Ahead of an international day of old people on October 1, a foundation stone of the National Ageing Center has been laid recently at AIIMS in the national capital. The National Ageing Center will provide state of the art clinical care to the elderly population and shall play a key role in guiding research in the field of geriatric medicine and related specialties. The Centre will also be a key training facility for undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The Centre will provide multi-specialty healthcare and will have 200 general ward beds, which will include 20 medical ICU beds. The center will be developed at a cost of Rs 330 crores and shall be completed by February 2020.
On the occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also dedicated the underground connecting tunnel between AIIMS and JNPA Trauma Centre, and Power Grid Vishram Sadan at AIIMS along with the 500 bedded New Emergency Block and 807 bedded Super Specialty Block at the Safdarjung Hospital to the nation.
Informatively, on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations International Day for Older Persons (UNIDOP) celebrates the importance of this Declaration and reaffirms the commitment to promoting the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by older persons.
Growing older does not diminish a person's inherent dignity and fundamental rights.
On 14 December 1990, the United Nations General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day for Older Persons. This was preceded by initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing – which was adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing – and endorsed later that year by the UN General Assembly.
In 1991, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Principles for Older Persons. In 2002, the Second World Assembly on Ageing adopted the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, to respond to the opportunities and challenges of population ageing in the 21st century and to promote the development of a society for all ages.
Almost 700 million people are now over the age of 60. By 2050, 2 billion people, over 20 percent of the world's population, will be 60 or older. The increase in the number of older people will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world, with Asia as the region with the largest number of older persons, and Africa facing the largest proportionate growth.
The interdependence between older persons' social integration and the full enjoyment of their human rights cannot be ignored, as the degree to which older persons are socially integrated will directly affect their dignity and quality of life.
Older human rights champions today were born around the time of the adoption of the UDHR in 1948. They are as diverse as the society in which they live: from older people advocating for human rights at the grass root and community level to high profile figures on the international stage. Each and everyone demands equal respect and acknowledgment for their dedication and commitment to contributing to a world free from fear and free from want.
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On the day of laying of foundation stone for ageing persons, Mr. JP Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Mr. Ashwini Kumar Choubey and Smt. Anupriya Patel, Ministers of State for Health and Family Welfare were also present at the event.
Addressing the participants, PM Modi said that our government has been successful in taking healthcare out of the ambit of the Health Ministry and today we have Rural Development Ministry, Water and Sanitation Ministry, and Child Development Ministry and AYUSH Ministry with our vision of healthcare.
He further added that our vision is not limited to hospitals, diseases, medicines, and super specialty care but also with the idea that affordable and equitable healthcare should be ensured for every citizen. PM Modi said that the government is equipping existing hospitals with all the modern facilities and at the same time it is also making sure that the healthcare facilities reach the remotest areas of the countries. He added that 58 district hospitals are being upgraded to medical colleges and the government has also sanctioned budgets for 24 new medical colleges.
PM Modi added that the global target for eliminating TB is 2030, but we have set 2025 as our target for India to eliminate TB, five years before the global target. He further stated that the government is providing Rs. 500 to the TB patients towards nutritional support.
The Prime Minister also mentioned the Ayushman Bharat programme. He said that under the National Health Protection Mission, 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) will be provided a coverage up to 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization. This will be the world's largest government-funded healthcare programme, he stated.
Mr. Nadda said that there has been a visible change in the tertiary healthcare in the country and assured that the government is committed to ensuring that the new AIIMS will meet the same standards of service as AIIMS, New Delhi. No effort will be spared to make them the very best, he added. He said that that the new AIIMS will have the same work culture and the government is taking all the steps to ensure that. He further stated that the Ministry in the past 4 years has not left any stone unturned – from monitoring the clean and effective implementation of national programmes to establishing 13 new AIIMS like institutes across the country. Reiterating the commitment of the government, he said under Ayushman Bharat, 150,000 sub-centers will be converted into Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs) that will deliver comprehensive primary healthcare.
"The HWC would provide preventive, promotive, and curative care for non-communicable diseases, dental, mental, geriatric care, palliative care, etc. He further stated that the government has initiated universal screening of common NCDs such as diabetes, hypertension and common cancers along with Tuberculosis and Leprosy and everybody above the age of 30 years will be screened for these diseases and as such this will eventually help in reducing the disease burden of the country. "We will implement the vision of the Prime Minister in letter and spirit," he added.
The underground tunnel is providing connecting facility between AIIMS and JPNA Trauma Centre and will reduce the commute time between the two centers. The completed length connectivity between two centers is approximately 1 km and has been completed at a cost of Rs. 44 crores.
The Powergrid Vishram Sadan has a 300 bedded night shelter facility meant for the patients and their relatives visiting AIIMS main hospital and JPNA Trauma center at AIIMS. The 11-floor facility has been constructed at a cost of Rs. 32.67 crores and funded by the Power Grid Corporation.
New emergency block at Safdarjung Hospital will house 64 triage beds, red zone for children & adults and 90 ICU beds for victims of road traffic accidents, acute trauma suffered by individuals at home or work, acute poisoning and severe medical and surgical emergencies. The block has been developed at a cost of Rs. 346 crores.
Super Specialty Block at Safdarjung Hospital holds tertiary care facilities in the areas of cardiovascular sciences, neurosciences, pulmonary medicine, nephrology, and endocrinology and shall be offering the facility of a Heart Command Centre, respiratory care facility, sleep labs, 24×7 dialysis unit, MRI guided Braine Suite, etc. It also has a 228-bedded private ward. The super specialty block has been developed at a cost of Rs. 920 crores.
Also present at the event were Smt. Preeti Sudan, Secretary (Health); Prof. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS New Delhi; Dr. Rajendra Sharma, Medical Superintendent, VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi and Mr. IS Jha, CMD, Powergrid Corporation along with the senior officers from the Health Ministry and faculty of AIIMS.


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Spark was founded in 2004, and is located at 3 W Broad St in Bethlehem. It employs 3 employees and is generating approximately $370,000.00 in annual revenue.
Subway can be found at 8 W Broad St . The following is offered: Fast Food. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Bethlehem there are 12 other Fast Food. An overview can be found here.


