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Health service complaints system risking patients' and doctors' health
The General Medical Council (GMC) regulates doctors in the UK and can stop or limit their rights to practice. Around 9000 doctors a year are reported to the GMC, and around 160 are suspended or erased from the medical register.
Apart from those referred to the GMC, many other complaints are investigated formally or informally by hospitals and practices, meaning a doctor could be investigated a number of times for the same issue over a drawn out time period.
Now, new research from Imperial College London has shown for the first time an association between the way complaints are handled and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and defensive medical practice in doctors. Examples of defensive practice include over-prescribing medicines and sending patients for unnecessary scans and procedures. Doctors can also engage in avoidance behaviours such as evading difficult procedures or not accepting high-risk patients.
Previous studies have shown higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts in doctors being investigated, but this is the first study to associate these symptoms with specific aspects of the complaints process. This is the third instalment of research from Imperial on the mental toll of complaints procedures on doctors, and is published today in BMJ Open.
Professor Tom Bourne, lead-author from Imperial's Department of Surgery & Cancer, said: "Patient complaints are important and should be used to improve the care doctors provide. However, the processes used to investigate them should be consistent with the principles of natural justice. The current culture of fear causes physicians to practice defensively, which is clearly not in the interest of patients and creates significant costs for the NHS. We must develop a system that's fair and timely."
In the study, 6,144 doctors with past or current patient complaints against them completed an anonymous online survey to measure their perceptions of the complaints procedure, which included questions on how well supported they felt by colleagues and managers.
The authors compared these responses to their levels of defensive practice, anxiety and depression.
The researchers in the study found that during the complaints procedure, 61 per cent of doctors felt supported by colleagues and 31 per cent felt supported by management.
Doctors who reported feeling supported by colleagues were 36 per cent less likely to experience depression, and 31 per cent less likely to experience anxiety. Doctors who reported feeling supported by colleagues were also less likely to practice defensively.
Similarly, doctors who reported feeling supported by management were 13 per cent less likely to experience depression and 20 per cent less likely to experience anxiety. They were also less likely to practice defensively, and nine per cent less likely to practice avoidance.
Complaints procedures are often prolonged, and some can last years. Many doctors are suspended from work while under investigation for long periods with no fixed end date. During suspension, doctors are also usually banned from communicating with colleagues.
Seventy-eight per cent of doctors felt investigations took too long. These doctors were 16 per cent more likely to experience depression, 20 per cent more likely to experience anxiety and ten per cent more likely to show signs of avoidance in their practice.
In addition, 20 per cent of respondents felt the complaint against them was lodged as a result of their whistleblowing, and 39 per cent felt bullied during the complaints process. 32 per cent felt managers used complaints to undermine them, and 24 per cent felt colleagues had used complaints to gain financial or professional advantages.
The authors urge authorities and managers who handle patient complaints to give better support to doctors, including allowing them to contact their colleagues during suspension.
Authorities should also stick to strict deadlines by which complaint investigations have to be completed, with better training for the staff responsible for investigation.
They also say suspending doctors from work should be a last resort, and that doctors should be moved to non-patient facing roles during investigation if authorities feel this is necessary to protect patients.
Professor Bourne said: "Authorities can help reduce the impact of these procedures on doctors' wellbeing by imposing time limits on investigations, and making them more transparent and less adversarial. This will benefit patients by reducing defensive medical practice."
Caroline Brogan
caroline.brogan@imperial.ac.uk
@imperialspark
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/press
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Joe Biden Omicron Variant NIH Briefing Transcript December 2
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President Joe Biden visited the NIH and gave remarks on the COVID Omicron variant on December 2, 2021. He discussed COVID-19 safety over the holidays. Read the transcript of his speech briefing here.
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Joe Biden: (00:00)
Please. If there's any audience that I should be standing for, it's you, not you standing for me, but thank you very much. Good afternoon. In February, I came out here to the National Institute Health, at NIH and to our vaccine research center to thank all of you of the world class doctors, scientists, researchers for the incredible work you've done during the pandemic, and developing vaccines, saving lives, giving us hope. Also, continuing to give me advice on developments as they occur. I've seen more a Dr. Fauci that I have my wife, we kid each other, but look who's president? Fauci. But all kidding aside, I sincerely mean it. Today, I'm back to announce our action plan to battle COVID 19 this winter. Not that any of it's a surprise to any of you, because it's the combined advice from all of you that we develop this plan, and it doesn't include shutdowns or lockdowns, but widespread vaccinations and boosters and testing and a lot more.
There are five key actions that I want to see us take this winter. First of all, first is expanding the nationwide booster campaign with more outreach, more appointments, more hours, more times, and sites to walk in providing booster shots for up to 110 million Americans who are eligible for boosters. And I want you to know parenthetically, I was talking to one of my folks who does polling and national strategy. And he said, "There's some evidence in one poll." I won't mention it because I'm not positive of the number. I was told this as I was leaving the White House, that there is an expectation that 30% of the non-vaxxers, under no circumstances would I get a vaccination, because of the new variant are now saying, "I'm going to get a vaccination." So we hope that's true. I hope that's true. But the second point is that launching new family vaccination clinics, to make it easier for children, parents, and whole families to get vaccinated in one place, and new policies to keep our children in school, instead of quarantining them at home.
I'll talk about the detail of each of these in a moment. The third piece of this is making free at home tests more available than ever before, and having them covered by your private insurance plans available in thousands of locations and available community health centers and other sites for the uninsured, who don't have insurance. Four increasing our surge response team, that our doctors, our nurses, I know people in this audience know incredibly well about what a surge team is, but medical staff and the communities with rising cases and overburdened hospitals and short on personnel. And by the way, they make a gigantic difference. The governors, Republican governors, as well as Democratic governors, contact me when I go into their states, talk about, "Thank you for these surge teams." Because it really makes a difference in some communities are hit so much harder than others. They just can't make it without what we're going to do. I'll speak to this in more detail in a second.
The fifth thing we're doing, we're accelerate efforts to vaccinate the rest of the world and strengthen the international travel rules for people coming to the United States. My plan and I'm announcing today pulls no punches in the fight against COVID 19, and it's a plan that I think should unite us. I know COVID 19 has been very divisive in this country, it's become a political issue, which is a sad, sad commentary. It shouldn't be, but it has been. Now as we move into the winter and face the challenges of this new variant, this is a moment we can put the divisiveness behind us, I hope. This is a moment when we can do what we haven't been able to do enough of through this whole pandemic, get the nation to come together, unite the nation in a common per purpose to fight this fires, to protect one, to protect our economic recovery and to think of it in terms of literally a patriotic responsibility, rather than somehow you're denying people their basic rights.
The plan I'm announcing today is the plan our scientists and COVID teams have recommended. And while my existing federal vaccination requirements are being reviewed by the courts, this plan does not expand or add to those mandates. A plan that all Americans hopefully could rally around and it should be, and should get bipartisan support, in my humble opinion. And it should unit us, not continue to separate us. Parenthetically, you all know that there literally, as it relates to whether or not we're going to pay the federal debt, whether we're going to in fact, have a continued resolution, et cetera. Some of my friends on the other team are arguing that if I don't commit that there'll never be any more mandates, they're going to let us default. In the neighborhood I come from in Claymont they'd look at me and say, "Go figure, go figure."
