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A Return to the Russia of Five-Year Plans? At Least in the North Caucasus
Soviet-era Poster: "Oil Workers! More Oil for the Motherland! Let's Fulfill the 5-Year Plan in 4 Years!"
Staunton, July 3 – Yesterday, Izvestiya reported that Vladimir Putin has signed a law under the terms of which the government will engage in strategic planning in five-year intervals to promote "improving the standard of living of the population, the growth of the Russian economy and the guaranteeing of the security of the country".
This immediately sparked widespread speculation that the Kremlin is planning to return to the notorious five-year plans of Soviet times and equally widespread denials that the current Russian government is doing anything of the kind or indeed anything that different from many other countries and.
But as often happens, the truth appears to be somewhere in between, and the clearest indication of that has been provided by an article on Kavpolit.com titled "Soviet Recipes for Caucasian Industry" in which Filipp Gromyko describes a partial return to Soviet-style planning there.
On Tuesday, the government commission on the social-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District met for the first time since Sergey Melikov became presidential plenipotentiary. The Vladikavkaz meeting led to the airing of a serious split between those who have guided industrial development up to now and the new Putin representative.
The Moscow officials in the industrial and trade ministry proposed continuing to rely on the funds from private investors, arguing that such people have been behind the recent and not unimpressive improvements in the North Caucasus. But Melikov said that this approach wasn't working and that the government and especially government corporations must get more directly involved in both planning and funding.
To the extent that Melikov's approach is introduced – and he is in the driver's seat on this issue at least in the North Caucasus — Gromyko said, it would "in fact" represent "the rebirth of Soviet methods of industrialization," including central planning with its five-year plans.
Speaking in support of moving in that direction, Gromyko says, "unexpectedly" was Lev Kuznetsov, the new minister for North Caucasian affairs. He said that in his view "the main investor" in the region must be "major Russian companies" and especially "corporations in which the government is involved."
This shift would result, the journalist continues, in "a return to the principles of industrial policy of Soviet times when industrial enterprises, as part of long production chains were established in the national republics" by the decision of Moscow rather than as a result of independent economic activity.
Perhaps the most important reason for concluding that things are going in this direction, Gromyko says, was that Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev who spoke at the meeting suggested that the industrial development of the North Caucasus must be part of Moscow's import-substitution and defense industry expansion in the wake of events in Ukraine.
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How British author Hanif Kureishi's hospital diary is sparking a new online following
Seriously injured author Hanif Kureishi gains new social media following - Copyright Getty - Twitter
By David Mouriquand • Updated: 23/01/2023
On 26 December 2022, Hanif Kureishi, the celebrated British novelist and screenwriter behind 'The Buddha of Suburbia' and 'My Beautiful Launderette' collapsed in Rome.
Unable to move his arms or legs, the Oscar-nominated scriptwriter, 68, said he thought he was dying.
"I believed I had three breaths left. It seemed like a miserable and ignoble way to die," he said.
"I woke up a few minutes later in a pool of blood, my neck in a grotesquely twisted position, my wife on her knees beside me," he explained in a series of messages posted on Twitter.
"For a few days I was profoundly traumatised, altered and unrecognisable to myself. I am in the hospital. I cannot move my arms and legs. I cannot scratch my nose, make a phone call or feed myself," he said.
The author is being treated at Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he underwent spinal surgery.
"At the moment, it is unclear whether I will ever be able to walk again, or whether I'll ever be able to hold a pen, if there is any assistance that I would be grateful for, it would be with regard to voice-assisted hardware and software, which will allow me to watch, write and begin work again, and continue some kind of half-life."
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These messages were all part of a what has become a Twitter diary, keeping his followers updated on his progress in real-time. His ongoing and frequently surprising posts share some intimate thoughts on creativity, grief, backstage anecdotes, cappuccinos and cunnilingus.
The tweets, composed by voice recognition technology and with the help of his son and wife (Isabella d'Amico), have significantly boosted his online following and read like a beautiful stream of consciousness which shows that a brilliant voice has not been silenced. The posts are simultaneously profound, potent, funny and always compulsively readable.
If you haven't already tuned in, get on it. Here are a few recent extracts from his blog:
"My friend Salman Rushdie, one of the bravest men I know, a man who has stood up to the most evil form of Islamofascism, writes to me every single day, encouraging patience. He should know. He gives me courage."
"The nurses attach me to the machine which lifts me from my bed. For a few moments I hang in the air like a fly, my limbs dangle down beneath me. Then it places me nicely in a wheelchair."
"My friend the Maestro comes in with my cappuccino and feeds it to me through a straw. We then have a very complicated conversation with the doctor about how Americans drink cappuccinos at inappropriate times of the day. The doctor said he had heard of an American who had once requested a cappuccino in the evening. The Maestro could not believe that such a thing could have ever happened. It would be like putting jam on pasta, he said."
"I have eaten in fine restaurants. I have dined with scientists, artists and Brian Eno. But spending every night six feet from this injured man, his wails and incessant night-time phone calls, is new to me."
"I considered O'Toole a bit of a cunt despite his fine acting. He said to me, "The only Paki I ever liked was Omar Sharif". I said, "It's a bit of a stretch to consider Omar Shariff a Paki but at least one of you was probably a gentleman"."
"I was far more developed than my peers. Trauma saved me and made me into a writer. Something similar is happening here, I am finding a way to cope with the horror of my recent accident."
"I might eventually be capable of a little light cunnilingus, and I imagine myself as a man with a mouth full of mango rather than the last image I had of myself, as a desperate man attempting to open a bag of cashew nuts using only his teeth and a brick wall."
Sometimes I am hopeful, particularly when I am with my friends, all of whom have made remarkable progress. On other days, I feel flat and unmotivated. But writing this blog, which has connected with so many thousands of people, is a good reason for living. So: two victory fingers to my pals and readers. And a finger to the future, Your loving No-hands man, Hanif x"
Hanif Kureishi, the celebrated British novelist and screenwriter behind 'The Buddha of Suburbia' and 'My Beautiful Launderette'Getty Images
The son of a Pakistani migrant and an English woman, Kureishi, known for his sharp insights on race, class and multiculturalism in a post-colonial Britain, has been a writer for more than three decades.
His first novel, 'The Buddha of Suburbia', was an international bestseller in 1990 and won the Whitbread book of the year award for a first novel. The book was turned into a four-part television series by the BBC in 1993, with David Bowie providing a song of the same name.
Other extraordinary novels followed, including 1998's 'Intimacy', dealing with a middle-aged man and his thoughts about leaving his wife and two young sons, and 2003's 'The Body', a novella which follows a British writer in his sixties who is given the chance to transfer his mind to a younger body.
He is perhaps best known for his screenplay for Stephen Frears' My Beautiful Launderette (1985), a romantic social comedy featuring a gay British Pakistani man and his relationship with a British skinhead. Launching the career of Daniel Day-Lewis, the film was a critique of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's policies and was nominated for a screenwriting Academy Award.
Kureishi has written several other screenplays, including Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), London Kills Me (1991 – which he also directed) and The Mother (2003), starring Daniel Craig and Anne Reid.
His 2006 screenplay Venus earned best actor nominations at the Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe awards for veteran actor Peter O'Toole.
His most recent novel, 'What Happened?', was published in 2019 and is a stirring and at times comedic collection of essays and fiction revolving around ideas of race, religion and cultural identity.
Kureishi is currently receiving physiotherapy and a physio has now promised him that he will raise a pen again one day. You can read some of his hospital bed dispatches here.
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The Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism was established in 2002 to honor the memory of one of America's pre-eminent sports writers, Dick Schaap. The award is presented by the Nassau County Sports Commission and is given out to the journalist, in any medium, who best exemplifies the principles and talents of Dick Schaap during the past year. The award recipient is determined by confidential balloting of the Dick Schaap Selection Committee, which is composed of respected members of the media, and chaired by Dick's son, ESPN reporter Jeremy Schaap.

