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CARE FOR AIR
The Founding Team
GUIDANCE FOR PROTECTION AGAINST AIR POLLUTION >
Protect Yourself While Travelling in India
PROTECT AGAINST AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURE
WHAT IS PM2.5?
So What About Delhi's Air?
What The Studies Tell Us
Become a Clean Air Advocate
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Volunteer Stories: Creating a Cohort of Pollution Warriors
A free device that cleans the air?
Say "anti-pollution tower' and watch the faces of pollution-weary sufferers light up.
Say "anti-pollution tower" and watch the reaction of skeptics; better still, hear them bring up China's experience.
Say "anti-pollution tower" and hear air pollution scientists tell you it isn't the solution--indeed, nowhere close to the solution--and that filtering outdoor air is inefficient.
Now put all this aside for a moment, and with an open mind, just examine a small, Pune-based startup's filter-less, self-cleaning and maintenance-free anti-pollution tower, 30,000 compact units of which they are ready to install for free all over Delhi in dead spaces like road dividers, pavements and footpaths. Their revenue model? Advertising.
A Care for Air colleague met this company at TieCon, Delhi in November 2017, the annual networking conference of The IndUS Entrepreneurs and vacillated between disbelief and excitement--until several emails and meetings with the inventor and his partner convinced her that this was for real. But it was still a pie in the sky until that magical moment when one of the co-founders and CEO Irfan Pathan called her one smoky January morning with the news that they had finally got the go-ahead to install five such towers in Delhi as a pilot. It still wasn't untill mid-February that the company managed to get all the requisite permissions in place to install the first such tower-in-a-box just a few feet tall--sucking in air pollutants at a jammed intersection. It will run for 24 hours to test its viability, and Pi Green Tech, the startup, has contracted an independent testing company of international repute to measure its air cleaning capability.
"It can remove up to 95% of pollutants--PM10, 2.5 and 1--from the air it sucks in," says Pathan confidently. The best part about these machines isn't that they are filter-less, or that they are zero-maintenance, or that they remove nano particles that even indoor air purifiers can't remove, or even that they can communicate via SMS alerts with human supervisors. The best part is that once the project scales up, all the particles captured by the machines can be responsibly disposed off via a tie-up with a hazardous waste company, which makes this sustainable." It collects particulate matter to the last bit and converts it into something useful. For example, the entire carbon can be fixed--and used to make shoe-polish or black ink," says Zuber Shaikh, the inventor of this technology, disclosing that they have a potential Maharashtra-based hazardous waste disposal collaborator waiting in the wings, if they get the go-ahead.
Zuber Shaikh and Rizwan Shaikh have also created the company's other product: the Carbon Cutter Machine--an attachment which sucks the PM from vehicle exhaust and has already made some waves at startup product competitions. "We have been slogging for two years to see this through", says Pathan.
How is their anti-pollution tower different from the one in China? "This one has no filters and requires almost zero maintenance. It can be placed anywhere: footpaths, dividers, parks. When we filed our application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, we discovered that none among 152 countries had used our technology," revealed Pathan. It takes up to 7 years to be granted a patent in India, which is why they want to keep the technology a secret. However, what they will tell us at this point is that the secret technology enables a snowball effect of sorts, causing bigger pollution particles to latch on to the smaller, more harmful ones. Polluted air enters the inlet, and the pollutants trickle down into a storage box which, when filled, sends authorities an automated message via SMS. An outlet releases clean air into the vicinity. The entire process 'cleans up' the air at 2000 cubic feet per minute, using up just 3 units of electricity a day.
Trials across Pune have indicated that the Tower is 95% effective in reducing air pollution. Pathan says he would be ready to install 30,000 of these for free all over Delhi if the government gave them the green signal. The towers would double as billboards to generate revenue, a trend that could potentially 'de-commercialise' outdoor advertising. "But it isn't the branding space we are looking to disrupt," says Pathan. "It's the pollution."
"Everyone asks us by how much our towers can bring down Delhi's pollution and I always say, that's like asking how many Aquaguards you need to clean up the ocean," says Pathan.
But before getting into that, how about if these are placed inside hospitals, or areas of high footfalls like metro stations, inside rail carriages, inside public buses, inside school classrooms or even corridors? Or areas of high aerobic activity like gymnasiums, playing fields, public parks? Both Pathan and Shaikh nod. "Place it wherever. It will suck out all pollutants."
As clean air advocates, we still believe it is critical to implement a long-term strategy to stop harmful emissions at source. But as residents of one of the most polluted cities in the world, we are desperately looking for some relief in the interim, wherever we can get it. Even to fight for clean air, one has to first survive pollution. So thank you, Mr Imran Husain and the Delhi government, for keeping an open mind and giving new technologies like this a chance to succeed!
Cleaning up after polluting is by no means the ideal solution, but since it looks like none of the polluters are going to stop emitting or combusting in the immediate future--especially in a country which is following the path of growth over development--this new technology and the confidence of the young inventors deserves every chance that it can get. At least one thing is for sure: relatively speaking, this will be a much better solution than large investments of public money in
buying expensive outdoor vacuum cleaners or using scarce water resources to hose down trees and outdoor dust.
And if nothing else, at least schools, hospitals, malls and large indoor public spaces can use this product, without creating the added burden of disposing filters into our already overflowing landfills...
(Meanwhile, companies with CSR funding: if you don't have clean air in your multi-storied office spaces, please use those funds to get this; buy it for your indoor public spaces, your cafes, libraries and reception areas at least! At Rs 3 lakh - 5 lakh apiece, you will be getting hidden gains with higher productivity and lower illnesses, not to mention the good karma of wellness for your employees!)
Disclaimer: These are the personal views of the authors and not of Care for Air. Directly cleaning outdoor air is a sub-optimal strategy, simply based on mass-balance considerations. A more efficient way of protecting the public is to address high-emitting sources of pollution and it is far more effective to clean indoor air in areas of high footfalls.
Aakriti Bajaj
Aakriti briefly volunteered as Manager, Community Outreach at Care for Air. It was a dark, smoggy morning in New Delhi when she wrote to us, wanting to help. She soon became responsible for handling content and communication at CFA. We wish her luck in her future pollution-related ventures.
Jyoti Pande Lavakare
Jyoti Pande Lavakare is an independent columnist, financial journalist and writer who has lived and worked in Britain, the United States and India, writing for international and Indian publications. In a past life, she produced youth programs for radio and television and her children's fiction appeared in Hachette anthologies. She has a Masters in Economics and currently lives in New Delhi with her husband, teens and a wilting kitchen garden.
Lets do some math here - 2000cuft/min (I don't buy this but ok especially with 40W motor - air flow of 940L/s for 3kwh/24hr) This translates to 81553 m^3 (cubic meters)×0.9×200 µg/m^3 (micrograms per cubic meter)×365 = 5kg per year.
Now at 3Lacs + 6000Rs of electricity cost.
So 3.06L/5kg = .6kg per lac of rupees is definitely suboptimal. And this doesnt even account for clearing trays, manufacturing with plastic and then the recycling of it.
Now add 30k of these.
Please do share the patent filings.
Also patents once filed are protected, also patent filings are published immediately for other companies/inventors to object to. So not sharing the tech and keeping secret is a lie.
https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2017195217A1/en
Uses a high voltage corona discharge and then says doesn't need a large power source and can be installed easily. Also carbon brushes wear out so this does need maintenance.
Very similar tech VW with its multi billion budget was not able to figure out.. and they finally gave up and used a cheat device. Paying a $20B fine.
RED FLAGS !
Claims -
"7. A device as claimed in claim 6 wherein the communication device comprises at least one of a mobile phone, a personal computer, a smart phone, a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a GPS device, a smartbook, a netbook, a notebook, an ultra-mobile personal computer and a wearable computing device.
8. A device as claimed in claim 5 wherein the power source for rotating the wiper blades is achieved by a renewable energy source such as solar or wind energy. "
Point 8 says use of renewable energy[solar/wind] in the car exhaust? How do you get enough power for this? No mention for the power source or energy requirement of the corona.
Ofcourse this has nothing to do with the tower but makes me wonder what the tower actually does.
Ok it has something to do with the tower, they say the tower works on the Carbon cutter tech, so thats the patent.
So using just 40W they powered an ionizing corona, 2 motors for blades and a 950L/second air intake.
Until there are some disclosures from www.sgs.com on their testing and operating parameters, this seems suspect and someone from the Delhi govt is getting paid.
Also the patent says Rs 10k max to fabricate, 5k mass manufacture but with just an additional tower their costs are 3-5L. Umm add solar panels and a motor/fan still this seems very off.
Sorry to take this apart like this but these are legit questions as I am technically paying for this via my taxes.
I really like that the article is written with a tone of doubt, would be cool to have a second interview with these folks if the 5-6 next orders are placed.
Pi green tech solutions
MrXxx understand your apprehensions. To clarify our team comes from a very humble background from Pune and we have no political connections. The pilot project initiative is entirely at our expense with Delhi Govt providing us with an approval to install. The cost of the towers and its installation has been entirely borne by us and therefore question of fleecing the tax payers money etc does not arise. As far as the effectiveness goes please comment once you read the sgs report. The comprehensive report of the test done by SGS would be submitted to the CPCB .Further the carbon cutter machine and the tower have different utilities and dimensions. The patent states the cost of the carbon cutter machine and not the anti pollution tower . The matter is anyways irrelevant as the authorities may not require to bear the cost at all as we want to install the towers for free . Lastly we are an early stage venture trying to make a difference and would benefit if people like you could be more constructive in your approach. Thanks .
Kaleb link
What a great air cleaning device!
Tell us your personal stories on how you battle air pollution in your daily life and in your community.
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Any views or opinions presented in these blogs are solely those of the individual authors and do not necessarily represent those of Care For Air. Any reference to specific products or suppliers is solely the opinion of the author and does not represent an endorsement by Care For Air.
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Iowa State University Student Turns Himself In after Allegedly Assaulting Pro-Life Classmate as a 'Form of Protest'
by Star News Staff | Sep 27, 2021
by Ben Zeisloft
The Iowa State University Police's event report detailing a leftist's documented attack on a Young America's Foundation student member confirms that on September 3, the "suspect vandalized the [pro-life] sign and part of the sign hit the victim in the shoulder."
Campus Reformed obtained the report via a public records request following YAF's report on the incident earlier this month, which ended with the suspect turning himself into police after "trying to break it before disposing of it into a waste bin."
Video of the incident shows the student jogging away with his classmates' sign. However, the student returned and explained that "the act was a form of protest that did not intend or cause any bodily harm."
The student subsequently called campus police on himself; rather than pressing charges, the YAF students asked for an apology.
Campus Reform has previously covered other campus leftists' attempts to silence students who are opposed to abortion.
Last year, conservative students at the University of North Texas planted 1,000 flags on the school's grounds to memorialize preborn babies who were murdered via abortion. However, the students captured video of their leftist peers digging up and stealing the flags; an officer in the school's College Democrats chapter encouraged the vandalism.
Likewise, an English professor at Iowa State University banned discussion opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and Black Lives Matter in one of her classes.
"You cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn't deserve the same basic human rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously," the professor's syllabus declared.
The document continued, "Any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia… transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, body shaming, etc) in class are grounds for dismissal from the classroom."
Campus Reform reached out to YAF and Iowa State University Police Department for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.
Ben Zeisloft is a Campus Reform Student Editor and Pennsylvania Senior Campus Correspondent, reporting on liberal bias and abuse for Campus Reform. He is studying Finance and Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Benjamin also writes for The UPenn Statesman and the Wharton International Business Review.
Photo "Pancake Breakfast" by Iowa State University.
Appeared at and reprinted from campusreform.org