But before I explain each new action in more detail, and I'm not going to embarrass you doc, but I want to thank Francis Collins. You've done an incredible job, doc, here at NIH. One of the most important scientists of our time in my view. No, I'm not being solicitous. I think I'm not exaggerating a bit. After I was elected president, Dr. Collins was one of the first calls. I think you're the second call I made to ask you if you'd stay on. The second call I made. It's because when I was vice president and I got to know Dr. Collins really well when I was given the opportunity to manage the cancer moonshot initiative. And Dr. Collins is an incredible resource for our nation, and I'm grateful. And I mean this sincerely, I'm grateful for everything he's done for this pandemic and advancing all kinds of medical breakthroughs, including mapping the human genome.
He recently announced he's going to step down as director of the NIH this month after a truly consequential tenure. But the good news really is Dr. Collins going to return to the lab, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and we look forward to his unmatched ability and unlock possibilities that are within our reach. And doc, the bad news for you is you ain't getting rid of me, man. I'm going to keep calling you all the time because there's a lot of other things you can do and help me to get done. You just point me in the direction and I'll follow. I just received a briefing from Dr. Collins and Fauci and Dr. Lawrence tieback, as well as Dr. Julie Ledgerwood and I appreciate it very much. My only regret was it was a short meeting, because I was to come and speak. I think we would all benefit more if we had made my speech short and spent more time with these docs.
But as they study the Omicron variant, that we have just two cases reported here in the United States. But as I explained on Monday, this new variant is cause for concern, but not panic. We knew there's be cases of Omicron here in the United States and it's here. But we have the best tools, the best vaccines in the world and the best medicine and the best scientists in the world. We're going to fight this variant with science and speed, not chaos and confusion. Just like we beat back COVID-19 in the spring, a more powerful variant, Delta variant in the summer and fall. As a result, we entered this winter from a position of strength compared to where America was last winter. Last Christmas, fewer than 1% of American adults were fully vaccinated. This Christmas, that number will be 72%, including more than 86% of seniors, the most vulnerable population.
Last Christmas, our children were at risk without a COVID-19 vaccine. This Christmas, we have safe, effective vaccines for children, age five and older, with 20 million children and counting now vaccinated. Last year, majority of our schools were closed Christmas time in that area. Now over 99% of our schools are open, but I pledge to always be straight and give it just straight from the shoulder as President of the United States and tell the American people exactly where we are. So, here it is: experts say the COVID-19 cases are continued to rise in the weeks ahead in this winter. So we need to be ready. You can read the whole plan we're talking about here at whitehouse.gov, go to whitehouse.gov, and it's all laid out in detail.
For now, here are the five key points I want to expand on slightly. We're expanding our national booster campaign to provide booster shots to all eligible adults. Our docs, and the scientists believe that people who get a booster shot are more protected than ever from COVID-19. I was just told, with a question I got to ask I have been meaning to ask for a long time, whether or not, not just it increases the resistance to the variant that is being dealt with, but it also is stronger. It not only just raises a total, but it is stronger, it makes things more powerful in terms of resisting. And the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA and our top public officials recommend all adults get a booster shot when it's time. But here's the deal: more than about 100 million are eligible for boosters, but haven't gotten the booster shot yet. Folks, if you're over the age of 18 and you got vaccinated before June the second, six months has gone by, go get your booster now. Go get it now.
Booster shots continue to be free. We've already made available 80,000 locations coast to coast in the United States, of America, 80,000 locations to get the booster. And if you want to know exactly where to go text your zip code to 438829 to find where you can get your booster shot now. And starting today, we're making it easier than ever to get a booster shot. I'm calling on pharmacies and they've been cooperative, big and small, to offer more appointments, more walk-in hours, including on weeknights and weekends. So you can get vaccinated at a time that works best for you and your family. Pharmacies will send millions of texts and emails to remind their customers to return for the booster shots, because they know who got the booster shot at CDC, now they've agreed they're going to send texts to that particular person when their time is up.
If it's Pfizer or Moderna, it's six months, if it's J&J, two months. And to reach our seniors, we're also collaborating with the American Association of Retired Persons, AARP, who'll be reaching out to their 38 million members. They're going to make an aggressive effort. They're going to be hosting virtual town halls to answer questions on and even arrange rides for seniors to get their booster shots. And so that will all be coming. My administration will contact the 64 million people on Medicare to remind them to get at their booster shots. We have the ability to do that from the federal level. And just like I did to make it easier for folks to get their first and second shots, I'm providing paid off time for any federal employee who goes to get their booster.
If the only time they can get the booster where they are, if it's at such and such a day in the middle of the day, they can go. All they have to do is demonstrate that's where they went, or they took their son, daughter, husband, wife, mom, dad, they get paid, they don't get docked their pay. And I'm asking other employers in the private sector to do the same thing. I don't want you to have to choose between a paycheck and get an additional protection for a booster shot. Now, I want to reiterate, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins believe if you're worried about Omicron variant, the best thing to do is get fully vaccinated and then get your booster shot when you're eligible. Excuse me.
We don't yet believe that additional measures will be needed, but so that were prepared if needed, my team is already working with officials at Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson to develop contingency plans for other vaccines or boosters. And I'll also direct the FDA in the CDC to use the fastest process available without cutting corners for safety, to get such vaccines reviewed and approved, if they're needed. Second, we're expanding our efforts to vaccinate children ages five and up. For any parent worried about Omicron variant or the Delta variant, get your child vaccinated at one of the 35,000 locations in the country, including doctor's offices, pharmacies, children's hospitals, and 9,000 pop-up clinics at schools. If you're wondering where to go again, visit vaccines.com. And today I'm announcing that we're going to launch hundreds of new family vaccination clinics across the country. These sites are going to offer vaccinations for the whole family one stop. One stop, children can get vaccinated, parents can get vaccinated to get their first or second shots or their booster shots.
Family vaccination clinics will be held in community health centers and other trusted locations. Some will be mobile to reach further into hard to reach communities. If it's booster shots for adults, vaccinations for kids, all the same place at the same time. Now, when we first announced, I said the logistical problem, it wasn't just we didn't have enough vaccines when we got into office, but once we got the vaccine, the logistical effort to get all communities and all areas vaccinated was a gigantic logistical undertaking that would make any military proud of being able to do it. But because of the incredible talent, including our military, we got that done, and we can do the same thing now as we continue to expand. We know parents of children under the age of five are wondering when the vaccine would be available for the little ones.
That's the question I most get often asked now at functions. We had a function celebrating Hanukah and the Christmas and various things at the White House. The parents coming up to me and they're saying, "I have a three year old. Am I going to be okay? Is she going to be okay? Or he going to be okay?" And let me say this: I strongly support the independent scientific view of vaccine usage for children under five. We can't take shortcuts with that scientific work, but I'll do everything in my power to support the FDA to do this safely and quickly as possible when we get around that point. Vaccinating our children is also critical to keeping our schools open, but while over 99% of our schools are open now, we need to make sure that we keep that throughout the winter, this winter.
The CDC is now reviewing pioneering approaches we call Test to Stay policies, which could allow students to stay in a classroom and be tested frequently when a positive case in that classroom popped up that wasn't them. Up to now, you go home when you quarantine. But rather than being sent home and quarantine and be able to stay, because the test will be available and regularly. The CDC will be releasing the latest signs and other findings of the coming weeks so that other schools can learn if there's any impediments in this practice, they can learn to implement exactly what the best way to do this is, that's the process. We want our children in school, and we're going to take new steps to make sure it stays that way. But again, the best step is to vaccinate your children, get them vaccinated.
