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How women are entering more in engineering industry?
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Women are entering more in engineering industry
Despite the great pace made towards gender equality over the last century. There are still some industries where women underrepresented in the workforce. Today, engineering is one of those industries. Various efforts were being made to increase the number of females working in STEM fields. But only 14 percent of all professionals working in the Best BTech Colleges in Rajasthan are women.
However, an unbalanced ratio of male professionals in engineering, it does not describe the whole story of the state of the industry. The number of women engineers are consistently growing over the last several decades. By adding a large number of qualified women to the engineering industry or workforce.
How professional organizations are partnering?
Professionals work directly with superintendents to understand which needs help in infusing exciting STEM curriculum into the classroom. Sometimes, the engineering college bring teachers into their facilities for externships. Providing them hands-on experiences that they take back to their classrooms. Colleges are becoming partners with teachers, and also visit classrooms periodically to discuss their current work. And also, answer questions about career opportunities. This will provide career role models that many students are seeking nowadays.
As a result, nobody can deny the fact that the number of female engineering students is on the continuous rise. It has been found that the number of women interested in studying STEM subjects. Including engineering in college have been increased more than that of their male counterparts. In general, engineering was being considered by more than 20 percent of female respondents and a 16 percent increase has been seen over the period of the last seven years.
The increase in female engineers
When engineering became a popular career choice for the aspirants of Best Engineering Colleges, working in math and science was not a common career path for women. With the change in time and the inclusion of STEM fields, large number of women are pursuing careers that interest them without worrying about gender stereotypes.
Several factors have contributed to this trend. Research has been conducted by the graduates of engineering colleges in Rajasthan which shows that many K through 12 schools and universities like are making intentional efforts to encourage women to enter the industry. By making STEM subjects for students earlier in their academic career and then following up with accurate resources at the collegiate level, women are more expected to pursue a career in the field of engineering.
Addressing gender barriers in the field
Despite the increased interest in top engineering colleges in Rajasthan among women, there are still various challenges that are contributing to the continued gender inequality. The most important barrier is the lack of female role models in the field. Due to this, the number of women in the field is low and there are also few female leaders in engineering, which can make it difficult for new generations of female engineers to find professional mentors associated with the industry.
Leveraging resources to promote women engineers
To continue to encourage women to enter the top btech colleges, universities, companies, and professional organizations alike need to leverage several valuable resources. Creating a conducive atmosphere for all kinds of engineers let the industry will become stronger as a whole. Women stay in engineering because they want to make sure they are making a difference that will further make the retention levels higher.
A study has been conducted by the students of top engineering colleges in Rajasthan which emphasized the importance of gender-integrated teams in the workplace. According to the research, it is found that focusing on the team as a whole, rather than individuals. Both helped professionals in their career, and improved the participation of women in the engineering field. Also, peer relationships are complex for maintaining entry-level female employees and helping them to succeed.
Leading by example in the field
While women engineers may still be the minority in the engineering industry. Many females have become very successful in the industry. These women are breaking stereotypes and showing others that engineers can succeed in the engineering industry, without considering gender. For instance, a woman working as a vice president of engineering and product management at Google can become the company's first female engineers despite their engineering college, branch or industry.
Taking important roles in the industry by women helps to shape the environment of the workplace to be more welcoming to other female engineers.
Setting yourself apart as a female in engineering
With then advancement in the engineering field, today is the time to consider furthering your career. There is a high demand for engineering professionals in various industries, and salary expectations are promising.
The most important way to set you apart in a competitive field is through earning and getting a master's degree from top BTech colleges in Rajasthan. The degree of Master of Engineering will provide you the specialized knowledge you need to succeed in the field. Also, it provides you with valuable skills. That will equip you to take on a leadership role in an engineering organization. It is an immediate signal to employers. That students not only have the in-depth experience it takes to succeed in a more senior role. But that you dedicated to pursuing excellence in the field.
The engineering industry at top engineering colleges enables an individual to complete a master's program. While simultaneously working in the field. The flexibility of an online degree makes it especially appealing. If they wish to continue in their current position while furthering their education.
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VIENNA (AP) — The countries of the OPEC oil cartel will discuss increasing their production by about 1 million barrels a day at a meeting Friday that could influence the cost of energy globally in coming months.
The group's largest producer, Saudi Arabia, is seen to be open to higher production but Iran has been hesitant as U.S. sanctions are hindering its ability to export. U.S. President Donald Trump has been calling publicly for the cartel to help lower prices.
A production increase would help undo a 1.2 million barrel cut OPEC agreed on in late 2016 that has since helped push up the price of oil by almost 50 percent. Non-OPEC countries like Russia had agreed to cut 600,000 barrels a day of their own production as part of the deal in 2016, and they will discuss with OPEC on Saturday whether to participate in a production increase.
He said he thinks $70 per barrel would be a "very good" oil price. The international benchmark, Brent, was at $74.19 a barrel on Friday.
The production limits by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia have helped increase oil prices, with the benchmark U.S. crude contract hitting its highest level in more than three years in May. Some analysts note that while Trump has blamed OPEC, his policies have also helped increase the cost of oil by, for example, limiting exports from Iran.
Yergin said Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates support the current, tougher U.S. policy toward Iran, Saudi Arabia's rival for influence in the region, and so will want to support Trump's call for higher production and lower prices.


