) and another about Jesus called Jesus Divine Messiah (2003). Other books include a short biography of John Calvin (2004), Contending for the Faith: Lines in the Sand That Strengthen the Church (2005), The God-Centered Preacher, The Reformation's Conflict with Rome: Why It Must Continue, What is God, and The Lamb of God. Reymond wrote a A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (1998; 2nd edition, 2002) as a culmination of his years as a professor and pastor. <ref>Robert L. Reymond A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998; Zondervan, 2002). He wrote this work in response to repeated requests from past students for a volume which, in his own words,
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Robinsons Mercedes in King's Lynn. Picture: Archant.
A well-known East Anglian motor dealership has sold five high-end franchises to a US retailer.
Robinsons Motors Group has offloaded its Mercedes-Benz operations in Norwich, Bury St Edmunds, King's Lynn, Peterborough and Cambridge to Group 1 Automotive, along with three Smart dealerships in the three cities.
Together, the five dealerships represented 45% of Robinsons' trading turnover in 2017 and are expected to add around £188m to Group 1's top line.
Martin Wallace, chief executive of the EDP/EADT Top100 company, said the deal would return value to shareholders but also release "resources and capital to deliver other opportunities".
Family-owned Robinsons was founded in 1927 and over the past 91 years had grown to 28 dealerships across the region, representing Audi, Mercedes-Benz, Seat, Škoda, Smart, Citroen and Volkswagen.
The sale, which was advised upon by business advisers Grant Thornton and law firm Mills & Reeve, means that most of its remaining brands, bar Citroen, are part of the Volkswagen Group.
Mr Wallace said: "We are delighted to have concluded the sale of our Mercedes-Benz operations to Group 1 who we believe will be excellent onward employers for our team and will no doubt continue to provide excellent service for our customers.
Group 1 Automotive is based in Houston, Texas, and is the third largest dealership in the United States, operating 175 dealerships, 230 franchises and 48 collision centres across the United States, UK and Brazil. It now has 47 dealerships in the UK.
In its latest published accounts, for the year to the end of December 2016, Robinsons reported record turnover and profit despite margins being slightly squeezed. Turnover grew from £341.469m to £378.213m, while pre-tax profit climbed from £6.522m to £7.608m, and the group employed an average of more than 700 staff.
Grant Thornton's integrated team of sector, corporate finance and tax specialists advised on the process, executing a demerger before seeking a buyer for the Mercedes-Benz side of the business.
Robinsons Motors Group is a member of the EDP/EADT Top 100 list of Norfolk and Suffolk's biggest companies by turnover.


Presence of online sales to gain traction in the market. Vendors are focusing on increasing their sales through direct sales and online platforms. Online sales decrease the promotional and operational costs. Technavio's analysts have predicted that the electric dental handpieces market will register a CAGR of more than 5% by 2023.
Developed countries such as Germany, France, and Japan are experiencing an increase in the number of dental practitioners largely due to rise in the number of dental institutions and the prevalence of dental conditions.
Risks associated with these electrical dental handpieces create a barrier for their adoption, thereby resulting in the rise in adoption of substitutes of these dental handpieces.
For the detailed list of factors that will drive and challenge the growth of the electric dental handpieces market during the 2019-2023, view our report.
The market appears to be fragmented and with the presence of several companies including Techman-Head Group and Brackett Aircraft Company the competitive environment is quite intense. Factors such as the presence of online sales and the increasing number of dental practitioners in developed countries, will provide considerable growth opportunities to electric dental handpieces manufactures. Brackett Aircraft Company, Techman-Head Group, HYDRO SYSTEMS, and K&M Airporttecknik are some of the major companies covered in this report.
Technavio recognizes the following companies as the key players in the global automotive steering motor market: Bosch, Brose Fahrzeugteile, DENSO, Johnson Electric, MAHLE, and SKF.
According to the report, one of the major drivers for this market is the increased adoption of EPS in modern vehicles.


I am sure glad that I am only a pilgrim in this world. However, I pray continually for my children and grandchildren as they face the future in this wicked world. I fear for America as I have never feared before. It seems as though the floodgates of Hell have been opened upon us and some are tempted to surrender and be swept along with the torrent.
However, we have the Lord to sustain us through the persecutions and troubles to come.
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
I hereby do make a promise to my family, to my friends, to my church, and especially to my Lord that I will not quit, I will not give up, I will not waiver, I will not allow the Devil a victory in my life, but I will continue the battle for the Lord, because I know I am on the winning side.


