Gary Vaynerchuk is Poe Dameron because he is the brash rebel fighter for social media. Vaynerchuk is well known for focusing on hustle and working your way to the top regardless of difficulties. Sounds an awful lot like a certain pilot who steals a tie fighter to escape the First Order as well as lead a desperation move to destroy yet another death star. His piloting style is also a jab, jab, right hook, right? Plus he has unabashedly argued that Star Wars is better than Star Trek (sorry Trekkies) in one of his #AskGaryVee episodes. Clearly a fan in all respects.
Neal Patel is Captain Rex because he is a no nonsense, stick to the basics type of guy. Patel started from the trainee bottom and is now one of the best known fighters in digital marketing. While his Star Wars allegiances are unknown he is single mindedly dedicated to his cause of growing businesses throughout the known galaxy.
Rand Fishkin is Obi Wan Kenobi because The Wizard of Moz and his famous facial hair could only be Obi Wan Kenobi. Via Moz.com he has trained thousands of Padawans into SEO Jedis while never giving up the high ground or turning to the dark side of black hat tactics. Some may think that he is more of a Skywalker but we firmly put him as Obi Rand Kenobi. And while he's no longer the CEO of Moz, his oneness with the SEO force allows him to show up and opportune times to impart some wisdom.
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1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1982 – Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1861 – Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1995 – Lauren Hill, American basketball player (d. 2015). Lauren Hill (or similar) is the name of:
1989 – Brie Larson, American actress. Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers (born October 1, 1989), known professionally as Brie Larson, is an American actress and filmmaker.
1984 – Beck Bennett, American actor and screenwriter. Christopher Beck Bennett (born October 1, 1984), professionally known as Beck Bennett, is an American actor, comedian, and writer who is a current cast member on Saturday Night Live, joining in 2013.
1984 – Matt Cain, American baseball player. Matthew Thomas Cain (born October 1, 1984), nicknamed The Horse, Big Daddy, and Big Sugar, is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants.
1981 – David Yelldell, German-American soccer player. David Yelldell (born October 1, 1981) is a retired American soccer player who played as a goalkeeper and currently serves as an assistant coach for Sonnenhof Großaspach.
1980 – Sarah Drew, American actress. April Kepner in the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy (2009–2018).
1979 – Curtis Axel, American wrestler. Joseph Curtis Hennig (born October 1, 1979) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Curtis Axel.
1979 – Rudi Johnson, American football player. Burudi Ali Johnson (born October 1, 1979) is a former American football running back who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL).
1979 – Ryan Pontbriand, American football player. He has the distinction of being the highest-drafted pure long snapper in the history of the NFL Draft.
1978 – Leticia Cline, American model and journalist. She is best known as a former interviewer for TNA Wrestling, Maxim Magazine, the reality show Beauty and the Geek and her Playboy magazine appearance in July 2008.
1978 – Nicole Atkins, American singer-songwriter. Atkins has been compared to Roy Orbison and singers from the Brill Building era.
1976 – Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor. Antonio Roybal (born October 1, 1976) is an American fine-art painter and sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1973 – Christian Borle, American actor and singer. Borle originated the role of Emmett in Legally Blonde on Broadway, starred as Tom Levitt on the NBC musical-drama television series Smash, and starred as Marvin in the 2016 Broadway revival of Falsettos.
1969 – Joseph Patrick Moore, American musician, composer and producer. In 2003, he founded Blue Canoe Records the internet's first all-digital independent jazz label; he co-owns the label with Travis Prescott.
1969 – Ori Kaplan, Israeli-American saxophonist and producer. He has worked with many artists including Shotnez Tom Abbs, Firewater, Gogol Bordello, and Balkan Beat Box.
1969 – Zach Galifianakis, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter. Zachary Knight Galifianakis (/ˌɡælɪfəˈnækɪs/; born October 1, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and writer who came to prominence with his Comedy Central Presents special in 2001 and presented his own show called Late World with Zach on VH1 the following year.
1968 – Jay Underwood, American actor and pastor. He also portrayed the Human Torch in the 1994 unreleased film Fantastic Four.
1968 – Jon Guenther, American author and engineer. He is also creator of the Christian Pulp brand and genre.
1968 – Kevin Griffin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer. Kevin Michael Griffin (born October 1, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
1964 – Christopher Titus, American actor, producer, and screenwriter. Titus came to network audiences with the eponymous FOX show Titus, of which he was the star, executive producer and co-creator.
1963 – Mark McGwire, American baseball player and coach. Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963), nicknamed Big Mac, is an American former professional baseball first baseman.
1962 – Esai Morales, American actor. He also appeared in the PBS drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd.
1961 – Rico Constantino, American wrestler and manager. He performed under the ring names Rico Costantino and Rico in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 2002 to 2004.
1959 – Brian P. Cleary, American author and poet. Cleary, (born October 1, 1959, in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American humorist, poet, United States patent holder, inventor and author.
1955 – Howard Hewett, American R&B singer-songwriter. Hewett rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the Grammy winning R&B/soul vocal group Shalamar.
1955 – Jeff Reardon, American baseball player. Jeffrey James Reardon (born October 1, 1955) is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1979–1994 for the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, and Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Yankees.
1953 – Pete Falcone, American baseball player. Peter Frank Falcone (born October 1, 1953) is an American former professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, St.
