The second run of the BAFTA-winning superhero comedy drama series comes to Channel 4. A mysterious masked man leads the gang to Nathan's grave, where Kelly hears his thoughts and realises that he's still alive. The gang dig Nathan up, and their new probation worker Shaun gets him back into the community service system, even though he's officially dead. The reunited friends meet Lucy, a patient on day release from a psychiatric ward who is doing an art therapy class at the community centre. But Simon has met Lucy before: he used to be a patient at the psychiatric unit, where Lucy became obsessed with him. And after Simon publicly snubs Lucy, strange things start to happen around the community centre.
E4 drama Misfits received more nominations than any other programme in the shortlist – four in total, in the Best Drama Series, Best Supporting Actor and Actress (Robert Sheehan and Lauren Socha) and New Media categories.
Every new Drama series, single or serial that Channel 4 screened during the qualifying period received at least one nomination – with Any Human Heart and This Is England '86 receiving two, and The Promise and I am Slave receiving one nomination each.
In the Features and Factual Series categories Channel 4 dominated proceedings, receiving half of the nominations for each, and in the Single Documentary category two out of the four nominations went to films from the More4 True Stories Strand.
Both David Mitchell (Peep Show) and James Buckley (The Inbetweeners) were nominated for Male Performance in a comedy programme, and Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) was nominated for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme. Facejacker and Peep Show were nominated respectively in the Comedy Programme, and Situation Comedy cactegories.
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings has also been nominated in the YouTube Audience Award category.
'Tis the week before Christmas and all through the estate, not much of anything is happening, until one of the gang sees some graffiti that offers 'Money for Powers'.
After the existence of super-powers is exposed to the world at large, the gang become celebrity super-heroes, known as the 'ASBO Five'.
In the fourth episode,Ollie, an environmental protester who has the power to teleport, starts his community service, but is he really destined to become part of the gang?
The mysterious masked man saves Alisha from a mugging on the estate. She's intrigued that he seems able to touch her without being affected by her powers, and is determined to find out more about him. But Alisha soon discovers she's out of her depth.
Nathan is shocked when Jamie, a long-lost brother he never knew he had, turns up at the community centre. And the gang soon regret taking some pills at a nightclub.
Curtis tries to use his superpower to go back to the past and change what happened the night he was caught by the cops, but discovers that altering history is more complicated than he thought.
Alisha is having fun using and abusing her power, but she can't seem to get the one man she really wants – Curtis. Meanwhile, Simon's online relationship with Shygirl18 blossoms, but Kelly's 'Restorative Justice' session doesn't go exactly to plan.


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Q: I need to share multiple images using facebook In my website there is shopping cart. if shopping cart contain 4 products then 4 images will be share on facebook at once.
right now am using the below code but its not working properly
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please help me to solve this problem.

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Thanks,
Mark

A: You could use the Facebook's Photos API to publish the photos on a user's album.
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Alison Grant Harcourt (Colac, Victoria nacida el 24 de noviembre de 1929), es una matemática australiana más conocida por co-definir el algoritmo de ramificación y poda junto con Ailsa Land mientras investigaba en la London School of Economics .

Educación
Harcourt nació como Alison Doig en Colac, Victoria, en 1929. Su padre era Keith Doig, un médico y futbolista australiano que recibió la Cruz Militar durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Su tío materno era el físico australiano Kerr Grant.

Fue educada en la escuela estatal de Colac West, en la escuela secundaria de Colac y en la escuela de niñas de Fintona. Después de su educación escolar, se matriculó en la Universidad de Melbourne, obtuvo una licenciatura en artes con especialización en matemáticas y luego una licenciatura en ciencias con especialización en física. Mientras se especializaba en estadística realizando un máster en artes, desarrolló una técnica para la programación lineal entera.

London School of Economics
Sobre la base de su trabajo en programación lineal, comenzó a trabajar en la London School of Economics (LSE) a finales de los años cincuenta. En 1960, Doig y su colega matemática LSE Ailsa Land, publicaron un artículo histórico en la revista económica Econometrica («Un método automático para resolver problemas de programación discretos»), que describía un algoritmo de
optimización de rama y límite para resolver problemas NP-difíciles. El algoritmo tiene aplicaciones en muchos campos, incluida la logística de transporte y la optimización del ángulo del haz en el tratamiento de radioterapia.

Universidad de Melbourne
En 1963, Doig regresó a Melbourne, donde asumió el cargo de profesora titular de estadística en la Universidad de Melbourne.

A mediados de la década de 1960, se unió a un equipo encabezado por el sociólogo Ronald Henderson, que intentaba cuantificar el alcance de la pobreza en Australia . El equipo desarrolló la Línea de Pobreza Henderson en 1973, que era el ingreso disponible requerido para cubrir las necesidades básicas de una familia de dos adultos y dos niños dependientes. Las técnicas desarrolladas por el equipo de Henderson han sido utilizadas por el Instituto de Investigación Económica y Social Aplicada de Melbourne para actualizar regularmente la línea de pobreza para Australia desde 1979.

En 1970, Harcourt tomó una licencia de estudio en Suecia, donde fue coautora de dos artículos sobre química teórica: «Una simple demostración de la Regla de Hund para los estados 2S y 2P de helio» y «Funciones de onda para la unión de 4 electrones en 3 centros», —con su marido, el químico Richard Harcourt—.

En 1975, tras la destitución del gobierno de Whitlam, Harcourt y su compañero estadístico Malcolm Clark notaron irregularidades en la distribución de los pedidos del partido en las papeletas de votación del Senado para la elección federal 1975 que fue determinada por medio de sobres dibujo de una caja, con los  partidos de la coalición que sostiene una de las dos primeras posiciones en cada estado. Harcourt y Clark hicieron una presentación al Comité Selecto Conjunto sobre Reforma Electoral, que resultó en una enmienda de 1984 a la Ley Electoral del Commonwealth para introducir un método de asignación al azar doble más riguroso. Harcourt y Clark publicaron un artículo sobre su análisis y recomendaciones para la Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics en 1991.

Harcourt se retiró como académica de la Universidad de Melbourne en 1994, pero continúa trabajando allí como tutor de sesión en estadística.
En octubre de 2018, Harcourt fue nombrada como el «Australiano victoriano senior del año 2019». A principios de diciembre de 2018, la Universidad de Melbourne le otorgó un doctorado honorario en ciencias.

Referencias

Mujeres matemáticas de Australia
Estadísticos de Australia
Profesores de la Universidad de Melbourne
Alumnado de la Universidad de Melbourne

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The Friends of BCAS are excited to announced our seventh annual Barb Feldstein Memorial Raining Cats & Dogs Pet Festival on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Burlington County Animal Shelter. If you're a non-profit or business with an animal-friendly message or products and services appropriate for families, we'd love to have you as a vendor or exhibitor.
New Jersey has a goal to become no-kill (save rate of 90 percent or more) for companion animals by 2025. Let's work together to make that happen in Burlington County! The Friends of the Burlington Animal Shelter wants to join forces with businesses who share a vision of making our community a more compassionate place for homeless cats and dogs. Please consider becoming a 2019 corporate sponsor.
The Friends of BCAS is holding its first Designer Bag Bingo event on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the Mount Holly Elks Club.
We're thrilled to announce the event is sold out!
"Just wanted to let you know that Bella the older overweight min pin is doing better and was adopted by a vet."


