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Lost the Use of Your Dominant Hand? This Tech Can Help
For those who have recently injured or lost their dominant hand, everything from apps to bungees exist to ease the frustration.
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Sometimes, through no fault of your own—or possibly because you were doing something stupid—fate dictates that you should lose the use of your "good hand." Hopefully this is just a temporary situation, like an injury that puts your arm in a sling. Of course, many are not as lucky and suffer a permanent loss. In either case, we must adapt and teach ourselves to go about our lives using our non-dominant hand. It's a difficult transition; If you're right-handed, try typing an email using only your left hand to get a taste of what you'd be in for.
My own injury was infuriatingly avoidable. I was snowboarding on some easy terrain and going about my turns a little more casually than usual. I caught an edge in a soft patch and went down. My arm lodged itself into the snow, my body kept going, and POP! Elbow dislocation, dominant arm, extraordinary pain, recovery time of one to three months.
When you suddenly lose the ability to use your dominant hand, you quickly realize all the things you've taken for granted. Tasks you've been able to do unconsciously for decades suddenly present a real challenge. It's a humbling experience. While learning to use your non-dominant hand can be a valuable life skill, that takes months of training. Meanwhile, you've got a life to live, dammit. There's work to get done. Thankfully, technology exists to help get you through the awkwardness.
If you have long documents or emails to write, just pony up and purchase Dragon Dictation. This speech-to-text software has been around in one form or another for about four decades. 20 years ago, my uncle (who has only one hand) had a version that he found useful, but at the time, I thought it was comically bad. The software has improved of course, and is now pretty damn good. At $300 for the desktop version, it isn't cheap, but being able to craft long documents and emails with just my voice is incredibly useful. In fact, this article is being written with Dragon as I (literally) speak.
Before I'd downloaded it, I was hunting and pecking with my left hand. My output was both slow and error-prone. With Dragon running on my five-year old MacBook Pro with its lousy built-in mic, I can speak more or less in a normal, conversational voice. The software has been nailing it. I can even do some light editing—correct spelling and capitalizations, slight rewording, fixing homonyms—with my voice.
There's also a mobile version called Dragon Anywhere, for use with smartphones and tablets. It's a subscription-based service, which isn't too bad if you're just out of commission for a little while. However, while the desktop version of Dragon works across the whole system, the mobile version's prowess is confined to its own app. Basically, you compose what you want to say in a document within the app, and then copy/paste it to your email client, word processor, or Facebook post. It's not incredibly convenient. It's probably not worth it for Android users to shell out the $15 monthly fee, since Google's voice-to-speech algorithm is really pretty good and can be launched from within most apps. iOS users might consider Dragon Anywhere, though, as I've found Siri to be more error-prone and tougher to use for dictation, especially since you can only speak in shorter blocks.
Brush Up
This seems like such a simple thing, but it wasn't until I tried to brush my teeth left-handed that I realized how annoying this injury was going to be. Those tight and controlled up-and-down movements are really hard to replicate with your off-hand. I ended up going too hard and bloodying my gums on my first try. For this reason, I'd highly advise using an electric toothbrush. Philips Sonicare has a wide variety of models I like, but really any electric toothbrush will do. Compared to traditional brushing, you don't have to be nearly as precise or generate as much of the movement.
Also, flossing. You can't do that anymore—not in the normal way, at least. There are people out there who will tell you to buy a hundred pack of those little mini flosser things that look like tiny bows, but those people are monsters who don't care about creating a ton of plastic waste. Instead, get yourself a floss holder handle thingy, like this one from Gum. It costs less than ten bucks. Grip it in your teeth, wrap your floss around it, and you'll be one-handed flossing in no time. But again, I found my off-hand to be lousy at delicate work, so be extra gentle and take care not to slice your gums.
Knot Easy
Fun fact: Tying your shoes one-handed is tough. Attempting even the simplest shoelace knots with your non-dominant hand will make you want to punch yourself in the head. It can be learned (and definitely should be if your loss is permanent), but it's possible that you have better things to do with your time than re-learn this task you mastered in first grade.
Do yourself a favor and get yourself some bungee laces. You can get elastic shoe laces in a variety of colors and lengths. Thread them into your normal shoes, then fasten them and cut them to fit. You may have to ask a friend to help install them, but they're worth the hassle. Not only do bungee laces combine the ease of a slip-on with nearly the same support of a laced shoe, they're actually comfy as hell. They've long been my preferred lacing system for all of my running shoes. For day-to-day stuff, I've been wearing the Keen Glenhaven, which are super comfortable and good-looking enough for me to wear to meetings or on dates.
There's also a new shoe company called Kizik that makes shoes that look like they have traditional laces, but you can actually just step right into them and walk away. The secret sauce is a patented titanium spring in the heel, so you can just step on it, slide your foot in, and the heel returns its shape behind you. Really slick idea, and they look good, too.
Hunger Pains
Yep, even eating sucks now. Anything you would like to eat that would require you to use a knife and fork together is going to be problem. Now, you could just limit yourself to bite-sized foods like penne or sushi, or you could get a Knork. It's a knifey-fork (See what they did there?) that's designed in a way to let you cut through your food by rolling the side through it, and then skewering it normal fork style. It somehow manages to do a good job without cutting up the inside of your mouth. If you're just out of commission for a little while, you can get a single sample Knork for $5.
Muscle Matters
If you're trying to shorten the duration of your recovery period, avoiding muscle atrophy is key. You'll lose a little muscle mass from keeping a limb immobile for two weeks, but more importantly, you can lose as much as a quarter of your muscle strength in the appendage.
With limited mobility, though, you're probably short on exercise options. I spent the last week using the PowerDot, an FDA-approved electric muscle stimulator. You attach the electrode pads to the area you'd like to stimulate, and then use an app on your phone to select a predefined program. It's small enough to fit in a jacket pocket. You can manually adjust the intensity along the way. Basically, you can stimulate your muscles and potentially speed your recovery process without moving your arm at all.