1952 – Bob Myrick, American baseball player (d. 2012), was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was the great-nephew of longtime Washington Senators second baseman Buddy Myer.
1952 – Earl Slick, American rock guitarist and songwriter. Earl Slick (born Frank Madeloni in Brooklyn, New York, October 1, 1952) is a guitarist best known for his collaborations with David Bowie, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Robert Smith.
1950 – Mark Helias, American bassist and composer. Mark Helias (born October 1, 1950) is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1950 – Randy Quaid, American actor. Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an American film and television actor and Oscar nominee known for his roles in both serious drama and light comedy.
1949 – Isaac Bonewits, American singer-songwriter, liturgist, and author (d. 2010), was an American Neo-Druid who published a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic. He was a public speaker, liturgist, singer and songwriter, and founder of the Neopagan organizations Ár nDraíocht Féin and the Aquarian Anti-Defamation League.
1948 – Cub Koda, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2000), was an American rock and roll singer, guitarist, songwriter, disc jockey, music critic, and record compiler. Rolling Stone magazine considered him best known for writing the song "Smokin' in the Boys Room", recorded by Brownsville Station, which reached number 3 on the 1974 Billboard chart.
1947 – Buzz Capra, American baseball player and coach. Lee William Capra (born October 1, 1947), is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, from 1971 to 1977.
1947 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (d. 2009), was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's early work was fundamental to the development of the genre, developing the concept of the RPG using devices now considered to be archetypical, such as adventuring in "dungeons" and using a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all other characters to develop the storyline.
1947 – Stephen Collins, American actor and director. Since then, Collins has played the roles of Dayton King on the ABC TV series No Ordinary Family and Gene Porter in the television series Revolution, father of Elizabeth Mitchell's character, Rachel Matheson.
1945 – Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1979), was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and arranger. Hathaway has been described as a "soul legend" by Rolling Stone.
1945 – Rod Carew, Panamanian-American baseball player and coach. Rodney Cline Carew (born October 1, 1945) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman, second baseman and coach of Panamanian descent.
1943 – Jerry Martini, American saxophonist. Martini (born October 1, 1942) is an American musician, best known for being the saxophonist for Sly and the Family Stone.
1942 – Herb Fame, American R&B singer. Herb Fame (born October 1, 1942) has remained a constant as "Herb" since the duo was created in 1966; seven different women have filled the role of "Peaches", most notably Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker (April 28, 1947 – August 13, 2005), the original "Peaches" who lent her nickname to the duo, and Linda Greene, the third "Peaches", who appeared on the duo's biggest hits "Shake Your Groove Thing" (1978) and "Reunited" (1979).
1940 – Marc Savoy, American accordion player, created the Cajun accordion. Marc Savoy (/sɑːˈvwɑː/ sah-vwah) (b. near Eunice, Louisiana, United States, October 1, 1940) is an American musician, and builder and player of the Cajun accordion.
1940 – Phyllis Chesler, American feminist psychologist, and author of the best-seller, Women and Madness (1972). Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY).
1939 – George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005), was an American professional golfer who won 13 events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the Masters in 1969.
1938 – Mary McFadden, American fashion designer. Mary McFadden (born 1938 in New York City) is an American art collector, editor, fashion designer, and writer.
1938 – Stella Stevens, American actress and director. Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston; October 1, 1938) is an American film, television, and stage actress.
1935 – Walter De Maria, American sculptor and drummer (d. 2013), was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s.
1932 – Albert Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993), was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. He was noted for his powerful playing and his use of altered tunings and a capo.
1931 – Alan Wagner, American radio host and critic (d. 2007), was an American television executive, radio personality, writer, and opera historian and critic. He served as the East Coast vice president of programming at CBS from 1976 to 1982.
1929 – Bonnie Owens, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006), was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later Merle Haggard.
1929 – Grady Chapman, American singer (d. 2011), was best known as the American lead singer of doo wop group The Robins.
1928 – George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994), was an American film and television actor.
1927 – Sherman Glenn Finesilver, American lawyer and judge (d. 2006), was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
1927 – Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010), was an American actor, television personality and entertainer. Bosley is best known for portraying Howard Cunningham on the 1970s ABC sitcom Happy Days, and the title character on the NBC/ABC series Father Dowling Mysteries.
1924 – Bob Geigel, American wrestler and promoter (d. 2014), was an American professional wrestling promoter and professional wrestler. He operated the Kansas City, Missouri-based Heart of America Sports Attractions promotion from 1963 to 1986, and served three terms as the president of the National Wrestling Alliance from 1978 to 1980, 1982 to 1985, and 1986 to 1987.
1924 – Jimmy Carter, American lieutenant and politician, 39th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate. Since leaving the presidency, Carter has remained active in the private sector; in 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.
1924 – Roger Williams, American pianist (d. 2011), was a Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with American Indians, and he was one of the first abolitionists.