The third, this winter, we're going to make free at home tests more available to Americans than ever before. To better detect and control the Delta variant, I made testing more available, affordable and convenient. I used the Defense Production Act to increase production of rapid tests, including at home tests. When I came in office, none of these tests were on the market. Thanks to our actions and the work of all of you, we now have at least eight at home testing options and prices for those tests are coming down, but it still isn't good enough in my view. That's why I'm announcing that health insurers must cover the cost of at home testing so that if you're one of the 150 million Americans with private health insurance, next month, your plan will cover at home tests. Private insurers already cover the expensive PCR test that you get into the doctor's office. And now they will cover at home tests as well. Now, for those not covered by private insurance, we're going to make available free tests at thousands of convenient locations for folks to pick them up and take a test kit home.
The bottom line, this winter you'll be able to for free in the comfort of your home and have some peace of mind. This is on top of the 20,000 sites already around the country like pharmacies, where you can go in and get tested for free. We have to keep this going. Fourth, we're going to continue to help communities that experience rising cases this winter and improve the care for those who get COVID-19. Since this summer, we've worked with Republican and Democratic governors, as many Republican governors as Democratic governors to deploy what we call surge response teams. These teams work. They provide needed staff for staff overruns that badly needed staff, where overrun hospitals are handling more patients than they can handle for their emergency rooms and intensive care units who don't have a personnel available. They help provide lifesaving treatments and communities in need like monoclonal antibody treatments.
We have over 20 teams deployed now. Today, I'm announcing that we're going to triple that, more than double. We're going to get to 60 teams ready to deploy in states experiencing a surge in cases over the course of the winter. I was just with a governor in Minnesota, who's raving about the positive impact that's had on his state, but there's states in the same circumstance. Additionally, we're increasing the availability of new medications recommended by real doctors, not conspiracy theorists. For example, monoclonal antibody treatments have been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization by up to 70% and for unvaccinated people at risk of developing severe disease. We've already distributed over three million courses of these treatment to save lives and reduce the strain on hospitals. And where we have promising new antiviral pills on the horizon that could help prevent hospitalizations and death for people infected by COVID-19.
We've secured enough supply of these pills already and early indications are that these treatments will remain effective in the face of Omicron. We don't know that for sure yet, but that's the hope and expectation. And like with the distribution of the vaccines, we will ensure that these medicines will be available to the hardest hit communities in America as well. Fifth and finally, as we seen with COVID-19 and the Delta variant, and now with Omicron variant, all that emerged elsewhere. It all came from somewhere else. And ultimately, to beat this pandemic, we need to go to where it came from in the rest of the world. We also need to vaccinate the rest of the world. America, in my view, continues to lead in that effort. We've shipped for free more vaccines around the world than all other countries in the world combined, every other country combined.
Over 280 million vaccines so far to 110 countries, including South Africa, where we delivered all the doses they requested. Now, today I'm announcing that we'll accelerate the delivery of more vaccines to countries that need it. Pleasure to deliver 200 million more doses within the next 1000 days, on our way to delivering more than one billion, 200 million doses for the rest of the world. Let me be clear: that not a single vaccine dose America ever sends the rest of the world will ever come at the expense of any American. I'll always make sure that our people are protected first, but vaccinating the world is not just a moral tool, a moral obligation that we have in my view, it's how we protect Americans. As we're seeing with this new variant, America's doing our part and we'll do more, but this is a global pandemic and everyone needs to fight it together.
And that includes countries we're helping that aren't particularly friendly toward us. Their population are in trouble. To their credit, the scientific community, particularly in South Africa quickly notified the world of the emergence of this new variant. This kind of transparency is to be encouraged and applauded because it increases our ability to respond quickly to any new threats, and that's what we did. On the very day the World Health Organization identified the new variant, I took an immediate step to restrict travel from the countries in Southern Africa. But while we know the travel restrictions can slow the spread of Omicron, they cannot prevent it, but it does give us a little more time to take more precautions at home to prepare. A month ago, we announced requirements that foreign travelers must be vaccinated if entering the United States. This week, I announced an additional action to strengthen international travel rules, to give us more time to stop the spread and study the new variant.
It used to be that international travel flying, a traveler flying to the United States had to test negatively three days before their departure from that country. Well, I'm announcing today that all inbound international travelers must test within one day of departure, regardless of their vaccination status or nationality. This testing timetable provides an added degree of protection as scientists continue to study the Omicron variant. And we are extending the requirement both internationally and domestically to wear masks for travel on aircraft trains, public transportation through the winter months.
I'll close with this. Again, the actions I'm announcing are ones that all Americans can rally behind and should unite in the fight against COVID-19. And they come from a position of strength. We are better positioned than we were a year ago to fight COVID-19. Since day one of my administration, we've been doing everything we can to beat this virus. And that's what we have to keep doing.
That's how we keep our country and our businesses and our schools open. And that's how, even with the pandemic we've generated record job creation, 5.6 million new jobs since January 20th, more than any president in American history. We're on the track to the fastest economic growth in four decades. We move forward in the face of COVID 19 in adult variant, and we'll move forward in the face of Omicron variant as well, and we'll do it by keeping the faith and doing it together as the United States of America. Let me close again by saying, God bless our doctors, our scientists, and all of you here at NIH for what you're doing for the country. And quite frankly for the world. You're the best. You're the very, very best, and God bless you all. Thank you for your patience in listening to me. Thank you.
Speaker 2: (26:15)
[inaudible 00:26:15].
Will there be a government shutdown on Friday, sir?
How would do it?
How can you ask such a silly question? Look, I don't believe that will happen. We have everything in place to be able to make sure there is not a shutdown, unless some individual … I spoke with Mitch McConnell, I spoke with Schumer. There is a plan in place unless somebody decides to be totally erratic and I don't think that will happen. So I don't think [inaudible 00:27:01]. Thank you.
I guess we don't have to worry about closing [inaudible 00:27:10].
[inaudible 00:27:21]thank you for answering that question, I [inaudible 00:27:24]. You're the only one that has all of that. I know you're [inaudible 00:27:31]. All right. good to see you.
Dr. Fauci: (27:32)
[inaudible 00:27:32] hi. Hey.
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Q: connect to shell terminal of other container in a pod When I define multiple containers in a pod/pod template like one container running agent and another php-fpm, how can they access each other? I need the agent container to connect to php-fpm by shell and need to execute few steps interactively through agent container.
Based on my understanding, we can package kubectl into the agent container and use kubectl exec -it <container id> sh to connect to the container. But I don't want Agent container to have more privilege than to connect to the target container with is php-fpm.
Is there a better way for agent container to connect to php-fpm by a shell and execute commands interactively?