Oxford, London UK and Boston MA - March 14th 2018: The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK's largest supermarkets, has chosen Preservica's AWS cloud-hosted digital preservation platform to actively preserve invaluable digital assets relating to the company's operations. These currently date from the opening of the very first store in Drury Lane, London in 1869, and the Archive also plans to use Preservica to safeguard exclusively born-digital records in the future.
The Sainsbury Archive contains a vast array of materials including advertising, brand assets, marketing campaigns, every issue of the company's in-house magazine, packaging and product designs, as well as corporate governance records such as meeting minutes, board reports and staff records. The archive also houses culturally significant items like daily memos sent to Sainsbury's store managers during WW2, and Family business papers.
The Sainsbury Archive is undertaking a large-scale digitisation project which prompted the team to examine its digital preservation strategy. It is expected to create around 65 TB of information, and therefore felt it was important to ensure its unique digital material could be safely stored and future-proofed, using a secure cloud-hosted preservation and access platform. This is especially pertinent for material that is currently at risk of degradation and format obsolescence, such as film and VHS tapes.
Marcela Bonthron, Sainsbury's Archive Co-ordinator, said: "Previously we'd been using local servers to store Sainsbury Archive valuable data and records, but the need for a robust approach to digital preservation soon became clear. It wasn't just to consolidate and manage the large amounts of digital records our digitisation projects will naturally create, but also to make our unique digital assets more accessible and ensure they remain readable and useable by future generations. Preservica will also enable us to future-proof the large amounts of new born-digital information that the Sainsbury Archive will be acquiring in the future."
Managed by the Museum of London Docklands in Canary Wharf, The Sainsbury Archive is used by researchers, the public and Sainsbury's own internal teams, to gain insight into business and retail history, shopping and eating habits, architecture and urban development, and advertising, display, and product design. For example, packaging designs from the 1970s recently inspired the design of the new Sainsbury's Bank credit card, as well as the design of Sainsbury's own-brand vinyl records.
Allison Foster, Sainsbury Archivist at the Museum of London Docklands, said: "With a high number of digitisation projects underway, it was important to find a digital preservation solution for our archive that would protect records from technology and file format obsolescence, as well as provide wider internal access. We also needed a system that could connect with our existing catalogue, to avoid needing to re-key or copy metadata. For us, Preservica ticked all those boxes and more."
Mike Quinn, CEO of Preservica, added: "The Sainsbury Archive joins a rapidly growing number of business archives using Preservica's cloud-hosted active digital preservation platform. They are future-proofing unique digital assets to inform brand, corporate and business decisions today and in years to come. We're delighted to play a part in helping the Sainsbury Archive safeguard such an incredibly rich and important digital archive"
The Sainsbury Archive documents the history of Sainsbury's from its foundation in Drury Lane in 1869, but also provides a unique record of the transformation that has occurred in retailing since the mid-19th century, and the impact of these changes on society.
In 2003 the Sainsbury Archive was set up as an independent charitable trust and in 2005 relocated to the Museum of London Docklands in Canary Wharf. The object of The Sainsbury Archive is to advance education for the public benefit by collecting, maintaining and displaying items and documents relating to the history of Sainsbury's and the family of John James Sainsbury.
Preservica is changing the way organisations around the world protect and future-proof critical long-term digital information. Available on premise or in the cloud (SaaS), our award-winning active digital preservation software has been designed from the ground-up to tackle the unique challenges of ensuring digital information remains accessible and trustworthy over decades.
It's a proven solution that's trusted by a growing number of businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organisations around the world - including the Associated Press, Transport for London (TfL), Texas State Library and Archives, MoMA, Yale, the World Bank and HSBC - to name a few.
The Sainsbury Archive, which charts the growth and history of one of the UK's largest supermarkets, has chosen Preservica's AWS cloud-hosted digital preservation platform to actively preserve invaluable digital assets relating to the company's operations. These currently date from the opening of the very first store in Drury Lane, London in 1869, and the Archive also plans to use Preservica to safeguard exclusively born-digital records in the future.
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REVEL in a colourful fiesta, relish two dozen flavours of ice-cream, witness several superheroic attempts to fly, and explore the hidden gems of local craft and design. Clara Ng brings you Melbourne's weekend bests.
Square Market 2016 | Image: Square Australia.
Think you've seen Melbourne's finest?
Square is a company that supports local small businesses from emerging artists and illustrators to homeware designers and crafters. Their upcoming Square Market is reflective of the company's ongoing support of small businesses and offers visitors a chance to visit a a pop-up marketplace where they can find quaint, unique pieces, all in one great location.
Entry is free, but you'll probably walk away with some goodies.
Grab a coffee and bagel from 5 & Dime and pick up some cute stationery from Mi Goals. Perhaps an afternoon treat by Mork Chocolate while you're at it too. And then a terrarium (or two) from Plant by Packwood.
To learn more about the Square Market, visit the event's website. Find out more about Square at their website.
Sunday Night Moomba Fireworks | Image: Chris Phutully via Flickr.
Melbourne's largest iconic community festival promises to enliven your long weekend. Moomba features street art, side shows, dances and floats, ending in a brilliant fireworks display.
Take the Moomba Festival Photography Tour to spruce up your Instagram gallery. In just two hours, this camera, smartphone and tablet-friendly tour lets you capture the best and brightest of this vibrant city. From amateurs to advanced photographers, this is a great opportunity to learn, share and snap.
If you're feeling adventurous, join the exciting Birdman Rally in Birrarung Marr. Watch Hawks and Penguins compete for the Charity Jackpot – by hurling themselves into the Yarra river.
Don't miss this spectacular mix of crazy, serious and fun, with proceeds going to the Red Cross, RSPCA Victoria and Oxfam Australia.
Moomba Parade 2013 | Image: russavia via Flickr.
Viva Victoria! Each year, more than 45,000 people flock to Federation Square in celebration of Australia's unique brand of cultural diversity.
Join the colourful crowd for multicultural music and dance performances, savour a myriad of cultural cuisines and discover eclectic treasures at the craft market. An adventure that will (quite literally) take you away.
This event is presented by the Victorian Multicultural Commission, which aims to promote social, linguistic and religious harmony through enhancing cultural precincts and community relations.
Want to be involved? Get inspired with a look at the program.
How does one truly enjoy an ice-cream?
Helados Jauja is offering a taste of all their 24 flavours – on condition that they're savored properly, of course.
Each Saturday, every two-hour session promises a gustatory treat. Sample Jauja's handmade Pantagonian ice-cream, including flavours such as shortbread, peanut butter Nutella and blood plum – a taste of authentic Argentina.
And after you've tasted your fill, leave with complimentary pack of three flavours of your choice. This is one class you might actually look forward to.
Tickets are $55 – secure a place here.


Located on the shores of Lake Erie, on the Eastern edge of Geneva on the Lake Village, Geneva Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.
James Humphrey, of New York City on May 18th, 1893 left in his will the property now known as Geneva Township Park. In the will, it designated Robbina Battell and Robert C. Geer to be the executors of his estate with full power to dispose of the property as they saw fit. Robert Geer as executor sold the property on July 7, 1914 for $5000.00 to the Board of Park Commissioners of Geneva Township.
The Park has continued to operate under the Board of Park Commissioners since that time.


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>>> submit Trac issues, either.
>> That was not true for the longest time. Then we got spammed.
>> whether you want access, BTW.
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Find homes for sale in Livingston, Louisiana and search real estate and homes for rent. Browse condos, townhomes, & rentals. RE/MAX Louisiana real estate agents can help you find homes for sale, condos, commercial property, and more.
In 1955 the communities of Doyle and Livingston combined to create the town of Livingston. Livingston is the parish seat of Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Livingston hosts one of the two LIGO Gravitational wave detector sites. Livingston also plays host to the Parish Fair.
Great opportunity for family fun this weekend. The fair is open from 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. through next week. See link below for a full schedule and dates.