1924 – William Rehnquist, American lawyer and jurist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005), was an American jurist and lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an Associate Justice from 1972 to 1986 and then as Chief Justice from 1986 until his death in 2005. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.
1922 – Chen-Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Yang Chen-Ning or Yang Zhenning (Chinese: 杨振宁; born October 1, 1922) is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and both particle physics and condensed matter physics.
1921 – James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009), was an American film, theatre, and television actor. During his career, Whitmore won three of the four EGOT honors: a Tony, a Grammy, and an Emmy.
1920 – David Herbert Donald, American historian and author (d. 2009), was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for earlier works; he published more than 30 books on United States political and literary figures and the history of the American South.
1920 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000), was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his film roles opposite Jack Lemmon, playing Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, (1968) and its 1998 sequel, The Odd Couple II, and Max Goldman in Grumpy Old Men (1993) and its sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995).
1915 – Jerome Bruner, American psychologist and author (d. 2016), was an American psychologist who made significant contributions to human cognitive psychology and cognitive learning theory in educational psychology. Bruner was a senior research fellow at the New York University School of Law.
1914 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, lawyer, and author, 12th Librarian of Congress (d. 2004), was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. He was appointed the twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress in 1975 and served until 1987.
1913 – Harry Lookofsky, American violinist and producer (d. 1998), was an American jazz violinist. He was also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, who most notably was a founding member of The Left Banke and Stories.
1911 – Irwin Kostal, American songwriter, screenwriter, and publisher (d. 1994), was an American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals.
1910 – Bonnie Parker, American criminal (d. 1934). Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Champion Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations.
1909 – Sam Yorty, American captain and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998), was an American politician from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent three terms as the 37th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973.
1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989), was an American classical pianist and composer born in the Russian Empire. He was acclaimed for his virtuoso technique, his tone color, and the excitement engendered by his playing.
1899 – Ernest Haycox, American author (d. 1950), was an American author of Western fiction.
1896 – Ted Healy, American actor and singer-screenwriter (d. 1937), was an American vaudeville performer, comedian, and actor. Though he is chiefly remembered as the creator of the Three Stooges and the style of slapstick comedy that they later made famous, he had a successful stage and film career of his own, and was cited as a formative influence by several later comedy stars.
1893 – Cliff Friend, American pianist and songwriter (d. 1974), was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.
1885 – Louis Untermeyer, American poet, anthologist, critic (d. 1977), was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.
1881 – William Boeing, American engineer and businessman, founded the Boeing Company (d. 1956), was an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916.
1832 – Caroline Harrison, American educator, 24th First Lady of the United States (d. 1892), was a teacher of music, the wife of Benjamin Harrison and mother of two surviving children; after his election as President of the United States, she was the First Lady of the United States from 1889 until her death.
1832 – Henry Clay Work, American composer and songwriter (d. 1884). Work was born in Middletown, Connecticut, to Alanson and Aurelia (Forbes) Work.
1808 – Mary Anna Custis Lee, American wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873), was the great-granddaughter of Martha Custis Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee, the prominent career military officer who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
1712 – William Shippen, American physician and politician (d. 1801), was an American physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was also a civic and educational leader who represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress.
1507 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù (d. 1573), was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome.
2017 – Dave Strader, American sportscaster (b. 1955)
2015 – Don Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1915)
2015 – Jacob Pressman, American rabbi and academic, co-founded American Jewish University (b. 1919)
2014 – José Martínez, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1942)
2013 – Arnold Burns, American lawyer and politician, 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1930)
2013 – Imero Fiorentino, American lighting designer (b. 1928)
2013 – Jim Rountree, American football player and coach (b. 1936)
2013 – Tom Clancy, American author (b. 1947)
2012 – Mark R. Kravitz, American lawyer and judge (b. 1950)
2008 – John Biddle, American cinematographer (b. 1925)
2007 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower (b. 1936)
2006 – Jerald Tanner, American author and activist (b. 1938)
2004 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2002 – Walter Annenberg, American publisher and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1908)
1997 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American engineer and philanthropist (b. 1923)
1990 – Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906)
1986 – Archie League, American air traffic controller (b. 1907)
1985 – E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (b. 1899)
1984 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
1961 – Ludwig Bemelmans, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1898)
1955 – Charles Christie, American film producer, founded Christie Film Company (b. 1880)
1953 – John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
1885 – John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1864 – Rose O'Neal Greenhow, American spy (b. 1817)

