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How Organization Design Drives Value
by Marjorie Kelly
In the minds of many entrepreneurs, taking a company public, with shares trading on a public stock exchange, represents the pinnacle of success–a dream come true. For EA Engineering founder Loren Jensen, that dream proved a nightmare.
Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, EA Engineering, Science and Technology is an environmental consulting firm with 500 employees and $140 million in annual revenue. For more than a decade, the firm traded on NASDAQ, but after initial success the company cycled through three presidents, saw morale plummet, and found itself in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting misstatements. Pressure for aggressive growth had clashed with the company's scientific culture, damaging its environmental mission.
Jensen led a move to buy the company back in 2001. He then worked with new president Ian MacFarlane to transition to 100 percent employee ownership through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). MacFarlane also organized the firm as a benefit corporation, embedding in its DNA a commitment to the environment and community.
The company has prospered ever since. Its design keeps its environmental mission in the hands of genuine stewards, employees, rather than in the hands of absentee owners removed from the organization's life. "Now we focus on who we are and what we're doing. We returned immediately to the task of understanding environmental problems and knowing what to do about them," Jensen said. "Nobody buys stock except in the hope of a good return on investment. The problem this poses for a company like EA is you confuse the goals. It was very difficult to manage in that environment."
EA Engineering is one of multiple companies examined by my organization, the Democracy Collaborative, in research aimed at answering questions critical to 21st century enterprise design and the future of our planet: Are mission-controlled, employee-owned companies better environmental stewards than conventional finance-controlled corporations? Could these be the harbingers of next generation enterprise design?
If our goal is to design an economy that lives within planetary boundaries, we need to better understand the relationship between enterprise design and sustainability outcomes. Environmental advocates generally make the "business case" for sustainability, but research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that such steps resulted in commercial benefits for only 37% of firms.
As U.K. sustainability consultant Carina Millstone observes in Frugal Value, true sustainability cannot be driven purely by commercial concerns. It requires moral decision-making. What enterprise designs enable and encourage moral decision-making?
Our research findings, though still preliminary, point to an emerging model, viable in today's economy: the employee-owned B Corporation or benefit corporation. Weaving together worker ownership with mission-driven governance, this model embodies design elements required for true environmental sustainability.
In this model, mission is embedded through the B Corporation nonprofit certification process, or the benefit incorporation framework in state law. Among B Corporations, we have identified 35 employee-owned firms, including Eileen Fisher, King Arthur Flour, New Belgium Brewing, Namaste Solar, and Gardener's Supply. In these companies, founders avoided sale to financial owners, instead passing ownership to employees as stewards, embedding a commitment to social and ecological benefit in governing documents. The companies show an alternative exit for founders, rather than going public and facing the multiple pressures that make it more difficult to have a deep sustainability mission.
Shareholders in publicly traded companies are large in number, geographically remote, disengaged from companies, and structurally unable to effectively voice social and ecological responsibility. Creating shareholders with different characteristics–fewer in number, close to the firm, engaged, committed to a common social or environmental mission–could help create companies compatible with an environmentally sustainable economy. In this configuration, owners can become moral agents.
Eileen Fisher Inc. is a good example. A $440 million company that designs and markets women's clothing, it is 40% employee owned, a B Corp, and a leader in human rights and sustainability. Founder Eileen Fisher's vision is of a world where business is a force for good. As the company website says, "Our vision is for an industry where human rights and sustainability are not the effect of a particular initiative, but the cause of a business well run. Where social and environmental injustices are not unfortunate outcomes, but reasons to do things differently."
Fisher at one time thought about selling to another company. When Fisher met the CEO of Liz Claiborne and asked why she wanted to buy the company, that CEO said, "We can't meet our mandated target of 10 percent annual growth without buying other companies." As Fisher said, "I realized that most people were interested in what they could get out of the company, not what they could give to it."
Instead, Fisher decided on an ESOP, in which shares are held in trust for employees until they retire or leave. The average equity share of employee-owners in an ESOP is $134,000, according to Rutgers University employee-ownership expert Joseph Blasi; this is almost 10 times the average retirement account for American households headed by someone between the ages of 55 and 64 ($14,500). The ESOP ensures that, when Fisher retires, the company will be owned by "the people who put their blood sweat and tears into it; the people who love it and care about it and think about it every day," as Fisher said. That's very different from owners who see the company as a way to extract maximum short-term profits.
Employee-owned benefit corporations–like Eileen Fisher and EA Engineering–embody a powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of ecological sustainability and social equity, a corporate design for the 21st century and beyond.


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Q: uniquely identify html id

$("#Apple1 #Round")
$("#Apple2 #Round")
$("#Apple3 #Round")

Basically i have multiple div different wrapper div id and same inner div id.
can i use jquery this way to uniquely identify div tag?

A: id by definition should be already unique, I'll go as far as saying it's invalid to have more than one of the same id in a HTML page.
You can use class if you want:

...

Then
$('#Apple1 .Round');
//etc

A: Yes, you can, but having multiple elements with the same id is not valid HTML under any standard.

A: id must be unique, use a class for "Round" instead, then to target identify the round inside a unique id div.
$('#Apple1 .Round')

A: You can't repeat ID's in a  page, they must be unique. Switch your repeating ID's to class

Then you do what you were trying originally
 $('#Apple1 .Round').doSomething()

A: Id must be unique. You must use class instead of your id "round".