Most people don't hear too much, or know much, about trying to gain weight, but if you're one of those people that are underweight than learning how to gain weight can be very important information. First of all, you don't want to gain just any weight, you want to gain lean muscle mass.
By packing on lean muscle mass you will be gaining the tight, toned look that most people want to have instead of looking like the 98 pound weakling that gets sand kicked in their face at the beach. Don't give up on your workouts and just put on pounds of fat, put on the proper type of weight with lean muscle mass.
1. Of course, you want to eat plenty of nutrient rich, high calorie foods. Things such as whole grain breads, vegetables like avocados and potatoes. Lots of lean red meat along with plenty of chicken and fish. You can eat virtually anything you want just keep things in balance with the right amount of carbs, protein and fat.
2. To increase the number of calories you take in at each meal, you can add olives and avocados to sandwiches and salads and cheese slices to casseroles and other meals. When having pasta add meat to increase the caloric intake.
3. Take some time every week to plan out your menu for the week. It's very important that you never, ever skip any meals. Sometimes that's easier said than done that's why it's so important to plan ahead since sometimes life can get a little crazy.
4. You can increase your portion size by adding some fruit to your morning cereal or oatmeal or adding another cup of pasta or rice to your main dishes.
5. Cut back on the endless hours of cardio and instead increase the amount of weight training you do. This will help you pack on lean muscle mass which will give you that tight toned look without looking like a scrawny runt.
6. Instead of letting up on your exercise routine, just increase your caloric intake. If you cut back on your workouts you'll be missing out on that lean muscle that will give you the tight abs and body that you want.
With so many people struggling to lose weight because they are overweight, no one is going to feel too sorry for you if you need to learn how to gain weight. But being underweight can cause just as many issues with both your physical and emotional states as being overweight can. The point is that whether you need to lose weight or gain weight the process is quite similar. You need to pack on as much lean muscle mass as you can, increase your caloric intake so you are taking in more calories than you burn off. That way you'll not only gain weight, but you'll gain the 'right' type of weight so you don't just look big, you look buff.


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Preserving Biodiversity When Agricultural Production Increases
TOPICS:AgricultureBiodiversityEcologyFarmingStanford UniversityWildlife
By Max McClure, Stanford University News June 27, 2012
The Yellow-billed Cacique will likely persist and thrive in low-intensity agriculture. Daniel Karp
A new study from researchers at Stanford University looks at how to preserve biodiversity while increases in agricultural production to feed people continue.
To keep up with projected demand, farming output will need to double in the next few decades. This inconvenient fact is bad news for the environment as a whole, and biodiversity in particular. Large-scale, high-intensity agricultural production, scientists say, dramatically reduces variation between bird communities of different areas.
But Stanford scientists say there may be a way to increase agricultural land without substantially impacting biodiversity.
A new paper by biology graduate student Daniel Karp, with Stanford biology professors and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment fellows Gretchen Daily and Paul Ehrlich, shows that low-intensity tropical agriculture can maintain regional species differences at levels similar to those of intact forest. The study appears in today's issue of the journal Ecology Letters.
"It's one way of addressing a basic question," said Karp. "How can we feed people while preserving biodiversity?"
Karp was interested in "beta-diversity" – not the sheer number of species present in a region, but the differences between the sets of species that live in two different regions.
"The tropics have many more species total, which people know," said Karp. "But they also have a lot more beta-diversity," making Costa Rica an ideal place to study the ecological effects of agriculture.
The researchers found that "specialist" species that are adapted to particular food sources and environmental conditions disappear as land is converted to intensive agriculture. The process leaves the same population of "generalist" species in most converted lands, decreasing beta-diversity between formerly distinct regions.
"To a bird, high-intensity production is basically going to look the same no matter where it is," said Karp. "A melon plantation in the north of Costa Rica is going to look the same as a pineapple plantation in the south."
But agriculture on a small scale, or agriculture that leaves trees or other native species intermingled with crops, retains forest-like levels of beta-diversity.
The paper's data came from 10 years' worth of bird species monitoring from ornithologist Jim Zook, working with Daily and Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. His unique transects through different plots of Costa Rican land – some forested, some under heavy agricultural use and some in between – and years of patient monitoring have provided insight into the impacts of alternative agricultural strategies.
In a previous paper from the team, Zook's data showed that careful stewardship may allow agriculture and biodiversity to coexist and suggested that preservation may not need to be an all-or-nothing proposition.
Farms, for instance, rely on birds for pollination, fruit dispersal and pest control. More generally, the presence of intact, biodiverse lands near a farm guarantees society certain natural benefits, including water purification and nutrient cycling.
"If these birds are locked up in a preserve far from humans, you're not going to get any of those services as a farmer," Karp said.
Costa Rica is already one of the first nations to adopt a "payments for ecosystem services," or PES, scheme. Acknowledging the value of keeping undeveloped land near agricultural areas, the policy compensates farmers for leaving part of their lands out of production. The new biodiversity finding offers further support for the practice, as Daily has addressed previously.
"Reducing pressure from population growth and consumption are crucial for achieving sustainability," Karp said. "But we also need to start thinking about making smarter societies – in which we can grow food and preserve ecosystem services and species at the same time."
Image: Daniel Karp
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We contacted Richard the evening before our morning arrival. He created a tailored agenda and handled all logistics for a seamless visit to best utilize our limited time available. He was very knowledgeable of local customs and history and brought a lot of enthusiasm to our day. We all hope to come back soon and have Richard arrange an extended visit to the area.


