Victory in the Australian national road race by a matter of mere meters, courtesy of a daring solo attack, ensures that Miles Scotson will only spend two days this season in regulation BMC team kit. The 22-year-old's debut for the WorldTour team was one akin to a Hollywood script as he came into the race unsure of his ability to even finish, yet finished off the race with a move that suggested he was a seasoned and experienced professional.
Speaking with Cyclingnews ahead of the race, Scotson explained: "If I was there at the end, I would just race as hard as I can." Renowned for his time trialling ability, Scotson was unfamiliar with the elite level of racing on the Buininyong circuit but, as an Under-23 winner in 2015, he came into the race knowing what it took to win. The victory sees Scotson join Jack Bobridge and Simon Gerrans as the only Australian men to win both the U23 and elite titles.
Thursday's time trial was Scotson's first in BMC colours, coming just a few hours after younger brother Callum defended his U23 time trial in his new BMC Development kit. Finishing fifth in his first time trial over 40km was a result he was "pretty happy with" as Rohan Dennis stormed to a second straight win.
While BMC has entered the road race before with Cadel Evans and Richie Porte as overwhelming favourites, Scotson's ambition for the race was to get some racing in the legs and bank some experience for the years to come. Instead, he became the most unlikely of BMC's Australians to take the victory and ensure the team holds both the road and time trial jerseys for the next 12 months.
"I rode the course last night after the U23 race and thought it would be so good to win this national title one day. Then I thought they will probably move the course eventually so I was like next year I have to go really hard for it. Then today it was nothing to lose and I had a good day and everything came together," Scotson said of the win.
"I wasn't overly happy with the time trial but Callum and Rohan killed it and I really stepped up today and I'm super proud that I could get a result and sort of a payback to the team for giving me an opportunity."
Scotson's first race in the green and gold jersey will come next week on home soil in Adelaide at the WorldTour-level Tour Down Under stage race. The former track rider, who was Australia's reserve in the team pursuit for the Rio Olympic Games, is aiming to develop into a Classics rider, and explained that he welcomes the challenge and added attention that wearing the national champion's jersey will bring in his first year racing as a professional.
"To be racing in the national champion's jersey this year is going to be a big jump. There is maybe a bit of pressure and I am not sure how this season is going to go and whether I can handle it. Now I am going to stand out so it's time to lift my game. It is a major opportunity to be racing for a team like BMC," said Scotson, who will be basing himself in Belgium for the year.
"I am a young guy in the team trying to find my way. I think there could be a lot of changes but I hope to target the Classics. Not so much results but just to do my best and support the team. It is going to be hard but the early-season goal is Classics-style racing and some one-week tours through the year. I am looking to learn and it is going to be a big jump. I only did 20 something race days on the road in 2016 and it is a big year ahead."


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Hermann von Sulz auch Hermann VI. von Sulz (* (?); † 1429 auf der Burg Balm) war ein Graf und Landvogt in Vorderösterreich und Hauptmann der vier Waldstädte. Er war der Stammvater der Klettgauer Linie derer von Sulz.

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Graf Hermann entstammte dem Hochadelsgeschlecht der Grafen von Sulz aus Sulz am Neckar mit dem Sitz auf der Burg Albeck, sein Vater war Rudolf I. von Sulz (* vor 1349; † 1406) und seine Mutter Anna von Waldburg († 1385 oder 1406). Mit dem Graf Johannes II. von Waldburg war er verwandt, verband sich aber auch durch Freundschaft mit ihm, wie eine Episode dort zeigt.

Er »arrangierte« durch die Heirat seines Sohnes die Klettgauer Linie derer von Sulz. Seine Vorfahren besaßen einst Güter in Schwaben und die Grafschaft Baar. Diese überließen sie zugunsten des Hauses Fürstenberg dem Reich und erhielten dafür das erbliche Amt eines Präsidenten des Hofgerichts in Rottweil, eine hochangesehene und entsprechend honorierte Stellung. Er war ein zielstrebiger und ehrgeiziger Mann, der zur Erlangung seiner Ziele alle Mittel anwendete.

Er war verheiratet mit Margaretha von Hohenberg-Rottenburg, († 26. Februar 1419), einer Tochter von Graf Rudolf III. von Hohenberg († 30. November 1389), dem letzten Grafen der Linie Hohenberg-Rottenburg und der Ita von Toggenburg.

Margaretha hatte 1384 Markgraf Bernhard I. von Baden geheiratet, die Ehe – aus der keine Kinder entstammen – wurde 1393 geschieden. Die Erbtochter von Hohenberg heiratete danach Hermann von Sulz, womit dieser 1399 beim Tod ihres Vaters in die Wirren um das Erbe der Hohenberger verwickelt wurde. Hermann steckte seine Ansprüche zugunsten der Habsburger zurück und wurde wohl im Gegenzug 1406 von Herzog Friedrich zum Landvogt im Breisgau und 1407 für die ganzen Vorlande ernannt und gehörte damit zu den einflussreichsten Adeligen in Süddeutschland. Hermann eröffnete seinem Haus damit wohl auch den Weg für den am 6. Juli 1408 mit dem Haus Habsburg-Laufenburg abgeschlossenen Heiratsvertrag, der den Sulzern für nahezu 300 Jahre eine neue Machtbasis im Klettgau sicherte. Hermann und Agnes, die Witwe des letzten Grafen von Habsburg-Laufenburg, Johann, schlossen für ihre Kinder, Rudolf von Sulz und Ursula von Habsburg-Laufenburg diesen Vertrag ab.

Mit Margaretha hatte Hermann drei Kinder:
 Rudolf III. ⚭ Ursula von Habsburg-Laufenburg
 Anna von Sulz ⚭ 1406 Friedrich von Hohenzollern
 Halbgraf Heinrich von Sulz ⚭ 1. Ursula ⚭ 2. Quiteria von Münsingen

Linie Sulz-Klettgau
Auf der Burg Balm unweit Lottstetten verstarb in der Woche vor dem St. Urbanstag im Jahr 1408 Graf Johann von Habsburg und hinterließ eine ledige erbberechtigte Tochter: Ursula von Habsburg-Laufenburg. Ihre Mutter war Reza von Habsburg-Laufenburg (geborene Agnes von Hohen-Landenberg, die vom Kaiser das Heirats-Privileg erhielt, da die von Hohen-Landenberg »nur« Ritter waren). Sie bekam nun reichlich Besuch von heiratswilligen Freiern, die um die Tochter warben. So auch Hermann von Sulz, jedoch nicht für sich, sondern für seinen Sohn, Rudolf III. von Sulz. Die Ehe wurde am Ulrichstag 1408 vertraglich geschlossen. Die Vereinbarung legte fest, dass die tatsächliche Heirat auf den Tag zwei Jahre später stattfinden sollte und somit die Landgrafschaft Klettgau mit der Herrschaft Rottemberg (Unterelsass) und die Herrschaft Krenkingen an Graf Rudolf übergingen, die Witwe aber die Burg Balm als Witwensitz behielt. Hermann von Sulz verstarb 1429 auf der Burg Balm.

Sitz Burg Balm

Sein Sohn Rudolf III. von Sulz wohnte bis zu seinem frühen Tod auf der Burg Balm mit seiner Frau Ursula und drei Söhnen (Johann, Ludwig und Alwig). Gräfin Ursula und die unmündigen Söhne Ludwig und Alwig lebten dort bis zur Zerstörung der Burg und Gefangennahme durch die Schaffhauser 1449. (Johann übernahm das Hofrichteramt in Rottweil). Schaffhausen zahlte auf kaiserlichen Druck später als Entschädigung dafür zehntausend Gulden, bestand jedoch darauf, dass die Burg Balm nie mehr erbaut werden durfte. Gräfin Ursula wohnte bis zu ihrem Tod (1456) in Waldshut.