Although the recipient need not be a sports journalist, he/she must convey the passion and insight for stories and people he/she covers as Schaap did.

Recipients

 2002 – Jim McKay, ABC Sports
 2003 – Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated
 2004 – Bob Costas, NBC and HBO Sports
 2005 – Dave Anderson, The New York Times
 2006 – Bob Ryan, Boston Globe
 2007 – Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, San Francisco Chronicle
 2008 – Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press
 2009 – no recipient
 2010 – Mary Carillo, NBC and HBO Sports
 2011 – Dave Kindred, Golf Digest and National Sports Journalism Center

External links
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 http://www.nassausports.org

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Sportscasting awards
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Farmer's Daughter: Opposing groups claim the word 'sustainability.' How is that possible?
By Amanda Zaluckyj, The Farmer's Daughter USAhttp://www.thefarmersdaughterusa.com/ Published: September 23, 2016
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Sustainability.
The word is a darling of the environmental movement. It has become synonymous with "going green" and "environmentally-friendly." We see it everywhere in activist circles: internet graphics, newsletters, organization titles, and marketing materials. There are food labels claiming that products bearing the label are "produced in a sustainable manner." Even building materials for houses and commercial buildings now claim to be sustainable. If the word sustainability is attributed to a product, program, or organization, there is a general feeling that it must be good.
But environmental activists might be surprised to learn that the word is now being used by some untraditional groups, organizations, and people.
Take, for example, that Monsanto, a company that many environmental activists have demonized, has set sustainability goals for its business and releases an annual report on how it met those goals. Farmers are also starting to embrace the word as an integral part of our business, even if many environmental groups have attacked our production methods for a long time. Even the giant Wal-Mart claims to have sustainable goals for its companies, which it promotes on its company website.
So, what the heck does sustainability mean and how can such opposing groups lay claim to it?
Let's start with the basics. According to the dictionary, the definition of environmental sustainability is "the quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and thereby supporting long-term ecological balance." The official definition seems to match quite closely with the one adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA claims that sustainability is a guiding principle for all of its work. It states that: "[t]o pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations."
Of course, the devil is in the details. Achieving that harmony is exactly where the two sides of the debate part ways. The Sustainable Table, an advocacy organization determined to raise public awareness about industrial agriculture, defines sustainable agriculture as "the production of food, fiber, or other plant or animal products using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare. This form of agriculture enables us to produce healthful food without compromising future generations' ability to do the same." The organization opposes "industrial" farming that relies on synthetic fertilizers and chemicals and genetically modified crops.
Despite those differences, the definition of sustainability isn't that far off from how the environmentalist activist's biggest rival defines the word. Monsanto "believes sustainable agriculture means growing the right amount of food on less land using resources in an efficient manner that preserves natural ecosystems, addresses water scarcity and climate change, improves farmer livelihoods and benefits society."
It does seem odd that the two sides of the debate both claim to support sustainability, even though they would achieve that goal in diametrically opposed ways. How is that possible?
Perhaps the answer is simply that these goals are naturally inherent for any farmer, regardless of production method, who plans on staying in business for any length of time. The scarcest resource we have is land, which is something that farmers competing for more of it know all too well. If any farmer is going to maintain his business for the long term, he knows that he has to take care of that land and preserve it for the years to come. Common sense tells us that poisoning our fields, depleting the soil, or otherwise rendering it unproductive will ensure that we are looking for a new career path in a short amount of time. The same approach must be applied to any of our natural resources.
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The same can be said about another component of sustainability that is usually ignored or downplayed by all the definitions and approaches mentioned: economic sustainability.
There is a persistent myth that anything which is economically beneficial cannot also be good for the environment. Genetically modified crops are the perfect example of why this is a myth: They have increased farm yields and profits, while also decreasing the overall use of pesticides. We cannot expect any industry, including agriculture, to adopt practices that are not economically viable, even if they are better for the environment. While the word "sustainability" or one of its equivalents might put a premium on the price of products today, the process of making a product as such must also be profitable in the long run. Companies cannot pursue sustainability if it means they will ultimately go out of business.
But here again, agriculture is in a unique position to embrace both the environmental and economic sides of sustainability. For as long as humans have been cultivating the land and growing food, farmers have found ways to coexist better with the environment and also stay profitable. That farmers care about long-term economic and environmental sustainability in the land is evidenced by the fact that 97 percent of farms in the United States are still owned and operated by families. There is a treasured tradition in handing down our farm to the next generation. But in order to do so, we have to protect the land and natural resources so that it can continue to be productive and provide for our families.
In reality then, regardless of how one defines the word, agriculture inherently meets the definition of sustainability and will continue to do so.
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using System;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using ICSharpCode.NRefactory.TypeSystem;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Saltarelle.Compiler.JSModel.TypeSystem;

namespace CoreLib.Tests.OOPEmulatorTests {
	[TestFixture]
	public class EnumTests : OOPEmulatorTestBase {
		[Test]
		public void EnumWorks() {
			AssertCorrect(
@"public enum MyEnum { Value1, Value2, Value3 }
",
@"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// MyEnum
var $MyEnum = function() {
};
$MyEnum.prototype = { value1: 0, value2: 1, value3: 2 };
{Script}.registerEnum(global, 'MyEnum', $MyEnum);
");
		}