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Virginia Vincent's film and television career is as long as it is varied; with small but memorable roles in everything from the '80s family sitcom "Eight is Enough" to the real-life murder drama "I Want to Live!," Vincent was a familiar on-screen presence for over 30 years. Her early years were spent appearing in live TV drama series like "Celebrity Playhouse" and "Kraft Theatre." By the late '50s, she had graduated to more substantial roles in films like the mob drama "The Black Orchid," where she played the wife of a ruthless criminal, and "I Want to Live!," a heavily fictionalized account of the life of Barbara Graham, a convicted murderer sentenced to the death penalty in 1955. After landing recurring roles on the popular crime serials "Perry Mason" and "The Untouchables," which inspired the Oscar-winning 1987 film, Vincent was cast as the older sister of Joey Bishop's ineffectual talk show host on the short lived sitcom "The Joey Bishop Show." She next appeared as a meddling matriarch on the high-profile soap opera "Peyton Place," based on the successful book (and movie) about the complicated lives of the residents of a fictional New England town. In 1977, she returned to the big screen as a helpless grandmother terrorized by a sadistic clan of mutant cannibals in Wes Craven's gory cult horror film "The Hills Have Eyes."


We had the opportunity of eavesdropping on a frank and wide-ranging conversation about the Anglican Communion recently. We've taken the liberty of disguising names and including only titles, editing some of the remarks to their essence.
A Canon of Westminster Abbey: Any attempt to set up a central authority would be doomed to failure. The spirit of the times in which we live is against it. The craving for the voice of authority, and the promised escape from a saturnalia of private opinion, are some of the most potent factors for those who convert to Rome. We're tempted to say, in the words of the Book of Judges, 'In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes'.
We murmur 'Babel!' and we forget that the Babel of the dispersion was, after all, better than the Babel of united effort. For then they were all agreed, and all spoke the same language — but were all fatally in the wrong.
We groan under apparent anarchy, but forget that in the history of the Church there are, and have been, times of experiment. We may very possibly be — we almost certainly are — living in one of those times of experiment, when it would be one of the most fatal mistakes which we could make, to attempt to alter and to fix.
And it may well be that such an attempt in a wide and variously constituted body such as the Anglican Communion would be productive of more harm than good. We must also surely be on our guard against anything which would tend to make us forget that the Anglican Communion is not conterminous with the Church. 'I believe in the Holy Catholic Church', not in the Anglican Communion, however great and precious that portion of the Church may be.
The Archdeacon of Dunedin: The Church in New Zealand is a voluntary association of members of the Catholic Church in full union and communion, spiritually and ecclesiastically, with the Church of England, but that does not make us, the Church in Australia or South Africa to be the Church of England.
Our relationship is a natural one, and it would be a mistake to hamper it by making it depend upon a constitutional basis or by seeking to consolidate it by formal enactment. Any such attempts would weaken rather than cement the existing union.
Why turn voluntary bonds into obligatory fetters?
Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire: There is a great tendency to identify the Anglican Communion with the Church of England. Speaking as an American, it seems to me the best line for the American Church to take at present was to stand rather stiffly in its comparative strength for the position of national Churches.
A Canon of St George's Cathedral, Cape Town: The idea of the Anglican Church is to preserve and to proclaim the whole Faith as she has received it and at the same time to learn more and more of the meaning of what God has revealed to man.
The Bishop of Gibraltar: We should remember that what we should aim at is not closer union with Canterbury, but closer union with one another. As a matter of fact, there has never been a whisper derogatory to the primacy of honour which belongs to the See of Canterbury as the historic centre of the Anglican Communion.
But everything depends upon our real object; and our object surely is not consolidation with Canterbury, but simply a more adequate method of common action for the Churches of the Anglican Communion in the matters that concern all.
A Vicar from Yorkshire: The Anglican Communion is primarily that Branch of the Church which is the Church of the Anglo-Saxon race throughout the world.
The Dean of Westminster Abbey: The ideal function of the Anglican Communion is to express and guide the spiritual activities and aspirations of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Did you wake up at the last two comments? And wonder what world these clergy were living in?
Welcome to the world of 1908.
These comments are taken from a session on 'What is the Anglican Communion?' at the Pan-Anglican Congress, which opened on Monday, 15 June 1908 and ended on 23 June. It was a worldwide conference of churchmen and women, in which 'six halls were engaged for the meetings daily for eight days. The Albert Hall, two halls at the Church House, the Holborn and Kensington Town Halls. At night meetings and services were held simultaneously in St Paul's, in the Church House, and in one or two other places. All were crammed every day, and it was calculated that some 17,000 people were present each night'.
The Church Times noted that the conference's success had even led someone to describe it as 'the greatest Oecumenical Council ever known to history'. And 'in 19 pages of close print spread over two weeks', the Church Times further 'summarised the debates and meetings on such subjects as marriage, the Church and human society (issues such as "Sweating" and "Christian Science"), capital and labour, religion and science, racial difficulties, monopolies, religions and the press, biblical criticism, aborigines, and Christianity and Socialism'*.
At the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul's Cathedral, a total sum of £333,208 was laid on the altar, roughly an astounding £24,944,757.37 in 2007 UK pounds — or just over $41,000,000 US dollars At ONE SERVICE. Would that be possible now?
But even that stupendous Pan-Anglican Congress couldn't sort the question of just what the Anglican Communion is and how it should work. Whether that's comforting or not is open to question.
*If you'd like to read the papers and proceedings of the 1908 Congress, the entire report is available in PDF.