Schirmvogtei über das Kloster Rheinau
Graf Hermann war stillschweigend davon ausgegangen das sein Sohn mit der Heirat auch die Schirmvogtei über das Kloster Rheinau erhalten würde, der Abt begab sich jedoch unter den Schutz des Herzog von Österreich. Hermann war zuvor in der Schlacht am Stoss am Appenzellerkrieg beteiligt gewesen, unter der Führung des Herzogs. Nachdem der Abt Heinrich verstorben war, wurde Hugo von Almishofen neuer Abt von Rheinau, auch dieser überwarf sich mit Hermann und es folgten langwierige Streitigkeiten, zwar konnte auf dem Konzil von Konstanz nach der Flucht des Papstes und nachdem der Herzog in Reichsacht fiel, Hermann wieder die Schirmvogtei erlangen, der Abt wurde gefangengesetzt. Doch auch unter dem Nachfolger des Abt Hugo, dem Abt Eberhard dauerten die Streitigkeiten weiterhin fort, Abt Eberhard war durch Verwandtschaft mit Schaffhausen verbunden, von Vorteil waren diese Streitereien für die Stärkung der Eidgenossenschaft.
Erst unter Alwig X. von Sulz der als Bewahrer des Klettgaus betrachtet werden kann, wurden die Querelen eingestellt.

Literatur
 Joseph Bader, Die Grafen von Sulz, in: Badenia, 1840

Weblinks
 Peter Niederhäuser: Die Grafen von Sulz zwischen Eidgenossen und Habsburg; Vortrag vor der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein e.V. am 17. Januar 2003 online

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Donald Trump on ISIS: 'These people are insane'
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks at a news conference before a scheduled campaign rally, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE ** more >
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Friday, November 20, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that while he's a big believer in talking, it's unlikely he'll be negotiating with the Islamic State terrorist group anytime soon.
"These people are insane," Mr. Trump said when asked what he would say to the leader of the group, given the opportunity. "These are insane people."
"Normally, I'm a big believer in talking — you can reason with most people. These are nuts, and it's got to be said, and it's got to be stated," he said in part of an interview that aired Friday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"And Obama — I don't know what's with him," he said. "He doesn't talk about Islamic terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism. He won't even use the term. It's almost like he's defending them."
Asked what he would be saying if he were in the White House right now, Mr. Trump said: "Oh, I would be saying, 'Let's go, folks.' "
"And I would be getting other countries," he said." "I would say we're going to bomb the hell out of 'em. We're going to get 'em right now."

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IWF - Does the New Uber Study Show a Gender Wage Gap?
Has a new study finally proven the gender wage gap actually does exist? CNN Money thinks so. This article, boasting the headline, "Even in a gig economy, women earn less than men," discussed a new Stanford University and University of Chicago study released last week. The economists used data from over one million Uber drivers and uncovered a seven percent hourly earnings gap between men and women. Does even Uber favor men over women in the seemingly endless battle over the "gender wage gap"?
To translate economist-talk to real-life talk this means: Men earn more driving for Uber than women do because they 1) spend more time chauffeuring people around than women do, 2) they drive in places that are more populated and even riskier and 3) they are able to drive more passengers around than women are because they drive faster than women do. The authors of the study observed, "Overall, our results suggest that on-the-job learning may contribute to the gender earnings gap more broadly in the economy than previously thought." No kidding!