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Support the Implementation of Plain Packaging in Hong Kong
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31 May is the World No Tobacco Day, Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) would like to take this chance to advocate the implementation of plain packaging of tobacco products in Hong Kong. This is to raise the public awareness on tobacco harm, as well as to reduce the attractiveness of cigarette packs to youngsters and smokers.
World Health Organization (WHO) has designated "Tobacco industry interference" as the theme of this year's World No Tobacco Day (31 May), which aims to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. These attempts impose serious danger to public health.
Hong Kong has adopted pictorial health warning label on tobacco packages since 2007, requiring to covering 50% of the main sides of the cigarette pack. But the tobacco companies continue to use different designs on packages to attract consumers. Ms Lisa LAU, MH, JP, COSH Chairman claims that COSH will advocate the government to implement plain packaging of tobacco products in Hong Kong, in order to prohibit tobacco companies from promoting sales through fancy design on cigarette packs.
Lisa LAU says, "Despite Hong Kong is one of the cities with the lowest smoking prevalence in the world, daily smoking population is still around 657,000 people, while over 5,700 smokers died of smoking attributed diseases per year and the annual expenditure on health cost of smoking reaches HK$5.3 billion. Health warning must be strengthened."
Researches on plain packaging have been conducted around the world, showing the effectiveness to make cigarettes unappealing, especially for adolescents, thus reducing the prevalence and up-take of smoking. Plain packaging is an extension of current pictorial health warning. Rather than covering 50% of the main sides of the cigarette pack, the pictorial health warning would be expanded into 75% or above of the main sides of the cigarette pack. In addition, all forms of tobacco branding should be labeled exclusively with simple unadorned text. This entails that trademarks, graphics and logos be detached from cigarette packs, except for the brand name that is displayed in a standard font size, colour and location on the package. The packaging should not contain colour and should include only the content and consumer information, such as toxic constituents, and health warnings required by law. Quitline should also be displayed at a prominent position.
Australia is the first country to adopt plain packaging in the world, with effective from December this year. Ms Fiona SHARKIE, Executive Director of Quit Victoria, who played an active role in the implementation process in Australia, shares the experience and challenges on the press conference. Plain packaging was announced in Australia in April 2010 and the Bill passed through Parliament in November 2011.
Fiona SHARKIE says, "Tobacco industry launched an unprecedented large-scale advertising campaign to deter the government from implementing plain packaging in Australia. They claimed that plain packaging is no use in reducing the prevalence of smoking. On the other hand, they took legal actions against Australian government, claiming substantial compensation for the loss of the company's trademarks and investments. These actions have not deterred the Australian government, who has a firm stand for the sake of public health."
Prof LAM Tai-hing, JP, Director of School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, indicates that most of the smokers underestimate the very high risk of deaths due to smoking. We must promote the tobacco harm to the public through education and strengthen the health warning on cigarette packs. Prof LAM says, "Hong Kong has now about 657,000 daily smokers and half of them, i.e. 329,000 will be killed by smoking. On average, smoking shortens the life span of smokers for 15 years. Secondhand smoke also influences the health of family." Cigarette pack is an important advertising medium for tobacco companies. Expansion of pictorial health warnings can further limit the promotional effect of cigarette packs and refrain youngsters from up-taking smoking because of brand effects.
The implementation of plain packaging is a world trend. Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), an evidence-based treaty in public health was introduced by WHO. To reduce the epidemic of tobacco consumption and enact FCTC, WHO implemented six effective tobacco control measures under a guiding principle named MPOWER. The W means "Warn about the dangers of tobacco". Professor Judith MACKAY, SBS, OBE, JP, Senior Adviser, World Lung Foundation, says "As few tobacco users understand the full extent of their health risk, it is necessary to warn about the dangers of tobacco and health warning labels had been introduced for decades in different countries. Canada was the first country to introduce pictorial health warning, followed by other countries. Hong Kong has adopted 6 types of pictorial health warning label in 2007. The latest trend will be the implementation of plain packaging."
Prof Sophia CHAN, COSH Vice-chairman cum Professor in Nursing and Director of Research, School of Nursing, The University of Hong Kong, reiterates that multi means should be used to further spread smoke-free messages in Hong Kong. Prof CHAN says, "Control on cigarette pack design is one of the effective ways. COSH advocates the implementation of plain packaging in Hong Kong. We also suggest to adopt a new set of pictorial health warning labels, as well as introduce quitline on cigarette packs to encourage smokers to quit smoking." COSH will conduct feasibility study on adopting plain packaging in Hong Kong from different aspects and understand the view of public and seek public support on plain packaging through policy survey. Plain packaging can make cigarettes less appealing to children and teenagers and stop them from up-taking smoking.
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Prayer Starter: Father, let my prayers today be like breathing—easy, comfortable, and almost without thinking. Help my prayers and conversations with You become more genuine and meaningful—less about "have to" and more about "want to." In Jesus' Name, Amen.