Also, I wasn't successful in running kubectl from a container when using minikube due to following errors
docker run -it -v ~/.kube:/root/.kube lachlanevenson/k8s-kubectl get nodes
Error in configuration:
* unable to read client-cert /Users/user/.minikube/apiserver.crt for minikube due to open /Users/user/.minikube/apiserver.crt: no such file or directory
* unable to read client-key /Users/user/.minikube/apiserver.key for minikube due to open /Users/user/.minikube/apiserver.key: no such file or directory
* unable to read certificate-authority /Users/user/.minikube/ca.crt for minikube due to open /Users/user/.minikube/ca.crt: no such file or directory

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docker run -it -v ~/.kube:/root/.kube lachlanevenson/k8s-kubectl get nodes

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*First off, every Pod within a k8s cluster has its own k8s credentials provided by /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token, and thus there is absolutely no need to attempt to volume mount your home directory into a docker container

*The reason you are getting the error about client-cert is because the contents of ~/.kube are merely strings that point to the externally defined ssl key, ssl certificate, and ssl CA certificate defined inside ~/.kube/config -- but I won't speak to fixing that problem further since there is no good reason to be using that approach

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From John Adams to John Hancock, 26 May 1783
To John Hancock
Paris May 26. 17831
Mr De Hogendorp2 a Lieutenant in the Dutch Guards, in the Service of the Republick of Holland, is going to America in the Suite of Mr Vanberckel the Dutch Minister and I am requested by Some respectable Gentlemen to give him Letters of Introduction to Some Persons in America. any Civilities you may please to Shew him, will be gratefully acknowledged, by / Sir your most obedient and / most humble servant
RC (private owner, 1987); internal address: "His Excellency John Hancock Esqr."
1. JA wrote a similar introductory letter of this date to James Warren (Nationaal Archief:Hogendorp Family Archives). Hogendorp thanked JA for the introductions in a letter of 13 June (Adams Papers).
2. Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, future Dutch statesman and relative of Van Berckel, sailed with the squadron carrying the Dutch minister to America. But while Van Berckel's vessel the Overijssel reached Philadelphia on 9 Oct., the Erfprins, with Hogendorp on board, lost its mast in a gale and foundered off the coast of Massachusetts on 21 Nov. with the loss of 303 men. Hogendorp was one of forty men who left the ship in two boats to rendezvous with a passing vessel minutes before the sinking (Schulte Nordholt, Dutch Republic and Amer. Independence description begins Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, The Dutch Republic and American Independence, transl. Herbert H. Rowen, Chapel Hill, 1982. description ends , p. 253, 258–262; Smith, Letters of Delegates description begins Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Paul H. Smith and others, Washington, 1976–2000; 26 vols. description ends , 21:494, 516–517; vol. 13:198–199; Boston Evening-Post, 29 Nov.; Pennsylvania Evening Post, 16 Dec.; see also Dumas' letter of 23 May, and note 2, above).
Hancock, John
"From John Adams to John Hancock, 26 May 1783," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-14-02-0312. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 14, October 1782–May 1783, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Mary T. Claffey, Sara B. Sikes, and Judith S. Graham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008, p. 497.]
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Grundens USA launched a new website designed to help commercial and recreational customers find the products they need.
The website features Grundens' new Gage Technical Gear family — a line of apparel, gear and accessories designed to provide protection for people who work or play outdoors.
The Gage line provides outdoor enthusiasts with waterproof and water-resistant garments, including pants, bibs and jackets, as well as duffels, backpacks, knives and hats.
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@jyasskin, @mounirlamouri, @marcoscaceres, I added you in the OWNERS file to help review Permissions API tests as you are spec editors, which means you'll get pinged on new PRs. Please let me know if you want to be removed.
sgtm. @Honry did you look at the Blink tests? I wonder if there are some that could be moved to WPT.
Yeah, they are located at here, and I would like to move them to WPT.
@mounirlamouri, most of Blink tests require user interaction to invoke/revoke permissions, which is under implementing at #5671, so I will go back to it once the new WebDriver feature is online.
What's happening with this PR?
I guess these could land to start testing the IDL? @Honry, is the IDL still up to date?
@Honry, is the IDL still up to date?
@marcoscaceres, no, I will do it soon.
@lukebjerring, @marcoscaceres, PTAL, I've appended the header to idl file, so that next update is a no-op.
done() should be outside the test.
apart from done(), looks great @Honry!
@marcoscaceres, thanks for your review! done() is removed.


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Datadog is the essential monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. We bring together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications, infrastructure, and third-party services entirely observable. These capabilities help businesses secure their systems, avoid downtime, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
Olivier Pomel
Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, where he grew the development team from a handful of people to close to 100 of the best engineers in New York until the company's acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier held software engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is an original author of the VLC media player and holds a MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
Alexis Lê-Quôc
Prior to founding Datadog, Alexis Lê-Quôc served as the Director of Operations for Wireless Generation, where he built the team and infrastructure that served more than four million students in 49 states. As a member of the original "devops" movement, Alexis spent several years as a software engineer at IBM Research, Neomeo, and Orange, and he brings a strong focus on technical elegance and operational efficiency to Datadog. Alexis holds an MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris and has presented sessions on cloud monitoring and server performance at many conferences, including AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, DevOpsDays, Velocity, and PyCon.
Amit Agarwal
Throughout his 15 years of experience in enterprise software, Amit Agarwal has worked in various business strategy and technical management roles to bring new products to market. Before Datadog, Amit was the Director of Product Management at Quest Software (now Dell), where he led the team responsible for application performance monitoring. Amit has also held product management roles at enterprise software firms including Datamirror (now IBM) and Embarcadero Technologies, as well as technical roles with 3D-medical imaging and mobile encryption software companies. Amit holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and a Masters in Computer Science from Dalhousie University.
David Obstler
David Obstler brings more than three decades of operational finance experience, with over two decades focused on technology companies. Prior to Datadog, David served as CFO of TravelClick, where he led global financial operations. David has also held CFO roles at OpenLink Financial, MSCI Inc., Risk Metrics Group, and Pinnacor, as well as investment banking positions at JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs. David has a BA from Yale University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dan Fougere
As CRO, Dan Fougere is responsible for Datadog's global sales strategy and execution. Dan is a software veteran with over 20 years of experience at both public and pre-IPO software companies. Before Datadog, Dan had Global and Americas responsibilities at Medallia, the leading Customer Experience Management company. In his five years there, Dan helped design and execute a go-to-market approach that increased annual revenue by nearly 10 times and grew the sales organization from seven people to 300. Before Medallia, Dan held leadership positions at BMC, BladeLogic, and Actuate. Dan holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Armelle de Madre
Armelle De Madre has more than two decades of leadership experience in human resources and marketing. Prior to joining Datadog, Armelle was the CPO at Arkadin, a global unified communications solutions provider. She began her career at Renault both in marketing and human resources, and she subsequently joined Schneider Electric as Director of Strategy and Social Innovation. She was appointed as a board member of Thales in June 2017. Armelle holds a BA from Columbia University and a Masters in Marketing from HEC Paris.
Alex Rosemblat
Prior to Datadog, Alex Rosemblat served as the Product Marketer for Dell's Cloud and Virtualization product family (via the acquisition of VKernel), bringing virtualization management and cloud monitoring software products to market. Alex has several years of experience with enterprise software and related technologies through product management, IT consulting, and pre-sales engineering with Symantec (via the acquisition of SwapDrive) and Epic Systems Corporation. He holds a BS in Commerce, specializing in IT, from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Laszlo Kopits
VP, GENERAL COUNSEL
With over two decades of experience in tech, media, and education law, Laszlo Kopits brings a wide breadth of expertise to his role as General Counsel, where he oversees all legal operations from compliance to transactions. Prior to Datadog, Laszlo worked at Wireless Generation and, after its acquisition by News Corp, Amplify Education, where he served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Earlier in his career, Laszlo held a variety of legal positions at Reuters (now Refinitiv) and Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP. Laszlo earned his JD from Stanford Law School, his MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and his BA from Haverford College.