My name is Praveen Reddy Patlolla and I moved from Portland, Oregon, to Austin a couple of years ago and I am an IBM engineer.
I joined Austin FIT last year with the intention of getting fit.
I am originally from India and I was told that 3Rs are important to succeed in life - Reading, wRiting & aRithmetic; however, I realized after moving to Austin that a fourth R - "Running" is important to stay healthy.
My goal was to log more miles towards getting and staying fit so I initially joined Austin FIT's half marathon program. I thoroughly enjoyed each and every run and made a lot of friends in the process. Then I paused whether to enroll for Austin FIT's full marathon program as the majority of the practice runs were in double digits, but I took a bold step, pushed myself harder, joined the full marathon program the next season and made a personal record by crossing the 20-mile mark. I am yet to finish my first marathon but I would like to get more practice before I sign up for a full marathon. Hence I joined the third installment of Austin FIT's marathon program 2017 summer. I ran 340 miles in a span of 10 months after joining Austin Fit.
The coaches of Austin Fit are great and I am so glad that I discovered "Jim Long," my coach, as he shares the nuances of long runs, running hills, injury prevention etc... I really enjoy Jim's interval training regime. A few years ago I had difficulty running 3 miles straight, but interval running is a lot better as I can now run more than 10 miles more often and easily.
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WW2 Memorials Tour with Collette
Normandy, France · About Escorted or Guided Tour
10 Days • 12 Meals
London-Paris-Normandy-Reims (Champagne)
From $4099* pp |
Canadians! Don't forget to mention you want to make sure the tour visits Canada's Juno Beach Centre.
(Top Image: Juno Beach from the roof of the Juno Beach Centre, BestTrip.tv)
An unforgettable journey of discovery and remembrance awaits you on a sojourn to Northern France
In Westminster, discover London's connections to the war at Churchill's underground War Rooms.
Travel to Paris via the high-speed Eurostar Train, and drive through the French countryside en route to Caen Canal and Pegasus Bridge, captured by the heroic British 6th Airborne Division.
Immerse yourself in the history of Normandy's D-Day Landing Beaches and visit Canada's Juno Beach Centre.
Pay your respects to the fallen men of the Commonwealth land forces with no known graves at Bayeux Memorial, and visit the Museum of Surrender in Reims, where the German's gave their unconditional surrender to end the war in Europe.
Finish in Paris for the incomparable experience of dining inside the Eiffel Tower.
Overnight Flight
An unforgettable journey of discovery and remembrance awaits you on a sojourn to Northern France on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.
London, England - Tour Begins
Welcome to London! Discover the city's rich historical relationship with World War II. This evening dine amongst history as you meet your fellow travellers for dinner in the iconic Borough Market.
Uncover London's myriad connections to WWII on an expert-guided walk. In Westminster, see iconic London sights including Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, 10 Downing Street, and Parliament. Then, go underground to the place history was made: the Churchill War Rooms. Navigate a labyrinth of corridors hidden under the streets of Westminster that sheltered Winston Churchill and his war cabinet from the bombing raids while they planned for victory. This afternoon you may take an optional excursion to Windsor Castle: originally built to guard the city of London, and the home of kings and queens for nine centuries, Windsor Castle was also used as a secret refuge for the royal family during WWII.
London - Paris, France - Caen
Whisk away from London to Paris on board the high-speed Eurostar train. Arrive in Paris and embark on a drive that delivers you to Normandy by way of the French countryside. Stop at Pegasus Bridge, featured in The Longest Day. This vital structure across the Caen Canal was captured by the heroic British 6th Airborne Division in the opening hours of the invasion, making it the most famous mission of Britain's airborne division.
Breakfast & Dinner
Caen - D-Day Landing Sites and Canada's Juno Beach Centre - Caen
Immerse yourself in the history of Normandy's beaches – the site of the largest amphibious invasion in history. Visit Juno and Sword Beach, where Canadian and British soldiers sacrificed their lives among a deluge of air attacks, naval bombardments, and land offences. Continue on to Arromanche-les-Bains to view the Mulberry Harbour, one of the greatest engineering feats of WWII and a massive coup for the Allies. Visit the Bayeux Cemetrey and Memorial – the largest WWII cemetrey of Commonwealth soldiers in France. Pay respect to the 1,800 men of the Commonwealth land forces that perished and have no known grave. Next, explore the Memorial de Caen (Peace Museum) dedicated to providing a comprehensive history of the D-Day landings and Europe's post-war transition.
Caen - D-Day Landing Sites - Caen
Set out for the Normandy American Cemetrey and visit the cemetrey grounds, the memorial, and the visitor's centre. Visit two U.S. landing zones of the invasion of Normandy: Omaha Beach and this afternoon, Utah Beach. Discover Pointe du Hoc, a strategic German battery that defended Utah and Omaha beaches from the Allied invasion, where craters from cataclysmic bombings occupy the landscape to this day. At the Airborne Museum, learn the unique history of paratroopers in the city of Saint-Mère-Église.
Caen - Reims
On a meditative drive to Reims, stop in Compiegne and the Memorial of Internment and Deportation, dedicated to the 40,000 people deported to German camps. Later, arrive in Reims, the city where the World War II treaty was signed. Enjoy some free time, and consider a visit to the Square des Victimes de la Gestapo.
Reims - Paris
Before departing Reims, stop at Musée de la Reddition, the former schoolhouse where German officers signed a declaration of unconditional surrender. Afterward, an elevated dining experience highlights the region's reputation for great cuisine and champagne. Raise a glass to Reims before arriving in Paris. Spend the afternoon at leisure and discover for yourself why this is truly one of the world's great cities.
On the streets of Paris this morning, a local expert leads you on a walk through time on a WWII-themed tour of the city. From the Vel d'Hiv, Hôtel de Ville, Grand Palais, Invalides, Ecole Militaire, Panthéon, Luxembourg Gardens and Saint-Germaine-des-Prés, see the sites that tell the story of the liberation of Paris and what life was like under German occupation. This afternoon you may join an optional tour of the Louvre, or spend the afternoon at leisure. Tonight, bid farewell to Paris during an incredible meal inside one of the world's most iconic landmarks, the Eiffel Tower.
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London – noisy, vibrant, diverse range of people, ideas and frenetic energy – is the capital and largest city of both England and of the United Kingdom. Considered one of the world's leading "global cities", the city remains an international capital of culture, arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport all contributing to its prominence. Today, among international tourists, London is the most visited city in the world!
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region. The city of Paris, within its administrative limits largely unchanged since 1860, has an estimated population of 2,193,031, but the Paris metropolitan area has a population of 11,836,970, and is one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe. In 2009 and 2010, the city has been ranked among the three most important and influential cities in the world, among the first three "European cities of the future" according to a research published by Financial Times and among the top ten cities in the world in which to live according to the British review Monocle. The city is the home of the most visited art museum in the world; ''the Louvre'' as well as the ''Musée d'Orsay'' noted for its collection of French Impressionist art, and the ''Musée National d'Art Moderne'' a museum of modern and contemporary art. The notable architectural landmarks of Paris include Notre Dame Cathedral (12th century); the Sainte-Chapelle (13th century); the Eiffel Tower (1889); and the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre (1914). In 2014 Paris received 22.4 million visitors, making it one of the world's top tourist destinations. It is also known for its fashion, particularly the twice-yearly Paris Fashion Week, and for its haute cuisine, and three-star restaurants. Most of France's major universities and grandes écoles are located in Paris, as are France's major newspapers, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération.
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The Global Policy Project (GP2) is a defining component of the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) professional program at UBC as it provides opportunities for students to engage directly with policy makers and civil society on a real-world policy challenge. GP2 is completed in Year Two through a combination of design studio sessions and intensive stakeholder engagement. Students learn skills in areas such as team collaboration, conflict resolution in a policy environment, policy research design, strategic design, and a variety of field research techniques.
Below, learn about the overseas field work component of five 2018/19 Global Policy Projects, following the experiences of MPPGA student teams in India, Nepal, Peru, Ethiopia, and Ghana during the first two weeks of December, 2018. Following this field experience, student teams will continue making improvements to their projects, consulting with their clients, and preparing their final report and presentation for March, 2019.
The MPPGA student team on their Global Policy Project trip in India worked with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to develop a gender approach for identifying gender gaps in access to infrastructure. They studied a rural roads project in Gujarat to assess how infrastructure projects can affect men and women differently, grounding truths from what they had previously discovered from the literature. This project is being used as a case study to develop a tool to assess gender gaps across sectors and within the Asian context.
After meeting the AIIB team and industry experts in both Beijing and Delhi, the team had the opportunity to meet multiple stakeholders, from government officials to local communities, in Gujarat. These meetings and interviews gave them a deeper understanding of the policy landscape addressing gender in this sector within the Indian context.
While surviving the spices of Chinese and Indian cuisines, the students learned how embedded gender roles are in societies and as such, how important it is to include the voices of both men and women in consultation processes. Furthermore, they engaged in meaningful conversations with NGOs, academics and local communities to gain a better understanding of how perceptions of gender roles have an impact on policy and how they can develop their tool most effectively to identify gender gaps for other infrastructure projects.
The India team met the AIIB team at their offices in Beijing to start their journey.
In collaboration with professors Divi Sriram and Neeta Avtar Khurana from PDP University, our MPPGA students working with the AIIB visited some tribal communities near Palanpur in the state of Gujarat. They were able to meet some women leaders and gain a better understanding of the role of gram panchayats in rural areas.
The MPPGA students had a challenging and engaging experience in Nepal. Their stakeholder engagement was focused mainly in the district of Dang. Overall, they learned that, similar to other developing and developed countries, the policies related to Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) are entangled in many different political agendas, making it difficult to achieve the goal of formulating a policy to mitigate the challenges faced by the Tharu community.
The students learned that while there are times when it seems challenging to incorporate a top down approach, in the case of Nepal, there are many non-government organizations that are motivated to address the gaps and challenges that certain vulnerable groups, like the Tharu community, are facing.
The stakeholders they met with in Nepal ranged from Ministers and self-funded organization leaders to teachers, doctors, lab technicians and female community health volunteers.
UBC MPPGA students engaged with multiple stakeholders including doctors, the School of Communist Ideology and members from the communist party. The students learned more about Nepal's health policy structure and the perspectives of party members.
The students exploring their first day in Kathmandu, Nepal.
On December 3, MPPGA students in Peru began their fieldwork at the National Water Authority (ANA). Their team was divided into five individual units within ANA where each student spent a significant amount of time, focused on tasks such as creating an agenda for ANA to incorporate gender equality for water users, examining water accessibility, researching water quality issues and water conflicts in indigenous communities, and considering risk management for integrated water resources management in ANA.
The team collected data through documentation and a number of interviews with ANA representatives. The team also collected data external to ANA through focus group discussions with non-government organizations such as Care Peru and the Forest Conservation project, as well as other government entities, including the Ombudsman Office in Peru, Superintendencia Nacional de Servicios y Saneamiento, the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation, the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Mining.
Finally, as part of their data collection, the team visited two regions in Lima: the Cajamarquilla & Chosica districts. These districts are at extreme risk of natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. The students observed how floods and mudslide impacted the livelihood of people in the district, as tens of thousands of people were displaced in Cajamarquilla in 2016.
Peru student team members Adrianna, Misrak, Atieh, Diego, & Tovo.
Students met with the Superintendencia Nacional de Servicios y Saneamiento, a government entity responsible for regulating, supervising and monitoring the market development of safe water and sanitation, as well as resolves conflicts arising from these.
The MPPGA student team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia spent two weeks engaging with the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum through the Canadian International Resources and Development Institute and the Supporting the Ministry of Mines (SUMM) project. Through in-depth interviews with Ministry staff and external stakeholders, they gained a deeper understanding of the policy landscape of artisanal and small-scale mining in Ethiopia.
With a particular focus on gender inclusiveness and community organization within policy, the student team investigated the specific challenges and opportunities of this sector within the Ethiopian context.
The MPPGA student team engaging with the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum.
MPPGA students in stakeholder meetings in Ethiopia.
In Ghana, MPPGA students consulted with their client, Free the Slaves (FTS), a global NGO and a pioneer in the modern anti-slavery movement, to assess and recommend improvements to a tool to evaluate the long-term impacts of FTS' work in combating child trafficking and slavery, mainly in Ghana's fishing industry.
The team developed an index to accurately capture how communities face issues related to slavery over the long term. It is essential to measure resiliency so that communities not only reduce incidents of slavery to zero but also remain resistant to slavery over time.
MPPGA students in a full-day meeting with International Needs Ghana, a NGO that partners with Free the Slaves to monitor progress in communities on the topics of child trafficking and bonded labour.
MPPGA students conducting their first focus group in a village near Adidome, Ghana.