1. Mohamed Hanisulla Sha A Qualification : B.E. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) Email : mohamedhanish@gmail.com Phone : 9629985041 Objective: To apply effectively what I have learnt, for the growth of the industrial organization through innovations in technology and to enhance my professional expertise along with the company. Professional Summary: I am an associate with Aricent Group for the past 2+ years. My area of experience is Development, in the domain of Networking and Security. My current role is Software Engineer.  Work Experience – 2+ years as a software developer in Aricent.  Good programming skills and Comprehensive problem solving techniques.  Working knowledge in Networking domain, specializing in Layer 2 and Layer7.  Working Experience in Network Security development like SBR-C and SBR-E.  Preparation of Implementation proposals, High Level and Low Level Design documents, Coding, Unit Test Documents and Execution of Test Cases.  Good experience in Coding using C, C++ Languages. Technical Knowledge: CORE COMPETANCY: a. Experience as a developer in C, C++ and Data Structure. b. Networking Layer -2 & Layer-7 protocols – VLAN, Diameter (LTE Architecture) and Radius. c. Working experience in Multithread environment. d. Working experience in LDAP (OpenLDAP and WinLDAP) libraries. e. Working experience in SSL (Secure Socket Layer) (OpenSSL) libraries. f. 802.1x Authentication with Juniper SSG20-WLAN and Cisco Aironet WAP. g. EAP-TLS(Extensible Authentication Protocol- Transport Layer Security) h. Microsoft supplicant with EAP-PEAP(Extensible Authentication Protocol- Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) i. HTTP Protocol(for SSL/TLS implementation) j. Working experience in agile SDLC(In scrum model). k. Working Knowledge on DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer). l. TR-101 Standard: 1to1 Single Tag service, 1to1 Double Tag service m. Filters: - Flooding Prevention and Blacklist Filter. n. Has excellent analytical skill and trouble-shooting ability to resolve the critical issues. Quick Learner who can learn new technologies and can adapt to changes in process and teams quickly. TOOLS / OTHERS:Vim, GIT, Clear case, JIIRA, Wireshark, IXIA, GDB, Val grind, vc++, eclipse, tcpdump, ssldump, ldd.
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Heart rebuilt with stem cells learns to beat again
August 13, 2013 May 28, 2014 / cirmweb
Mouse heart muscle precursor cells created from embryonic stem cells at the Gladstone Institutes in the lab of Bruce Conklin.
The past few months we have written about two themes emerging in stem cell science: neighborhood matters when you want to get a stem cell to grow up into a functional adult; and the best cell to get the job done is often a "middleman," a cell that is part of the way down the path from stem cell to functional adult tissue called a precursor cell.
Now a team from the University of Pittsburgh has used cells they describe as multipotential cardiovascular progenitors (MCP) to rebuild a mouse heart. They called them "multipotential" because they could form all three types of cells found in the adult heart. They placed these middleman cells on the scaffold of a mouse heart that was left over after they used chemicals to remove all the living cells. That framework provided the neighborhood necessary to tell the MCPs to become the three different cells in the right places.
The researchers started with a human skin sample and reprogrammed those cells into the iPS type of stem cell. They then used various genetic factors to get them to mature to the point of being MCPs.
The team published the research in Nature Communication and a news website wrote this story from the University's press release. It quotes the senior researcher, Lei Yang, on both the importance of the middleman cell and the scaffold as a neighborhood:
"This process makes MCPs, which are precursor cells that can further differentiate into three kinds of cells the heart uses, including cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells. Nobody has tried using these MCPs for heart regeneration before. It turns out that the heart's extracellular matrix — the material that is the substrate of heart scaffold — can send signals to guide the MCPs into becoming the specialized cells that are needed for proper heart function."
After a few weeks in the lab the heart began to beat, but at a slower rate than either a human or mouse heart, just 40 to 50 beats a minute. Before this technology could be considered for human heart transplants the new heart would need to be made stronger and researchers would need to figure out how to also rebuild the heart's electrical system that tells the organ to speed up or slow down.
But the team's immediate goal is to use MCPs and smaller scaffolds to make patches of heart muscle to mend small areas damaged by a heart attack.
Other teams are using stem cells to deliver protein factors to damaged hearts that can signal our body's naturally occurring healing mechanisms to do a better job. CIRM funds several teams working a mending broken hearts, You can read about that work here.
Read more stem cell research news from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine by visiting our blog at cirmresearch.blogspot.com.
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Gene Breakthroughs Spark a Revolution in Cancer Treatment
The newfound variants have led major cancer centers to revamp their approach to treating cancer and have spurred a rush among drug companies to find medicines that narrowly target each one.
The drugs don't cure cancer and face significant hurdles. But doctors now talk of a "precision medicine" approach in which those pinpoint drugs can treat tumors far more effectively than catchall chemotherapy.
"What we're seeing is the beginning of a revolution in therapeutics," says Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "We can only hope that this gets us to where cancer is managed or curable."
Among signs that revolution really is afoot: A June 2013 study found that lung-cancer patients who were treated with drugs targeted at their genetically identified varieties lived 1.4 years longer than patients on chemotherapy whose cancers weren't genetically identified.
In effect, lung cancer is no longer a few common diagnoses. Instead, it is a growing list of rare cancers, each a target for its own drug regimen.
"It's likely that more than half of tumors have some alteration we can target with a drug," says John V. Heymach, a lung-cancer specialist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. "They may not all have the same success, but we know that in many cases, a targeted agent will work very well."
The same goes for other malignancies: Scientists have decoded tumor DNA from breast, colon, kidney, skin and other cancers in recent years to discover scores of variations they didn't know existed before.
In 2010, precision medicine was still so nascent that Ms. Carey had to show unusual persistence. Few doctors even considered testing tumors for mutations.
She says she had to demand the test. "Are you helping to save my life," she recalls asking her doctor at the time, "or just waiting for me to die?"

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Hot off the heels of an unexpected and rare discount on Google Play gift cards, JB Hifi is back with a promotion to help you replenish your iTunes credit after the Christmas/New Year holidays.
Since January 1, you've been able to get 15% off $30, $50 & $100 gift cards at JB Hifi stores. Not quite as strong as Coles, Target and Officeworks at the moment…but we'll take it.
The deal runs until January 14, and excludes $20 iTunes gift cards.
Thanks to Chris and John who let us know about this deal.


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American Workers Clash with Homeland Security Dept. over Hiring of Spouses of Foreign Workers
(photo illustration: Steve Straehley, AllGov)
A group of high-tech workers is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over its decision to grant visas to spouses of foreign workers, which has made it more difficult for Americans to find work, the plaintiffs claim.
The controversy centers around DHS' decision to offer H-4 visas to husbands and wives of foreign workers in the U.S. under the H-1B program.
A group of former Southern California Edison computer workers who were replaced by foreign workers on H-1B guest-worker visas banded together under the name Save Jobs USA. They filed suit in federal court contending the H-4 visa program violates
immigration laws and unfairly hurts them get new jobs. "The H-4 Rule is in excess of DHS authority and directly contradicts several provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act," the lawsuit says. The utility forced the workers about to be laid off to train their foreign replacements in order to qualify for severance benefits.
DHS has said the H-4 program could add upwards of 179,600 new foreign workers to the U.S. workforce during the first year of its implementation. After that, the program could add 55,000 more each year.
"This is a slap in the face to the tens of millions of Americans suffering from unemployment and underemployment, especially those who are most vulnerable such as students, seniors, single mothers and minorities," Dale Wilcox of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, which is representing Save Jobs USA, told Courthouse News Service. "The law states that foreign work permits cannot adversely affect American wages, but all we've seen during this administration is standards of living fall and outsized corporate profits continue to rise."
The Economic Policy Institute calculated in 2013 that more than 80% of H-1B visa holders are hired at wages below those paid to American workers in comparable positions.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
DHS Accused of Giving Tech Jobs to Guests (by Jamie Ross, Courthouse News Service)
Displaced Southern California Edison Workers Sue Obama Admin. Over Unilateral Visa Rule (by Caroline May, Breitbart)
Save Jobs USA v. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) (pdf)
Program to Import "Needed" Tech Workers Displaces 400 Laid-Off SoCal Edison Workers (by Ken Broder, AllGov California)