America has always seemed to provide an outlet for the weird, the different, and the malcontented. In a general way, that meant that a dissatisfied city dweller in the 19th century could pack his family up in a wagon and head out West. But it also meant that anyone dissatisfied with the status quo had an outlet to do his or her own thing. When Roger Williams fell out with the Puritans of Massachusetts, Rhode Island was born; when John Humphrey Noyes envisioned every man being married to every woman, the Oneida community was founded; and when Eugene V. Debs viewed the mainstream political parties as unrepresentative, the Socialist Democratic party was formed.
Of course mainstream America didn't like these non-conformists, and never missed an opportunity to repress, jail, or snuff them out. Nonetheless, the ideas of these small bands of renegades slowly seeped into the culture, leaving their influence on the next decade or generation.
Betsy Blankenbaker's New York in the Fifties drops in on one feisty group of dissidents who traded the suburbs, big cars, and fast food of middle America for be-bop jazz, free love, and an allegiance to the written word. Based on Dan Wakefield's book of the same name, the film focuses on the life and times of a number of poets, artists, and musicians caught in a whirlwind of drunkenness, discovery, and radical politics. New York in the Fifties not only captures a unique place and time, but also offers the missing link between the "silent generation" and the counter culture of the sixties.
Wakefield and company were ready to trade in the American Dream for something richer and wilder than business degrees, corporate jobs, and families, and New York promised a taste of the forbidden. Hailing from middle class backgrounds in middle America, Columbia, the beatniks, and the club scene must have seemed like a lethal dose of salvation. Here, one met at the White Horse Tavern, drank too much, and argued about characters in Hemingway and Faulkner books. Here, one could watch Kerouac read at the Vanguard, catch Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot, or sit in on lectures by C. Wright Mills or Mark Van Doren.
New York in the Fifties paints a black and white portrait of a rich historical moment that leaves the viewer wistfully thinking, "Wouldn't it be fun to travel back to a time that worshipped the written word and cherished be-bop jazz?" But nostalgia is a dangerous drug. It tempts one to juxtapose one's own era against a golden, and untouchable, era of the past. The 1950s only come out better if one leaves out McCarthy, the birth of the modern conservative movement, the H-bomb, and Pat Boone. Still, it's fun to take a short respite by watching New York in the Fifties .
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Established in the year 1986, Howard Public Schools' main objective was to cater to all round development of the child and is run on sound lines, by a Board of honorary members consisting of Educationalists, Doctors and Engineers. True to the spirit of starting the Institution, it has established its place in the field of education, not only in obtaining 100% result in the Board Examinations, but also as a place of pride to receive education. The school is having experienced and qualified teachers in the respective fields. The school has been following Semester System since 1993.