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COVID-19 patients who undergo surgery are at greatly increased risk of dying following surgery global study
30 May 2020 9:03 am AEST Date Time
Patients are at greatly increased risk of dying after surgery and should avoid surgery if they contract COVID-19
Non-critical surgery should be postponed during COVID-19 outbreaks until infection rates are very low
Safety of surgery during COVID-19 outbreaks is uncertain if high rates of COVID-19 infection are seen in the community.
Patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at greatly increased risk of death following surgery, a new global study published in The Lancet reveals.
Researchers from the international COVIDsurg collaborative found that amongst SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who underwent surgery, mortality rates are very high, even after minor surgery, and approach those of the sickest patients admitted to intensive care after contracting the virus in the community.
Professor David Watson, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Clinical Director for its Clinical Trials Network of Australia and New Zealand said: This data should highlight the risk to Australia and New Zealand of failing to continue to control the current COVID-19 pandemic in our communities. If infection rates are allowed to climb and a second wave adversely impacts our countries, high rates of death can be expected in Australia and New Zealand, and important surgery will almost certainly need to be cancelled as the risk of death is likely to be excessive.
Data from 1,128 patients from 235 hospitals in 24 countries were analysed. Hospitals were predominantly located in Europe, where infection rates remain substantially higher than the rates seen in Australia and New Zealand.
On behalf of the COVIDsurg collaborative, experts from the University of Birmingham-led National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Research Health Unit on Global Surgery have now published in The Lancet findings that SARS-CoV-2 infected patients who undergo surgery experience substantially worse postoperative outcomes than would be expected for similar patients who do not have SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Overall, 23.8 per cent of the patients undergoing surgery died within 30 days of their procedure. High rates of death were seen across all subgroups, including elective surgery (18.9 per cent), emergency surgery (25.6 per cent), minor surgery such as appendicectomy or hernia repair (16.3 per cent), and major surgery such as hip surgery or colon cancer surgery (26.9 per cent).
The study identified that death rates were 50 per cent higher in men (28.4 per cent) than women (18.2 per cent), and two and a half times higher in patients aged 70 years or over (33.7 per cent) versus those aged under 70 years (13.9 per cent). In addition to age and sex, risk factors for death after surgery included having severe pre-existing medical problems, undergoing cancer surgery, undergoing major procedures, and undergoing emergency surgery. All these death rates are extraordinarily high, and demand rethinking of recommendations for surgery in communities with high rates of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Report co-author Aneel Bhangu, Senior Lecturer in Surgery at the University of Birmingham, commented: We would normally expect mortality for patients having minor or elective surgery to be under one per cent, but our study suggests that in SARS-CoV-2 patients these mortality rates are much higher in both minor surgery (16.3 per cent) and elective surgery (18.9 per cent). In fact, these mortality rates are greater than those reported for even the highest-risk patients before the pandemic; for example, the 2019 UK National Emergency Laparotomy Audit reported 30-day mortality of 16.9 per cent in the highest-risk patients, and a previous study across 58 countries reported a 30-day mortality of 14.9 per cent in patients undergoing high-risk emergency surgery."
We recommend that thresholds for surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic should be raised compared to normal practice. For example, men aged 70 years and over undergoing emergency surgery are at particularly high risk of mortality, so these patients may benefit from their procedures being postponed."
Patients undergoing surgery who are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in hospital, or who are already infected appear to be particularly susceptible to subsequent breathing complications, following surgery requiring a general anaesthetic and mechanical ventilation. The study found that overall in the 30 days following surgery 51 per cent of patients developed a pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, or required unexpected ventilation. This may explain the high mortality, as most (81.7 per cent) patients who died had experienced pulmonary complications.
Dr Philip Townend, a surgeon from Gold Coast University Hospital, Queensland and a co-author of the study, said: We are fortunate that the prompt action taken by governments in Australia helped us avoid the high infection rates reported in other parts of the world. This data shows how important it is that in Australia, if we are faced with a second surge of infections, that we reorganise surgery again to minimise the risk that we will operate on infected people. Patients with COVID-19 infection should only have surgery if all other options have been exhausted.
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The StateHorn Project explores the archaeology of the Horn of Africa to understand the role that medieval states played in the history of the region and extract lessons for the present.
The Project "StateHorn: Pathways to Statehood: Authority, Legitimacy and Social Diversity in the Horn of Africa (11th-16th centuries)" aims to analyse the reasons for failure in the contemporary states in the Horn of Africa through the study of their historical dynamics during the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age.
This period of time under study –approximately from the 11th to the 16th centuries CE- witnessed the emergence and consolidation of a score of Muslim states which for 500 years were able to control large regions, provide stability and prosperity to their citizens and establish complex diplomatic and economical links with the Mediterranean, the Near East, Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The former stability of these states contrasts with the challenges that face the states in the region today, with Somalia being the epitome of a failed state.
With the help of archaeological research, the StateHorn project will document the strategies that helped medieval states in the Horn of Africa survive and thrive and from this past experience it will draw lessons that can contribute towards a better management of the problems related to statehood in one of the world's most convulsed regions.
Left: Medieval religious settlement at Dameraqad. Right: Nomad cairn in central Somaliland. ©Incipit Archaeological Project in Somaliland.
Research case
The project has selected as a research case western Somaliland, a region which became de facto independent in 1991 and where the head of the StateHorn project has co-directed, with Dr. Alfredo González-Ruibal (Institute of Heritage Sciences-Spanish National Research Council), an archaeological mission since 2015.
Main mosque of Abasa, one of the sites that will be excavated during the project. ©Incipit Archaeological Project in Somaliland.
The StateHorn project is organised around five main points of research: landscape and territory, urbanism and settlements, material culture, trade, and oral and written sources.
The project combines a wide variety of methodologies and techniques including drone-based surveys, GIS, chemical analyses of pottery and glasses, faunal and archaeobotanic studies, compilations of oral and written texts and excavations in sites of different sizes and functions and geographical emplacements.
The StateHorn Project focuses primarily on the medieval states of the Horn of Africa. Yet, its goals extend beyond the study of a society long time gone. Indeed, the project aims to formulate questions and to propose alternative ways to understand the functioning of the states in Africa and in other places where states face problems of legitimacy and authority. In so doing, the project can contribute to elaborate new approaches that help in improving the lives of millions of people in the Horn of Africa and in other regions of the world.
Overview of the StateHorn Project including research threads, methodologies, archaeological sites and main research topics. Original design ©Juan Pablo venditti
Jorge de Torres
Jorge de Torres studied at the Madrid University and wrote his PhD on the Iron Age in Central Spain, but in 2006 he started working in Ethiopia and since then he has specialized in the Medieval and Modern history of the Horn of Africa. In 2014 he became the co-director of the Spanish Archaeological Mission in Somaliland, the only archaeological project ongoing in that region, and in 2018 he was awarded with a Marie Curie International Fellowship at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) – Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to continue his work on the medieval landscapes of Somaliland.
In 2019, he was awarded with a ERC Starting Grant to launch StateHorn, a new project which will study the origins and development of medieval states in the Horn of Africa to understand the reasons of current state failure in this region. In addition to the Horn of Africa, he has participated in or co-directed in long term projects in Sudan, Morocco and Mozambique, and was part of the African Rock Art Image project at the British Museum, a project which catalogued and studied a collection of 24,000 images of African rock art throughout the continent.
Manuel Antonio Franco
Manuel Antonio Franco ("Muros") studied History at the Santiago de Compostela University with a specialization at prehistory and a MA in programming and network administration. He is an archaeologist with more than 15 years of experience both as an independent archaeologist and within research projects, including international projects in Panama in Sudan. He is one of the most veteran members of the Incipit Archaeological Project in Somaliland, having participated in all the campaigns since 2015. Muros is an experienced topographer and also does all the photogrammetry and drone work of the project, and for years has provided maps,plans and 3D models for our research in Somaliland.
As the new senior technician of StateHorn, he will have many responsibilities supporting the different research areas of the project. In addition to participating in the fieldwork during the next years and preparing all the cartography for the project, he will develop a GIS which will be the base for our study of the territory of the medieval Somaliland.
Andreu Martínez
Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner studied Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona and pursued postgraduate studies in African Anthropology at the University of Rovira I Virgili and the EHESS in Paris. He completed his PhD on the Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia in the early modern times at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published extensively on the history of Catholic missions during the European expansion, the history of the Horn of Africa during the modern period and the expansion of European powers during colonial times in the Horn and the Red Sea areas. Based in one of the leading centres dedicated to the research on the Horn of Africa, the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies in Hamburg University, he was member of the scientific staff of the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica project from the beginning until its completion in 2014. From 2014 to 2018 he worked as Associate Professor at the Department of History and Heritage Management of the University of Gondar, Ethiopia. In northern Ethiopia he has collaborated for several years with the Complutense University of Madrid in several archaeological and heritage-related projects and has led two projects on Ethio-iberian heritage in the Tana Lake region funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID).
In StateHorn, Andreu will use his knowledge of the history of the Horn of Africa to support the archaeological research, providing complementary perspectives on the data collected through excavations and surveys. In addition to studying medieval and modern texts about the region, he will analyze the vast literature and cartography produced in the 19th and 20th by travellers, explorers and colonial agents and thus help reconstructing the social, economic and cultural dynamics that were at work in the region prior to the arrival of the colonial powers. His work will be specially valuable in shedding light onto such areas of research as the toponymy of the region, the oral traditions and genealogies.
Fátima Rodríguez
Fátima Rodríguez-Porto studied Humanities and Documentation at the University of A Coruña. In the 2020-2021 academic year, she completed the interuniversity master's degree in Archeology and Ancient Sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her master's thesis consists in a study of the current state of the common graves of the Franco regime in Galicia.
She has participated in archaeological excavations of different chronologies ranging from Prehistory and the Middle Ages, to different exhumation campaigns related to the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War.
Currently, she has joined the StateHorn project to work as a documentary technician for the different databases of the project. Her work consists in the compilation of bibliographical references and archaeological data, for their introduction in different databases and inventories, generating the largest source of information on these African countries during medieval times.
Ahmed Dualeh Jama
Dr. Ahmed Dualeh Jama was the first Somali to get a doctorate in Archaeology in 1991, when he finished his PhD at the University of Uppsala, and he has worked with all the international teams that conducted research in Somalia before the collapse of the Somali state in 1991, including figures such as Neville Chittick, Steven Brandt, Paul Sinclair or Margherita Mussi. He has been a member of the Department of Archaeology and senior advisor of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for several years, and since 2017, he has been actively collaborating with the Incipit Archaeological Project providing assessment and facilitating the excavation permits, and he has participated in our the fieldwork campaigns throughout Somaliland.
Dr. Dualeh plays an invaluable work in our relationships with local authorities and communities, explaining our work and easing the development of the excavations and surveys. He is also a very active defender of Somalilands's heritage, working very closely with the Somali Association of Archaeology and the National Museum of Somaliland. He will collaborate with the StateHorn project as our liaison with the Somaliland authorities and institutions, and as a senior advisor for the archaeological research.
María Masaguer
María Masaguer studied History, Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage, a MA on new methodologies for the management of cultural heritage and a MA on Innovation, facilitation and learning. Her professional career started in México, where she takes part on several archeological projects in Yucatán peninsula combining her work as a conservator-restorer with the design and execution of community development projects. She also worked at university as a professor carrying out a project-oriented pedagogical proposal. For this reason, she starts to be interested in anthropological research and collaborative knowledge methodologies. Back in Spain she creates and coordinates an urban planning office focused on participatory design. At this stage, he has learned to execute participatory processes but she has also been specializing in the design of communication and transfer materials. This is why part of her activity is also to give advice to research groups in knowdlege transfer processes. Since 2015, she has been collaborating with different Incipit projects as research technician specialize in collaborative methodologies for heritage conservation and management. In Statehorn project we will take advantage of her polyvalent profile, she would collaborate with us as an adviser on heritage conservation, communication and research results transfer.
Raquel Sánchez
Raquel Sanchez Martin studied Sociology, Political Sciences and a Master's degree in Public Services and Social Policy at the University of Salamanca. She worked for over three years in Dublin (Ireland). There she had two different positions funded by European programmes in third sector organizations. Then she worked as an administrator for a company centred on public procurement, and as an admin and communications assistant for another organization focused on Latin American issues.
Back in Spain she worked as a technician at the Institute of Heritage Science (Spanish National Research Council) for two years. She carried out diverse tasks for Incipit projects such as data collection, processing and analyses; collaboration on the organisation of a congress; administration support; support for some publications, congress attendance and presentations etc. She was also the Incipit community manager, In Statehorn project she will provide day-to-day admin and planning support to the project management.
Alfredo González
Alfredo González Ruibal is a staff scientist at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Spanish National Research Council) and the director of the Spanish Archaeological Project in Somaliland. He is one of the world leading researchers in studies of the contemporary past, and has done fieldwork in the Horn of Africa since 2001. His research interests include topics such as war, colonialism, dictatorship, capitalism and the material strategies deployed by communities who still resist modernity, globalization and the state.In 2014, Alfredo launched the Spanish Archaeological Project in Somaliland to study the participation of the Horn of Africa in Indian Ocean trade networks, and the role of indigenous communities in those networks. During these six years, the project has grown and evolved to deal with different chronologies, topics and realities, and currently is focussed on the study of trade in the Antiquity.
As the director of the Spanish Archaeological Project in Somaliland, Alfredo will continue to provide all his expertise and knowledge to StateHorn, and his presence will ensure the best coordination between both projects and archaeological teams.
Pastor Fábrega
Pastor Fábrega is a doctor in Archaeology and a specialized technician in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing technologies at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Spanish National Research Council). He has developed a long research career (including stays at Oxford and Seville) focussed on the use of digital technologies to understand themes related to space and territory. His main research thread consists on the use of non-invasive methodologies to analyse archaeological heritage, from geographical and landscape perspectives. In the last decade, he has worked in several countries of South America, including Chile (since 2010), Argentina (since 2017) and Uruguay (since 2018).
In StateHorn, Pastor will provide an invaluable support and assessment as a GIS and Remote Sensing specialist in several of the research areas of the project, including the acquisition of satellite images and aerial photographs, the development and use of the StateHorn GIS database and the improvement of our analysis of images recorded through the use of Unmanned Aerial vehicles (UAV's).
Carolina Cornax Gómez
Carolina Cornax Gómez studied a double degree of History and Political Sciences and Public Administration in Madrid. Her Degree dissertations were about the 70s' violent drift of the student political movements and organizations of the 60s and the role that female members had in the ETA armed band. In 2019 she moved to Santiago de Compostela to start the Archaeology and Antiquity Sciences Master at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Thanks to the realization of her final master essay she started to work with Jorge de Torres, the director of the Statehorn Project. She did that final master essay about the astronomical influences on the construction of the nomadic funeral monuments of Somalia. On june 2021, she received a predoctoral grant of GAIN and Xunta de Galicia, thanks to which she has recently been incorporated to the team of Statehorn Project, in which she will develop her PhD about the islamisation process of the Horn f Africa.
In addition to her recent incorporation to the Incipit-CSIC group, she has publishied some articles about historical and political issues and she has participated in excavation campaigns in the archaeological sites of Armea, Valencia do Sil or El Castro de El Castillán. I
Referencing this page
Torres, Jorge de (2020). 'About the project', StateHorn Project, 10 October. Available at: https://statehorn.com/about-the-project/ (Accessed: DD/MM/YYYY).
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement Nº 853390).
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What Is the Prevalence of Hearing Loss?
People who have a hearing loss are often embarrassed by it, thinking that they are alone in their communication difficulties, but statistics show that hearing loss is far from an uncommon problem. In fact, hearing loss is the third most common physical health problem in the United States, behind such common ailments as heart disease and arthritis. According to the National Institute for Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NICDC), approximately 15% of adults (or 37.5 million people) over the age of 18 in the United States report some difficulty in hearing.¹
About two or three out of every 1,000 children are born with a detectable level of hearing loss as well. Overall, the greatest predictor of hearing loss of adults aged 20-69 is age, with adults aged 60-69 demonstrating the greatest degree of hearing loss, although hearing loss affects all age groups. Men in this 20-69 age group were found to be almost twice as likely as women to have hearing loss. Among that same age group, as far as race is concerned, non-Hispanic, white adults are more likely than any other ethnic or racial group to have hearing loss, and non-Hispanic, black or African American adults were found to have the lowest prevalence of hearing loss. Almost 25% of adults aged 65-74 were found to have "disabling hearing loss," defined by the NICDC as hearing loss where hearing was 35 decibels or poorer, generally the level at which a person can benefit from hearing aids. Estimates show that rate rises to nearly 50% of adults aged 75 and older who were identified with disabling hearing loss.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 5% of the world's population, or 360 million people (183 million males and 145 million females), have disabling hearing loss, and 32 million of them are children. Roughly one-third of the world's population over the age of 65 is affected by disabling hearing loss. The greatest majority of people with disabling hearing loss are found in low- and middle-income countries; in fact, the prevalence of disabling hearing loss in both children and adults over the age of 65 is greatest in the areas of South Asia, Asia Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa.²
While the cause of many types of hearing loss may be unavoidable, the World Health Organization finds that in children under 15 years of age, 60% of childhood hearing loss could be prevented.³ This figure is higher in low- to middle-income countries at 75% than in high-income countries at 49%, and factor in infections such as mumps, measles, rubella, cytomegalovirus and chronic ear infections, complications during childbirth, use of medications that can be damaging to the auditory system by expecting mothers and infants, and other factors as reasons for this. WHO has also found that 1.1 billion young people from ages 12 to 35 years old are at risk of hearing loss due to noise exposure, most often from recreational activities.


