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package org.apache.maven.plugin.reactor;

import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
import org.apache.maven.scm.ScmFile;
import org.apache.maven.scm.ScmFileSet;
import org.apache.maven.scm.ScmFileStatus;
import org.apache.maven.scm.command.status.StatusScmResult;
import org.apache.maven.scm.manager.ScmManager;
import org.apache.maven.scm.repository.ScmRepository;
import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Goal to build all projects that you personally have changed (according to SCM)
 *
 * @author Dan Fabulich
 */
@Mojo( name = "make-scm-changes", aggregator = true, defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.PROCESS_SOURCES )
public class MakeScmChanges
    extends MakeDependentsMojo
{
    /**
     * The SCM connection/provider info.  Should be specified in your POM.
     */
    @Parameter( property = "make.scmConnection", defaultValue = "${project.scm.connection}", required = true )
    String scmConnection;

    /**
     * Ignore files in the "unknown" status (created but not added to source control)
     */
    @Parameter( property = "make.ignoreUnknown", defaultValue = "true" )
    private boolean ignoreUnknown = true;

    /**
     */
    @Component
    ScmManager scmManager;

    public void execute()
        throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException
    {
        if ( collectedProjects.size() == 0 )
        {
            throw new NonReactorException();
        }
        if ( scmConnection == null )
        {
            throw new MojoFailureException("No SCM connection specified.  You must specify an SCM connection by adding a <connection> element to your <scm> element in your POM");
        }
        StatusScmResult result;
        try
        {
            ScmRepository repository = scmManager.makeScmRepository( scmConnection );
            result = scmManager.status( repository, new ScmFileSet( baseDir ) );
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "Couldn't configure SCM repository: " + e.getLocalizedMessage(), e );
        }

        List changedFiles = result.getChangedFiles();

        List projectDirectories = getProjectDirectories();
        Set changedDirectories = new HashSet();
        for (Object changedFile1 : changedFiles) {
            ScmFile changedScmFile = (ScmFile) changedFile1;
            getLog().debug(changedScmFile.toString());
            ScmFileStatus status = changedScmFile.getStatus();
            if (!status.isStatus()) {
                getLog().debug("Not a diff: " + status);
                continue;
            }
            if (ignoreUnknown && ScmFileStatus.UNKNOWN.equals(status)) {
                getLog().debug("Ignoring unknown");
                continue;
            }

            File changedFile = new File(changedScmFile.getPath());
            boolean found = false;
            // TODO There's a cleverer/faster way to code this, right?  This is O(n^2)
            for (Object projectDirectory1 : projectDirectories) {
                File projectDirectory = (File) projectDirectory1;
                if (changedFile.getAbsolutePath().startsWith(projectDirectory.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator)) {
                    String path = RelativePather.getRelativePath(baseDir, projectDirectory);
                    if (!changedDirectories.contains(path)) {
                        getLog().debug("Including " + path);
                    }
                    changedDirectories.add(path);
                    found = true;
                    break;
                }
            }
            if (!found) {
                getLog().debug("Couldn't find file in any reactor root: " + changedFile.getAbsolutePath());
            }
        }
        folderList = StringUtils.join( changedDirectories.iterator(), "," );
        getLog().info( "Going to make dependents for: " + folderList );
        super.execute();

    }

    private List getProjectDirectories()
    {
        List dirs = new ArrayList( collectedProjects.size() );
        for (Object collectedProject : collectedProjects) {
            MavenProject mp = (MavenProject) collectedProject;
            dirs.add(mp.getFile().getParentFile());
        }
        return dirs;
    }