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For a detailed overview of Climate Neutral carbon footprinting process, check out our Process and Methodologies page.
Want to learn more about carbon footprints in general? Read below.
Your footprint = your contribution to global warming.
A carbon footprint is a measurement of the annual amount of greenhouse gases an entity emits. Carbon footprints are measured in tCO2e, which stands for "tons of carbon dioxide equivalents." tCO2x	e accounts for all greenhouse gases (not just carbon) and equates other gases to carbon based on their global warming potential (or GWP). For example, methane has 28x the GWP of CO2, so 1 ton of Methane equates to 28 tCO2e. In a nutshell, tCO2e is a single, comprehensive measurement of an entity's contribution to global warming. To reduce or offset global tCO2e is to slow (or reverse) the trend of global warming.
Approximation now beats perfection later.
Estimating your carbon emissions doesn't have to be an arduous or expensive process. Internationally-recognized tools and protocols exist that can help most companies conduct an accurate (within 20%) footprint analysis in just a few days. Provided they compensate for this margin of error, any company can quickly and cheaply create a carbon footprint estimate that is confidently at or above their exact level of tCO2e emissions.
We keep our footprinting methodologies transparent and public, and continually hone our process by performing random, comprehensive audits on 10% of our member companies every year. These results correct for anomalies and improve our methodologies for all companies.
You must measure scopes 1, 2, and 3.
When we talk about your carbon footprint, we're referring to your entire carbon footprint. Many brands offset the carbon emissions from their owned facilities and resources. That's good, but it's not enough.
Climate Neutral requires a comprehensive carbon footprinting approach that accounts for emissions created by all upstream and downstream activity that happens as a result of a company's activity. In the world of carbon footprinting, these are called Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. If you make physical products, your Scope 3 emissions span from raw material mining to delivery of goods to the end customer.
Existing methodologies and certifications welcomed.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor Speaks in Modesto: 'If I've Got to Wear a Fake Leg, I'm Going to Rock It'
Posted 6:26 PM, August 1, 2016, by Rina Nakano, Updated at 04:58PM, August 1, 2016
MODESTO -- A Boston Marathon bombing survivor was the keynote speaker at the Doctors Medical Center symposium for Sports Medicine at the Double Tree Hotel in Modesto.
On April 15, 2013, then 26-year-old Rebekah Gregory was sitting with her son at the Boston Marathon finish line when the actions by two terrorists nearly killed her.
"I remember everything from that day. There was blood everywhere, bones that were not even mine. They said it was like a war scene, and it truly was," Gregory said. "All of a sudden, everything is totally different."
Her legs took the brunt of the explosion. Her son suffered shrapnel to his head, and a cut to his bone, but was released from the hospital in five days.
But Gregory fought for a year and a half to save her leg. In the end, she could not.
At a moment when so many would be down, Gregory rose up. Before amputating her left leg, she saw a little humor, writing on it, "It's not you, it's me."
"It was a way for me to say 'Hey, this isn't going to destroy me. It's going to make me stronger,'" Gregory said.
This made her the perfect keynote speaker at the second Doctors Medical Center Symposium in Modesto on Monday.
"We really wanted to show how the power of medicine, with sports, and inspiration all come together. And Rebekah is a perfect example of that," said Dr. Jonathan Pettegrew of Stanislaus Orthopedic and Sports Medicine.
Gregory said it was an honor for her to be able to give back to the medical community, who helped her gain the ability to walk again.
"I went through a lot of therapy. I still go through therapy when my leg is bad. They want to help. That's my mission too. Everyone does their part in changing the world for the better. And so to give back to some of that, thanks for the people who have done so much for me, in that type of career field, that's just amazing," Gregory said.
Since the explosion, Gregory has become a full-time speaker to share her experience. She proudly wears her prosthetic, which she named "Felicia." She shows Felicia off. She goes shoe shopping with her, she even gets a pedicure from the same nail technician every month.
"If I've got to wear a fake leg, I'm going to rock it," Gregory said, laughing. "I have a daily reminder every time I put on a prosthetic leg, that life is short, and I'm going to appreciate the time I have left, and not only that, I'm going to try to encourage other people to do the same."
Gregory has since picked up running. She hopes to one day run the Boston marathon.
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To reduce this effort and largely rule out incorrect settings, IAV uses a completely different control concept that no longer requires any understanding of the air-conditioning system and involves less user input. Instead of pressing a lot of buttons, all the driver needs to do is use a finger to move a symbolic face on the infotainment system's touch screen to tell the air-conditioning system how he or she feels – for example, upwards if it is too hot, or to the right if it is too drafty. The further the user moves it from the mid-point, the unhappier the emoticon looks – the distance from the center is the measure of dissatisfaction with the current situation.
The user can even tell the intuitive system which region of the body (head, torso or legs) the input relates to. This turns today's control philosophy upside down: individuals no longer tell the air-conditioning what they want but simply describe the way they currently feel. The control system then has the task of enhancing comfort by adjusting temperature and airflow at the various air vents.
But that is not all the new climate control system can do. Besides taking account of individual preferences, it will also include information from other sources – such as an appointment diary in the cloud – to prepare for the weather at the point of destination. Even the individual's current mood is not left unnoticed: The system tracks his or her activity level (based on control interventions in the vehicle or through wearables), even recognizes whether a person is wearing thick or thin clothing, and allows for this in controlling occupant comfort. And all of this individually tailored for up to four climate zones per vehicle.
IAV showed a demonstrator with the new climate controller at the ETA Conference in Berlin in December 2016. Work is currently in progress on producing a show car with the new climate control system which will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in early 2018 at Las Vegas.
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Engagement in Creative Activities Important for Kids
Being a teacher comes with great responsibility. Barbara Levorson, a music teacher for over ten years, understands this perfectly.
She offers piano lessons to children and youth in Swift Current, SK. Some of her students have received funding from Creative Kids.
She says one of the things she enjoys most about her work is that she gets to have a long-term relationship with her students as their teacher. "I am a part of these children's lives over many years. I see them grow, go through many changes and life experiences, and develop into young adults," she says. "It is a long term relationship that leaves a lasting impression on both them and me."
She shares how Creative Kids has become the envy of many across the country. "My colleagues in other provinces also see students in need and they are envious of this program. Creative Kids has much greater potential, and need, and is deserving of greater support from both public and corporate sectors."
"My colleagues in other provinces also see students in need and they are envious of this program. Creative Kids has much greater potential, and need, and is deserving of greater support from both public and corporate sectors."
While the program is making an impact, Levorson says there is far greater need than the current Creative Kids funding can provide. "In previous years, I would have four or five students per year receive funding. Now, only one or two students are approved for assistance. There is a real need in our community for this type of funding assistance. People struggle with decisions about what they can or cannot provide for their children," she says, adding that Creative Kids is a unique program that has had an incredibly positive impact on individuals, families and community as a whole.
Levorson grew up in an artistic household. She became engaged in the arts at a young age through the influence of her mother, who was an artist. Levorson started piano lessons at the age of six, and returned to music learning and education as part of a lifelong journey. She says creative activities should not only be accessible to those who can afford it as this serves to further widen social and economic gaps. "Music is a study of many interdisciplinary pursuits: math, the science of sound; literature and language; history; and other arts -dance, ballet, and poetry," she explains. "I often tell parents that music is its own language – every dot and line and mark means something – it is a codex waiting to be deciphered! Furthermore, reading music, particularly piano music, is the equivalent of reading two books (one for each hand) and doing math sums, all at the same time. The level of neurologic processing is phenomenal."