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Fast but furious: New type of supernova may have "burped" before exploding
March 26, 2018 • Categories: News
University of Notre Dame physicist Peter Garnavich remembers a supernova event from his postdoctoral days in 1993. He observed SN1993J release an intense flash of light quickly, decline abruptly, and rise again before fading from view weeks later. The early flash of luminosity was unusual for a supernova, and suggested to Garnavich that the star started blowing off material shortly before it exploded.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Garnavich, professor and chair of Notre Dame's Department of Physics and a member of The Center for Astrophysics at Notre Dame (CANDU), along with his collaborators have coined these events Fast-Evolving Luminous Transients (FELTs). Only by increasing the rate at which telescopes monitor the sky has it been possible to catch more FELTs and begin to understand them.The slow fade of radioactive elements as the supernova decayed allowed astrophysicists to study it at length. But the universe is packed full of flash-in-the pan transient events that last for only a brief time, and remain mysterious because they are so quick and hard to study.
In a paper published March 26, 2018 in Nature Astronomy, Garnavich and colleagues from several universities and institutes, including the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, described one of the fastest FELTs to date, captured by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in 2015. It exhibited what Garnavich described as a "the most beautiful light curve we will ever get for a fast transient." The FELT, KSN2015K, rose in brightness over just 2.2 days – unlike other supernova that may take 20 days to reach peak brightness – and faded completely within 10 days. Most other supernovae take weeks to become undetectable.
The paper describes several options that could cause these FELTs, but researchers ultimately settled on a simple explanation: These stars "burp" before exploding and then do not generate enough radioactive energy to be seen later. Astrophysicists see a flash as the supernova runs into the gas expelled in the burp, and then the supernova fades beyond their ability to detect it.
"Our conclusion was that this was a massive star that exploded, but it had a mass loss—a wind—that started a couple of years before it exploded," Garnavich described. "A shock ran into that wind after the explosion, and that's what caused this big flash. But it turns out to be a rather weak supernova, so within a couple of weeks we don't see the rest of the light."
The only visible activity is from the quick collision of the gas and the exploding star, where some of the kinetic energy is converted to light. One mystery in the explanation is why the burp of gas would happen such a short time before the supernova explosion. Astrophysicists want to know how the outside of the star "knows" to react to what's happening deep in the core, Garnavich said.
The discovery was made possible because of the Kepler telescope and its K2 mission. Kepler was designed initially to be a planet hunter. But astrophysicists like Garnavich realized it could also be used as a tool to stare at galaxies as well, with the hopes of detecting supernovae explosions. Each Kepler "campaign" lasts for three months, as it scans a portion of the sky about the size of a fist raised to the sky as seen by someone standing on earth. Though the portion of sky it scans is small, it captures images every 30 minutes, unlike other telescopes that record areas only every few days.
Though Kepler is expected torun out of fuel die within the next couple of months, astrophysicists have two years' worth of data from it to continue studying. Also, NASA has decided to keep Kepler focused on the study of these types of supernovae events until its demise. After that point, astronomers will rely on the next mission of its kind, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), to study FELTs.
After that point, astronomers will rely on the next mission of its kind, TESS, to study FELTs. TESS will span different wavelength regimes.
Meanwhile, the recent discovery of KSN2015K has led Garnavich to wax nostalgic about what he now believes was his first brush with an almost-FELT, 1993J. He now believes that the supernovae he studied in his postdoctoral years also "burped" before it exploded, exhibiting the speedy rise and fast decline that he saw. However, it likely contained much more radioactive material, giving it the return bump in brightness he and others were able to study long afterward.
"We think these might actually be very common, these flashes, and we have just been missing them in the past because they are so fast." Garnavich said, "The fact that one occurred in the small area of the sky being monitored by Kepler means they are probably fairly common."
In addition to Garnavich, who was the second author on the paper, other collaborators include lead author Armin Rest of STScI and Brad Tucker '07, a research fellow at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University. Additional collaborators include researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), the University of Maryland, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obervatory, Chile, Gemini Laboratory, Chile, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the Center for Mathematical Modeling, University of Chile.
NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, archives, hosts, and distributes Kepler science data. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C.
The research was funded by NASA grant NNX17AH11G.
Originally published by Deanna Csomo McCool at science.nd.edu on March 26, 2018.
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Q: AudioUnit is not playing back audio on tvOS I'm working on an application for tvOS platform for playing back audio using WebRTC (https://webrtc.org/). WebRTC uses AudioUnit for audio playout (https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/webrtc/+/7a82467d0db0d61f466a1da54b94f6a136726a3c/sdk/objc/native/src/audio/voice_processing_audio_unit.mm). It works perfectly on iOS, but produces errors on tvOS.
First of all I've disabled audio capturing at all. The first error happens when creating a Voice Processing IO audio unit:
// Create an audio component description to identify the Voice Processing
  // I/O audio unit.
  AudioComponentDescription vpio_unit_description;
  vpio_unit_description.componentType = kAudioUnitType_Output;
  vpio_unit_description.componentSubType = kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO;
  vpio_unit_description.componentManufacturer = kAudioUnitManufacturer_Apple;
  vpio_unit_description.componentFlags = 0;
  vpio_unit_description.componentFlagsMask = 0;
  // Obtain an audio unit instance given the description.
  AudioComponent found_vpio_unit_ref =
      AudioComponentFindNext(nullptr, &vpio_unit_description);
  // Create a Voice Processing IO audio unit.
  OSStatus result = noErr;
  result = AudioComponentInstanceNew(found_vpio_unit_ref, &vpio_unit_);
  if (result != noErr) {
    vpio_unit_ = nullptr;
    RTCLogError(@"AudioComponentInstanceNew failed. Error=%ld.", (long)result);
    return false;
  }

