Nicola woke up with her face stuck to the cheap plastic keyboard of her work PC. She rubbed her cheek to get rid of the indentations, but knew from experience it would take a while to return to normal.
The monitor in front of her stopped playing its screensaver, revealing a too-white document that was a mess of m's and 8's and 'hn's.
Still, at least she'd saved her story this time.
The digital clock in the corner of the screen told her it was 5.45am. She had still been writing at 2.30, so couldn't have been out for long. The muscles in her neck suggested otherwise, though.
Grimacing in pain she stretched her arms above her head, and rooted around in the drawer beside her for a cigarette. She was supposed to be giving up, in theory. But all smokers said that, didn't they. To save the lecture they'd get from non-smokers if they explained that actually they'd rather die young than listen to any more shite about the shape their lungs were probably in. Didn't mean they were actually going to do it. And anyway, she'd had a rough month.
She thought about the last time she'd seen him. It was only a few nights back, actually, but it felt like forever. Time had been moving pretty slowly since then.
She regarded him, impassive, for a long while. Then she threw the toaster at his head.
She missed, as she had intended (she was an excellent shot), but Finn had turned white as a sheet, in fear or anger or both.
Then she'd walked out of the house they shared (rented not bought, two up two down, beige and modern and uninteresting), and she hadn't been back there since.
God knew Nic wished there was enough to do on the Chronicle that meant she'd be able to put in the hours to escape from her personal life, but there just wasn't enough news in this area. There were only so many jumble sales and ploughing competitions that you could hold in one week.
And when anything newsworthy happened (which it did – there was a surprising amount of nasty crime for such a small place) they weren't allowed to report on it until it had been through the courts first.
At first she'd thought he was kidding, but a swift conversation with Alan Kilpatrick, the photographer, had put her right.
So she went from covering news stories to non-stories, all to save a relationship that was on its last legs anyway. The minute they'd got here Finn had got back in touch with his high school sweetheart, and now it was Nic who was on the receiving end of phone calls claiming that he had to work on that night, that he was sorry and would make it up to her.
The main difference was that whilst back in London Nic had genuinely been working, up here in bonny Scotland Finn had been shagging Marie in the stationery cupboard.
Simpering, bosomy Marie Aitken – Nic had known what she was about as soon as she met the woman. She shouldn't have trusted that Finn was too sensible to be taken in, shouldn't have assumed that he had done the breaking up the first time around on the grounds that the woman was an idiot. She'd since discovered from the local GPs secretary, who worked in the building next to the paper, that Marie had chucked Finn, and he'd moved away heartbroken. Not only that, she had regretted it instantly.
If she was being honest, Nic had to concede that she hadn't been the most fun since they had moved up here to start their new life together. In fact, she'd spent most of the time moaning about how boring the place was and how everyone was inbred. Given Finn had grown up here, it was probably a little insensitive, although frankly they were. Cousins marrying cousins may be legal, but Nic found it a little bit… ick.
Then there was the real bone of contention between them, the unspoken argument that was always going on under the surface. She knew he wanted kids, which she did too, one day. Just not now. She wanted to be herself for a while first, and there was no need to rush into anything like that, she told herself. Thirty-two was too young for all that stuff, especially these days.
Finn disagreed. He thought thirty-two was a great age to start all that – they'd been together four years as a young couple in the big city, worked hard to build up their careers and played hard whilst there were no dependents or responsibilities. If they didn't start now, then when? "Your biological clock is ticking," he'd told her once, in a ridiculous role reversal that had left her unsure whether to laugh or punch him.
When she had eventually agreed to move to Scotland, she knew she was implying that she was ready to think about it. But since they'd arrived, she had shied away from it every time he tried to broach the topic. Whenever Finn started on about procreation, Nic suddenly decided it was time to unpack some more of their boxes (that had lain untouched for six months) or to discuss how they were going to redecorate the kitchen. Like he wasn't going to notice what was going on.
No wonder he gave up and went back to Booby McChildhood-Memories, she thought gloomily. Marie'd do him every which way at any time of night or day. She was probably trying to get pregnant by him. Slag.
Nic lit a second cigarette – or was it a third? – it was hard to tell, she was too tired. She moved in the direction of the kitchen to make a cup of the instant coffee that someone had procured from the cost cutters store. It tasted more like Bovril than coffee, but Nic wasn't in the mood to care.
Finn wasn't that great of a catch anyway, she pointed out to herself. He had a receding hairline and a definite paunchiness to his middle that hadn't been there when they had first met. And he was boring, too.
She tried to remember what had attracted her to him in the first place, slightly concerned that it might have been the bumpkin-like innocence that got him worked up over village fetes and thatched houses. Everyone else she knew was so jaded and cynical, at such a young age as well. It was the type of work they did, she knew that – if you wanted to get by you had to develop a hard shell, a dark sense of humour, and you couldn't be prepared to take any crap from anybody.
Finn had a sense of humour, but lacked the shell. He worked as a publishing assistant when they first met, and was now an agent with a bunch of clients who all seemed to specialise in rural poetry and non-fiction books about agriculture. She had interviewed a couple of them for the paper and found them so dull she thought surely someone would notice and send in a letter of complaint.
Presumably Marie found them fascinating, or at least didn't fall asleep when he started talking about them. She must be related to some, everyone was related to everyone else around here except for Nic. And that was hardly her fault, was it, that she'd grown up somewhere that actually had a gene pool. And anyway, she'd only fallen asleep when Finn talked about work a couple of times, which wasn't that bad a ratio given the subject matter. Hadn't gone down well, though. Which she supposed was fair enough really. She'd be furious if he'd done it back.
Nic thought that her main issue with all this was really that she had always thought that if either of them would go off with someone else, it would be her. Affairs were something of an occupational hazard in her line of work. Affairs and alcoholism. She glanced at the empty gin bottle on the worktop.
She hadn't had all of it last night, to be fair.
The kettle squealed angrily. The cleaner would be in soon, with her knowing stare. Nic didn't really want to deal with other people's sympathy at the moment.
She had briefly considered going back to London, starting over again, but a contrary part of her really wanted to stick around and make a show of being happy on her own, in hope of annoying Finn and Marie. It wouldn't work on him, in all likelihood. But it might get to her.
As the office door clicked open, she realised she'd been stirring the tar-like liquid in front of her for about ten minutes, staring at it without really seeing. It steamed at her reproachfully. She'd never been a morning person, but the dull thud of the hangover behind her eyes wasn't helping. And soon the gin munchies would set in. She wondered if the baker's was open yet.
"Things still not so good at home, hen?" Morag or Maureen asked sympathetically.
Nic didn't reply. She was not the type of woman to wear her heart on her sleeve, or even to discuss her problems with her close friends, never mind with perfect strangers. Not that she had any close friends up here – they were all in London. All two of them.
Nic snorted unattractively, wondering the last time anyone had referred to Finn as a laddie. He looked ridiculously middle aged to her, with the unkempt ginger beard and the bald patches and the tweedy jackets with leather elbow patches.
"So what are the big stories of the day?" Maureen or Morag asked, apparently incapable of being in a room with someone else and not talking even when the other party remained aggressively silent. Nic searched the drawers for headache remedies. She found only empty packaging.
Nic shrugged. She didn't really like her boss too much. He had some pretty old fashioned ideas about the paper, about women journalists, and about life in general. He was a relic in many ways, a throwback to a forgotten age. Even Alan was more up to date than he was.
Maureen or Morag nodded again as if that shrug had confirmed all her suspicions, and switched on the hoover. It sounded like a bomb going off in Nic's sensitive ears.
She mumbled excuses and left the office, clutching the bannister as she made her way down the spiral staircase. Her depth perception was all over the place, thought whether this was because of the lack of sleep or the fact one of her contact lenses had slipped around the back of her eye she couldn't be sure.
The road outside was quiet still. It was too early for the school rush, which was the busiest time of day. Nobody who lived here seemed to work here, they all commuted to the larger cities nearby, so there was no dull roar of traffic for her aching head to contend with.
She shuffled around the corner to the bakery, but the shutters were still drawn. Some kids had scrawled graffiti on it. Nic considered mentioning this to the editor for a piece, it was low key enough for him… but then again it might be a bit too much of a bone of contention for local people to actually highlight in print. Best wait for someone to submit a letter, that was the safest way to do things.
This was not what she had hoped for when she started out. She was supposed to have paid her dues already. She'd done her time on local papers; making tea and coffee for the whole of the office, standing around in the snow and the cold doing vox pops with idiot members of the public who had nothing to say… she'd worked her way up, dammit. And now here she was in a backwater town under an archaic, misogynistic editor who kept accusing her of being a lesbian.
She rattled the shutter half-heartedly.
Unsurprisingly there was no response. The old guy was probably still pottering about in his kitchen at home.
A paperboy whizzed past on a shiny new bike, pushing a gust of cold air at her that lifted her hair off her face for a moment and stung her eyes. He wasn't wearing his fluorescent vest, she thought vaguely, that must be against the rules. Someone should tell his boss, or his mother, before he got knocked off the bike and became third page news (after the funeral had already passed).
She contemplated the newsagents on the corner, where the boy had probably come for with his aging brown satchel of dailies. They'd be good for a bag of crisps and more fags. And the cleaner would probably be done by now, which meant it was safe to go back and start pretending to wade through jam making competitions and PTA minutes.
Nic wondered if this was what her life was going to be like from now on, and felt her stomach cramp at the thought.