Than you can query jquery this way:
$("#Apple1 .Round")
$("#Apple2 .Round")
$("#Apple3 .Round")

A:

$("#Apple1").children()
$("#Apple2").children()
$("#Apple3").children()

A: Yes dude .
You can use this. But ID must be unique. So its better make it class

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Home » Future Facilities Releases Third Video In Binghamton University ES2 Research Project Series
Future Facilities Releases Third Video In Binghamton University ES2 Research Project Series
Collaboration between simulation engineering software provider Future Facilities and the State University of New York demonstrates capacity potential for data centers.
KEYWORDS data center design / data centers / energy efficient data centers
Future Facilities North America (Future Facilities NA) has announced the completion of a three-part video series with the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2) based at Binghamton University, (BU) State University of New York. ES2, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, is a collaboration among government, industry, and academia to improve energy efficiency and reliability in data centers. The space is Binghamton University's unique 4,500-sq-ft data center laboratory with raised floor construction, dedicated to ES2 research.
Through the examples of experiments run in this facility, the video series explores how data centers can use simulation engineering to test capacity and cooling scenarios as well as plan for future configurations with zero risk.
Over the last three years, Future Facilities has collaborated with ES2 researchers to conduct several experiments in the data center environment. Engineering simulation, performed with the use of Future Facilities' 6SigmaDCX software, allowed researchers to test cooling solutions and hardware placement in the data center whitespace in a virtual environment before implementing physically. The third video, completed at the end of 2016, concludes the series.
The first video, "The Start of Something Great..." introduces the project and researchers. The second video, "Uncovering the Value of Calibrating Data Center CFD Models," explores the use of models in understanding change in a data center environment. Several examples of standard data center equipment captured by Future Facilities' software are offered, including a downflow cooling unit by Liebert, servers by Dell, and floor tiles by Tate. At this stage, Future Facilities also built a virtual model of the ES2facility at BU to its exact specifications.
The third video, "Operational Planning," examines using data from these experiments to plan ideal operational layouts and cooling configuration for maximum capacity and optimized OpEx. The project allowed researchers to evaluate change before implementing a solution. This provides an advantage as applicable to research experiments as it is to everyday data center operations when working in a critical environment, as the ability to understand performance prior to change removes risk.
"Our collaboration with ES2 at Binghamton University explores new potential for data center operations outside of the research environment," said Sherman Ikemoto, director of Future Facilities NA. "Predicting the impact of future change ensures certain success, now mandatory for today's critical facility operations. Engineering simulation for the data center offers valuable insight for operators to make informed choices, thus avoiding downtime and increasing the financial value of the business."
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Schneider Electric Launches University Relations Program to Grow Energy Management Skills in Future Workforce
Future Facilities Releases Enhanced 6SigmaDCX Software
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Handbook of Data Center Management, Second Edition (CRC Press Revivals)
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Q: Ubuntu Command line email sending I am trying to send an email to myself.
I have tried sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils followed by
mail -s "This is the subject" --append=FROM:myemail@gmail.com

Then i get:
To:
Cc:
...

I enter the info in the To and Cc spaces followed by pressing enter. But, then it just gives me empty space. I click enter and it just keeps giving me new lines. Then I click ctrl^C twice and it kills the email. I just want to send it.

A: Use Control-d to end it. Please see this Source https://linux.die.net/man/1/mail.

A: Make sure to add a relay host if you have one if the /etc/postfix/main.cf file


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Q: Microstack network multi-node I've managed to install a mulit-node microstack on google cloud. But now I'm struggling to access the instances I created.
I figured out it was a network problem but despite my effort I didn't fix the issue.
So basically I have a node controller and a compute node as follow:
result of openstack hypervisor list
I've setup my personal external network as follow :
topology of the network
I followed this tutorial : following this tutorial https://connection.rnascimento.com/2021/03/08/openstack-single-node-microstack/
The instance is deployed on default AZ (nova).
Does anyone have a hint about what's wrong ?
I'm kinda lost right now I appraciate any kind of help
Regards,
Lucas


Infrastructure is paramount to Ghana's development agenda. There is the need to significant investments in railways, roads, ports and harbours, water and sanitation systems. These infrastructures will form the basis of Ghana's sustained economic growth.
The Government of Ghana (GoG) collaboration with the private sector seeks to fully implement Ghana's Railway Master Plan. It seeks to develop a modern railway network with strong economic linkages. Less than 13% of Ghana's railway system is functioning. The current western and eastern lines need to be completely overhauled. This will facilitate the haulage of bauxite, manganese, cocoa, cement, iron ore and other bulk commodities as well as the transportation of people. The rehabilitation of the eastern line will bring life to the currently defunct Boankra Inland Port. The activation of the Boankra Inland Port will lead to the creation of thousands of jobs. Another top agenda for railway development is a line linking Accra (Ghana) to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). This would boost trade between Ghana, Burkina Faso and other landlocked countries in West Africa. Additionally, the focus extends to developing an integrated Light Rail Transit System aimed at intercity and intra-city connections. Furthermore, a rail link between Tema-Akosombo has become very essential to complement, the revived Volta Lake transportation system.
Ghana recognizes that there are significant untapped opportunities within its water based transport systems. In this light, the following are planned to be implemented in collaboration with the private sector.
Expand the Takoradi Harbour to Sekondi.
Increase the number offerries on the Volta River.
Roads is currently the most utilized form of transportation in Ghana. Unfortunately, the proportion of the country's road network in gravel and earth surface conditions remains high at about 77%. Nevertheless, the development of more road networks present significant opportunities for transport of goods and humans.
Integrate the databases of relevant government agencies to reduce time and cost of acquiring relevant documents and permits needed to register and operate vehicles.
Ghana is making significant strides aimed at positioning its airports as aviation hubs for both international and regional airlines within West Africa. The starting point for this commitment has been the abolishment of the 17.5% VAT which had been introduced in 2015. Additionally, there will be review of prices of aviation fuel to make Ghana's domestic operators as competitive as others within the West African sub region.
Key opportunities exist in reviving the following domestic airlines – Citylink, Fly540 and Antrak.
Affordable housing is one of the key aspirations of many Ghanaians- either by owning a house or having access to an affordable facility to be rented.