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Schema therapy is a form of cognitive-behavioural therapy that is effective when individuals suffer from long standing difficulties with anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. The concept of a 'schema' is used to describe a blueprint that the individual has developed about themselves, the world and other people and which are often at the core of their emotional difficulties.
In schema therapy, the main focus of the therapeutic work is to identify core schemas and how they might have contributed to maladaptive patterns that are present in the person's life and which prevent them from having a meaningful life and meaningful relationships. Some of the core schemas that this therapy focuses on are ones of abandonment, defectiveness, emotional deprivation, mistrust and social isolation.
Another term used in schema therapy is 'modes' which are defined as self states or parts of the self that might often not be integrated. When working with modes in schema therapy the therapist tries to understand how a frustration of childhood needs might have led the person to develop a range of coping modes to survive and manage their experience which might be preventing them from leading a fulfilling life and having meaningful relationships.
Schema therapy developed for individuals who might not benefit from traditional CBT due to the more ongoing nature of their difficulties. Schema therapy is an evidence based approach and is particularly effective in the treatment of personality disorders. It is an integrative approach that blends cognitive, behavioural and experiential techniques. The therapeutic relationship in schema therapy is one of limited re-parenting in that the therapist tries to offer an antidote to the client's early experiences by tailoring the relationship to help them get their unmet needs met.
Your therapist will give you various questionnaires to complete to formulate your early maladaptive schemas and modes.
You and your therapist will develop a shared understanding of your difficulties called a case conceptualisation.
You and your therapist are likely to form a close bond.
The therapy tends to be of medium to long term duration often ranging from six months to two years.


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Legislators seek ideas to improve digital healthcare landscape
A white paper released Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee seeks information on how to improve the digital healthcare landscape.
The 21st Century Cures initiative, launched last April by the committee, aims to "accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery cycle to get promising new treatments and cures to patients more quickly," according to the white paper.
Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), commenting on the paper, said that technology has great potential to help our healthcare system evolve. "As we work toward a path to cures, we must always be improving and evolving, embracing the technologies of today as we pursue the treatments for tomorrow," Upton (pictured) said.
Committee members, however, are concerned about potential overregulation.
A letter sent from the committee to National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo earlier this month questioned the role of the ONC in regulating health IT. The committee wrote that the agency appears to be "overstepping" its authority as it pertains to plans to "regulate software and other health IT products" via a Health IT Safety Center called for in the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act report, released jointly in April by ONC, FDA and the Federal Communications Commission.
The Office of the National Coordinator recently outlined a 10-year plan to develop an interoperable health IT ecosystem that can improve population health, boost patient engagement and lower costs.
Some of the questions the 21st Century Cures initiative looks to answer via the white paper include:
How can increased use of technology improve patient care?
How can Congress ensure such innovation continues while mitigating risks?
What needs to be done to create legal and regulatory framework that accounts for new technologies?
The initiative also is considering how patient privacy may be affected by data analysis and how to address privacy concerns and informed consent to data collection.
The committee said it wants to create a regulatory framework that not only keeps privacy at the forefront, but also allows development and innovation when it comes to treatments and cures for patients.
The committee will accept the public's input and feedback through July 22.
- read the white paper (.pdf)
- read the accompanying announcement

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Q: Python - Calculating distances from two different list of long/lat I have two data-frames with longitude and latitudes coordinates. df1 has 20 coordinates and df2 has 600 coordinates.  What I am trying got do is to take each coordinate in df1 and find the closest coordinate in df. For example the first coordinate in df1 is 52.2296756, 21.0122287, so i have to create the loop somehow to take these two values and calculate the distance against every coordinate in df2 and return the one with the shortest distance.
I have this code so far:
import geopy.distance
import pandas as pd

coords_1 = (52.2296756, 21.0122287)
coords_2 = (52.406374, 16.9251681)

print(geopy.distance.vincenty(coords_1, coords_2).km)

How would i write this function to take the first coordinate from df1 and perform calculation against every coordinates in df and return the closest one?

A: Well, you can iterate through your dataframe and calculate the distance one by one, but I don't recommend it if you have bigger data.
# Find the minimum distances
min_distances = []
longitudes = []
latitudes = []

for index1, row1 in df1.iterrows():
  coords_1 = (row1['longitude'], row1['latitude'])
  min_distance = 0
  long = 0
  lat = 0

  for index2, row2 in df2.iterrows():
    coords_2 = (row2['longitude'], row2['latitude'])

    if min_distance == 0:
      min_distance = geopy.distance.vincenty(coords_1, coords_2).km
      continue

    distance = geopy.distance.vincenty(coords_1, coords_2).km
    if distance < min_distance:
      min_distance = distance
      long = row2['longitude']
      lat = row2['latitude']

  min_distances.append(min_distance)
  longitudes.append(long)
  latitudes.append(lat)