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Gandhi & the Police: An Opportunity for Learning
Police are the guardians of society, says Mandar Apte, with a unique opportunity to lead the way forward
By Crawford Coates | Aug 1, 2018
Stress is the occupational hazard of first response. It's not just the sudden acute onset stress of critical incidents. There is moreover the chronic stress of shift work and a lack of support from some communities, politicians, and police brass. "Death by a thousand cuts," is how psychologist Ellen Kirschman describes it.
Stress—acute and chronic—kills. It kills performance, morale, and innovation, and, quite literally, it kills you dead. It's associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, among other ills. And it's particularly hard on cops.
"It's evident that coordinating law and order in a democratic society is tough. Cops are always stuck in the middle," John M. Violanti, an epidemiologist and professor of environmental health at the University of Buffalo says. "We're between the public and the politicians. It's an unenviable position to be in, and there's a lot of stress and a lack of appreciation of what they go through. The sacrifice to family life, the stuff they have to see and deal with—the public doesn't sufficiently appreciate this. All these things add together and affect the psyche of officers."
What's a cop to do?
You might have noticed that Calibre Press has been publishing quite a lot on wellness, mindfulness, and meditation lately. That's because there have been multiple scientific studies and a plethora of anecdotal reports suggest this stuff helps reduce the stress, builds mental toughness, drives innovation, and improves peak performance.
It's what my friend Mandar Apte calls "mental hygiene."
Mandar Who?
Mandar spent 17 years with Shell Oil. For approximately his first half of his career he worked as a petroleum engineer. "Working at Shell, particularly in the beginning, was not the healthiest for me. I was traveling constantly, eating poorly, not getting enough sleep or exercise. I wanted to find a way to improve my health and wellbeing that did not have any negative side effects. I just didn't want to take pills. So I learned how to meditate and do yoga. In a few years, I also became a meditation teacher myself."
For his final 10 years with Shell, Mandar managed its incubator and social investment arm, GameChanger, where he invested in companies that create shared value—both social impact as well as make financial returns for Shell.During his time in GameChanger, he also created a unique leadership program to improve the culture of innovation at Shell using meditation practice where he taught over 2,000 Shell colleagues to meditate. He became increasingly inspired to spread the "technology" of meditation practice. So inspired by its transformative power, Mandar has recently moved to Los Angeles to make a documentary film about working with those under undue stress—foremost among them members of the Los Angeles Police Department as well as former gang members.
"For me, police officers are the guardians of our society," he says. "and this is why I have concentrated my efforts on police executives. Given the senseless violence in our country, including suicides, drug overdose and school shootings, we need to promote compassion and nonviolence. Police are always called in to help following any such terrible situation, and also become affected by the violence. It is my belief that every police officer in the country has the opportunity to lead the way with compassion and help to heal our nation."
Thus far, Mandar has led meditation based mindful policing workshops for police officers in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, and Los Angeles. Now he wants to make a broader impact.
Pigrimage To India
Central to his mission is the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose 1959 pilgrimage to India further impressed upon him the importance of nonviolence in the Civil Rights movement. Dr. King spoke during his visit to India, "In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation."
Mandar believes that America is currently in a place now where Gandhian principles of compassion and nonviolence are once again imperative. "Our country is in pain. When schools begin again next month, parents and educators may wonder, 'Could it happen in my child's school?' This is every parent's worst nightmare. So instead of waiting for an act of violence, to show our compassion, we need to proactively bring tools and wisdom that can improve mental health, wellness and happiness in our society."
To this end, Mandar and his team have been hosting delegations of victims of violence (such as parents from Sandy Hook), former gang members, and, in particular, Mayors and police executives to India to learn the nonviolence teachings of Gandhi. His team is now offering US law enforcement personnel a discounted price of $2,000 (including international airfare and all associated expenses food, accommodation, etc.) to participate in the upcoming World Summit on Countering Violence and Extremism, which runs from Sept. 28 – Oct. 3. The summit convenes mayors, policy makers, victims of violence, and police executives from across the world. It will also include a visit with the Mumbai police.
Cops are skeptical people. "You would be too," my friend Chuck Humes says, "if you got lied to for a living." But that's not to say they are without compassion. Revitalizing that compassion, sharing ideas to heal and transform and create a collaboration network of the guardians of the galaxy — these are Mandar's aims from the Summit.
"Nobody asked Steve Jobs to develop the iPhone," says Mandar. "But this is what true leaders do. They give the world what it doesn't know it needs. Who would ever think that police could be leaders in promoting compassion and nonviolence? Yet I believe this is precisely what they are poised to do." says Mandar Apte.
For more information on Mandar and his summit, please visit links below.
About the Nonviolence Summit in India: www.nonviolencesummit.org
About From India With Love: www.fromindiawithlove.org
About Mandar: www.mandar-apte.com
Crawford Coates is the author of Mindful Responder: The First Responder's Field Guide to Improved Resilience, Fulfillment, Presence, & Fitness--On & Off the Job and the publisher at Calibre Press.
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Recently, China Central Television (CCTV), China's state-run broadcaster, accused Bank of China (BOC) of money laundering by helping wealthy Chinese send their money offshore (the service is named "Youhuitong"). The following day, China CITIC Bank emerged as the second national bank implicated in offering to illegally transfer money overseas. Both banks decried the money laundering accusation, indicating that the investigation contains "discrepancies" and was "biased." This news launched extensive discussion and captured the focused attention of EB-5 investors. Two major points are causing concern among the investors.
Will I-526 applications be declined if Youhuitong transfers investors' money?
Investors are concerned that if they use Youhuitong to transfer their EB-5 investment capital, that the money laundering investigation will affect the USCIS approval process for the I-526. The USCIS requires two personal fund documents for EB-5 investments: Source of Fund and Path of Fund. The Path of Fund document provides evidence of money transfer. China controls the amount of money one can exchange into foreign currency; one citizen can exchange only US $50,000 worth of foreign currency per year. The traditional way to transfer money is to have friends or exchange facilitators perform the currency exchange in the amount of $50,000 per person, which has not been prohibited by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Another method is through underground banking in Hong Kong. Both methods have not been questioned by either the Chinese authorities or by the USCIS. Youhuiting gives the green lights to Chinese EB-5 investors. It follows the market trend and was launched by one of the big four banks in China.
Will the EB-5 market be cooling down?
There are two different opinions on this topic. One opinion is that China encourages overseas investments and that Renminbi(RMB) going abroad and overseas investments are inexorable trends. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange of China supports this "walk out" strategy. Youhuitong-type services offer to transfer large sums of money into foreign exchange in one step. While it may seem that Youhuitong-type services broke the foreign exchange rules, licenses for these type of services were issued to BOC in late 2011 and to CITIC Bank in late 2012 by the Guangzhou branch of the People's Bank of China. In fact, "BOC and CITIC Bank are not the only banks providing these kinds of services. All major banks do. "It's an open secret,"claimed an employee of a major state bank.This is a sign of relaxed restrictions in foreign exchange rules.
In EB-5 supermarket's opinion, the cross-border Renminbi business is rapidly growing due to the developments of a global market and the internationalization of RMB. The State of Administration of Foreign Exchange tries to improve overseas investments and foreign exchange within allowable capital amounts. We anticipate that the EB-5 market will open up to the more "average" people seeking legal immigration investment options. EB-5 supermarket continues to study the Chinese market and policies in depth and will track the latest news of these on-going changes.
John Li is the managing director of the China-based EB-5 info website eb5supermarket.com (or yiminchaoshi.com). The website is a direct connection and gateway between the U.S. EB-5 project principals, immigration attorneys, EB-5 professionals and the Chinese investors in China and around the world. eb5supermarket.com has been awarded as the Best EB-5 Media of Year 2011, http://www.yiminchaoshi.com/lianxiwomen.


I've been using Anki for a couple of years and it's great. It's a flashcard software - basically a tool for memorizing things. If you're not familiar with it, Gwern has an introduction and Robb Seaton has some helpful tips.
For a long time, I thought Anki was cool, but I didn't really know how to use it. I wasn't actively studying any foreign languages or anything like that. The topics (like mathematics) I was learning about didn't seem to be that amenable for memorizing. It took me a while, but I've now figured out a way that works for me, and it applies to almost any topic.
Whenever I need to look something up twice, I add it to Anki. For example, English is not my native language, so I often look up definitions of English words in a dictionary. If I look up a word twice in a short period of time, I add it and its Finnish definition to Anki. If a word strikes me as especially important, I might add it already on the first lookup. Now my deck has cards for words like flaccid, amygdala, and pithy (that's a hard one, I always mix it up with pitiful).
I've had success with memorizing mathematical identities as well. After years of struggling to remember the formula for the limit of a geometric series, I finally added it to Anki and now I remember it. I have some more abstract mathematical cards, too. I had to think it through a couple of times recently, so now added a card "What's the relationship between Borel sets and the Lebesgue measure?" to my deck (answer: "Borel sets are Lebesgue measurable but not vice versa").
People sometimes oppose memorizing because you can just look things up when needed, especially now that we have Internet, or derive them when it comes to mathematics. You can't always look up or derive everything, though. First, it takes too much time, and second, it's easier to look things up when you already know something related to them.
I figure that if I need to look up something repeatedly, I might as well add it to the base of condensed knowledge in my head.