Environmental and safety regulations become more stringent for oil and gas pipeline. Now a day in order to ensure[S1 safety in gas pipeline periodic and sudden inspections are carried out by a regulatory body within the company or outside the company. Proper adherence to these regulations, periodic and sudden inspection are carried out to the oil and gas pipelines. In addition to [S2] Periodic and sudden inspection, a supervisory inspection team also monitors the field level inspection works to ensure adherence to the regulations and safe operation of the gas pipeline networks.
Observing regulation, sound inspection practice also ensures adherence to the regulations and smooth operation of the system to prevent accidental damages. This will ultimately save life, money and property. In Titas Gas Transmission & Distribution Company ltd. (TGTDCL), regular inspection becomes increasingly important, as the pipeline gets older. As this time of modern age, various sophisticated technologies, developed over the years for proper inspections of pipelines are available to us. TGTDCL is the oldest and largest utility service providing organization in the country. Company is bestowed with the responsibility to transmit and market the natural gas within her franchise area. In order to distribute and market natural gas to the consumers, construction of high pressure and low pressure gas pipelines are required and their safety is a key issue to the company.
support, trained manpower and careless users. To overcome these problems selected objectivity and methodologies are described below. The project will study the inspection practice in TGTDCL in light of the safety and environmental regulations of Bangladesh. It will help identifying potential rooms for improvement. The study will also present a cost-benefit analysis of inspection operations.
° Study the inspection practices in TGTDCL and assess the effectiveness of the current practices.
° Identify rooms for improvement in the current practice.
° Suggest newer and / or different inspection technologies if applicable.
° Literature review of the modern inspection technologies and methods.
° Assess the effectiveness of the current practice.
Suggest improvement and newer / different technologies and methods.
Regular inspections mean monitor worksite conditions, and work procedures ensure company's safety standards and regulatory requirements are being followed or not. They also enable to identify the associated hazards before these become problem. It also reveals where improvements are needed, such as: - equipment, work procedures, worker training or worksite conditions.
The end result of the inspection would be a list of potential problems and suggest corrective measures. To ensure health and safety, employees, contractors and subcontractors should follow the standard inspections procedures or methods and suggest corrective measures if necessary. All inspection findings and corrective measures should be documented and shared with others in the worksite.
General sites include all field and office worksites, work camps and company leisure areas such as employee lounges and cafeterias. All these sites should be regularly inspected for any possible hazards to health, including unsafe work practices and conditions.
Inspections should be scheduled according to the hazards at the sites and the work, i.e. a gas pipeline may require regular inspections.
Physical hazard means which are present in working area and these are seen, feeling, touch by the worker i.e. site, equipment, material etc.
° Faulty machinery, cables, ties downs, etc.
Safety Inspector has the right to inspect any item/equipment either online or may order to remove for further inspection in workshop. All site personnel must co-operate with the Safety Inspector. If any serious violations of safety rules are found, safety inspector / Officer can issue a stop to work order.