Levorson adds that the arts is an emotional refuge for students when they are feeling isolated or experience loss. She says that all creative endeavours are about story-telling – whether it is a painting, a book, a dance or a song. To her, they are all stories, which engage with people's imaginations in positive and productive ways.
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This year has been a really monumental year for me – it's had it's ups and downs, both personally and globally, but I thought now is definitely the best time and review the year month by month, looking back on a year in the life of the girl behind Sophie Counts Clouds.
Now that sounded pretentious, I'll roll with it.
Photography took up a lot of my thinking space in January and I did produce two of my favourite photos I've ever taken in these shoots. I also got to see Panic! At The Disco for the first time and it was my first concert with my boyfriend, Lucas.
My first ever Valentine's Day in a relationship (I still love that elephant globe with all my heart), getting to spend a week in London with Channel 4 was incredible but I vividly remember the week full of really early starts in London then getting home Friday night, unpacking my suitcase and repacking for a weekend staying off in Birmingham for a dance competition. But I loved being so busy.
March was when I fell a bit behind – editing my 'February' vlog was taking a really long time and assignments overwhelmed me a little bit. But I also became part of a couple who bought 70 creme eggs and I felt really good about my body – so a pretty good month all in all!
My sister turned my boyfriend into Deadpool, my best friend infinite ever turned 19 and Lucas and I went on our first proper date for a day out in Bournemouth and I wanted lots of cute photos with the beach huts. I then learnt that Lucas doesn't like being my photographer.
A family visit with lots of pictures taken, fun trips to the pub with my friends and meeting the YouTubers I love at ComicCon – May was the start of what hoped to be a really incredible summer. I got my dream job at my favourite stationery store which I then got fired from in September. So we won't talk too much about that.
I decided to stay in Southampton over the summer because coming home would be difficult for personal reasons and I wanted to spend time with my boyfriend. Each had their pros and cons and the summer was quite emotional time for me, but June was when I had my favourite galaxy hair, I surprised my Nan by being home for her birthday and I went on a Centre Parcs holiday with some of my family.
I got to work at my first music festival! It wasn't a festival I'd ever attend but it was the most fun work experience I've had this year. I also moved into a proper studio apartment with my boyfriend (which, again, had it's pros and cons) and felt very independent and grown up… still not decided if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
I got to go to my second YouTube convention and it was so inspiring – August was when things started looking up personally and when I started feeling really uncomfortable and stressed at work. The release of Pokemon Go meant I also spent a lot of the summer outside and walking around which did help my mental health a little bit too!
Lucas, Nick and I moved into our flat for the next academic year and I officially became old (i.e. not a teenager). September involved a lot of seeing my friends for the first time in months and feeling the stress and anxiety of summer slip away as I became happier and happier.
I really started to enjoy uni at this point because I was really organised and I went to an independent cafe at 9am and did lots of work and became the most annoying hipster in the world. Unfortunately my granddad passed away in October, but it made me think about how wonderful his life was before he got ill and I was supported by my amazing friends – those I refer to as 'my boys' are featured on the left.
A lot happened in November, from left to right; my family visited, I presented a TV bulletin, I got to see 'The Wind in The Willows' as press and write a review, I got to act a little bit in a friends assignment filming, I met Hazel Hayes and Jack Howard at my second Panic! At The Disco concert of the year and I did a package on the Busted signing in HMV Southampton and both Busted and HMV liked it on twitter. Assignment had ins were high (I think it was four in this month?) but I did get a couple of really great marks back, so a mixed bag.
With my last deadlines approaching and my organised approach to university falling to pieces, I somehow made it through the last deadlines of my first semester and from there on out it was socialising and Christmas festivities. I had the most amazing party with my Southampton friends, I got to see my friends from Ecuador for the first time in over a year (twice in one week!), everything was full of Christmas cheer at my favourite time of year, I've found a hair colour that I really love and I got to have a good old catch up with my oldest and dearest friend Katy.
In hindsight, 2016 has been incredible. The year ended on an incredible high and whilst it had it's dips and my mental health has been more of a challenge this year than ever before, I'm really ready for 2017.
Please tell me all about your 2016 in the comments! Bring on the new year!
Christmas is probably me favourite time of year – I love all the decorations and the festivities, I love giving presents and receiving presents, I love all the brilliant TV and I really love that eating unhealthy food is actively encouraged at this time of year.
For my family, it started off with just the four of us opening the presents from each other – I finally got to tell my sister that I'm taking her to see Busted next year and I got to talk about films all day but I also got lots of really practical presents such as a hard drive, a new set of kitchen knives and salt and pepper shakers that look like the TARDIS from Doctor Who. Very happy with all of my wonderful presents this year (and got lots more to come when I go to my boyfriends house next week, I'm so excited to see all his family!).
Then all the family started arriving, we exchanged more gifts before lunch and then spent the afternoon playing quiz games and Heads Up, predominantly. It was a really fun and day and no family arguments, surprisingly!
We had twelve people over for Christmas and it was so nice to have so many family around, I'm not used to such a big Christmas but it was so lovely to have it being busy and loud and my cousin brought her little chihuahua too and it was very fun having a dog running around all day. One day, I'll have my own dog. One day.
I'm so grateful that I don't have any uni assignments over this holiday because I can properly relax and I'm really enjoying not having to think about any more work I have to do or any work I have to prep for. I can really mentally prepare myself for finishing second year!
I've got some really good vibes about 2017 – I'm going to try and take real control of my mental health and be as productive as ever, I want to be making things! But the New Years Resolution post is for next week.
I think I've talked about this before, but there have been a lot of New Years where I've thought about how much I didn't want the year to end and I didn't want the next year to start but I'm excited for 2017 and I think that's a good start.
I'm at home with my family for Christmas (well that answers that question doesn't it!) but as someone who really loves travelling, the thought of Christmas in another country sounds really interesting! Here are a few places I've thought about spending Christmas and would like to in the future!
Somewhere sunny – as I'm from England, 'nice' weather over Christmas just isn't something that happens but I think it would feel completely different. Part of me feels like I might not feel Christmassy but then I wonder how they decorate for Christmas in sunny areas like do they still have the image of snow and Santa in his big suit or is it different because they have sunny Christmas's? The silly things I wonder about! I'd love to go to Australia or perhaps somewhere in Africa, culturally I think it would be really interesting.
Somewhere that doesn't celebrate Christmas – I imagine if I wanted to go somewhere on my own and be a bit reclusive it would be interesting to completely separate yourself from Christmas. I know I've already used the word 'interesting' far too many times but these are the kind of things I find intriguing, this is what I think about! I'd need to do some research as to where I'd go if I was going to do this but, dare I say it, it would be interesting!
Somewhere really snowy – just like the sunny thing, England doesn't get proper snowy, England doesn't get 'proper' anything except rain but it would be so cool to spend Christmas in the snow. I feel the cold a lot anyways so I'd probably freeze but with seven layers and the biggest boots you've ever seen, I'd love to have a proper White Christmas. Maybe I could learn to ski too! I've never been skiing, don't think I'd be very good at it, but it would be fun. Somewhere like Canada, Switzerland, maybe somewhere in Scandinavia – there are so many snowy places, especially at this time of year!
I fully intend to go everywhere, I really want to travel a lot and all these places will go on my list!