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Just 100 years ago, when English mathematician and astronomer Arthur Eddington suggested that the stars power themselves through a process of merging atoms to create energy, heat, and light, the idea was an unthinkable novelty. Now, in 2021, we're getting remarkably close to recreating the process of nuclear fusion here on Earth. Over the last century, scientists have been steadily chasing commercial nuclear fusion, 'the holy grail of clean energy.' The first direct demonstration of fusion in a lab took place just 12 years after it was conceptualized, at Cambridge University in 1932, followed by the world's first attempt to build a fusion reactor in 1938. In 1950, Soviet scientists Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm propelled the pursuit forward with their development of the tokamak, a fusion device involving massive magnets which is still at the heart of many major fusion pursuits today, including the world's biggest nuclear fusion experiment ITER.
Since that breakthrough, scientists have been getting closer and closer to achieving nuclear fusion. While fusion has indeed been achieved in labs throughout this timeline, it has always required far more energy than it emits, defeating the purpose of the commercial fusion initiative. If unlocked, commercial nuclear fusion would change life as we know it. It would provide an infinite source of clean energy requiring no fossil fuels and leaving behind no hazardous waste products.
Nuclear fission, the process which powers all of our nuclear energy production now, requires the use of radioactive isotopes to achieve the splitting of atoms, and leaves behind waste products which remain hazardous to human and ecological health for up to tens of thousands of years. Not only does nuclear fusion leave nothing behind, it is many times more powerful. Yet, it has remained elusive despite decades of attempts and considerable investment and collaboration from both public and private entities around the world.
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But just this month there was an incredible breakthrough that may indicate that we are getting close. "For an almost imperceptible fraction of a second on Aug. 8, massive lasers at a government facility in Northern California re-created the power of the sun in a tiny hot spot no wider than a human hair," CNET reported in August. This breakthrough occurred at the National Ignition Facility, where scientists used lasers to set off a fusion reaction that emitted a stunning 10 quadrillion watts of power. Although the experiment lasted for just 100 trillionths of a second, the amount of energy it produced was equal to about "6% of the total energy of all the sunshine striking Earth's surface at any given moment."
Even more importantly than the stunning power of the reaction, however, was the fact that scientists observed that this hotspot was able to " ignite a self-sustaining chain reaction." This means that the fusion caused by the lasers was able to cause additional fusion reactions in a continuous chain of energy production, a breakthrough that lies at the heart of commercially successful nuclear fusion. While this experiment still was unable to produce more energy than went into its production, it marks a monumentally important milestone in the journey to finally creating net energy with human-created nuclear fusion.
"This phenomenal breakthrough brings us tantalizingly close to a demonstration of 'net energy gain' from fusion reactions -- just when the planet needs it," said Arthur Turrell, physicist and nuclear fusion expert. What's more, scientists and experts are hopeful that the rate of fusion breakthroughs will continue to speed up, and commercial nuclear fusion could be achieved sooner than ever seemed possible before. At a time when it has never been more important or more urgent to find a powerful and affordable means of producing clean energy, commercial nuclear fusion can't come fast enough.
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Jonathan Flesher on August 25 2021 said:
Go go go! We can do it! Fusion is the answer!


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Q: jQuery - switching DIVs based on radio selection What is the best way to go about switching divs depending on the radio selection? I'd like it to do a switch if any radios are already selected at the start and hide all divs if no selection.
My current code only does switches on change (using input id as class name of id currently, if any better methods please do say so)
$(function () {
    var shippDescriptions = $('div#shipping_descs > div');

    shippDescriptions.hide();

    $('input[type=radio]', '#shipping_inputs').change(function () {
        shippDescriptions.hide().filter('.' + $(this).attr('id')).show();
    });
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What is the best approach? Extract and set the code in the change() to something and run it twice?
Also, this won't hide the divs until the page is loaded correct?

A: Check the below approach, It has 1 restriction that the value of the radio options and the div id of the each shipping desc has a relation. but I believe it shouldn't be a problem.
Also I prefer hiding all the desc in html/css so that it doesn't show onload.

        <input type="radio" value="1" name="r1" />S1
        <input type="radio" value="2" name="r1" />S2
        <input type="radio" value="3" name="r1" checked="checked" />S3
        <input type="radio" value="4" name="r1" />S4
        <input type="radio" value="5" name="r1" />S5

S1 Desc

S2 Desc

S3 Desc

S4 D esc

S5 Desc

A: Your correct once the page loads it will hide the div. Depending on the client computer you "shouldn't" see the image on page load. it may be better to include display:none in your CSS for the divs if you are concerned about it being visible.
As for your switching question you will need to set it twice

$(function () {
    var shippDescriptions = $('div#shipping_descs > div');
    shippDescriptions.each(function(){
       if ($(this).attr('class') == $('input[type="radio"]:checked').attr('id'))
           $(this).show().siblings().hide();
    });
    $('input[type=radio]', '#shipping_inputs').change(function () {
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    });

Should be a good start to getting it working

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Yes, for me too in Southeast Asia it always chooses China which due to the national firewall is super slow always. The logic should be to only choose China mirrors from within China, otherwise ignore it.
You aren't the only one. I get the same Chinese mirror in Australia and it is terrible. It taught me that wget has a default retry limit of 20 times!
The online installer and the browser download are not useable in Australia, even on a fibre connection. Download the offline installer and either use wget with infinite retries (it'll keep picking up where it left from, thankfully), or click on the "info" link on the Qt website to download from a different mirror, or use aria2c<http://aria2.sourceforge.net/> which can download from many mirrors at once and will download it in a reasonable time.
I've already written to the Contact form on the Qt project on the website about this, but I have not had any reply yet.


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Q: What does " 'Nation " stand for in this context? I was reading the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. In Chapter 2, there are sentences like:

"I hope there ain't, but can't make so 'Nation sure of that," said the guard, in gruff soliloquy. "Hallo you!"

I don't know what that apostrophe in the word 'Nation stands for. I searched for it on the Internet and in dictionaries, but could not discover the answer. Or is this just a printing error? (In China, Google is banned, so the only PDF I can find is the Project Gutenberg edition, which has the same text in this spot.)
Can anybody help me with this?

A: The apostrophe is present because 'Nation is a short form of damnation (Dictonary.com), used in the sense of

interjection
  5. (used in exclamatory phrases to express anger, disappointment, etc.)

In your example sentence it is used as an intensifier, to mean but can't make so absolutely, certainly sure of that.

A: The apostrophe does not seem to be a mistake. Every single hit that google returns has the apostrophe.
However, the capital N, although in (almost) every result from Dickens, does not seem to be necessary. There are precious little other occurrences of this phrase, but this New-Zealand paper from 29 June 1872 seems to ascertain that the expression fits in a Suffolk dialect:

Poaching v. Preaching. — Rector : "Good Morning Mr. Catchpole ! I'm Sorry that I See you now so seldom at our Service !" — Gamekeeper (Suffolk) : "Well, Sir, all I can Shay is, if the N'ghbours knowed as I were rig lar at the Chu'ch, you'd be 'nation sure to Lewse pretty nigh Half yar Congregation !"

(I tried to copy the original text as faithfully as possible, bold mine).
As to the meaning, 'nation just seems to mean very, as in you can be very sure, although I cannot find many instances of it being used...

As others suggest, it may well be an alternative shortening of damnation.
Etymonline shows that damnation was used as imprecation (spoken curse) from the 16th century.
For damn, the same source mentions that the explitive is from the 14th century.
Based on that, it seems the verb damn lead to the now still common expletive, but that at least for some time, the form (dam)nation was used instead, or next to it, similar in meaning, which, in print, may be explained by this (same source):

Damn and its derivatives generally were avoided in print from 18c. to c.1930s

So if Dickens wanted to avoid damn, chances were, 'Nation would be well-understood and serve the same purpose. :)

A: How about this:

Damnation [...] 3. In profane use: [...] b. as adj. or adv. = 'Damned'.

Their first example is from 1757:

"The wit with metaphors makes bold, And tells you he's damnation cold."

There are two more examples: Damn'd old puns over damnation hot tea in Cambridge (1772), and a damned Frenchman with his damnation horse (1843).
(Source: OED)
PS: In these three examples, damnation clearly was chosen instead of damn for somewhat technical reasons: In the first so that the line scans, and in the other two for variety. In Dickens' case I can see no such reason.
At first I found oerkelens' hypothesis convincing: avoiding censorship through creative abbreviation of a less commonly used variant. But the same chapter also has this: "So, then One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you [...]". Incidentally, we can see another instance of unusual (to us) capitalisation here - again on a word that's likely to be emphasised.