A federal court bars Alaska from building logging routes through vital parts of the forest.
Update: On March 28, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal.
Update: On October 24, the Alaskan government petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the court of appeals' decision.
At 17 million acres, southeastern Alaska's Tongass National Forest is the largest forest in the United States, and one of just a handful of relatively intact temperate rainforests left in the world. Its rare old-growth stands of cedar, spruce, and hemlock not only provide irreplaceable habitat for dozens of species of birds—including Marbled Murrelets and the world's largest concentration of Bald Eagles—they also serve as a globally significant carbon sink, storing nearly 10 times more carbon than any other U.S. national forest. During the past half-century the timber industry has eaten away at the Tongass, to the alarm of conservationists who have fought to end old-growth logging; this summer, after years of litigation, a federal court granted the greens a victory by closing off more than half the forest to timber harvesting.
The court's decision focused on the Roadless Rule, which was adopted by the U.S. Forest Service in 2001 to prevent habitat fragmentation by blocking the creation of new roads in national forests and prohibiting timber cutting in designated remote areas. For most of the rule's existence, the Tongass has been exempt, the result of a 2003 lawsuit by the state. Conservation groups countered with their own suit in 2009, and over the next few years the exemption was lifted and then reinstated. Finally, in July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—the last stop before the Supreme Court—overturned the exemption, effectively putting nearly 10 million acres of the Tongass off-limits.
But the Tongass isn't safe quite yet. Timber-happy Alaska politicians, like U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R), have vowed to continue to fight for the exemption, possibly by asking the Supreme Court to take up the case. And even if the Roadless Rule remains in effect, it won't protect old-growth trees from logging operations already in place, including the 6,000-acre Big Thorne timber project, which began in April. That's why Audubon Alaska and other groups have been pushing for an amendment to the Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan, now being modified by the Forest Service, that will require a transition away from large-scale old-growth logging and toward sustainable timber practices that protect the integrity of one of our last great places.


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Workshop Name: Vision Meets Drone: A Challenge
Date:Sun 27 Oct Full day
Location: E1, COEX Convention Center
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00 – 10:00 Invited Keynote: Real-Time Visual Tracking by Convolutional Neural Networks: a History and the Future (Keynote Speaker: Bohyung Han)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Invited Keynote: Learning to Track and Segment Objects in Videos (Keynote Speaker: Ming-Hsuan Yang)
11:30 – 12:00 Awarding Ceremony
13:30 – 14:00 Winner Talk: Drone Pyramid Networks with Adaptive Context for Object Detection
14:00 – 14:30 Winner Talk: Accurate Target State Estimation for Drone Tracking via Enhanced Data
14:30 – 15:00 Winner Talk: Delving into High Quality Detection And Tracking
15:00 – 17:00 Poster Session
Title: Real-Time Visual Tracking by Convolutional Neural Networks: a History and the Future
Abstract:Recent tracking algorithms based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve impressive accuracy, and MDNet is one of the seminal works among them. However, there are still many remaining issues including the efficiency of algorithms and the way to handle challenging situations. In this talk, I will first present several real-time visual tracking algorithms based on CNNs and their characteristics in terms of methodology and performance in recent benchmarks. After that, I will demonstrate the existing limitations in visual tracking algorithms and discuss the potential research directions to handle such challenges.
Biography:Bohyung Han is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. Prior to the current position, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH and a visiting research scientist in Machine Intelligence Group at Google, Venice, CA, USA. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, in 2005.He served or will be serving as an Area Chair or Senior Program Committee member of numerous major conferences in computer vision and machine learning, a Tutorial Chair in ICCV 2019, and a Demo Chair in ECCV 2022. He is also serving as an Associate Editor in TPAMI and MVA, and an Area Editor in CVIU. He is interested in various problems in computer vision and machine learning with an emphasis on deep learning. His research group won the Visual Object Tracking (VOT) Challenge in 2015 and 2016.
Title: Learning to track and segment objects in videos
Abstract:In this talk, I will present our recent results on visual tracking and video object segmentation.
The tracking-by-detection framework typically consists of two stages, i.e., drawing samples around the target object in the first stage and classifying each sample as the target object or as background in the second stage. The performance of existing trackers using deep classification networks is limited by two aspects. First, the positive samples in each frame are highly spatially overlapped, and they fail to capture rich appearance variations. Second, there exists extreme class imbalance between positive and negative samples. This VITAL algorithm aims to address these two problems via adversarial learning. To augment positive samples, we use a generative network to randomly generate masks, which are applied to adaptively dropout input features to capture a variety of appearance changes. With the use of adversarial learning, our network identifies the mask that maintains the most robust features of the target objects over a long temporal span. In addition, to handle the issue of class imbalance, we propose a high-order cost-sensitive loss to decrease the effect of easy negative samples to facilitate training the classification network. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that the proposed tracker performs favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches.
Online video object segmentation is a challenging task as it entails to process the image sequence timely and accurately. To segment a target object through the video, numerous CNN-based methods have been developed by heavily fine-tuning on the object mask in the first frame, which is time-consuming for online applications. In the second part, we propose a fast and accurate video object segmentation algorithm that can immediately start the segmentation process once receiving the images. We first utilize a part-based tracking method to deal with challenging factors such as large deformation, occlusion, and cluttered background. Based on the tracked bounding boxes of parts, we construct a region-of-interest segmentation network to generate part masks. Finally, a similarity-based scoring function is adopted to refine these object parts by comparing them to the visual information in the first frame. Our method performs favorably against state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of accuracy on the DAVIS benchmark dataset, while achieving much faster runtime performance.
Biography: Ming-Hsuan Yang is a research scientist at Google and a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Merced. He received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He serves as an area chair for several conferences including IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, European Conference on Computer Vision, Asian Conference on Computer, and AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He serves as a program co-chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision in 2019 as well as Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 2014, and general co-chair for Asian Conference on Computer Vision in 2016. He serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2007 to 2011), International Journal of Computer Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Image and Vision Computing, and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Yang received the Google faculty award in 2009, and the Distinguished Early Career Research Award from the UC Merced senate in 2011, the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in 2012, and the Distinguished Research Award from UC Merced Senate in 2015. He is an IEEE Fellow.