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When Te Piki Oranga established in 2014, kaumatua across the rohe expressed concern about the loss of funding for kaumatua services. The Nelson Marlborough DHB at that time made it clear that no funding for Kaumatua activities was being passed to Te Piki Oranga. Kaumatua took matters into their own hands and established groups in Wairau and Motueka to continue the whanaungatanga that is so important to them. They raised their own money to fund their activities. What a wonderful example of leadership these rōpu have displayed for our communities. At the same time they have continued to lobby Te Piki Oranga and DHB for support services and have been heard.
As a result, we are about to embark on a one year contract to provide koroua and kuia early intervention services. This takes the form of a part time Pūkenga Manaaki (navigator) in Motueka, Whakatu and Wairau to work alongside Koroua, Kuia and their whānau to ensure that they are accessing the health services and information that they need. We know that many of our kaumātua do not receive the Needs Assessment (NASC) from Disability Support Services that is key to receiving services like home help, handrails or respite care. There is also some funding for a day activities programme one day a week.
Te Piki Oranga wants to meet with Koroua and Kuia to hear what you want and how we can support what you are already doing. We invite you to attend a hui in each area in the near future - so look out for this.


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Spoonerismo (spoonerism) è il termine con il quale nella lingua inglese si indica un gioco di parole in cui vengono scambiati i suoni corrispondenti (in genere le lettere o le sillabe iniziali) di due vocaboli (vedi metatesi), formandone altri che cambiano completamente il senso della frase e generando così effetti assurdi e spesso comici. Prende il nome dal reverendo William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), rettore del New College di Oxford, famoso per commettere spesso questo errore nei suoi discorsi.

Sebbene gli spoonerismi nascano comunemente da errori involontari della lingua, in inglese vengono spesso usati di proposito per creare giochi di parole.

Esempi
La maggior parte delle citazioni attribuite a Spooner sono apocrife; The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3ª edizione, 1979) elenca solo uno spoonerismo comprovato: The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer ("Il peso delle collere incalzerà duramente il datore di lavoro", al posto di rate of wages, "tasso dei salari"). Spooner riconobbe ufficialmente un solo spoonerismo, riferito a un inno: The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take: letteralmente, "I gorilla piegatori i loro titoli prendono", anziché The Conquering Kings Their Titles Take, ossia "I re conquistatori i loro titoli prendono". In effetti, è probabile che la maggior parte degli spoonerismi non siano mai stati pronunciati dallo stesso William Spooner, ma composti piuttosto per passatempo da colleghi e studenti.

Richard Lederer, scrittore ed esperto di giochi linguistici, nel definire Kinkering Kongs Their Titles Take (con una diversa ortografia) uno dei "pochi" spoonerismi autenticati, lo fa risalire al 1879, ed elenca nove citazioni "attribuite a Spooner, la maggior parte in modo spurio". Ecco alcune delle più famose, con la relativa traduzione italiana (ovviamente del tutto approssimativa e opinabile nel caso dei bisticci linguistici, che in realtà sono spesso intraducibili):
The Lord is a shoving leopard ("Il Signore è un leopardo che spintona") invece di The Lord is a loving shepherd ("Il Signore è un amorevole pastore")
It is kisstomary to cuss the bride (letteralmente "È bacio-a-Maria prendere a parolacce la sposa") al posto di It is customary to kiss the bride ("È d'uso baciare la sposa")
Mardon me, padam, this pie is occupewed. Can I sew you to another sheet? ("Serdonatemi, pignora, questa torta è occuputa. Posso cucirvi ad un altro lenzuolo?") invece di Pardon me, madam, this pew is occupied. Can I show you to another seat? ("Perdonatemi, signora, questo banco è occupato. Posso accompagnarvi ad un altro posto?")
You have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain. (letteralmente: "Lei ha sibilato tutte le mie lezioni di mistero. Ha assaggiato un verme intero. La prego di lasciare Oxford con la prossima fogna urbana") invece di You have missed all my history lectures. You have wasted a whole term. Please leave Oxford on the next down train. ("Lei ha perso tutte le mie lezioni di storia. Ha sprecato un semestre intero. La prego di lasciare Oxford con il prossimo treno per la provincia").

Note

Voci correlate
 Contrepèterie

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Giochi di parole
Lingua inglese

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package org.onosproject.net.link;

import org.onosproject.net.ConnectPoint;
import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
import org.onosproject.net.Link;
import org.onosproject.net.provider.ProviderId;
import org.onosproject.store.Store;

import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Manages inventory of infrastructure links; not intended for direct use.
 */
public interface LinkStore extends Store<LinkEvent, LinkStoreDelegate> {

    /**
     * Returns the number of links in the store.
     *
     * @return number of links
     */
    int getLinkCount();

    /**
     * Returns an iterable collection of all links in the inventory.
     *
     * @return collection of all links
     */
    Iterable<Link> getLinks();

    /**
     * Returns all links egressing from the specified device.
     *
     * @param deviceId device identifier
     * @return set of device links
     */
    Set<Link> getDeviceEgressLinks(DeviceId deviceId);

    /**
     * Returns all links ingressing from the specified device.
     *
     * @param deviceId device identifier
     * @return set of device links
     */
    Set<Link> getDeviceIngressLinks(DeviceId deviceId);

    /**
     * Returns the link between the two end-points.
     *
     * @param src source connection point
     * @param dst destination connection point
     * @return link or null if one not found between the end-points
     */
    Link getLink(ConnectPoint src, ConnectPoint dst);

    /**
     * Returns all links egressing from the specified connection point.
     *
     * @param src source connection point
     * @return set of connection point links
     */
    Set<Link> getEgressLinks(ConnectPoint src);

    /**
     * Returns all links ingressing to the specified connection point.
     *
     * @param dst destination connection point
     * @return set of connection point links
     */
    Set<Link> getIngressLinks(ConnectPoint dst);

    /**
     * Creates a new link, or updates an existing one, based on the given
     * information.
     *
     * @param providerId      provider identity
     * @param linkDescription link description
     * @return create or update link event, or null if no change resulted
     */
    public LinkEvent createOrUpdateLink(ProviderId providerId,
                                        LinkDescription linkDescription);

    /**
     * Removes the link, or marks it as inactive if the link is durable,
     * based on the specified information.
     *
     * @param src link source
     * @param dst link destination
     * @return remove or update link event, or null if no change resulted
     */
    LinkEvent removeOrDownLink(ConnectPoint src, ConnectPoint dst);