While Super Bowl LII may barely be over, with the Philadelphia Eagles victory over the New England Patriots, CBS Sports has released its first teaser for next year's big game.
The five-second tease, which CBS Sports shared on Twitter, features a glass CBS eye with a rotating Vince Lombardi Trophy.
Lens flares and a bit of smoke help set the scene.
Super Bowl LIII will be held February 3, 2019, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.


Yes it's the final weekend of writing on the First Draft. I have just two chapters to complete over the weekend and then it will be into the world of editing for Fogbound.
I am hoping to complete the initial edit the following week and may be in a position to release the story to both the Beta Readers and to my Editor for review.
The other area I am playing with is the use of a subtitle for the first book – currently I am liking Fogbound – Empire in Flames.
But still not fully decided. As this is envisioned as the first of a three-book series, I am liking the idea of a subtitle to show it's position in the Fogbound series. What do you think?
It was with great excitement that I heard that Affinity Publisher has been released as a Beta. I've been waiting for some time for this as an alternative to Adobe's offering, InDesign.
I have been a huge fan of Affinity's other software, Photo and Designer and with their current pricing policy we should expect Publisher to follow suit, appearing around the £35 mark when it's released later this year/next.
So far, the Beta looks great and will be of immense help with my work to get the Fogbound RPG ready to go into Kickstarter.
So I was hoping that the RPG would be going into Kickstarter in August, but as you will no doubt be aware, it's almost September now. My timeframe has been somewhat stymied by the extra work I've had to put in to the novel to get it to a completed First Draft. I felt this was necessary in order to give the RPG project the care and attention it deserves without worrying about competing the novel.
So for everyone out there who has expressed an interest in the RPG, it is coming, it will just be a little later than expected.
Once I have completed writing for the novel and done my initial edit, I will be able to jump back onboard with the RPG giving it the attention it requires to complete.
OK, that's all for now, so until next time, Be Splendid to one another.