I snapped these pics at the Oakland Air Museum yesterday. Looks like this bird got some love recently. Now I'm gonna have to build one!
This aircraft was an EKA-3B at one time. You can still see where the fuselage sensor blisters used to be.
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I grew up in the hills above El Cerrito not far from Oakland in the '60s-'80s. I well remember the A-3s (and everything else) coming out of Alameda and turning northeast to come over my house and head toward Fallon and points east. A-3s were very easy to ID by sound alone, as were the A-7s and A-4s. The occasional F-8, A-5, A-6 and F-4s warranted a sprint outside to see them go overhead.
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I grew up under Moffett's landing pattern. Similar story--I knew the P-3 and C-130 sounds well. Even though they had the same engines, the C-130's still had a different sound. Anytime a jet approached, I sprinted outside too. This was the late '80s-early '90s, so I still got to see the occasional F-4, A-6, and A-7 in addition to the other, more modern stuff passing through. Plus, NASA was still flying a bunch of cool stuff out of Moffett in those days. Their U-2s, Harriers, and T-38s were the most common. I did see an A-3 fly over once and you're right, I still remember it having a unique sound.


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US Vice President opens new CDC Southeast Asia Regional Office in Vietnam
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Vice President Kamala D. Harris on August 25 launched the Southeast Asia Regional Office of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Vietnam's capital city of Hanoi.
Vice President Kamala D. Harris at the launch ceremony on August 25
The ceremony included the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC director, as well as health ministers from eleven countries. The new regional office strengthens the CDC's ability to fulfil its mission of protecting Americans and people of the region by responding more rapidly to health threats wherever they occur, while building key relationships to tackle shared health priorities.
Secretary Xavier Becerra said, "Through this office, we will work closely with our regional partners to share strategies and strengthen each other's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, today and in the future. This achievement is the result of years of high-level cooperation between our governments. It also represents an important opportunity to come together to discuss our nations' shared health security priorities."
"The CDC has a long-standing presence in Southeast Asia. Our partnership with the countries of the ASEAN region has strengthened public health laboratories, emergency operations centres and surveillance systems – all tools that are being called upon during the current pandemic," said CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, MD. "This new regional office will build upon these existing partnerships and help us grow stronger together."
The CDC is uniquely suited to increase American engagement and collaboration with Southeast Asian leaders to enhance regional capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases and other emerging health threats.
Priorities for the new regional office include building tomorrow's public health workforce, expanding regional public health laboratory training, developing innovative programmes to improve health for mobile and migrant populations, ensuring a coordinated response to public health emergencies through networked emergency operation centres, and strengthening the early warning system for the detection of zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases.
John MacArthur, MD, is the new CDC Southeast Asia regional director. Prior to this appointment, Dr. MacArthur served as the CDC Thailand country director for more than six years. He has spent nearly half of his 23-year career focused on improving health security in Southeast Asia, including managing over $100 million of infectious disease funds focusing on the control of malaria, tuberculosis, dengue, Zika, influenza, and COVID-19.
Dr. MacArthur also served as CDC's Team Lead for the US President's Malaria Initiative, a $620 million per year programme to control malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Mekong Subregion.
In addition to the Southeast Asia Regional Office, the CDC also recently established the regional offices in Eastern Europe, Central Asia (Georgia), the Middle East, North Africa (Oman), and South America (Brazil).
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2013 Year-end message from Amnesty International Canada
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 09:52
Standing with individuals, tackling global problems
2013 year-end message from Amnesty International
- by Alex Neve
Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada
One thing so powerful and important about Amnesty International's work is that we strive to make a difference in the lives of individuals and communities facing human rights violations; while also campaigning for global change that will protect rights and prevent violations from happening in the first place.
This year has been such a compelling reminder that working at both of those levels is so pressing and necessary. And on each of those fronts – standing with individuals and tackling global problems – we have seen moments of great triumph; and of deep despair.
Responding to human rights violations through Human Rights Missions
I have been involved in two front line missions this year focused on responding to two different human rights crises in Sudan. And the triumph and despair faced by individuals and communities was so apparent.
In January, as part of a mission to the volatile frontier between Sudan and South Sudan and across the border into Sudan's troubled Southern Kordofan state, I met recently released prisoner of conscience Dr. Bushra Gama, who had been imprisoned by Sudanese authorities because of his efforts to draw attention to human rights violations in Southern Kordofan. Amnesty International had taken up his case, as it was clear he was a prisoner of conscience. And now he is out; and safe.
"While in prison I learned that Amnesty International had taken up my case and right away I knew that I would not be killed."
• Dr. Bushra Gamar, released prisoner of conscience, Southern Kordofan, Sudan
It was beyond inspiring to hear his certainty that he owed his freedom to Amnesty International and was determined to continue with his important human rights work. Triumph.
In November I was in remote corners of eastern Chad, interviewing refugees who have streamed across the Sudan/Chad border escaping a very worrying surge in violence and human rights violations in Darfur. That is where I met 10 year old Khadija, who talked of the loss of her father, her family's escape into Chad and her sense of fear; all in a quiet, sorrowful voice. Despair.
But even with Khadija I was able to talk to her about the fact that there were people all around the world who would do everything possible to take away her fear and make it possible for her family to one day return home in safety. And I saw the beginning of a smile, particularly in her eyes.
"My father was shot and killed during the attack. We all ran away. I have never been so afraid in my life. In the past it was my father who made me feel okay when I was afraid, but he couldn't do that this time."
• Khadija, 10 year old refugee from Darfur, Sudan
Our work globally this year has also seen both despair and triumph. What could be more despairing than to watch the wrenching crisis in Syria deepen? The numbers killed mount. The numbers displaced within Syria mount. The numbers who have fled across the border as refugees mount. The number of children killed and traumatized by the conflict mount. And the world seems paralyzed and unable to bring this unimaginable crisis to an end. Through our research we continue to bring the nature and scope of the atrocities to the world's attention.
Through our campaigning we continue to press governments to take the steps necessary to end this tragedy. We will continue; we must.
In April, the world gets an Arms Trade Treaty
But what triumph in April! After years of unrelenting research and campaigning, Amnesty International celebrated the UN's adoption of a global Arms Trade Treaty. The treaty will, at long last, bring sorely-needed human rights rules to the deadly trade in arms that fuels human rights violations in every corner of the world; including Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Syria. When we first pressed governments to take this step, years ago, we were told that it was naïve and unrealistic to imagine that states would ever agree to limit their trade in weapons. But once again perseverance and determination have won the day.
Not that we close that file by any means. For now we must encourage states to first sign and then legally ratify the new treaty. Over 100 states have taken that first step, which is largely symbolic, including the United States. But Canada has not yet done either.
There have been many sweet moments of triumph to savour this year when it comes to our work with individuals.
Hamid Ghassemi-Shall's safe return to Canada
What joy to welcome Canadian citizen Hamid Ghassemi-Shall back to Canada after more than 5 years of wrongful imprisonment in Iran, much of that time spent in solitary confinement and under a sentence of death. Over the years we have worked closely with his wife Antonella Mega in her tireless campaign to save his life and win his freedom. We embraced her stirring mantra of 'I'm not giving up'; and we will take that same spirit with us as we continue with effort s to free other prisoners in Iran and elsewhere and to stave off executions in the ever smaller number of countries that hang on to the death penalty. Among others it certainly will inspire our campaigning on behalf of Canadian citizens Huseyin Celil and Bashir Makhtal, serving life sentences in China and Ethiopia; and Ron Smith, on death row in Montana.
A remarkable string of releases
Other prisoners of conscience whose cases were taken up by Amnesty International were freed this year as well. In August Chinese human rights activist Shi Tao was released, 15 months before the end of his ten year sentence. He had been convicted after Yahoo provided Chinese authorities access to his email account. In September courageous Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was freed, and wasted no time in reminding the world that there is still much to be done in the effort to protect human rights in Iran.
Our global effort on the world's most pressing human rights fronts
Our global efforts have continued on many fronts. We have made it a priority to draw attention to the terrible crisis faced by Indigenous peoples in Colombia, where 1/3 of the country's Indigenous nations face physical or cultural extermination. Canada has an ever closer relationship with Colombia, including through a new trade deal, and we are increasingly concerned that Canada is not doing all we can and should to stand up for the rights of Indigenous peoples in that context.
• The ups and downs of change and turmoil in Egypt.
• The attention brought to Sri Lanka's grim human rights record when the country hosted an important Commonwealth Summit.
• Watching and responding to protest and crackdown in Turkey, Ukraine and Thailand.
• Continuing to speak out about entrenched human rights violations in Israel.
• Highlighting that important human rights protections are at stake in high profile cases such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Wikileaks, dealing with surveillance, secrecy and access to information in the digital age.
• Pressing for human rights not to take a back seat to trade and investment in China.
• And, at year's end, mobilizing quickly in the face of a spiralling human rights nightmare in the Central African Republic.
Amnesty International was and is active on all of those fronts: documenting the violations, standing with survivors, supporting front line activists, speaking to the media, and campaigning for change.
And we stay vigilant as well with respect to pressing human rights concerns closer to home.
Human rights priorities in Canada
Our campaigning to end violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada is nearing the ten year mark; and with that approaching milestone this was a year of remarkable activity and progress. All provincial and territorial premiers have spoken out. All provincial, territorial and national human rights commissions have spoken out. Three missions to Canada this year by UN and Inter-American human rights experts examined this grave human rights problem. And in October more Canadians participated in 'Stolen Sisters' vigils than ever before.
We have actively drawn attention to other pressing human rights concerns facing Indigenous peoples in Canada as well, including failure to uphold important land and resource rights and to ensure equal respect for Indigenous peoples of such crucial rights as access to safe water, education and child protection.
And we have taken action with respect to other concerns about women's human rights, such as the consistent refusal of the Canadian government to recognize how important sexual and reproductive rights are in addressing such serious human rights challenges as maternal mortality, sexual violence in armed conflict and the practice of early and forced marriage.
We continued to highlight the need for greater accountability for Canadian mining, oil and gas companies operating around the world, very often at the frontlines of armed conflict, grave human rights violations and extreme poverty. Over the course of this year we have drawn particular attention to concerns associated with Canadian mining companies in Guatemala.
We have highlighted that Quebec's proposed Charter of Values infringes key international human rights norms. We have spoken out about failings in Canadian refugee laws and policy, such as the shameful decision to cutback funding for refugee healthcare. And we have continued to push Canada to ensure that human rights are not trumped by national security, such as the guidelines allowing information obtained under torture to be used by Canadian intelligence agencies and the continuing failure to recognize that Omar Khadr's rights as a child soldier must be respected.
Working together for a better world
We have pursued all of this work and more in so many different ways. We have promoted petitions and letter writing through our web-sites, Facebook and Twitter. Volunteer lawyers have intervened on our behalf in important court cases, including three times this year at the Supreme Court of Canada. We have organized public events such as film festivals, concerts and talks. We have been out in the street; in schools; and at summer fairs. We have been in MPs' offices; before Parliamentary Committees; and on the evening news. We have spoken to family and friends, co-workers and strangers. We have travelled to the frontlines in Africa and in Canada; to the UN in New York and Geneva; and to lecture halls and shopping malls just down the street. And at the end of the year we have again gathered in such impressive numbers across the country at events as part of our annual Write for Rights campaign marking International Human Rights Day.
We carry on into 2014, with you
All of that energy and determination lies behind the many moments of triumph. All of that energy and determination is what gives us the resolve to dig down deep and confront the continuing situations of despair.
And it all is possible only because of you. Your support through activism and through generous financial support is what helps to unlock the prison doors for Hamid Ghassemi-Shall and Bushra Gamar; stand with Khadija and her family in a Darfuri refugee camp; convince states to adopt the wonderful new Arms Trade Treaty; and insist, ever louder, that the crisis in Syria come to an end.
Thank you. I hope we can count on your continued – and even increased – support in 2014.
Alex Neve