Michelle Goldstein
VP, CUSTOMER SUCCESS
Michelle Goldstein has over a decade of experience in sales, account management, and leadership, but her main passion and focus has always been the customer. Michelle has been with Datadog since 2015. Previously, she helped to create and build out the Customer Success team at Applause while serving as Customer Success Manager for that company's key accounts. Michelle holds a BS from Babson College, where she specialized in marketing and management.
Dustin Lawler
SVP, TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS
Prior to Datadog, Dustin Lawler was Vice President of worldwide pre-sales at Nimsoft (acquired by CA Technologies in 2010), where he led a world-wide team of pre-sales engineers ensuring prospects received advice and guidance on all aspects of the solution. Dustin plays an integral role in Datadog's product design and strategy, working closely with the Product Management team.
Emilio Escobar
With two decades of experience in Information Security and Compliance, Emilio Escobar has worked at large enterprises, medium-sized companies, and governmental organizations. Previously, Emilio served as the VP of Information Security for Hulu, where he played a pivotal role in setting up key security functions. Prior to that, Emilio worked for PlayStation, where he built and ran the software security teams. Emilio's unique approach to security and compliance has always prioritized partnerships and people—hiring the right talent to build the processes, procedures, and technologies that unite Security, Engineering, and Operations teams. Emilio holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico.
Shardul Shah
Partner, Index Ventures
Shardul Shah joined Index Ventures in 2008, specializing in infrastructure, security, and software. Shardul is currently involved in the boards of Datadog, Outbrain, NGINX, Signal Sciences, and AttackIQ, and has supported investments in Moleskine, Squarespace, Dropbox, Centrify, Stack Exchange, and Koality (acquired by Docker). Shardul holds a BA in Economics and a BA in Biology (with a specialization in Immunology) from the University of Chicago.
Dev Ittycheria
President and CEO, MongoDB
Dev Ittycheria is the President & CEO of MongoDB, where he led its IPO in 2017—the first public offering of a database company in more than 25 years. Previously, he was Managing Director at OpenView Venture Partners, Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, and co-founder of BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC for $900 million. Following this acquisition, Dev served as President of BMC, overseeing a business with $1.4 billion in annual revenue. Dev graduated from Rutgers University with a BS in Electrical Engineering, was honored with the Medal of Excellence, and was recognized by the School of Engineering as its 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
Co-founder, Awake Security
Before he co-founded Awake Security, Michael Callahan was CTO and Co-founder of PolyServe, which built mission-critical shared-data storage clustering software for Linux and Windows. A Greylock Partners portfolio company, PolyServe was acquired by HP in 2007. Previously, Michael served as Director of Advanced Development at Ask Jeeves, an early natural-language search engine. Michael graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and was both a Rhodes Scholar and a Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at Oxford University, where his research focused on differential geometry, topology, gauge theory, and the application of massively parallel architectures to computer vision.
Julie Richardson
Independent Board Member and Audit Chair
Julie Richardson spent over 25 years on Wall Street as a specialist in telecom, media, and technology. She began her career with 10 years at Merrill Lynch, then moved to JP Morgan where she headed an investment banking group. In 2003 she moved into private equity as head of the NY Office of Providence Equity Partners, where she spearheaded many investments and buyouts. Julie chairs the audit committee at Datadog and serves on the board of UBS, The Hartford, VEREIT, and Yext, and is a Trustee of St Bernard's School.
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General Partner, ICONIQ Capital
Matt Jacobson is a General Partner at ICONIQ Capital, an investment and venture capital firm, where he has worked since September 2013 and sits on the firm's investment and management committees. Matt currently serves on the boards of Snowflake, GitLab, Collibra, BamboHR, Braze, Sprinklr, Relativity, InVision, Highspot, and Intercom. Prior to ICONIQ Capital, Matt held operating roles at Groupon and investing roles at Battery Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures. Matt holds a BS in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to founding Datadog, Olivier Pomel built data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP, Technology for Wireless Generation, growing the development team from a handful to close to 100 of the best engineers in NYC until the company's acquisition by News Corp. Before Wireless Generation, Olivier held software engineering positions at IBM Research and several internet startups. Olivier is an original author of the VLC media player and holds a MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris.
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Energy Department builds on its Grid Modernization Initiative
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2016 - Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz recently announced the release of the Department of Energy's (DOE) comprehensive Grid Modernization Multi-Year Program Plan, a blueprint for modernizing the electrical grid. The Grid Modernization Initiative is a DOE effort to help shape the future of our nation's grid and solve the challenges of integrating conventional and renewable sources with energy storage and smart buildings, while ensuring that the grid is resilient and secure to withstand growing cyber security and climate challenges.
Moniz also announced the award of up to $220 million over three years, subject to congressional appropriations, to DOE's National Labs and partners to support critical research and development in advanced storage systems, clean energy integration, standards and test procedures and a number of other key grid modernization areas.
"Modernizing the U.S. electrical grid is essential to reducing carbon emissions, creating safeguards against attacks on our infrastructure and keeping the lights on," says Moniz.
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"Our Quadrennial Energy Review and Quadrennial Technology Review identified needs and opportunities to invest in the grid. This public-private partnership between our National Laboratories, industry, academia and state and local government agencies will help us further strengthen our ongoing efforts to improve our electrical infrastructure so that it is prepared to respond to the nation's energy needs for decades to come."
More information on the Grid Modernization Initiative at Energy.gov and on the selected National Lab partnership projects is available by clicking here.
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Home / Islamabad / FBR should simplify process of filing taxes: Asad Umar
FBR should simplify process of filing taxes: Asad Umar
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Asad Umar on Monday called on the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to simplify the tax return system with easier forms and lesser questions.
"The amount of questions FBR asks you for your returns is more than those asked when you are accepting a marriage proposal for your daughter," Umar said while addressing an event.
The minister added that FBR should integrate its database and simply the mechanism for filing taxes. He added that the FBR would give a simplified tax system in this budget.
"Instructions in Urdu will be available on the website. They will not be hidden in some drawer. We have to create transparency."
Asad Umar further said that the government was bringing an asset declaration scheme. "There should be no doubt that the scheme will be successful when people know they won't be able to hide when it expires." "FBR capacity to reach those who are not paying the right taxes has drastically improved," he stressed.
Finance Minister Asad Umar said Pakistan's talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were in its final stage.
The minister stressed that following the closure, the numbers of the loan deal would be shared. Umar revealed that the policy framework prepared had been shared with the IMF and sent to committees of Parliament and Senate.
According to the minister, Pakistan was facing three main problems on the economic front. The three chronic issues he said were the same when he was attending college 40 years ago. "We are stuck with the fiscal deficit, current account deficit and saving and investment gap."
Asad Umar said that Pakistan was exporting less compared to the requirement of foreign exchange, adding that the government was paying Rs800 billion on interest payments for debts.
"The crisis phase is over. However, we are still in the stabilisation phase," he added


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The current world number 1 CS:GO team Astralis join forces with IMG's web-based esports platform Boomeo to create and promote Boomeo's platform together with new unique training and educational content.
As part of the relationship, facilitated by RFRSH Entertainment, Astalis will use Boomeo servers and game mods for practice and preparation for tournaments and additionally, members of Astralis will be producing exclusive content for Boomeo to be released throughout the summer.
In a livestream Monday 8pm CEST / 2pm EST, gla1ve, dupreeh, kjaerbye and xyp9x of Astralis will present the Boomeo platform – including a world premiere!