Poopin'
A large percentage of the human population only ever uses their left hand to wipe themselves—sometimes without toilet paper—so it's a skill that most certainly can be learned. It'll just be awkward at first. Alternatively, you could just improve your entire life and buy a bidet toilet seat, which exposes toilet paper as a sucker's game.
I really, really like the Swash line from Brondell. The company has everything from cheaper units which just supply warm water to the posterior, to expensive units with heated seats, warm air driers, adjustable nozzles, and remote controls. Those are fantastic. If you have the cash, the Swash 1400 will pretty much ruin regular toilet seats for you. There's one catch: You will likely have to ask a friend to help install it.
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Той е най-малкият син в семейството на хаджи Иван и Елена Мустакови. Негови братя са търговците Никифор, Никола, Христофор и Димитър Мустакови. Адвокат е на обвиняеми българи - участници в първия и втория Браилски бунт.

През 1843 г. участва в третия Браилски бунт. Приема се, че заедно с брат си Христофор, е сред ръководителите на т.нар. Сръбска етерия от бунта. На него е възложено да напише на прокламация на български, румънски, сръбски и гръцки език, която трябва да се разпространи в момента на избухването на отделните бунтове. Поради нежеланието на властите да разкрият цялата дълбочина на планираното през 1843 г. движение, което е свързано и с претенциите на К. Суцу към влашкия княжески престол и опитите на Михаил Обренович за връщане в Сърбия, Константин Мустаков не е привлечен под отговорност и не е съден.

Автор е на учебното помагало "Чистописание", издадено през 1861 г. "в полза на Габровското училище".

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Q: ERRO O índice estava fora dos limites da matriz (System.IndexOutOfRangeException)      //Esse código tem o objetivo de substituir uma letra por um código

string usuario = Environment.UserName;

            string palavra = usuario.ToLower();
            int tamanho_array = palavra.Length;
            var array = new string[tamanho_array];
            for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
            {
                array[i] = palavra[i].ToString();
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            tamanho_array++;
            int n = 0;
                string saida = "";
            while (n != tamanho_array){
                if(array[n] == "a"){saida += "-01100001-";};
                if(array[n] == "b"){saida += "-01100010-";};
                if(array[n] == "c"){saida += "-01100011-";};
                if (array[n] == "d"){saida += "-01100100-"; };
                if (array[n] == "e"){saida += "-01100101-"; };
                if (array[n] == "f"){saida += "-01100110-"; };
                if (array[n] == "g"){saida += "-01100111-"; };
                if (array[n] == "h"){saida += "-01101000-"; };
                if (array[n] == "i"){saida += "-01101001-"; };
                if (array[n] == "j"){saida += "-01101010-"; };
                if (array[n] == "k"){saida += "-01101011-"; };
                if (array[n] == "l"){saida += "-01101100-"; };
                if (array[n] == "m"){saida += "-01101101-"; };
                if (array[n] == "n"){saida += "-00001010-"; };
                if (array[n] == "o"){saida += "-01101111-"; };
                if (array[n] == "p"){saida += "-01110000-"; };
                if (array[n] == "q"){saida += "-01110001-"; };
                if (array[n] == "r"){saida += "-01110010-"; };
                if (array[n] == "s"){saida += "-01110011-"; };
                if (array[n] == "t"){saida += "-01110100-"; };
                if (array[n] == "u"){saida += "-01110101-"; };
                if (array[n] == "v"){saida += "-01110110-"; };
                if (array[n] == "w"){saida += "-01110111-"; };
                if (array[n] == "x"){saida += "-01111000-"; };
                if (array[n] == "y"){saida += "-01111001-"; };
                if (array[n] == "z"){saida += "-01111010-"; };
                if (array[n] == "."){saida += "-00101110-"; };
                    n++;
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Em saída deveria sair "-01100001--01101100--01100101--01111000-"
Caso o usuário seja "Alex" mas o copilador retorna o erro O índice estava fora dos limites da matriz (System.IndexOutOfRangeException) e eu inspecionei e o array esta preenchido com o nome do usuário corretamente.

A: Você adicionou valor a variavel tamanho_array depois de popular, retire o ++ ou altere a condição do while para (n < tamanho_array)
        string usuario = Environment.UserName;

        string palavra = usuario.ToLower();
        int tamanho_array = palavra.Length;
        var array = new string[tamanho_array];
        for (int i = 0; i < array.Length; i++)
        {
            array[i] = palavra[i].ToString();
        }

        //retirar o ++ caso a condição ficar a mesma
        tamanho_array++;
        int n = 0;
            string saida = "";

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Matt Hancock – 2016 Speech on Addressing Inequality in the Public Sector
February 2, 2016 admin	2016, Matt Hancock, Speeches
Below is the text of the speech made by Matt Hancock, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, on 2 February 2016.
Today, I want to talk about inequality in the public sector – and beyond – and why it matters for building a society in which all can reach their potential.
We meet as guests of Mary Ward House – in the room that a hundred years ago was the site of the famous debate on women's suffrage between Mary Ward and Millicent Fawcett.
And while we celebrate the advances they secured – we are still very far from being the fair society we need to be.
A hundred years later indefensible inequalities still exist in this country.
Inequalities of income, inequalities of opportunity, inequalities rooted in prejudice, inequalities imposed by social injustice and we see the consequences of these inequalities in the professions, the media, the arts, sport – and in public service.
The specific nature of the problem we face in public service is laid out in the Bridge report into inequality in the Civil Service Fast Stream published today. The Bridge report is a call to action on my part as Paymaster General.
But the fight against inequality is a struggle that engages us all across government.