    /**
     * Removes the link based on the specified information.
     *
     * @param src link source
     * @param dst link destination
     * @return remove link event, or null if no change resulted
     */
    LinkEvent removeLink(ConnectPoint src, ConnectPoint dst);

}

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This year has been proclaimed the year of 'omni-channel' by many banking pundits. Omni-channel fever is gripping the retail industry as brands seek to align bricks and clicks. The concept of omni-channel is becoming increasing prevalent in the banking world as well. Alex Bray, Retail Channels Director at leading banking software firm, Misys, explores what this really means for banking. Follow Alex and Misys on Twitter for more insights on retail banking: @StGilesResident and @MisysFS.
Most banks have conquered multi-channel. By this, I mean that most banks can offer key services through a range of channels – branch, online, mobile, ATM, post or phone. With the multi-channel approach, each channel is in effect an isolated island with little dependency or interaction with the other 'channel islands'. By comparison, an omni-channel strategy is one which allows a customer to move between different channels in a manner which is efficient for both them and the banks – and which is informed by customer data.
While multi-channel represented a step forward in customer service, the model has a number of shortcomings. Certainly, it provides customers with a greater degree of convenience when undertaking transactions. However, if those interactions cannot be matured in one engagement – e.g. a visit to a branch – multi-channel strategies do not provide a frictionless user journey. This is because a customer cannot hop from one channel to another to continue an application or transaction.
In fact a multi-channel bank often erects artificial barriers for customers who wish to move between different channels. I know a case of a tier one bank which suffered serious problems as result of channels becoming protectionist of 'their' customers and sales in order to achieve their siloed targets. Branch staff feared the impact of call centre staff 'poaching' their customers and sales – and so they would habitually capture phone numbers incorrectly to protect their herd. This meant that customers could not be proactively contacted by the bank – leading to poorer customer service.
Similarly, in another bank, a multi-channel strategy was driving a bad customer experience when buying a new mortgage. Customers could initiate their mortgage applications online – but if they had a question and contacted the call centre, their online application was cancelled and a new application was opened by the call centre staff. The customer was then unable to access or review their application online again. This problem wasn't driven by channels competing for sales targets, but inflexible, siloed systems.
This situation is frustrating for customers who would otherwise have chosen to self-service online. It is also inefficient for banks, which have transferred a self-service customer into a manual – higher cost – application.
These stories will resonate with a number of banks, and these are fairly common symptoms of a multi-channel strategy which is simply not working. Omni-channel banking is the solution – but building an omni-channel business is not easy. A key factor in getting it right is to join up the technological islands. Omni-channel breaks down the silos and provides an environment where customers and staff can move between channels – so that the focus is the customer's interaction and not the method for that interaction. It also leverages insights from integrated CRM systems.
So let's look at some examples of how an omni-channel process would operate.
Personal Financial Management (PFM) has become a powerful tool to help customers understand their own finances. Beyond the heightened customer experience, PFM provides banks with insights on customer circumstances and is an invaluable opportunity for banks to gather data and information on customers. Data capture and data monetization are where our colleagues in the retail sector have a head start, with decades of experience managing highly successful loyalty and reward programmes. PFM is an area where banks can make up that data gap. Consumers use PFM tools to create goals. They also use it categorise payments which the bank cannot identify. This data enables banks to position adverts contextually – for example, if a customer sets a savings goal for an upcoming holiday, the bank can target that customer with holiday insurance or a credit card with no international transaction fees.
However, many banks do not make PFM services available for use in-branch by customer advisors. Imagine a customer comes into a branch for a personal financial review. The advisor could use PFM functionality – which largely renders onto tablets – for a more interactive user experience, to show the customer how their finances look. They could discuss the individual's personal goals and the bank's corresponding products and services.
In many countries, certain transactions can only be completed in person – necessitating a visit to the branch. To handle long queues efficiently, some banks have developed queuing systems, like Misys BankFusion Tap 2 Transact (T2T) – a tablet-based solution which enables customers to register their own transaction details. These kinds of applications reduce effort for the counter staff and by providing ticket numbers to customers, remove the need to wait in line.
In a multi-channel world, the customer has to go to the branch, type in their details and wait. However, in an omni-channel world, the customer goes to their mobile device where they register the transaction that they want to undertake. When approaching the branch, the application prompts the customer to start a countdown clock – so that when they walk into the branch the cashier is available for them with the minimum waiting time. In this way, banks can deliver counter efficiency and a better customer experience. Using similar technology, banks can proactively welcome a high value customer entering a branch. Both YES Bank in India and Standard Chartered have tried this with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips. These are just two examples and there are many other ways in which these technologies could be used.
Omni-channel provides banks with an opportunity to knit their services together seamlessly. By focussing less on the channel and more on the customer interaction, banks can move beyond their silos. This is a win-win strategy for banks: to be able to provide the most convenient customer service; to reduce cost-to-serve ratio through self-service; and to generate new revenue streams through monetizing customer data. If banks can truly master omni-channel banking, their future in financial services is secure. If not, they will see new entrants from the retail and telco space nibbling away at their customer base, who are searching for a better customer experience that fits into their digital lives.


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Podgajek-Kolonia – dawna kolonia w Polsce położona w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie radomskim, w gminie Przytyk.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa radomskiego.

Nazwę zniesiono z 2023 r.

Przypisy

Przytyk (gmina)


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About the Youth Global Leadership Summit
Youth Global Leadership Summit
Our Leadership Summit Never Ends
Anna Welsh
Young Economic Summit
2018-02-11 2018-01-21 Krin Garza
The Young Economic Summit (YES!) encourages groups of students and teachers to apply to compete against 14 other organizations and groups to create economically viable solution that aren't just "profitable" but also have a far-reaching impact beyond their local community as far as finance is concerned.
Teams have almost an entire year to come up with the focus of their project, and will have to come together to meet with one another in the Solution City in the fall during a two day conference. Active schools will present their solutions in English (schools from around the world are encouraged to apply to compete with one another), discussing all of the economical, ecological, and societal issues that they have been challenged to resolve with the proposal that they have been able to put together.
At the conclusion of the Summit, participants, observer schools, and invited guests will have an opportunity to vote on the best solutions that have been proposed. The solutions that have been able to accumulate the highest number of votes will find their project summarized in the YES Petition, a published work that is provided to institutions, organizations, colleges, and universities around the world to help inspire students at all corners of the globe to dream bigger and create the future faster than anyone else could have thought possible.
Youth Economic Opportunities
Young entrepreneur dreams of landing a unicorn
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Father John Misty's Declaration of Love
by Sanoja Bhaumik
Joshua Tillman is on a quest to be genuine. In his efforts to achieve this evasive goal, in 2013 he adopted a new persona and has since created a sarcastic album riddled in irony. I Love You, Honeybear (2015), the second album released under the name Father John Misty, delves into a new, distinct sound, while providing hilarity and insight to the listener.
The album cements Tillman's dramatic departure from his earlier days as the former drummer and backing vocalist for the Fleet Foxes. Tillman helped successful indie folk band promote their 2011 album Helplessness Blues. As opposed to the fast-paced, chaotic moods portrayed by I Love You, Honeybear, Helplessness Blues depicts a more sophisticated, analytical, and dark attitude. In Helplessness Blues, songs like "Montezuma" and "Grown Ocean" create an atmospheric and calming effect, all while portraying a deeper meaning of regret and omnipresent loneliness. In "Montezuma," the lyrics "In dearth or excess, both the slave and the empress, will return to dirt, I guess," depict a depressing landscape of nothingness—a universal state of emptiness. Smooth vocal tones accompanied by Tillman's background vocals create an eerie, mysterious mood.
Only four years after the debut of Helplessness Blues, Tillman's song titles on I Love You, Honeybear depart dramatically to include "Holy Shit", "Bored in the USA", and "I Went to the Store One Day". The eerie, acoustic atmosphere of the Fleet Foxes tracks have been replaced with a chaotic medley of orchestras, brass instruments, and thick chords, all led by Tillman's strong voice. As a member of the Fleet Foxes, Tillman rarely had the opportunity to play his own style of music, the very style so clearly exhibited by his latest album. Fleet Foxes had already acquired their folksy, melodic sound before Tillman's arrival as drummer. In fact, as a member of Fleet Foxes, Tillman often played as an opening act soloist, proceeding after his set to sit back as the drummer during the main show. While it may appear that Tillman has revolutionized his own sound since his departure from the band, it would be more truthful to say that the Fleet Foxes' sound was never truly his.
Underneath the riddled titles and lyrics, in I Love You, Honeybear, Tillman explores and questions the expression of love through music. In a January 2015 interview with The Guardian, he states that he "just wanted to write about love without bullshitting." In Tillman's eyes, the only way to write clearly about love is to write about daily, tedious occurrences and interactions, which combined define a meaningful relationship. In the titular song "I Love You, Honeybear", Tillman introduces the listener to the album by describing its subject: his relationship with his wife, Emma. The song oscillates between specific personal situations and visual images from their relationship to greater themes that define them as a couple. Tillman writes, "I've brought my mother's depression, you've got your father's scorn and wayward aunt's schizophrenia," in one line, depicting a situation which only he and his wife can remember. This line references the specific emotional and psychological barriers of Tillman's marriage, specifying conditions such as depression and schizophrenia and their familial origins. Here, a public song tells a story of an intimate problem. An ordinary listener does not recall the same memories as an artist, and the phrase effectively separates Tillman from his audience. In contrast, he later writes "everything is doomed, nothing will be spared, because I love you, honeybear," which speaks of the inevitable conflict and desperation that every relationship confronts, regardless of its strong emotional ties. By speaking about a universal condition of a relationship, this phrase broadens the scope of the song and resonates with the experiences of Father John Misty's larger audience.
This juxtaposition of experience is the essence of Father John Misty. I Love You, Honeybear does not only describe love, it expresses it. Tillman realizes that love stories are not always dramatic or theatrical, and relationships are a continuation of one's routine life. Tillman successfully describes his own relationship in a seemingly ordinary fashion and throughout writes about events that are personally meaningful. At the same time, he is able to connect ideas specific to himself to others, by expressing the often mundane, yet incredibly special, moments of a relationship. Although the album is an individualized creation, it quickly transforms into a universal declaration of love.
March 9, 2016 by wybczine	25, Sanoja Bhaumik