Action figure fans have known about DC Direct's upcoming "New 52" figures for awhile, but Mattel will be delivering its share of updated toys in 2012 as well. CBR got a first look at Mattel's second wave of DC All-Stars figures coming in the new year, which will include Superman and the Flash in their "New 52" looks, plus Red Robin and Supergirl (the evil one in the black costume) in costumes from DC's previous continuity. According to CBR's interview with Mattel's Associate Marketing Manager for DC Universe, Young Justice and Superman toys, Danielle McLachlan, additional characters sporting their new costumes from DC's relaunched titles will be available in 2012 as well. See a larger image of the figures after the jump.


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, även romaniserat Fowyang, är en stad på prefekturnivå i Anhui-provinsen i östra Kina. Den ligger omkring 190 kilometer nordväst om provinshuvudstaden Hefei.

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Fuyangs storstadsområde (prefektur) täcker en yta som är nästan lika stor som Jönköpings län. Den egentliga staden Fuyang indelas i tre stadsdistrikt, den omkringliggande landsbygden är uppdelad i fyra härad och en stad på häradsnivå lyder också under Fuyang:

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Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är september, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är januari, med  mm nederbörd.

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Medicalchain announces a partnership with The Groves Medical Group, London
The pilot partnership will be open to over 30,000 patients
The Groves will be using Medicalchain's telemedicine application and offer their patients the ability to pay in MedTokens.
London, March 6th, 2018: Medicalchain, the decentralised blockchain platform that enables secure, fast and transparent exchange of medical records by patients and doctors, is thrilled to announce a partnership with The Groves Medical Group, based in London, UK. The Groves will be the first medical practice in the UK to use blockchain technology and to accept cryptocurrency as payment for health services, broadening access to private healthcare across its four medical centres.
Medicalchain plans to put everyone in control of their health records and be a partner in their healthcare management. The Groves group is the perfect partner for this pilot, consisting of four GP practices, supporting over 30,000 registered patients and 1,000 private patient families.
The pilot is the first application for Medicalchain's platform, powered by Hyperledger's open source blockchain technology, that allows patients to take full control of their healthcare records through blockchain technology and will provide access to flexible telemedicine services.
The pilot, which commences in July 2018, will allow Medicalchain to gather feedback from doctors and patients to refine its platform and continue development ahead of its global launch. Groves' registered patients will be able to create a free wallet which will hold and manage access to their health records. GP video consultations will also be available to patients, offering the flexibility to see their doctor at a time and place suited to their needs. The platform will then give patients the option to pay for services using cryptocurrency, with users being incentivised to pay for telemedicine services with Medicalchain's MedTokens.
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"This is a unique opportunity to work with the leaders in blockchain for healthcare and offer our patients cutting-edge technology. We believe that by empowering people to choose how they access healthcare, we can reduce the burden on public health services. The goal is to improve health services, not only in the UK but across the world, and with Medicalchain we believe we can be a part of that." said Dr Vince Grippaudo, Senior Partner at The Groves.
Details of the pilot project are currently being refined by both parties with further information due to be announced in the coming weeks.
"I would like to thank The Groves Medical Group for their support and commitment to this project and applaud them for being leaders and pioneers in modern-day healthcare. I would also like to thank our community for their continued support and our team here at Medicalchain who have worked tirelessly to perfect the platform and secure this partnership." says CEO and Co-Founder Dr Abdullah Albeyatti.
The team at Medicalchain appreciates the dedication of its community and the pivotal role it has played in facilitating the project's success to date. There will be more exciting updates to follow, and the team look forward to sharing more good news shortly.
Interested in working with us? Email [email protected]
About Medicalchain
Medicalchain was founded in 2016 by Dr Abdullah Albeyatti and Mo Tayeb to address inefficiencies in the healthcare industry. It is a decentralised platform that enables secure, fast and transparent exchange and usage of medical data.
Using Hyperledger's blockchain technology, Medicalchain has created a user-focused electronic health record that can be used by patients and healthcare professionals — including doctors, hospitals, laboratories and insurers alike. It enables patients to consult doctors and medical physicians remotely, wherever they are in the world, in the knowledge that they'll have access to necessary medical records. Medicalchain also offers an innovative way to connect researchers and patients, rewarding patients with personalised incentives for sharing their anonymised data.