		[Test]
		public void EnumWithNamespaceWorks() {
			AssertCorrect(
@"namespace SomeNamespace.InnerNamespace {
	public enum MyEnum { Value1, Value2, Value3 }
}",
@"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// SomeNamespace.InnerNamespace.MyEnum
var $SomeNamespace_InnerNamespace_MyEnum = function() {
};
$SomeNamespace_InnerNamespace_MyEnum.prototype = { value1: 0, value2: 1, value3: 2 };
{Script}.registerEnum(global, 'SomeNamespace.InnerNamespace.MyEnum', $SomeNamespace_InnerNamespace_MyEnum);
");
		}

		[Test]
		public void FlagsAttributeWorks() {
			AssertCorrect(
@"[System.Flags] public enum MyEnum { Value1, Value2, Value3 }
",
@"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// MyEnum
var $MyEnum = function() {
};
$MyEnum.prototype = { value1: 0, value2: 1, value3: 2 };
{Script}.registerEnum(global, 'MyEnum', $MyEnum, { enumFlags: true });
");
		}

		[Test]
		public void NamedValuesAttributeWorks() {
			AssertCorrect(
@"[System.Runtime.CompilerServices.NamedValues] public enum MyEnum { Value1, Value2, Value3 }
",
@"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// MyEnum
var $MyEnum = function() {
};
$MyEnum.prototype = { value1: 'value1', value2: 'value2', value3: 'value3' };
{Script}.registerEnum(global, 'MyEnum', $MyEnum);
");
		}

		[Test]
		public void InternalEnumIsNotExported() {
			AssertCorrect(
@"internal enum MyEnum { Value1, Value2, Value3 }
",
@"////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// MyEnum
var $$MyEnum = function() {
};
$$MyEnum.prototype = { $value1: 0, $value2: 1, $value3: 2 };
{Script}.registerEnum(null, '$MyEnum', $$MyEnum);
");
		}
	}
}

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There are some days that provide you with a glimpse of what is to come in the days following. This past Thursday was one of those. With it being "Dollar Day", I was ready to hit a few Goodwill stores that I had already scouted and knew there might be the opportunity to pick up some great buys for a dollar each. The first stop brought in a fantastic couple of jackets, one from Yves Saint Laurent and the other from Brioni. Of course, neither of these were a dollar but less than $10 each. The weekend also found a surprise perfect fitting brown Donna Karan and the real surprise was the Dolce & Gabbana corduroy jacket. Total cost to my wallet for the four jackets was $35.94, price new for the same four would have been around $8,450.00. In addition, I was able to take advantage of the dollar per item with a brown Banana Republic pair of pants and shirt and a blue Tommy Bahama shirt.
The weekend also brought in several other items including a couple of Turnbury sweaters, one of baby alpaca and the other of super fine cashmere. There were many shirts that made their way into my basket including names like Oxxford Clothes, Banana Republic, Giorgio Armani (2), Burberry, Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna (2), John Varvatos, Yves Saint Laurent and Canali at a cost of $59.16 to me but if purchased new would have set me back right at $3,194.56 before taxes. There were also some nice pants that jumped at me as I passed by with names like Ermenegildo Zegna, Giorgio Armani, Lucky Brand, Eddie Bauer, Zanella, Hugo Boss, Burberry and Christian Dior that cost $46.48 and new would have been $2,022.50. Of course, I had to pass by the necktie section and found Ermenegildo Zegna (4), John Varvatos, Christian Dior, Brook's Brothers, Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent and a Fendi with a price paid of $24.65 worth $1,578.37. Other items I found were the much needed Florsheim shoe trees, a shoe brush, two maple suit hangers and gold plated belt buckles from Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.
All in all, this was a great weekend of treasure hunting and almost everything was my size. Total cost for everything was $166.23 with a value of right at $13,224.94 if purchased new based on what I could find on the Internet.
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Home World U.S. News Dynamic Airways Plane Catches Fire on Runway at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport
Dynamic Airways Plane Catches Fire on Runway at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport
At least 15 people have been injured after a Dynamic Airways plane's engine caught fire as it taxied for take-off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida.
The Dynamic Airways Boeing 767 was on the runway at Florida airport, preparing for departure to Venezuela.
The left engine, which had been leaking fuel, caught fire.
The passengers and crew were evacuated and the fire extinguished but one person has been left with severe burns.
"The crew followed the emergency procedures, shut down the engine and evacuated the aircraft in order to assure safety to all on board," Dynamic Airways said in a statement.
Those injured are being treated at Florida Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
One person has been "seriously burnt", according to Mike Jachles of the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending agents to Fort Lauderdale to investigate the fire.
Dynamic Airways flies between Fort Lauderdale, New York, Venezuela and Guyana.
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Preventing Duplicate Customer Account Registration, is it possible?
Thread: Preventing Duplicate Customer Account Registration, is it possible?
Hello everyone. I've looked all over the forum but couldn't actually find a valid solution to this issue. Perhaps from working this out a new plugin could be implemented to help others with the same issue?
Anyways, the issue is simple, I need to prevent customers from creating duplicate accounts. We implemented a Reward Points system a few months back to increase our sales and it has worked really well. The reward points system awards new accounts with 100 points (the equivalent of $5 off your first order). However, we get the "cheaters" who want to continue receiving these free points/money by registering multiple accounts in a continuous cycle of first orders. Right now we have to manually check new accounts with first orders, to make sure they're not duplicate. When these duplicate accounts are located we then notify the customers their accounts have been blocked, and their orders cancelled as they've violated our terms and conditions for our rewards program, which of course angers these customers. People have the bad habit of getting angry when found cheating. How dare we enforce our terms and conditions!
So the main question is, is it possible to create a verification system during account creation?
I'm thinking once the index.php?main_page=create_account is submitted it would go through an extra step looking for commonalities in the database, like address, name and last name, prompting the customer with a screen asking them if the account we have in the database is his/her, with two buttons, yes/no. If they click yes then they get forwarded to the login page, if they say no, the account is created.
I understand people might say no, and create the duplicate account anyways but at least it would free some redundant manual work on our end. I also understand people move and although the physical address might be the same the actual customer changes. We run with a problem of cheaters being cheaters nonetheless and use someone else's name in the family not similar and create the account anyways, but that's ok. If we can at least screen the majority and prevent duplicate accounts just for the points it's a win.
Would it be possible to create a verification layer in between and how/where should I start?
Re: Preventing Duplicate Customer Account Registration, is it possible?
One option is a direct 'lookup' using the same conditions you use to sort out the potential duplicates as a human in real life.
Another option is to create a 'rule' that forces them down a straight and narrow account path with strict nickname rules and a pre-filter.
Super secure would be scrambling the new user data in an account index for reference against the database including past orders... or anything else you want to add to the math/encryption.
Thank you and sorry for getting to this so late! Holiday season kicked in for months!
Direct lookup is what we are doing at the moment, but we are not being too efficient with it.
I'm thinking the 'rule' might be a better approach, sort of what I said above checking the database prior to actually creating the account as to prevent duplicate account creation, but I have no idea where to even begin with this.
email: link after registration to activate (new) customer account.
Preventing duplicate orders for users with JS disabled...?
Is a Purchase Possible Without Customer Registration?