}


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Tá tú anseo > Chuig an leathanach baile > Nuacht > Cities and regions want more support for regional airports struggling from the pandemic
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Cities and regions want more support for regional airports struggling from the pandemic
Press release 01/07/2021 | Air transport; Transport policy; Territorial cohesion; Green Deal; Sustainable mobility
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Regional airports are vital for territorial cohesion and essential for many local economies
With many regional airports struggling to recover from the economic hardship caused by the pandemic, members of the European Committee of the Regions adopted an opinion on 1 July, which calls on the European Commission to develop more flexible and more effective public aid rules that enable Member States to provide regional airports with financial assistance. In the opinion , which was drafted by Władysław Ortyl (PL/ECR), the CoR also emphasized that financial support must be invested in making airports more sustainable in order to help achieve the objectives set out in the European Green Deal.
Regional airports have found themselves in serious economic difficulties due to the pandemic. Intra-European air traffic was down by 54% in 2020 compared to 2019 and even as travel restrictions are being loosened this summer, traffic is still far from pre-pandemic levels . In October 2020, nearly 200 airports in Europe were facing insolvency . Their bankruptcy would have a dramatic impact on employment and the economies of the regions where they are located and would also be a major blow for the connectivity of many regions, especially outermost or less developed regions where alternative forms of transport are not available.
Władysław Ortyl (PL/ECR), rapporteur of the opinion and President of the Podkarpackie region, said: " Regional airports play a crucial role for the territorial and economic cohesion of the EU – they provide connectivity for the regions they serve and are vital for economic growth. Without their presence, many companies would not invest in non-capital regions. The tourism sector also depends heavily on them. We need a more flexible state aid system to support the recovery of regional airports during and after the pandemic. In the opinion I prepared I also underline that the majority of European regional airports require assistance to be able to survive in the light of the current crisis."
In its opinion, the CoR calls on the European Commission to help alleviate the financial hardship faced by regional airports and to develop more flexible and more effective public aid rules that enable Member States to provide financial assistance to regional airports located in less developed and outermost regions where more efficient and sustainable alternatives do not exist. Financial assistance should be in line with the conditions set up in the European Regional Development Fund and the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility . Members States, in cooperation with the European Commission, should also carefully assess the extent of possible support for regional airports under the national recovery and resilience plans.
At the same time, the CoR acknowledges the need to make airports and aviation more sustainable, and therefore urges the European Commission to allocate adequate European funds to the digitalisation of airports and the development of innovative technologies. The CoR also insists that a condition for public investments in regional airports should be that they comply with the objectives of the European Green Deal and the principle of "no harm for the environment".
Smaller regional airports have recorded the greatest decline in direct flight connections due to the pandemic, particularly in passenger flights. According to an Airport Industry Connectivity Report , for example, Treviso (Italy) lost 95% of its connections, Vaasa (Finland) 91%, Quimper (France) 87%, and Burgas (Bulgaria) 82%, however, Europe's major cargo airports, e.g. Liège (Belgium) saw an increase in cargo flights of 10.7%.
On 30 June, members of the CoR adopted an opinion on the smart and sustainable mobility strategy. The mobility strategy was presented by the European Commission at the end of last year and aims to reshape the European transport sector, cutting its emissions by 90% by 2050. Find the CoR press release on the opinion here .
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by Orji Sunday on 31 December 2021
As rainforest throughout much of the country has disappeared, Nigeria's Oluwa Forest Reserve has been a sanctuary for many species, including Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees – the rarest chimpanzee subspecies.
But Oluwa itself has come under increasing deforestation pressure in recent years, losing 14% of its remaining primary forest between 2002 and 2020.
Oluwa's deforestation rate appears to be increasing, with several large areas of forest loss occurring in 2021– including in one of the last portions of the reserve known to harbor chimps.
Agriculture and timber extraction are the main drivers of deforestation in Oluwa; smallholders looking to eke out an existence continue to move into the reserve and illegally clear forest and hunt animals for bushmeat, while plantation companies are staking claims to government-granted concessions.
ORE, Nigeria — More than two decades ago, fate took Tajudeen Babalola to his lifelong ambition. The 52-year-old longed for a more serene life that offered hope for survival away from the fake fancies of Lagos, Africa's second-largest city and Nigeria's commercial nerve center.
One evening, after an exhausting shift of commercial driving, he received an invitation to join an old friend, a hunter-turned-farmer, at Oluwa Forest Reserve about 70 kilometers (113 miles) east of Lagos in the state of Ondo. He recalls instantly falling in love with the "bush life" that offered "dirty money." Oluwa was an oasis of forest, with many animal neighbors and a nightly chorus of insects.
Babalola said it was easy to set up residence when he arrived at Temidiri farming camp in the eastern portion of the reserve. "It didn't require any written agreements. It was just a verbal conversation between me and the earlier settlers," Babalola told Monagabay.
Members of an Oluwa farming community process cacao. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Babalola isn't alone in his experience. Thousands of farmers have moved into Oluwa through referrals from friends and family, settling in dozens of informal farming camps.
"[The earlier settlers] gave me a piece of land to cultivate … and I pay rent to them. There were not the ancestral owners of the land. These were just hunters who settled here," he said. The reserve's fertile soil and climate, with abundant rain and moderate temperatures, make it particularly suitable for agriculture.
In addition to farming, settlers also take advantage of abundant fish stocks in the reserve's numerous streams, tributaries and rivers such as Oluwa, Owena, Oni and Ominla.
A river flows through rainforest in Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Each camp has a small governing structure to resolve disputes, and residents live in small, uniform houses with ant hill-colored mud walls roofed with raffia palm and zinc. There is a pub for merriment and meetings at the center of each camp, where arising matters pass through debates and deliberations.
But while farmers have found favor in Oluwa, conservationists warn it has come at the expense of the reserve's forests and the diverse animal and plant species that depend on them to survive. They warn that Oluwa is losing, rapidly, the capacity to support its biodiversity, mostly as a result of slash-and-burn agriculture and logging.
According to satellite data from the University of Maryland visualized on Global Forest Watch, Oluwa Forest Reserve lost some 14% of its primary forest cover between 2002 and 2020, and preliminary data show forest loss likely surged higher in 2021. In October, a Mongabay reporter observed numerous recent clearings cut into the forest to make room for new farms.
Satellite data from the University of Maryland indicate deforestation spiked in Oluwa Forest Reserve in 2021.
Cleared forest in Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Oluwa's ecosystems supports diverse wildlife, including red-capped mangabeys (Cercocebus torquatus), Nigerian white-throated guenons (Cercopithecus erythrogaster pococki), white-bellied pangolins (Phataginus tricuspis), yellow-casqued hornbills (Ceratogymna elata) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Numerous tree species thrive in the reserve, the most common being Elicia excelsa, Antiaris africana, Afzelia bipindensis and Terminalia superba.
Poaching also poses a big threat to Oluwa's wildlife. Although livestock breeding continues to gain traction in many parts of Nigeria, including in Oluwa, the desire for bushmeat remains strong. In a number of farming camps at Oluwa, settlers breed native fowl, as well as geese, goats and ducks.
But many said they still favor bushmeat and routinely hunt and trap animals. Settlers reported killing many kinds of monkeys, as well as pangolins, greater cane rats (Thryonomys swinderianus, commonly referred to as "grasscutters" in Nigeria), antelope and porcupines. They said they consider bushmeat valuable in traditional medicine, and cheaper and tastier than domestic livestock.
Amnesty for farmers
The settling of Oluwa is technically illegal, but sources told Mongabay that authorities have largely looked the other way. Multiple sources, including a forestry officer, told Mongabay the farming presence in the reserve is large, widespread and united, and that the government is concerned that attempts to forcefully evict them at this point could result in rebellion.
Moreover, Oluwa is a delicate "political currency," sources said, one capable of swinging votes during elections. Politicians, mindful of losing voters' support, have taken a soft stand against eviction.
Young banana trees planted in an area cleared of forest. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
In an attempt to balance conservation and politics, the Ondo state government passed a policy in 2017 that allowed previously established farms to remain in Oluwa while restricting the planting of new fields and clearing for new farm sites. A task force was assembled to enforce compliance by imposing penalties ranging from fines to eviction and destruction of new farms.
However, the policy is largely seen as a failure in Oluwa. Compliance was tied to the strong presence of uncompromised and sustained law enforcement, something that could not be achieved in Oluwa due to inadequate funding, according to Obabu Mushood, the director of forest management at the Ondo State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Moshood said that without enough funding, authorities lack the proper mobility, training and technology needed to protect the reserve. He added that without autonomy, forest agencies function at the whim of whatever government is in power.
"Funding is a major issue here because the government is keen on investing where it will quickly recoup and forestry is not that area where you put money and you expect return in four years," Moshood told Mongabay. "So most governments don't want to take the risk of putting their resources in a place where the gestation period to have a return is going to be about 15 to 20 years."
Oluwa isn't alone. Just 11% of Nigeria still had natural forest cover as of 2000, and since then the country has lost more than 7% of its remaining primary forest, according to data from the University of Maryland. Some of the highest rates of deforestation are taking place in forest reserves.
"This thing [deforestation] should be a national issue, there should be an emergency declared on the forest," Moshood said. "Some of our forests right now are 100% encroached upon. There is nothing we can do right now."
Cacao crops growing in Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Oluwa's large size and generally rugged terrain creates additional barriers for the government's small law enforcement agency, which has to spread its limited capacity over more than a dozen protected areas in the state. This leaves large portions of Oluwa essentially unprotected.
Farmers are allowed to retain their stakes in Oluwa in return for annual rent paid to the state government. However, sources say that as with policy banning farm expansion, this too has been partially paralyzed by weak enforcement.
Numerous settlers, including those interviewed by Mongabay, consider their occupation illicit and temporary. In one instance, some even fled their farms into the bush as a vehicle carrying a reporting team entered the area. Others pleaded for mercy, assuming the team had come to evict and arrest illegal settlers.
Babatola told Mongabay that many years ago, state government representatives told farmers to vacate Oluwa, that a new dawn focused on conservation was around the corner. He said that this announcement prompted the settlers to convene emergency meetings in which they raised funds to bribe government officials to thwart the eviction agenda. He said similar threats made in recent years were also fruitless.
Plantations advance
In addition to deforestation by smallholder farmers, industrial agriculture has become an increasingly major presence in the reserve, and satellite data show the bulk of deforestation in 2021 was concentrated in plantation areas.
Portions of Oluwa have been granted as concessions to agroindustry firms with "strong track records" according to Moshood. One of Oluwa's biggest concession holders is Bambi Farms Ltd, a private firm headquartered in Okeigbo, Ondo state, Nigeria, which was granted a concession of 5,000 hectares of land within Oluwa.
A sign bearing the name "Bambi" in Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Bambi Farms Ltd, through its website, claims to have started cultivating oil palm in the reserve in 2018 under an outgrower scheme that enlists 450 small farmers to grow crops in partnership with the company. Mongabay did not receive a response to a message sent to the company's purported Facebook account asking for more details about its plans in Oluwa.
Bambi Farms Ltd. may not be the only company setting their sights on Oluwa. A Mongabay reporting team observed markers labeled with the names of several entities that appear to be staking claims to land in the reserve, including "Fayok Glorious Nigeria Enterprise" and "West Africa Forest Plantations Ltd." While no websites could be found for any of these entities, a Facebook profile listed under the same name states Glorious Nigeria Enterprise is a building materials company.
A sign with the name "Fayok Glorious Nig. Ent." appears to be staking claim to an area in Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
A LinkedIn profile purportedly of West Africa Forest Plantations Ltd. CEO Ayo Ighodaro describes the company as "the largest sustainable forestry and value-added timber products company in Nigeria, poised for dramatic growth over the next few years." Responses were not forthcoming to messages sent to West African Forest Plantations Ltd and Glorious Nigeria Enterprise via their respective Facebook accounts.
Chimpanzees on the brink
While plantation expansion may benefit Nigeria's economy, conservationists warn it is harming the country's imperiled wildlife – such as the endangered Nigeria–Cameroon chimpanzee (P. troglodytes ellioti).
"The level of deforestation in Oluwa Forest Reserve now is unsustainable," said Adedayo Mehmud, the coordinator of Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) operations in southwest Nigeria. "Some of these areas are reserved only on paper."
Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees are considered the most endangered chimp subspecies. This one, in a UK zoo, has lost much of its hair. Image by Terry Kearney via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).
Not much is known about the current population size and status of chimpanzees in Oluwa. Farmers, hunters and other longtime community residents near Oluwa told Mongabay they occasionally saw chimpanzees in the area three decades ago. They also said they saw hunters kill them.
Results of surveys conducted in southwestern Nigeria by researcher and biodiversity specialist Elizabeth Greengrass published in the journal Primate Conservation in 2009, found that chimpanzees were likely still present in the more intact portions of the reserve. However, the study's findings suggest chimpanzee population size and distribution in the region had "sharply declined" since the turn of the century.
"My results suggest that chimpanzees in southwest Nigeria are now on the brink of extinction," Greengrass concluded in her study. "Unless effective action is taken, they will be extinct within the next few years in most of the sites where they were found to remain during this survey."
Slightly more recently, a 2012 study published in the International Journal of Development and Sustainability showed that chimpanzees were restricted to a small, central portion of the reserve about 39.22 sq km (15.14 sq mi) in size, or a little over 5% of the reserve's area.
The study, conducted by professors Babafemi Ogunjemite and Olaniyi Oluwatobi at Nigeria's Federal University of Technology Akure, found that chimpanzees were most active in only about 10 sq km (around 4 sq mi) of their range in the reserve, mostly focused along the banks of the Oluwa River.
A large patch of 2021 deforestation in Oluwa Forest Reserve occurred in an area known to harbor chimps in 2012.
According to Ogunjemite, chimpanzees are still likely living in Oluwa – but are barely surviving and under severe duress from habitat loss and poaching. He said that primates have been somewhat sheltered from persecution by the steep topography in this part of the reserve, which makes access difficult for settlers and developers. But he cautioned that even these places are now being targeted for exploitation.
"Those are the places where those animals were residing there," Ogunjimite told Mongabay. "But some of those places we call inaccessible, are [now] accessible. I mean people are already planting in those areas today. It is not just enacting law, enacting law does not solve the problem. The truth is that the forest is badly damaged; degraded."
Babafemi Ogunjemite. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Ogunjimite said unregulated forest clearing continues to fragment their habitat. Deforestation, together with poaching, is reducing chimpanzee numbers in the reserve to a point at which unrelated individuals may not be able to find each other to reproduce, which poses a threat to the genetic integrity of the entire population.
"The problem is that they are being persecuted," Ogunjimite said. "And of course, the more fragmented, the more the population will be reduced and the more the genetic materials will be restricted. "
Oluwa's forests aren't just being cleared to make way for agriculture. Its trees are also targeted for Nigeria's lucrative timber industry. Trees logged in the reserve feed a long supply chain that includes markets in the nearby city of Lagos to beyond the country's borders.
The logging industry in Oluwa has provided many jobs and generated huge profits, according to Olatunbosun Olajino, a timber contractor based in the city of Akure who logs alongside dozens of others in the reserve. But Olajino said that as Oluwa's forests have disappeared, so has the timber revenue.
Olajino, who has been in the logging trade for nearly two decades, told Mongabay that Oluwa's forests are now too depleted to support the usual contingent of timber dealers. Olajino said it's gotten to a point at which his colleagues are beginning to quit the trade, and he expects to soon follow suit. He said he already sold three of his chainsaws and two log transport trucks earlier this year.
"It is annoying," Olajino said. "I am leaving this business soon. The business is over and … people are quitting."
During a trip to Oluwa, a Mongabay reporting team observed several inactive sawmills and parked and empty log trucks. Small groups of loggers chatted and played card games as they waited for work.
An inactive sawmill near Oluwa Forest Reserve. Image by Orji Sunday for Mongabay.
Logger Temisan Daniel said accelerated deforestation in Oluwa and other forest reserves in the region was facilitated by the large-scale adoption of chainsaws the early 2000s, as well as the proliferation of "logging rackets" that in effect steal timber from reserves by harvesting outside concession boundaries or fabricating logging permits – sometimes in collusion with corrupt forestry officials.
"Loggers don't just start falling timbers in the reserve," Daniel told Mongabay. "There is a government process that has to be in place first, like securing the permits."
Despite Oluwa's rapid deforestation, NCF's Mehmud remains a believer in the reserve's preservation and restoration potential. He said that if it is managed with urgency, Oluwa's remaining forest can support, and in turn be supported by, conservation and ecotourism projects. To buttress this hope, he pointed to NCF's camera trap survey that captured evidence of chimpanzees in adjoining Omo Forest Reserve in 2017.
Mehmud said that NCF is working on a conservation initiative to more effectively manage Oluwa jointly with Omo and adjacent Shasha Forest Reserve in the hopes of saving enough habitat to ensure a future for the region's remaining wildlife.
Banner image of a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) by Dkoukoul via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Q: Unable to POST using jSoup Trying to get some data out of a router website but can't figure out the POST Request Headers.
Here's the Request Headers:
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:342
Content-Type:multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary6C8rEu8jENa10v7s
Cookie:AIROS_SESSIONID=48f1f0f41859ba467e3a2bf1de1f6dd0; ui_language=en_US
Host:10.0.0.2
Origin:http://10.0.0.2
Referer:http://10.0.0.2/login.cgi?uri=/index.cgi
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,      like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36