About The Groves Medical Group
The Groves Medical Group is an organisation with 30,000 registered NHS patients over four medical centres, with eight full time partners and 18 salaried doctors as well as specialist nurses. The medical centres offer patients a variety of choice for consultation styles as well as a specialist Clinical Pharmacist and nurse consultations. The Groves are reviewed highly on NHS Choices scoring 4.5/5. The company also encompasses the largest Private GP centre in the area and has been leading their approach to patient-centred care for over 35 years. A well-respected part of the community, The Groves is well known for its leading management to ensure a strong & committed relationship with its patients.
https://www.thegrovesnhs.org/
http://www.thegrovesmedicalgroup.co.uk/
Rose Schreiber, [email protected], +44 (0) 20 3745 4971
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This Sunday we'll be collecting money for the TentMakers Hill Academy project in Uganda that we are supporting. Introduced to the project by Joe, our former administrator, he showed a number of our members the school that his late mother helped to establish for children who would have no other access to education. It's an opportunity to give to a specific and meaningful project making an immediate difference to many lives – especially now when the school is suffering the impact of the current drought in East Africa. Do read the flyer. Do pray about giving.


I need to say this. I have a few pet peeves re chiles (or any other veggies for that matter).
1. Not identifying a variety as hybrid before saving and sharing seeds. To be fair, this problem often stems from the seed companies. So really my peeve is with them. Is or is not Medusa a hybrid? What about Kung Pao? Are there more than one variety with the same commercial name?
2. Omitting genebank accession numbers if there is a common or varietal name associated. I have a serious problem with this. And it's why I really like what Thietavu does on Inferno. The more I visit, the more impressed I am.
3. Seed companies/others changing or editing names. And free-form spelling.
4. Seed companies/others stealing photographs and documentation. This is fairly new to peppers, but a longstanding problem in the tomato world. Usually it's small companies 'borrowing' from foreign sites. Do people not realize that we, diehard chileheads, surf the world looking for the elusive holy grail of peppers? Plus, it's ILLEGAL to steal. Funny that.
Okay, that's plenty. Anybody else want to share (vent)?
another: Tejaswini is a hybrid or not? Sources differ yet again.
I would agree with all of the above. Unfortunately it's not just seed companies changing or making up names, it's also individuals. If along with retaining the name that comes with the seed, we also keep records of the source it would be much easier to sort out " is this pepper the same as that pepper".
Yes indeed....Chocolate Congo Brown Black Habanero...pick a few terms and rearrange as you like!
One problem is those peppers that people get without a real name/or just do not know. When they want to share the good they need to call it something and usually make it up as they go along.
In a lot of such cases perhaps Unnamed chinense (or whatever) from x y or z would probably be a more reasonable way of going about it with unidentified vars...not to mention the use of NOT x y or z for those plants that turn out not to be what you thought they were, as John has suggested elsewhere.
I used to call the Landais/Aquitaine, Aussou as that is the name of the hamlet where I got the original seed from. The fact is however that the variety is called Landais in the Landes and Aquitaine elsewhere in Aquitaine (Landes being in Aquitaine), so I trade seeds under the name Landais/Aquitaine, cos both names are the traditional names for the same variety depending on where you are in the region. The names are also used interchangeably outside of Aquitaine....no wonder the french say that they have a word for everything...they usually have two or three...but I digress.
Another part of the problem is that a lot of amateur growers are just that and have no real interest in classification and cataloguing. They can not reasonably be expected to take much trouble with researching such info...which I personally do not hold against them...this chile growing mania is just fun for the majority.
I must say that I was very pleased to get a link to this site the other day..thanks Jennifer. The wealth of information and quality of images is just great...my hat is off to all concerned. I look forward to regularly checking in to see what is happening here. Now I just need to learn Finnish!!!! Ouch!
Well, learning Finnish might prove to be an interesting experience... Still, as Nuthead wrote, everyone here in Finland learns English already as a child - some better, some worse. The reason is simple: we're so isolated when it comes to language, that in order to survive, we just have to be able to communicate in other languages! Most kids here learn, besides English, at least Swedish, many also German, French, Spanish, Russian... These days also Japanese, Chinese - and so on.