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Speech by Rosa Pavanelli at the 9th EPSU Congress
Rosa Pavanelli, PSI General Secretary, introduced the discussion on Resolution n. 3 "Strengthening workers' rights and employment in Europe through collective bargaining, social dialogue and industrial action" at the 9th EPSU Congress held in Toulouse, 20-23 May 2014.
It's my pleasure to introduce the discussion on Resolution n. 3 "Strengthening workers' rights and employment in Europe through collective bargaining, social dialogue and industrial action" and trying to do it from the global perspective that the experience in PSI is teaching me.
Since my election, I have met many affiliates in all the regions. Many PSI members want to know how public services unions in Europe are opposing and fighting for an alternative to the unprecedented attack on workers and unions rights. They recognise that the European unions contributed to building this social model, through collective bargaining and social, which provides the basis for equitable distribution of wealth, including universal access to quality public services. This model is unique, is special, and is the aspiration of many workers in the world. THIS MODEL IS WORTH FIGHTING TO SAVE.
The recognition of the fundamental role of trade unions as social partners has been the instrument to ensure social cohesion and peace in Europe. This has helped overcome the tragedy of two world wars in 30 years and helped forge the identity of the future European Union.
This reality is rapidly changing and is affecting living and working conditions of public services workers as well as private workers, and how the weakening of public services is affecting the quality of life for millions of citizens.
All over the world, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening.
Most of the jobs created in the last two decades are short-term, part-time, temporary, casual or informal, and largely precarious. A majority of these lower paid, less protected workers are women and youth (those lucky enough to even have work).
The share of wages in total income declined over the last two decades whereas the share of profits in national income increased virtually everywhere.
Governments align with international financial institutions and multinational corporations to dismantle labour relations where it will hurt most for future generations: in the public sector.
Isn't this the experience with the IMF before, in many developing countries, and now with "Troika" also in Europe?
Why do governments recognize an entity like Troika which is not even an institution, which doesn't officially exist?
They do because they don't have the courage to impose for themselves the austerity measures and privatization policies and to attack trade union and worker rights.
Substantial categories of public employees are newly denied the right to bargain. PSI affiliates are facing similar challenges across the globe:
Deregulation and dismantling of public employment;
De-institutionalization of social dialogue and tri-partism, replaced by discretionary policies: how many of you have had the opportunity to discuss the austerity packages with your governments, or negotiate with private employers employment conditions in recent years?
De-registration of trade unions and legislation that foresees unreasonably complex administrative rules or penalties for strike action: just ask our UK colleagues.
Criminalization and prosecution of protest actions and weakening the autonomy of the judiciary: at the 2009 EPSU Congress, Meryem Özsögüt from Turkey told us of her terrible experience being imprisoned for her union activity. Today President of DISK and President of PSI/EPSU Turkish affiliates, brother Kani Beko cannot be with us because of the injuries provoked by the police that forced him to the hospital only few days ago
All these facts make Europe more and more similar to the rest of the world, make European trade union experiences closer to those of PSI South Korean, Indonesian, Peruvian or many other affiliates.
The impact of such policies are a perpetuation of inequality, the creation of a class of working poor today and a future of poor pensioners – mostly women – as well as the loss of social mobility which in the last century was the main motor of economic growth.
This is why PSI affiliates around the world are watching the European trade unions, are looking at EPSU with the hope that here we, all together, will be able to resist the attacks and propose an alternative.
And we all know that the alternative is to create decent, stable and sustainable jobs, through investing in public services.
We all know that to reduce inequalities we need to fight, in Europe and globally, to redistribute the wealth through collective bargaining, progressive and fair tax systems as well as ensuring universal access to quality public services.
PSI is leading a global campaign for fair and just taxation. What started as the fight for FTT has grown. Now, even the OECD and the G20 recognise that corporate tax planning, tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax fraud need to be addressed.
In Europe, we need to establish a harmonized system of minimum wages and respect for international labour standards if we want to defeat the social dumping and the marketization of workers.
But when from Portugal to Romania, from Greece to Spain, from Hungry to Estonia the reality is that public services unions are denied the right of collective bargaining, or when public administration and labour reforms aim to reduce unions rights, which social dialogue are we speaking about?
Or when the rules for industrial actions are used to prevent social protest, is it not democracy at stake?
So, I firmly believe that if we are to be successful we need to unveil the hypocrisy of the European Commission and the ECB, and expose their plans to get rid of trade unions rights.
We saw the video on our work in Greece, it is a good example about how powerful our message can be, how strong can be our impact telling the true story of austerity.
I do believe that if we want to be effective in our industrial actions, we all together need to call on the full respect of the right to strike that is threatened by many governments.
In the last years we assisted in placing more and more countries from the EU in the short-list of cases to be discussed in the Committee for the application of Standards during the ILC for violation of trade unions rights.
This year they will include Croatia, Greece and Portugal along with Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Turkey, Uzbekistan.
This suggests that we need to work together to coordinate EPSU and PSI agendas not only for the ratification of ILO conventions, but also their full implementation, included convention 154 on the regulation of collective bargaining and 87 on the right to organize and to strike.
It is a political imperative for our organizations to counter the neo-liberal role that the European Union is playing all over the world where it wants to expand its influence, privatising public services to favour the powerful lobby of European business, as well as weakening labour rights.
What we are doing about Guatemala is a positive example. PSI organised a mission to demonstrate solidarity to our local affiliates, EPSU president Anne-Marie, along with many affiliates from Europe joined this mission and lobbied their embassies to pressure the Guatemalan government to end the impunity of the assassins.
We also organised a meeting at the EP where we demanded that no trade agreement can be implemented with Guatemala without full respect for labour rights.
Now we are implementing a project with all of these unions to help Guatemalan affiliates and to keep the pressure on the Commission and on the Government of Guatemala. We are already seeing results.
South Korea, which wants to deepen trade relations with the EU, while systematically violating the most basic worker rights, is the next target for PSI action.
As we saw this morning, free trade agreements are among the neoliberal tools which the EU is promoting.
PSI is developing new research on sectoral impacts of these trade agreements… We are leading a global coalition of NGOs, jointly organising many regional conferences to : inform and train our members and civil society for action; to lobby trade negotiators and officials; to disseminate concerns in the media…
We are giving profile to secret and complex processes.
As you may know ITUC Congress is coinciding with EPSU congress and a delegation of PSI is also there. Yesterday, PSI was a protagonist in an exciting debate on the new generation of free trade agreements. The debate was focusing on mitigating the impact of these agreements by including labour clauses. The PSI position swung this debate, highlighting that these agreements are not about trade but about privatisation, weakening union rights, and preventing government ability to regulate in the public interest. At the end an electronic poll at ITUC saw 90% of delegates supporting the PSI view.
We need to convince our National centres, the ETUC, the ITUC to be more critical and, together, to influence the global institutions.
As well, PSI and EPSU are jointly defending the rights of workers in privatised services. Just last week, unions from the French multinational GDF-SUEZ met in Chile. Next week the workers of ENEL-ENDESA will meet in Brazil. They are negotiating the implementation of the recently signed global framework agreements.
We must be aware that in front of us there is the battle to reconquer collective bargaining, social dialogue and decent work within Europe. We must be aware that we still have to fight to promote the same values in the rest of the world.
Let's engage in this battle, let's be brave enough to show that we are fighting together as one.
We need boldness to resist the forces which want to divide workers on the basis of national origin, age, gender, public from private, we need boldness to stand up for workers' rights.
We need unity to make the European social model again a reality in Europe and to export it globally.
We need unity to defeat the greed of business and privateers, and I am confident that all together we will be able to win.
EPSU Congress website