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Business and Tech News Brief in Cambodia 12-14 June 2021
Here are the compilation of the news brief about business and technology in Cambodia from various news outlets, published on 12-14 June 2021. You can stay informed with me by following our Facebook page or Telegram channel.
List of Important News Brief on Business and Technology in Cambodia
1. Cambodia set to increase exports of processed cashew nuts to Europe, USA, Canada, China and Australia markets
2. Winding up petition court date has been set for KrisEnergy
3. Cambodian and Indonesian entrepreneurs discuss the role of women as drivers of economic growth
4. GTI announces suspension of production because of Covid-19
5. PPAP registers 37% revenue growth year-on-year
6. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, key importers of Thai food products
7. Cambodia-US trade climbs over 24.5% in January-April
8. 13 more Covid deaths, 542 infections in Cambodia
9. Tech, e-businesses book $470M in revenue
After the success of Cambodian cashew exports to Japan, Top Planning Japan (TPJ) in cooperation with Chey Sambo Cashew Nut Handicraft sets its eyes on fresh new markets in Europe, USA, Canada, China and Australia where demand for cashew's are high.
To enable this, the company is set to increase the production and processing of cashew nuts to 20 tons a month as well as increase the amount of fresh cashew nuts to 1,000 tons in 2021. By 2023, TPJ plans to build a processing plant with a production capacity of up to 2,000-3,000 tons a year. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF),
KrisEnergy's winding up petition hearing at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands will take place on July 12 at 9am, a notice issued when a company's creditors submit a request to the court to liquidate the firm because it is believed to be insolvent.
After failing to hit its expected oil recovery estimates, the company announced on April 20 that it would likely not be able to continue to operate. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF), The Business Times, The Straits Time
The Indonesian Embassy in Phnom Penh hosted a webinar last week featuring Cambodian and Indonesian female entrepreneurs discussing how to better foster communication about the challenges women in business face.
About 60% of all private business owners in the Kingdom are women, the majority of whom operate micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), according to World Bank data. A similar number of women, 53.76 percent, operate MSMEs in Indonesia and female entrepreneurs contribute some 60 percent to the country's gross domestic product. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF)
Grand Twins International, the only garment factory listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, is instructed by the Ministry of Health and Phnom Penh City Hall to close its factory until June 20 as more than 200 garment workers had tested positive for Covid-19.
The company has traded downwards over the last 30 days with the value of shares dropping more than 6.52 percent from 4,600 riel. The company's share price, trading under the ticker "GTI" remained unchanged on Friday after the announcement was released, ending the session at 4,300 riel per share. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF)
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) has continued its upward trajectory as the firm continues to benefit from the global recovery.
Total May 2021 revenue for PPAP reached $2.394 million, an increase of 37 percent over that achieved in May 2020. The firm registered May 2021 revenue of $1.919 million in revenue from port operations, an increase from the $1.361 million in revenue recorded in May 2020.
Port authority revenue for May 2021 increased by 20 percent to $256,890.
Trading under the ticker "PPAP" on the Cambodia Securities Exchange, share prices increased by 0.26 percent to 15,000 riels per share on the news. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF),
Thailand's food exporters have found opportunities in the midst of the current crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. As consumers worldwide visit supermarkets and dine in restaurants less often, they are buying more processed and canned foods to cook at home as well as more ready-to-eat foods.
Thailand recorded a healthy growth in the export of processed foods such as fruits and vegetables and canned seafood, which is in part attributed to economic recovery in those buying countries. The trend has highlighted the strength and diversity of Thailand's food supply chain, which is serving the country's goal of producing foods to cater to the growing demand among global consumers for nutritious and functional foods that serve their specific needs. Read more: KhmerTimes (PDF), Bangkok Post (PDF)
Although the economic crisis unleashed by Covid-19 has driven large international trade declines, Cambodia-US trade seems to have largely eluded the clutches of the pandemic wobbles, worth $2.6549 billion in January-April, an increase of 24.48 per cent over the $2.1327 booked in the same period of 2020.
Of that, the Kingdom exported $2.5192 billion, up by 24.43 per cent year-on-year from $2.0246 billion, and imported $135.7 million, up by 25.53 per cent on a yearly basis from $108.1 million, according to the US Census Bureau. Read more: PPPost (PDF)
The Ministry of Health on June 14 reported another 542 Covid-19 cases, all but 37 of which were linked to the February 20 community outbreak.
The ministry also reported 13 new deaths and 1,109 recoveries. As of June 14, Cambodia had recorded a total of 38,969 Covid-19 cases with 32,967 recoveries and 348 fatalities. Source: PPPost
Backed by rapid technological and innovation development, Cambodian tech and digital businesses achieved $470 million in revenue for 2019, according to the latest report from Asian Development Bank (ADB) released late last month.
Broken down by sectors, e-commerce accounted for 27.6 per cent, e-services 7.8 per cent, digital media 10.2 per cent, advertising technology 12.7 per cent, transportation 3.8 per cent and online travel 37.9 per cent, the Metro Manila-based multilateral lender said in its "Asia Economic Integration Report 2021: Making Digital Platforms Work For Asia and the Pacific". Source: PPPost (PDF)
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neighborhood news May 1, 2012
Park Slope Uninterested in Non-Nursing Breasts
By Noreen Malone
Photo: Alexander Tamargo/Getty
Brooklyn residents have long been worried about what kind of change the Atlantic Yards project will bring to their neighborhood, and now, with the unveiling of the Brooklyn Nets' new logo making the team's impending move feel less theoretical, that change is lumbering ever nearer. Perhaps that's why Park Slope and Prospect Heights residents have been so upset over Hooters' thus far unsuccessful efforts to get a franchise location within walking distance of the Nets' arena.
As the Daily News reports, though the chain has had two attempted deals with large property owners fall through, for spots on Flatbush Avenue and the stretch between Atlantic Avenue and Grand Army Plaza, Slopers and Heightsers are still worried. They're spending sleepless nights worried about it, even.
"Hooters has been trying to come into this neighborhood, and twice they were rejected by the largest property owners in the district," said Sharon Davidson, the executive director of the North Flatbush Business Improvement District. […]
To "stifle the rumors," she sent out a 3 a.m. tweet over the weekend, saying: "Absolutely no Hooters for North Flatbush Ave."