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There may be an argument that Jaguar Land Rover have arrived a little late to the SUV market, with the recently introduced F Pace, but there can be little argument that the imminent arrival of the Jaguar Land Rover compact SUV, the E Pace, will create quite a stir.
It would, at first glance, be easy to dismiss the E Pace as a smaller version of the F Pace, but closer examination perhaps reveals more similarity to the Jaguar F type. At the front there is the rectangular front grill and large air scoops to ensure a healthy air flow to the Jaguars lungs. It has sleek lines at its headlights and rear side windows, a smaller rear window and a powerful-looking, compact rear-end.
With its elevated driving position that is favoured by many, the E Pace shape has more than a hint of sportiness that is absent in most other compact SUV competitors. The design approach smacks of innovation and is extremely appealing to the eye - and the inside is equally attractive. However, attractiveness is probably a poor second consideration in comparison to its 'connectivity'. There is enough electronic wizardry to keep a whole pack of WiFi-hungry teenagers happy, with a 4G WiFi hotspot to connect up to eight devices and five USB charging ports.
The E Pace is not just attractive to look at, inside and out, it is practical too. With rear seats folded flat there is a total luggage space of 1,234 litres and a plethora of storage cubby holes will ensure that everything has a safe place to hide while you are travelling.
So, a beautiful looking compact SUV, that is going to take a large share of the market, not just for its looks but also for its practicality and quality of build - something that Jaguar Land Rover has consciously dramatically improved upon.
The E Pace will go on sale in late 2017, with the first vehicles arriving in late December, but orders can be placed now. Configure yours and let us give you a quote for the most attractive and yet practical compact SUV to date. We have very competitive financial rates available for PCP and PCH.


