Ireen Munyevu, 20, and Judith Katembu, 32, could barely hide their delight at the thought of being elected to serve as Vice Chairperson and Secretary of their respective Village Action Groups, putting them at the helm of community-based structures seeking to improve the sustainable management of natural resources such as land, water, forests and wildlife.
Like other women, Munyevu and Katembu had no choice but to comply with decisions made by their husbands - or by their fathers and brothers. Such decisions, in many instances, resulted in degrading natural resources which negatively affects women's economic status.
This predicament reflects how entrenched patriarchal attitudes in Zambia held back women's rights in decision making regarding natural assets which took no account of their interests, needs and concerns.
In Zambia, the impact of natural resource loss and degradation disproportionately affects poor rural women because of their dependence on natural resources, especially women who live in ecologically vulnerable areas.
Women face barriers to their inclusion in governance systems, decision making and benefit sharing related to natural resource management that marginalize their roles, contributions and rights. These barriers stem from policy, economic status, societal norms and cultural practices.
Women constitute 51 percent of the country's nearly 14 million people, but men still dominate the political landscape, and the issue of violence against women and girls is of great concern. Activists say socially, and culturally constructed norms and roles have shaped gender relations, leading to unequal power relations. Women have substantially less access to health care and education services than men and are vastly under-represented at all levels of government.
Aiming to tackle these issues, a UNDP-supported project – Strengthening Management Effectiveness and Generating Multiple Environmental Benefits Within and Around the Greater Kafue National Park and West Lunga National Park in Zambia - is working with rural communities to collectively manage natural assets as a shared resource and responsibility.
The initiative is a partnership between UNDP and the Government of Zambia through the Forestry Department, under the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife at the Ministry of Tourism and Arts. It is being funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The Village Action Groups meet regularly to discuss how to use their land sustainably and, little by little, the community forests are coming alive with environmentally-friendly activities, ranging from honey production to the regeneration of community forests.
Members of the community are also farming more sustainably by using crop rotation and other techniques that keep land fertile, in addition to cutting back on and managing slash-and-burn agriculture, a traditional practice that leads to uncontrollable bush fires that damage huge swathes of land. Through the Village Action Groups, local communities are beginning to have serious conversations about protecting wildlife and conserving their forests - making sure that they do not gradually destroy their precious natural resources.
The project has promoted rural women as leaders of farming cooperatives and small-scale companies and trained them as community managers of the natural resources around them. As a result, more rural women in the project areas have acquired technical environmental and agricultural knowledge and are now performing tasks previously considered suitable only for men.
Christine Musonoyi, 54, Secretary of Shalamba Village Action Groups in Kalumbila District said women in her community are now keen to accept management responsibility because they see the long-term economic benefits of sustainable utilisation, and they are willing to invest time and resources in natural resource management, in a significantly proactive way.
Since the UNDP intervention, Munyevu, Katembu and Musonoyi said traditional attitudes on the role of women are no longer holding them back. They have become change agents, inspiring other women and girls in an ongoing effort to navigate traditional practices and become leaders in the communities. They are also providing hands-on support to fellow women in resolving immediate domestic disputes.
For women in these rural communities, their involvement in the responsible management of the natural resources has made a big difference, providing a sense of security and leadership, which means they are investing more into protecting their environment and curbing climate change.
Since the formation of the Village Action Groups, there has been an upsurge in the number of women elected to decision making roles. These women leaders are on the frontline encouraging community dwellers not to destroy the forest by the hunting and poaching of endangered wildlife and logging – suggesting beekeeping as one of the greener alternatives for making a living.
Already, the Government of Zambia has put a premium on community managed resources. This shift stemmed from the demand to look at the redistributive potential of natural resources management in addressing poverty, gender inequality and environmental sustainability.
Zambia is a success story in harnessing its natural resource wealth but it is recommended that further policy adjustments are needed to meet new challenges.


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Q: Regular expression in ruby to get all vowels in string How do you get all occurrences of vowels in a string along with its index?