Another "local mom" added her two cents. "It's a disgusting national chain with bad beer and bad food," said Lee Skaife. So entrepreneurs, take note. Park Slope might just be open to a breastaurant if the beer is craft, the food is locally sourced, the owners are scrappy upstarts, and the uniforms are vintage-inspired.
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Rahm Wins the US Open
by Joseph Bronson | Jun 23, 2021
It all came down to two putts on the 71st and 72nd holes of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines John Rahm simply didn't make any mistakes on the back nine. He persevered while all the other competitors imploded on the back nine. The back nine at Torrey Pines on Sunday could have just as easily been the Third Flight of a Country Club Championship. Balls were flying everywhere, shanks, topped shots and a bunch of pulls and even slices. The US Open rough awaited all of these miscues and immediately removed the potential for pars and birdies. Torrey is difficult to begin with and adding the US Open rough and pin set up presented a challenging set of circumstances. The leaderboard was a virtual who's who of the modern era as those that led early could not keep pace with the perils of this layout. George Bland (?), I thought it might be the resurrection of longtime Oakland Raider George Blanda, was leading the pack through the first 36 holes. He drove it in the fairway and made the putts, which he could not do in the final 36 and skied to a pair of 78's. At age 48 and driving it 50 yards behind the competitive bombers, Torrey eventually caught up to him. A similar fate was experienced by Russell Henley as the sheer length and grind of this course eventually slayed him.
Matsuyama teeing off on the 615 yard par 5, 13th hole
The biggest surprise in the field came from the bat of Bryson DeChambeau–DeChambeau's strategy was resolute-hit it as far as you can and shorten the course. He was comfortable in having the strength to blast it out of the deep rough if that was necessary. and blast his way into contention. With a wide selection of all of these in the first 54 holes, DeChambeau was still in contention. On the 8th hole on Sunday, he hit a pitching wedge 175 yards to the 2′" line for a birdie and top the leaderboard at 5 under par. He proceeded to shoot 44 on the back nine with a plethora of pulls/hooks/slices/shanks etc. that resulted from missing fairways. From taking the lead on the lead at the 8th, DeChambeau's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde round was amazing especially the "8" on 17. DeChambeau's strategy is to bomb your way home and let the chips fall where they may and in this case there was shrapnel everywhere including a box of beer cans on the 13th hole, which collided with one of his bunker shots.His post press conference was non nonchalant and charming attributing the horrid back nine to a bunch of bad breaks. A defending US champion can behave like this publicly but I wouldn't want to be around him for the next few days–I'm sure he's extremely unhappy with his finish and he'll have to add some homage and offerings to the golf gods to get his game packaged for continued success. His media nemesis, Brooks Koepka, was also in great position to win another major title but the final round just didn't work out for him. He couldn't put the ball in the fairway when he needed to and missed a fair share of short putts (not as bad as the PGA Championship) and finished 4th. (DeChambeau finished 26th thanks to the back 9 implosion.
Louie O. dropping after hitting into the brush on 17
Louis Oostheuizen was probably the best player on the course for the entire week from tee to green. He was consistent and he was constantly in position to take over the tournament. His eagle on the final hole in the third round with a 50 ft. plus putt, gave him the lead and placed him in the final group. He made one huge mistake the entire week and it probably cost him the tournament. He missed the drive on the 17th hole where it can't be missed–on the left side of the fairway to produce the bogey that would vault Rahm into the lead. It was actually a "good" bogey. Then there is your winner John Rahm who was attributing justice and karma as ingredients for his victory. Truth be told, he played almost flawlessly on the back nine making no mistakes and putting himself into position to make birdies on the way in but the putts were not dropping. On 17 and 18, the putts dropped and he hoisted himself into the lead that Oostheuizen squandered with his drive on 17. Rahm's victory is a bit of justice after being disqualified two weeks earlier due to COVID-19 with a six shot lead. My sense is that this had little to do with it…I checked with the golf gods and they were absolutely neutral on the issue–Rahm was going to have to win this without supernatural assistance and that he is exactly what he did. No one lost this tournament–Jon Rahm grabbed it by the throat and won it.
As I had predicted last week, the 12th, 13th and 18th were major factors. The 505 yard, par 4, 12th played tough all week as its length makes it difficult to go pin seeking. The focus has to be getting the ball onto the green. Any tee shot that didn't find the fairway made it virtually impossible to hit the green from the deep rough. Oosteuizen played the hole better than any of the leaders at 1 under par for the tournament while Rahm and Koepka were 1 over. The pattern for 13 and 18 were also very similar. The 13th is a three shot, par 5 provided you hit the ball in the fairway as the second shot has to carry the upslope on the way up to the green. Some shots would normally have made the green but trickled back from the slope although a few shots made the green in 2 but they were few and far between. Koepka played the 13th in 2 under par with Rahm even and Oosteuizen at 1 under par.
The drama unfolded on the 18th hole–the Saturday pin position was just over the pond so it would be difficult to go pin seeking guarding against eagles but it certainly was a birdie hole. If you hit the ball in the fairway, most all of these guys knocked on the green in 2 and many of them made birdie. Rahm played the 18th almost perfectly as the second shot was key after a good drive in the fairway. Rahm knew that the green runs hard top to bottom and right to left with this pin position-his second shot was aimed to the right and caught the bunker on the right side of the green. He hit a terrific bunker shot to the top of the right side of the green and allowed it to meander down to the hole but he still had to hole a 15 footer for the birdie. He would need that birdie as Oosteuizen missed the fairway but his approach shot to the green afforded him the birdie opportunity, which he made to finish 1 back. Oosteuizen played 18 at 5 under for the week and Rahm was 4 under for the week. The difference was Rahm's birdie on 17 and Oosteuizen's bogey on the same hole.
The narrow, treacherous fairway at 17.
I would give the USGA an A+ for the setup of Torrey Pines. The course was tough but fair and the best players in the world emerged into one of the best leadership board you could ever envision as names such as Dustin Johnson, McIlroy, Morikawa, Paul Casey, Schauffele, Molinari, Cantlay and many others were all there and had a chance to win. It was a nice tribute to outgoing USGA President Mike Davis who completed his 33rd year as leader of the USGA. The USGA has had its fits and starts over the years at places like Shinnecock and Chambers Bay but they got this one right.
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Gus on June 24, 2021 at 9:34 am
Joe – as always appreciate your sharing this / these! I watched most of the tourney (recorded and watched in high speed)…what a great test of golf and like you said Rahm rose to the challenge and really stared down the back 9 Sunday.