# Create a column based on the result
df1['min_distance'] = min_distances
df1['long'] = longitudes
df1['lat'] = latitudes

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Includes a chapter on the War Brides of World War One. Will be available in Canada from Dundern Publishing in May 2009.
Includes a chapter on the WWI War Brides of New Brunswick.
War bride Gertrude Mack and her husband Charles Bruce. Photo courtesy of her granddaughter, L. Verhulst. Sadly Gertrude died shortly after arriving in Canada.
Gould, Florence E. "A War Bride Journey in 1917." Okanagan History: The Thirty-seventh Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1974, 48-51.
Holmes, Peggy and Joy Roberts. It Could Have Been Worse: The Autobiography of a Pioneer. Don Mills, Ontario: Collins Publishers, 1980.
Holmes, Peggy. Still Soaring. Edmonton: Loon Books, 1987.
McKenna, M. Olga. Micmac by Choice: Elsie Sark--An Island Legend. Halifax, NS: Formac, 1990.
Morton, Desmond. Fight or Pay: Soldiers' Families in the Great War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004.
Nash, Kate M. The Tales of Kitty Luckhurst. No place: privately printed, 1976.
Strange, Kathleen. With The West In Her Eyes: The Story Of A Modern Pioneer. Toronto: MacMillian Company of Canada Limited, 1945.
It has been almost ninety years since the end of the First World War, yet little is known about the war brides who came to Canada after the war. This web page was created to promote and preserve the history of the war brides who made Canada their home during this era.
During the war, over 600,000 men joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and 424,000 went overseas to fight in Europe or were housed at military training camps in England. A large percentage of the wounded soldiers spent time at hospitals in the British Isles or traveled there while on leave. Many soldiers fell in love with the women they met during their extended stay. By war's end, Canadian soldiers were marrying British and European women at the rate of 1000 per month.
The Department of Immigration and Colonization repatriated over 54,500 soldiers' dependents to Canada in all. Approximately 17,000 returned to Canada between July 1917 and November 1918. After the armistice a further 37, 748 came to Canada by the end of 1919. Those who traveled between 1917 and mid-January 1919 were not given free transportation but were offered a special rate on a secure ship. By the end of 1919, they could be reimbursed for their passage based on 3rd class rates by applying to the government.
These statistics, however, are for the number of soldiers' dependents that arrived in Canada after WWI. A large number of the dependents were the wives of Canadian soldiers who traveled to Britain to be near their soldier husbands. Many of these dependents were British-born and had recently immigrated to Canada before the war. A number of Canadian wives also traveled to the UK after their husbands were injured.
There are no official figures given for the total number of Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers who married abroad and returned to Canada with a war bride and/or children. A number of former soldiers returned to the British Isles or France to marry the women they met during the war. Also not included are the many young women who traveled to Canada after the war to be married at their own expense.
It has been difficult to ascertain just how many women came to Canada as war brides during this era. By November 1918 reports in the Canadian press estimated that there were at least 20,000 women who had never been to Canada before. By mid-August 1919 that number swelled to 35,000.
Many families traveled to Canada together on troop ships, known as dependents ships, but were berthed in separate locations on the ship. They would meet on deck in the morning, attend activities and if possible, take all their meals together. Later, if the weather permitted, they would spend time on deck. Many wartime romances were rekindled with dancing on deck "C".
Was your mother, grandmother, or any other relative one of these courageous war brides who married a Canadian Expeditionary Force soldier during the First World War? What was her life was like after she set foot on Canadian soil? Do you have any documentation about her life such as photos, diaries, letters or stories that you would like to share? If so, please email me at wwiwarbrides@shaw.ca or avidgenie@hotmail.com . I'd like images and stories that I can use for articles, displays or presentations about these war brides. I plan to write a book about their experiences.
Canada. Dept. of Militia and Defence. The Return Of The Troops: A Plain Account Of The Demobilization Of The Canadian Expeditionary Force. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1920.
My husband's great-uncle served from Moncton, New Brunswick.
You have no idea how thrilled I was when a friend sent me your site. This is pure gold for me. I am writing a novel set in WW1 featuring a NS lobsterman who goes to war, meets a Scottish girl in Franch, goes home early because he loses a leg and sends for her. I need to find out how she would have come - maybe even a ship name and date, and how much it would have cost to get her there. I can hardly wait to delve deeper into your blog!