Example: str="rohan"
  I want a result like { 1=>'o', 3 => 'a' }

Is there any method in ruby to do so or do I have to write a method for that?

A: I wouldn't use regex here:
VOWELS = %w(a e i o u)
str = "rohan"
str.each_char.with_index.select { |c, _i| VOWELS.include? c }.to_h
#=> {"o"=>1, "a"=>3}

Or if your Ruby version doesn't have to_h:
str.each_char.with_index.each_with_object({}) do |(c, i), h|
  h[i] = c if VOWELS.include?(c)
end
#=> {1=>"o", 3=>"a"}

A: You can use $~ (MatchData) together with String#scan:
hash = {}
str.scan(/[aeiou]/){|m| hash[$~.begin(0)] = m }
puts hash

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Q: Countif a number have days have passed since date I need to create an analysis for work in Excel, one of the things that have been asked is that I include a chart, this chart needs to show data grouped by a state given to it and a number of days passed since the date it was created.
I need to count how many of these bits of data there are that are older than 1 day, older than 2 days and so on, I have been looking at some way to combine COUNTIF/COUNTIFS and TODAY()-Date named in cell, this hasn't been fruitful, I am aware that I would just do the TODAY() bit in some seperate cells and work with the data from the but I would prefer a way to do it all in one, if there is some way to do such a thing in one formula it would be great, if not I'll just have to tell my boss no can do.
Thanks in advance for any help given, even if it is telling me it's not possible.

A: =CountIfs(state, inputState, date, "<"&Today()-1, date, ">="&Today()-2)

That will give you all items holding state from the day before yesterday.
state and date are from your data. Replace with column references or (better) named range names.
Use < and >=, or <= and >, when slicing data by date (or any numeric amount). Using < and > or <= and >= forces you to think hard about gaps or overlap and that's no fun.

A: Another method would be to use SUMPRODUCT to count the number of occurrences:
=SUMPRODUCT(--(A1:A20>=TODAY()-2))

The number 2 can be increased or decreased to vary the length of time from TODAY(). The >= symbols can also be changed based on whether you would like to count the number of dates before or after TODAY()-2.