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World Assistance for Cambodia
and Japan Relief for Cambodia
Rural Schools Program
Girls Be Ambitious
A New Life Orphanage
Bright Future Kids
Village Leap
Sihanouk Hospital Center Of Hope
GBA-Waiting List
Build a rural school or adopt an existing school and enhance it with computer training, English lessons, vegetable gardens and more! Give children of the rural poor areas of Cambodia opportunities for a better education and brighter life.
Rural Schools and List of Donors
The Rachel Trout and Emma Tate School
(August, 2001)
Number of School: 79
Name of School: The Rachel Trout and Emma Tate School
Name of Donor: Peter and Dorothy Rinaldo
Location of School
Province: Svay Rieng
District: Romeas Hek
Commune: Wat Muk Da
Village: Wat Muk Da
Start of construction: June 16, 2000
End of construction: September 22, 2000
District Population: 122,196
Student Body: 516
Teaching Staff: 7
Average students per class: 48
Distance from Phnom Penh: 141 km
Travel Time: 5:00(wet season), 3:00 (dry season)
Mrs. Rinaldo speaking at the opening ceremony of the school. (January, 2001)
DOROTHY RINALDO'S SPEECH AT HER SCHOOL'S OPENING CEREMONY
Thank you for your wonderful welcome. We feel privileged to be here. First, let me bring greetings from my husband, Peter Rinaldo, who couldn't be here today. It was he who read about the Rural School Project in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni magazine, and suggested that that this might interest us. Indeed it did, so we are here today.
Now let me introduce my children. David, my eldest son and his wife Suzanne Gelber have their own consulting firm which specializes in advising corporations on health care benefits for their employees. Marjory Rinaldo-Lee, my daughter, is president of her consulting firm which works to clean up ground pollution.
Many people have been responsible for bringing this school to you–those who had the idea, who planned and constructed it. My husband and I have been fortunate to be able to join the many who made this school possible. Now, your teachers are Making a Difference in your lives.
This school is named for my husband's grandmother, Rachel Trout, and my grandmother, Emma Tate. Both were school teachers. Rachel Trout taught all classes in a one-room school house in Canada. Emma taught Latin and geometry in a high school in a small town in New York State in the US. I have brought Rachel's Diary and a small biography of Emma to you.
My family and I have all benefited from education. Indeed, education has Made a Difference in our lives; we in turn have been able to Make a Difference, each in our own way.
This school has already Made a Difference in your lives and will continue to do so. You, in turn will Make a Difference in this, your village. You will become aware of a wider world. Whether or not you ever physically travel to distant places, education enables you to learn about other places and other people and to see them in your mind's eye.
Education helps in your life's work. Education gives you influence. Use it well to benefit your community. Use your education to teach others, so that this village can become connected to other villages and places.
Mrs. Rinaldo giving soccer balls to the school director for the student's use. (January, 2001)
Mrs. Rinaldo and family standing in front of the school signboard. It reads "Donated in the name of Rachel Trout and Emma Tate by Peter & Dorothy Rinaldo and the Social Fund, 2001." (January, 2001)
MESSAGE FROM DOROTHY RINALDO AFTER VISITING HER SCHOOL:
Visiting the school gave us a chance to see a concrete example of what our contribution (along with others who planned and constructed the school) did. It is rare indeed to see a tangible result of one's charitable contribution. Generally contributions to organizations are mixed in with others, so that one knows generally that one has helped, not as specifically as this.
Mrs. Rinaldo planting a tree in the school yard during her visit. (January, 2001)
In Their Own Words. . .
Kang Un teaches first grade at the Rachel Trout and Emma Tate School.
Polvan Dy is in sixth grade at the school.
Mr. Ouk Veng, acting director of the Rachel Trout and Emma Tate School
Pream Sareth, an 11-year-old fourth grade student at the school
Chheum Sam is a villager.
Kang Un # 79
Polvan Dy # 79
Ouk Veng # 79
Pream Sareth # 79
Chheum Sam # 79
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Q: Getting the sum of a column based on column name I need to get the sum of columns based on the name of the column. Currently, I'm using an IF ELSE block to take care of it, but I'm hoping there is a more automatic method for getting this sort of thing done.
What works:
foreach (var day in bydates)
            {
                var bymile_bydate = bymile.Where(x => x.Date == day).ToList();