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MORGANTOWN, WV – God has been more than faithful to our open-air efforts at WVU football games all year. Our last game provided more evidence of God's acknowledgement of our prayers and demonstrated His sovereign control over His creation. Though many Mountaineer fans will remember today's game versus Texas as a miserable loss that saw the star QB leave with a broken finger, we'll remember it as God's faithfulness gloriously on display yet again.
Due to hectic schedules, we would finish up the open-air season at WVU football games with only brother Eric Madia and myself. Both of us were all but ready to stay home as the laziness of the flesh and desire to stay dry were heavy. The closer we moved towards our parking area, the harder it continued to rain. During our call with brother Bill Adams of Sports Fan Outreach, whom we partner with for these games, we prayed that God would deal with our flesh, encourage us to press on through the weather, and if it would be His will to dial back the weather long enough for us to distribute Gospel tracts and herald the Gospel. It is truly a blessing to have a brother like Bill that takes a few moments out of his schedule to pray with us before we go out into the mission field. Especially on a day like this when we're ready to quit before we start. It's a gift from God to have someone like Bill to encourage us and spur us on.
Open-air ministry is a lonely ministry to be sure and something that one grows into over time as the realization that God is all one needs to be satisfied and content. He is the One who can be relied upon time and time again. That loneliness is amplified as many in the Body of Christ abdicate their obligation to press beyond the 4 walls of the church house into the trenches to labor. Or to say it another way, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few (Luke 10:2). So when the flesh says "No" in addition to all this, and the elements all around seem to be coming against one, it's extra difficult.
We arrived and left the truck doubting, discouraged, and unsure. We returned afterwards thankful, "full", and Gospel-tired – which is a good kind of tired to be.
Yet, some of the most profitable times of ministry I've experienced have come after there's been a significant resistance to the effort earlier in the day. And this day was to be no different (watch video clips here). Though the rain stopped and only returned in a light drizzle, it seemed we were being fought right until we started preaching. Just steps from our preaching spot, Eric dropped his coffee and box of Gospel tracts. It seemed like we couldn't catch a break!
As I was preaching for the second time, a WVU fan stopped by and was listening to the message. I referenced there being sickness in the world as just one of many results of man rebelling against God in the garden. He seemed to take exception to this and interrupted me to confront me about it (watch video here). He was angry and was twisting my words to say that the people in the hospital across the parking lot were sick because of their sin. I clarified my remark, but he still would not hear. He continued to deny the truth about the effects of sin and walked off blaspheming God with profanities.
Eric had wandered away from our preaching spot to hand out Gospel tracts. While offering them to fans passing by, one drunk fan slapped them out of Eric's hand yelling, "GET THESE F#%*ING THINGS OUT OF HERE!" Eric suffered well, picked up the tracts, and continued. This is the first time things became physical in our 2 years of ministry outside the WVU football games.
The crowds as a whole were more aggressive than usual. This was primarily due to the weather. When it is cold and wet, many fans will not tailgate until closer to kickoff. Thus, they try to squeeze 4+ hours of tailgating into an hour or so. This in turn causes them to consume alcohol at a more rapid pace which brings out more drunks than usual. Navigating these crowds can be tricky and one must be selective on who he engages from the box.
If you were to ask me how I'd like to finish out our year at WVU football games, 40 degrees in the rain is definitely not the way. Yet God's ways are higher than ours for sure and His plan is perfect. Fans were engaged, heckling or not, and there were as many one-on-one conversations as the two of us could have. We arrived and left the truck doubting, discouraged, and unsure. We returned afterwards thankful, "full", and Gospel-tired – which is a good kind of tired to be.
Thanks to those who have prayed and/or contributed to our efforts. We look forward to continuing our work next year.