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Prayer won't solve the priest shortage
On: November 26, 2004 By: Mark
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Pope John Paul on Friday called for a national day of prayer to boost priestly vocations in the United States, where sexual abuse scandals have hit already shrinking numbers of priesthood volunteers.
"No one can deny that the decline in priestly vocations represents a stark challenge for the Church in the United States, and one that cannot be ignored or put off," the pope said in a speech to American bishops visiting the Vatican.
"I would propose for your consideration that the Catholic community in your country annually set aside a national day of prayer for priestly vocations," the 84-year-old pontiff urged.
Umm, a challenge for the United States Catholic Community? I don't think so. What it represents is a challenge to the so-called leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. It will take a lot more than prayer to put more priests in American churches.
How bad is it for today's American Catholics? Between 1965 and 2002 the number of seminarian students dropped 90%. 15% of parishes in the United States today have no priest. There are 350% fewer ordinations of Catholic priests in 2002 compared to 1965. There are 45,000 priests in the United States today, but it is projected there will only be 31,000 in 2020, despite a projected increase in the Catholic population during that period. As for Catholic religious orders they will soon be virtually nonexistent in the United States.
As bad as the problem is it could feel a lot worse than it is. Why? Because American Catholics increasingly can't be bothered to go to Mass on Sundays. In 1958 74% of American Catholics attended Mass regularly. In 2000 the number went to 25%. You can bet if they can't get their hineys out of bed to listen to yet another droning Mass with the same catatonic words and same boring songs they likely aren't going to confession regularly either. (Not that Father John likely has the time to hear everyone's confession anyhow.) Most likely their association with the Catholic Church is attending Easter and Christmas services, if that. The Catholic Church will be lucky if these American Catholics in name only decide to even marry in the church. One reason: the wholly insane policy that to marry a non-Catholic in the Catholic Church the non-Catholic spouse must promise to raise all children to be Catholics.
In short the Catholic Church in America is becoming increasingly irrelevant to American Catholics. There are likely lots of reasons why this is so. But with American priests in such short supply the laity is likely feeling more and more detached from their parish priest. If a parish is lucky enough to have a priest at all, the poor priest is likely wrung ragged. He's probably delegating right and left. It helps to have sisters and brothers to assist but these orders are having recruitment problems also. From the 180,000 sisters in the United States in 1965 there were only 75,000 in 2002. Brothers went from 12,000 to 5700 during that same period.
It's likely that Father John is not doing much in the way of pastoral counseling. If he is fortunate he will have deacons and perhaps some lay ministers to help out. Those who remember when the church was more flush with priests are likely to feel very short changed.
And the Holy Father's brilliant solution to the problem? Have a yearly day of prayer. That will do the trick!
Unless the Holy Father wants an American Catholic community in name only it might be time for him to wake up and smell the coffee. It might begin with some old-fashioned market research. The number one way to solve the priest problem would be to allow women to become priests. But no Catholic who understands their church truly believes that this will happen in their lifetime. In fact Catholics will be lucky if it comes to pass in 500 years. But just why is it that fewer men want to join the priesthood? My guess it's probably not because they object to wearing dark robes or even their miserly pay. It's probably because they realize the celibacy tradition in the Roman Catholic Church is stupid and unworkable.
It wasn't always this way in the Catholic Church. In the Eastern Orthodox Church most priests have always been free to get married. In fact most are married. Until the Middle Ages most Roman Catholic priests were married too. Then slowly things changed. Even today there is no direct requirement from the Pope or in Vatican law that I can find that requires priests take a vow of celibacy upon ordination. Rather it is a tradition. Before ordination bishops will require priests to step forward and solemnly warn them that if they do so:
You ought anxiously to consider again and again what sort of a burden this is which you are taking upon you of your own accord. Up to this you are free. You may still, if you choose, turn to the aims and desires of the world. But if you receive this order (of the subdiaconate) it will no longer be lawful to turn back from your purpose. You will be required to continue in the service of God, and with His assistance to observe chastity and to be bound forever in the ministrations of the Altar, to serve who is to reign.
Every year hundreds of priests come to the inescapable conclusion that celibacy is unworkable for them. The honest ones resign the priesthood and maybe earn a few wetbacks selling their services at Rent-a-Priest. (It's got a shopping cart! I swear I am not making this up.) The dishonest heterosexual ones (and there are plenty of them) get their relief on the side, in secrecy and likely in shameful circumstances.
I feel sorry for today's American Catholic priest, caught between the stark reality of the way the world actually is and their so-called leadership. The Vatican seems to have no inclination to bend even the tiniest degree toward policies that would clearly help the institution survive in the future. It's pretty clear that apostle Peter, the first "Pope" was a married man as were many of the Popes through the Middle Ages. Even today it is possible for a married Catholic priests to get ordained. They just have to start out married in a different denomination. There aren't many of these examples but it shows just how silly and hollow this tradition is.
In reality the Pope is destroying the Catholic Church in America slowly and methodically. And he will have no one to blame but himself for such pointless and obstinate behavior.
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Ecuador reaches agreements to acquire COVID-19 vaccines for 65% of the population
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Last Thursday it was announced that Ecuador closed an agreement with AstraZeneca for the acquisition of five million doses of the vaccine that it is developing with the University of Oxford.
According to the World Health Organization, worldwide there are eleven proposals for vaccines against COVID-19 that are in phase 3 clinical trials in several countries. This is one of the efforts underway to stop the spread of the virus, however, according to specialists, a return to normalcy is still far away.
Ecuador has been working with multiple international groups to ensure it has access to any group purchasing options and outside financial support for the vaccine. Ithas also begun negotiations with several pharmaceutical companies for the same purpose.
Worldwide interest in the vaccine for the coronavirus increased last week when Pfizer and BioNTech announced that the vaccine they are developing have been shown to have more than 90% efficient in the trials, however, in-depth details have not yet been provided and studies continue on volunteers who received it.
On Monday of this week, Biotech company Moderna also announced that its vaccine has been effective is preventing illness, including in severe cases, in 95% of its study patients.
The Vice Minister of Governance and Health Surveillance, Xavier Solórzano, announced that the country will invest up to $200 million for the acquisition of doses that will cover around 65% of the population.
"It is important to consider that it is a worthwhile investment, but, above all, beyond the economic, the probability of having a tool that saves lives is priceless because life is priceless, then the country and the government in a responsible and committed way it has made the decision to invest in those vaccines and analyze the country's access to those doses of vaccines because we cannot be left out, "he said.
The research and development of a vaccine has accelerated dramatically, says Solórzano; before it took between 7 to 12 years for a vaccine to be developed and commercialized for humans. However, due to the pandemic, the process has been cut drastically short. But before the mass application of either of these vaccines, they will still need certain certifications from health regulatory entities.
Due to urgent need for these vaccines against COVID-19, emergency authorizations are being issued for their deployment to market, but they will continue to be investigated for a few years to track and adverse effects on the population.
Ecuador has secured several vaccine other agreements
Solórzano specified that Ecuador has already reached an agreement to participate in the Covax Facility mechanism, a global initiative that has a portfolio of vaccine options and promotes equitable access to all countries regardless of their financial situation.
Within the framework of this initiative, Ecuador has secured access to just over seven million doses that will be focused on health workers, public service personnel, and people who care for gerontological centers, among others. Solórzano added that if the vaccines are shown to be effective in the population over 60, they will also become a priority group along with those people with comorbidities.
Regarding AstraZeneca, Ecuador signed a contract on Thursday afternoon and made an advance payment to guarantee five million doses of their finalized version of the vaccine, which is in the Covax Facility portfolio.
In the case of Pfizer and BioNTech, the Ministry of Health reached an agreement in October to secure two million doses of the vaccine they have developed. Solórzano added that they have to sign a second binding document that establishes the delivery, logistics process and technical support to be provided.
The government has also held negotiations with Covaxx, a US company who will provide 2 million doses of their vaccine to Ecuador. The Covaxx vaccine is still in development and is slightly behind in development, but it is still important for Ecuador to obtain as it will be the first and possibly only) purely synthetic form of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Funding for the vaccine has been made available
"Fortunately, we had loans approved for the health sector from the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, so what we have done is to reprogram the activities that were had within those projects, now giving priority to access to vaccines and from that we have had the support from both the IDB and the World Bank, "said Solórzano.
The Covax Facility operation will be carried out through the Vaccine Revolving Fund, a mechanism of the Pan American Health Organization that is used to purchase vaccines in the region. They will also oversee the distribution and delivery of the vaccines to the member countries.
Pfizer Vaccine and Refrigeration Systems
The Pan American Health Organization has warned that no health system in the world is yet fully prepared for the technical requirements of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, which require storage in a special cooling system at low temperatures.
Ecuador is also aware of this and has announced that Pfizer/BioNTech will provide technical, scientific and logistical support for the handling of the vaccine. It is anticipated that the same requirement will be asked of Moderna.
Solórzano said that Pfizer/BioNTech designed thermal boxes that will allow its vaccine to be transported and stored without the need for deep freezing. However, because of the time of year that the vaccine is being distributed, the country will also vaccinate against influenza at the same time that the coronavirus vaccine is administered, which will require a strengthening of the cold chain.
"We have also been working with a private sector committee that includes all the trusts that have been supporting the pandemic and we are planning to use the installed capacity that the private sector has, for example in the food industry, that is, supermarket chains and the flower industry that have these deep freeze freezers and we can use private sector support for storage, "he added.
The Minster announced that Pfizer also designed a delivery mechanism that will be handled by courier, which will send the doses to the points assigned by the Ministry of Health. The intent is to disperse the vaccines in partial deliveries, not all at once throughout the country.
"This greatly facilitates us also and also lowers the investment cost in these freezers, a few will probably be required, but thanks to this design of both the thermal box and the logistics it will facilitate the handling of this vaccine."
Manufacturers have estimated that the doses for distribution could be available by the end of March, but the complete application of the vaccines would be, if all goes well, in the second quarter of 2021.
Most of world needs to be vaccinated to stop the virus
Approximately 70% of the world's population will need to be immunized with one of the new vaccines to guarantee the end of the pandemic, says Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization.
Although it remains to be seen how effective the vaccines will be, Swaminathan and the Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, Kate O'Brien, estimate that that would be the ideal percentage, although the goal by 2021 is to reach 20%.
"No company [that is developing the vaccine] will be able to immediately have doses for everyone," warned O'Brien, who indicated that it is therefore important that all laboratories continue their investigations even if one of them is ahead of the others.
In a meeting with Internet users last week to analyze the new and promising advances in vaccines that were been reported last week in the US and Russia, the two experts pointed out that the new technologies developed in the current fight against coronavirus "can help to better protect us from future pandemics."
They were alluding to technologies such as Messenger RNA (mRNA), used in the vaccine candidates of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, and that instead of the usual recourse to try to weaken a virus, it uses molecules that give instructions to the human body about how to build antibodies.
Swaminathan stressed that the news of 90% efficacy in the clinical studies of the German-American project Pfizer-BioNTech, are preliminary results and that "more data is needed" until it can be guaranteed that it can be licensed for production.
Even if the new vaccines become available to the general public, the WHO experts insisted that the first to be immunized must be health workers and people from risk groups, such as the elderly or patients with certain pathologies.
O'Brien noted that the first doses of the vaccines that may arrive in the next few months, when there will be greater demand than supply, should not be stored, and warned countries against creating large stocks of them.
"The correct and intelligent thing is to guarantee that they are given to those who need them most," she said, adding that in those first weeks "a vaccine in the fridge is not going to benefit anyone."
Asked about the distribution problems that vaccines developed with mRNA technology could entail, which need to be preserved at temperatures close to 80 degrees below zero, the experts indicated that this would be a challenge, but that there are already technologies being developed for this precise purpose.
They also stressed that there have previously been vaccines that required storage at such cold temperatures, such as Ebola, so storage and distribution chains have been tested on a limited basis in some parts of the world.
More than 200 laboratories around the world are researching vaccines against COVID-19, a disease of which there have been more than 55 million confirmed cases worldwide. Of these projects, about 40 are in clinical trials in humans.
Of these, a dozen vaccine candidates from countries such as China, the United States, Russia or the United Kingdom are in their last phase, in which tens of thousands of subjects have already been tested, and their results are being compared with those of others large test groups given a placebo.
O'Brien added that the WHO needs about $20 billion for its Covax platform, intended to fund some of the laboratories in exchange for equitable distribution of the vaccine in developing countries.
"Although it seems like a lot of money, what is lost every ten days in trade and tourism in the world now amounts to about $35 billion."
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Хад () је роуглајк акцијска игра играња улога (eng. RPG) развијена и објављена од стране -{Supergiant Games}--a. Избачена је за -{Microsoft Windows}-, -{MacOS}- и -{Nintendo Switch}- 17. септембра 2020. године, што је уследило након раног приступа игри који је почео у децембру 2018.