A: Quite simply it is damnnation,
and I am going to suggest the capital N is simply a typo that has persisted in many versions of the book.
It's the only explanation.


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West Maui cheerleaders take second at national contest
West Maui Cheer finished second in their age division at the 2014 Jamz Nationals in Las Vegas.
LAHAINA – West Maui Cheer, an all-star cheerleading team trained by Sue Martin, recently placed second in the 2014 Jamz Nationals in Las Vegas.
Thirteen young ladies from the West Side trained hard for six months to prepare for the two-day competition that featured 295 teams and more than 3,000 participants vying for their shot at a national title.
WMC, which trains at Lahaina Crossfit gym, upped their effort to be at their best by incorporating additional practices in the Warrior Elite All-Star gym in Wailuku.
Cyn Los Banos, head coach of WEA, worked double time and co-coached the WMC girls to help them polish their skills in the last two months of preparation.
"It was the dynamic duo team of coaches who brought the team to their peak," acknowledged Coach Sue.
One of the highlights, aside from winning a surprise second, was the appearance of Coach Cyn, who flew to Vegas to support the girls.
"This definitely switched the girls into the right frame of mind to bring on their 'A' game mode, which impressed the judges and audience," Martin said.
West Maui Cheer is the only team on Maui that trains young girls at Level II. The Lahaina-based team entered in the Mini Division (eight years and younger by the season opener).
Twenty Mini teams competed at the national event, but most were in the Level I category.
The skills of the West Maui girls allowed them to be entered as a Level II team – the highest allowable for that age division.
This year will be the last for Coach Sue. After 30 years of coaching, it is time to retire, she said.


Update: Sorry guys, I found someone to take the spot. Good luck to all of you who are still looking.
"Those who party are not lost."
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you still got a spot?
Trying to figure out how to get my lady friend on the boat.
Last edited by Fubu on Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I'm needing a room! I'm a 45 yr old female, went last year & want to go again!!
Also a clean, tidy, safe & responsible person! Had a blast & don't want to miss it!
FUBU is a vouched-for good guy!
Let me rephrase. An r.o. Is looking for a spot for a friend right now and is ready to jump on it. I have notified that person to contact you. Your room- mate would be largely invisible and probably stay somewhere else.
Just wanted to pass it along that I have an extra spot in a 2 room cabin w/a view. Had such fun last year...this will be my 2nd JC.
Looking for a female yet open to the right person. Right back if interested.
A friend of mine is interested in your extra bed. She's a super chill, single, 28 year old female from Seattle and this will be her 1st time on the boat. In reality she probably won't be spending a lot of time in the room, she just really wants on the boat! She'll be getting of work this evening around 6:30 and will be ready to purchase the ticket any time after that. PM me if this sounds line it might work and we can exchanges phone numbers.


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Chinese models He Sui and Xi Mengyao walked down the sparkling runway at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in London on Tuesday.
This is the first time US-based retailer Victoria's Secret has held its famously skin-bearing fashion show in London. More than 40 models strutted down the catwalk showing some of the brand's latest in unwearable underwear, according to the Telegraph.
Liu Wen, the fifth highest-paid model in the world, was the first Chinese as well as Asian model to walk the catwalk for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2009. He Sui followed her footsteps to become the second Chinese model to do so.
Xi Mengyao (or Ming Xi) has been featured in number of ads for prominent luxury brands including Givenchy, Diane Von Furstenberg, Christian Dior, Vivienne Westwood and Alexander Wang. Chinese netizens, however, have taken to fashion forums to trash the model for her quirky look.
China's models have become more and more prevalent in the international scene since Du Juan from Shanghai gained international recognition for her appearance on the cover of Vogue China's first issue.
Previously on Shanghaiist: Photos: Students put on Victoria's Secret-style lingerie show in Chengdu.


We're back to long form (around 50 minutes) this week with Episode 103 featuring the wonderful Tina Cardone of Drawing on Math. You can either download the podcast directly or subscribe to Infinite Tangents on iTunes. Below are some links to things discussed in the Podcast. Don't forget to reply to Tina's question in the comments and send in your response to this weeks' prompt before next Thursday!
Tina's Question for You: What sort of online resources are you looking for and what would make the current online resources more widely accessible?
Prompt for next week: What do you do during lunch?
Feedback is always appreciated and can be given using the 'feedback' link on the right hand side of the blog.
Many thanks to Daniel for being a willing subject for this one. He's amazing fun to chat with and is making a great practice for himself. Check out his blog (though I suspect you already have).
Prompt for next week: How do you start your teaching day?
To submit a response for the prompt, find a mic (usb ones work great!) and record your response in a quiet place. Don't forget to include who/where you are (your choice on how detailed you are here) and if you could keep your response to the prompt around 30 seconds, it would be much appreciated. Mp3, Aud, and Wav formats are preferred for recording but if you record using something else just ask. Prompts can be sent to my email (ashli (dot) black (at) gmail (dot) com).
As mentioned in the podcast, I'll be switching up formats so next week is focused on news and info in the edutwitterblogosphere (Greader is going away?!) and responses to the promt above. And maybe other things. The podcast is young, and I am so changeable.
pps Don't forget to answer Daniel's question in the comments below!
I am happy to announce that next Thursday, March 14th, 2013, a.k.a. Pi Day, will be the official launch of the Infinite Tangents Podcast!
In preparation for the launch, I've created a short introduction to the podcast covering its host, its goals, and how you can help. You listen to the intro here.
As mentioned in the podcast, there are a few ways you can help out to make Infinite Tangents worth listening to.
1. Drop me a line in the comments or DM me on twitter (@mythagon) to let me know who you'd like to hear and why.
2. Get your voice out there by answering one/some/all of the prompts below! Just record yourself in a quiet place saying the question and your response. These are meant to be quick, so responses under 30 seconds are appreciated, though I'm not going to music you off the stage if you're making a great point. Once you've recorded, drop me a line at ashli (dot) black (at) gmail (dot) com. (You'll need to clean that up–trying to avoid the spiders on the internet that send spam.) If the file seems too large to email we can figure out a way to transfer it via dropbox or google drive.
-How do you start your teaching day?
-What do you do during lunch?
-What would you like to get done in the times between classes?
-Do you find yourself only talking about teaching? How do you stop?
-What do you do during your planning time?
-Do you do peer observation or review?
-What are the attributes of an effective teacher you work with?
-How do you reflect on your teaching & what do you see as the benefit of doing so?
-If you could have time with anyone out there in the edu-sphere, who would you choose and why?
Thanks to everyone who has offered their support and suggestions so far, I look forward to hearing your stories.


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Healthcare in Honduras
Healthcare in Honduras is slightly below average in a worldwide comparison.
Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Honduras is 69.1 years for men and 74.0 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 0.8 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).
A total of 187.55 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 7.3 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,115.01 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).
Back to overview: Honduras
Distribution of the corona virus
Spread of COVID-19 in Honduras
Current incidence in the week ending 01/27/2023: 4.2 new infections per 100,000 population
Since the beginning of the pandemic until January 27th, 2023, a total of 470,144 infected people and 11,099 deaths have been reported in Honduras.
The total of 470,144 infected people currently represents 4.7 percent of the total population. The number of new infections during the seven days preceding January 27th, 2023, was 420, for a 7-day incidence of 4.2 cases per 100,000 population. In the same week, one people died from (or with) COVID-19. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, this results in a mortality rate of about 2.4 percent in Honduras.
Current vaccination status
According to official WHO data, a total of 16.91 million vaccine doses have been administered as of January 20th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 6.45 million people who have received at least one vaccination (65.2 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 4.69 million people (47.3 percent).
5.77 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Honduras (= 58.3 percent).
This means that Honduras is only in the middle of the field in terms of vaccination coverage. The vaccination rate is higher in 125 countries.
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we update the worldwide case numbers daily. A list of all infections and deaths by country can be found on our COVID-19 virus topic page.
Weight and size
Body height 169 cm 155 cm
BMI 25.9 27.6
Weight 74.0 kg 66.2 kg
Ø worldwide
Diabetes * 7.30% 8.81%
Tuberculosis 0.33‰ 1.34‰
Malaria 0.0% 5.7%
HIV / Aids 0.01% 0.03%
* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.
Child vaccinations
Measles 81.0% 81.7%
Hepatitis B 0.08% 0.08%
Tetanus 9.9% 0.0%
DTP * 7.70% 8.14%
* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.
In Honduras, 2.0 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.
The number of underweight newborns is 11 percent.
Medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Honduras is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 0.6 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.
With about 3,230 physicians in Honduras, there are about 0.31 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.
Through medical care, the mortality rate of major known diseases can be reduced as far as possible. For example, only about 19 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.
The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Spread of the Corona virus Covid19 (SARS-CoV-2)Worldwide development of the number of cases and deaths due to the corona virus.
Average life expectancy by countryInternational ranking of life expectancy in 121 countries including summary by continents. Explanation of significant factors.
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Wardrobe Place is so-called after the King's Great Wardrobe, which housed the Crown's storage of clothing and arms. It was moved from the Tower of London to Lombard Street in 1311 and then in the 1360s to a house here that Edward III purchased from Sir John Beauchamp. The Wardrobe was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and the buildings in Wardrobe Place today date from the C18th and C19th. It is reached through an archway from Carter Lane, a paved courtyard laid out with a few trees and seats.
A pleasant paved courtyard with 4 trees reached through an archway from Carter Lane, Wardrobe Place is so-called after the King's Great Wardrobe, which housed the Crown's storage of clothing and arms. The Wardrobe was moved from the Tower of London to Lombard Street in 1311 and then in the 1360s to a house here, which was purchased by Edward III from Sir John Beauchamp. The Wardrobe was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666, and a plaque on the site records this. in 1720 Strype observed that 'the Garden of the King's Wardrobe is converted into a large and square court, with good houses'. This subsequently became known as Wardrobe Place. The courtyard has a number of C18th houses including No. 2 built in the early C18th, Nos. 3 and 5 of c.1714 and Wardrobe House in the south, 1881. The east side has the backs of late C19th buildings on Addle Hill. The brickwork of No. 6 has the remnants of a painted sign, 'Snashall & Son. Printers, Stationers and Account Book Manufacturers', indicating the former use of the building.