– We're excited to work with Boomeo, who is breaking new ground, when it comes to both educational content and specific skill training. For us it's about continuously developing as a team and as individuals, and to constantly move forwards. The competition in CS:GO is fierce and the cooperation with professionals like Boomeo is a part of our strategy to constantly improve to stay ahead.
– I am extremely excited for Boomeo to be partnering with Astralis. They are some of the world's best players and their feedback will be tremendously helpful to improving our current mods, and designing future ones.
We'll be producing some amazing training content with them as well, adding to our ever-growing library, so Astralis fans will be able to learn directly from their heroes.
Astralis will be using Boomeo servers and game mods, including Duels, Pre-Fire, Deathmatch and Retakes, to warm up and train for competitions.
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In particular, the chapter on meat (How to Carve the Wolf), Fisher describes her Prune Roast recipe, which other cooks have told her is "not wholly dependable: sometimes the prunes cook to bits; sometimes the sauce is too thin or too thick." And she concludes: "I have never found this to be true, but I do know that no recipe in the world is independent of the tides, the moon, the physical and emotional temperatures surrounding its performance."
I'll have to remember it next time something I make comes out gross and barely edible, but I make my boyfriend eat it anyway.


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"All Activism is a Romance": An Interview with Maryse Meijer
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I first met Maryse Meijer on a book tour where she was kind enough to read with Tobias Caroll and myself at the very fine Volumes Bookstore in Chicago, Illinois. We exchanged copies of our books and I quickly devoured Heartbreaker, all too happy to add it the following semester to my students' reading lists. Her prose is sharp, focused, sometimes musical and possesses an undeniable kinetic energy. Her characters, filled with the burning embers of desire, are often longing for things that will tear the asunder, lead them into situations that give the reader pause, that ask us to consider the power of desire, that fill us, in the safety of our reading chairs, with a sense of danger. Bleak and uncomfortable but never disappointing, her stories unearth the best and worst in human nature. Her latest, The Seventh Mansion, centers on a disenfranchised young man, Xie, who discovers love in the bones of a saint, and through this love finds power to stand in the face of extraordinary odds and fight for what he believes in. A novel that is as much a love story as it is a literary call to arms, Maryse manages to create a book that I wish I'd read my entire life and only now have had the pleasure. When FSG Originals announced the release of The Seventh Mansion, I contacted Maryse for this interview. Always gracious, Maryse agreed and the follow conversation was conducted via email over several weeks this autumn.
Environmental activism is central to this text. Whereas your shorter works often simmered with political ideas, it's a little more pronounced in your latest novel. Was this an intentional choice when you began or did the story come to you first in some other way?
I didn't set out to write a book about the environment, but about a boy falling in love with a skeleton. It just turned out that when Xie showed up on the page he was all these things—a vegan, an anarchist, a lover of trees as well as a lover of bones. I share a lot of Xie's politics, but the book was never conceived as a political tract about the environment or animal rights—those things kept coming to the fore because of who Xie turned out to be. I usually write about people obsessed with something, and it just happened that this time around I was writing about someone obsessed with environmentalism and activism, and for the book to make sense I had to let it really be "about" those things as well. I didn't know how the romance would connect to the environment stuff, but then it became kind of obvious—all activism is a romance.
I love this notion of obsession driving stories. I'm reminded of the way in which Franz Kafka's obsession with exactitude found its way to the core of his stories, giving us characters who are obsessed with logic and truth. What is it about obsession that intrigues you?
I'm interested in the kinds of shapes that obsession gives to people's lives, how it forms or warps their experiences, gestures, ideas, feelings. It gives structure to otherwise mundane experiences and encounters, and it's that structure that I want to investigate; it involves a lot of repetition, but within that repetition is a kind of music, a tension, this weird thing that happens when desire tries to explode the shape of its own container. And I'm nosy and I like to poke around in other people's secret lives and writing about obsessions is a good way to work out that voyeuristic impulse.
There is very much a kind of minor chord to the music in your prose. It's in your shorter work and I was pleased to see it in your latest book. What was it about this story demanded a longer format?
I never know how to answer questions of form. I just know right away if something needs a lot of space or a little bit—I mean I know as soon as I write the first line. It has nothing to do with content or plot or character because I rarely know what I'm going to do before I do it; but there is always that sense of, okay, this needs a lot of space or this just needs a little. Kind of mysterious, since I don't know what's going to go into that space; maybe it's like walking into an empty room. You know the size of the room immediately, before you know what's going to go in it.
Did this story first come to you as a sentence? Is this the way things normally come to you or is it always a different scenario?
It came to me as a feeling, primarily. Xiu Xiu's "Botanica de Los Angeles" was playing at the end of Creep 2 and I knew immediately that the idea I'd had for years about a boy in love with a dead body would somehow fit into the feeling of that song. And that's usually how stories come to me, through other people's art. I just want to copy these feelings other people are so good at expressing in different mediums.
I feel I know exactly what you're talking about. That moment when you watch/hear/see someone else's creation and an idea is born. It happened to me when I watched Moon and I teetered on my seat for fear the idea would desert me before I could get out of the theater. On this subject of ideas, I once listened to a Tom Waits interview, where he described the coming of ideas and those moments where he forgets them. He says they return to the world for someone else to discover, and I always loved that notion for its optimism. Have you ever let an idea slip and found it existing later in some other work of art?
I do love that idea of things being forgotten but found by someone else! Gosh, yes, this happens all the time, where I come across something that someone made and think, well, they did a billion times better with that idea than I ever would have. I just read Alfred Chester's Exquisite Corpse, which was written at least 60 years ago, and there was a scene I felt like I've tried to write a dozen times in there, already existing in a perfect state, and it kind of made me feel like, okay, well, the reason why I couldn't get that right was because someone had already done it perfectly! And it's beautiful to see that.
Yes, I've experienced this too. This desire to tell a story but a kind of inability to land it on the page in the exact same way I see or sense it in my head, which kind of leads me to a question I'd been meaning to ask you on the subject of desire. Your fiction often takes on subjects of desire that many might consider taboo. When I have taught your work, my students often use the word "unsettling," as your stories seem to occupy a space of becoming rather than coming into a final state of being. What is it about this space that attracts you as a writer?
I think desire is an unsettled thing, and to feel it is in some ways to be quite unsettled. I'm interested in the way that desire works between people and objects, how it shapes or instigates actions. Desire moves us towards something; historically I've focused on the negative ways desire works, or on how desire pushed people into situations that are dangerous to the self and others. With Mansion I wanted something more hopeful—still fraught, still high-stakes, but ultimately positive. But I'm always interested in marginal spaces, marginal people, marginal situations, things that get lost. Some of those things might be considered taboo, but I don't think in those terms, I just think in terms of what is both most scary and most dear to the people I write about.
In what ways do you see negative or hopeful working? Are they two separate journeys that arrive in the same destination or do they end up in different locations for the purpose of the story?
I think the negative prevents people from connecting to each other—that so often the desire to connect causes people to act in ways that make connection impossible or damaging. But I feel the potential for connection and for community is always around us, in us—I think being-together is our most natural state, something we are made for. So that's the hopeful part, and my work always strives to get there, I think—but ultimately the stories do what they want, they serve their own purposes, which may have very little to do with my own intentions.
One of the things I really enjoy about your work, is how sharp the sentences are. They have a tightness to them that carry a good deal of energy moving forward. I'm curious what your sentence writing looks like. Do you find your sentences are very close to what you want as you write them or do you find that you like to revisit them and revise?