Играч контролише Загреја (), Хадовог сина, док покушава да побегне из Подземља и стигне до планине Олимп. Сваки покушај бега је другачији изазов због насумичног распореда соба, као и непријатеља и награда у њима. Игра користи "хек енд слеш" систем борбе; играч мора да користи комбинацију напада свог главног оружја, деш (енг. dash) мођи и магичне моћи док избегава ударце да би стигао колико год далкео је могуће. И ако Загреј често умире и враћа се на почетак, играчи могу да користи награде које су добили у претходном покушају да унапреде одређене атрибуте или откључају нова оружја која им повећавају шансе за бекство у неком од наредних покушаја.

Хад је развијен након -{Supergiant}--овог -{Pyre}--a, игре у којој су хтели да истражују процедурално причање приче, међутим због природе игре су открили да већина играча није прешла игру више од једанпу и самим тим нису приметили разлике у причи при сваком следећем игрању. Роуглајк структура Хада им је дала савршену прилику да испричају ове процедуралне приче, зато што се играч након сваког покушаја враћа на почетак.

Хад, проглашен успехом од стране шире публике и критичара, је продао преко милион примерака и освојио награду "Игра године" на различитим церемонијама и од различитих публикација.

Дизајн игре
Играч се ставља у улогу Загреја, принца Подземља, који покушава да побегне из истог и стигне до планине Олимп, далеко од свог строго и хладног оца Хада. У његовом задатку му помажу Олимпијски богови, који мз дарују поклоне уз помоћ којих се бори против чувара капија Подземља. Поред тога помажу му и познати становници подземља попут Сизифа (), Еуридика () и Патрокло (). Игрица има 4 "биома" тј. нивоа Подземља: Тартар (), Асфодел (), Јелисеј () и Дворац реке Стикс ().

Играч започиње свој покушај бекства борећи се са непријатељима у соби у којој је тренутно, за право пролаза у следећу собу. Свака соба има већ одређен распоред ствари у њој, међутим њихов распоред и непријатељи у њима су увек насумични. Играч на располагању има своје главно оружје, специјални напад и магични напад који се може користити на већим раздаљинама. На самом почетку покушаја један од Олимпијских богова даје свој "Благослов", избор између три трајна унапређења која су ту до краја тог покушаја бекства. Благослови су повезани са Богом од ког долазе, на пример Зевс () играчу на главни напад може додати муње које непријатељу одузимају животне поене. Након што играч победи све непријатеље у једној соби, поред тога што може изабрати следећу, може видети какве су награде у њима. То могу бити: Благослови истих или других богова, надоградње за главно оружје, фонтане лечења, обол који се може потрошити у Хароновој продавници или ствари које се могу задржати након завршетка покушаја и олакшати неки наредни (Нектар богова, црна енергија, дијаманти, крв Титана, итд.). Ако Загрејеви животни поени дођу до нуле он "умире" и враћа се на пчетак, у куђу Хада, где му се одузимају сви Благослови, надоградње оружја и оболи из претходног покушаја.