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MIC DROP MUSIC
My new Joy Comes in Little Big Packages
Articles	by Brendan Shanahan June 23, 2021 June 23, 2021
Lest my contributions to this website become 'Brendan talks about a band he missed the first time around but has now jumped on the bandwagon', but we simply have to talk about the band that my friend sent me this week, Russian ravers Little Big.
With a sound reminiscent of Die Antwoord by way of your favourite KPop group, Little Big have made a name for themselves with their thumping beats, brash sound effects and infectious enthusiasm. As Russia's entry for the 2020 Eurovision contest, their track 'UNO' became one of the most liked Eurovision songs on Youtube ever. Check the video out below, and good luck getting it out of your head, and attempting the liquid-jelly legs dance move.
Due to Covid-19, Eurovision 2020 was cancelled, with the competitors and songs presented for that year's competition ineligible to participate in the 2021 competition, which was a real shame. Catchy enough to sing long with and dance to, slightly crazy enough to be memorable, and camp enough to fully represent the whole competition, 'Uno' would have been a big contender to take home the title had it been allowed to compete.
Every one of their music videos has a unique dance or camp take on a well known trope, almost positing the question whether or not they could be considered performance art. Their music is very unpretentious and approachable with a satirical edge – they aren't taking themselves seriously, and neither should you watching them. It's also refreshing to see a number of different body shapes featured in every video – they aren't ones to just fill the frame with skinny backup dancers or models – just real people having a great time acting out some pretty absurd scenarios.
The video for 'Hyperdancer' involves frontman Ilya Prusikin gyrating on tables to steal money from poker games, 'Tacos' features the group jumping about dressed in various different food based outfits, and their recent cover of the Backstreet Boy's Hit 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' features the best use of a goat since it was cut into Taylor Swift's song 'Trouble'.
Eagle-eyed viewers of the video above will notice that a Little Big branded pair of Crocs were used as the 'magic slippers'. Released just this week, this was in partnership with the brand, indicating the scope of their influence on pop culture (the shoes were completely sold out within 24 hours, which is a pity – those black ones looked awesome).
But the video that shot them to worldwide internet fame a few years ago, and I believe is the best representation of the band, is for their track Skidibi.
A Prodigy-esque driving beat, a healthy dose of animal sound effects and a chorus line that will embed in your brain like a parasite, Skibidi is pure jump around your living room fun. Complete with a dance challenge that made it's way on to TikTok and as far as being used as a celebration in the Russian Super League, this is Little Big at the height of their powers.
If they ever announce international tours, grab a ticket – if their videos are this much fun, just think of what they're live shows would be like!
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Q: SQL SERVER Select multiple fields from If Exists I have to do an SQL Server Statement that have to return an empty row when is null, and data otherwhise.
I am trying to do a Select from (if exisits) but have an error on parent table.
I Simplify it. But the meaning, is to retrieve a couple of fields when condition is null and other fields when it is not null.
It Works fine when I do not clouse it in another select.... I need to retrieve it as a table to do an inner Join with other clouse.
How can i resolved it?
Here is my code..

select * from
 (
       if exists(select isnull(SECTOR_ID_DESTINO_BAD,-1)
   from workflow_Compras_detalle w
   where w.id=2)
   begin
       select null as Sector,null as sector_id_origen
   end
   else
   begin
    select top 1 isnull(ws.sector,'') sector,  wd.sector_id_origen
    from workflow_Compras_detalle wd
    where orden < 10
       end
 )Table

A: you should try to insert the data into a temporary table or Table Variable, then get the data from that table, here is an example with a Table Variable, if you need something more persistent you may use a #Temp Table, i recommend you take a look to this: difference between var table and #Temp Table
    DECLARE @VAR_TABLE AS TABLE(
Sector varchar(25),
sector_id_origen int
)

if exists(select isnull(SECTOR_ID_DESTINO_BAD,-1)
            from workflow_Compras_detalle w
            where w.id=2)
    begin
                INSERT INTO @VAR_TABLE
                Select null as Sector,null as sector_id_origen
    End
Else
    begin

        INSERT INTO @VAR_TABLE
        select top 1 isnull(ws.sector,'') sector,  wd.sector_id_origen
        from workflow_Compras_detalle wd
        where orden <   10
End

SELECT * FROM @VAR_TABLE

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I previously blogged on the new Tennessee Employee Online Privacy Act of 2014. The full blog post on this new statute can be found here. This new statute basically prevents an employer from taking any adverse employment action against an employee for failure to provide access to a "personal internet account" (which basically includes any type of internet account including Facebook or other similar services). This statute goes into effect today, January 1, 2015.
Employers need to keep this new statute in mind as they venture more and more into the online existence of their employees (or potential employees). Tennessee has attempted, with this new statute, to protect employees by preventing mandatory access by an employer to an employee's online information. Employers can no longer demand access in certain situations covered by the statute. Employers need to make sure they review and implement policies that comply with this new statute.