99.9% of my writing is revision. And I never get where I want. But in a way that's what's nice about language—that it has the desire to evolve, to constantly escape the speaker/writer's attempts to control it. I always feel a sentence could be better, sharper, more beautiful; but I also try to undermine my own conception of what constitutes a beautiful sentence. Maybe something awkward or heavy or ugly or weird, something messy, unfinished, unmusical might serve a story better, and it's only my attachment to certain conventions that prevent me from discovering a better language, a more interesting kind of storytelling. I think a big part of revision is knowing when to trust the unconscious, to reign in that impulse to torture a sentence into a pleasing shape. But the tightness you're talking about comes from tension, and being able to control tension is a great asset for a writer—but then again you can overdo it, I think I overdo it sometimes. I'd like to get a little less strict in the future, let my narratives fatten up a bit, get a little slack. There's so much yet to do and explore in terms of effects that language can have; I feel I am just getting started.
I'm always impressed by authors who write books where the language feels organic, created just for that world where the author's voice isn't on the page at every turn, but who do so without coming across as a pastiche. Are there any writers you admire for their ability to embrace new ways of writing (sentences, form, or content) with various projects?
This is something I really aspire to—to approach every project with the goal of destroying some aspect of my "voice" or style used in previous books. The writing has to serve the work. I think this is especially true for writers who, like myself, have a limited set of themes—if you're not going to play wildly with content, which I don't, you have to challenge yourself in other areas. I think early Knut Hamsun was good at this, Anne Carson is of course a master at playing with form and voice, and Dennis Cooper is great at attacking similar material from different angles. People always shit on Joyce Carol Oates because she writes so many books, and much of her work is "mainstream," whatever that means, but we forget that she's written, like, 40 books that are actually kind of crazy, full of violence and sex and wild inner monologues, books that totally disregard plot and all kinds of conventions. So, she was a big influence on me for sure—she seemed like the kind of writer who truly wrote whatever the heck she wanted, how she wanted, without agonizing over whether or not people would like it. The fact that she has the reputation as this kind of boring old lady is just astounding to me, but if you dig through her oeuvre from the 60's-80's you'll find some real gems, especially the short story collections. I read so much contemporary fiction that people call "edgy" and "daring" and I think there's a kind of hidden debt many of us have to her that goes completely unacknowledged by writers of my generation. I think in my own work I'm always pointing to other books I've loved, writers I admire—I don't like things to get lost. If a book can serve as a key to another book, or another piece of art, either already written or yet to be written—what can be more beautiful than that?
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The Park is accessible by public transports. There are three main train stations and a bus stop where you will find directions to the path leading up to the Monte Barro Hermitage. You can also reach us by car or by a private shuttle bus service (contact us for an estimate).
On foot: following the 311 trail, which is signposted outside the train station, you either arrive to Camporeso or the nearby climbing area. Both places lead up to the Archaeological Park of Piani di Barra. From there, just follow the road that leads straight up to the Hermitage.
On foot: from the train station, head towards the village of Malgrate Gaggio and then follow the 306 trail, which quickly leads to Pian Sciresa. From there, switch to the 301 trail which brings you to a road that you have to follow for 5-10 minutes in order to reach the Hermitage.
On foot: walk through the city centre past the waterfront of Lecco and across the "Ponte Vecchio" where the 304 trail starts. This path quickly leads to Pian Sciresa from where you connect to the 301 trail, which brings you to a road that you have to follow for 5-10 minutes to reach the Hermitage.
By bus: from the station, bus line D55 leads directly to Galbiate.
On foot: following the Parco Monte Barro signposts, you can reach the Hermitage; in order to do so, check out the trail map of the park, since there are several paths that lead up to it. These include 301, 302, 307 and the main road.
Following SS36 road, exit at Civate-Oggiono-Lecco lake.
Then follow the signs for Galbiete and, from there, follow the directions to the Monte Barro Park. Be careful not to end up at the Park Headquarters. Instead, look out for "Eremo di Monte Barro" and "Eremo Restaurant", following via Balassi until the end of the road.
Following SS36 road, exit at Pescate.
Then follow the signs for Galbiate and, from there, follow the directions to the Monte Barro Park. Be careful not to end up at the Park Headquarters. Instead, look out for "Eremo di Monte Barro" and "Eremo Restaurant", following via Balassi until the end of the road.
Coming from the center, cross the lake from one of the bridges and follow the indications for Galbiate and then for the Hermitage.
Follow the SS671 road, SS342 and then SP177; you can follow the indications to Lecco since you exit from the airport.
Reached Pescate, at the roundabout, take the road going up towards Galbiate, following the signs. Be careful not to end up at the Park Headquarters. Instead, look out for "Eremo di Monte Barro" and "Eremo Restaurant", following via Balassi until the end of the road.
On Sundays and public holidays, usually from Easter to September, the road that goes from Galbiate to the Hermitage is closed to traffic and it is only accessible with a shuttle bus service. Close by, you will find good parking facilities. However, the hostel guests can be granted a special pass to reach by private means the Eremo parking area. In this case, however, please contact the hostel beforehand.


The first iteration of Telize launched on April 20th, 2013. It started as a simple endpoint returning the client IP address in plain text, directly from Nginx, using the third party HTTP Echo module. As there was no application server being involved, latency was very good and people started using it. The current iteration launched on August 21th 2013, and introduced a REST API built on Nginx and Lua allowing to get a visitor IP address and to query location information from any IP address.
The software itself is the result of countless hours of coding and testing, and has been open source since the beginning. I invested a lot of time and money running and managing the instances so everyone could enjoy it for free, and I've been mostly happy doing so for the last two and a half years.
Of course there have been some abuses, such as idiots scanning whole IP ranges (either as an attempt to harm the service or to rebuild a freely available database by iterating on all IPv4 address space), or some companies leaching of a free service and sending some substantial amount of traffic. After all, the API was unrestricted and not rate limited, and I still think to this day that it was easier to add capacity as Telize grew instead of implementing ratios and regulate the service. So for the most part, I didn't mind and I'm happy people put the API to good use.
However, things changed when I discovered Telize was being used by malware and ransomware. Quite frankly, this is something I just can't tolerate. On November 5th I announced the decision to close the public instance with a 10 days notice, effective November 15th. I simply do not have time, energy, nor resources to engage in fighting abuses.
So where do we go from here? Well, Telize is open source, and can be downloaded as tarball releases or on GitHub. The project will keep being maintained and anyone can install and run their own instance, there is no "vendor" lock-in. For those for which the previous option is not possible, there will be a paid version to ease transition. This is the only way to ensure that the service can't be used for nefarious purposes without a trace.
In retrospective, it has been a positive adventure and a nice surprise to see Telize grow steadily to serve more than 130M daily queries and give birth to new ideas. In fact, my very own Logswan was born out of the necessity of processing more than 20GB of logs daily.


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Graduates lured out of capital by other UK cities
UK cities outside of the capital may soon overtake London as the number one destination for graduates. From the movement of economic powers to outside of London, to a better work-life balance, UK cities are becoming more and more attractive to graduates.
Midlands regional chair for KPMG, Mike Steventon says: "The increased vibrancy of cities with improved social and cultural offerings – and the regional devolution debate – are attracting today's graduates. There is a healthier approach now to balancing work and life and that will influence decisions on where to apply.