Између покушаја Загреј може истраживати кућу Хада. Овде играч може користити ствари које је задржао из претходних покушаја и утиче на наредне покушаје. Играч може да откључа и унапреди нове моћи за Загреја, плати изградњу нових соба у Подземљу (собе без непријатеља са фонтанама лечења) или трајно унапреди откључана оружја. Загреј токође може да разговара са разним становницима Подземља и да побољша свој однос са њима, чиме долази до нових дешавања у причи или добија задатке за додатне награде. У каснијим деловима игре могуће је ући у романтичну везу са одређеним ликовима.

Прича
Загреј, син Хада, покушава да побегне из Подземља. У томе му помажу: његова маћеха Њукта () која му даје посебно огледало помођу којег добија раличите магичне моћи, богови Олимпа којима се обратио за помоћ и који му дају своје Благослове и његов ментор Ахил () од ког добија "Паклена оружја" која садже скривене моћи својих бивших, садашњих и будућих корисника. Хад у покушајима да спречи свог сина да побегне, разним становницима подземља даје задатак да га "убију" и врате кући. То су: Мегара (), Загрејева бивша партнерка (а касније и њене сестре Алекто () и Тисифона ()), Lernejska hidra, legendarni Tezej () и његов нови партнер Астериус () и на крају Хад лично.

У каснијем делу игре, открива се да Загреј зна да му Њукта није права мајка, као што су одувек говорили, и да покушава да побегне да би пронашао своју праву мајку Персефону (), коју никада није упознао. Хад није дозвољавао да се њено име уопште помене у кући, и речено је да би онај који то правило прекрши претрпео незамисливе казне. Њукта, и поред тога, одлучи да помогне Загреју у његовом задатку тако што му омогућава да ступи у везу са његовим рођацима на Олимпу. Након што коначно победи Хада по први пут, Загреј излази из Подземља и проналази Персефону у Грчкој. Убрзо након њиховог сусрета Загреј сазнаје да је, исто као и његов отац, везан за подземље и да не може дуго остати на на површини. И поред тога, он обећа Персефини да ће наставити да бежи како би провео још времена са њом и сазнао истину о њеном одсуству.

За време ових посета, Персефона му прича како је имала брак пун љубави са Хадом (који говори да је тај брак произашао из тога што му је Зевс "дао" Персефону као поклон зато што је преузео контролу над Подземљем, што је за Хада било јако увредљиво, и нешто што Зевсу никада није опростио), све док Загреј није умро при порођају, зато што су Мојре () прорекле да Хад никада неће имати наследника. Након тога Персефона је напустила Хад, али је одбила да се врати у своје родно место, Олимп, које никада није волела због константног препирања између богова. Мећутим, након јако дугачког и тешког подухвата, Њукта успева да врати Загреја у живот својим моћима. Персефона, и поред Загрејевих молби, одбија да се врати из страха да богови Олимпа открију истину о њеном нестанку, поготво њена мајка Деметра (), која је у својој тузи покрила свет смртника вечном зимом. Након много посета, Загреј коначно успева да убеди Персефону да се врати, и заједно у Хароновом чамцу, низ реку Стикс, из Грчке се враћају у кућу Хада. Персефона наставља са својим дужностима Краљице Подземља, а Хад, са новонасталим поштовањем према свом сину, му дозвољава да настави са својим покушајима бекства, под изговором да тражи рупе у обезбеђењу Подземља.

У епилогу, Персифона долази на идеју да се помире са боговима Олимпа тако што ће их све позвати на велику гозбу у кући Хада. За време гозбе им испричају како су Хад и Персефона побегли и вечали се, а затом добили Загреја али прећуте истину о Персефониној мржњи према Олимпу. На све то додају и лажну тврдњу да је појела семе подземног нара, и да због тога не може дуго провести ван Подземља. Богови Олимпа прихаватају ово објашњење, и ако се имплицира да знају шта се заправо десило и само желе да све то буде иза њих. Након помирења целе породице, Загрејева дужност да бежи из свог дома се наставља.

Развој игре
Након што су избацили своју претходну игру, -{Pyre}-, -{Supergiant Games}- је желео да направи игру којом би показали свој развојни процес играчима како би направили игру најбоље што могу, уз помоћ повратних информација које су добијали од играча. Схватили су да би такав приступ помогао не само при дизајну игре већи код одређених елемената у причи, стога су се одлучили за систем "Раног приступа" када су правили Хад. Пошто је -{Supergiant}- мали тим од око 20 запослених зали су да ће моћи да издржавају рани приступ само на једној платформи, са намерон да игру касније избаце и на остале платформе. Разговрали су са -{Epic Games}--ом (), и сазнали да они планирају да лансирају нову плаформу звану [[-{Epic Games Store}-]]). Дошли су до закључка да експериментална природа те платформе одговара њиховој игри. -{Supergiant}--ова одлука је донешена делом због -{Epic}--овог фокуса на ствараоце садржаја, а -{Supergiant}- је правио Хад са идејом да бу игра која одговара стримерима, који би имали одређене погдности при коришћењу -{Epic Games Store}--а. Вођени искуством стеченим прављењем претходних игара, -{Supergiant}- је проценио да ће им требати око три године да заврше Хад.

По питању приче и приступа игри, -{Supergiant}- тим се одлучио за концепт игре коју је лако разумети и играти, која се може играти у кратким интервалима и која има опције за касније проширивање и додавање нових ствари, што их је довело до роуглајк игре, које су генерално и најбоље пролазиле систем раног приступа. Такав концепт игре се слагао са филозофијом дизајна њихових претходних игара, где су се трудили да у одређеним деловима игре дају играчу нове способности или алате који би у потпуности променили начин на који је играо до тада. -{Pyre}- је био покушај да се направи игра са причом која се грана и која има много различитих крајева, мећутим када је игра пуштена у јавност схватили су да већина играча игру пређе само једно, и тако не види претходно поменуте концепте. Са Хадом који је роуглајк игра, прича која се грана у много различитих смерова има много више смисла зато што је природа такве игре да се стално игра изнова.