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Asia ETF Roundup (Market) –November 2017
U.K. and South Korea raise rates; S&P downgrades Venezuela and South Africa; Moody's Upgrades India.
For the latest ETF industry news, please refer to our "Asia ETF Roundup (Industry) – November 2017".
Major Markets Performance
The world shifted its attention from Catalonia to Germany during the month of November. Despite Germany's failed coalition talks and the continued unrest in Catalonia, the Euro rebounded 2.4%, against the U.S. dollar in November. In the U.S., tax reform proposals were announced. The S&P 500 Index ended the month with a gain of 2.8%. In Asia, geopolitical tensions flared yet again after North Korea launched a new high-altitude missile on 29 November. This ended a 75-day lull in the nation's rocket tests. The performance of major Asian equity markets was mixed for November. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was up 3%. The Hang Seng got a boost from its largest constituent, Tencent (00700, listed in Hong Kong), which made new highs during the month, and gained 14% by month's end. Meanwhile, emerging- and frontier-markets generally ended November with gains. The MSCI Vietnam Index rose 17.5% in November in USD terms. Vietnam's biggest-ever IPO, Vincom Retail, debuted in November trading.
The US dollar weakened (-1.5%, as measured by the ICE Spot Index) in November. Many Asian currencies appreciated versus the greenback (Korean Won +2.9%; Malaysian Ringgit +3.5%; Philippine Peso +2.7%). The RMB appreciated 0.3% for the month, putting its year-to-date gains versus the US dollar at 5.1%.
The performance of gold and platinum rebounded following two consecutive months of declines. Gold and platinum prices rose by 0.8% and 2.7%, respectively, in November. Silver prices declined by 1.5%.
Economic and Market News
U.K. and South Korea Hike Rates
U.K. Hikes Rates by 25bps – As mentioned in last month's Roundup, the Bank of England hiked rates by 25bps to 0.50% on 2 November 2017. The rate hike is intended to "tighten modestly the stance of monetary policy in order to return inflation sustainably to the target [2%]".
South Korea Hikes Rates by 25bps – On 30 November 2017, the Bank of Korea raised interest rates by 25bps to 1.5%. The Bank last cut rates to a record low in June 2016. This is the first time in 6 years that the Bank has increased interest rates.
FOMC Meeting Minutes Reveal Concerns on Financial Market Imbalances – On 22 November 2017, the Federal Open Market Committee released the meeting minutes of its 31 October – 1 November meeting, which detailed the discussion that led to the unanimous decision to put the federal funds rate on hold. The minutes also reveal that "In light of elevated asset valuations and low financial market volatility, several participants expressed concerns about a potential buildup of financial imbalances. They worried that a sharp reversal in asset prices could have damaging effects on the economy."
S&P Downgrades Venezuela's Foreign Sovereign Credit Ratings
On 13 November 2017, S&P downgraded Venezuela's long- and short-term foreign sovereign debt credit ratings to "SD (Selective Default)" and "D (Default)", respectively, after Venezuela failed to pay two coupon payments after the 30-day grace period on two of its debt issues. At the same time, S&P downgraded its ratings for the relevant debt issues to D, and subsequently on 21 November, S&P downgraded ratings for another two debt issues with overdue coupons to "D".
S&P Downgrades South Africa's Foreign and Local Sovereign Credit Rating
On 24 November 2017, S&P lowered its long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating on the Republic of South Africa to BB from BB+ and affirmed the B short-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating. Meanwhile, the long-term local currency sovereign credit rating was lowered to BB+ from BBB and the short-term local currency sovereign credit rating was lowered to B from A-3, both below investment grade. S&P stated that "the downgrade reflects our opinion of further deterioration of South Africa's economic outlook and its public finances."
With South Africa's local debt status changed from "investment grade" to "junk" by S&P, investors should beware of the resultant treatment of South Africa's local bonds within different indices, which could vary across index providers.
Moody's Upgrades India's Sovereign Credit Rating
On 11 November 2017, Moody's upgraded India's sovereign credit rating to Baa2 from Baa3. This marks India's first upgrade in 14 years. Moody's expects that "continued progress on economic and institutional reforms will, over time, enhance India's high growth potential and its large and stable financing base for government debt".
Chinese Economic Data: Inflation Rose to 1.9% in October; Caixin/Markit PMI at 50.8,Official PMI Registers at 51.8
China's inflation rate rose to 1.9% for the month of October. This compares to a reading of 1.6% in September.
China's official PMI rose to 51.8 in November from 51.6 in October. Meanwhile, the Caixin/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index declined to 50.8 in November from 51.0 in October.