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History and Geography
Shamanism was the predominant religion before the introduction of Buddhism in the 7th century.� Buddhist missionaries from India came to Tibet and started an alphabet system for the Tibetan language and started translations of Buddhist texts.� During this time Tibet was a strong kingdom but by the 10th century, things began to fall apart with Tibet separating into several principalities.� In 1206, Genghis Khan included Tibet in his empire and in the mid-1600's, the Mongols allowed the Dalai Lama to have political power within Tibet.� This was done after he was named the head of the Gelugpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism in the 15th century.
China came to control Tibet in the 18th century, but they didn't maintain their authority for many years.� In 1911, Tibetan's rebelled and started asserting their authority and independence by trying to get rid of China's officials and military stationed in Tibet.� This was completed by 1913, but a meeting was held with Britain, China and Tibet to come to an agreement regarding Tibet's borders and their status as an independent region.� China never came to an agreement and the situation became tense finally culminating in battle in eastern Tibet in 1918.� The British attempted to settle the dispute with a truce, but they were largely unsuccessful.�
Qamdo (Chamdo) was invaded by Communist Troops not more than a year after their control of mainland China.� This occurred in October 1950, and by May 1951 the Tibetan government conceded to the Chinese and gave up their independence.� They signed a treaty that gave the Dalai Lama (who was 15 at the time) domestic power, but any affairs related to foreign matters or the military was to be deferred to the Chinese government.� Improvements were made to communications in Tibet, as well as improving transportation - military highways and airfields were built in a number of areas in the region.
Thing began heating up around 1956, when a committee was established to plan for Tibet's constitution as an autonomous region of China.� This caused some rebellions in Sichuan province against the Chinese by ethnic Tibetans.� The Dalai Lama was in India at the time and threatened to stay away from Tibet.� When the Chinese government halted the process of transferring Tibet into a socialist region, the Dalai Lama returned, even though the eastern rebellion hadn't been stopped.� Things didn't improve, especially with the US's CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) involvement.� By 1959, with the CIA's help, the rebellion escalated into a revolt in Lhasa that lasted until 1971.� Although it lasted over 10 years, after 1959 it wasn't really considered to be a threat by the Chinese, just an annoyance.� During this time the Dalai Lama went back to India, and the acting head of the region became the Panchen Lama.� Tibetans fled the region in the tens of thousands, with most going to India and others going to Nepal and Bhutan.� Tibet formally became an autonomous region of China in 1965 and was reorganized to become a socialist region.
The Panchen Lama was released from jail in 1978, after serving 14 years for criticizing China's rule over Tibet, and was put back in his former position.� Surprisingly, the Chinese government agreed that Tibet hadn't been managed well and stated they would be making reforms.� Tibetans weren't satisfied with the reforms and showed their distaste by giving violent protests in 1987.� Negotiations failed in 1988 to resolve the conflict when the Dalai Lama wouldn't renounce the independence of Tibet and China wouldn't budge on giving Tibet more autonomy.
1993 brought about more demonstrations with the addition of terrorism and in 1995 things escalated with the selection of a new Panchen Lama.� The Tibetans sent their selections to the Dalai Lama in India, who selected a boy named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, a six-year old.� Not pleased with their authority being overlooked, the Chinese came up with their own candidate another six-year old by the name of Gyaincain Norbu.� Gedhun Choekyi Nyima was held in detention with his family and in 1996 they came down on Tibetan monasteries, which caused the injury and death of some monks.� The drama ended in late 1996 with the government putting the Panchen Lama leader in prison.
Geographically, Tibet can be divided into three major parts, the east, north and south. The eastern part is forest region, occupying approximately one-fourth of the land. Virgin forests run the entire width and length of this part of Tibet.
The northern part is open grassland, where nomads and yak and sheep dwell here. This part occupies approximately half of Tibet.
The southern and central part is agricultural region, occupying about one-fourth of Tibet's land area with all major Tibetan cities and towns such as Lhasa, Shigatse, Gyantse ad Tsetang located in this area, it is considered the cultural center of Tibet.
The total area of the Tibet Autonomous Region is 1,200,000 square kilometers and its population is 1,890,000. The region is administratively divided into one municipality and six prefectures. The municipality is Lhasa, while the six prefectures are Shigatse, Ngari, Lhaoka, Chamdo, Nakchu and Nyingtri(kongpo). The People's Government of the Tibet Autonomous Region exercises the highest administrative authority in Tibet.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has developed an online system to assist in improving the response capabilities of authorities in the event of an emergency caused by natural hazards. The Decision Support System for Nuclear Emergencies Affecting Food and Agriculture (DSS4NAFA), provides a clear overview of radioactive contamination of crops and agricultural lands through improved data management and visualisation, it also assists in decision support processes by suggesting management actions to decision makers. In this interview, we have the pleasure to introduce Ms Amelia Lee Zhi Yi, working at the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture to speak about DSS4NAFA. Nuclear Emergency Response (NER) for food and agriculture – why is that important and what does it entail? In the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency, the response should be swift in the interest of human health. After ensuring the well-being of the population, it is necessary to prioritise the assessment of possible radioactive contamination of crops and agricultural lands to avoid ingestion of radioactivity. Proper data management, data visualisation and risk communication are essential for efficient response to a nuclear emergency. Factors that should be considered for such response include support for sampling and laboratory analysis, optimal allocation of manpower and analytical instruments, and integrated communication between stakeholders. To make well-informed decisions on for instance planting and food restrictions, food safety authorities need to have a good understanding of the radiological conditions after a fallout event. This is accomplished through the collection of environmental samples such as soil and plants, and food products that are then analysed using consistent methods in qualified laboratories. Further, these data should be displayed in an intuitive manner so that authorities will be able to interpret the data under stressful, time-bound conditions. Finally, to reduce confusion and clearly communicate decisions made to the public, standardised communication protocols of the decisions made by policymakers need to be implemented. How can technology assist us in this process? What is DSS4NAFA? Innovative information technology (IT)-based methods can assist in optimising processes in NER. Some examples include streamlining data transfer using cloud-based platforms paired with mobile technologies, facilitating decision making using advanced visualisation tools, and communicating risk to the public using pre-defined correspondence templates. The Decision Support System for Nuclear Emergencies Affecting Food and Agriculture (DSS4NAFA), is a cloud-based IT-DSS tool developed by the Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Laboratory, under the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture. While it was originally developed as a system for nuclear emergency response management and communication, its ability to discern data quality, to provide user-friendly spatio-temporal visualisations for decision makers, and ease in creation of communication materials makes it a good candidate tool for usage in natural hazard risk mitigation. The beta version of DSS4NAFA is planned to be released in August 2018 for testing by volunteer member states. How does DSS4NAFA support public authorities in emergencies? DSS4NAFA contains modules which provide logistical support to decision makers in defining sampling location, sampler allocation and laboratory allocation. It also functions as a powerful visual interpretation tool that brings together multi-dimensional data usually handled to make decisions on planting and food restrictions in a nuclear emergency response situation. Some of the functionalities of the modules are as below: Data management: Standardised data input with pre-determined data entry fields and format Data housed within one server to ensure ease of data analysis All data collected in the field using mobile devices and are sent directly to the server Data visualisation: GIS based visualisation for instinctive understanding of situation on the ground "Logmap" for at-a-glance sampler and laboratory analyses status Comprehensive information, such as current and historical decision actions, intuitively displayed on the Food Restriction Dashboard Logistics and decision support: Sampling assignments proposed based on crop calendar and land use type Food and planting restrictions suggested based on the movable levels set by authorities Public communication module What feedback did you get from real users during the design/development of the DSS? The development of DSS4NAFA was highly iterative and findings from the process were invaluable. Some lessons learned during its development include the necessity for stakeholder involvement during the design process, the usage of a "one-house approach" for centralised data, and the importance of building a tool that is flexible enough to be used during emergency response and routine monitoring operations. The system has generated a lot of interest when shown during several IAEA workshops and conferences such as at EGU, indicating the need for this type of system. What do you think will be the main challenges in the application of the DSS4NAFA? Two challenges are foreseen in the deployment of DSS4NAFA. The first is to explain the benefits of the system to countries with pre-existing Nuclear Emergency Response systems. We are confident that we can succeed as DSS4NAFA is modular, thus Member States can select and implement the components that suit their needs best. Secondly, there could be some learning associated with the implementation of DSS4NAFA. To facilitate this process for governmental data analysts, user experience will be one of the major focus for improvement during the beta testing phase. We strive to develop DSS4NAFA such that the system will be intuitive for use to its fullest potential, even with minimal prior training. The development of DSS4NAFA is part of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division Mandate in Preparedness and Response to Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies Affecting Food and Agriculture to promote the management of intra- and interagency emergency preparedness and response to nuclear accidents and radiological events affecting food and agriculture, including in the application of agricultural countermeasures. by Jonathan Rizzi, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research Jonathan Rizzi is the incoming ECS representative for the EGU's Natural Hazard division. He has a bachelor in GIS and Remote Sensing and a master and a PhD in Environmental Sciences. He is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research and has worked in the field of climate change and risk assessment for the last several years. Editor's Note: This post first appeared on the EGU Natural Hazards (NH) Division blog. Read the original post here.