-{Supergiant}- је размишљао да окружење буде неки од светова из њихових претходних игара, међутим дошли су до закључка да би попутно ново окружењ ипак било боље. -{Supergiant}--ов креативни директор Грег Касавин је дошао на идеју Грчке митологије, која га је интересовала још од малих ногу. У почетку је планирано да се игра зове Миној, а да играч контролише Тезеја који тражи излази из лавиринта који стално мења свој облик. Лавиринт је био савршено место за игру овог типа, али -{Supergiant}- никако није могао да уклопи причу која се грана у ово окружење, и због тога су одустали од те идеје. Поред тога, закључили су да је Тезеј превише обичан лик, и да не може да се уклопи у њихову причу.

Док је био на одмору, Касавин је истраживао више о Грчкој митологији и схватио да се Хад не помиње често у причама, зато што су га се остали богови плашили. Ово откриће је довело до тога да се игра заснива на Загрејевим покушајима бекства од Хада и Подземља. Касавин је упоредио богове са "великом дисфункционалном породицом у којој можемо да видимо себе". Додао је да кроз Загрејеве константе покушаје и неуспехе да побегне добијамо пуно комедије која савршено описује односе у овој "породици", а поред тога и играчко искутво генерално повезано са оваквим типом игре, где се играч у једном моменту осећа непобедиво само да би у следћем са лакоћом био побеђен и враћен на почетак. Промена са Тезеја на Загреја је имала минималан утицај на садржај игре који је до сада направљен, али је доста помогла да се повеже оно што играч ради и пирча игре. Тезеј је остао у игри, мећутим постао је хвалисави зликовац који се бори уз свог саборцаминотаура Астериуса. Прича о Грчким боговима се одлично уклапа у поједине елементе игре; када играч добије Благослов неког од богова одмах ће знати какве природе је тај Благослов по томе који је Бог у питању, као и у насумичне догађаје попут "Божијег суда" (у којем играч бира један од два понуђена Благослова различитих богова, а затим пролази кроз казну бога чији Благослов није изабрао) који приказују какав однос богови имају међусобно. Разговори између ликова су у сваком покушају векства другачији и сваки пут се сазнају неке нове информације, те је сваки покушај, чак и ако је безуспешан, има значење, а томе Суепрџајант приписује велики успех игре.

Када се пореди са Бастионом и Транзистором, -{Supergiant}--овим претходним играма са линеарним причама, Хад је представљао јединствен проблем. Како написати смислену причу за сваког играча, када ће свако играти на другачији начин? Касавин и његови писци су написали око десет сати дијалога између Загреја и осталих ликова, заснованог на различитим догађајима који се могу десити различитим редоследом. На пример, док покушава да побегне Загреј може да сретне Еуридику, а потом да оде у кућу Хада где ће срести њеног мужа Орфеја који ће му, због тога што је срео Еуридику, дати поруку да јој пренесе следећи пут када је види. Овакви дијалози су повезани са унапређењима куће Хада, када играч чује сав дијалог тог догађаја.

-{Supergiant}- је настојао у томе да испоштује Грчлу митиологију у игри. Према Касавину, визуелни стил игре, дизајниран од стране Џен Зи, приказује све богове олимпа као јако лепе и привлачне уз пристојну количину "херојске голотиње" која се може приметити у уметности античке Грчке. Игра такође поштује одређене алтернативне сексуалности које Грчки митови имплицирају: Загреј је бисексуалан, а једна споредна прича залази у хомосексуални однос између Ахила и Патрокла.

Објављивање
Хад је најављен на Наградама игара 2018 (енг. The Game Awards 2018), 6. децембра, и тада је потврђено да ће бити један од првих наслова на новонасталом -{Epic Games Store}--у. Џеф Китли, организатор и водитељ Награда игара, је рекао да су Амир Рао и Грег Касавин из -{Supergiant}--а причали са њим у вези Хада и њиховој намери да га пусте у рани приступ на исти дан када су Награде игара још у фебруару 2018. Хад је привремено би ексклузиван на -{Epic Games Store}--у, и годину дана касније 10. децембра 2019. игра је објављена и на -{Steam}-. Игра је званично изашла из раног приступа 17. септембра 2020. године, а у исто време је и објављена верзија за -{Nintendo Switch}-.

Физичка верзија игре за -{Nintendo Switch}- је изашла 19. марта 2021.

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Хад је добио "универзалну акламацију" рекао је агрегатор рецензија Metacritic. За време свог раног приступа, који је трајао скоро две године, Хад се продао у седамсто хиљада примерака. Три дана након званичног објављивања продао је још триста хиљада примерака, те је укупан број продатих примерака био већи од милион. Критичари су посебно похвалили причу, ликове, музику и дизајн игре. IGN је хвалио ликове, и рекао да је сваки "попут аутентичне реинтерпретације класичних Грчких митова... сви су дивота за посматрати". The Guardian је посебно похвалио Џен Зи и њен дизајн ликова, рекавши да су "прелепо нацртани" и да "имају одговарајуће божанске профиле".

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Хад је освојио мноштво награда. На десетим годишњим Наградама игара у Њујорку освојио је Игру године, Најбољу музику, Најбољи сценарио и Најбољу глуму. Неколико публикација је сматрају једном од најбољих игара 2020. године укључујући: '-{Polygon}-, -{Giant Bomb}-, -{IGN}-, -{USGamer}-, -{Destructoid}-, -{Time}-, -{The Washington Post}-, -{Slant Magazin}-e i -{Entertainment Weekly}-. Такође је била финалиста за Небула награду за најбољи сценарио за игру. Освојила је Игру године на 2021 Наградама игара Британске академије, 24. годишњим -{D.I.C.E}- наградама и на -{Gayming}- наградама.