And here's the Request Payload:
------WebKitFormBoundary6C8rEu8jENa10v7s
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="uri"

/index.cgi
------WebKitFormBoundary6C8rEu8jENa10v7s
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="username"

ubnt
------WebKitFormBoundary6C8rEu8jENa10v7s
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="password"

ubnt
------WebKitFormBoundary6C8rEu8jENa10v7s--

Parsing the response into a document and printing it, it shows my credentials as invalid. Could it be that I got my Content-Type wrong?
Here's my code for the connection:
res1 = Jsoup.connect("http://10.0.0.2/login.cgi")
.userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101     Firefox/25.0")
.header("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data")
.followRedirects(false)
.referrer("http://10.0.0.2/login.cgi?uri=/index.cgi")
.data("uri", "/index.cgi")
.data("username", "ubnt").data("password", "ubnt")
.method(Method.POST).execute();

Any insight would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Parsing the response, the server returns the following error message which I believe furthers my suspicion that it is something to do with how the website handles the Content-Type.

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Apparently the server was not expecting a Data Field with "username","ubnt","password","ubnt" but it was expecting raw Post Data. Changing the content-type to:
post.setHeader("Content-Type","multipart/form-data;  boundary=---------------------------21240622191493050652355892969");

And changing the Entity to
StringEntity postParamsString = new StringEntity("-----------------------------21240622191493050652355892969\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"uri\"\r\n\r\n/stalist.cgi\r\n-----------------------------21240622191493050652355892969\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"username\"\r\n\r\nubnt\r\n-----------------------------21240622191493050652355892969\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"password\"\r\n\r\nubnt\r\n-----------------------------21240622191493050652355892969--\r\n");

I managed to get a successful login. Also changed to Apache Commons because, as Peter pointed out, jSoup doesn't handle multipart/form-data very well but I think it would have worked with jSoup as well.