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Home » Swan Boats Dead in the Water at Lincoln Park Zoo
Swan Boats Dead in the Water at Lincoln Park Zoo
by Sam Worley March 10, 2011 August 19, 2021
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A spokesperson said on Tuesday that Lincoln Park Zoo's iconic swan boats, which in the past have dotted the South Pond throughout the summer, won't be coming back this year. The move, possibly temporary, accompanies a $12 million restoration of the South Pond, which reopened last summer (the boats haven't been out on the water since 2008). A zoo rep told the Tribune that new plant life needs a while to take hold; no solid date for the swans' return was given.
Lincoln Park Zoo's first two inhabitants were a pair of swans, gifted from Central Park. Swan boats followed soon after, canopied contraptions with room for a crowd. Donald L. Miller described a typical scene from the era in his 1996 book City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America. What's striking is that the swans were the last holdouts from that era (well—that and electricity). They're gone now, and for that matter so are the nearby working-class neighborhoods that Miller mentions:
On Sunday afternoons, the park's lakes and lagoons were filled with canopied swan boats and with canoes "paddled by gentlemen in high stiff collars, their ladies holding dainty parasols and trailing fingers in the water."* And on dirt diamonds young men in shirtsleeves played the "American Game." As many as twenty thousand people would be in the park on sunny Sundays, many walking with their big wooden picnic baskets from working-class neighborhoods that had begun to appear north and west of the park. Electric lights were introduced in the 1880s, and summer crowds that stayed on into the evening would gather around Yerkes's electric fountain to see the colored water display, young couples discreetly breaking away to walk hand in hand along the gaslit lake promenade, the moon throwing a silver trail across the black water. "No Chicago millionaire," wrote George Ade, "has such a magnificent front yard."
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Once you have achieved product – market fit, which means, you have a product people want to buy, in a growing market and you can attract repeatable sales, it's time to scale and enter the rapid-growth phase.
When scaling your startup, one of the most important tasks as founder or CEO is getting the people side of your business right.
While it's a monumental achievement to come up with a new business idea, acquire initial customers and raise capital, to truly build a scalable company, hiring and managing the right people makes continuous rapid growth actually possible.
At IntelligenceBank, a SaaS business process management company, over the past couple of years, we grew our customer base and sales very fast and experienced first-hand what it takes to get the 'human side' right for scale. Here are some lessons we learned along the way.
One of the biggest shifts to the human side of your business is that the role of the start-up CEO needs to evolve. Instead of the CEO doing everything (which is initially essential to getting a business off the ground), with scale comes the need to delegate.
That means hiring a great team of managers who can make decisions, lead people and essentially replicate parts of what the CEO did – and even do it better. While this seems like an obvious concept, it is sometimes hard for CEO's to let go, and to also find a professional management team to whom they can hand over the reins.
When I initially raised capital in 2013, we had some great leaders in place, however, our management team was not fully established. This meant my day was filled with operational tasks and strategic issues didn't get enough breathing room.
Once we hired a couple of new key management positions, I knew we had reached the next stage of operational scale when I no longer had to be at every major client meeting, or participate in product development decisions.
I'm a firm believer that every decision you make needs to be suitable for your company's stage. Just like to you need to find the right investors for your company size, you need to also hire the right team who can take your business to the next level.
There are some people who are really good at early stage start-ups, but once you hit a certain size, it's all about processes and the people who can 'just get it done' early on aren't necessarily the same people who are good at putting in systems.
You actually need both types of people as you scale and it's important to recognize when you need to add more skills to your talent pool. It's also key to bring in new people who have taken companies to your next stage before, so you can learn from their successes and mistakes and not have to figure it all out yourself.
When you are small (i.e. under 10 people), managing performance is relatively easy because it's clear who is doing what and how well.
When you have more than 20 people on staff, that's when it gets complicated. IntelligenceBank has simplified the employee feedback process to ensure everyone is heard and the organization continually improves based on operational feedback.
First, each year we run an all staff survey called Start.Stop.Keep – whereby all staff recommend things we should start doing, stop doing and keep doing. This paints a very accurate picture of what's working and what needs fixing.
The results are shared with everyone, and the management team are given action items to address key issues. With this process in place, everyone feels heard and things get done.
Second – we are passionate about doing regular one-on-one coaching reviews so we can ensure people are successful in their jobs and we help them succeed along the way, not just give them feedback at the end of the year. While we do conduct formal annual reviews – we find there are amazing coaching opportunities that emerge over a casual cup of coffee.
As we started to grow, we looked at professionalizing our review process, with advanced employee assessment frameworks. Unfortunately, these frameworks required a full-time HR person to manage – which was a luxury position for us at the time.
So instead, I thought about the core of what we value as a business, which is being positive, going the extra mile, continually improving and performance. It is our view that you can teach some things such as a new programming language, but for an employee to be successful, he or she needs only two traits: a great attitude and great performance.
When we came to this conclusion, we looked around the office and realized that while most people had these two traits, some had one but not the other, so we quickly focussed on upskilling when possible to get the performance piece right, and actively migrated out the people who couldn't get there from a performance perspective or who didn't have aligned values and attitude.
Now when we hire new staff, we look for these two traits with rigor and have made very few hires that were a poor fit since.
Our US sales director, who is also a coach on the weekends always talks about 'impact players'. That is – getting people on the team who aren't just going to warm a seat and do their job, but people who are going to move the business forward.
When you have a 1000+-person company – you will have seat warmers, and that's reality. But when you are small and every person counts 110%, don't hire just to fill a role – but wait for the person who will truly make a difference to their position and to the overall business.
Creating a high-growth business is no small task. You of course need a great idea, but the hardest part is impeccable implementation and to effectively execute – you need great people who will drive the business. So by getting the human side of the business right, you will ultimately make scaling your business easier.