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As a father and an Arabic language teacher, I have come across the many challenges of teaching Arabic language to children. It is more than just imparting knowledge to the young mind of the child. There has to be a plan and strategy behind it; the delivery and execution has to be deliberate. Over the years, I have come to realize that there are a few crucial factors we need to take care of to help the child develop interest in Arabic and foster learning. I have determined these factors and summarised them into what I call the '4 Cs'.
The home is the child's first school, and the parents their first teachers. Therefore, as parents, we need to equip ourselves with the necessary knowledge and skill to be able to aid the child at home as they learn the language. Ideally, we learn and then teach what we learn. It helps for us to understand Arabic so we can better appreciate the Surahs and prayers we recite along with the little ones.
However, if we cannot afford the time and do not have the ability to learn and teach, does that mean our children should also be denied of learning Arabic too? Of course not! We have seen how a 4-year old, Bella Devyatkina, from Russia, is able to speak 7 languages when her mum only knows one. She achieved this by having different teachers for each language. So, if we cannot teach them ourselves, the least we can do is to seek teachers for them.
We must always begin any endeavour with the right intention. Set short and long term targets. Let me share some of our daughter, Nayla's journey in learning Arabic. We started with songs and dance to expose her to Arabic literacy and by 18 months she could recite them all. Concurrently, we had basic conversations on a daily basis and by 24 months, she could already reply in Arabic. We also did vocabulary-building through the use of flashcards and puzzles, and by 36 months, her word bank has become extensive. Mashaa-Allah.
This experience is consistent with studies that say a child's brain comes pre-wired to pick up languages. Thus, early exposure to a language will help them to master the language faster even if they were to properly learn it much later in their life, Insha Allah.
I cannot stress enough the importance of playing for children and how playing can further stimulate and facilitate the learning of a new language, especially for one as 'difficult' as Arabic. Previously, I have shown examples of the activities Nayla did at home and in class at As-Souq. We used different learning tools, such as simple games, speech and drama, and also competitions between Nayla and me. We utilised play cards, magnets, sandpaper art, hijaaiyyah tiles. All this helped to spur her interest to learn the language and gave her motivation. When learning becomes fun, I assure you, the child will never want it to stop.
Consistency: have a routine, big or small.
The last, but of course, most important 'C' would be consistency. It is not effective to binge learn a language and plan different activities if the effort is not consistent. Start small. If you have seen our Surah recitation sessions before every night before bedtime. You will see how Nayla herself became excited and even wanted to pick the next Surah to read. It started with simple daily Duas before we eat, and before we sleep, and then we moved on to short Surahs.
Teach your child a new word or sentence every day or week. You decide, as parents, what is within your means to do. The important thing is to do it. Start somewhere. Start small. Be consistent. Insha Allah, the seed you sow today, will grow into a beautiful tree tomorrow.
There you have the 4 Cs to support the learning and grow the love of Arabic. May it be of benefit to you and your children. That said, if you are all motivated and geared up to embark on this wonderful journey to learn Arabic but still feel a bit unsure or are unable to begin it yourself, let As-Souq assist you.


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National Grid ESO launches Stability Pathfinder follow-up for Scotland
Image: Andy Beecroft.
Jun / 2020
Molly Lempriere
Deputy Editor, Current±
National Grid ESO has set its sights on a broader range of technologies as the second phase of its Stability Pathfinder gets underway.
It has released a request for information (RFI), looking at procuring the most economic and efficient stability solutions in Scotland specifically.
Eight locations have been identified, with a total requirement for 8.4GVA across them for regional short circuit level stability solutions. The operator's Future Energy Scenarios work has identified that short circuit infeed may be needed between 55% and 85% of the time to keep the grid stable in the future.
This follows phase one of the Stability Pathfinder, which saw five flexibility tenders worth £328 million awarded in January to Drax, Statkraft, Triton, Rassau Grid Services (Welsh Power) and Uniper. They will provide inertia but not electricity across the whole of the nation, in what was hailed as a world-first approach at the time.
These were the result of a technical RFI launched in the summer of 2019, which led to an accelerated tender process.
Now the second phase is asking stakeholders for feedback on a number of key points, including a broader range of technologies, with voltage levels of 132kV or more, capable of providing stability. There will be a feasibility stage built into the tender timeline to ensure technical capability can be demonstrated.
Participants are expected to be available 90% of the time as the precise need for the stability services will not be known till almost real time, increasing the need for a broad range of providers.
Unlike the last tender process, there will be no 0MW export pre-qualification condition, as National Grid ESO has identified that it can have an adverse impact on market distortion from bringing on active power alongside stability.
The need for greater stability tools on the Great Britain's grid has been thrown into a sharp light in recent months, as the COVID-19 lockdown has caused demand to fall to record low levels.
As a result, the Balancing Mechanism was used twice as much throughout April and May 2020 as the previous year, and balancing costs have skyrocketed to ~£500 million more than predicted for the period.
As part of launching the pathfinder, the grid operator has highlighted a number of lessons it has learnt from the first phase, including standardising terminology, increasing transparency through the assessment process and extending the delivery timeline.
Successful tenders will need to be able to start to provide services from between July 2021 and April 2024, and run until April 2030 at the latest.
Following on from the pathfinder and the next tendering process, National Grid ESO expects this to develop into an annual procurement process for stability services.
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In this incursion students are divided into smaller groups and rotate through four exciting challenges. Each challenge encourages students to build upon their communication, trust, initiative, problem-solving and leadership skills.
Younger students will explore basic 'getting along, encouragement and turn-taking skills. Older student will experience an 'at camp' style session as they are provided with minimal information as their problem solving skills are put to the test.
We select from a large range of activities depending on your focus and year group. All activities are perfectly pitched to provide collaborative challenges and ensure that the whole school can experience different activities.
I just wanted to give a huge shout out to Brent who came to our school earlier this week to do the Billy Cart Incursion. Brent your enthusiasm was infectious and the students absolutely loved the four experiences you set out. The majority of students had never heard of a billy cart, let alone had the opportunity to ride on one, so this was a massive thrill for them. The feedback from all of the teachers involved was positive and they noted how well you explained the ins and outs of a billy cart to the students. In addition, your detailed explanation of how each of the four stations would work allowed students a smooth transition from one activity to the next. Thanks so much, we will definitely look to use you again in the future and will spread the word where possible.