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E.g. methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat worldwide. S. aureus is the leading cause of hospital-associated infections, with MRSA causing a high percentage of these. By 2014 ten countries had reported failures of last-resort treatments for gonorrhoea.
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Candida albicans on an agar plate.
How and why might we overcome infectious diseases?


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Natco Pharma, Thejo Engineering Are the Winners of Moneylife Foundation's 1st Corporate Governance Award
Moneylife Digital Team 06 January 2022
Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma Ltd and Chennai-based Thejo Engineering Ltd are the winner and runner-up of Moneylife Foundation's inaugural Corporate Governance Award. In an online function, M Damodaran, former chairman of SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) announced the winner and runner-up from five shortlisted nominees. Five finalists for this year's award were: KPR Mill Ltd, Laurus Labs Ltd, Natco Pharma, Suven Pharma Ltd and Thejo Engineering.
Congratulating all the shortlisted companies, Mr Damodaran said, "What gives me the greatest happiness is that in a universe of companies, big and small, we do not have any of the usual suspects in the shortlist by Moneylife Foundation. This also shows, perception management lasts only for some time and then the truth takes over, like what happened in the case of Satyam Computers."
According to the former chief of SEBI, companies stand or fall depending on their boards. "Size is not the real indicator but the kind of people that get into the board. If a promotor has courage to bring into boardroom people who can ask tough questions, no board will extract value from management and vice versa. Peaceful co-existence does not work in board rooms," he added.
Mr Damodaran also expressed anguish over introduction newer regulations for each delinquency by a company. He says, "Before new regulations are introduced, it must be analysed if better enforcement of existing regulations can address the problem. Before you write new regulations, do a cost benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment. Most importantly all regulations must have a sunset clause, else you cannot take away redundant regulations. It should be done like what Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been doing. RBI withdrew 104 regulatory instructions and circulars that have become redundant or were duplicated as per the Regulations Review Authority's interim recommendation (RRA). Why this cannot be followed by all other regulators?"
"What Moneylife Foundation has done for recognising good corporate governance is a great first step. However, I would suggest you to have an award also for the best and most informative annual reports for companies. At present annual reports are full of complex sentences, and in a language that is difficult to understand for a common investor. Language is used to conceal thoughts, and we should identify people who do this. Communicating in simple language is important," he says.
Mr Damodaran, also requested organisations like Moneylife Foundation to raise their voice against absenteeism in company board meeting by directors.
The former SEBI chief also raised important issue of representation of women independent directors on the company boards. "Are companies appointing women independent directors or independent women directors?
"There are only directors on a company, not man or woman directors. Are women being appointed on company board because of their talent or as tokenism? Most are doing it to just tick the regulatory check box. Some claim they are doing to give justice to talent of women, but why they took so much time to recognise the talent and board resolution," he asked.
Accepting the award as Winner, Rajeev Nannapaneni, vice-chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Natco Pharma says, "Most investors look at quarterly performance. That pressure leads to decision making to please the gallery or force companies to make mistakes. That is what causes the mismatch. You cannot build business overnight it takes a long time. Therefore, it is important to change the quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) narrative."
Dr Satyanarayana Chava, Founder & CEO, Laurus Labs also expressed the same sentiments. He says, "There is a dichotomy - investor wants quick returns. Management has to keep long-term interest intact. To align these things is a challenge and has to be balanced. Companies taking care of stakeholders with good corporate governance practices will be rewarded over long term."
According to Prof VA George, executive chairman of Thejo Engineering, pillars of governance are values on which we build transparency, honesty, and concern for society. "I thank my parents for instilling the values in me. I thank knowledgeable investors and two founders and other stakeholders," he says.
Debashis Basu, founder-trustee of Moneylife Foundation and editor of Moneylife pointed out, "while we are assembled here to give awards for the best and the second-best, let me make one thing absolutely clear. Each of these business leaders is equally exceptional in what they believe in and how they have lived up to their beliefs. They are all winners in my personal view and I am sure will be winners in the coming years," he says.
Explaining the selection process, Mr Basu said, "For starters, the initial shortlist was based on direct nominations from several famous investors, analysts, fund managers, and researchers, who in themselves would have comprised a top jury. The nominations themselves gave us, the jury a very filtered list of companies to start with."
"The nominations went through a rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis by Gautam Bafna and his team at Wisdom Torch Consulting Solutions. They created the framework and evaluation template to judge these 35 companies under 11 major heads. The information collated by Wisdom Torch on each company was distilled, quantified, colour coded, and summarised into an easy-to-understand presentation for the jury."
The jury comprising R Balakrishnan (with vast experience in research, rating, investment, and fund management), Prof JP Singh (retired professor of IIM Ahmedabad), I, with our deputy editor Yogesh Sapkale as member-secretary, held two rounds of detailed deliberations to create a first shortlist of 11 from 35, Mr Basu said.
Analysts at Moneylife then did another round of search on Watchoutinvestors.com for any regulatory action the jury may have missed. JN Gupta, MD of Stakeholder Empowerment Services allowed access to their website for details on some of the companies that are tracked by the proxy advisory firm. This, Mr Basu said, helped the jury arrive at the final shortlist of five nominees, all of whom meet very exacting standards of governance.
"Just as bad governance with good financial performance is suspect, good governance without sustained long-term financial performance is of no use. As investors and analysts, we realise that wealth creation and good governance are not strictly correlated. Wealth creation depends a lot on sector tailwinds, an external factor. Governance, on the other, is wholly internal - how a company chooses to behave. This is what we have focused on," Mr Basu added.
TS Krishnamurthy, trustee of Moneylife Foundation presided over the Award function. In his address, the former chief election commissioner says, "The Indian stock market has dramatically transformed over the last two years since the COVID lockdown. Investors are looking for companies with a good track record and good corporate governance practices. This independent corporate governance award that is judged primarily based on objective criteria very timely and we hope that this award will become a benchmark over the years."
The Award function was attended by several prominent personalities from all fields and included several investors, analysts, fund managers and researchers from across the country.
The Fabulous 5 of 2021
KPR Mill, started by three brothers from an agricultural family understand and empathise with the thirst for education and a better life. They run a very large, continuing educational programme for their employees especially women. More than 27,000 employees have benefitted from it. What is unique is that 200 of their own employees have been placed in the IT industry - a unique programme. It has also separately set up classes to coach students for the UPSC examinations.
The mantra of Dr Satyanarana Chava of Laurus Labs, a first-generation entrepreneur is 'winners never cheat, even in difficult times', the title of a book by billionaire businessmen Jon Huntsman of high integrity. His investors are convinced he lives by this dictum.
Natco Pharma is, of course, famous for bringing in low-cost medicines through patent challenges. We have also come across several heart-warming stories about the founder, including how he paid salaries to all employees by selling his own landholdings when the company was passing through difficult times.
Suven Pharma has always taken the difficult road of innovation, which can never succeed unless the business is run with impeccable integrity and honesty every single day. Both Suven and Natco have been frank in communicating to investors that revenues will remain uneven, given their unique business models.
Thejo Engineering, though listed in the SME segment of BSE, has set an extremely high standard, which emphasises transparency, accountability and integrity in all its business dealings, even at the cost of losing business.
Kamal Garg
What a simple attire of the VC and CEO of Natco Pharma receiving a prestigious award like Corporate Governance Award. External appearance often camouflage the real capability and competence.
Kudos.
sivakumar_go
Great evening. Thought provoking speech by R Damodaran and T S K. Unfortunately nothing will happen and we shall continue to stand in the same place even after 10 years. Compliance cost is getting higher and higher with newer laws and provisions added everyday. As rightly observed, annual reports should be made simpler and easy to understand. Getting into the Statement of accounts itself has become a big task leave alone understanding and decoding .
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"""RegAlloc priority prediction training config."""