From small textile shops, mobile vendors to big and famous Jayachandran textiles, Saravana stores selling textiles, vessels and other household goods, the entire street is for delightful shopping.
very narrow streets that are extremely congested during peak hours of business, yet it is a paradise for bargain hunters and shoppers, right outside the foot steps of Mambalam railway station.
Street vendors and big shops coexist It is well connected by bus, train services.
Excellent place to buy almost everything at bargain prices From jewellery to clothes -all within waling distance. Lots of eateries and places to have soft drinks . Can anyone do anything to help with the Crowd?????
Has proudly been housing the best kanjibhorom sharees since as long as anything back, but it's not easy on your wallet.
A to Z everything is available here. Lot of road side shops are here and we can enjoy bargain shopping here. Even 50% bargain can be done in few shops. Good place for evening shopping.
Do you want to feel The REAL shopping experience... Then this is the place..
A hub for sarees silk and Jewellery stores, many famous silk and saree houses in T nagar. If travelling by chennai local train Mambalam railway station is the nearest one.
This is very famous Street in Chennai for shopping..you can get any and everything for clothes to eating to many other accessories.. but it's too crowded..
OMG! This is my favorite place to shop and get a cultural feel.
Get quick answers from T Nagar, Ranganathan Street staff and past visitors.
What time the shops close on weekday and Sunday? I can only visit t nagar after work in the afternoon/night.
It closes at 9 pm.
Is Saravana mall located here?
Hi. Can anyone recommend a few 3-4 stars hotels to stay within walking distance just to the shopping street in T-Nagar area? Thanks in advance.


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// Articles // 6th Jan 2020 — 13 days ago // By Andrew Duncan
Game Over - Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
I felt kind of bad for not finishing this before Telltale went bankrupt, so I made sure that it was something I got around to. As such, Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series became the final game that I finished in 2019 - I had previously only played the first chapter. Ironically, the Shadows Edition came out about a week before I finished off the final chapter.
The second of Telltale's visits to Gotham, The Enemy Within sees The Riddler coming to town and causing havoc for the Dark Knight. Throughout the five chapters you'll also tangle with Bane, Mister Freeze and the clown duo of crime: Harley Quinn & Joker. It's a much more enjoyable story than Batman - The Telltale Series.
"Riddle me this - do you sterilise that thing after getting blood on it?"
Well, I suppose they're enjoyable in their own ways, but the first game felt more like Detective Comics, whereas this one felt like Batman. They're both Batman-centric tales, but have distinct styles from each other.
Of course, there are threads continued from the first game, obviously since I've already said that Joker was in this one. Bruce met him in Arkham, going by John Doe, in that game and in this one he's out and no longer crazy. At least allegedly.
I don't want to spoil any of the twists - of which there are plenty - so I won't talk about the plot too much. Also, your experience might vary depending on your choices, and I know that there are different outcomes all over the place. Two of the screenshots on Steam definitely didn't take place in my playthrough. It took me over 10 hours to finish, and I'm not about to repeat that until next year (which as of writing is more hours than days away).
Alfred in my game did not wear an eyepatch, for instance
The character designs are great updates to classic looks, and Harley has trousers instead of hot pants so that's an instant bonus. I love her classic outfit, and don't particularly hate her new one, but hot pants? Also, it's weird to see Bane with a beard, but I also thought that about Mr Fantastic when Marvel brought him back. I'm not a beard kinda guy, I guess.
One thing I love about this version of Harley Quinn is that she's in charge. She's not kowtowing to Joker and getting all gooey at the knees when he speaks, she's a strong independent, take-command woman. We've seen enough versions of the character fawning over "Mistah Jay".
The weakest of the characters is Freeze, who spends most of his development off-screen, having others talk about him. We don't - or at least I didn't - even see his wife Nora, just hear about her. At least we find out what kind of beer Bane likes, we don't know anything about Freeze.
Lucius, that's an $18,000 mahogany desk, get your feet off...
The Enemy Within has some good puzzles, and generously timed quick-time events, so even when you're not doing the adventure game thing of "look at things" it's a fun time. It's probably best played on controller, though, as I had to do some hand gymnastics with the keyboard controls at times.
Since Telltale has returned (at least enough to announce development of The Wolf Among Us 2 and the aforementioned Shadows Edition update to this), I'm curious to see a third Batman game from them. Especially as the game has two endings - which will be the canonical one? Depending on what happens, it could be that there were three endings, then the pre-credits scene might be different! I don't know, I've only finished it once!
If you're a fan of Batman, even if you weren't too keen on the story for the first Telltale Series, you should check out Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series. The game mechanics bring nothing new, but at least the story does. It's not just a case of "now this person is a backstabbing git!" over and over again, which was my main complaint with the first game.
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Xiaomi Mi Max's retail price in Pakistan is Rs. 24,000. Official dealers and warranty providers regulate the retail price of Xiaomi mobile products in official warranty.
Retail Price of Xiaomi Mi Max in Pakistan is Rs. 24,000.
Retail Price of Xiaomi in USD is $208.
Xiaomi presents another powerful device Mi Max smartphone. After a long time in phones series, this is going to be a smartphone with slightly more weight i.e. 203 grams but considering massive 6.44 inch Q-HD IPS display, it is right weight for Xiaomi Mi Max smartphone. Latest Gorilla Glass protection is embedded on the massive display screen to protect it from sudden impacts and the screen of Xiaomi's Mi Max is built on narrow bezel design with 74% screen to body ratio that makes the design even more appealing. 16MP PDAF powerful camera is mounted in Xiaomi Mi Max's rear end with dual tone LED flash that allows user to capture moments at their best even in the low light conditions. Besides the camera and LED flash light, rear of the Mi Max by Xiaomi has a powerful fingerprint sensor that provides fast unlocking and improved security. On the front of the phone is 5MP wide angle lens camera that is perfected for every occasion and with enhanced Xiaomi Max camera application, you can get the best selfies from this phone. Snapdragon 650 chipset that runs on a Quad-core processor coupled with a dual-core processor to provide users of Xiaomi Mi's Max with umatched performance. 3GB RAM ensures smooth multitasking and powerful 3D gaming experience without any lags. Latest MIUI interface is provided in Xiaomi Mi Max smartphone that runs on Android Marshmallow OS and has enhanced Dual user feature that allows cloning of applications and separate home screens for Mi Max's users.


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Q: Automapper configuration Is it enought to call Mapper.Initialize in Application_Start() in global.asax or should some IoC container take care of the lifetime scoping ?
protected void Application_Start()
{
     Mapper.Initialize(x=>x.AddProfile(new SomeProfile()));
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A: Should be enough.  I've never had a problem with initializing Automapper this way.