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#12: the fourth annual Twelve Days of Curlin Babies
rowan December 20, 2017 December 21, 2017 Curlin, Stellar Wind, twelve days of Curlin babies
Blinkers Off has now been around for almost four years. That means four Arlington Millions, four Kentucky Derbies, four Jim Edgar Illinois Futurities. It also means — for the next twelve days — it's time for the fourth annual Twelve Days of Curlin Babies!
As always, this is not just a countdown of his progeny's biggest wins. It's easy enough, after all, to hear when they sound the trumpets for his graded stakes winners, his million-dollar maiden winners. Instead, these are the ones that, at year's end, I find to be his most memorable. Some are graded stakes; others happened at more workmanlike levels. Some are wins; others are races that a Curlin baby didn't necessarily win, but their presence made the race that much more special.
Let's begin our look back at the best moments of another year in Curlin babies!
#12: Stellar Wind Wins the First Beholder Mile
Last year, Stellar Wind (Evening Star, by Malibu Moon) began her four-year-old campaign in the Vanity Mile (G1). Though Beholder held the John Sadler trainee well at bay that day, Stellar Wind turned the tables in the Clement Hirsch (G1), and once again carried owner Hronis Racing's silks to the winners' circle in the Zenyatta (G1).
This year, the Vanity Mile was renamed for Beholder, and Stellar Wind called on all her grit to join its winner's roll.
Unlike last year's Vanity, this year's Beholder did not begin Stellar Wind's season. Her yearly debut had instead come at Oaklawn in the Apple Blossom Handicap. That clear April day, Stellar Wind sat off the pace set by fellow Curlin daughter Terra Promessa, then edged clear to take top billing in the first of two Grade 1 Curlin babies exactas this year.
While Stellar Wind was away from the west coast distaff circuit, Vale Dori came out to play. Trainer Bob Baffert and owner Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Makhtoum deserve all the credit for how they timed Vale Dori's year. In 2016, Vale Dori had chased Stellar Wind and Beholder around in the Zenyatta, but finished third beaten almost a dozen lengths. Heading into 2017, discretion looked the better part of valour. Her six-race campaign focused on the first half of the year, and she tallied four wins (including the G1 Santa Margarita) as Stellar Wind took her winter vacation and made her seasonal debut in Hot Springs.
Come the Beholder Mile, Vale Dori would get the chance to answer the question: could she turn the tables on Stellar Wind? Or, would Stellar Wind prove superior, and take the first race named after the champion she had twice conquered last year?
In a field of just three, tactics can mean everything.
Though the third entrant, Finest City, was herself a champion sprinter, rail-drawn Vale Dori dashed sharpest from the gate and carved out the early fractions. Jockey Victor Espinoza threaded Stellar Wind through the pair into the first turn, settling her to press outside Vale Doris' flank.
Down the backstretch, Stellar Wind pushed her on. Through the far turn, she kept pressing. Vale Dori kept the lead, but never got a breather. Stellar Wind forged closer…half a length away, a neck, a head. They turned for home on even terms. Down the lane, Vale Dori never stopped fighting, proving herself a stronger and worthier competitor than she had been the year before.
But, Stellar Wind had just a bit more. She wore down Vale Dori just enough to edge out of the duel in the final sixteenth of a mile, winning by a resolute neck.
After a great — surely Hall of Fame — career, Beholder deserved to have this race named after her. There was no more fitting winner in its first running as the Beholder Mile than Stellar Wind — and there was no more proper way for her to win than in a gritty battle, one that whispered of the showdowns between her and the great mare last year.
Curlin, Stellar Wind, twelve days of Curlin babies
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Tonight at 9 PM EST: An Evening with Clifton Collins Jr., Man of a Thousand Faces
Posted on Sunday, June 14th, 2009 by David Chen
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You may not know it, but Clifton Collins Jr. is one of the most talented and prolific character actors alive today. My earliest distinct memory of the man is as Perry in the film Capote, where he went toe-to-toe with Philip Seymour Hoffman and proved himself fully capable. More recently he can be seen in virtually everything under the sun, including this summer's Sunshine Cleaning, Crank: High Voltage, and as Captain Nero's right-hand man in Star Trek.
Clifton is currently in Nashville because of his creative collaboration with Zac Brown Band on their Platinum song "Chicken Fried," which has earned them a double Country Music Television nomination. Clifton shot "Chicken Fried" on his days off from Mike Judge's upcoming film Extract, which comes out in September. The CMT Music awards ceremony will be held on Tues, June 16th (also Clifton's birthday!). He's also in too many other upcoming films to list here, including The Boondock Saints 2.
Tune in tonight to slashfilm's live page at 9 PM EST / 6 PM PST to hear our broadcast live, as we talk with Clifton about his career and about the movies he's been in. If you have any questions you'd like us to ask Clifton (and how could you not, given his massive filmography?), feel free to leave them in the comments below, or send an e-mail to slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com.
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'Westworld' Review: The Mystery Deepens With 'The Riddle of the Sphinx'
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'Triple 9' Trailer: Casey Affleck Takes on Cop Corruption and Crime