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Q: What is a Quick and Understandable PROCMAIL Way of Allowing POP Mailbox users to turn on and off Vaction AutoReply I've just inherited an Undocumented Linux File and Mail Server.  In the past week, I audited and discovered several things that had been neglected for a while (logins still active but for long gone employees, etc).  I fixed and documented these....
I also discovered that people have gotten used to having 'IT' turn on and off vacation auto reply for email accounts (via .procmailrc ).  I do not consider controlling one's vacation auto reply to be an administrative tasks and I seek to quickly put this under user control.
Can someone help me grasp onto an approach to automate this feature?  (Difficulty: I'm not very familiar with procmail)

A: Well, there's a GUI procmail rule builder:
http://www.uvm.edu/opensource/?Page=procbuilder.html
Haven't used it, but looks promising...
You might also consider installing a webmail package, such as SquirrelMail. It has plugins for autoreplies.

A: Have a look at usermin. It is web-based, intended for end-users and can be used to edit .procmailrc files and set up mail forwarding and auto-replies (and much more).
BTW, if you just want vacation auto-replies, I think you could also use the vacation program.


You will experience a lot of employed people today. In general, it is not a simple task to make your employees feel like they stand out. Specifically, it is much likely to be a difficult task, for an individual who has never done it before. Nonetheless, coming up with the important ideas meant for employee appreciation does not have to be an impossible task. Below is a discussion regarding the best ideas you are capable of incorporating the next time you have the desire to make your employees feel special.
Awards as well as trophies are some of the great idea for employee appreciation. Among the many other ideas for workers appreciation, giving out awards as well as trophies is the easiest. Furthermore, despite selecting those that are engraved, they are usually cost-efficient. You are advised to look at this selection of awards for you to be aware of what is capable of working for your budget. Awards and trophies, can as well create some healthy competition if the employees realize there is a prize to be worn.
An awesome break room is another vital idea for employee appreciation. One of the most imperative place workers tend to go is a break room because it gives them a chance to break from the job monotony. Hence, it is advisable to deliberate revamping your break room to a fun and relaxing atmosphere as a way to show your employees you appreciate them. Investing in a nicer coffee machine and ditching uncomfortable chairs for couches and armchairs is highly recommendable. You can also consider to change the lighting in the room and add lamps rather than large lights. Asking your employees what they want is a crucial decision you need to make before you make any large changes. Consideration of these is vital because what sounds like a good idea to you might be opposed to them.
Company swag also an important idea you cannot overlook when planning to appreciate your workers. In general, no one hates company swag. Company swag is highly loved because it makes people experience a feeling that they are part of the team. To make your workers feel that they are part of the team, you ought to give them company swag. Employee retention is the other crucial thing that company swag does in addition to employees morale improvement. The use of company swag can be vital for marketing your business. Company swag has a lifespan that is great as long as you have picked high-quality material.
For the sake of appreciating your workers and showing them how special they are, you can contemplate giving them a raise or bonus. Because the employees have come to your firm to look for money, when you give them more is a better way of making them happier and desire to stay at your company.