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Claudine Boeglin
Claudine has worked as a visual journalist for the last two decades. She was managing editor of Colors Magazine at Fabrica.it and managed the editorial team and conceived the first multimedia prototypes at Lemonde.fr. She served as creative director of Magnum Photos New York, where she co-founded the digital multimedia platform Magnum In Motion. She was multimedia director of Thomson Reuters Foundation and Trust Women Conference. She also taught Interactive Storytelling and Documentary Practice at London South Bank University.
Standing at the frontiers of non-linear visual storytelling paired with 'live anthro-pop' research, Claudine is producer and founder at Dandy Vagabonds, an independent creative consultant, collaborating with organisations such as girleffect.org and the London-based start up research agency Revealing Reality. In 2018, she will conduct experiences, rejoining Mark Lubell, director of icp.org.


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No matter where you travel, there's always going to be someone to give the opinions – some good and some bad. Take from it what you will and ignore the ones that might cause hindrance on your way. However, there might be times when the information passed on to you would sound so believable that you would not want to ignore it. This post will bust 10 of the most popular travel myths and will show you the other side of the story.
Whoever says 'travel is expensive' has probably never travelled. We agree that no travel is free, but the idea that people have developed is a result of fancy marketing techniques that say 'fun vacation = expensive vacation'. Though we believe that this approach is totally baseless! Thanks to a number of websites and apps who help plan your inexpensive trip.
If this would have been the case, then there wouldn't have been millions of solo travellers living till date to tell the tale. Agreed? Well, travelling is one thing where you shouldn't be dependent on someone else's availability. So go solo, plan your trip and stop worrying.
We really hope you are not living just to work and pay bills! Coz believe it or not, travelling is a lot more fun that being a homebody. And when it comes to travelling places, you certainly don't have to quit your job; all you need is to plan it right. Take advantage of your long weekends and manage your holidays ahead of time.
Okay, now you going to be kidding us! With street food, you can actually see the ingredients that goes in the preparation of your food, which is unlike having meal at a top-notch restaurant. So follow your heart and eat out the way you want. Bon Appetit!
Travelling is not running away, it is more of getting lost and finding yourself in the process. If you're young and want to figure out your life, you must travel. If you think there's unhappiness surrounding you, you must travel. If you're tired of your job and making career choices for yourself, you must travel. Just believe in yourself and travel coz you want to, not coz you're running away.
There are many places on the map that are unexplored, thus making the travel cheap in those locations. So take it as an opportunity to be one of the few people to travel there and saving a lot of money in return.
This is a mere excuse that you've been dependent upon for a very long time. The fact is, you have all the time in the world, you're just lazy to do something different. Take our advice, make a list of places you want to travel, plan a trip (rather trips) and trust us, you won't regret it.
This topic has been exaggerated enough for you to believe anything and everything someone says. But we say, if you won't travel and see for yourself, how would you possibly know.
This sounded true a few years ago, but these days there are a number of alternatives available online, thus breaking the dilemma of booking tickets in advance or at the last moment.
It is just about being comfortable with the new surroundings, and making your kids adapt the same. Family trips are ideal for kids' development and a great bonding experience.
Now that we have busted the travel myths, we want to tell you a truth! The travel bug is real and you must keep up with it because you only live once (#YOLO).


You may have gathered in Part I that I believe if appropriate community services were in place and people were integrated into the community, communities will be enriched. In addition, the public might be less likely to immediately jump to the conclusion that a person who commits gun violence is a person with a mental health condition.
Back in June of this year, I had the privilege to attend the national conference of disability rights. I saw leaders of many devalued groups plead for real life examples of people experiencing breakdowns in the system. Bureaucracies tend not to advertise these stories, because, I believe, policymakers favor distance as they make life and death decisions for those less fortunate. Our very own PAIMI Advisory Council* members have been interviewing folks in residential facilities, asking questions to focus on their strengths, their hopes and dreams. They have found inspiration and information that could lead to dramatic, positive changes if The Olmstead Decision continues to provide a model of how people could be included in their communities.
"Roger" is a person with a mental health condition that is debilitating to him in his current environment. Despite the residential rule that he doesn't get lunch if he doesn't take part in some kind of activity outside of the residence (like "Kiddy Day Care", as it is NOT affectionately called by many), he stays in his room, primarily because he is so tired. His roommate, "Toby", who is new to this residential facility, says that Roger probably needs to talk to his physician about the side effects of the medication he takes because he "passes out" and sleeps a lot of the day.
Toby, on the other hand, appears to be motivated emotionally, mentally and physically. He is complimentary to the owners of the facility he lives in because they helped him become eligible for Medicaid. However, he is puzzled by the amount of money he pays in room and board. The food he receives has not been what a typical Nebraskan would consider "good" and he has resorted to visiting a soup kitchen for the homeless to get balanced, healthy meals. He is concerned that he never receives any spending money (required by Medicaid rules) and his "employment" is more like volunteer work because he does not receive a check. Toby is frustrated that when he has complained he sees no changes take place, yet he feels like he is punished when he does speak up. Therefore, he has adopted the "you get more with sugar" attitude and has stopped complaining.
He has the insight that his diagnosis puts people off, but remains optimistic that someday he will gain some friends with like interests (he enjoys a good game of chess, for example) to pal around with. His goals are to live and work in a richer environment and to have a few friends to spend his free time with. However, he believes he can only succeed by moving to another state with a better mental health system in place.
1. There will always be a need to offer meals to people who are homeless and / or indigent. But life skills will never be taught by giving someone a meal. In the not so distant past, there has been programming at residential facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska that have taught life skills in "real life" environments, but programming was terminated because of political decisions that were portrayed as "budget restraints" (restraints that were, in fact, "the emperor's new clothes").
2. Residential facilities that rely on Medicaid money will likely be ripe for corruption and greed; even the well-intentioned will inevitably hamstring individual creativity and growth. On the other hand, simple additions, like a resident given the means to paint her own room the color of her choice, can help create a more home-like atmosphere.
3. People who are disenfranchised need an advocate to maneuver through the labyrinth of the medication/physician's world.
4. Isolated enclaves - sometimes owned by the same individual - where residents are employed or have a day program at the same place, are still institutional in nature. They impair choice of activity and autonomy of the individuals and the programming is often not even age-appropriate. It is used to "fill time," and/or certainly not designed to maximize independence (socially, interpersonally and economically).
5. Laws must be enforced and those who have the power and authority need to be outraged by the current conditions.
6. There must be available staff who are properly trained and readily available who can help individuals access all services available to the general public, including competitive employment in integrated settings. And there must be opportunities for interactions with individuals who are not paid to interact with them.
7. Transportation must be available to access activity and lifestyle choices, e.g. fitness facilities, community centers, recreation centers, libraries, community colleges, religious centers, etc.
8. Partnerships are good and can be effective at providing greater access to the good things in life.
In optimum conditions and with optimum health, people live out their lives in fulfilling ways. The path may be tough but hardships need not be insurmountable barriers. In fact, if we all facilitate growth and see the diversities as strengths, we will all benefit. And that will truly be something to celebrate.
*The Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Advisory Council advises the Disability Rights Nebraska Board of Directors on policies and priorities to be carried out to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals with mental illness in Nebraska and on remedies to enforce those rights.