"We used to fill our vacancies in London first but last year Birmingham filled up first. The quality of work and experience on offer and an easy commute add to the appeal. Deutsche Bank and HSBC are businesses that have moved into the city to tap into the talent pool."
Laura Thurston, who is in charge of KPMG's national entry level recruitment states that candidates do not need a business or economics qualifications:
"We are taking graduates from different backgrounds and are actively looking for half of them with no business or finance experience." This follows the current trend of employers looking for candidates with soft skills such as good communication, presentation and project management expertise.
KPMG has offices across the UK, and are still recruiting in Scotland despite the recent drop in oil prices. Thurston pays particular attention to Aberdeen:
"As a business community Aberdeen has a lot to offer and we want to have a responsive team there and build a long-term strategy."
Nottingham is also popular with graduates with its claim of being a "city of innovative business, vibrant culture and great quality life, all for a fraction of the cost of living and working in the South East." Nottingham is home to a number of "upcoming creative and technology firms" at BioCity and the Creative Quarter, whilst Boots, Experian and Capital One also count the city as their home.
Cities within Yorkshire such as Leeds, Sheffield and York are also attracting more graduates. A number of graduates choose to stay there after graduation, along with many moving to the area from across the UK. Other than London it is the only region to be a "net importer of graduates."
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The webinar is to highlight the City e-Government Diagnostic and Solution (CeDS) toolkit, based on a partnership between the World Bank, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and WeGO. CeDS was developed and designed specifically for cities. Taking holistic factors beyond technology into account, it is a fast and user-friendly diagnostic tool for cities to self-assess the maturity level of their e-Government environment and fill any gaps in their city e-services in a cost-efficient manner.
WeGO has developed the CeDS toolkit online data platform which will be made available on the WeGO website for WeGO members. The webinar will be led by Mr. Frederick Lim, WeGO IT Consultant, accompanied by a City Case Study presentation by WeGO member city, the Ulyanovsk Region, Russia, and will provide a comprehensive "how-to" guide to the CeDS toolkit.
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UK's first drone flight between commercial airports takes off from Cornwall
The pioneering mission between Land's End Airport and the Isles of Scilly could lead to more freight being moved around the UK by drone
William TelfordBusiness Editor, Plymouth Live
Charles Tavner, executive chairman of Flylogix, and Stuart Reid, chief executive of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, with the drone
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A pioneering drone delivery flight has paved the way for a new lifeline connection with the idyllic yet remote Isles of Scilly - and opened up the prospect of drone operations between airports across the UK.
The successful return flight from Land's End Airport, in West Cornwall, to St Mary's Airport on the Isles of Scilly was the first freight drone flight between two UK commercial airports.
Specially sanctioned by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), it broke new ground in helping to establish rules for drones to operate along an existing and well-used commercial air corridor, across two Air Traffic Control areas.
While only 30 miles in distance each way, the flight took the unmanned aircraft over some of the UK's most rugged scenery and over the Atlantic, carrying an NHS supply box on the outward leg, and returning with a selection of produce from the islands, including flowers and artisan gin.
The UAV 'drone' takes off from Land's End Airport
The project is a collaboration between the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, which for more than 100 years has provided transportation to the islands, and Hampshire-based UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) company Flylogix, experts in full-service over horizon operations.
They have entered a two-year partnership to develop with the local community what could be the UK's first scheduled freight delivery service by drone, including plans to develop a larger, purpose-built UAV to meet islanders' needs. The project is being supported by Cornwall Development Company's AeroSpace Cornwall programme.
The Isles of Scilly have a population of about 2,200 people who rely entirely on air and sea links for supplies. Tourism accounts for about 85% of the economy, with 100,000 visitors every year, lured by the islands' natural environment, mild climate and relaxed pace of life.
Stuart Reid, chief executive of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company, which owns Land's End Airport, said: "When a group of islanders formed the Steamship Company all those years ago they scarcely could have imagined today's amazing milestone, delivering goods using an unmanned aircraft.
"We've shown a drone freight service is not only technically feasible but that there is demand for its potential to deliver time-sensitive and high value items for the island community, using aircraft that have 98% fewer emission than a manned equivalent."
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There are now plans to introduce a daily drone freight service between the mainland and Scilly next summer for a three-month trial period, and work towards a full commercial operation using a bespoke freight UAV within two years.
Charles Tavner, executive chairman of Flylogix, said: "This is a very significant test flight because it paves the way for us to work with the community on Scilly towards a scheduled commercial drone service and breaks new ground in the UK for the integration of unmanned aircraft with manned commercial flights.
"Truly valuable services must be informed by what a community really needs so we are delighted to partner with the Steamship Company to build this new service together."
The move has been welcomed by the Council of the Isles of Scilly, whose chairman, Cllr Robert Francis said: "This has the potential to be an important additional delivery option, particularly for urgent or time-sensitive payloads such as medical tests or machine parts. It could also improve resilience for our remote island community during the winter months or periods of bad weather."
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James Fairbairn, business development manager at AeroSpace Cornwall, added: "AeroSpace Cornwall offers funding to businesses working in UAV technology development, and are delighted to have contributed £10,000 funding to make the first UAV flight from Land's End Airport happen. Even better to watch it in action, pioneering a new freight service by drone."
For its return flight the drone was packed with a variety of produce from the Isles of Scilly including flowers, gin, clothing and hand sanitiser. Businesses on Scilly have welcomed the prospect of a commercial drone service.
SC Dogs is the first and only rum distillery on the Isles of Scilly, based on the island of St Martin's, and run by Andrew Walder and his family.
The company distils rum and vodka and its SC Dogs White Rum first went on sale this year. It also produces hand sanitiser as a by-product and a bottle was flown on the UAV.
Mr Walder said: "The drone trial has the potential to unlock a true next-day delivery service for SC Dogs, whether that's for spare parts, fresh yeast deliveries or shipping our precious products away from the islands.
"With a service that will potentially be less affected by weather issues than other means of transport, this link could greatly benefit our island community especially when it comes to water sample testing, medical deliveries and other vital supplies."
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Scilly Spirit Distillery, also took part in the trial flight. Owned by husband-and-wife team, Arthur and Hilary Miller, the distillery opened on St. Mary's in May last year and its signature product, Island Gin, has already won several international awards.
Mr Miller said: "This is an important initiative for us all here on the Isles of Scilly, as it opens up the opportunity for an additional service to fulfil the freight needs of the islands, especially when urgent or swift movement of items are needed for the benefit of the community and the many artisan island businesses here."
The 49° Clothing Company has also welcomed the potential of unmanned aircraft delivering goods to and from the islands. Partner Georgia May, whose family has run the business since 1973, said: "I can really see the potential, not just for our business, but for other businesses on the islands, as well as critical local services."
Scilly Flowers, based at Churchtown Farm on St. Martin's, was also part trial. The business has been sending scented flowers from the Isles of Scilly to people across the UK for nearly 30 years. It sends 90,000 gift boxes filled with flowers, via first class post, each year.
Zoë Julian, partner at Scilly Flowers, said: "It's still early days for this technology, but it's an interesting innovation that could potentially revolutionise the way our flowers reach the mainland. We have changed our packaging so our flowers now come wrapped in paper rather than single use plastic sleeves and using drones to transport them to the mainland could move us further along in our ambition to be as sustainable as possible."
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Lego always is good at our house! I am intrigued by the Penpal set, I may have to get that for my eldest. Thanks Chris.
You have so many great ideas like Taryn and Playmation!