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from .Base import Base
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from .User import roles_users

from sqlalchemy import (
    Column,
    Integer,
    String,
    DateTime
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from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
import datetime

class Sighting(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'sighting'

    id = Column(Integer(), primary_key=True)
    location = Column(String(255))
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ROSKINO organized The Russian Film Festival in India, attracts 1300 viewers
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 28: On November 17–20, Mumbai hosted the Russian Film Festival where Indian audiences were shown the following popular films: Klim Shipenko's Son of a Rich and Alexander Fomin's A Young Man (comedies), Alexander Domogarov Jr.'s A Dog named Palma (a family adventure), Valery Todorovsky's The Bolshoi (a ballet drama), and Fixies vs Crabots (a full-length animated movie).
The Russian Film Festival in India was organized by ROSKINO and supported by the Russian Ministry of Culture. The festival was honored by stars of the Indian film industry like directors Babbar Subhash (Disco Dancer; Dance, Dance) and Saumitra Singh; the actor Vikas Srivastava, as well as producers and critics; Expansion CEO, Rittesh Kumar, and Mrs. India World 2022, Sargam Kaushal, were also in attendance, as were various members of the art and show business world.
Son of a Rich, a comedy about the taming of an egoistic golden boy, and The Bolshoi, a drama about a young girl's journey to become a ballet dancer at the Bolshoi Theater, received the largest number of viewers.
Director Klim Shipenko (Son of a Rich): "I believe Indian audiences are drawn to the "rags-to-riches" idea, and vice versa, since their caste system makes such trajectories impossible. Our film depicts an uncanny sort of social mobility: one day Gregor is a spoiled golden boy; the next he is a poor peasant. The very possibility of such a transformation is at odds with the very essence of caste, which is unusual and therefore appealing to Indian viewers. And not just them! More than seven countries have bought the rights for a remake of Son of a Rich, including China, Mexico, India, Spain, France, South Korea, etc. Overall, I believe showing contemporary Russian films in different countries is important."
During the Russian Film Festival in Mumbai, Indian film makers expressed their interest in expanding their collaboration with Russia. Thus, Babbar Subhash noted that he would like to shoot another installment of Disco Dancer featuring Russian actors:
"Everything must be in the modern style. The first film was made 40 years ago. However, the new film should retain the dancing fever and musical ambience of the original. We'll have to update the music, of course, since musical styles have changed a bit since the first film. We'll have to introduce rap, for instance. We want to give our viewers a taste of something new."
Responding to the question about Russian directors' interest in joint productions, Klim Shipenko said: "I've never been involved in multinational projects before, but I'd like to undertake one in the Epic action genre with our Russian actors Alexander Petrov and Miloš Biković alongside Indian movie stars."
Russian content has huge potential in the Indian market. In support of this idea, Expansion CEO Rittesh Kumar has said: "The films from Russia I saw are modern and often differ, in a good way, from traditional Western films, in that they offer a unique perspective. I believe Russian films ought to be made more widely available in India."
From India, the Russian Film Festival went straight to Dubai (UAE), where Russian films were screened on November 25–27.
Russian Film Festival represents a few days of screening Russian films abroad held by ROSKINO with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation since 2020. The main goal of the RFF is to familiarize the foreign audience with the variety of modern Russian content from art films of different genres and series to animation and documentaries. In 2020-2022, the festival was held in 28 countries, gathering almost 6.5 million viewers. The RFF format includes both online and offline events.
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Aims: The purpose of the present study is to evaluate some characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors on the ultrasound image that can be used for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of gastric submucosal tumors.
Subjects and Methods: Subjects – 24 patients with gastric submucosal tumors diagnosed by physical examination, gastrointestinal endoscopy, ultrasonography, radiography, and pathological examination after the operation at Pyongyang Medical College Hospital of Kim Il Sung University from February 2009 to 2015. Methods – The ultrasonic diagnostic unit used was HD-6 type, and the probes with the frequencies of 3.5 and 7.5 MHz of convex and linear types were used. The patient was examined after drinking of 1–1.5 L of degassed water to evaluate the submucosa of the stomach correctly. The ultrasonographic evaluating indices were location, size, internal echo pattern, and homogeneity, and they were compared by disease.
Results: We have identified some sonographic characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors. The incidence of gastric submucosal tumors by location was the highest at the body of the stomach as 20 (83.3%) patients. The number of patients with gastric submucosal tumors <3 cm was the highest. The numbers of anechoic and hypoechoic tumors were, respectively, 9 (37.5%) and 7 (29.2%), were more than others. Most of tumors (75.0%) were homogeneous.
Conclusions: We think transabdominal ultrasound can be used as an alternative method for the diagnosis of submucosal tumors of the stomach.
Keywords: Leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma, lipoma, submucosal tumor, ultrasound
Kim GI, Yo CH, Ri UB, Ju HC. Study on the evaluation of sonographic characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors. J Med Soc 2019;33:38-42
Kim GI, Yo CH, Ri UB, Ju HC. Study on the evaluation of sonographic characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors. J Med Soc [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 19];33:38-42. Available from: http://www.jmedsoc.org/text.asp?2019/33/1/38/269112
A gastric submucosal tumor means the one locating in the submucosa of the stomach. They include leiomyoma, lipoma, cyst, ectopic pancreas, leiomyosarcoma, lymphoma, and so on. They may be benign or malignant.
A submucosal mass or a bulge encountered during an endoscopy can arise from within any layer of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract wall (intramural) or outside of the wall (extramural). They are usually found incidentally during routine imaging with barium contrast radiography or endoscopy.[1]
The diagnosis of submucosal tumors by endoscopy or barium contrast studies is not easy since these tumors are usually covered with a normal mucosal layer. To determine the main portion of the wall stratification in the GI wall in which the tumors lie is the most important part of diagnostic imaging of submucosal tumors. For this purpose, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), including the use of an EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy, is the best choice;[2],[3] however, not all institutions have the equipment or experienced staff to easily perform EUS in all cases with submucosal tumors. Transabdominal ultrasound, with the remarkable improvement of equipment, can be used as an alternative method.[4],[5],[6] There have been several reports on transabdominal ultrasound as an acceptable alternative for the diagnosis of submucosal tumors. Hence, we designed to identify some characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors using transabdominal ultrasound.
Subjects and Methods
Twenty-four patients with gastric submucosal tumors diagnosed by physical examination, GI endoscopy, ultrasonography, radiography, and pathological examination after the operation at Pyongyang Medical College Hospital of Kim Il Sung University from February 2009 to 2015.
The composition by sexuality and age of the patients is shown in [Table 1].
Table 1: The composition by sexuality and age of the patients (%)
As shown in [Table 1], according to sexuality the number of men was 17 (70.8%), higher than the one of women, and according to age, the number of patients aged forties was 11 (45.8%), the highest.
The ultrasonic diagnostic unit used was HD-6 type, and the probes with the frequencies of 3.5 and 7.5 MHz of convex and linear types were used.
The patient was examined after drinking of 1–1.5 L of degassed water to evaluate the submucosa of the stomach correctly.
The ultrasonographic evaluating indices were location, size, internal echo pattern, and homogeneity, and they were compared by disease.
Rates of gastric submucosal tumors by disease
As shown in [Table 2], leiomyoma was most as eight patients (33.3%) in benign tumors and leiomyosarcoma was most as six patients (25.0%) in malignant tumors.
Table 2: Rates of gastric submucosal tumors by disease (%)
Characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors on the ultrasound
As shown in [Table 3], the incidence of gastric submucosal tumors by location was the highest at the body of the stomach as 20 (83.3%) patients.
Table 3: Incidence of gastric submucosal tumors by location (%)
As shown in [Table 4], the number of patients with gastric submucosal tumors <3 cm was the highest.
Table 4: Composition of gastric submucosal tumors by size (%)
As shown in [Table 5], the numbers of anechoic and hypoechoic tumors were, respectively, 9 (37.5%) and 7 (29.2%), were more than others.
Table 5: Composition of gastric submucosal tumors by internal echo pattern (%)
As shown in [Table 6], most of the tumors (75.0%) were homogeneous.
Table 6: Composition of gastric submucosal tumors by homogeneity (%)
Lipomas are benign intramucosal tumors of mature lipocytes that are commonly incidental findings on colonoscopy and endoscopy. They can be seen in any part of the GI tract, although they are most common in the lower GI tract.[7] On the ultrasound, lipomas are hyperechoic, homogeneous lesions with regular margins arising from the submucosa (third layer of the GI tract).[1] In our study, lipoma was hyperechoic, homogeneous, and the size of lipomas were <2 cm [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Lipoma of the body of the stomach. It was hyperechoic, homogeneous, and the size was <2 cm
The classic or usual GI tract leiomyoma has a similar morphologic appearance to leiomyomas in other organs. In the gut, they are usually small and well circumscribed. The tumors typically arise from the muscularis propria; growth may be intraluminal, extraluminal, or a combination with a dumb-bell shape. Leiomyomas can range in size from <0.5 cm (microleiomyomas) to as large as 30 cm. In our study, leiomyoma was hypoechoic and its size ranged 1–5 cm [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Leiomyoma of the body of the stomach. It was well visualized without drinking of boiled water and hypoechoic on the ultrasound