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Pioneers of transportation honoured at hall of fame ceremony
Joann Robertson visited the Yukon recently to attend the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame Awards. Her grandfather, J.E.
Michael Gates
Jun. 17, 2011 9:00 a.m.
Joann Robertson visited the Yukon recently to attend the Yukon Transportation Hall of Fame Awards. Her grandfather, J.E.F. (Ned) Hoggan was inducted into the Hall on Tuesday, June7, at the Yukon Transportation Museum.
She also brought her brand new book, which throws light on a little known era of Yukon history.
The title of the book, which is now available for sale in Whitehorse, is self-explanatory: The Yukon Between the Gold Rush & Highways.
While reading her self-published story, which is based upon her own memories of the era and unpublished letters and papers of others, I came across an illuminating story of travel in the early days.
Before there was a good road from Dawson to Whitehorse, Clary Craig, Bob McLaren, Bill Grafton and John Hill bought an old Model T Ford touring car from Andrew Baird, the manager of one of the big Klondike dredging companies, for $50.
It was early fall and, because the rivers hadn't yet frozen at the crossing points along the trail, the overland stage wasn't yet running between the two cities. Dawson City was cut off from civilization during this period, but these young men were determined not to wait.
They tuned up the engine of the Model T, and modified the back seat to accommodate a wooden box. With them, they took tools, haywire, blankets, a spare wheel (they were made from wood in those days), extra cans of fuel, and an empty 4-gallon can to melt snow in.
Somewhere around McQuesten River, an errant stick pierced the radiator. They fixed that by pinching the hole closed and sealing it with mustard supplied by a nearby wood cutting camp. For a distance after that, they had to cut through an area where there was no road at all. One of their tires broke, and they replaced it with the spare they had brought along.
Crossing the Stewart river was easy due to the cold weather, but they then passed through an area full of fire-killed deadfalls which they had to cut through to make progress. The weather became warmer as they moved south, so when they reached Pelly Crossing, the river had only frozen over the night before.
They stayed overnight at "Ma" Shaffer's roadhouse, and the next morning, with a skin of ice only a few centimetres thick, they raced down the hill in their empty jalopy (they removed their gear to lighten the vehicle) and scooted across the ice with "water following the rear wheels on the far side."
Road conditions were no better from Pelly to Yukon Crossing, where, due to warmer weather, they found open water and ice floes. Using a six-metre freighter canoe they found on the bank of the river, they were able to get across to the roadhouse on the opposite side.
Harold King, the caretaker of the roadhouse, had been given orders by T.C. Richards, who ran the stage line, not to help the competition. They were stranded!
These ingenious men were not to be deterred. Under cover of darkness, they crossed back to the other side, and with a large bonfire to give them light, they dismantled the Model T, and in two trips, carried the 360-kilogram vehicle across the ice-choked Yukon.
This crossing was a hair-raising experience because the hulk of the old Ford made the freighter canoe top-heavy and it could easily have capsized. Luck was on their side, and they made it.
After reassembling the car, it was an easy drive to Whitehorse, which they reached a day later.
It took more than a little determination, and a dose of youthful recklessness to complete a journey that we now think nothing of making in a few hours!
Today, thanks to years of effort and attention, the Yukon has a network of nearly 5,000 kilometres of roads, plus 128 bridges, two ferries, and two dozen airports scattered over an area twice the size of Great Britain.
What a difference it has made in our lives.
This year's inductees in to the Transportation Hall of Fame included Dawn and Gordon Bartsch, who received the Order of Polaris from Commissioner Doug Phillips. The couple partnered in Connelly-Dawson Airways and brought in the first DC-3 for bush flying. It was the first such aircraft to land in Old Crow.
In his acceptance speech, Gordon Bartsch told a crowd of 100 that when they started to fly freight into Inuvik, the price of goods came down by 45 per cent. Dawn Bartsch was also a true pioneer of aviation. She was the first woman in Canada to receive her commercial pilot's licence.
A few years later, the couple started their own airline, Great Northern Airways, which linked small northern communities to Whitehorse and Calgary. The DC-3 they first flew in the Yukon was CF-CPY, which is now proudly displayed in front of the Yukon Transportation Museum as the world's largest weather vane.
Also recognized at the ceremony was the late Ned Hoggan, whose granddaughter Joann Robertson, and great granddaughter Maribeth Mainer received Hoggan's 2011 Pioneer of the Year award from the
Honourable Archie Lang, Minister for Highways and Public Works. Hoggan was a master mariner who, after the Klondike gold rush, piloted steamers on the waters of the Yukon for many years.
Over the years, Hoggan and his wife Kate also served the transportation industry by operating roadhouses that served overland and river traffic.
In her acceptance speech, Mainer pointed out that Hoggan represented a group of men whose role in river transportation was essential to maintaining the tenuous supply link with the outside world.
Clive Boyd, the last recipient of the evening, accepted the 2011 Transportation Person of the Year award from Doug Bell and Jennifer Byram.
Boyd first came north as a student in 1944 and 1945 as part of a government survey team upgrading the newly constructed Alaska Highway. He later trucked ore for United Keno Hill mine, and then worked for the Northern Commercial Company before being hired on by Leo Proctor (who is also honoured in the Transportation Hall of Fame).
Later, while general manager for General Enterprises, he became known as the man who could move mountains. This title was earned after General Enterprises removed the top of a mountain at Clinton Creek, thereby exposing the large body of asbestos ore for mining.
According to the citation for the award, there was no major work or roadway in the Yukon upon which Boyd and his team did not work.
These four people contributed to improving a transportation network that we now take for granted. Congratulations to them all!
Michael Gates is a Yukon historian and sometimes adventurer based in Whitehorse. His book, History Hunting in the Yukon, is now available.
The A.B.C. Bohemian (beer brand) sold during the Klondike Gold Rush
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Extravagant weddings are in style right now, but are they really worth it? Many millennials now prefer to skip the wedding expenses in favor of saving for the future.
Want a balance between the two? Organizing a wholesome wedding is the way to go! A wholesome wedding is where guests and hosts alike enjoy a homey, relaxed, even casual atmosphere. However, it still gives off the essence of an important event that will make many cherished memories. Keep things simple but fun and your wholesome wedding is sure to be a hit with everyone!
Read on for some ideas on how to pull it off.
Yes, the couple is the most important entity at the wedding, but the guests deserve some appreciation too. After all, they've taken time out from their busy schedule to come and help celebrate the big day. They hence deserve at least a welcome bag if they're going to be staying at the wedding venue for a few hours. There are various ideas to personalize the welcome bags for those special people so you can choose the one you like the most.
The best wedding might be a personal choice, but most guests agree that they love it when the ceremony is short. We think the couple and their close circle would also agree. A wholesome wedding ensures that no one is tried or crabby, so there's no need to draw out the ceremony unnecessarily. The actual process should only take about 20 minutes so that the rest of the party can go on.
Keep everything looking cozy by arranging the decorations to reflect your goal. For instance, you can tie your table linens with burlap, topping them with some craft paper. Alternatively, you can use up a bare space to hang a garland. Cover the tables with checkered cloth, fill jars with fresh local flowers, and you have a wonderful setting without the usual cost!
The serving plates and linens don't have to completely match, so see how a contrast looks in certain areas. If possible, make use of the family heirlooms. They have to come in handy someday and are certain to create a stunning effect.
Children are a lovely sight at every wedding, with the flower girls and ring bearer being part of the ceremony itself. It's always a nice gesture to have something, especially for the kids. This will help them stay occupied and not bother their parents, who also deserve to have a fun, relaxing time.
One example here could be setting up everything you need for a candy buffet at sweetservices.com. This will do away with the need to give the children wedding cake, which they might make a mess out of. While candy might make the children hyper, chances are the wedding shenanigans will tire them out eventually.
Nothing says wholesome like some natural materials making just the right statement at a wedding. Don't be afraid to utilize exposed wood in the best manner, especially if the wedding is an outdoor event. This would add a rustic effect to the decorations and also give a unique touch.
You may also continue the natural look with some simple choices for the dresses. Hop online to see how you can choose wedding gowns for all tastes and styles without leaving anyone in the lurch.
Another idea is to use pinecones as part of the décor, perhaps even sticking some thoroughly scrubbed ones on the cake! Hand sunflowers from chandeliers, or use wooden signs to guide the guests towards the buffet.