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BioM WebSeminar: International Market Access Series - Go USA
With a market volume of USD 485 billion, the USA is one of the most lucrative and innovative markets for the pharmaceutical industry. Even with the fact that in the medium term world market shares are increasingly shifting towards emerging markets, it is still the heart of Big Pharma.
Thursday, 10.12.2020, 15:00 – 17:00 (3 - 5 p.m. CET)
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With a market volume of USD 485 billion, the USA is one of the most lucrative and innovative markets for the pharmaceutical industry. Even with the fact that in the medium term world market shares are increasingly shifting towards emerging markets, it is still the heart of Big Pharma. All big pharmaceutical companies have started their business there or have a major presence in the US. The lack of strict price regulation allows companies to achieve record profits and at the same time many of their research and development projects are subsidized by the government.
The new president is expected to lead the country through the next four years, with the biggest challenge being to counter a pandemic that has so far claimed more than 280,000 lives in the United States. Drug prices and access will be high on the agenda, with patients and industry alike at stake. Are strict measures to enforce the regulation of drug prices to be expected? What are the prospects of drug development becoming more self-sustaining in the future - a question many nations are asking themselves as a result of the pandemic.
Many good reasons that make it worthwhile to take a look at this interesting market.
Get an insight into:
the US market, the authorities and other players
the admission requirements and responsibilities
options to find good and loyal local business partners and more …
This WebSeminar is intended for staff from Business Development, International Sales, Export APAC and Regulatory Affairs.
Moderator / Speakers & Abstracts
Janet Danisman Sutherland - Executive Director at Bavarian U.S. Offices East/ Invest in Bavaria and German Honorary Consul, CT & RI
Jan Danisman is the Executive Director East, of the Bavarian US Offices for Economic Development. For fifteen years Jan has been supporting US companies across the tech, life science, industrial, automotive and energy sectors with European/EMEA expansion plans with a focus on Bavaria Germany. Together with her team she founded the organization's Expand 2 Europe web-based program, to help growth stage companies with the ins and outs of forming a successful business location in Germany. Jan is also the German Honorary Consul in Connecticut and Rhode Island focusing on transatlantic relations. Jan previously worked for an IBM business partner, Mercedes Benz and Kendall Healthcare (currently Medtronic). She has a BA and an MBA from Northeastern University.
The Bavarian US Offices for Economic Development are the US representative offices for Invest in Bavaria a division of the German State of Bavaria's Ministry of Economy. We assist US companies to expand to Bavaria and Bavarian companies to expand into the US. With cross-cultural teams in New York, San Francisco, Boston and New Haven, CT, we are part of Invest in Bavaria's 26 outposts globally.
Mark Lesselroth - CEO of BioPortUSA
Mark is the President and CEO of BioPortUSA, an international business development consultancy specializing in facilitating United States market entry for foreign-based life sciences companies. He has been instrumental in securing and building relationships for international clients such as Siemens, Lundbeck and GE while bridging Trans Atlantic relations involving foreign trade and investment. He has been a featured presenter at BIO, Medica and Upgraded Health. Mark is a peer reviewer for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is an active participant in several life science clusters both in the USA and Europe.
Karsten Risch - CMO at Evoke Group
Karsten is the Chief Medical at Evoke Group. Prior to Evoke he was the Chief Medical Officer of Havas Health & You, a leading global healthcare communications group, where he implemented standard medical approaches across the organization and, over ten years, organically grew the department by than 600%. As a scholar of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) he studied in Göttingen, Paris, and Heidelberg, where he got his MD and PhD (anthropology and human genetics). Karsten also holds an MPH (healthcare policy and management) of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, New York. After working as global product manager at Schering AG (now Bayer HealthCare) in Berlin Karsten moved to New York City. His work in management consulting, strategic planning, and medical direction at WPP, IPG, and Havas, lead him to the Coalition for Healthcare Communication (CHC), the association of US healthcare agencies, publishers, and associations, which he presented as its chairman in 2018 and 2019. Karsten is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia Business School, Columbia School of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, New York, and Farleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey.
Charlie Cameron - SVP of Business Development at Cooley LLP | Founder/Managing Director of Hub Angel Investment Group
Charlie is a seasoned business professional with two decades of helping technology companies in all industries on their growth and financing strategies. His background includes management consulting and strategy and marketing experience prior to joining Cooley. This includes extensive consulting, board work, mentoring and coaching with early-stage, venture-backed and Fortune 500 firms. Having worked in more than 40 countries he brings a global perspective to business, marketing and entrepreneurship.