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UK. Maize imports and no-deal Brexit worries undermine wheat price
Maize imports, ethanol plant closures and the looming potential of a no-deal Brexit are putting pressure on wheat prices, according to grain traders.
Maize imports are up by one-third and have broken the 540,000t mark since July, HMRC figures show.
In the first three months of this year's season (July-September 2018) the UK imported 544,000t of maize.
See also: Ethanol producer Ensus to close in November
That figure is 144,000t more than the same period last year and well above the 370,000t five-year average.
AHDB analysts said maize was being imported into the country at £152/t, while the spot UK average ex-farm price for wheat currently stands at £161.50/t – well back from its harvest peak, but still firmly above where it stood this time last year at about £136/t.
The competitiveness has seen maize use in animal feed reach record levels, with inclusion rates up 24% on the year in September.
Effect of ethanol plant closures yet to be fully felt
Grain traders explained the switch to maize for animal feed was fuelled by ethanol plants, which took in more than 1m tonnes of wheat each year.
But GrainCo managing director Gary Bright said both the Ensus and Vivergo plant closures would increase wheat stocks available for feed and see maize's competitive edge eroded.
Mr Bright said the price gap from wheat to maize had already reduced from more than £20/t earlier in the season.
"Because wheat and maize purchases are already on the books, imports will continue to arrive through to next April," Mr Bright said.
"It means we will have gone from a tight supply to an exportable surplus," he suggested.
Fengrain managing director Rob Munro agreed with Mr Bright and added that the rapidly weakening pound would make UK grain competitive in the coming weeks and months.
However, the fast-moving changes in parliament, which have swung overnight from a Brexit trade deal being on the cards to the prospects of a no-deal, have caused consternation.
Mr Munro said buyers were continuing to plan for World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, which would see huge tariffs of €12/t applied to British wheat exports.
"We are most concerned about the WTO scenario that would hit the competitiveness of UK wheat sales to European customers," he said.
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Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered Review
James Davie November 25, 2020
Ten years ago EA rebooted Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit to great acclaim and success, thanks to the infectious and irresistible cops vs criminals theme that the franchise would go on to expand upon with Need For Speed: Rivals a few years later. Now a remaster of the reboot of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is here – the question is, should you care about double dipping and, if this is your first time out, should you pay attention to this remaster?
Off the bat it should be stated that Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered carries with it the same likes and gripes of the original game; that is to say the cops vs criminals action is highly entertaining and frenetic, but the handling is a bit too stiff at times, and making contact with the scenery or other vehicles can be cause for temporary annoyances as well as becoming a bit too frequent of a necessity. Newcomers will likely gravitate to it however, because the joyous carnage, chasing down and annihilating the competition with an assortment of weaponry is exciting and thrilling, feelings that refuse to let up as long as you play it.
As a remaster, Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered does do a serviceable job, with cars sporting a nice glint of sparkle as the sunlight shines down on them, and generally the game looks like a pleasant enhancement of a ten year-old game, though trees and other such environmental fodder look unimpressively static and (ahem) wooden. The same can be said of the game's sound design; it's all decent enough stuff but you won't be blown away by anything the game offers. It's nice to know some of the original game's soundtrack has been restored after reports that a handful of songs would be cut from the game due to licensing problems.
Hot Pursuit's headlining mode is its Career, where events are laid out on a map and more are unlocked as you complete them. They start out easy and grow progressively tougher as you acclimate to the races and tools at your disposal. You get graded at the end of each event either achieving a pass, merit or distinction, and suddenly your thrilling racing game has turned into a B-tec grading system. Jokes aside though the levelling system and progression grants you more tools in your arsenal and faster, fiercer, and stronger rides to drive in meaning that Hot Pursuit keeps rewarding you every time your level increases – which may be standard practice in games of its ilk, but you truly feel your efforts are repaid generously and handsomely.
The meat and potatoes of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is about playing as cop or a racer and trying to either hunt down and arrest the racers or evade and flea from pursuing cops. As a racer you can aptly participate in high-speed races with fellow racers to the finish, participate in timed events known as Previews, and you will need to get used to the practice of getting the best of the hard-charging cops that'll hunt you down relentlessly.
On the flip-side playing as a cop is all about ruthlessly tracking down and taking out the racers, and you're given an assortment of bespoke tools to get the job done, such as roadblocks to impede racers' paths, spike traps to burst wheels, an EMP to temporarily disable and damage the car's systems, and a useful helicopter that will deploy spike strips from above. Be cautious though, as what you do to your opposition they can do to you by triggering spike strips suddenly that you'll need to evade, or trying to shake off the EMP reticule to save you from taking shock damage.
In Interceptor events it's one cop attempting to takedown one racer and the AI can use sneaky tactics in desperate attempts to shake you off like U-turning unexpectedly, forcing you to turn your car around and give chase. Hectic chases are at a premium and racing with these gadgets is the true highlight of Hot Pursuit and elevates itself beyond standard racing game fare and into something quite remarkable and joyous.
Hot Pursuit does incorporate a few too many time-trial based events such as Preview and Rapid Response, where you need to race hard to the finish line to accrue the fastest time possible whilst doing all you can to avoid traffic and time penalties for collisions and crashing into environmental objects. It is not enjoyable to weave through traffic and worrying about getting a Distinction award just to smash into an oncoming car just before you reach the finish line. However, when Hot Pursuit does what it does best – having you pursue and takedown other racers – the traffic will be the least of your concerns because you will be experience exhilaration instead of frustration.
The suite of cars are impressive and diverse, making them a total treat to unlock and they range from fast to formidable, including speed demons like the Bugatti Veyron and the Lamborghini Gallado, to muscle powered juggernauts like the Ford Mustang. The police version of high-speed vehicles are uncannily fast and awesome to drive and look at too, so there's no slow and dull dispatch rides in the car list. The only downside is that customisation is super-basic, only allowing you to choose a colour for your car, so there's no way to create swanky looking police vehicles or badass racer rides.
Outside of the career you can engage in online multiplayer and throughout the game will keep tabs of your event completion times thanks to Autolog, so there's a copious supply of competition between you and the people on your friends list. The original game's DLC – Arms Race and Most Wanted – are included here; the former giving you all the game's weaponised gadgets for you to battle in a free-for-all as you take out other players, and the latter sees a bunch of cops trying to hunt down and pursue a most wanted racer. Multiplayer is chaotic and dynamite frolics as you can expect given the brilliance of Hot Pursuit's simple cops vs crims appeal.
As far as the racing game genre goes Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is one of the coolest and freshest around. Of course, the brilliance of Hot Pursuit stems from its original release in 2010 and the remaster doesn't bestow a bountiful bouquet of bonuses, but replaying it ten years down the line hasn't changed the recipe one iota – and that can only be a great thing, although the changes are minimal beyond aesthetics. If you haven't played Hot Pursuit and want an exhilarating racer this is a must own and while you're at it bump up the score below by 1.0, but as a remaster it only does enough to make it competent and does little to stand out from the litany of remasters out there.
This game was tested and reviewed on Xbox. All of the opinions and insights here are subject to that version.
Thrilling and exciting Hot Pursuits
Meaty career mode with lots of action-packed events
The tools at your disposal to create vehicular mayhem
Does the minimum required of a competent remaster
Handling can feel rather stiff and awkward
Time-trials feel out of place
Graphics - 7.4
Audio - 7.3
Longevity - 7.7
James Davie