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import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException;
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You'll be joining a cross-functional, global UX team composed of designers, researchers, writers & UI engineers collaborating closely to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.
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Rush 24/7 Morning Update: What To Do
RUSH: Now, according to Politico, the wizards running Joe Biden's campaign are studying the 1918 election, to see if there are lessons Plugs can learn to help him keep his campaign alive. In 1918, large gatherings were banned because America was in the grip of the Spanish Flu.
Now, today, the Biden campaign is being run from the basement of his house in Delaware — the rec room. The only way for him to connect with voters is by using streaming media, which doesn't come naturally for Plugs. His first attempts were downright embarrassing. (We'll have details later today.)
Another big problem is finding the right message for Plugs. Now, this is a guy who has relied on "connecting with voters" in person. (You know, smelling their hair and that kind of stuff.) But Politico reports that for the first time, Democrats worry there could be a big downside to attacking President Trump right now. They think that there's a danger that relentless Trump criticism could backfire during the coronavirus epidemic. Plugs might go too far attacking Trump when the public is in no mood to hear it.
I guess it's too bad that Joe Biden's memory isn't what it used to be. If it was, he could just tell the people running his campaign what life was like during the campaign of 1918. He was there — young, sharp, all that — and then Democrats would know what to do now. But they have no idea. They're clueless. Too bad.
Politico: Inside Joe Biden's Bizarre Coronavirus Bunker


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Norge Mining claims to hold 300 bn in Mining Values
Veteran Investment analyst and CAR-Founder Gunnar Holen has brought along international mining executives in a mining project in Rogaland. The Founders needs a quarter of a billion.
It is a long journey ahead of us, however the values are very large. The deposit has an in-situ value of 300 bn Norwegian Krone (NOK). This is 10 times as much as companies such as Nordic Mining and Nussir holds says Gunnar Holen co-founder and country manager in Norge Mining.
As CEO in CAR Holen was a regular in the columns of Finansavisen in the years leading up to and including 2008. Then the financial crisis broke ground on the brokerage house and the entrepreneurial adventure ended in bankruptcy. After having a more anonymous job as a senior adviser in Procorp, Holen is now engaged in two new entrepreneurial companies.
Nordic Blue Crude will start production of climate-friendly fuel, while Norge Mining will map and in the long term recover an occurrence of the mineral's apatite, ilmenite and magnetite. The deposit is located about four miles northeast of Egersund. In the past, Hydro, among others, has looked at the possibility of recovery, but these plans did not materialise.
Hits battery-trend
Holen emphasises that the amount of 300 bn NOK is a raw, gross value calculation based on estimated resources. Especially the element vanadium, which can be extracted from magnetite, is commercially and environmentally interesting. Vanadium has historically been used to strengthen steel, and now it has become a key element in the green shift. It can provide better batteries than lithium, he says. Chinese Geely, a major owner of Volvo, and Swiss Belenos, a member of the Swatch group, have announced the construction of a vanadium-based battery testing facility. Holen became involved in the mining project through contact with Øyvind Standeren Pedersen, who has worked on several mining projects in Norway. I first met with Øyvind in 2007, when we at CAR looked at projects he had at that time, says Holen. Since then Holen and Standeren Pedersen have kept in touch.
International Mining Executives
Through contacts from his previous work in Norwegian and British finance, Holen has brought with him Oliver Baring, who previously was mining manager at the Swiss major bank UBS Warburg and chairman of the mining company Mwana Africa. In the resource group and the board, there are also several people with experience from the international mining industry:
Bert Nacken has held various management positions at BHP Billiton.
Swiss Michael Wurmser has worked as an advisor to several mining companies and banks in Asia, the Middle East, Russia and the USA.
John David Vergopoulos has a background from Deloitte and has been the Chief and Chief Financial Officer of several listed companies.
Legally, Norge Mining is a British PLC company, which corresponds to a Norwegian public limited company. Holen is the country manager of the Norwegian, wholly owned subsidiary Teøk. So far, we have spent a couple of tens of millions of NOK on mapping and planning, says Holen.
The Board of Directors and management have more than 50 per cent of the shares in the company. Different Norwegian investors have 25 percent, and I have 6 percent, he says. However, the company does not want to send Finansavisen the list of shareholders.
Realistic project
Holen estimates that it will cost around 250 m NOK to map the area well enough to start mineral extraction. He is also prepared for a long regulatory run. The mineral companies Nordic Mining and Nussir have both been fighting against bureaucracy and environmental movement for 10-15 years, and they have still not begun the recovery itself. What is the realism of the project? The potential to realise the project is high. Essentially, the occurrence is significant, and the studies we have done so far have shown higher concentration of the interesting minerals than what NGU has found, says Holen.
NGU stands for Norway's Geological Surveys and is the country's leading institution for knowledge of Mining and Mineral resources. Where does the quarter billion come from? So far, we have managed to finance ourselves well with British and Swiss capital. Exactly what the capital sources will be in the future has not yet been clarified. We are not looking for capital right now, and we have the means to complete the next part of the project, which will be core drilling. The company is financed throughout 2020, he replies.
Source: Finansavisen