Charlie is on the board of the German-American Business Council, Boston, on the advisory boards of the German Accelerator Life Science and Charite Entrepreneurship Summit, and has built an extensive network of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel groups, bankers, lawyers and accountants. Charlie is founder and managing director of Hug Angels Investment Group which is on the sixth fund. His perspective on business issues offers a strategic perspective.
Dean Farmer – Partner at Cooley LLP
Dean works with a wide range of pharmaceutical/biotech companies including start-up biotechnology companies, mid-size pharmaceutical companies with early funding and NCEs moving into Phase I clinical trial, and larger established pharmaceutical/biotech companies in need of extensive portfolio management. His extensive knowledge of science and intellectual property (IP) law enables him to understand the challenges that his clients face and to guide them through the risks associated with IP. He and his family lived in Berlin for a number of years and he speaks German. He does significant work with life science companies and groups in DACH countries.
Many German life science companies want to make connections in Boston. Why? Capital, talent and market access to name a few. In 2019, MA biopharma companies raised $3.1B in venture capital. Even during COVID times, they have still been able to raise more than $2. This year there have been 7 IPOs, representing one-third of all biotech IPOs in the US. There has been a nearly 20% increase in biotech R&D jobs in the past year so it is talent rich. About 10% of all NIH funding goes to MA and they get more per-capita than any other state. Also, 54% of NIH hospital funding goes to facilities there. Currently, in MA there are 2,056 drug candidates representing 12% of the entire US pipeline and more are coming. It sounds great but you have to be smart. We will examine some of the ways to improve your odds of successfully navigating this terrain to achieve your goals.
Dawn Hocevar - President and CEO at BioCT the bioscience cluster of Connecticut
BioCT is dedicated to growing the vibrant bioscience ecosystem in Connecticut by supporting innovation, collaboration, networking, education, talent engagement and advocacy. We bring together companies, institutions, entrepreneurs, investors, government, service providers, and other passionate, dedicated people, to create a thriving community to improve patients' lives and public health and drive economic growth.
Dieter Lingelbach - Chief Business Officer at SIRION Biotech
Dieter has been acting for over 9 years with SIRION Biotech as its Managing Director in charge of Business Development, Communication and Finance. He has a longstanding general management experience with both Roche Diagnostics and MorphoSys. Today, the latter is one of the world's leading bio-technology companies on the basis of its proprietary antibody platform. Earlier, Dieter worked several years with Booz & Company's healthcare practice after receiving his MBA from Indiana University as a Fulbright Scholar.
SIRION Biotech expanded into France and USA in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Dieter shares his experiences with the USA since then; Munich based, he acts as President SIRION Biotech International, Inc. in Cambridge, MA.
About SIRION BioTech
SIRION Biotech GmbH is Europe's leading commercial supplier of viral vector technologies, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of custom viral vectors at shortest timelines and with the most professional personal project management services.
The company began business in 2007 in Martinsried, Germany and since then has been changing the paradigm of viral vector supplies. SIRION vectors are being used for gene function research, preclinical target validation, gene therapy & vaccine development. SIRION technologies are licensed for several major clinical trials in Europe and US (Phases I and III).
The flyer and detailed agenda for the BioM-WebSeminar "International Market Access Series - Go USA" can be downloaded (pdf). The WebSeminar will be held in English.
The seminar is free to attend but electronic registration is necessary.
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HREFNA BRAGADOTTIR Illustration
Originally from Iceland, Hrefna Bragadottir now lives in Bournemouth and works as a freelance children's book author/ illustrator.
Her debut picture book Baxter's Book, has been published in the UK, Iceland, Holland, China, Russia, South Korea, South America, New Zealand and Australia, and was longlisted for The Klaus Flugge Prize 2017 and The North Somerset teachers Book award 2017. Her second picturebook, Harvey the Hero came out in April 2017 and has been published in the UK, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia.
Hrefna holds a Bachelors degree in 2D animation from The Arts University Bournemouth and a Masters degree in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art.
She has worked as an animator on a number of children's TV series, including Mama Mirabelle's Home movies, Humf, The Itch of the Golden Nit (short film), Abney and Teal, Poppycat and Sarah & Duck.
Hrefna is currently a visiting tutor at The Arts University Bournemouth, where she teaches the basic principles of animation and drawing to first year Bachelors degree students.
Photograph by Dale Armit 2016
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Q: Android Room Database what is the correct syntax to perform bulk update? I was working on a project, where There is a table named Messages(uuid, body, metadata_list, ... ...), and I want to perform bulk update on message_body, and metadata_list columns. I followed this answer.
I created a data class