The brute facts of inequality demand a strong and united response.
In Britain today around 13% of people are from an ethnic minority.
Yet only 7% of judges, 6% of FTSE 100 leadership, and just 4% of the Senior Civil Service are.
On another measure, only 4.4% of successful applicants to the Civil Service Fast Stream are from working class backgrounds, in comparison to the third of the population in employment who are working class.
Money can't buy me love, but it still buys a golden ticket into the heart of the establishment. And that's just not fair.
And why am I speaking out about this?
After all, I'm white and male, I went to both Oxford and Cambridge, I'm from the north, and even then I've lost my accent.
But the reason I'm in public service now is because I believe that everyone should have the chance to reach their potential, whatever their background.
That no one should be defined by the circumstances of their birth, no one should be held back by poverty, or ethnicity or culture.
And that each individual has something precious to give, and it is our task to unlock that gift.
For me, a commitment to making opportunity more equal isn't just an ethical imperative. It makes sound business sense.
All the evidence shows that organisations work better when they are diverse.
Publicly traded companies with male-only executives perform worse than those with both male and female executives, and higher ethnic diversity is linked to increased earnings.
We need to think about diversity not just in terms of legally protected characteristics – gender, sexual orientation, race, disability – but in terms of making sure institutions are full of people from different backgrounds, experiences, and attitudes, who approach the same problem in different ways.
That way you get better decisions, more interesting solutions, and ideas you simply don't have in a monochrome team.
In the most dynamic societies, there is a fluidity between bottom and top, and talented, hard-working people have the chance to get on, whoever they are and wherever they come from.
So should inequalities – of race and gender and income – should they bother us?
My answer is emphatically yes. We should care about people getting filthy rich. Why?
First of all, because we care deeply about social mobility, and there is clear evidence that countries with higher income inequality have lower levels of social mobility.
As Miles Corak has eloquently put it, there is a 'Great Gatsby Curve' that links inequality and social mobility.
It's harder to climb the ladder of opportunity if the rungs are further apart.
We've got to put more rungs in that ladder.
Second, because we should care that rewards for effort are fair. When 2 people with the same talent work just as hard, isn't it fair they get the same reward?
Fairness, of course, is different to equality. The pursuit of equality of outcome alone can be deeply unfair, and lead to an unjust, something-for-nothing system.
Rather, fairness is about just rewards: the idea that what you get out should be proportional to what you put in. After all, society rests on consent, and social solidarity is good in itself.
Everyone should get a fair crack of the whip.
But even on this basis, inequality matters, because, yes, in a fair society individuals should face the consequences of their choices and efforts; but, no, people should not be punished or held back for circumstances beyond their control.
And we are making progress.
In Britain, according to the ONS, looking at the numbers, inequality is falling.
Our relentless focus on supporting people who want to work hard and get on – with 2 million extra jobs and apprenticeships, nearly 4 million of the lowest paid taken out of income tax altogether, and incentives to make sure it always pays to work – has helped to ensure inequality has fallen. In fact the Gini coefficient, the standard measure of inequality, went down from 33.2 to 32 over the last Parliament.
And our radical reforms to drive school standards up will help in the longer term.
Across the world, the story is the same.
In his inaugural speech, President Kennedy said that "man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life".
Much of Kennedy's presidency was taken up with trying to avoid the latter, but more recently we have been making extraordinary progress on the former.
In the last quarter century, the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world has fallen by half, from almost 2 billion to less than a billion, and the proportion of the world's population in absolute poverty has collapsed by 3 quarters in my lifetime.
The proportion of the world's population that are illiterate has fallen from around half in Kennedy's time to just 18% today.
In fact, the extension of the free market economy and the extension of free education has brought billions of people out of poverty. It is the most progressive policy with the biggest impact on the well-being of humanity in history.
But while incomes between the bottom and the middle have become more equal, asset price rises and increased returns on skills to mean the gap in wealth between the very top and the rest have risen.
When Kennedy entered the White House, the share of income going to the top 1% in the UK was around 3.5%.
By the time of the financial crisis in 2007 to 2008, it had reached 8.3%.
In the UK, we have taken steps to make sure the broadest shoulders bear the greatest burden. Our overhaul of the Stamp Duty system ensures those at the very top pay their fair share. And we are abolishing permanent 'non-dom' status.
The top 1% of earners now pay a higher share of income tax – projected to be 27.5% this year.
But there is more to do. So we should continue to act, in a way that tackles injustice and protects people's economic security from those who would use this concern to practice the destructive politics of envy.
I want to see an end to inequalities in the public sector too.
The Civil Service is engaged in a mission to improve the lives of the entire country.
In my very first speech as Minister for the Cabinet Office, I said that to govern modern Britain, the Civil Service must be more like modern Britain.
The Bridge Group report we commissioned then pulls no punches.
Yes, the Civil Service has improved. And it compares favourably to many other organisations in the public and private sectors.
The proportions of people from ethnic minorities or declaring a disability are at historic highs; and women represent 54% of the Civil Service.
But the representation of all these groups at senior levels is still far too low.
And when you look more broadly at social background, this is where we find the most glaring inequality.
It finds the Civil Service Fast Stream – still the most prestigious route in – is 'deeply unrepresentative' of the lower socio-economic groups in our society.
One in 3 people employed in Britain today are working class.
But only 8% of applicants to the Civil Service Fast Stream are from working class backgrounds, and only 4% actually receive offers.
This makes the Fast Stream less diverse than Oxbridge, where the equivalent figure is 7.2%.
In fact in every group of universities from which the Civil Service recruits, Fast Steam applicants are less likely to come from lower socio-economic groups.
This amounts to a huge pool of talent that we are not tapping into. And this must change. As the report says, we are 'losing out on many other talented individuals, who would flourish if given the opportunity'.