Although the genesis of my videogame addiction began with a PS1 and an N64 in the mid-late 90s as a widdle boy, Xbox has managed to hook me in and consume most of my videogame time thanks to its hardcore multiplayer fanaticism and consistency. I tend to play anything from shooters and action adventures to genres I'm not so good at like sports, RTS and puzzle games.
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From Rigid to Flexible: Lessons Learned from Spain's Shift to a Services Economy
Patrick Heffernan and Geoff Woollacott
Spain's government launched initiatives in 2012 aimed at re-adjusting labor compensation scales nationally to ultimately re-position the country as a low-cost hub for global services delivery in the European Union (EU). It's a simple goal, but far easier attempted than achieved, particularly for a sovereign nation constrained by a common regional currency over which it has little control.
For IT industry executives trying to understand accelerating changes in the marketplace – where third generation consumption and delivery patterns built around analytics enabled automation are triggering labor cost take out and enabling more agile global workforce rebalancing approaches – what policy lessons can be learned from Spain?
To start, Spain's government set a guiding principle: Promote flexibility as an alternative to labor laws destroying jobs. Framed around that principle, the government looked at flexibility in hiring, retaining and firing workers.
Specifically, Spain:
Refashioned labor contract laws, allowing for easier "opt outs" of labor contracts and shortening the expiration period for union agreements (down to one year from in perpetuity).
Applied means testing to unemployment benefits, cutting the net benefit to 50% from 60% after the seventh month of unemployment, making the desire to wait for a better salary offer less attractive to long-term displaced workers.
Benefitted from a 37% drop (from 2011 to 2012) of negotiated wage increases.This triggered a 2.1% drop in unit labor rates while there was also a 1% labor productivity gain for the corresponding period. Since 1Q08, Spain claims labor productivity increased 13%.
Addressed the looming debt challenges that drove down home prices by as much as 30% or more in coastal areas since a peak in 2004. The year-to-year change in 2012 was 10%.
With housing expenses consuming the largest share of most employees' disposable incomes, a 10% drop in housing costs more than offsets a 2.1% drop in wage rates. Not coincidentally, bringing wages back to more competitive 2007 levels following the labor rate peak in 2009 triggered a 41.6% jump in the country's exports from 1Q09 to 4Q12.
Tactical measures stemmed the bleeding and prepared Spain to launch long-term initiatives around:
Reforming and reorganizing the labor market, based on a desire to foster "labor market intermediation"
Supporting firms to encourage business creation and internalization
Re-examining government education policy and intellectual property
What lessons-learned can be drawn from the Spanish government?
Spain went on the offensive to address a painful reality — mature economies face lower standards of living if they fail to challenge growth coming from emerging economies. Absent current manipulation to reset economic transactions outside its sovereign borders, Spain took matters into its own hands to depress wages and protect its economy's overall competitiveness.
Nimble global services firms competing in a rapidly evolving IT environment require flexible hiring policies, placing the burden on governments to manage labor union expectations and acceptance.
Governments can make the most of clarity: By understanding business' labor skills needs and communicating predictable tax burdens, the government can boost companies' confidence around risking capital to invest in services center build-outs. Successfully reaching that kind of clarity requires a working, advise-and-educate relationship between governments and business, with the burden on both groups to nurture and develop.
On the third point, TBR believes the public/private partnership to be an emerging, mission-critical challenge facing the IT 3.0 industry. In the United States, business and government partnerships are viewed with suspicion, challenged as being collusion. But the speed of innovation-driven change requires, and indeed mandates, these partnerships. Barriers to workforce re-balancing on the private side continue eroding. Soon knowledge workers on sub-$500 devices will be able to connect virtually anywhere via "skynet." Governments that fear this and seek to protect jobs with restrictive labor policies rather than embrace it and learn how to leverage IT 3.0-provided workforce deployment flexibility in the more competitive global economy will only accelerate their country's economic decline.
Spain quickly managed to erase its legacy as the "S" of the PIGS acronym (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) and turned its economy around through tough labor policy shifts and austere fiscal measures to rein in its housing market. Although Spain had to work around the Euro to restore economic health to its country and, ultimately, to its citizens, the nation now sits poised to benefit from this central currency as a low-cost delivery hub to the EU.
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Gary McKinnon was looking for UFOs, but US blames him for $700,000 of damage.
Home Secretary Theresa May made the decision to halt McKinnon's extradition.
Gary McKinnon, a UK national who was facing extradition for hacking into Pentagon and NASA computer systems a decade ago, will not be extradited to the United States to face trial. Theresa May, the UK home secretary, has decided to block McKinnon's extradition after medical experts declared that he was likely to kill himself if forced to endure life in an American prison.
May said that McKinnon has Asperger's Syndrome, a mild form of autism, and suffers from depression. "Mr. McKinnon's extradition would give rise to such a high risk of him ending his life that a decision to extradite would be incompatible with Mr. McKinnon's human rights," May said. Prosecutors in the UK will now have the option to bring charges against him under domestic laws.
McKinnon's mother, Janis Sharp, was delighted. "Thank you Theresa May from the bottom of my heart," she said, according to the BBC. "I always knew you had the strength and courage to do the right thing."
Using his home computer the appellant, through the internet, identified US Government network computers with an open Microsoft Windows connection and from those extracted the identities of certain administrative accounts and associated passwords. Having gained access to those accounts he installed unauthorised remote access and administrative software called "remotely anywhere" that enabled him to access and alter data upon the American computers at any time and without detection by virtue of the programme masquerading as a Windows operating system. Once "remotely anywhere" was installed, he then installed software facilitating both further compromises to the computers and also the concealment of his own activities. Using this software he was able to scan over 73,000 US Government computers for other computers and networks susceptible to similar compromise.
"critical operating system files from nine computers, the deletion of which shut down the entire US Army's Military District of Washington network of over 2000 computers for 24 hours, significantly disrupting Governmental functions"
"2,455 user accounts on a US Army computer that controlled access to an Army computer network, causing these computers to reboot and become inoperable"
"logs from computers at US Naval Weapons Station Earle, one of which was used for monitoring the identity, location, physical condition, staffing and battle readiness of Navy ships, deletion of these files rendering the Base's entire network of over 300 computers inoperable."
The Pentagon claims McKinnon's actions cost the government $700,000.
McKinnon says his goal was to find evidence that the American government had obtained extraterrestrial technology that it was withholding from the general public.
"I knew that governments suppressed antigravity, UFO-related technologies, free energy or what they call zero-point energy," McKinnon told Wired in 2006. "This should not be kept hidden from the public when pensioners can't pay their fuel bills."
And he claims he found the evidence he was looking for. For example, he alleges that NASA "regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging," but that he found copies of the original, non-airbrushed photos on NASA's servers.
Unfortunately, he says, the original photos were hundreds of megabytes, too large to download over his dial-up modem connection. But he was able to gain "remote control of their desktop, and by adjusting it to 4-bit color and low screen resolution, I was able to briefly see one of these pictures. It was a silvery, cigar-shaped object with geodesic spheres on either side." But he says his access was discovered and cut off before he had time to save copies of the images.
The decade-long fight over McKinnon's extradition has helped to inspire reforms to the UK extradition process. "I have decided to introduce a forum bar," May said. "This will mean that where prosecution is possible in both the UK and in another state, the British courts will be able to bar prosecution overseas if they believe it is in the interests of justice to do so."
It's unclear if the decision not to extradite McKinnon or the changes to UK extradition law will help Richard O'Dwyer, a UK college student who is facing extradition to the United States on copyright charges. Judging from McKinnon's decade-long ordeal, it may take many years for O'Dwyer's extradition fight to be settled.