MyTuple(
    @ColumnInfo(name = "uuid") var uuid: String,
    @ColumnInfo(name = "body") var body: SpannableStringBuilder,
    @ColumnInfo(name = "mention_metadata_list") var mentionMetaDataList: List<MentionsMetaData>? = ArrayList<MentionsMetaData>()
)

Then I queried these column and got a list: List<MyTuple>, modified it, and now I want to bulk update these new values inside the sqlite database.
I got stuck, so created a SimpleSQLiteQuery object like this:
String rawSqlInput = "(1, 'foo1', ''bar1), (2, 'foo2', 'bar2')"; // generated using for loop.

String rawQuery = "WITH temp_table(id, new_body, mmd_list)  AS  (VALUES" + rawSqlInput + ")  UPDATE messages SET body = (SELECT new_body FROM temp_table WHERE temp_table.id == messages.uuid), mention_metadata_list = (SELECT mmd_list FROM temp_table WHERE temp_table.id == messages.uuid) WHERE uuid IN (SELECT id FROM TEMP_TABLE)";

SimpleSQLiteQuery simpleSQLiteQuery = new SimpleSQLiteQuery(rawQuery);
mChatDao.bulkUpdateBodyAndMetaDataForGroupMessages(simpleSQLiteQuery);  // this one works fine

And my dao is like this:
@Dao
abstract class ChatDao {
    @RawQuery
    abstract fun bulkUpdateBodyAndMetaDataForGroupMessages(query: SimpleSQLiteQuery): Int;
}

This works ok.
The problem
I don't want to create rawSqlInput variable, and use simpleSQLiteQuery above. Instead I want to pass the list: List<MyTuple> inside the dao method, and let room handle everything for me.
I tried this but it failed:
@Dao
abstract class ChatDao {
@Query("WITH temp_table(id, new_body, mmd_list)  AS (VALUES (:mmdTuples))  UPDATE messages SET body = (SELECT new_body FROM temp_table WHERE temp_table.id == messages.uuid), mention_metadata_list = (SELECT mmd_list FROM temp_table WHERE temp_table.id == messages.uuid) WHERE uuid IN (SELECT id FROM TEMP_TABLE)")
abstract fun bulkUpdateBodyAndMetaDataForGroupMessages(mmdTuples: List<MyTuple>)

}

But it did not work. I get error at the part "...AS (VALUES(:mmdTuples)) ... ". So what is the correct syntax of doing bulk update using room?

A: @Update
abstract fun update(myTuple : MyTuple)

//This function is under a transaction so it will be commited to the database
//all at the same time.
@Transaction
fun update(list : List<MyTuple>){
   list.forEach{
      update(it)
   }
}

This is just one way to handle it but you could go the upsert approach that will most likely serve you better in the long run. Android Room Persistence Library: Upsert