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Home News SMA Silver Jubilarians celebrate
SMA Silver Jubilarians celebrate
SMA Fathers John Gallagher, Hugh Lagan, Angelo Lafferty and Donall O'Catháin celebrated the Silver Jubilee of their priestly ordination on 3 July 2015 at the Dromantine Retreat & Conference Centre, Newry, Co Down.
The Principal celebrant was the Irish Provincial Leader, Fr Michael McCabe, and Fr Fergus Tuohy preached on the occasion. The following is an edited version of that homily.
"We come together today as an SMA community to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of our four confreres, Angelo, Donall, Hugh and John. They have served the SMA and the church for the last 25 years and we are celebrating that great achievement today.
Let me begin by reminding you of what King Henry VIII said to one of his wives: I won't keep you too long !! I hope I won't keep you too long either.
Psalm 89:21 says "My hand shall ever abide with him,my arms also shall strengthen him… My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him… He shall cry to me: You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation."
As priests we need encouragement and support. Pope Francis, speaking at the 2015 Chrism Mass in Rome said: 'If the Lord is so concerned about helping us, it is because He knows that the task of anointing His faithful people is not easy, it is demanding; it can tire us. We experience this in so many ways; from the ordinary fatigue brought on by our daily apostolate to the weariness of sickness, death and even martyrdom… I pray for you as you labour amid the people of God entrusted to your care, many of you in lonely and dangerous places. Our weariness, dear priests, is like incense which silently rises up to Heaven – straight to the heart of the Father.'
Our four jubilarians have certainly worked among the people of God in many apostolates. Let me just tell you briefly about them.
Donall O Catháin was born in one of the most beautiful places in Ireland – Cork, and he has spent nearly all his missionary life in Nigeria: in Lagos, Ilorin, a brief spell in the SMA parish in West Green, London and then back to Ilorin and Kontagora where he has been continuously since 1996.
Donall is a man of many talents and he has built schools and churches, supervised Well digging and is noted for his fund raising activities. He is also noted for his proper reporting on the use of funds. He is still based in Kontagora Vicariate.
John Gallagher was born in Castlebar, but raised in Crossmolina. John worked in Ndola diocese, Zambia, for 6 years and after a sabbatical he went to Shinyanga in Tanzania where he spent 8 years before moving to Arusha from which he returned to Ireland at the end of last year. He served as Assistant Priest in St Joseph's SMA parish, Wilton until the end of May. In August he will take up a new appointment on the Good Shepherd parish team in Manila, Philippines
A hard worker, very reliable – he continues to be a true missionary.
Angelo Lafferty hails from Castlefin, Co. Donegal. He was originally appointed to Liberia, but due to political instability this had to be changed and he joined the SMA team in Zambia. He worked with the SMA recruitment team while waiting for a work permit.
From 1991 – 1995 he worked in Livingstone diocese. From 1996 – 2014 Angelo has been based in the SMA community in Wilton, Cork. While in Wilton he served as Assistant to the Provincial Bursar [1998 – 2002]. He also looked after the JPIC Office and was also co Director Mission Alive with the IMU.
He was deeply involved with Cois Tine and many people I meet mention seeing him on the TV programme 'Secret Millionaire'!
After a Sabbatical in 2013 he served for some months as Assistant Priest pro tem in St Joseph's SMA Parish, Blackrock Road before his present appointment as FVC Director for the west of Ireland, based in Claregalway. Another man of many talents and a missionary ready to serve wherever needed.
Hugh Lagan, from Maghera, Co Derry, was first appointed to minister in Shinyanga diocese in Tanzania [1990-1994]. He did the one-year Religious Formation programme in Loreto House, Dublin and assisted for some months on the SMA Mission Awareness team. In 1996 he was sent for Further Studies in Boston College. Hugh served on the staff of the Nairobi SMA Formation House from 1998 to 2005, several of those years as Superior. After further studies in Boston to earn a PhD in Psychology he returned to Africa in 2011, initially to teach at the Major seminary in Pretoria, South Africa. His ministry now extends beyond South Africa, conducting Workshops for clergy and religious.
A formidable class indeed. This is not meant to be a eulogy – rather recognition of the great service you have all rendered to the SMA and to the Church. Your families must be very proud of you.
Pope Saint John Paul II said, "We must all be converted anew every day. Being converted also means giving an account before the Lord of our hearts about our service, our zeal and our fidelity, for we are 'Christ's servants entrusted with the mysteries of God'.[1 Cor 4:1]"
Life as a Priest and Missionary is still very challenging. People often wonder what keeps us going. A good friend to all of us – the late Bishop John Moore SMA was a great inspiration to many people. Speaking to him on one occasion in Bauchi on the subject of celibacy he told me about an occasion when he learnt a lesson himself. John often had visitors in his house and he treated all with the same respect whether young or old. By 9pm each evening he would escort his visitors to their rooms and then close the door of his own house. His security man always noticed this. One evening John heard two of the security men talking about him. One said he was surprised that this priest lived alone with no wife or companion. To quote him: "How can this man live by himself – he no get wife or anybody in his house?" The other man replied: "This, our priest, has no problem there. His God de cool him!!!!"
I hope God cools you also. Donall, John, Angelo and Hugh – I could say a lot more about you and to you but I won't. A mayor in certain American city known as the Brick city once said on a TV programme: "I will not let finite disappointment undermine infinite hope."
A certain priest, not among us here today wrote a few lines on his Facebook page recently. He was celebrating a few years as a priest.
"Father, God of all goodness, you expect from us a life of Holiness according to your heart and genuine charity towards every person. I therefore ask you Father to assist me in all kinds of activities:
encouraging sick people in hospitals, supporting the solitary aged in their residences, helping poor, hard working and generous families that find it hard to make ends meet;
being a listening ear to those who need to talk and share, counselling those who seek meaning of their lives, teaching, training, animating and educating your people in faith and in your fatherly love for all your children;
being your instrument of consolation and mercy, of liberation and openness wherever the need is felt, being your messenger of Love and hope, of solace, life and joy;
making hearts discover your presence and action in them;
energising the weak, doing good like your Son Jesus did and in union with him, erasing or at least diminishing evil;
sowing the seed of your Kingdom everywhere;
being like a key so that people can enter into it, reminding myself always that I am not acting in my own name but in Your Name and that the glory and honour belong to You alone, being a chant of Alleluia to your glory wherever I pass."
Bless those who have shaped and helped you to become the priests you are today. Have a great celebration.
Ad Multos Annos.
SMA Missionaries
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InfoQ Homepage News Microsoft Open-Sources GCToolkit to Tap into JVM GC Logs
Microsoft Open-Sources GCToolkit to Tap into JVM GC Logs
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Microsoft's footprint in the Java ecosystem has become more widespread. What started with Java on Azure and support for Minecraft, Microsoft continues with various tools targeted to make the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) more accessible and enhance the development experience for Java developers. The newest addition to this collection was the open-sourcing of the GCToolkit at the beginning of August 2021. As the name suggests, it is a set of libraries for analyzing Java garbage collection (GC) log files and parsing them into discrete events. It exposes an API for improved interaction with the toolkit and data aggregation. This allows the user to create arbitrary complex analyses of the state of managed memory of the JVM. It is the user's entry point into the GCToolkit that hides the details of inner modules in a few method calls.
Besides the API, there are two other modules: the parser and the Vert.x module. The parser module is based on a collection of regular expressions and code written over many years to be considered the most robust GC log parser available. The Vert.x-based messaging backend makes use of two message buses: the first one streams data from a data source. The current implementation streams log lines from the GC log file. The consumers of this bus are the parsers that convert the data from the data source into events that represent either a GC cycle or safe point. These events are published on the second message bus: the event bus. Subscribers on the event bus are then able to be notified and to process events that are of interest to them.
The parser emits discrete JVM events (GC cycle events or safe point events) which makes it possible to write code to capture and analyze the data from those events. In order to facilitate the capturing and analysis of GC log files data, GCToolkit provides a simple aggregation framework. The kind of data users want to capture or the kind of analysis users want to perform is at the user's discretion. For instance, to capture pause events for the purpose of analyzing heap occupancy, the aggregator captures the event, extracts the relevant data, and passes the data to the aggregation. This collates the data into meaningful analysis, for instance, total heap occupancy after garbage collection. The resulting data could be rendered as a graph, a table or some other more human friendly format.
More importantly, it has long been known that a suboptimal configuration collector will result in an application requiring more CPU and memory, while at the same time, degrading the end user's experience. In other words, poorly tuned often equates to a more expensive runtime and unhappy users. The challenge is that to optimally tune the GC, one needs to create a delicate balance between several concerns all of which are not easily seen without the assistance of tooling. GCToolKit has been helpful in making this easier.
The GCToolkit was built around the parser module - a collection of regular expression and code that has evolved over the course of many years, becoming a robust GC log parser.
With Microsoft's widening interest in the Java space, the focus on open source is also growing the benefits for the Java community. After major contributions made to the macOS M1 port and Windows on Arm port, Microsoft reemphasized its commitment to OpenJDK when it introduced its own OpenJDK build and joined the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group (previously known as AdoptOpenJDK).
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Q: Why am I getting a "Not Found" Error when I call the DocuSign API using the docusign-esign npm package? I have a google cloud function running on my local host and I have hosted a function that is supposed to receive jsondata from a client side application. I am using Post Man for testing of course. When I call the function endpoint, all the code executes well up until a point when I actually call the a function in the docusign-esign npm module.
The function is createEnvelope(). I call it and pass it an apiAccountID and envelopeDefinition object. I call the function within a try block and it catches an error. The error it returns is Not Found.
My code is shown below.
// function to call the e-signature api
const eSignFunc = async (basePath, accessToken, data) => {

 let dsApiClient = new docusign.ApiClient();
 dsApiClient.setBasePath(basePath);
 dsApiClient.addDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
 let envelopesApi = new docusign.EnvelopesApi(dsApiClient);

 // Step 1. Make the envelope requestuest body
 try {
   let envelope = makeEnvelope(data);

   // Step 2. call Envelopes::create API method
   // Exceptions will be caught by the calling function
   let results = await envelopesApi.createEnvelope(dsConfig.apiAccountId, {
     envelopeDefinition: envelope,
   });
   let envelopeId = results.envelopeId;

   console.log(`Envelope was created. EnvelopeId ${envelopeId}`);
   if (results.status == "sent") {
     return true;
   } else {
     return false;
   }
 } catch (error) {
   console.log("DS API CALL FAILED: " + error);
   return false;
 }
};

The arguments basePath , accessToken , and data contain data from preceeding function calls that serialize the data and validate that all the information is correct after which they call the eSignFunc shown above.
My problem is that the function executes and puts out the following error
DS API CALL FAILED: Error: Not Found
As you might have noticed that is printed out because of the 4th last line in the code above
My Question is: Why am I getting Not Found. I have done some reading in the DocuSign Developer docs and I have found out that it means that The Resource doesn't exist.
I just don't know which resource they are talking about. I am not trying to get something from the API rather I want to create a new resource
I have cross checked almost everything and I have seen everything is really consistent. This should be a small issue. I just need some help to understand what is going on please..
Thank you

A: It almost looks like that's the app interpreting a 404.
It's hard to say without having your accountId (please don't post it here), but my first guess would be that there's something off with your basepath. Sometimes we do see customers when switching from an OAuth flow to sending via eSignature that the basepath isn't updated or it's pointing to the wrong environment. In terms of basepaths for Demo / Production it should be similar to this:
Demo:
OAuth: https://account-d.docusign.com
eSig:  https://demo.docusign.net/restapi
Production:
OAuth: https://account.docusign.com
eSig: https://{endpoint}.docusign.net/restapi
Note that Endpoint corresponds to the server that your account is housed on. You can see which specific endpoint you need to target by going to DocuSign.com > Settings > Apps and Keys.
If this doesn't help solve it go ahead and send me an email to matt.king@docusign.com -- we can have a support ticket opened for you and have a look in our system logs to see if anything is standing out.
Regards,
Matt