In our study, most of the leiomyosarcomas were mixed echoic on the ultrasound and their size was larger than 5 cm. Most of the leiomyosarcomas are histologically high grade, and by immunohistochemistry, they express smooth muscle actin, desmin, or both.[8] EUS is the most accurate method for distinguishing leiomyomas from other submucosal lesions.[9],[10] Leiomyomas arise from the fourth hypoechoic layer (the muscularis propria), distinguishing them from more superficial lesions. Specific sonographic features may also distinguish a leiomyoma from other submucosal lesions, such as a lipoma or esophagogastric varices, and from other neoplasms such as lymphomas, carcinoids, cysts, pancreatic rests, and polyps. In one series, EUS correctly diagnosed 48 of 50 submucosal mass lesions confirmed by pathology or angiography.[9] EUS also may be helpful for distinguishing a leiomyoma from a leiomyosarcoma. Benign tumors are more likely to have regular margins, a tumor size <30 mm, and a homogeneous echo pattern.[11] However, sonographic characteristics alone are usually insufficient proof that a tumor is benign. Serial examinations may be helpful in such cases.[9]
A pancreatic rest (also known as ectopic pancreas, aberrant pancreas, and heterotopic pancreas) refers to ectopic pancreatic tissue. These rare submucosal tumors most commonly consist of cystically dilated exocrine cells.[12] Pancreatic rests are most frequently found in the distal stomach, duodenum, or proximal jejunum but have also been reported within a Meckel's diverticulum, the gall bladder, bile ducts, and the minor and major papillae.[13] They are typically discovered incidentally during endoscopy, surgery, or autopsy. Sonographically pancreatic rests are hypoechoic or intermediate echogenic heterogeneous lesions with indistinct margins. They most commonly arise from the third or fourth layer or a combination of the two layers of the GI tract. Anechoic areas within the lesion correlate with ductal structures.[12] In our study, pancreatic rests were hypoechoic and homogeneous.
In high-grade lymphoma, ultrasound most often showed large-nodular lesions, whereas low-grade lymphomas showed a tendency toward small-nodular or diffuse lesions.[14] Gastric lymphoma is most commonly found in the antrum. But in our study, malignant lymphoma was mostly found in the body. Low-grade lymphoma is a superficial, infiltrating lesion that produces a nodular gastric mucosa [Figure 3].
Figure 3: Transverse view (a) and sagittal view (b) of gastric lymphoma located in the body of the stomach. The concaved surface (arrow) of the tumor means ulcer-like feature of lymphoma. TU: Tumor, ST: Stomach
Histologically, the neoplastic cells of lymphoma infiltrate between preexisting lymphoid follicles and may be difficult to differentiate from a florid gastritis.[15] High-grade gastric lymphomas are infiltrative, polypoid, ulcerative, or nodular masses.[16] It may difficult to differentiate gastric lymphoma from gastric adenocarcinoma on imaging studies alone because they have similar morphologic features.[17]
Moreover, we have found cysts in the gastric submucosa. They were anechoic and homogeneous. Their size was <3 cm.
We have identified some sonographic characteristics of gastric submucosal tumors using transabdominal ultrasound. In this study, we evaluated the indices such as location, size, internal echo pattern, homogeneity of gastric submucosal tumors, and compared them on abdominal ultrasound. The sonographic characteristics were useful information in the diagnosis and differentiation of gastric submucosal tumors. Thus, we think transabdominal ultrasound can be used as an alternative method to EUS in the evaluation of gastric submucosal tumors.
Hwang JH, Saunders MD, Rulyak SJ, Shaw S, Nietsch H, Kimmey MB, et al. A prospective study comparing endoscopy and EUS in the evaluation of GI subepithelial masses. Gastrointest Endosc 2005;62:202-8.
Arantes V, Logroño R, Faruqi S, Ahmed I, Waxman I, Bhutani MS, et al. Endoscopic sonographically guided fine-needle aspiration yield in submucosal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. J Ultrasound Med 2004;23:1141-50.
Vander Noot MR 3rd, Eloubeidi MA, Chen VK, Eltoum I, Jhala D, Jhala N, et al. Diagnosis of gastrointestinal tract lesions by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Cancer 2004;102:157-63.
Futagami K, Hata J, Haruma K, Yamashita N, Yoshida S, Tanaka S, et al. Extracorporeal ultrasound is an effective diagnostic alternative to endoscopic ultrasound for gastric submucosal tumours. Scand J Gastroenterol 2001;36:1222-6.
Polkowski M, Palucki J, Butruk E. Transabdominal ultrasound for visualizing gastric submucosal tumors diagnosed by endosonography: Can surveillance be simplified? Endoscopy 2002;34:979-83.
Tsai TL, Changchien CS, Hu TH, Hsiaw CM. Demonstration of gastric submucosal lesions by high-resolution transabdominal sonography. J Clin Ultrasound 2000;28:125-32.
Maderal F, Hunter F, Fuselier G, Gonzales-Rogue P, Torres O. Gastric lipomas – An update of clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment. Am J Gastroenterol 1984;79:964-7.
Miettinen M, Sarlomo-Rikala M, Sobin LH, Lasota J. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors and leiomyosarcomas in the colon: A clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 44 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2000;24:1339-52.
Boyce GA, Sivak MV Jr., Rösch T, Classen M, Fleischer DE, Boyce HW Jr., et al. Evaluation of submucosal upper gastrointestinal tract lesions by endoscopic ultrasound. Gastrointest Endosc 1991;37:449-54.
Yasuda K, Cho E, Nakajima M, Kawai K. Diagnosis of submucosal lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract by endoscopic ultrasonography. Gastrointest Endosc 1990;36:S17-20.
Palazzo L, Landi B, Cellier C, Cuillerier E, Roseau G, Barbier JP, et al. Endosonographic features predictive of benign and malignant gastrointestinal stromal cell tumours. Gut 2000;46:88-92.
Matsushita M, Hajiro K, Okazaki K, Takakuwa H. Gastric aberrant pancreas: EUS analysis in comparison with the histology. Gastrointest Endosc 1999;49:493-7.
Lucena JF, Alvarez OA, Gross GW. Endoscopic resection of heterotopic pancreas of the minor duodenal papilla: Case report and review of the literature. Gastrointest Endosc 1997;46:69-72.
Görg C, Weide R, Schwerk WB. Sonographic patterns in extranodal abdominal lymphomas. Eur Radiol 1996;6:855-64.
Wotherspoon A, Chott A, Gascoyne RD, Muller-Hermelink HK. Lymphoma of the stomach. In: Aaltonen LA, editor. World Health Organization Classification of Tumors: Pathology and Genetics of Tumors of the Digestive System. Lyon: IARC Press; 2000. p. 57-61.
Levine MS, Rubesin SE, Pantongrag-Brown L, Buck JL, Herlinger H. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the gastrointestinal tract: Radiographic findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1997;168:165-72.
Buy JN, Moss AA. Computed tomography of gastric lymphoma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1982;138:859-65.
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GreaterSport among Active Partnerships chosen to distribute London Marathon grant to inspire activity among young homeless people
By GreaterSport | 24 November 2020 | TAGS: Children and young people, Homelessness
The London Marathon Charitable Trust (The Trust) has awarded a £600,000 grant to a project that aims to improve the health and wellbeing of young homeless people in North England and Scotland through the power of sport.
The grant to Active Partnerships' Young People Forward project was made possible by a generous donation of £600,000 from Virgin Money, the title sponsor of the London Marathon which is owned by London Marathon Events, the trading company for The Trust and will be distributed by GreaterSport and six other Active partnerships in the North of England and Scotland will work directly with just under 600 young people who are either homeless or at risk of homelessness while also developing a programme model that can be rolled out to inspire activity in many more.
The funding will provide physical activity sessions in 11 areas: Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Humber, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Tyne & Wear, Northumberland, Edinburgh, West Lothian and Glasgow.
According to data from the Office of National Statistics, about 25% of all applications for help with homelessness or being accepted for a housing duty come from people aged 25 or below. In the areas targeted by this project, there were 13,406 homeless young people reported in the North West in 2018/2019, 9,453 in Yorkshire and the Humber, 4,967 in the North East and 6,996 in Scotland. (Centrepoint Youth Homelessness Databank).
Sir Rodney Walker, Chairman of The London Marathon Charitable Trust, said: "The Trust is committed to supporting projects that challenge the inequality of access to physical activity so that everyone has the opportunity to be active, supporting their health and wellbeing. It is with great thanks to Virgin Money for their generous donation that we have been able to work together to support this important initiative – the timing of which could not be more significant. The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the inequalities faced by many vulnerable people, and the Young People Forward project will use the power of physical activity to improve the lives of many young people facing homelessness."
Helen Page, Group Brand and Marketing Director for Virgin Money, said: "It's heart-breaking that homelessness continues to be so widespread in our society. There has never been a more important time to break down the barriers which prevent the most vulnerable young people in our society from accessing sport and physical activity as a way to improve their lives. The link between physical and emotional wellbeing is fundamental and Virgin Money is honoured to support this initiative, which will help improve the lives of young people at a time when they need it most."
Francesca Speakman Strategic Lead Active Children and Young People said: "At GreaterSport we welcome the opportunity to support young people across Greater Manchester to engage in physical activity, supporting the ambition to make GM the best place for young people to grow up. This has never been a more important ambition given the impact of COVID-19 on the health and wellbeing of young people in the city region. We are currently exploring opportunities to work with 5 local organisations who have trusted relationships with 80 young people already homeless or at risk of homelessness. We welcome any insight from partners in Greater Manchester and welcome contact if you'd like to find out more."
The grant has been awarded through The Trust's Strategic Partnership Grants programme, which supports impactful projects across the UK that will inspire activity and challenge the inequality of access to physical activity for underrepresented and disadvantaged groups.
For more information about our work in Greater Manchester, please contact Jess Eastoe.
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