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'Meet the Team,' Ferguson and PR's Diversity Problem
Take a look at your "Meet the Team" and "About Us" pages on your web site. Do these pages reflect a multifaceted workforce? Do the photos of your team and their bios underscore an understanding of your many stakeholders? In other words, can visitors relate to you? You might not think these questions are worth asking until a reporter clicks on Meet the Team and asks just that.
That's what happened late last month when Common Ground Public Relations was hired by the City of Ferguson, MO, to handle calls from the media following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in the St Louis suburb. As if the media didn't have enough angles with which to cover the Ferguson story, it was handed one on a white porcelain platter. The PR firm that was hired to take all media calls following the crisis, as Talking Points Media noted, "appears to be staffed entirely by white people." Noted Daily Kos in its headline about the firm's hiring: "City of Ferguson PR Firm Has Something In Common with Its Police Force."
The PR industry has been slowly working on its diversity problem, recognizing that less than 15% of PR professionals in the US are of African-American, Asian or Hispanic/Latino descent (per the Bureau of Labor Statistics). It is a real problem that needs a more aggressive push by our industry associations, PR leaders and hiring managers in communications departments and at PR firms. PRSA's Diversity Tool Kit is a nice-to-have resource, along with its Diversity Committee, but is it enough? Ironically, the press hasn't mentioned that Common Ground's team supposedly includes just one male among the seven pictured. Diversity comes in all colors, races and genders.
I agree with Denise Bentele, president and CEO of Common Ground Public Relations, when she told Odwyer's that "the color of our skin reflected nothing of our concern to help our broader community respond to the watchful world." It appears the firm is doing a decent job helping the City of Ferguson communicate not only to its residents but to a world that's watching the investigation and public unrest.
There was nothing Common Ground could have done in the time that it was solicited by the City of Ferguson and the hours that it took for the media to click on Meet the Team and see a sea of white faces. To have quickly added some diversity to that page would surely have been snuffed out and would have positioned the firm as disingenuous. (That doesn't stop Common Ground, however, from exploring diversity in its hiring practices.)
The knock on the City of Ferguson for hiring an "all white" firm amid a race-infused crisis is fair, and such obvious bait for reporters that it's already a non-story. For the PR industry, the bigger problem is why more people with diverse backgrounds do not want to make PR their career. Here's to a future where Meet the Team is not met with scrutiny.
- Diane Schwartz
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