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Prime Minister launches process to select the next justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today launched the process to select the next justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, who will fill the vacancy created by the upcoming retirement of Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella.
The Prime Minister also announced the members of the Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments. This non-partisan board is responsible for identifying candidates who are jurists of the highest caliber, functionally bilingual, and representative of the diversity of our country. The seven-member advisory board will be chaired by former Prime Minister Kim Campbell. The advisory board will review applications, and submit a shortlist of highly qualified candidates for consideration by the Prime Minister.
Justice Abella was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada from the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004. In recognition of the convention of regional representation, the process will be open to all qualified applicants from Ontario.
"To appoint the next justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, we are launching an open and independent process that will identify the most exceptional Canadian lawyers and judges, while recognizing regional representation and the diversity of our country. On behalf of all Canadians, I also thank Justice Abella, the court's longest-serving member, for her leadership, excellence, and dedication on our highest court over the past 17 years."
Qualifying candidates who wish to be considered for the upcoming vacancy must submit an application package no later than 23:59 Pacific time on April 2, 2021.
Those interested in applying are encouraged to first review the statutory requirements set out in the Supreme Court Act, and the qualifications and assessment criteria that will guide the advisory board in evaluating a candidate's suitability.
Candidates may demonstrate they satisfy the geographical requirement by reference to their bar membership, judicial appointment, or other relationship with the province of Ontario.
In 2016, the Government of Canada announced a new process for Supreme Court of Canada judicial appointments. It included the creation of an independent and non-partisan advisory board to identify qualified and suitable candidates for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.
The following members have been named to the advisory board:
The Right Honourable Kim Campbell (Chairperson): former Prime Minister of Canada and Canadian Consul General, and the Founding Principal of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta.
Erika Chamberlain: Dean of Law, University of Western Ontario.
The Honourable Louise Charron: retired justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Signa A. Daum Shanks: Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School.
David Henry: Chief Executive Officer, Association des services de réhabilitation sociale du Québec.
Jill Perry: Managing lawyer, Nova Scotia Legal Aid.
Beverley Noel Salmon: former municipal councillor, and Commissioner, Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Justice Abella will retire from the Supreme Court of Canada effective July 1, 2021.
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During the event, for the players who have never recharged before, you can get the following gift packs by recharging the minimum amount.
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Wednesday WTF: Britain can do coalition government. Why can't we?
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When Harper prorogued parliament in the closing days of 2009, Canadians took to the streets. Creative Commons photo by Fifth Business.
Britain's five days of post-election limbo are over as David Cameron, Conservative Party leader and now Prime Minister, announced Britain's first peacetime coalition government since the 1930s. Ushering in an era of cross-bench unity, Cameron's Conservatives will join forces with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democratic Party. Cameron has appointed six Liberal Democrats to the cabinet, including Clegg as his Deputy Prime Minister. In a press conference held today, Cameron said: "We are not just announcing a new government and new ministers. We are announcing a new politics. A new politics where the national interest is more important than party interest, where co-operation wins out over confrontation, where compromise, give and take, reasonable, civilized, grown-up behaviour is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength." Clegg added, "Until today, we have been rivals: now we are colleagues. That says a lot about the scale of the new politics which is now beginning to unfold."
If reading this makes you wonder, as I did, what it would take to see a similar spirit of cooperation sweep Canada's house of commons, it's for a good reason. Canadian minority governments—i.e., the last three consecutive ones—are strangely reluctant to form coalitions. Instead of creating solid coalition governments in which the parties are forced to negotiate—in Cameron's words, creating "a shared agenda and a shared resolve"—Canadian parties tend only to reach across the aisle on a case-by-case basis, leading to constant brinksmanship and partisan sniping.
The exception, of course, came just six weeks after the 2008 elections when an attempted coalition between Liberals and New Democrats, with support from the Bloc Quebecois, would have ousted Stephen Harper's conservative minority government from power, creating a majority coalition on the Hill. Harper, in response, prorogued parliament to allow the Liberal Party to consume itself with infighting and ultimately scuttle the coalition.
While Canadian politics has been defined by six years of minority government—six years during which the NDP has not meaningfully advanced the cause of proportional representation, by the way—British politicians have realized the power of broad support, and look set to overhaul their electoral system, too. It's enough to give a Canadian a serious case of coalition envy.
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Syria's ongoing war has caused one of the largest migration movements in modern history. The United Nations estimates over six million Syrians are externally displaced, with many more uncounted.
Refugee is a sour word. In the West, there are preconceptions: sad eyed children in camps and inflatable boats. Images of refugees suffering make the pain of war palpable, but don't hint at a future for the people involved. There's a long term reality that goes beyond gut reactions to the horrors of war.
The story for displaced Syrians is still unfolding. I saw this clearly when I started working on this project in Istanbul -- a city that's become a microcosm of life beyond refuge. My project evolved organically to adapt to the scope of Syrian migration. I've followed stories of refugee resettlement and bureaucratic stagnation from the U.S. to Malaysia.
Assimilation offers a new, often less graphic set of challenges for Syrians. Immobility and uncertainty are exacerbated by inconsistencies with documentation, work, and resettlement. Freedom for Syrians in diaspora isn't only about limited movement but continued restrictions on a chance at normality.
Amid challenges, there are triumphs. Creativity and innovation flourish as Syrian lives take root around the world. Although some people are stuck for now, their situations are not permanent but stories of transition.
Coverage of the Syrian diaspora requires attention beyond images of suffering and war, which can fuel xenophobia and Islamophobia. Stories of integration can humanize and challenge prejudice encouraged by Western politics. This project seeks to create a nuanced conversation about refugees and what they can contribute.