We need to cast the net wide – not fish in a small pond.
The Civil Service can set this example for others to follow.
It would not be the first time it has done so.
Until 1855, access to the Civil Service was riddled with cronyism and corruption. Following the blunders of the Crimean War, the case for reform was unanswerable.
So in 1855 the Civil Service Commission was set up to oversee recruitment on the basis of fair and open competition, and drag Whitehall kicking and screaming into the 19th century. It would oversee a new system of recruitment based on fair and open competition. This was the beginning of a permanent Civil Service: a meritocracy, guided by the vital principles of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality that have sustained it ever since.
If that was the birth of the modern Civil Service, then another modernisation is long overdue.
We have to deal with the perception that the passport to public service is stamped with privilege.
So what are we going to do about it?
The independent research by the Bridge Group was commissioned by me and Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service.
We commissioned it because we, and the whole senior leadership of the Civil Service, are determined to tackle the issues it exposes – head on.
I think it's a tribute to the Civil Service that far from being defensive about these concerns, the Civil Service is embracing the challenges it faces.
We will be setting out our full strategy on boosting social mobility in the Civil Service in the spring, but I want to sketch out some of the action we are taking.
The report calls for a root and branch overhaul to the way the Civil Service recruits talent.
And we need to make promotion fair and based on talent not time serving.
I want to end inequalities of access and progress.
Some of this has started, and needs rocket boosters.
Other parts will be new.
First, we need to measure the problem.
We will collect postcode and school-attended data so we can measure the problem real time.
And from this year we are giving permanent secretaries specific social mobility objectives within their single departmental plans.
Next, whether we are recruiting from outside or promoting from within, we need to make the selection process as transparent and fair as possible. There must be no barriers that might exclude talented people from underrepresented groups.
So, we are tackling bias, conscious or otherwise. We have this autumn introduced name-blind recruitment across 75% of the Civil Service, on the way to name-blind as standard across the public sector.
We want a more porous boundary between public service and private endeavour, so it becomes the norm not the exception to have a career switching between.
Today we commit to publishing pay ratios in the Civil Service for the first time.
And crucially, we're changing the way people apply to join the Civil Service, so we spot potential not polish.
The report finds barriers in the application process, including its intimidating length and London-centric focus. Yes, our grand buildings in Whitehall are splendid and spectacular, but they aren't exactly designed to make you feel comfortable. So we'll change how and where selection is done. We are shortening the application process and wherever possible, aligning apprenticeship and graduate recruitment.
The report finds a lack of adequate outreach on university campuses. We're going to send out existing Fast Streamers to campuses across Britain, so we look for talent at a wider range of universities.
The report also finds 'minimal outreach to schools'. So we will radically increase mentoring.
Earlier this month, the Prime Minister announced the launch of a new national mentoring campaign in schools.
We'll lead by example, sending people to mentor pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds over an academic year. They aim to raise aspirations, increase confidence, inform and encourage. We're already supporting in 20 schools, but I want to see that expanded to at least 200.
Apprentices too are central to our task.
In 2013 we launched the Apprenticeship Fast Track. It has proven hugely successful. Almost 1,000 have come through so far, with all the verve, diversity and energy that apprentices represent.
In the Civil Service I want to see, future leaders are as likely to come from the ranks of Fast Track Apprentices as they are from Fast Stream graduates.
I want the Cabinet Secretary of 2050 to be someone who came into the service as an apprentice. You may be sitting in this room.
So I can announce today that we will radically expand our apprenticeship scheme. We will recruit at least 750 new Fast Track Apprentices in September – and 200,000 across the public sector – by 2020.
All these measures together add up to the most significant shake-up of Civil Service recruitment in a generation.
Yes, the public sector can provide leadership. But as the Bridge report says, its findings 'have implications for the way all professional firms could recruit for diversity and excellence'.
So today, I've written to the 200 companies who signed up to our social mobility business compact, and I've urged them to read the Bridge research and consider its lessons for their own businesses.
This is our goal: a Britain, fair to all, where effort is rewarded.
Where all have the chance to succeed, and to serve their country.
Where we fulfil that dream held by the seekers of equal opportunity here a century ago.
That every one of the citizens we serve has the opportunity to reach their God-given potential.
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A: RetentionPolicy поменяйте на RUNTIME:
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Info: Dominions 3 Communities & Their Status
Dominions 3 Communities & Their Status
This announcement is somewhat overdue, but it is now time to make it.
Ever since Illwinter's publishing contract expired and they rereleased Dominions 3: The Awakening on Desura, the official forums for the game have been located there.
Furthermore, the status of the forums here is as follows:
The publishing contract between Illwinter Game Design and Shrapnel Games stipulated that the Dominions forums here would be maintained for one year after the expiry of the publishing contract.
The period stipulated by the contract ends on November 15th, 2013
After that, the future of these forums is determined solely by Shrapnel Games.
For those interested, these are some of the places on the World Wide Web where other Dominions 3 communities can be found. This list courtesy of former longtime member of these forums, Calahan.
Dominions 3 Forum at Desura - This is the official forum for Dominions 3 and earlier versions. It is run by Illwinter and their designated administrators (Edi, with Calahan as his second). The membership is many and varied, with old veterans from Shrapnel and other ports of call.
Dominions 3 Forum at Desura
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Dom3Mods forum
The Gaming Den - They play almost exclusively vanilla games, and a few old Shrapnel faces have taken up residence here. Namely Frank Trollman, K, and Dr.Praetorious.
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A recent visit to the China Fans Museum and the China Umbrellas Museum ignited a spark in me about the nature of these two traditional hand-held items.
Fans are to keep one cool and umbrellas to prevent one from getting wet.
But parasols usually provide shelter from the sun rather than the rain.
Ancient Chinese scroll paintings too depict fans as being used for the same purpose.