AudioComponentInstanceNew returns -3000 OSStatus (I assume it means an invalid component ID). This issue can be fixed by replacing kAudioUnitSubType_VoiceProcessingIO → kAudioUnitSubType_GenericOutput (I'm not sure this is a correct replacement, but the error is gone).
After that WebRTC is trying to enable output
// Enable output on the output scope of the output element.
  UInt32 enable_output = 1;
  result = AudioUnitSetProperty(vpio_unit_, kAudioOutputUnitProperty_EnableIO,
                                kAudioUnitScope_Output, kOutputBus,
                                &enable_output, sizeof(enable_output));
  if (result != noErr) {
    DisposeAudioUnit();
    RTCLogError(@"Failed to enable output on output scope of output element. "
                 "Error=%ld.",
                (long)result);
    return false;
  }

and this doesn't work as well: it returns -10879 OSStatus (I assume it means an invalid property). I think the problem is in providing kAudioOutputUnitProperty_EnableIO property, but have no idea why should be utilized instead.
Any ideas pr advices are very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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As with any piece of art, the canvas is hugely important – and in the case of lips the most beautiful colour can be spoilt if they are not in perfect condition to be painted. As we emerge from the depths of winter our lips are certainly not looking their best, and we're sure we're not alone. Scrub up and soothe with our round-up of the best lip scrubs and balms.
Starting with scrubs, we're fussy when it comes to the texture which leaves lips looking full and smooth. Too grainy and they can be left a bit raw and sensitive; too fine and your efforts prove futile. While Laura Geller's Lip Strip (£13) might sound rather harsh, this sugar-based scrub leaves lips feeling petal-soft. The squeezy tube is good for avoiding cross-contamination and it had a refreshing, lightly cooling sensation.
Organic make-up enthusiasts look this way – lip experts Ilia present their Lip Exfoliator (£22) which uses volcanic stone to exfoliate skin and boasts 82% organic ingredients. Housed in a sleek metal tube, this stick exfoliator is easy to use and brings a natural flush to lips without being too aggravating.
Fresh Sugar Lip Polish (£20) is mouth-wateringly good. Brown sugar crystals have been combined with natural humectants including shea butter and jojoba oil to condition lips. Smelling good enough to eat, these little pots of goodness have won their way into many a make-up kit.
If you haven't yet tried the new Lip Scrubtious range from MAC, let this be your official reminder. These colourful pots strike the perfect chord between exfoliation, thanks to the sugar-base formula, and slip which keeps them from uncomfortably dragging. At £12.50 your biggest decision will be which of the five flavours to choose from.
When it comes to full lip conditioning, Clinique have you covered – their adorable Sweet Pots (£15) are macaroon shaped and pair together a scrub and balm in one handy tin. The sugar scrub buffs away with the help of jojoba, avocado and grapeseed oils, while the hydrating balm combines coconut oil and shea butter among other naturally-derived ingredients to condition and subtly tint lips.
When we're looking for products to treat dehydration one of our go-to ranges is HydraQuench from Clarins. Their collection uses katafray to hydrate and replenish thirsty skin – the roots of the katafray tree reach great lengths to seek out water to keep it hydrated. Lips are catered for with the Clarins HydraQuench Moisture Replenishing Lip Balm (£19.50), a creamy formula which is intensely hydrating to revive even the most winter-worn lips.
Burt's Bees never put a foot wrong in our books, and their classic Lip Balms have easily earned places in our kit. At just £3.99 you'll be hard-pressed to find another balm this good for the price. Infused with fruit extracts and Beeswax to richly moisturise and soften lips, the nourishing oils and butters leave a light sheen rather than an intense gloss which is useful when using as a base. Our favourite is their new Strawberry flavour, which smells good enough to eat.
Speaking of bees, the honey-scent of the Nuxe Reve de Miel (£9.50) has us coming back every time. Thick and creamy, you only need a tiny amount for both lips so these pots last forever. We trust the formula, carefully tested in the frigid temperatures of Canada, as it's a fast-acting and comfortable balm which should protect lips from just about everything nature can hurl at them.
For a moisturised and plumped pout we have the KIKO Lip Volume (£6.90) – this creamy-textured balm is enriched with innovative components capable of simulating a filler effect with hyaluronic acid. It also stimulates the production of elastin and collagen, adding elasticity and support to the lip structure, making it perfect for older skin or lips which are prone to feathering.
Kiehl's Lip Balm #1 (£9.50) utilises ingredients to give immediate slip and hydration as well as penetrating deeply to improve the lip texture. With soothing emollients Squalane, Lanolin and Sweet Almond Oil, as well as Vitamins A and E, the handy tube has found its way into our make-up bag with ease.
Smith's classic Rosebud Salve (£8.50) tin is one of those fix-all salves which are always worth keeping stashed in your kit. The light rose scent is comforting and the balm strikes the right balance between lightweight and nourishing with its blend of essential oils. If you're not a fan of a tinned balm then they also have squeezy tubes available.
When prepping a client for a big event sometimes even the very best lip balm could use a helping hand – enter the lip mask trend from last year. Our favourites are the Divine Hydra-Gel Lip Masks from Beauty Boulevard (£7.50 for a pack of two). If anyone knows how to recondition lips, it's the team behind the sensational Glitter Lips; in 10-15 minutes these masks help to plump and smooth lips for an overall more youthful appearance. With their unique Hydra-Gel technology, each mask contains natural Green Tea extract, nourishing Red Seaweed Plant and moisture-boosting Hyaluronic Acid for prolonged hydration.