import gin
import tensorflow as tf
from tf_agents.specs import tensor_spec
from tf_agents.trajectories import time_step
from compiler_opt.rl import feature_ops

@gin.configurable()
def get_regalloc_signature_spec():
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      (key, tf.TensorSpec(dtype=tf.int64, shape=(), name=key))
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      dtype=tf.float32, shape=(), name='weight')

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Trump's economic chief just collapsed into total gibberish defending Trump
By Robert Haffey
President Deals is stumbling facefirst into an all-out trade war with China. Trump, playing into his victimhood rhetoric that claims America is being taken advantage of all over the world, recently announced tariffs on Chinese imports. Not surprisingly, China responded by slapping billions in tariffs of their own on U.S. imports.
The United States is headed down a disastrous trade track, all because the president is too lazy and too ignorant to contend with the difficult nuances of good policy. He even cluelessly claimed that trade wars are "easy" to "win."
When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don't trade anymore-we win big. It's easy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018
Tariffs are simple enough in their basic concept that Trump can wrap his head around them on some level, so it's tariffs that he's chosen to implement. As any economist or historian worth their salt will tell you, tariffs have historically been hugely detrimental to the American economy. Perhaps most infamously, the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs of 1930 were a major contributing factor in the Great Depression. Those tariffs were also spearheaded by Republicans.
It's simple. Tariffs lead to trade wars. Trade wars make everything more expensive, which in turn tanks world economies. Trump is steering us directly towards financial ruin.
In an attempt to get out ahead of the trade war scandal, Larry Kudlow, the Director of the National Economic Council under Trump, appeared on Fox News and gave an almost impressively nonsensical defense of the president's incoherent economic policies.
Kudlow started his speel by saying he "gets the stock market's anxiety" before telling people to not "overreact" without offering any reason why people shouldn't overreact.
He said that he's a "growth guy," a meaningless statement given that no rational person, liberal or conservative, would say they're against economic growth.
Kudlow then proceeded launch into a rambling string of unrelated statements. He said he believes in supply-side economics, which has nothing to do with tariffs. Then he rambled for a bit about opening up some "pot of gold."
Kudlow then made the argument that better economic growth and better trade comes from "lowering barriers." He said we shouldn't "raise barriers," which is exactly what tariffs do. In other words, Kudlow ended up arguing against his own policies.
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Fire in Reliance Industries' gas pipeline in Telangana
Hyderabad: A fire Monday broke out in a natural gas pipeline that ferries gas from Reliance Industries' eastern offshore KG-D6 field in Telangana. No loss of life or injury has been reported.
The fire was notice early morning in a section of the pipeline near Zaheerabad in remote Telangana due to gas leak in the Main Line Valve, RGTIL, the company that operates the pipeline, said. "There is no loss of life or injuries," it said.
"Our experts have immediately reached the War Room as well as the site of fire. The fire is being controlled and contained by safely evacuating and cordoning off that section of pipeline. It might take another few hours to evacuate and extinguish the fire," the company said, adding gas supplies to consumers may remain affected for 24 hours.