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THE STAFF AT Impact Vision Therapy
Our dedicated team of therapists, and staff work together to comprehensively test, diagnose, and treat each person in a patient first, patient friendly environment. At Impact Vision Therapy, we work one-on-one with each patient. Our highly customized therapy programs produce results that unlock each person's fullest potential.
Christy Milks
Christy Milks is our Lead Vision Therapist in Colorado Springs and in Castle Pines. Christy came to Impact Vision Therapy with a legal background. When her son was diagnosed in 2nd grade with eye teaming issues, it changed both his life and hers. He went through vision therapy and he became a different child at school and at home. He was below grade level in reading before vision therapy and by the end of 3rd grade he was at grade level and thriving in the classroom. He had been labeled extremely shy at school, but after therapy he became a much more confident student and it showed in class. Christy was excited to switch careers and immerse herself into a field which means so much to her and her family. Christy obtained her certification in vision therapy through COVD in 2018.
"Vision therapy helped my son and I was fascinated by it. Once I started doing this, I knew I didn't want to do anything else."
Christy moved to Colorado in 1997 and worked for a small law firm in Colorado Springs for 14 years before coming to Impact Vision. She lives in Monument with her husband and they lead a busy life keeping up with their three children- Phoebe, Owen, and Henry. When Christy isn't working, she enjoys reading, hiking, and crochet.
Amanda Snyder
Amanda Snyder is the Patient Care Coordinator in our Colorado Springs office. She came to Impact Vision Therapy in 2016 after working in a private preschool as a teacher and director for 12 years. In early 2016, her youngest son was diagnosed with a Convergence Insufficiency and she became very interested in vision therapy. After seeing the positive improvements in her son's personal and educational life, she decided to make a career change and join Impact Vision Therapy.
"I really enjoy talking with the families and hearing all the great stories about their kids' improvements in education as a result of the therapy they receive here"
Amanda was born and raised in Pennsylvania and got her degree in Elementary Education from Lock Haven University. She and her husband moved to Colorado in 2003 and have two boys. They enjoy outdoor activities and traveling together. In her alone time, Amanda enjoys reading, crafting, and baking.
Nada Watt
Nada Watt is the office manager for both Colorado Springs and Castle Pines locations. She has been with Impact Vision Therapy since January 2020. Before becoming our office manager, she owned and operated her own fabric store for 6 years, adding to her more than 30 years of management experience. When the store closed, she was very excited to be able to join Impact Vision. Working behind the scenes, Nada does her best to help everyone else do their jobs with minimal distractions and enjoys hearing all the success stories.
"I truly appreciate Impact Vision Therapy staff and Dr. Watt's commitment to patient care. They want to make our patients lives easier and better. To be a part of that is a gift"
Management comes easy for Nada. She has spent 30 years managing her own family of six children and now enjoys family time with her children and their spouses plus the addition of 24 sweet grandchildren. Family is everything to Nada and it takes up most of her free time, but when she has time to herself, she enjoys flower gardening, quilting, sewing, and family history.
Aleshia Day
Aleshia Day is a Vision Therapist in our Colorado Springs office. She started working with Impact Vision Therapy in January 2021. Prior to Impact, Aleshia was a paraprofessional for 9 years in District 11. She worked with students with special needs in both a middle and high school setting. When she left the district, her goal was to continue doing something meaningful in which she could have an impact on people's lives. Her role as a therapist allows her to use her knowledge and experience to relate to people on a different level.
"I really love meeting new people, hearing their stories, and building relationships. I enjoy helping people who had no idea there was help out there for them"
Aleshia is the proud mother of 2 children, Brenden and Kylie. She spends most of her free time with her boyfriend Dax, family, and friends. Outside of work, Aleshia enjoys hiking, 4-wheeling, camping, and attending concerts. She is a great calming presence in the office and has the ability to help relax patients and co-workers alike.
Kim Ashford
Kim Ashford is a Vision Therapist in our Castle Pines office. She started working with Impact Vision Therapy in January 2021 and holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology. She is also a certified personal trainer. Before coming to Impact, Kim worked as an advocate for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and provided mental health services. This background allows her skills to be utilized in the therapy process, providing motivation as well as empathy for our patients and all their unique needs.
"I had a patient start pretty hopeless that he could get better. As we progressed, he started to come in more positive, feeling better, and noticeably happier each week. I knew we were making an impact on his life in a big way."
Kim spends time with her husband and 2 children (and sweet dog, Bonnie) outside of work. She enjoys singing, lifting weights, reading, hiking, and tennis and is surprisingly good at fitting every last dish into the dishwasher. Kim is very proud of her children and their accomplishments as well as her own.
Sara McCaslin
Sara McCaslin is our Patient Care Coordinator in the Castle Pines office. She started working with Impact Vision Therapy in July 2021, but before that she focused on being a mom and volunteer as well as a travel planner. She holds a bachelor's degree in Speech, Language, and Hearing Science from Minnesota State University- Moorhead. But if she could do anything in life and still earn money, she would be a beach bum. Sara enjoys interacting with our patients and their families. Helping them feel welcome in our office and being part of the changes and improvements they make is very rewarding.
"I love that our goal is to help patients become the best version of themselves; helping patients and families overcome obstacles they didn't think could be solved."
Sara likes to spend her time outside of the office with family and friends, watching sports (especially football & hockey), and listening to podcasts. She is an empty nester with her husband and dog, Bailey and is very proud of her adult daughter and her accomplishments.
Ashley Holsinger
Ashley Holsinger is our Patient Care Coordinator in Colorado Springs and also Dr. Watt's Tech in Colorado Springs and Castle Pines. Ashley wears many hats in the office! She started working with Impact Vision Therapy in February 2021. Prior to Impact, she was a leasing agent for an apartment community. Her experience juggling different needs of customers helps her to juggle the many different things she does in our offices. Ashley made the switch to Impact after seeing the changes vision therapy made for her daughter. Seeing all the changes in patients is one of Ashley's favorite things about her job.
"In one appointment there was a sweet little boy who was unable to see clearly. When we put on some glasses his whole world changed and that brought me to tears"
Ashley is mom to her daughter, Giuliana. Outside of work she enjoys the great Colorado outdoors with hiking and being around her family and friends.
Ann Aho
Ann Aho is a Vision Therapist in our Castle Pines office; she started working with Impact Vision Therapy in July 2021. She holds a bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies, plus a minor in Sociology. Before coming to Impact, Ann worked in several family service and advocacy focused careers. Her education and previous job experience has prepared her to work well with patients and their families through good communication and compassion. The caring support, and encouragement Ann displays because of her previous experiences lends itself well to being a great vision therapist. She chose to become a vision therapist after realizing the difference vision therapy can have on the patient's lives.
"I love watching my patients make progress throughout the therapy process. It is amazing to be part of the team that works with our patients to help them improve their vision and feel better."
In her free time, Ann enjoys reading, gardening, hiking, and paddleboarding with family and friends. She and her husband have three children and a Springer Spaniel named Bandit that loves going on walks.
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Impact Vision Therapy in Colorado Springs and Castle Pines
Impact Vision Therapy provides innovative vision therapy services to patients from in and around Colorado Springs. Our doctor and team of vision therapists design individualized treatment programs and provide the highest quality of personalized care.


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Breaking Bad: A Series in Review
Breaking Back: A season-by-season retrospective (Page 1 of 5).
The voyage of Walter White is one of the greatest character arcs to ever occur on television. And, Breaking Bad is one of the most intriguing and compelling shows on TV. With its final episodes on the horizon, it is also one of the most anticipated finales in television history (at least cable television history).
[Related Article: Life After Breaking Bad]
Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White and has evolved into a marvelously dramatic actor. Cranston, a long-time actor, was probably previously best known for his comedic role as the patriarch, Hal, in the series Malcolm in the Middle. Initially, it was difficult to imagine Cranston in this role. But any concerns were quickly put to rest after one episode.
With that, let's take a look at five seasons (well, four and half) of Breaking Bad.
Note: This article does assume familiarity with the show and does contain a few (limited) spoilers.
And, of course, while Breaking Bad is all good and fun, it does cover some serious issues. You can find support for meth addicts here.
Continue on for the Season-by-Season Reviews:
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A Review and Look at Season 1
The premise is simple enough. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a high school chemistry teacher who has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. And, yes, he believes he is going to die. Unfortunately, Walt has not left much in the way of financial security for his wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and son, Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) so he decides he must figure out a way to leave a legacy behind for his family. His answer: to manufacture and sell methamphetamine.
Once an elite scientist, Walt manufactures an extremely pure form of crystal meth, identified by its blue color. The blue meth is instantly liked by those who partake and begins to build a reputation as a premier product. To aid in his journey to the bad side, Walt enlists the help of a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), who happens to have a few low level connections to help sell the product. Over the course of the season, through various trials and tribulations, Walt and Jesse find themselves with a distribution partner who can help them make more money and widen the reach of the blue meth. This new partner, Tuco (Raymond Cruz) is wild and unpredictable.
Walt must continually contend with his cancer, the effects of treatment, the drug world which he is becoming more and more a part of, his tenuous relationship with Jesse, and some interesting family relationships. His wife, Skyler, has a sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt) who has her own set of issues. And, of course, there's Marie's husband, Hank (Dean Norris), a DEA agent unknowingly tracking Walt and his associates.
The season concludes with Tuco exploding in violence in front of Walt and Jesse. The two become alarmingly aware of the seed underworld to which they are now fully entwined.
Beginning with the pilot episode, Breaking Bad is immensely compelling, and, like Walter White's blue meth, extremely addictive.
Initially, Walt's motives are borderline altruistic. He wants to provide for his family after he is gone, simple as that. Walt stumbles through the first season, sometimes with empathy, other times shamefully, often fearfully, and sometimes dangerously.
The family dynamic between Walt, Skyler and their cerebral palsy stricken son, Walter Jr., is captivating. Skyler and Walter Jr. desperately want to be a part of Walt's treatment, but Walt continuously pushes them away along with anyone else who tries to help. As Walt becomes more involved in the realm of meth manufacturing, he isolates himself from those who love them the most, conflicting with this goal of taking care of and providing for them.
The relationship between Walter and Jesse is that of a surrogate, each to the other, as father and son. Often the two are at odds. Their bound, however, is not founded in love, but fueled by a drug making frenzy.
As Walt breaks from the world of the mundane, it is simultaneously easy to like and dislike him. But it is the amazing acting of Cranston who transforms Walt into someone the viewer cares about, and roots for, even on his descent into the illegal.
Walt takes on the alter ego of Heisenberg when conducting his meth transactions. He tries to give of the persona of being dark and dangerous, but ultimately, he realizes he is barely an amateur in the sometimes lethal world now consuming his life.
Season 1 is very good with flashes of greatness.
CONTINUE TO SEASON 2 >>>
Review by Gordon Shelly, special to Influx Magazine
Tags:Dean Norris, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Giancarlo Esposito, Walter White, Walt White, Raymond Cruz, Jonathan Banks
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•	The World Wildlife Fund and partners have tracked population changes in Earth's animal species for decades.
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•	Globally, between 2000 and 2014, the world lost 920,000 sq. km of intact or "minimally disturbed" forest, an area roughly the size of Pakistan or France and Germany combined. Satellite data shows the pace of that degradation picked up by 20% from 2014 to 2016, compared with the previous 15 years.
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•	Coastal mangrove forests, which protect against storm surges made worse by rising seas, have also declined by up to half over the last 50 years.