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Corporate responsibility in the time of climate change and sustainability development in Vietnam
Organizations will be willing to invest much more than today in addressing climate change over the next three to five years.
A webinar with the theme "Vietnam climate action: Our roles in building a sustainable business" was held this week to debrief Vietnam regulators and business communities on the key results of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and discuss practical solutions on climate actions and sustainability development in Vietnam.
Vietnam is one of the countries most affected by climate change and has a large annual total of GHG emissions (ranked 21st in the world and 2nd in ASEAN). At the webinar, the delegates discussed key commitments and actions stated in the COP26 with recommendations for Vietnam.
They also debated practical solutions from the perspectives of investment fund managers, businesses and professional accountants.
Namely, Dragon Capital Group updated the trends of international investors and regulators where they require investment fund managers to disclose climate-related risks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission information of their portfolio as well as its implication to companies in Vietnam.
Meanwhile Century Synthetic Fiber Corporation brought to participants' meaningful stories of how they are doing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices and its connection to customer attraction and retention, and ultimately business growth with lessons learnt to other businesses.
A recent global research by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) among 3,000 accountants and finance professionals reveal that just 15% say their organizations have set targets to be net zero compliant by 2050, and only 38% say their organizations will be willing to invest much more than today in addressing climate change over the next 3 to 5 years.
Participants attend the webinar. Photo: The Hanoi Times
The key findings from ACCA's report "Climate action and the accountancy profession: building a sustainable future" have shown the gap between the good intentions of organizations, and the urgent and speedy need for climate action.
The climate agenda will redefine the world of business over the coming decades and meeting the climate action is a long-term process. There is a critical need for leaders, whether in governments, the private or public sectors, to grasp the scale of this challenge and to respond to it.
The accountancy profession has a critical role to play in this by bringing an integrated approach that places sustainability at the heart of organizational decision making, rather than it being an additional consideration.
This approach links strategy and governance to data-driven decision making and rigorous measurement of performance using science-based targets, coherent reporting and trustworthy assurance of information used by stakeholders.
"I am pleased that more and more international companies are prioritizing the green agenda in their business models, through high ESG standards, as well as robust and transparent climate reporting. Whilst much progress has been made on climate action, there is of course more to be done and together. We as the UK continue to stand ready to offer our support to Vietnam, through policy dialogue, expertise, and finance", stated Her Majesty Ambassador (HMA) Mr Gareth Ward, British Ambassador in Vietnam.
Le Cong Dien, Director of Public Companies Supervision Department, State Securities Commission, highly appreciated the effort of the webinar co-organizers and supporting partners.
"Such an event would bring many benefits for businesses in Vietnam where they could find practical ideas and meaningful lessons for their next plan of sustainable development. More importantly, it makes contribution to supporting businesses in the market to heighten the standards of sustainability to solve climate issues faster," Dien said.
"It is great to see how active and creative businesses are in designing and accelerating solutions that balance business performance and sustainable goals. Vietnam Chamber if Commerce and Industry (VCCI) are supporting the climate efforts by connecting our members with businesses and organizations which share the same vision to devise effective strategies for their sustainable development," shared Pham Hoang Hai, partnership development head of Vietnam Business Council for Sustainable Development under the VCCI.
As the leading international professional body, ACCA has launched an online Sustainability Hub in 2021 that provides finance professionals around the world with access to highly relevant resources and knowledge, which enables them to rise to this global challenge.
"We are also glad that the Sustainability Reporting Awards (SRA) led by ACCA for the last nine years as part of the annual Vietnam Listed Company Reporting Awards has brought about positive changes in how listed companies build and implement sustainability strategy. This helps businesses to improve their accountancy capabilities both to lead long-term value creation within sustainable economies, and to champion responsible practices in the public interest," added Ren Varma, portfolio head of ACCA Mainland Southeast Asia.
ACCA also revealed that with the sponsor from Dragon Capital Group, they would provide 20 scholarships of ACCA Certificate of Sustainability to key staff of State Securities Commission, Stock Exchange of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE), Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX), selected listed companies, research institutes and media outlets.
"We are committed to Vietnam for the long-term; therefore, the long-term interests of the country are the same as ours. We believe that climate change, GHG emission and biodiversity loss are interrelated and inseparable threats to businesses and communities. We are therefore evolving our capabilities to ensure that we meet our obligations of addressing this global challenge through our role as an active long-term investor", emphasized Dominic Scriven, Chairman of Dragon Capital Group.
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Project Unify is a peace movement, which aims to remove misconceptions between different countries and nations.
Jehanzeb Mirza, co-founder of the Project Unify is a young social entrepreneur and student from Pakistan. Interested in an aeronautical engineer and playing guitar. Being a photographer, web designer and many other things have created a consistent development and progress for the whole project.
– Project Unify, co-founder. – Ambassador of Pakistan at The Best Travelled – Graduate of Winnington School.
Asad Jamal Malik, co-founder of the Project Unify is a student at the United World College of Maastricht, originally from Pakistan. He has tried learning many different things (web design, guitar, blogging, graphic works and photography to name a few). Changing technologies and talks about the future are his inspirations for making a change in the world.
If you think you have something to offer to the Project Unify team and want to be a part of it. Please contact us through our email address "projectunifyinfo@gmail.com".