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Mideast Stocks Drop Despite $47 Billion of Central Bank Aid
Most equity markets in the Middle East fell on Sunday, despite efforts by central banks across the region to protect economies from shocks related to the coronavirus and plunging oil prices.
Dubai's main index fell 3.4% by the close and Abu Dhabi's dropped 1.9%, even after the United Arab Emirates announced 100 billion dirhams ($27.2 billion) of monetary stimulus over the weekend. Egyptian stocks had their worst day since 2012, weakening more than 9%. The gauge in Saudi Arabia also traded lower.
The U.A.E.'s Targeted Economic Support Scheme includes 50 billion dirhams of zero-interest, collateralized loans for banks. In addition, lenders will be allowed to reduce their capital buffers, which will inject 50 billion dirhams of liquidity.
"I remain focused on the demand side," Ali Taqi, the head of equities at Rasmala Investment Bank in Dubai, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. "How are you going to stimulate demand? Restaurants, cafes are a lot emptier now. Having a relief is good, but business is much more concerned with the decline in footfall. It will take some time for people to feel comfortable again."
The U.A.E.'s measures follow those of other Middle Eastern nations. Saudi Arabia's central bank unveiled a 50-billion riyal ($13.3 billion) package to support private businesses and Egypt said it will allocate 100 billion pounds ($6.4 billion) to combat the virus. In Israel, the central bank will buy government bonds to moderate volatility.
While the moves should provide relief to small and mid-size enterprises, "what makes the current situation a bit more challenging is the simultaneous hit to both supply and demand," said Taqi.
An overview of Middle East markets as of 4:30 p.m. in Dubai:
Egypt's EGX 30 lost 9.3%, the most in the region, with Commercial International Bank Egypt, Eastern Co. and Egypt Kuwait Holding losing more than 7.9%.
Index falls to the lowest level since Nov. 2016.
Abu Dhabi's exchange announced it is closing trading halls in main offices, but will continue to provide trading via its digital platform.
Short selling is banned for the time being, U.A.E. Securities and Commodities Authority said on Sunday
Saudi Aramco retreats 1% after announcing a spending cut for this year.
Governments across the region are stepping up efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Saudi Arabia suspended all international flights for two weeks, while the U.A.E. temporally stopped issuing visas. Egypt shut schools for two weeks and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the closure of non-essential businesses and advised workers to stay away from offices. The country is planning additional aid for its economy, Finance Ministry Accountant General Rony Hizkiyahu said in a radio interview on Sunday.
"These stimulus packages are likely to ease some pressure on businesses," said Edmond Christou, a financial-industry analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. "However, that largely depends on the depth and persistence of the coronavirus spread, as well as banks' appetite to deploy this liquidity into credit growth."
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'Not once during the trial did I detect a flicker of emotion from you': Alesha MacPhil's killer's sentencing in full
Aaron Campbell: Alesha MacPhil's killer's sentencing in full
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THE "calculating and remorseless" teenager who raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has been locked up for at least 27 years as he admitted the crime.
Aaron Campbell snatched Alesha from her bed as she slept at her grandparents' home on the Isle of Bute last summer.
He was convicted at the High Court in Glasgow last month where a jury found him guilty unanimously following a nine-day trial.
Campbell finally admitted the crime in a psychological report prepared ahead of his sentencing on Thursday.
READ MORE: Aaron Campbell said it 'took everything' to stop him from laughing during trial
Lord Matthews sentenced Campbell to life imprisonment and ordered him to spend at least 27 years behind bars before he can apply for parole, but warned he may never be released.
The sentencing was live-streamed online in a UK first.
LORD MATTHEWS' SENTENCING IN FULL
"YOU were found guilty of the abduction, rape and murder of Alesha MacPhail, a six year old child.
"Merely stating that fact is horrific enough but the circumstances surrounding these vile crimes and the manner of their commission have quite rightly aroused revulsion and disbelief that these sorts of things could happen.
"Alesha had just arrived on Bute to spend a holiday with her father and grandparents and had gone to bed apparently safe in her own room.
"No doubt she was looking forward to what the next few weeks had in store.
"Her father and his parents would have enjoyed every minute of it while her mother and her family would have been counting down the days till they saw her smiling face again.
"Meanwhile you attended a party at your own home, consumed alcohol and then, on your account, to which I will return, went off in search of cannabis.
READ MORE: Aaron Campbell sentenced to 27 years in live-stream
"You went into the house and then her bedroom.
"You removed her from there and took her to a secluded spot where you violated and murdered her in the most brutal fashion.
"The details of that were revealed in the evidence and I do not intend to go over them again.
"It is difficult to imagine the distress which her family must have suffered, not only when she went missing but when the awful news came in that she had been found dead.
"That distress can only have been intensified, if that was possible, by their finding out the extent of what you did to her, not only in the weeks and months immediately afterwards but in the course of the trial.
"I have read statements by her parents and grandparents in which they have tried to express their loss and the emptiness which greets them every day.
"Just as I know that no sentence which I can pass will alleviate their anguish, so I know that mere words are poor reflections of it.
"The effect on the island community was profound. Many of them rallied round to help in the search and the effect on those who saw Alesha in the woods will be long lasting.
"I have never before seen a police officer almost break down in the witness box, so affected was he by the sight.
"The contrast between them and you could not be more vivid.
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"Your attitude was clearly demonstrated by the evidence that you posted an image of yourself in a mirror while making a joke that you had found where the murderer was hiding.
"The arrogance and callousness of that is breathtaking.
"Thanks to the dedication of the police and forensic scientists, ably assisted by members of the public, such as those who came forward when they found articles of your clothing on the shore, you were eventually brought to justice.
"Despite the overwhelming evidence against you, you did not plead guilty but elected to go to trial.
"That was your right and I do not increase your sentence because of it. However it is symptomatic of your staggering lack of remorse.
"Not once during the trial did I detect a flicker of emotion from you and that was also the experience of the professionals who interviewed you for the purposes of the reports, to which I will turn shortly.
"Your defence was one of incrimination of a young woman Toni-Louise McLachlan and you gave evidence in support of it.
"It was a cruel travesty of the truth which was understandably reported widely in the media and left her open to suspicion at the very least and quite possibly hatred, all of which was due to your perverted machinations.
"I am very grateful to Mr McConnachie who today made it clear that she was completely innocent.
"Mr McConnachie has said all that could be said on your behalf, entirely in keeping with the exemplary way the trial was conducted on both sides of the bar.
"All matters of fact which could reasonably be agreed were agreed and the issues were well focused and laid before the jury.
"As I said to the jury after they returned their verdict, Counsel do not make up defences but present the case on the basis of their instructions.
"It is obvious what your instructions were and your evidence was entirely in keeping with them, albeit it was a tissue of lies.
READ MORE: Aaron Campbell sentenced to 27 years for rape and murder of six-year-old
"It does not go too far therefore when I say that I was shocked when I saw the contents of the Criminal Justice Social Work report and the report from Dr Macpherson, the consultant forensic clinical psychologist.
"Each of these reports contains clear admissions by you of your guilt.
"Not only that, and this is a terrible thing to say of one so young, but they paint a clear picture of a cold, callous, calculating, remorseless and dangerous individual.
"I do not intend to go into every detail of the reports or of your admissions since much of it would, I think, be distressing and much of it merely confirms some of the evidence which was led.
"However, I think it right that the public, and more particularly her family, be given some flavour of the contents.
"Dr Macpherson noted that you presented your account in a matter-of-fact manner notable for the absence of any emotions.
"He recorded that you told him that in the 12 months prior to the murder you entertained thoughts of "doing something excessive", including rape.
"Your account in brief was that you had been drinking but wanted cannabis and decided to break into the house to get some.
"You took a kitchen knife because you wanted to protect yourself but having gained entry you left the house and disposed of it.
"You returned to the house and entered Alesha's bedroom.
Amongst other things Dr Macpherson records that you told him that you had consumed one and a half bottles of wine between 8pm and 8.30 pm but that you did not feel intoxicated, although you told the social worker that you still felt the effects of it.
"You were not under the influence of any illicit substances.
READ MORE: Alesha MacPhail's mum Georgina Lochrane leaves court after emotional outburst
"He records that when you saw Alesha your reaction, according to you, was as follows: '... A moment of opportunity... At any other time in life, murder wouldn't have been the conclusion.
'If I was a year younger I don't think I would have done it. ... All I thought about was killing her once I saw her.'
"You told both Dr Macpherson and the social worker in some detail what you did.
"You said that Alesha was drowsy and became a bit more awake when you went outside.
"At one point she asked who you were and where you were going.
"You said you were a friend of her father's and that you were taking her home.
"You gave her your top because she was cold.
"I will not go into the horrific and cold blooded details of what you said you did to her but you explained that after you murdered Alesha you threw your bloodstained clothing into the sea, had a shower and then went back where you left her to retrieve your phone.
"Dr Macpherson reports that you told him that over the next few days you were totally unconcerned other than to be mildly amused that the Police had not arrested you.
"Two other aspects of his report are worth mentioning.
"The first is that you told him that at points during the trial it took everything to stop you laughing and you had to zip your mouth
"The second is that you volunteered that you were quite satisfied with the murder.
"According to all of the reports, you are not suffering from any mental health disorder and indeed you are not suffering from any syndrome or disorder of any kind.
"On the other hand, you are completely lacking in victim empathy, the social worker noting your cold, calculating manner.
"The only sentence I can impose on you is detention without limit of time. In addition you will be subject to the notification provisions of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for an indefinite period.
EXCLUSIVE: Anger over Alesha McPhail killer's huge legal bill
"However, I also have to specify a period which must pass before you can apply for release on parole. Whether you will ever be released will be for others to determine but as matters stand a lot of work will have to be done to change you before that could be considered. It may even be impossible.
"The period I select is known as the punishment part of the sentence and its purpose is to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence. The Parole Board will deal in due course with the protection of the public.
"I have taken account of the circumstances of the offences, the contents of the reports and everything said on your behalf.
"I am conscious that you are a child. In sentencing children it has to be borne in mind that they are not yet fully rounded, mature human beings.
"A child's best interests are a primary consideration and the desirability of the child's reintegration into society must also be taken into account.
"However, the weight to be given to the various sentencing considerations will depend on a number of factors including the age of the child and all the circumstances of the case.
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"Nonetheless, the punishment part will not be as long as it would have been had you been an adult.
"Your sentence will run from July 6 2018. You will be detained without limit of time and I fix the punishment part at 27 years."
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Luf (auch Loof, Lóu, Louf, Lub, Luf-Atoll, Lufi, Luf-luf, Lup) ist eine Insel im Gebiet der westlichen Inseln des Bismarck-Archipels. Sie ist die größte und heute die einzig bewohnte der Eremiteninseln (auch Luf-Gruppe, engl. Hermit Group). Im Jahr 2010 hatte Luf 200 Einwohner. Administrativ gehört sie zur Provinz Manus in Papua-Neuguinea.