In my hometown, less than an hour's drive from Hangzhou, the words for fan and umbrella are similar.
The two museums, situated in Hangzhou's Grand Canal Plaza, are home to a treasure-trove of history and tidbits about the two items that many take for granted.
I learned at the museum that foldable fans came from Japan — though some scholars dispute this — while the flat fan went the other way.
As for the collapsible umbrella, the earliest references are from AD 21 when Wang Mang, a Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) official who seized the throne, had one designed for a ceremonial four-wheeled carriage.
But one need not visit a museum to know that fans and umbrellas are much more than functional items.
During the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), when Hangzhou was the nation's capital, fans were a popular gift item among the literati, who would inscribe lines of verses on them, very much like modern-day poets who share limericks on social media.
While the fan dance is a staple all across China, the umbrella is sometimes used in martial arts movies, the latest example being the very British film Kingsman: The Secret Service, in which Colin Firth's character executes a brilliant fight scene with a black umbrella.
In Hong Kong movies even the fan can be a lethal weapon.
In the old days there were many workshops and manufacturers in Hangzhou and its vicinity that specialised in the two items.
When I was a child, every household had at least one oilpaper umbrella.
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I was even commissioned to buy two dozen umbrellas when I returned from one Guangzhou trip. I then felt as if I was trafficking a symbol of innovation.
Three decades later, that kind of umbrella is so cheap and commonplace while the oilpaper one has almost become a heritage item.
Likewise, the fan has not been totally replaced by power-driven amenities. There is something about a fan that opens it to a drawing and calligraphy. It can never be matched by the electric fan or the air conditioner.
For more features on Chinese culture, please go to China Daily.


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Four Brookdale students will complete intensive undergraduate research projects and earn $1,500 toward their education this year after being selected as the college's newest NASA STEM Fellows.
The students, who will also serve as peer tutors in Brookdale's STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Institute this year, are: Jordan Grillo, of Aberdeen; Brianna Valdes, of Lincroft; Karl Waldron, of Neptune; and Jon Zukowski, of Millstone. Beginning this fall, the students will work with designated mentors to design and carry out a research project in their field of study. Their results will be presented to classmates, colleagues and Brookdale faculty during a public forum this spring.
The new fellows are the fourth cohort of students selected to join Brookdale's NASA STEM Fellowship program, which is funded by a grant from NASA and the New Jersey Space Grant Consortium (NJSGC). The program was established in 2015.
Grillo, a mathematics major who plans to work with assistant mathematics professor Ana Teodorescu on her year-long research project, said she is both honored and humbled to join the fellowship program.
Valdes, a biology major, plans to work with Brookdale faculty to develop an environmentally friendly hydroponic agricultural system, which she will use to highlight "the ease of sustainability" to the college community.
Waldron plans to work alongside Monroe and his personal mentor, neuroscientist Dr. Shawniqua Williams, to study the treatment decisions made by certain patients suffering from epilepsy. His goal, he said, is to understand why a disparate number of minority patients elect not to have surgery, even in worst-case scenarios.
Zukowski, a Marine Corps veteran and an electrical engineering major, hopes to work with faculty from Rutgers University to design and carry out a project centered on robotics and artificial intelligence.
The new STEM Fellows will join current STEM Institute peer tutors Matthew Chan and Jonathan Yuh to offer free tutoring services this year in Brookdale's STEM Lounge, located in MAS 107. For more information or to see tutor availability visit the STEM Lounge webpage.


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"'Iris' serves as a spirited, often dazzling primer in how to fight the dying of the light and feel fabulous while doing it." - Washington Post
"The penultimate film of documentarian Albert Maysles — he also shot In Transit aboard a Chicago-to-Seattle train before passing away in March at the age of 88 — does not feature his most famous subject; few outside the New York fashion scene will know the name Iris Apfel. But it's a fitting almost-finale, looking at a life lived to the fullest and still going strong. Apfel is 93.
"She's also cocky and opinionated, the very model of a New Yorker. When people express surprise that she's still alive, she tells them she's "walking around to save funeral expenses." Asked when she developed that attitude, she replies: 'I can't remember that far back.'
"The film follows her and Carl, her husband of almost 70 years. 'He was cool and he was cuddly and he cooked Chinese, so I couldn't do any better,' she says simply of their union. Archival photos and home movies show them jet-setting around the world from just after jets had been invented.
"Her sense of style and design is polyglottal, stretching from New York's boroughs to the far side of the Earth. She credits her mom with telling her to buy a little black dress; notes that she kept her wedding shoes on the assumption that everything will come back into style if you give it long enough; and claims to have been the first woman to wear jeans in the 1940s. I don't know if I believe that last claim, but I won't fight her on it.
"Apfel is an expert haggler, and proud of it, pointing out that you'll ruin a shopkeeper's day if he asks for $50 and you give it to him, because then he'll know he could have asked for $100.
"Her celebrity clients include generations of White House dwellers. 'We had a problem with Jackie,' Carl starts to say, but Iris shushes him. She's happy to talk about her storied life, but it's clear there are some secrets she'll take with her. Maysles doesn't press the point; even the greatest documentarians know there are places you don't go." - National Post.
Co-presented by Luther Village
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SCHEDULE 13D
Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
(Amendment No. )*
(Name of Issuer)
Ordinary Shares, Par Value US$0.00002 Per Share ("Ordinary Shares")
(Title of Class of Securities)
47759T100(1)
(CUSIP Number)
Kangping Chen
1 Jingke Road, Shangrao
Economic Development Zone
Jiangxi Province, 334100
Telephone: (86-793) 846-9699
With a copy to:
Shuang Zhao, Esq.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
c/o 37th Floor, Hysan Place
500 Hennessy Road
(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)
(Date of Event Which Requires Filing of this Statement)
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§ 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box. ¨
Note: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See Rule 13d-7 for other parties to whom copies are to be sent.
* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).
(1) This CUSIP number applies to the Issuer's American Depositary Shares ("ADSs"), each representing four Ordinary Shares.
CUSIP No: 47759T100
1. Name of reporting person
2. Check the appropriate box if a member of a group (see instructions)
(a) ¨ (b) x
3. SEC use only
4. Source of funds (see instructions)
PF; OO
5. Check if disclosure of legal proceedings is required pursuant to Items 2(d) or 2(e) ¨
6. Citizenship or place of organization
beneficially
person with 7.
Sole voting power
28,031,9051
8. Shared voting power
Sole dispositive power
10. Shared dispositive power
11. Aggregate amount beneficially owned by each reporting person
12. Check if the aggregate amount in Row (11) excludes certain shares (see instructions) ¨
13. Percent of class represented by amount in Row (11)
13.98%2
14. Type of reporting person (see instructions)
1 These securities include (i) 12,013,701 Ordinary Shares (including certain Ordinary Shares in the form of ADSs, restricted ADSs and restricted shares of the Issuer ("Restricted Shares")) directly held by Yale Pride Limited ("Yale Pride"). Yale Pride is a British Virgin Islands company wholly owned by Charming Grade Limited, which is in turn wholly owned by Mr. Kangping Chen. Kangping Chen is the sole director of Yale Pride and as such has the power to vote and dispose of the Ordinary Shares held by Yale Pride. Therefore, Kangping Chen is the beneficial owner of all Ordinary Shares held by Yale Pride; (ii) an aggregate of 3,007,112 Ordinary Shares in connection with the vesting of 3,007,112 Restricted Shares that were granted to Yale Pride under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (as defined below); (iii) an aggregate of 12,800,000 Ordinary Shares in the form of ADSs purchased by Zhuoling International Limited ("Zhuoling International") in the open market between December 13, 2022 and December 20, 2022. Zhuoling International is a British Virgin Islands company wholly owned by Shangrao Zhuoling No. 2 Enterprise Development Center (Limited Partnership), 99.99% and 0.01% equity interest of which is in turn owned by Kangping Chen and his wife, respectively. Kangping Chen is the sole director of Zhuoling International and as such has the power to vote and dispose of the Ordinary Shares held by Zhuoling International. Therefore, Kangping Chen is the beneficial owner of all Ordinary Shares held by Zhuoling International; and (iv) an aggregate of 211,092 Ordinary Shares upon the vesting of 211,092 Restricted Shares on January 1, 2023, which were granted to Yale Pride under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (as defined below).
2 Based on 200,494,033 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2022.
Zhuoling International Limited
6.38%2
1. These securities represent an aggregate of 12,800,000 Ordinary Shares in the form of ADSs purchased by Zhuoling International in the open market between December 13, 2022 and December 20, 2022. Zhuoling International is a British Virgin Islands company wholly owned by Shangrao Zhuoling No. 2 Enterprise Development Center (Limited Partnership), 99.99% and 0.01% equity interest of which is in turn owned by Kangping Chen and his wife, respectively. Kangping Chen is the sole director of Zhuoling International and as such has the power to vote and dispose of the Ordinary Shares held by Zhuoling International. Therefore, Kangping Chen is the beneficial owner of all Ordinary Shares held by Zhuoling International.
2. Based upon 200,494,033 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2022.
ITEM 1. SECURITY AND ISSUER
This Statement on Schedule 13D relates to the Ordinary Shares, par value US$0.00002 per share, of JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. (the "Issuer"). The principal executive office of the Issuer is located at 1 Jingke Road, Shangrao Economic Development Zone, Jiangxi Province, 334100, People's Republic of China.
ITEM 2. IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND
(a) This Statement on Schedule 13D is filed jointly by the following persons (collectively, the "Reporting Persons"): (i) Kangping Chen, and (ii) Zhuoling International. The name, business address, present principal occupation or employment or principal business and citizenship or place of organization of the sole director of Zhuoling International are set forth in Schedule A hereto and are incorporated herein by reference. Zhuoling International does not have any executive officers.
(b) Residence or Business Address:
For Kangping Chen:
For Zhuoling International:
OMC Chambers
Wickhams Cay 1
(c) Kangping Chen is a director of the Issuer. The principal business of Zhuoling International is investment holding.
(d) Neither any of the Reporting Persons has, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e) Neither any of the Reporting Persons has, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject to a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
(f) The citizenship of Kangping Chen is People's Republic of China. The place of organization of Zhuoling International is the British Virgin Islands.
ITEM 3. SOURCE AND AMOUNT OF FUNDS OR OTHER CONSIDERATION
Between December 13, 2022 and December 20, 2022, Zhuoling International purchased an aggregate of 12,800,000 Ordinary Shares in the form of ADSs through a series of open market purchases, with Zhuoling International's personal funds, which were acquired for investment purposes.
Between February 14, 2022 and December 23, 2022, Yale Pride received an aggregate of 3,007,112 Ordinary Shares in connection with the vesting of 3,007,112 Restricted Shares that were granted under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (as defined below).
On January 1, 2023, Yale Pride will receive an aggregate of 211,092 Ordinary Shares in connection with the vesting of 211,092 Restricted Shares that were granted under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, 2021 Equity Incentive Plan and 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (as defined below).
ITEM 4. PURPOSE OF TRANSACTION
Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby incorporated by reference the disclosure made under Item 3 and Item 6.