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Cloudflare is giving away its security tools to US political campaigns
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Network security giant Cloudflare said it will provide its free security tools and services to U.S. political campaigns, as part of its efforts to secure upcoming elections against cyberattacks and election interference.
The company said its new Cloudflare for Campaigns offering will include distributed denial-of-service attack mitigation, load balancing for campaign websites, a website firewall, and anti-bot protections. It's an expansion of the company's security offering for journalists, civil rights activists and humanitarian groups under its Project Galileo, which aims to protect against disruptive cyberattacks. The project later expanded to smaller state and local government sites in 2018, with an aim of protecting servers containing voter registration data and other election infrastructure from attacks. Now the company is offering its security services to 11 of the 17 presidential campaigns, it said, but wants to ensure that its offering is "available to the largest campaigns are also available to smaller campaigns as well." Cloudflare's co-founder and chief executive Matthew Prince said there was a "clear need" to help campaigns secure not only their public facing websites but also their internal data security. The company said it's working with the non-partisan, non-profit organization Defending Digital Campaigns to provide its services to campaigns. Last year the Federal Elections Commission changed the rules to allow political campaigns to receive discounted cybersecurity assistance, which was previously a campaign finance violation.
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Published on: 23 August 2019
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Research Shows 4 in 10 Children Ask 'Where Did They Go?' After Losing a Loved One
, (2019, August 23). Research Shows 4 in 10 Children Ask 'Where Did They Go?' After Losing a Loved One. Psychreg on Developmental Psychology. https://www.psychreg.org/children-losing-a-loved-one/
Dealing with the death of a loved one can be incredibly hard for adults. Common reactions to bereavement include shock and numbness, overwhelming sadness, anger and sometimes even a feeling of guilt. If this is how the typical grown-up feels, how do children who are yet to reach adolescence cope with the bombshell of a death in the family?
To find out how children understand, experience and come to terms with the inevitable, Legal & General surveyed 1,000 parents of children aged 3–16. The results of the research highlight intriguing differences in how children and adults conceptualise and cope with death.
Many children, feeling lost and confused about what's happened to the deceased, ask questions in an attempt to better understand the circumstances. The results of the survey showed that the most common question asked by children asked 3–16 is: 'How did they die?', suggesting that the cause of death is often not completely obvious to them. More tellingly, the second most asked question is: 'Where did they go?'. This metaphysical query is nearly five times more likely to be asked by a 3–9-year-old (38%) than a 10–16-year-old (8%).
Previous research has shown that under-5s are very unlikely to understand that death is permanent, which creates a dilemma for parents. Should they tell the truth (as they see it) or sugarcoat the stark reality of the situation? Ten per cent of the parents in Legal & General's study said they lied to their children to soften the blow, despite some experts believing that honesty is the best policy.
According to Child Bereavement Network, around 1 in 20 young people will have experienced the death of one or both of their parents by the age of 16, which suggests that preparing children for the experience of loss is important for protecting their mental health.
When asked for the age they believe is ideal for first talking to their children about the concept of death, the most common answer given by parents was 6 years old, which was after explaining how to stay safe around strangers (4 years old), but before talking about sex (10 years old) and illicit drugs (11 years old). However, 1 in 5 (22%) of children have lost a pet, friend or family member by the age of six, which suggests that some bereaved young people may not have had 'the talk' in time for their first experience of death.
One tactic used by parents to educate their children about death without traumatising them with its bleakness is making reference to the passing of characters in fictional stories. More than half (53%) said fictional deaths of characters like Mufasa in The Lion King, Dobby in Harry Potter, and Bambi's mother helped their child better understand death. More than one-third of parents said that popular culture, such as TV shows and books, should be responsible for educating children about death. This was almost as many as those who said grandparents should hold some responsibility (38%). After parents, schools were considered the most responsible for teaching children about death (46%), but the topic of death and bereavement is not currently covered in the national curriculum in the UK, where the survey was carried out.
Without comprehensive support from the education system, parents are left to deal with the emotional fallout of a family bereavement. When asked how they help their child through the grieving process, 1 in 5 parents said they let their child play more often, 17% said they let them stay up late, 14% pointed to more family days out as being useful, and 7% bought them presents to lift their mood.
Keeping alive the memory of the person who died stood out as important to many parents, with 67% saying that talking about the deceased with their children was how they preserved their memory, followed by looking at photos (57%) and cherishing physical mementos (28%).
Even with multiple coping strategies in place, many children will need time to process and move past their sadness. For instance, 17% of parents said their child had trouble sleeping following a family member's death. Reflecting on the results of Legal & General's research, Dr Katie Koehler of Child Bereavement UK advised: 'Children are naturally curious and often ask questions that we're not prepared for. However, it's fairly easy to introduce the topic of death in day to day conversations – such as commenting on how the flowers in a vase have died (and cannot come back to life again), or insects/animals they may come across – how they no longer move, no longer need food or water. Creating an environment where communication can flow freely and easily, encouraging questioning, giving open and honest responses, and using accurate language at a level appropriate to their understanding, will all help children to feel okay about raising difficult issues.'
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Where does the Splitfest at Mt. Baker take place?
The Festival headquarters are at the Chair 9 Bar and Pizza. 10459 Mt Baker Hwy, Glacier, WA 98244. Most of the touring starts out of the upper lot of the Mt Baker Ski resort but there's no limit to where you can go. The best thing to do is show up at the Chair 9 on Friday night for the Meet & Greet, get your demo gear and find someone to group up with. There will be groups ranging from first-tours to peak-baggers to meet up with. The Splitfest doesn't officially group people up, it's your own responsibility to introduce yourself and find the appropriate touring partners.
What are the dates for the 2015 Splitfest at Mt. Baker?
The Festival starts Friday evening on March 27th at The Chair 9 Pizza and Bar.
The schedule of events can be found at Schedule of Events
How much does the Splitfest at Mt Baker cost?
The Festival is totally free to attend. However you are responsible for your own food and lodging. The splitboard demos are also free of charge but you are required to bring your own skins, and avalanche gear. The demo vendors will also have release forms for you to sign and may require some sort of deposit. Each vendor is independent from the Splitfest and have their own set of rules for you to follow.
What do I need for the Splitfest?
You will need your own avalanche gear and the knowledge to use it. You will need a set of skins for your demo gear. You also need lots of cash for the raffle!
Where do I stay?
You are responsible for your own lodging. There are many rentals available in the Glacier area. Rentals can be found at Baker Accommodations or Mt Baker Vacation Rentals
Where do I tour?
Some of the best touring can be found in the Bagley Lakes area which is just north of the Mt Baker ski area. Most people park in the upper lot and and meet up at the Blueberry Cat Track trail-head. A favorite destination for beginner tours is always Artist Point where there are wonderful views of both Mt Baker and Mt Shuksan.
Where do I get a demo board?
The demo tents will be set up at the Chair 9 Pizza and Bar on Friday night. Although the tents are open most of the weekend, there are only a limited number of demos to lend out. So it's in your best interest to be at the tent on Friday night to reserve one. Also watch the Facebook page to reserve a demo early.
How much are raffle tickets?
Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. This year we will be selling tickets starting on Friday night. Look in the bar for the largest crowd and you will probably find someone selling tickets!
What's in the raffle this year?
As usual there will be a plethora of prizes which including splitboards! Keep an eye on the Splitfest Blog as there will be teaser announcements for the prizes as they are received from the sponsors.
WHO ORGANIZES THE SPLITFEST AT MT. BAKER?
The Splitfest at Mt. Baker was originally started in 2010 by Bob Rodgers and Terry Schmidbauer as a way to bring Splitboarders together in the Pacific Northwest. They wanted to create a festival that was dedicated to splitboarding, served the riders and raised money for the local avalanche center.


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Michelle Obama and the White House Purposely Bar Gay Groups From Military "Joining Forces" Ceremony
Will Kohler April 12, 2011
Michelle Obama and Jill Biden's initiative to "support and honor America's service members and their families." entitled "Joining Forces" kicked off today with an opening ceremony which included remarks from President Obama. But it seems that the only military families and members who were aren't being honored and included are the gays and lesbians ones
Michelle Obama and The White House purposely did not invite Gay and Lesbian Military groups and organizations from attending the ceremony while other with few or no military families in their constituencies.
Servicemembers United, who represents gay and lesbian troops and veterans, complained that the White House had barred civilian representatives of gay and lesbian military families from the event.
"It is rather unfortunate that both East Wing and West Wing staff have refused to allow a representative of gay military families to even be in the room at an event that is supposed to honor their commitment and sacrifice" Alex Nicholson, from Servicemembers United siad. ""[t]he First Lady's office has used the continued enforcement of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' as an excuse to exclude us, even though they know that 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' does not apply to the civilians who work at their advocacy and service organizations. Many straight organizational representatives have been invited to this event, including some with few or no military families in their constituencies. "Yet our thousands of gay military families are shut out from being represented today because of nothing but lingering political homophobia. Gay and lesbian military families should not have to fight this hard just to stand in the back of the room in 2011."
Communications Director for Michelle Obama Kristina Schake, , explained the decision in an email to CBS News.
"The President has been crystal clear that the Administration is moving forward with the repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' quickly and efficiently," she said. "However, it still remains the law. The White House, including the First Lady and Dr. Biden, look forward to working with the families of gay and lesbian service members after certification occurs and repeal goes into effect."
Way NOT to go there Mrs. Obama.
Sure is a good thing Jackie Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson didn't feel that way before the 1965 Civil Rights Act was signed. Martin Luther King would have never met with Kennedy and Johnson before the signing.
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import com.malleamus.vellum.Registerable;
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    public Musteri(String adi, String telefonNo, String adres) {
        this.adi = adi;
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