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Q: How to programmatically unset mysqli object? I have some scripts that I want to unset the variables of at the end. This is the code I'm using the programmatically unset them all:
function xyz() {
    $list_of_vars =  array_diff(get_defined_vars(), $GLOBALS);
    foreach($list_of_vars as $var){
        unset($var);
    }
    unset($list_of_vars);
}

The problem is, some of my variables include mysqli objects, so the above code throws the following error:
Object of class mysqli could not be converted to string

How do I modify the code so that it works with mysqli objects as well as all the other variables I have?
Thanks!


Retired Special Forces Green Beret Michael "Rod" Rodriguez is this week's guest on the 20th episode of the Kill The Quit podcast. Not only is Rod a Green Beret, but he is currently the President and CEO for the Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation and was hand selected for President George W. Bush's Military Service Initiative Advisory Council with the role of advising and supporting the President and leadership of the Bush Institute on key Strategic and Programming priorities in support of Veterans and their families. He is also on the Veteran Advisory Council for the VA in North Carolina. Rod and host Mark Zinno discuss everything involving Rod's time in the military, his family's military history, the multitude of injuries he had in combat, his life after the military, and more.


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Sometime, in lucid, nautilus shows that n audio cd is inserted in a drive when there is nothing in the drive. There is no option to unmount the drive, and if you eject it , it doesn't go away.
Nautilus shows there is a cd in the drive.
Thank you for your bug report, could you get gvfs-mount -li and udisks --dump logs when getting the issue?
I'm having the same bug while testing Lucid in VirtualBox. Interesting enough, when I insert a real CD the phantom audio CD is replaced by it. Then when I eject the real CD, the phantom audio CD immediately comes back.
I'm attaching the requested information when the phantom CD is present.
Ops, sorry, disregard my last comment. The phantom CD is not replaced when I insert a real one. They exist side by side. I just didn't see it before.
I have the same problem with a real install.
I'm not sure that it's a nautilus issue because i have the same problem with thunar 1.1 and pcmanfm2.
when you created those logs, can you confirm that you did _not_ actually have an audio CD inserted into the drive? I. e. the "cdda://sr0/" one that we see in the log is the phantom drive, and not the one you were inserting for testing?
For further testing, please ensure that there is no media in the drive.
I'm 100% sure. I took the logs before the test.
cdda://sr0/ is indeed the phantom drive, I can confirm with the nautilus tooltip.
Thanks, so cdrom_id is definitively wrong here.
Here we go. I think it would be interesting if me and frenchy82 both keep sending the requested logs, as he is with a real install and I am with a VirtualBox install, so all bases all covered.
Thanks. So all ioctl()s succeed, but deliver totally bogus data, reassigning to kernel.
Do you have a chance to try this under karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) as well? (A live system booted from an USB stick should do fine). Could you do the same strace there and attach it for comparison?
VirtualBox cannot boot from USB, so I'm doing the following: I've created a secondary virtual CD drive in my VirtualBox machine and I now have two phantom audio discs in Lucid, one per drive (sr0 and sr1). First I'll attach the traces for sr0 and sr1 in Lucid. Afterwards I'll attach the same for Karmic obtained through a LiveCD.
Here it goes, for Karmic. sr0 is the LiveCD itself, I suppose. There are no phantoms.
Uh, that's indeed interesting. -6 did introduce a regression (it often did not recognize audio and other CDs at all any more), but -7 should have fixed it again. I'll look into this more closely.
Installing udev 151-5 (386), reboot solve the problem.
No more audio cd if there is no cd.
I just tried that in kvm, and while I do not get phantom drives, I do get some bogus data, too.
I'm more and more convinced that this isn't a direct cause of the code changes between -5 and -8, but pure coincidence. It looks like cdrom_id uses uninitialized data which just happens to be different with every build.
With this I get correct data in kvm.
I'll upload a new udev to lucid now (151-9). I'd appreciate if you could confirm/deny that this fixes the problem for you as well. Thanks!
CDs on empty drives, or bogus data like ID_CDROM_MEDIA_TRACK_COUNT=22528.
committed to upstream git as well (816e6bf).
Okay, gonna wait until this new udev hits the repositories I use and report accordingly.
On a closer look, this patch in -9 was actually a no-op, and it again is sheer luck. It rather seems that the difference seems to come from building with and without optimization, I'll investigate further.
The -d option will provide some additional debug info.
This should install udev version 151-9pitti1. Can you please try with that one? Do you get phantom CDs still? Please do the strace dance/attachment again.
Output of "sudo /lib/udev/cdrom_id -d /dev/sr0", current udev, seeing phantom.
I just updated udev in my PPA to version 151-9pitti2, which now has a more complete fix for the uninitialized variables than pitti1.
Please try this version. Thanks!
Not seeing phantoms currently. Attaching strace.
151-9pitti2 has also fixed the CD-ROM not detecting blank media. Working good now :).
Thanks a lot, i can confirm too.
Confirming the fix with the latest updates. Thank you very much for your quick efforts, Martin.
I still have a phantom blank cd-rom disk showing on the desktop with udev_151-10.
Oh, Yes I did restart.
I have now been able to reproduce the problem on 151-7. The issue here is that it is transient. Running cdrom_id on /dev/sr1 gave me differing values of ID_CDROM_MEDIA_STATE, including "appendable", "complete", "other" and "blank." On a hunch, I ran "sudo udevadm trigger" 9 times. On the 9th time, the blank cd icon appeared (it was not present for the previous 8). I ran it once more, and the blank cd icon disappeared.
I took a look at the profiles that are being reported from the "GET CONFIGURATION" command, and none of them report that they are the current profile, and yet the header reports 0x02 as the current profile. I also submitted a patch (hopefully) to the hotplug mailing list that fixes the enumeration of cd profiles, as the bounds checking was off.
I wonder if the best way to solve this is to actually go through the profile list yourself?
> I have now been able to reproduce the problem on 151-7.
Can you please retry with -10?
thanks for the trace. I have a rough idea why this happens for you, but since it's a totally different root cause, would you mind opening a new bug, since this is closed? Thanks!
Still have this issue here - not sure if it is the same thing though .
forestpiskie, this looks similar to John Yate's problem. So perhaps you can subscribe to John's new bug, or you file a new one and John subscribes to it. You don't get a phantom media for sr0, though, just for sr1, right?
My issue is the blank cd problem, and yes it happens on 151-10. 151-10 just solidified the problem where it gets detected as blank because you initialize everything now, and there's no chance for it to be random (unless you get random back).
"forestpiskie, this looks similar to John Yate's problem. So perhaps you can subscribe to John's new bug, or you file a new one and John subscribes to it. You don't get a phantom media for sr0, though, just for sr1, right?"
If and when I can find out what new bug number is I will subscibe add to that one.
forestpiskie, it's probably bug 562978 (I still need some debug data from Mike Brudevold to be 100% sure).


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In Ford, presented across territory created for China.
Previously, this name was in the company model in Australia, which was released in 2004-2016.
The novelty is based on the Chinese budget SUV Yusheng S330, implemented in China at least $ 7,300. From the "donor" platform our hero has a different front end, wheel disks, front panel, and logo.
The list of available options includes an emergency auto-braking system with possible recognition of pedestrians, an active "cruise", a control system for "dead" zones and a brand new multimedia with support for wireless LTE networks.
The engine compartment of the new Ford Territory remains unknown. Preliminary data indicate that there will be a 1.5-liter 4-cylinder 165-hp engine, which is present just in Yusheng S330.
Publicly the new Ford Territory debuts in September at the Auto Show in Chengdu. Production of cross-country will be at the Jiangling Motors Corporation.