Bekannt ist das 15 Meter lange Luf-Boot, das 1903 nach Deutschland gebracht und im Mai 2018 als größtes Exponat des Ethnologischen Museums in Berlin in das neue Humboldt Forum überführt wurde.

Geographie
Die Insel liegt etwa 900 Kilometer nordwestlich von Papua-Neuguineas Hauptstadt Port Moresby und etwa 300 Kilometer nordwestlich von der Provinzhauptstadt Lorengau auf Manus entfernt.

Die Insel ist vulkanischen Ursprungs und liegt in der Lagune. Ihr zentraler Berg ist mit 244 Metern Höhe die höchste Erhebung der Westlichen Inseln. Im Westen liegt der 219 Meter hohe Matatinau. Der Ort Luf liegt an der schmalsten Stelle der Insel im Norden des Naturhafens der Carola Bay. Die Hyäne Passage (englisch Manta Ray Pass) trennt Luf von der Doppelinsel Akib-Maron im Westen. An der Nordspitze von Luf liegt die kleine Insel Tset, im Süden vorgelagert die winzigen Inseln North und South Gochonsipi. Umschlossen wird die Lagune durch ein Atoll, das von zehn Inseln und Korallenriffen gebildet wird.

Geschichte
Luf war von Melanesiern bewohnt und stand sprachlich und kulturell den über 200 Kilometer östlich gelegenen Admiralitätsinseln nahe. Als Verkehrsmittel und Handelsfahrzeuge dienten früher Auslegerboote, die bis zu 40 Personen tragen konnten.

Luf und die anderen Eremiteninseln gehörten von 1899 bis 1914 (formal bis 1919) zur deutschen Kolonie Deutsch-Neuguinea. Schon Ende Dezember 1882 zerstörten deutsche Marineinfanteristen der Schiffe Carola und Hyäne unter dem Kommando von Guido Karcher die «Dörfer, Pflanzungen und Kanoes» von Luf im Rahmen einer Strafaktion, bei der zahlreiche Einheimische getötet wurden. Diese hatten zuvor mehrere Male die Handelsniederlassung und Schiffe von Hernsheim & Co überfallen. Die nach 1902 errichtete Wahlenburg, eine mehrstöckige Villa im Kolonialstil, und die Poststation der Firma Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen GmbH befanden sich auf der Nachbarinsel Maron. Die Villa ist in den 1960er Jahren abgebrannt.

Bildergalerie

Literatur
 Götz Aly: Das Prachtboot. Wie Deutsche die Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2021, ISBN 978-3-10-397036-4.