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Comparison of Twelve Dielectric Moisture Probes for Soil Water Measurement under Saline Conditions
M. Inoue , B.A. Ould Ahmed , T. Saito and M. Irshad
Recently the research on the determination of soil water content and electrical conductivity using automated technique has received tremendous attention. Selecting the type of system that should be used for soil water measurement under saline conditions depends on its precision. A laboratory study was carried out to measure the soil water content (θ) and soil solution electrical conductivity (ECw) using eight portable dielectric moisture probes namely ML1, ML2, MP4, WET, SK8, MIN, EC2 and SM2 and four profile probes namely ES, AG, P1 and P2. Air-dried Tottori sand dune soil was converted into saline by NaCl solutions of various concentrations. The out-put results of moisture probes showed that measurement accuracy was strongly dependent on the concentration of salt in the soil. Among the sensors WET, EC2 and ES exhibited higher sensitivity to the salts and over estimated water content by 0.04-0.08 cm3 cm-3 whereas MP4, WET, SM2, ES, AG and P1 sensors also over estimated the volumetric water content by 0.02-0.03 cm3 cm-3 at 3.83 dS m-1 soil salinity as compared to normal soil. Higher ECw increased the relative error of soil water measurement across the sensors. Among the moisture meters, commercially available ML1, ML2, SK8 and P2 gave sufficient accuracy in the presence of salts.
Monitoring Saline Irrigation Effects on Barley and Salts Distribution in Soil at Different Leaching Fractions
A. Al-Busaidi , T. Yamamoto , M. Inoue , Y. Mori , M. Irshad and A. Zahoor
Population growth and global warming would substantially impact the availability and quality of existing freshwater supplies. The utilization of marginal water resources for agriculture is getting considerable importance. The lands irrigated with saline water are required to reduce salts accumulations through leaching and/or drainage practices. A greenhouse experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of saline irrigation and leaching fractions on barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and salts accumulations in sand dune soil. For this purpose seawater was diluted to the salinity levels of 3 and 13 dS m-1 and applied by drip irrigation at 0.1 and 0.4 leaching fractions (LF). The results of the experiment showed that the saline water significantly impaired barley growth. Higher LF lowered the soil salinity and increased soil water contents. Both quantity and quality of water regulated salts distribution within the soil. The salts were found higher near or immediate below the soil surface. An enhanced LF carried more salts down the soil horizon. Low salts were accumulated in the vicinity of emitters as compared to distant wet area. Higher saline irrigation inhibited evaporation. Infiltration rate and hydraulic conductivity of soil were statistically unchanged across the treatments. Conjunctive use of marginal water at proportional LF could be effective to enhance the yield potential of crops in water scarce areas.
Land Desertification-An Emerging Threat to Environment and Food Security of Pakistan
M. Irshad , M. Inoue , M. Ashraf , Faridullah , Hossain K.M. Delower and A. Tsunekawa
The natural resource base of land, water and vegetation in arid and semi arid areas is highly fragile and greatly vulnerable to degradation. There is a serious problem of desertification in many parts of Pakistan. Population pressure along with the demand for more food, fodder and fuelwood has generated a chain of interrelated economic, social and environmental issues associated with the land degradation inside Pakistan. A variety of natural and human factors are contributing to desertification and severely impairs the biological productivity of lands across the country, including dwindling vegetation cover, overgrazing, flooding, over exploitation of water and land resources, over cultivation of marginal lands, deforestation, soil erosion, salinization, sodication and the use of inappropriate technologies. Unsustainable agricultural activities including inadequate soil conservation, cultivation of steep slopes, cultivation without adequate fallow periods, unbalanced fertilizer use and improper irrigation management coupled with the misuse of prime agricultural land for urbanization/industrialization had a devastating impact on land resources. The increased pressure on land with low productivity and environmental pollution through industrial wastes has further exacerbated the prevailing condition. In spite of the concerted national efforts to mitigate the effects of drought, combating desertification is still one of the major challenges to the people of the country. The action necessary to help avert desertification is to educate people as to the value of precious land and water resources. The present deserted situation is directly related to the failures of the unrealistic resource management policies. Various approaches are being applied to arrest the menace of desertification. The institutional set-up for formulation and implementation of programs and policies is being strengthened in the country. Numbers of land reclamation projects have been launched. The activities and efforts already underway by several public and private organizations, departments, NGOs and rural support programs to combat desertification are required to be strengthened, integrated and supplemented through a nationally supported, coordinated and monitored system. This study reviews some of the causes of desertification, identifies the patterns of land degradation and highlights the future prospects of combating desertification in Pakistan.
The Management Options of Water for the Development of Agriculture in Dry Areas
M. Irshad , M. Inoue , M. Ashraf and A. Al-Busaidi
The natural resource base of land, water and vegetation in arid and semi arid areas is highly fragile and greatly vulnerable to degradation especially in the developing countries. The demand for water is constantly increasing as a result of population growth and the expansion of agriculture and industry. Fresh water resources are limited in the arid and semi-arid areas whereas the existing water resources are often overused and misused. The lack of water management in the arid areas generated numerous economic, social and ecological issues. Agriculture currently accounts for nearly 70-80% of water consumption in the developing countries. The productivity of water use in agriculture needs to enhance in order both to avoid exacerbating the water crisis and to prevent considerable food shortages. More efficient use of existing water resources and adequate management of soils could prove to be the effective tool for improving arid lands. The technologies, skills and capital resources required to overcome the poor and extreme distribution of water resources through storage and transfer are not available and widely used. As a consequence there is critically low access to water for agriculture, drinking and sanitation and the environment. Poor access to water is among the leading factors hindering sustainable development in semi-arid and arid regions. Conventional irrigation management should be revised to ensure maximum water productivity instead of land productivity for dry farming systems. Under conditions of increasing water scarcity, the key to sustaining rural livelihoods is improving the productivity and reliability of rainfed agriculture by using limited rainfall more productively, through optimal on-farm soil, water and crop management practices that conserve soil moisture and increase water use efficiency. Conserving and augmenting water supplies through rainwater harvesting and precision irrigation provide new opportunity for productive dry land farming. Without action, it has been reported that in 2025, two thirds of the world's population would live in water stressed areas. One of the actions necessary to help avert water crisis is to educate people as to the value of this precious resource. A productive water-use system in arid and semiarid areas, where the annual rainfall is scanty, the evaporation rate is higher than precipitation and characterizes insufficient renewable water resources, is the urgent need of the farmers. This study reviews options available for improved utilization and management of water resources and examines the future prospects of sustainable agriculture in water scarce areas.
Purification of Beta Bungarotoxin (β-Bgtx) Binding Protein from Human Cadaver Skeletal Muscle
Suhail Rasool , B.L. Jailkhani , M. Irshad , Madhuri Behari , Shahnaz Suhail and H. Shabirul
High affinity β-bungarotoxin binding protein was purified from skeletal muscle of human cadaver by affinity chromatography using β-bungarotoxin as a ligand. The SDS-PAGE of purified protein revealed two major protein bands with molecular weight of 86 and 68 kD. The purified protein has a kD of 2.3±0.15 nmoles and binding sites of 34±2.3 f mole/mg tissue. Immunoreactivity profile of purified presynaptic receptor (β-bungarotoxin binding protein) from muscle with myasthenic sera was negatively affected by treatment with sodium-metaperiodate, glucosidase and trypsin, where as no effect was seen on treatment with lipase. This provides evidence that purified presynaptic receptor (β-bungarotoxin binding protein) is a glycoprotein.
Growth And Yield Response Of Maize To Nitrogen Application at Different Growth Stages
Muhammad Maqsood , Shakeel Ahmad , Aamir Ahmad and M. Irshad
The present study was undertaken to determine a suitable growth stage of maize crop for the application of nitrogen fertilizer for maximising yield and yield components of maize under agro-climatic conditions of Faisalabad. Maximum grain yield (5.27 t ha–1) alongwith highest harvest index (37.00%) per hectare was obtained for the crop raised by split N fertilization i.e. 1/3 at sowing + 1/3 at lst irrigation + 1/3 at flowering and lowest grain yield (2.93 t ha–1) and harvest index (23.50%) in control.
Antibodies Against Postsynaptic Acetylcholine Receptor and Presynaptic Membrane Receptor in Myasthenia Gravis
Suhail Rasool , Madhuri Behari , M. Irshad , Vinay Goyal and B.L. Jailkhani
Using α-bungarotoxin (α -Bgtx) and β -bungarotoxin (β -Bgtx) to capture their corresponding proteins from preparation of crude human muscle receptor (triton extract), antibodies against these corresponding proteins were detected in Myasthenia gravis patients. α-Bgtx binds to AChR and β -Bgtx binds to presynaptic membrane receptor (PsmR) of triton extract. The captured proteins were used as antigen in indirect ELISA to detect the IgG antibodies against AChR and PsmR in sera from 146 Indian patients with MG and in 30 controls. Out of 146, 130 were generalised myasthenic patients (GM), 16 ocular Myasthenic patients (OMG). In addition to AChR antibodies, Myasthenia Gravis (MG) patients were also showing antibodies against PsmR. The frequency of anti-AChR antibodies was 71% and anti-PsmR antibodies was 65%. The OD values of GMG for AChR and PsmR were (0.76 ± 0.34) and (0.75 ±0.37), for OMG patients (0.32 ± 0.1) and (0.72 ± 0.42) and for healthy controls (0.16 ±0.06) and (0.18 ±0.04), respectively. These results showed that MG is not only due to the damage of the postsynaptic membrane, but it could concurrently be a consequence of antibody mediated damage of the presynaptic membrane, resulting particularly the damage of its β-Bgtx binding sites and could play an important role in the pathogenesis of MG. Therefore, it is also necessary to detect antibodies against PsmR in addition to AChR antibody.