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Back in the good old days, (ya know, before we had kids) my husband, Todd, and I had all sorts of grand ideas of how we would parent.
First of all, our kids were not going to be picky eaters. We would introduce them to a wide variety of delicious foods, and they would eat them all. Ok, they would eat some of the foods, but they most definitely would not live off of chicken nuggets and goldfish crackers. Our kids would also behave in public.
Man, we were so naïve.
We have two biological sons: Adam, born in July of 2009, is strong willed but sensitive. He is introverted, but he doesn't stop talking about things he is passionate about. Jacob, born in August 2012, is a typical younger brother. He believes everything belongs to him.
Adam appears to have sensory processing issues due to ear infections as a toddler. He has an extremely sensitive sense of smell and a strong gag reflex. He also prefers "soft" clothes and flannel sheets. He tells us he doesn't like to eat and is extremely picky. Some days, I beg him to finish his chicken nuggets and goldfish crackers.
Adam, being the older brother, wants nothing more than to send Jacob back to whatever alien planet from which he had spawned. Jacob, of course, hero-worships his older brother and imitates everything he does. Good or bad. The boys were all I could handle.
In late 2013, Todd and I had a moment. At church, a guest speaker talked about helping just one person. It made so much sense. We could not help everyone, but we could help someone. That night, Todd asked me if I still wanted to adopt. We had talked about adoption many times over the years, but the timing never felt right. It suddenly felt right.
Soon, we began signing papers, gathering documents, and meeting with our social worker for our home study. She talked to us about institutionalized children and the common issues they bring home.
Picky eating- Wha?? We know ALL about picky eating. Sensory issues, willfulness, and over stimulation?? Check, check, check! Who knew that all this time we were raising our biological kids, God was preparing us for adoption.
On August 28, 2014, Superkids posted a Wordless Wednesday blog post to the Waiting Child Advocacy Facebook group, and I saw the most amazing little face.
The only problem was that the little face belonged to a child on Gladney's waiting child list, and we were not a Gladney family.
I may not have followed through on my grand ideas of parenting, but I knew one thing: I would follow through with that little face no matter what.
Initially, Todd was hesitant to switch agencies and was unsure about sweet Ava's special need. We had discussed and were open to many special needs from clubbed feet to missing limbs to beta thalassemia major. And here we were, stalled over a healthy little girl with congenital nevus (birthmarks).
Again, I knew I had to follow through. I spoke with Superkids about the beautiful little girl. I asked questions, and not just to someone reading out of a file, but to a person who had MET her. A person who had touched her and played with her. What an amazing gift when so much about international adoption is a leap of faith. Todd thought about it, and I prayed and silently begged with big puppy dog eyes. This is OUR GIRL.
Finally, we submitted our Letter of Intent.
Many long months and a few tears of impatience later, on April 20, 2015, we met the little face I had seen on Facebook.
It was surreal. It was like something straight out of a movie. It was terrifying, and we could hear her screams before the elevator even reached our floor in the civil affairs building. Our sweet little angel was absolutely distraught and wanted nothing to do with us.
She hit and screamed and sobbed for what seemed like days. But then that afternoon, she decided she liked Todd. She would beam at Todd like he was Superman and then she would give me the meanest look she could muster.
She was a picky eater. She enjoyed her milk, her boiled eggs, and some rice. She did not like cold, and she scratched her fingers over upholstery and carpets to feel the textures. She was everything we had learned about from our biological children. She was just like them but a whole lot easier. It wasn't long before she would beam at me and hug me and whisper, "I love you" in my ear.
She loves hugs and kisses and shouting "no, that's mine!" She dances and sings, "Let It Go" and refuses her congee if I didn't make it the way she likes it. She plays with her brothers, kisses their boo boos, and hugs them if they are sad. They, in turn, teach her all of their bad habits.
I am not the parent I wanted to be. I am, however, the parent God equipped me to be. My kids… well, they aren't even close to what I asked for. No, they are far better than I could have ever imagined. They aren't perfect or always well behaved. Sometimes, they make me cry, but they also make me laugh so hard I can barely catch my breath. They torture each other relentlessly, but they stick up for each other, too. They embrace others who are different and care for others, too.
People tell us that we are good people for adopting and that Ava is a lucky girl. Honestly, we are just parents trying to survive the day so we can sneak a bowl of ice cream before bedtime. Ava may be lucky, but not because we adopted her. Adoption doesn't make people saints or patient or good parents or fortunate. Adoption makes people into family.