Give your children healthy snacks after school to help fight their hunger and nourish them at the same time.
Any mother is all too familiar with the chaotic hours of the after-school period; the rush to get home though the traffic, to get the children to after-school activities on time while also attempting to feed the kids a nutritious snack. Unfortunately, Australian children are not particularly healthy when it comes to the after school period. In fact, data from the 2007 Australian National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey found that almost half of all children surveyed consume biscuits, cakes and pastries after school.
Confectionery and cereal bars are consumed by 17 per cent of children, with the majority of these foods being chocolate or other sweets. These are high-carbohydrate, nutrient-poor snack food choices, which are likely to be leaving children at risk of over eating and weight gain long-term.
The structure of the school day means that it is to be expected that children will be hungry after school. However, high-carbohydrate choices such as rice snacks, bread, biscuits and lollies are not the way to go. Ideally, a snack food for children will keep them full for 2-3 hours and offer some positive nutritional properties, whether it is calcium, fibre, protein or iron. Nutrients such as fibre and protein will help to keep kids full, while calcium and iron will support optimal growth and development. Based on these guidelines, dairy or nut based snacks such as low fat milk drinks, yoghurt, ice cream or cheese are all good choices, especially when combined with low GI carbohydrates such as wholegrain crackers, fruit or vegetables.
Nurture good after school patterns by encouraging your children to always sit at the table to eat their afternoon tea, after getting changed from their school clothes. Get into a habit of offering them something that will take some time to chew first, such as an apple, carrot or other crunchy fruit or vegetable options to help take the edge off their hunger. Then, offer them one other nutritious snack to keep them full until dinner time. If you do like to include higher fat treats such as cakes, biscuits or pastries, limit them to once a week and let your child know which day they can enjoy a "treat" so they are not nagging you on a daily basis for it.


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    sys.exit()

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    with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)) as f:
        return f.read()

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    name='gitpress',
    version='0.3',
    description='Blissful blogging for hackers.',
    long_description=__doc__,
    author='Joe Esposito',
    author_email='joe@joeyespo.com',
    url='http://github.com/joeyespo/gitpress',
    license='MIT',
    platforms='any',
    packages=find_packages(),
    package_data={'': ['LICENSE'], 'gitpress': ['static/*', 'templates/*']},
    install_requires=read('requirements.txt'),
    zip_safe=False,
    entry_points={'console_scripts': ['gitpress = gitpress.command:main', 'gpp = gitpress.command:gpp']},
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EXPLORING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19: SURGE OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN INDIA
Author: Rinta John, I year from Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, Rajasthan.
The outburst of Covid-19 has distorted the global order and altered the social and economic lives of all the individuals. This article examines the impact of various socio-economic and political factors that have led to the severe cash crunch. India witnessed a sharp increase in unemployment and economic instability even though it boasted a majority government in its pre-pandemic days, and after the first and second-wave strokes, India is going through a much more severe crisis, with the new burden in the form of the pandemic.
The worries can probably be the safety of lives, financial security with the loss of jobs, availability of food, etc. This seems justifiable in the context of the mass exodus of the migrants in search of livelihood and securing their lives. Some time ago, politician and author Shashi Tharoor insisted that "India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay."
Although Covid-19 has provided some recent prospects for India, with people moving on to other jobs or establishing their own business at the microeconomic level to the government adopting the 'Make in India' model which is argued to create stirring economic growth in the economy, the Indian economy which was already suffering a sharp slowdown, needs more stringent measures.
The decade saw the decline of the global traditional social order with the weakening of the global institutions like the United Nations Organization and the emergence of new institutions, primarily same-regional institutions on self-benefit and self-interests, such as the RCEP. But the pandemic transformed the whole scenario, with the nations struggling to manage their resources, protect the citizens and bring back the economy to normal.
The never-experienced-before crisis also reflected the questionability of the framework of India's social security nets.
According to an analysis by the Pew Research centre, the Indian middle class has been shrunk by a third due to the recession followed by the pandemic, while the number of people who have been earning less than meagre income for survival, about 150 rupees per day, doubled.
Also, it was estimated to have increased from 6 crores to 13.4 crore poor people, with earnings of Rs 150 daily or lower, which accounts for about nearly 60 percent of the increase in poverty. Also, the record rise in MGNREGA workers showed that people were in dire need of jobs. But it has also been speculated by Pew that the reality can be far worse, with the inequality being actually worsened, there can be an increase in the number of poor people than estimated. Also, according to the estimate by Brookings in India, more than 100 million people may have entered extreme poverty.
Factors and Implications of Covid-19 in the increase in poverty in India
The Annual Status of Education Report exposed some alarming facts, as many young children haven't joined school, and there is a sharp increase in out-of-school children in the 6-10 age group. only a little under a third of India's schoolchildren could access online education, say about 11% and of these, the share of those in government schools was 8.1%. The existing deep digital divide in society based on gender, region, and financial aspects has been disturbing. While the have-nots have been struggling to meet their ends and survive, education is their least bother.
All these could lead to a huge loss of human capital accumulation that is more harmful to the economy than economic loss. In India, it will worsen already widening social and economic inequalities, irreversibly. Also, it was highlighted in the Annual Inequality Report by Oxfam India in 2020 that the lives of Indian women are negatively influenced by the influence of gender, caste, and class.
'The economic argument in favour of women's paid employment was that if India's female formal labour force participation rate was the same as China's, then India's GDP was steady to grow at 27 percent' .
Accordingly, the problems of inequality and poverty cannot be addressed without fixing all these interrelated issues. Government schools provided mid-day meals in India that the less privileged students were benefitted during the pre-pandemic days and ensured food and education; but the pandemic denied their source of nutrition. According to the findings of the Right to Food Campaign, it was found that the disturbances in Anganwadi schemes due to the pandemic have deprived 6.4 crore children of their right to food.
According to the report by the International Labour Organization, there are great working hour losses due to the pandemic. As it states, "Eastern Asia suffered great loss during the first quarter, when it was hit with the coronavirus in 2020, but recovered rapidly. In contrast, the rest of the Asian region experienced large losses during the second quarter, as a consequence of the strict containment measures implemented across the region, followed by a strong recovery. Southern Asia in particular (driven by India) exhibits this trend, registering a loss of 34.5 percent in the second quarter, and one of 9.9 percent in the third quarter. The two largest countries in the region, China and India, registered estimated annual average losses of 4.1 percent and 13.7 percent, respectively".
In April 2020, ILO had claimed that about 400 million workers in India's informal sector are likely to be pushed deeper into poverty due to Covid-19 and called out the catastrophic consequences of the pandemic as "the worst global crisis since the Second World War". There is no doubt that the period is of great economic and social challenge, but it is to be noted that the volume of new poor might swell rapidly if the situation isn't tackled efficiently, as the gap between the haves and have-nots is rapidly widening.
The World Bank referred to this as the surge in the "new poor". The job insecurities and low income made it tough for domestic workers and daily wage workers who face the pandemic along with the already existed, yet an increased level of social exclusion and ignorance.
This grievance is particularly relevant in developing countries like India, where the majority of the population works in the informal sector for their subsistence and is highly volatile to crises, to economic devastation due to the absence of a regular income stream leading to a surge in joblessness.
For India, even before the pandemic struck, most of the population was living dangerously close to the poverty line. The pandemic has indeed amplified Asia's third-largest economy's woes, struggles, and vulnerabilities, but the crisis could've been managed better if the economy was better functioning.
When the Moody's assessment downgraded India's credit system from Baa2 to Baa3 in June 2020, with a negative outlook, which was cited due to the weakness in implementing reforms, sustained low economic growth momentum, weak private sector investments, worsening government finances, and dull job creation since 2017.
So, it seems that poverty and inequality were at the doorsteps during the pre-pandemic days, and the breakdown of the nation and its deterioration cannot be completely blamed on the pandemic. It is only that the pandemic can lead either to a bleak or a dynamic future, which depends on how the nation reacts to the conditions.
But, in March 2021, Moody's estimated India's economic growth at 12 percent in 2021 following a 7.1 percent contraction in 2021. As stated, near-term prospects became more favourable and a stronger than expected December quarter GDP growth of 0.4 percent following a 7.5 percent contraction in the previous three months has turned India's near-term prospects more favourable. As per the UNCTAD report, India is estimated to record a 5 percent GDP growth in 2021. Also, as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi held, the Covid-19 pandemic will remain the watershed moment in history—and let it be the beginning of the effective implementation of policies and survival that India can regain its vigour. It is high time for the need for revitalization of India and its citizens, and this can be summarized by the following quote;
"There is empirical evidence that living in unequal societies with some people being much worse off, economically and socially, tends to produce deprivations in the absolute quality of life that people enjoy."
https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/covid-19-poverty-doubled-in-india-in-2020-will-second-wave-make-it-worse-1793826-2021-04-22
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/coronavirus-pandemic-may-have-doubled-poverty-in-india-says-pew-study/article34110732.ece
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/six-million-children-out-of-school-in-india-due-to-the-impact-of-covid-19-girls-most-affected
https://thewire.in/education/nhrc-covid-19-schools-midday-meals
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/indias-economy-may-grow-at-12-in-2021-moodys/articleshow/81585920.cms?from=mdr
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-moodys-downgraded-india-6437798/
Surge of inequality
Surge of poverty
PROTECTION OF DATA BASES AND INDIA
RISE OF CYBER CRIMES- THE NEED FOR INVESTIGATION AUTHORITIES TO BECOME TECH SAVVY
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LAW OF CONTEMPT AND THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH


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Plant selection and availability will change throughout the season. Please call us to verify that we have the plant you're interested in, in stock.
Perennial plants bloom during the warm months, then the above portion of the plant dies off with the onset of the freezing temperatures. However, perennials will re-grow from the roots the following season.
We carry a variety of perennials such as Coral Bells, Rhododendrons, Lilacs, Hydrangeas, grasses, Lenten Roses, Clematis, Sage, Creeping Phlox, Salvia, and much more. Our selection varies throughout the season. Please call or visit our Garden Center to check our plants in stock.
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Why, oh why, does time go so quickly? Or should I ask how? It is already that time of year when the sun crosses the celestial equator and moves south in the Northern Hemisphere...a time when the Northern and Southern Hemispheres both receive the same amount of light as they do dark...or the Autumnal Equinox...Mabon! It all falls somewhere between the 21st and the 23rd of September...but I'm never really sure of the exact moment...so these three days just sort of become an extended celebration! The beginning of my favorite time of the year.
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Using a wooden spoon, add honey and mix well.
Stir in the whole wheat flour, salt, and butter. Add in the bread flour, in ~ 3 additions…you may have to work the last bit in with your hands.
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured countertop, and knead for ~10 minutes, or until dough is smooth and elastic. Form into a ball. Lightly oil a large bowl and place dough in, turning once to get a thin coat of oil all around. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled in size, ~1 hour.
Punch down the dough, then turn out of the bowl. Cut in half, and place in two greased loaf pans. Allow to rise again until doubled in size.
Preheat oven to 375° F and bake for ~30-35 mins., or until golden and fragrant. Immediately after you remove from the pans (while still warm), brush the tops with some melted butter, if using. Allow to cool in pan for ~10 minutes before transferring to wire rack to finish cooling.
These loaves turn out soft (from the addition of the butter in the dough), studded with marigold petals, and light...with a hint of sweetness.
This can be made either in a pot or in the crockpot...which is what I used this time. So easy to just put everything in and let that magical pot do its thang.
Place the apples and the vanilla in a crockpot (this amount fits in a small 2 qt. pot), cover and cook on low for 4½ hrs.
Lift lid and smash the apples up a bit with a fork or spoon. Add all of the seasonings. Replace lid and cook on high for another 4 hours or so...until dark and thick. Warning...your house will smell irresistible to all who pass by and get a whiff!
Remove the star anise, the blend it all up with an immersion blender or in a stand up blender (carefully...it's hot!!) to get a smooth butter. Store in a sealed jar in the fridge.
Place a bunch of rosemary (or thyme) into a clean glass jar. Heat some honey until it is just warm and pourable. Pour over herbs. That's it!
Okay, I realize that's actually a picture of the thyme honey that I labeled rosemary honey. DOH!
My basket to celebrate the harvest includes Marigold Honey Wheat Bread, Spiced Apple Butter, Rosemary Honey, Witches Brew spiced red wine, a bunch of sage, some apples, a squash, some seed pods and some corn stalks turning from green to brown. The basket itself symbolizes the gathering of the crops...the herbs, apples, squash, honey, wheat, seed pods, and corn stalks symbolize the culmination of the harvest brought in this year, and the transition to cooler temperatures and putting up the crops.
Bring on the Autumn fruits and veggies...and harvest foods...and comfort meals...corn mazes...squash, gourd and pumpkin patches...apple and pear orchards...YES!
Wow, now you're just showing off, hehehehe. I love the bread, yum and jam yummer.
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The bread looks great. The spiced apple butter and the rosemary honey look equally great. Wouldn't it be great if someone found a way that we could actually smell things like this bread over the Net. Thanks for some very nice recipes.
I could totally get behind this bread for every season business. It's almost like making a sacrifice to the weather gods. Except instead of bloodshed...you get to eat it!
And that rosemary honey. Man I need that in my life.
Sigh...I wish I could make bread. Every time I have tried it hasn't turned out.
What a PERFECT looking loaf of bread. Wow! You should see some of mine, lol. Your homemade apple butter looks lovely, I can just imagine how wonderful it tastes. And Witches Brew spiced red wine?????? I so want your basket of goodies!
This entire post is just gorgeous, Heather. Truly!
That bread looks really delicious! Homemade bread doesn't even compare the store bought kind. And with homemade apple butter? Slice me off a hunk!
Loved this post. I make my own honey whole wheat bread but never with marigolds. I'm going to try this. I love apple butter and I always make mine in the crock pot. I'm lazy that way. I am inspired to go out and get me some apples.
Yes, bring on the autumn weather! As always, the loaves look stunning. I am liking the rosemary honey too, Nice.
Thank you for reminding me that it is fall. I forget, living in San Diego. Apple butter... oh yummy! You have so inspired me to make bread!
Mabon Blessings to you, Heather! Your basket looks delicious. I love the meaning behind everything that you have prepared! Let the fall festivities begin!
Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my face. I can almost smell that bread baking. Excellent.
I love these uses of honey...you know I love autumn...can I just get jars of this from you??
Prefectly baked bread, homemade apple butter and rosemary honey looks fantabulous,thanks for sharing..
Delicious bread and jam. Yum yum!!!
I'd love a basket like that!
That apple butter....YUM! I will definitely be trying.
Ahem...I think you have more than conquered your fear of yeast...you have a winner of a loaf there!!
Beautiful bread, I love the apple butter too, and the rosemary honey is a wonderful idea--my rosemary is going off so I need to make some. Great post!
I'm impressed with that bread.
Beautiful bread. Brilliant idea for the rosemary honey. And I love the sound of your apple butter, Heather!!
This just made me feel all warm and cozy inside! I can picture you sitting under a tree sipping on your witches brew and munching on homemade bread while colorful leaves fall around you. What a gorgeous sight!
This is the most splendid way to usher in autumn - also my favorite season. The bread, the honey... and that sweet apple butter all tempt and charm.
here from Roz site, gorgeous just gorgeous!
I'm loving everything, but would really love to slather some apple butter on that bread right now.
P.S. Just got jam it, pickle it, cure it from the library. You were so right. I want to make everything!
Just lovely! I've bookmarked this page so I can make both your lovely bread and that delicious apple butter! You have a beautiful blog, and I'm very glad I found it!
I just found your blog from Fresh, clean and pure Friday blog hop and I am now following you. Lovely.
Wow, both the bread and the apple butter are absobloominglutely beautiful!
Wow... is all I can say...so very creative.
You are such a talented bread baker! I am always amazed! And I think baking bread is the perfect Autumn and winter activity.
Beautiful photos! Your bread looks amazing!
Just the title had me drooling. The rosemary honey sounds so different and delicious. The apple butter brings back my memories of college in Pennsylvania.There was apple butter at every meal! LOL!
I've been hosting a weekly meme called Seasonal SUNDAYS and it's all about what the season means to YOU. I'd love to have you come join me. The link goes up in the early hours of Sunday, so link at your leisure any time on Sunday or Monday. Hope to see you then.
Thanks for bing a part of Seasonal Sundays. Hope to see you next week!
It looks delicious and I bet it smells heavenly!