Although none of the Reporting Persons has any present intention to acquire additional securities of the Issuer, they intend to review their respective investment on a regular basis and, as a result thereof, may at any time or from time to time determine, either alone or as part of a group, (i) to acquire additional securities of the Issuer, through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, (ii) to dispose of all or a portion of the securities of the Issuer owned by them in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise or (iii) to take any other available course of action, which could involve one or more of the types of transactions or have one or more of the results specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D under the Act, as amended. Any such acquisition or disposition or other transaction would be made in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the Reporting Persons specifically reserves the right to change its intention with respect to any or all of such matters. In reaching any decision as to their respective course of action (as well as to the specific elements thereof), each Reporting Person currently expects that he or she or it would take into consideration a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the following: the Issuer's business and prospects; other developments concerning the Issuer and its businesses generally; other business opportunities available to such Reporting Person; changes in law and government regulations; general economic conditions; and liquidity and stock market conditions, including the market price of the securities of the Issuer.
Except as set forth in this Item 4, the Reporting Person has no present plans or proposals that relate to, or that would result in, any of the actions specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item 4 of Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act.
ITEM 5. INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
(a) Each of the Reporting Persons' current ownership in the securities of the Issuer is set forth on the cover pages to this Statement on Schedule 13D and is incorporated by reference herein. The ownership percentage appearing on such pages has been calculated based on 200,494,033 Ordinary Shares outstanding as of September 30, 2022. The Reporting Persons disclaim membership in any "group" with any person other than the Reporting Persons.
(b) The following table sets forth the beneficial ownership of the class of securities reported on for each of the Reporting Persons.
Sole Power Shared Power
Percentage to Shared Power Sole Power to to
Number of Shares of Vote/Direct to Vote/Direct Dispose/Direct Dispose/Direct
Reporting Person Beneficially Owned Securities Vote Vote Disposition Disposition
Kangping Chen 28,031,905 13.98 % 28,031,905 0 28,031,905 0
Zhuoling International Limited 12,800,000 6.38 % 12,800,000 0 12,800,000 0
(c) Other than as described in Items 3 and 4 above, there have been no transactions in the class of securities reported on that were effected during the past sixty days by any of the Reporting Persons.
(d) Not applicable.
(e) Not applicable.
ITEM 6. CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER
Except as described in Items 1 through 7 of this Schedule 13D, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise) among the Reporting Persons or between the Reporting Persons and any other person, including but not limited to transfer or voting of any of the securities, finder's fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies, with respect to any securities of the Issuer, including any securities pledged or otherwise subject to a contingency the occurrence of which would give another person voting power or investment power over such securities except for standard default and similar provisions contained in loan agreements.
2014 Equity Incentive Plan
The Issuer adopted the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan in August 2014 (the "2014 Equity Incentive Plan"). The 2014 Equity Incentive Plan provides for the grant of options, restricted shares and other share-based awards, referred to as "Awards," to the Issuer's directors, key employees or consultants up to 12,796,745 of the Ordinary Shares. The purpose of the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan is to aid the Issuer in recruiting and retaining key employees, directors or consultants of outstanding ability and to motivate such employees, directors or consultants to exert their best efforts on behalf of the Issuer by providing incentives through the granting of awards. The Issuer's board of directors expects that the Issuer will benefit from the added interest which such key employees, directors or consultants will have in the Issuer's welfare as a result of their proprietary interest in the Issuer's success. The 2014 Equity Incentive Plan is filed as Exhibit 1 hereto.
The Issuer adopted the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan in March 2021 (the "2021 Equity Incentive Plan"). The 2021 Equity Incentive Plan provides for the grant of options, restricted shares and other share-based awards, referred to as "Awards," to the Issuer's directors, key employees or consultants up to 2,600,000 of the Ordinary Shares. The purpose of the 2021 Equity Incentive Plan is to aid the Issuer in recruiting and retaining key employees, directors or consultants of outstanding ability and to motivate such employees, directors or consultants to exert their best efforts on behalf of the Issuer by providing incentives through the granting of awards. The Issuer's board of directors expects that the Issuer will benefit from the added interest which such key employees, directors or consultants will have in the Issuer's welfare as a result of their proprietary interest in the Issuer's success. The 2021 Equity Incentive Plan is filed as Exhibit 2 hereto.
The Issuer adopted the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan in March 2022 (the "2022 Equity Incentive Plan"). The 2022 Equity Incentive Plan provides for the grant of options, restricted shares and other share-based awards, referred to as "Awards," to the Issuer's directors, key employees or consultants up to 12,000,000 of the Ordinary Shares. The purpose of the 2022 Equity Incentive Plan is to aid the Issuer in recruiting and retaining directors, consultants or key employees of outstanding ability and to motivate such directors, consultants or key employees to exert their best efforts on behalf of the Issuer by providing incentives through the granting of Awards in recognition of their past and future services. The Issuer's board of directors expects that the Issuer will benefit from the added interest which such key employees, directors or consultants will have in the Issuer's welfare as a result of their proprietary interest in the Issuer's success. The 2022 Equity Incentive Plan is filed as Exhibit 3 hereto.
ITEM 7. MATERIAL TO BE FILED AS EXHIBITS
Exhibit Number Description of Exhibit
1. 2014 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.9 of Issuer's annual report on Form 20-F (File No. 001-34615) filed with the SEC on April 16, 2015)
2. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.23 of Issuer's annual report on Form 20-F (File No. 001-34615) filed with the SEC on April 28, 2021 and Exhibit 4.24 of Issuer's annual report on Form 20-F (File No. 001-34615) field with the SEC on April 28, 2022)
3. 2022 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of Issuer's Form S-8 (File No. 333-263307) filed with the SEC on March 4, 2022 and Exhibit 4.25 of Issuer's annual report on Form 20-F (File No. 001-34615) field with the SEC on April 28, 2022)
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this Statement is true, complete and correct.