                foreach (var r in results)
                {
                    var name = r.name;
                    if (name.Equals("TotalIssues"))
                    {
                        r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(x => x.TotalIssues).Value);
                    }
                    else if (name.Equals("TotalCritical"))
                    {
                        r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(x => x.TotalCritical).Value);
                    }
                }
            }

How I'd like to get it working:
        foreach (var day in bydates)
        {
            var bymile_bydate = bymile.Where(x => x.Date == day).ToList();

            foreach (var r in results)
            {
                r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(x=> x.(r.name)).Value);
            }
        }

So anyway way of doing this?

A: C# doesn't have good support for accessing members whose names aren't known at compile time. What I'll often do in this situation is have a dictionary of names to delegates that return the properties:
// assuming your objects are of type ClassX and your properties are decimals
static Dictionary<string, Func<ClassX, decimal>> PropertyLookup =
    new Dictionary<string, Func<ClassX, decimal>>
    { { "TotalIssues", x => x.TotalIssues },
      { "TotalCritical", x => x.TotalCritical },
    };

foreach (var day in bydates)
{
    var bymile_bydate = bymile.Where(x => x.Date == day).ToList();

    foreach (var r in results)
    {
        var name = r.name;
        r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(PropertyLookup[name]).Value);
    }
}

If you don't want to have to define the property names ahead of time, you can use reflection to get the delegates. Here's an implementation that caches the delegates in a dictionary like the previous solution:
// assuming your objects are of type ClassX and your properties are decimals
static Dictionary<string, Func<ClassX, decimal>> PropertyLookup =
    new Dictionary<string, Func<ClassX, decimal>>();

foreach (var day in bydates)
{
    var bymile_bydate = bymile.Where(x => x.Date == day).ToList();

    foreach (var r in results)
    {
        var name = r.name;
        if (!PropertyLookup.ContainsKey(name))
            PropertyLookup[name] = (Func<ClassX, decimal>)Delegate.CreateDelegate(
                typeof(Func<ClassX, decimal>),
                typeof(ClassX).GetProperty(name).GetGetMethod());
        r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(PropertyLookup[name]).Value);
    }
}

A: Without reflection, you can't refer to the property name by a string value. And reflection would be a poor choice here. I'd recommend creating a property on the class that contains your totals that does the following:
public int? RelevantTotal
{
    get
    {
        switch (this.name)
        {
            case "TotalIssues":
                return this.TotalIssues;
            case "TotalCritical":
                return this.TotalCritical;
            default:
                return 0;
        }
    }
}

The when you loop through the results, call that property instead:
foreach (var day in bydates)
{
    var bymile_bydate = bymile.Where(x => x.Date == day).ToList();

    foreach (var r in results)
    {
        r.data.Add(bymile_bydate.Sum(x => r.RelevantTotal).Value);
    }
}

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