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Q: How to strip and split a string which contains an escape sequence in bash? I have a string. For example
STR="          Hello, World    I'm\ new\ here  "

and what I want to receive is an array like this
"Hello,"
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"I'm new here"

or at least something iterable so I can iterate over these "words" and do manipulations with them. Thanks!

A: When you don't mind a solution using more steps, you can use
echo "          Hello, World    I'm\ new\ here  " |
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One pipe less makes the regex more complicated:
echo "          Hello, World    I'm\ new\ here  " |
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With GNU sed you can have a different approach:
echo "          Hello, World    I'm\ new\ here  " |
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A: You can simply use read.
$ STR="          Hello, World    I'm\ new\ here  "
$ read -a x <<< "$STR"
$ declare -p x
declare -a x=([0]="Hello," [1]="World" [2]="I'm new here")

read performs word-splitting on its input as usual; the -a option causes each word to be stored as a separate element of the array, rather than storing words in individual variables. read's default behavior is to replace escape sequences with the character they represent: in this case, '\ ' represents ' '.


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Whats Happening at KVMR
KVMR's Keith Porter: A Man Of Many Volunteer Hats
Written by Steve Baker on April 9, 2020
Keith Porter has been used to wearing a variety of volunteer hats, and now he's wearing several different ones at the same time at KVMR 89.5 FM as well.
The latest is providing top of the hour afternoon reports several times on Wednesday and weekends about the local and regional coronavirus pandemic and related news and topics.
"It's a listener service that needs to be done," said Porter. "I'm learning more and more about journalism and hoping to get better."
Porter is relieving Program Director Steve Baker, who is doing the other four afternoons.
Currently, morning top of the hour updates feature KVMR General Manager Ali Lightfoot, fellow volunteers Joyce Miller and Claudio Mendonca, with news producer Charlotte Peterson doing weekend mornings.
"I asked Joyce to be my coach," noted Porter.
Good choice, she's a former editor at the Los Angeles Times.
A SAGES SHOW
Porter was first drawn to KVMR when he and some other graduates of the Nevada County Community Leadership Institute were looking for ways to let people know about a book called "The Sages Among Us: Harnessing The Power Of Civic Engagement."
KVMR's Ralph Henson, then a station program committee member, got intrigued and asked Baker to attend a meeting about a possible "Sages Among Us" radio series.
It got a quick go-ahead in 2013, and over 325 different guests have since been interviewed by founding hosts Porter, Norm Westmore and Brian Buckley. Joyce Miller later joined the crew and now serves as producer.
Henson still alternates as engineer on the show, which airs 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays (89.5 FM, 105.1 FM Truckee, kvmr.org streaming).
One of Porter's other interests is classical music, and he served seven years as board president of In-Concert Sierra.
That, too, led to another involvement with KVMR as Henson suggested that classical music return to KVMR. Porter, representing In-Concert Sierra, and Music In The Mountains representatives found KVMR's Program Committee happy and eager to bring it back to the 89.5 FM airwaves.
So KVMR made a weekly 5 p.m. Sunday commitment to classical music once again, this time with newcomers Porter and Charles Atthill among the hosts
Keith Porter is doing top of the hour afternoon news updates during the pandemic, as well as being one of several classical music hosts Sunday at 5 p.m. and a rotating host on "The Sages Among Us" 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays
Last December, Porter, in fact, won KVMR's "Rookie Of The Year Award" for his classical music programming and overnight Redeye Radio, and also won the Jodie Fenimore Award for KVMR public affairs programming along with his "Sages Among Us" colleagues.
Born in Los Angeles, Porter actually found himself in Nevada County when his parents bought property outside Cedar Ridge and built a house there in 1950.
Then his father became a Methodist "supply pastor", a layperson who becomes a minister in time, and was assigned Sunday services in Downieville mornings and Sierra City afternoons.
"I'd thought living in Nevada City/Grass Valley was in a small town until I found Downieville a real small town over four years," said Porter. "Nevada City and Grass Valley were the big cities then."
Later he went to college at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, getting a degree in electrical engineering.
He went on to a job with Pacific Bell/AT&T, including 4 years in New York City working near the new World Trade Center, decades before 9/11.
Porter served in a variety of other locations, got early retirement, did some overseas work before coming back here to his family property in 2004, when he oversaw a remodeling of his late parents' home.
"It's seven acres of pears and brush," he grinned.
ADVENTURES BEGIN
That's when his volunteer adventures really began here.
Like The Sages.
"It's one third of who they are, why they're here, what they do in the community and one third broader things about the community and one third what it does well and how we could do it better", according to Porter.
"I've had a lot of fun volunteering in this place," he said with a smile. "Like I ended up the chair of of the facility committee at the Center For The Arts a few years ago and helped in the planning for their new building."
Like many others, he's worrying about the Center's fate. "But this is a good and caring community, I see them surviving."
"I'm also worried about about our restaurants and service providers," he said. "Many of them may have problems surviving, or closing and later being able to reopen."
Meanwhile, he's impressed with KVMR.
"What a valuable public service it is to have KVMR," he said. "I'm honored to help."
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Beam (1924 – 1941) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. As a juvenile she showed promise by winning one race and finishing third in the Molecomb Stakes. In the following year she finished fourth in the 1000 Guineas and won the Haverhill Stakes before beating a strong field to take the Epsom Oaks in a race record time which stood for more than half a century. She was retired from racing at the end of the season. Beam made no impact as a dam of winners and died in 1941 at the age of seventeen.

Background
Beam was a bay mare bred in the United Kingdom by her owner John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham. She was sent into training with Frank Butters at his Fitzroy House stable in Newmarket, Suffolk. She was ridden in most of her races by Tommy Weston.

She was one of the best horses sired by Galloper Light, an English-bred stallion who won the Grand Prix de Paris in 1919. Beam was a daughter of Mistrella (foaled 1907), a British broodmare whose other descendants included Light Brocade, Lady Capulet and the Ascot Gold Cup winners Foxhunter and Trimdon.

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1926: two-year-old season
As a two-year-old in 1926, Beam ran four times and recorded her only success on her final appearance when she won the Houghton Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse winning by a short head from Cartona. She had earlier finished third to the colt Shian Mor in the Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood.

1927: three-year-old season
In the spring of 1927 of Beam ran in the 1000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile at Newmarket and finished fourth of the twenty-eight runners behind Cresta Run, Book Law and Endowment. At the same track in May she won the nine-furlong Haverhill Stakes, coming home eight lengths clear of her eight opponents.

On 3 of June Beam was one of sixteen three-year-old fillies to contest the 149th running of the Oaks Stakes over one and a half miles at Epsom Racecourse. Book Law started the 5/2 favourite ahead of Cresta Run with Beam next in the betting on 4/1. Beam took the lead from the start but after becoming unbalanced on the downhill section of the course she stumbled and was overtaken by Book Law. She rallied in the closing stages to regain the advantage and won a "terrific race" by a head from Book Law with a gap of six lengths back to Grande Vitesse in third place. Her winning time of 2:34.6 was a record for the race which stood until 1982. Tommy Weston reported that the filly had been unsuited by the course and would have won by at least two lengths on a straight track.

Later in June Beam was beaten by Adieu in the Queen's Vase at Royal Ascot. She won one other minor race in 1927 before being retired from racing at the end of the season.

Assessment and honours
In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Beam an "inferior" winner of the Oaks.

Breeding record
Beam was retired from racing to become a broodmare for Lord Durham's stud. She produced two minor winners from nine foals and died in 1941.

Pedigree

References

1924 racehorse births
1941 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom
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Epsom Oaks winners