Dated: December 23, 2022
By: /s/ Kangping Chen
Name: Kangping Chen
Title: Sole Director
Director of the Reporting Person
Entity Director Business Address Present Principal
Occupation or
Employment/Principal
Business Citizenship/Place of
Zhuoling International Limited Kangping Chen OMC Chambers
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands Director of the Issuer People's Republic of China


"Everything the company does goes against my conscience. But the question remains, who should work from the inside to inform everyone? Who should be pushing that these things are right, these things are acceptable, and these things are not?" says Victor Terran, in this video by Jacob Templin for TIME and the International Reporting Project (IRP). Templin traveled to Indonesia as part of IRP's Gatekeeper Editor program in May 2011.
Terran's skepticism of the industry is justified – palm companies, such as Sinar Mas, have a nasty track record of "abusing local labor and pilfering forests" for what they call "liquid gold," says Templin.
Greenpeace released a report, "How Sinar Mas is Pulping the Planet," in 2010 that alleged that Sinar Mas cut down important wildlife preserves, illegally planted on peat lands, and that these actions resulted in the release of considerable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and loss of critical wildlife habitat.
As a result, the company lost major contracts with Unilever, Kraft, and Nestle. Sinar Mas CEO Franky Widjaya tells Templin that the company is taking definitive steps to prevent such instances from happening again, but that change will not happen overnight.
Akhir bin Man, a manager for another palm oil company, PT Kal, says he does not want to experience a public relations nightmare similar to Sinar Mas, so his company is seeking certification from the internationally recognized Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). The RSPO certification requires PT Kal to conserve nearly half of its land, use safer pesticides, and negotiate profit-sharing agreements with villagers.
"These are not only vast forest landscapes which are home to species such as orangutans, elephants, and rhinos, but they're also some of the globally most important reservoirs of carbon," Adam Tomasek, director of the WWF Heart of Borneo Initiative, tells Templin.
Due to the wide-scale implications of disrupting such a substantial carbon sink, Tomasek and his colleagues see the destruction of these habitats as not just a local problem: "Sustainably managing the forest and carbon stocks that they contain here in Indonesia is not only important locally, not only important regionally, but an extremely important critical in the global approach to dealing with climate change," he says.
Recognizing the inherent value of their natural resources, some villages are fighting to keep palm companies off of their land. Pak Bastarian is the head of such a village: "In my opinion, [palm] plantations are only owned by certain groups of people, and they don't necessarily bring prosperity," he tells Templin.
Bastarian is a reformed environmentalist whose hesitance toward the palm industry is a by-product of his own experiences – in the 1990s he worked for years running a timber company that illegally cut down trees. "I don't know how many trees I cut down…a countless number." Now, he uses his elected power to preserve trees like the ones he once cut down.
However, keeping the companies out of his village is an uphill battle, Templin explains. Bastarian says he faces mounting pressure from governmental officials, who make threats, and many villagers, who would rather have the jobs. He tells Templin that he even received bribes from PT Kal (an accusation they deny).
Bastarian's position may cost him though – with elections right around the corner, he said does not know how much longer he can keep the palm companies out.
Video Credit: "Indonesia's Palm Oil Dilemma: To Cash In or Fight for the Forests?," courtesy of the International Reporting Project.
Technological advancements are not the panacea for the global food and fuel situation. While the Green Revolution propelled population growth and development over the last half of the previous century, the benefits have yielded diminishing returns as the environmental degradation spurred by irresponsible cultivation, corporate short-sightedness and opportunism, and unbridled consumption by a small proportion of developed societies has placed the world in an even more compromised position, as we seek to remediate our over-hasty estimation of the earth's ability to rebound.
The issue of corporate involvement in the production of biofuels is a looming example of how de facto economic apartheid is threatening to derail efforts to prevent further deforestation and reign in the feedback loops contributing to climate change. How we respond as a community of developed nations and the maturity with which we can temper commericial interests with an eye to the long term good will be a key factor in how we either rise to the challenge or choke in our own dust.
GM crops, biofuels, and other green bandaids for our underlying consumption problem worse. As companies see the spectre of peak oil in a falling bottom line, they will scramble to find any alternative that will keep them solvent, at whatever the environmental cost in the long term. With a burgeoning plant of 7 billlion or more, we will have to go back to basics to solve our fuel and food scarcity problems. Going back to basics to solve the impending global crisis will require maturity, cooperation, and focused effort on an international scale.
Biofuels seems like a green solution, but in fact, as we've seen with the jatropha plant, ethanol, and other sources of plant based fuel, the land and the resources this production consumes is almost worse in the long term than conventional fuels for the environment, particularly for water and soil.
Without oversight to mitigate the corporate interests inevitably entangled with any initiative to use green technology as a strategy to boost crop yields and in the developing world, Such attempts are like trying to outrun a tsunami, or outmaneuver the wave of desertification in the wake of the slow-moving barge of climate change. Like a band-aid that we are stretching over an metastasizing tumor, companies play their green inititiaves as a way to lull the public into thinking the status quo will suffice—which it won't. Demand and consumption must be reduced, as we seek to find remedial strategies that will also meet our needs our inflated sense of needs. And in the developed world's case, our inflated sense of necessity vs. amenity compromises the sustainability of the global food system. While Monsanto and ADM, IRPand other corporate interests portray the sense that their goods are ultimately good for the planet, they are perpetuating a type of apartheid system in which small farmers are beholden to outside interests that exert undue control over their struggling economies and support imbalanced development. Biofuels merely make the poor poorer and the environment even more degraded.
While Monsanto and ADM, IRPand other corporate interests portray the sense that their goods are ultimately good for the planet, they are perpetuating a type of apartheid system in which small farmers are beholden to outside interests that exert undue control over their struggling economies and support imbalanced development. Biofuels merely make the poor poorer and the environment even more degraded.
I hope Bastarian can get re-elected and garner some support to keep PT Kal out. Hopefully the villagers can find some other means to create jobs. Pressure should be applied from food industry to make sure their sources of Palm Oil are using sustainable practices.