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Digital Pharmacist gets $6.5M for pharmacy apps and engagement tools
By Heather Mack June 7, 2017
Austin-based Digital Pharmacist, a company that offers prescription management apps, has raised $6.5 million in new funding in a round led by Activate Venture Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners. The company, which was formed in January from a merger of RxWiki and Telemanager, has raised $13.7 million to date. With mobile apps and telecommunication technology, Digital Pharmacist positions...
Digital health news briefs for 5/9/2017
By Jonah Comstock May 9, 2017
Digital stethoscopes found useful in neonatal care. A new study in the British Medical Journals shows that a digital stethoscope (specifically, CliniCloud's digital stethoscope) showed promise for assessing newborn babies' heart rates. The device proved reasonably accurate compared to a 3-lead ECG, particularly when babies weren't crying, the circumstance in which heart rate would normally need...
RxWiki raises $5.7M to help pharmacists communicate with consumers
By Aditi Pai October 26, 2015
Austin, Texas-based RxWiki, which offers a medication encyclopedia written and edited by pharmacists as well as tools to help community pharmacists to communicate with consumers, has raised $5.7 million. This brings the company's total funding to at least $7.7 million to date, according to the Austin Business Journal. Existing investors include Milestone Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners....


COVER STORY: On Wings and Waves, His Life's Path Led to Pa.
DeBock is a natural storyteller, and he has quite a long list of stories to tell. Fifteen years into his retirement from teaching, DeBock stays busy as ever as a published author — writing fantasy, horror, and zombie literature.
As a young man, he achieved his dream of flying like his boyhood hero after taking up the hobby of sport parachuting, and this same drive guided him through an exciting and unconventional path in life before he and his wife, Joy, settled in Central Pennsylvania in 2006.
"I couldn't have known it at the time, but all roads eventually led me back to Hershey, Pa.," laughs DeBock, a New Jersey native.
Born outside of Newark, New Jersey, DeBock grew up with a passion for fishing and swimming; studied art, literature, and writing; and had a young man's desire for adventure, which led him to enlisting in the Marine Corps after his high school graduation.
"I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but after meeting with the Marine recruiter, I thought that would be an avenue where I would mature and figure it out," he says.
After completing boot camp at Parris Island, DeBock was selected to serve in the President's Honor Guard, a prestigious Marine drill group where he would march in parades and ceremonial occasions in Washington, D.C., as well as military funerals at Arlington Cemetery.
His unit also provided security for President Eisenhower at Camp David, and DeBock recounts the time when he was chosen to serve as a lifeguard for then-Vice President Nixon's daughters, who wished to use the pool while on vacation.
DeBock remained in Washington long enough to march in President Kennedy's inaugural parade and to serve as sentry during one of his Camp David visits. His Washington tour over, he transferred to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and participated in the Cuban blockade in 1962.
He was released from active duty in 1963 and returned to his parents' home in Toms River, New Jersey.
"I didn't realize it at the time, of course, but had I reenlisted, I probably would have ended up in Vietnam two years later," he says.
During his time at Camp Lejeune, DeBock would drive to Washington on the weekends, and one Saturday he went on a blind date with a young lady named Joy, whom he would marry in 1964.
They took a winding road trip on their honeymoon, stopping in Hershey to tour the chocolate factory before reaching their destination of Niagara Falls.
This long trip with many unexpected stops along the way would prove to be an overarching theme for their life together.
Before the '60s came to a close, the couple had two children, and DeBock was enrolled at Trenton State College (now College of New Jersey), studying elementary education while working days as a lab technician at a chemical corporation.
DeBock spent 33 years teaching fifth- to eighth-grade English, reading, and social studies.
During this time, he completed a master's degree in media studies and: taught night classes at a local community college; opened a video rental store with Joy; started a wedding video business; dabbled in sport parachuting; and, after earning his pilot's license, he became a 20-year member of the Jersey Aero Club.
DeBock recounts flying friends and family into the small airport adjoining Hersheypark to spend the day in Chocolatetown, as well as bringing groups of schoolchildren to the park on field trips during his teaching years.
Then there was the time he sold most of his earthly belongings to move onto a 42-foot trawler yacht with Joy.
"The kids were out of the house by this time, and we'd done a lot of research and just decided to try the live-aboard life," he says.
Life on the yacht, which they named Homeroom, included summer cruises up and down the East Coast with friends and family. After three years as live-aboards, he and Joy sold the boat and designed and built a home on riverfront property in Toms River.
DeBock retired from teaching in 2003, and not surprisingly, has stayed consistently busy ever since.
A lifelong horror fan, DeBock says his writing career began as a whim.
"I just wanted to see if I could do it. And then my short story about werewolves turned into a novel, and that turned into the Pentacle Pendant trilogy, blending horror and historical fiction that stretches back to the time of King James," he says.
This trilogy was followed by fantasy and adventure novels, and his most recent work is a trilogy of zombie novels co-authored with award-winning horror writer Ralph W. Bieber.
DeBock has also authored a media education plan published by the state of New Jersey and contributed to essays appearing in Time magazine and on ABC World News Tonight.
He and Bieber will appear at the Scares that Care Charity Weekend in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first weekend in August, to display and sell their work.
In his limited free time, DeBock likes to stay active at the gym and remains in contact with more than 300 of his former students on social media.
DeBock and his wife are looking forward to celebrating their upcoming 54th wedding anniversary with a Viking ocean cruise through Scandinavian countries in Europe, having already crossed the U.S. by car in 2011.
"Joy's encouragement on these adventures, and her participation in many, inspired me in too many ways to count. Our children and three grandchildren are continuing sources of pride and inspiration as well," he says.
On the cover, clockwise from left: During his teaching years, DeBock flew friends and family from New Jersey into the small airport adjoining Hersheypark.
The Homeroom, the 42-year trawler yacht on which the DeBocks lived for three years.


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