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The Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation has broken ground Phase I of its new wastewater treatment facility for the community located 40 kilometres from the town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL.
Phase I of the two-phase project involves the installation and upgrading of collection lines to the wastewater collection system. Phase II will begin in 2010, with the construction of the wastewater treatment plant. The government's contribution of $7.7 million to the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation Wastewater Treatment Plant was drawn from the $165 million investment for 18 water and wastewater projects for First Nation communities identified in the federal Economic Action Plan.
"We are very pleased to see this important project become a reality," said Chief Anastasia Qupee. "This initiative will help ensure the health of our members and the well-being of our community."
There has been solid progress in improving water conditions on reserves across the country. In 2006, there were 193 high risk systems. Today, this number has been significantly reduced to 48 systems. In addition, 21 communities were identified as priorities, which meant that the community had both a high-risk drinking water system and a drinking water advisory. Today, only four communities remain on that list.
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An elderly woman, who had gathered with others in a government area to watch the convoy removing the rebels, raised her hands to the sky, saying: "God save us from this crisis, and from the (militants). They brought us only destruction."
Wissam Zarqa, an English teacher in the rebel zone, said most people were happy to be leaving safely. But he said, "Some of them are angry they are leaving their city. I saw some of them crying. This is almost my feeling in a way."
"Thousands of people are in need of evacuation, but the first and most urgent thing is wounded, sick and children, including orphans," said Jan Egeland, the UN humanitarian adviser for Syria.
The once-flourishing economic centre with its renowned ancient sites has been pulverised during the war which has killed more than 300,000 people, created the world`s worst refugee crisis and allowed for the rise of Islamic State.
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In Aleppo's rebel-held area, columns of black smoke could be seen as residents hoping to depart burned personal belongings they do not want to leave for government forces to loot.
"It's difficult to leave your belongings knowing that your enemy is going to use them. Thugs usually will take them ... They will take everything as a prize for kicking us out," Zarqa, the teacher, said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said close to 1,000 civilians and 26 wounded, including several children, were evacuated, a total it expects to double by day's end. The ICRC said there was "very light screening" by Syrian authorities without identity checks and registrations.
Rebels and their families would be taken towards Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria which is outside government control, the Russian defence ministry said.
A senior European diplomat said last week that the fighters had a choice between surviving for a few weeks in Idlib or dying in Aleppo. "For the Russians it`s simple. Place them all in Idlib and then they have all their rotten eggs in one basket."
The International Rescue Committee said, "Escaping Aleppo doesn't mean escaping the war ... After witnessing the ferocity of attacks on civilians in Aleppo, we are very concerned that the sieges and barrel bombs will follow the thousands who arrive in Idlib."
Britain's foreign secretary Boris Johnson said he had summoned the ambassadors of Russia and Iran to convey profound disquiet over Aleppo, saying it was crucial to protect civilians and deliver aid. UN chief Stephen O'Brien will brief the Security Council on Friday on the Aleppo evacation.
The evacuation deal was expected to include the safe passage of wounded from the Shi'ite villages of Foua and Kefraya near Idlib that are besieged by rebels. A convoy set off to evacuate the villages on Thursday, Syrian state media said.
Efforts to evacuate eastern Aleppo began earlier in the week with a truce brokered by Russia, Assad's most powerful ally, and Turkey, which has backed the opposition. That agreement broke down following renewed fighting on Wednesday and the evacuation did not take place then as planned.
Government forces made a new advance in Sukkari -- one of a handful of districts still held by rebels -- and brought half of the neighbourhood under their control, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group.
The Russian defence ministry said - before the report of the government forces' advance in Sukkari -- that the rebels controlled an enclave of only 2.5 square km (1 square mile).
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Russia's decision to deploy its air force to Syria more than a year ago turned the war in Assad's favour after rebel advances across western Syria. In addition to Aleppo, he has won back insurgent strongholds near Damascus this year.
once again illustrating the challenge Assad faces reestablishing control over all Syria.


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UCCI graduates told to embrace change, take risks
By Patrick Brendel | April 26, 2021
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UCCI graduates listen during Tom Jenkins' keynote address.
New graduates of the University College of the Cayman Islands were urged not only to accept change, but to embrace change and to drive it.
Tech pioneer Tom Jenkins delivered the keynote address at UCCI's new spring commencement ceremony held Saturday.
"Change is very unpredictable and it's organic and it's meandering and sometimes it will make no sense to you at all. But that's OK," said Jenkins, the former CEO and current chairman of the board of OpenText Corp.
"It would be pretty boring if everything was linear and you could predict everything. Some of the changes that I experienced in my life, I didn't like it in the beginning but later it was great. And again you don't have very much choice," he said.
(Watch the video of the UCCI commencement on UCCI's Facebook page here.)
The speakers at the commencement ceremony highlighted the Cayman Islands' maritime heritage and also recognised the unusual circumstances the graduates had to deal with caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UCCI President and CEO Stacy McAfee said, "It has been an illuminating year for UCCI and the Cayman Islands. We have learned to cope. We have learned resilience and hopefully we have learned more about compassion. Having all of those qualities will make the world an easier place to navigate as you leave UCCI and make your way in the world."
"Congratulations on making it even in the midst of a global pandemic to these hallowed seats. Tonight is a symbol of the trajectory of your life, so enjoy every moment of it," emcee and UCCI Board Deputy Chairman Shomari Scott said.
In his remarks, UCCI Board Chairman Mark Scotland discussed initiatives the university is taken to improve itself as an institution and its standing in the community.
"We want employers to look at a graduate from UCCI in the same way that they look at a graduate from a major university anywhere else. Our goal is to be globally competitive," Scotland said.
Gloria McField-Nixon, Chief Officer of the Portfolio of the Civil Service, commended the graduates and singled out government employees receiving their degrees.
"Your investment in your development is to be commended. It comes at a highly important time in our country's development, when we must again set a path for the next leg of our journey," she said.
Canadian tech pioneer and Cayman Islands resident Tom Jenkins delivered the keynote address.
Keynote speaker Jenkins shared three lessons he had learned during his career: "The first is to take chances. The second is to make a difference in your life. And the third is to give back."
A Canadian, Jenkins retired in 2017 and moved permanently to Cayman.
He said the graduates represent a generation the likes of which the world has never seen, in terms of lifespan, comfort with technology and even brain function. He said the new generation will define the digital economy in Cayman and create the opportunities for the country.
"You're going to be the longest-lived generation in human history. It is predicted that you will live more than 100 years and that you will have more than a dozen jobs in your career," he said.
"Most of my generation, we thought we were going to get one job and that was it for the rest of your life. And guess what? It didn't turn out like that for us. We all moved around. We had different jobs. Things change," Jenkins said.
He said, "You can embrace change or you can oppose change. It'll be your choice. But you won't have any choice about the change. It's coming and it'll keep coming."
As an illustration of the change that he has seen, Jenkins recalled how when he was studying engineering at university, they used slide rules and paper — whereas today, all of that sort of work is done with computers and calculators.
"It's said that a teenager living in India today with a smartphone has more knowledge than the President of the United States did 10 years ago. So think about the power that you have with the devices at your fingertips. That's revolutionary for our islands," Jenkins said.
He said that medical studies show that the new generation of humans actually think differently than their parents. Because of the influence of devices and 'outsourced memory', memory centres in the brain are shrinking, while connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain are growing significantly — allowing people to multitask in ways older people simply cannot.
To conclude, Jenkins encouraged graduates to start giving back as soon as they can.
"Don't wait for the end of your career the way I did. Give back right from the start. I regret not doing it earlier," he said.
"I will tell you today, nothing is more satisfying than being able to give back to your community, to your country, to your school," Jenkins said.
UCCI Innovation Tour Taken by the Force
Two groups of local entrepreneurs, investors and mentors toured the tech side of Cayman, getting a close-up view of what the island nation has to offer and what it might bring to the future.


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