Weblinks
 Hermit Group auf der Wuvulu-Website (englisch)
 Beschreibung der Hermitinseln im Deutschen Kolonial-Lexikon

Einzelnachweise

Insel (Australien und Ozeanien)
Insel (Papua-Neuguinea)
Insel (Pazifischer Ozean)
Insel (Bismarck-Archipel)
Manus Province


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Here is the link for the Nexus 4 Android 4.2.2 (JDQ39) update. Instructions to manually update without root, here. If you have a custom recovery, you should just be able to flash the .zip file, assuming you are 100% stock.
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Poll: What should we call next year's Clean Getaway Club Subscribers?
We're planning next year's Clean Getaway Subscription Box (yeah, already) and I need help naming the theme for the year. We've been doing outlaws for two years and frankly, I feel like we're getting to the end of romantic outlaws who weren't actually assholes (my criteria).
Next year's is going to be ACHIEVEMENT ORIENTED. That's right, every month, you'll get a new outlaw-related task complete with a proficiency badge (just like in the scouts!), except for unlike those industrious scouts, the proficiency badges will be for things like gambling and outrunning the sheriff.
My question to you is this: What is this gang called? We can't be scouts because we're not very scouty. What do we call ourselves?
Pick a name below and you'll be entered to win the next Clean Getaway Club Subscription Box (you can enter once per day)!
We're very excited to be making a custom set of 1870s playing cards. Hickok was an avid poker player, so I hope to see y'all playing some excellent hands of poker with these.


If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia and Yering, Victoria, Australia and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Yering, Victoria, Australia will be 1 hour.
Driving distance between Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia and Yering, Victoria, Australia is calculated by google maps and it is 99 mi.
You need 2 hour to reach Yering, Victoria, Australia from Melbourne CBD, Victoria, Australia , if you are travelling by car.
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We went and saw Spiderman 2 this evening. I thought it was pretty darn good. I think it was better than the first one, but that was pretty good too.
Out of all the "marvel movies", these is certainly a lot better than the others (Punisher, DareDevil, Hulk).


For the journal named Willdenowia, see ISSN 0511-9618.
Willdenovia Thunb., Fl. Cap.: 312 (1811), orth. var.
Thunberg, C.P. 1790. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 11: 26.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2015. Willdenowia in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2015 Aug 14.
International Plant Names Index. 2015. Willdenowia. Published online. Accessed Aug 14 2015.
Linder H.P. 1984. A phylogenetic classification of the genera of the African Restionaceae. Bothalia 15(1 & 2): 11–76.
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1. Slice the cucumbers into thin rounds and lightly salt them. Julienne the ginger.
2. Soak the wakame in water to remove the excess salt. Bring a pot of water to a boil and parboil the wakame.
3. Make the sushi vinegar by combining the vinegar, sugar, and soy sauce.
4. Once the cucumber slices have softened, gently squeeze the water out of them.
5. Combine the cucumber slices and wakame in a salad bowl and drizzle on the sushi vinegar. Garnish with sesame seeds and julienned ginger.
Note: Delicious variations of this salad can be created by adding ingredients such as octopus slices, the baby sardines known as "shirasu," and edamame.


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Persona 3 Official Design Works (UDON 2012 in Review)
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Persona 3: Official Design Works
Fans couldn't wait to dive back into The Dark Hour with Persona 3: Official Design Works! Ever since the late-2011 release of Shigenori Soejima Artworks, the collection of pinups and illustrations by Persona 3 & 4 designer Shigenori Soejima, fans of the series had been practically begging us to bring over this book… and who are we to say no? Of course, we had some amazing good-fortune as several of the characters in Persona 3 were brought back in this year's smash hit fighting game P4 Arena, so new generations of fans have been discovering this amazing book!
Persona 3: Official Design Works, is a stunning compendium of the art and design work that went into creating the fan-favourite PlayStation 2, PSP, and PSN video game. But Persona 3: Official Design Works is more than just a collection of amazing art—although there's certainly enough of it in there! Featuring rough sketches, final production artwork, early game designs, CG works, storyboards, character designs, backgrounds, and even more, this is a fantastic behind-the-scenes look at Persona 3 for art and game fans alike… but it doesn't stop there!
Soejima-sensei has added additional commentary to more than half of the book, digging into his creative process, his feelings on his work, and even his feelings on the characters themselves! All of Soejima-sensei's comments have been faithfully translated by UDON's production team—including a huge 8,000-word interview—leading to a book that you'll read again, and again, and again!
Speaking of UDON's production team, we went all out to ensure that this is one of our nicest-looking art books ever! In addition to our 'regular' large book size and top-quality printing, Persona 3: Official Design Works also features additional silver ink accenting on every page! We also chose a special pearlescent paper and foil stamping for the cover, and utilized a special printing process to make the whole image pop! Artwork this good needs a package to match, and no fan of Persona or Soejima-sensei will want to be without this amazing book on their bookshelf!
ISBN: 1-926778-43-X
Size: 8.25″ x 11.75″
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Persona 3: Official Complete Works Dives Back In To The Dark Hour!
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A fantastic collection of Shigenori Soejima artwork awaits you in
In stores June 20th from UDON and Diamond Distribution!
The wait is over! Ever since UDON's December release of the fan-favourite Shigenori Soejima Artworks, fans have been clamouring for more art, more character designs, and more commentary by legendary character designer Shigenori Soejima! Well wait no longer, as UDON is proud to bring you Persona 3: Official Design Works, a 144-page art and design compendium from the smash hit video game, available on the PlayStation 2, PSP, and digitally on the PlayStation Network!Persona 3: Official Design Works is more than just a collection of amazing art and designs—although there's certainly enough of it in there! Featuring rough sketches, final production artwork, early game designs, CG works, storyboards, character designs, backgrounds, and even more, this is a fantastic behind-the-scenes look at Persona 3 for art and game fans alike… but it doesn't stop there!
Speaking of UDON's production team, we've gone all out to ensure that this is one of our nicest-looking art books ever! In addition to our 'regular' large book size and top-quality printing, Persona 3: Official Design Works also features additional silver ink accenting on every page! We've also chosen a special pearlescent paper and foil stamping for the cover, and utilized a special printing process to make the whole image pop! Artwork this good needs a package to match, and no fan of Persona or Soejima-sensei will want to be without this amazing book on their bookshelf!
– Hundreds of sketches, roughs, storyboards, and more, not included in Shigenori Soejima Artworks!
– An amazingly stylish collection, with reflective silver ink printed on every page!
– The secrets of Persona 3 revealed in a huge interview with Producer & Director Katsura Hashino, and Character Designer & Art Director Shigenori Soejima!
Diamond: June 20th
Bookstores: June 26th
To arrange review copies of or preview images from Persona 3: Official Design Works, contact chrisbutcher@udonentertainment.com.
Persona 3 © Index Corporation 1996, 2006.
Persona 3: Official Design Works (2014 Edition)
Featuring the character designs of Shigenori Soejima! Go behind the scenes of PERSONA 3, one of the most unique and respected RPG's ever. Inside you'll find character designs, rough sketches, storyboards, backgrounds & settings, an exclusive interview with the game's creators, and more!
NOTE: the 2014 edition corrects a few minor layout errors from the original UDON printing for an improved fan experience!
Size: 8.25″ wide X 11.75″ long
Where to buy:
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A QUORN funeral director has received an award for sending more than £25,000 to The British Heart Foundation on behalf of local bereaved families.
A QUORN funeral director hasreceived an award for sending more than £25,000 to The British Heart Foundation on behalf of local bereaved families.
G Gamble and Sons (Quorn) Ltd, in Meeting Street, has donated the money over several years from families who prefer to send donations to a chosen charity, rather than purchase floral tributes.


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