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Wonder Woman Flies to Top of Box Office, Deservedly
Maddie Pfeifer, Editor
One of the most anticipated movies of the summer, Wonder Woman, has finally hit theaters. With a lot of high expectations from the positive reviews it has received already, this movie does not disappoint.
The movie centers around Diana (Wonder Woman), played by Gal Gadot, and how she came to be the superhero that she is. The beginning of the movie shows a little Diana anxiously waiting to begin her training to become a warrior. No matter how badly she wants to train, her mother, the queen of the Amazons, refuses. Soon, however, Diana's aunt convinces the queen to let Diana train. What follows is Diana being trained harder than any other warrior before her.
The majority of the movie takes place amidst World War I as Steve Trevor, a British spy played by Chris Pine, crashes his plane into the ocean just outside of where the Amazons live. Diana saves his life and this is where the movie truly begins. Steve and Diana head back to the war in Europe and Diana's skills and powers are soon revealed.
The movie is action packed with war as the backdrop but also filled with comical moments as Diana attempts to understand how this strange new world works.
Throughout the movie, Diana displays how dedicated she is to protecting those who cannot protect themselves. She sees it as her duty to defend the world from the God of War, Ares. This is what drives the plot as Diana truly becomes Wonder Woman in order to defeat who she believes is Ares.
This movie was entertaining through the whole two hours and twenty minutes. The cinematography was stunning and the set designs were true to the era. The actors portrayed the characters with emotion and honesty, and the plot was straightforward, but not too simple, as there were some twists and unexpected moments. While this can be classified as a "superhero movie," it didn't feel like the typical superhero-saves-the-city kind of movie as there was a lot more going on beneath the surface.
It was also refreshing to see a movie with a powerful female as the lead along with a female director. This movie is definitely empowering to women, but can also be enjoyed by men as well. The message of the movie is universal, as most people can support someone who wants to fight for those who can't fight for themselves and will never back down.
Although the ending was perhaps a little disappointing, the movie as a whole was still entertaining and empowering, and I have nothing else to critique.
Wonder Woman was a great start to the summer blockbusters that will soon be released, and a great showing for DC. This company tends to not do as well as Marvel when it comes to superhero movies, but Wonder Woman brought in over $100 million during its opening weekend.
If you want an exciting and action packed movie to start off your summer with, I highly recommend going out and seeing this quality film.
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Zoe Wilber on June 8th, 2017 8:14 am
Awesome review! I'm very excited to watch this movie–especially now that I've read your article. A movie revolving around a female superhero is long overdue.
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Dr. Moreno Walton is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Research and Director of Diversity for the Section of Emergency Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans. She serves as Director of the Latino Scholars Program for the School of Medicine and Regional Faculty Advisor for the Southwestern Region of the Latino Medical Student Association.
Dr. Moreno is the first woman President of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). During her years serving on the AAEM Board of Directors, she has focused on the development of women and underrepresented minorities in leadership positions. She holds degrees in Medicine and Clinical Research, and is a National Institutes of Health Research Scholar. She is the founder of the Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM), an academy of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Her multiple awards include the SAEM Martin Leadership Award, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Professionalism Award, Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine Distinguished Educator Award, the ADIEM Outstanding Academician Award, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Healthcare Executive Diversity & Inclusion Certificate, and the Order of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine.
The recipient of many research grants, Dr. Moreno has over 500 academic presentations, 45 publications, 6 book chapters, and two authored textbooks "Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care," and "Your Story, Our Story: A Case Compendium of Diversity and Inclusion in Quality Patient Care." Her research interests include HIV, violence prevention and treatment, diversity and healthcare disparities. Her office at University Medical Center participates in the LSU School of Medicine Dean's Summer Research Program, mentoring college students who aspire to careers in medicine towards the completion of basic research projects.
She has mentored over 300 students, residents, and junior faculty around the world towards successful careers in research and medicine. As a global health consultant and educator, she has served in over 25 countries with a focus on the development of research and elimination of healthcare disparities for women, underrepresented minorities, and the under-resourced.
Dr. Romero-Leggott has been a primary care provider for many years on the forefront of treating populations burdened by socio-economic, racial and ethnic disparities. She graduated medical school and completed her Family Medicine residency training at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Romero-Leggott is a native New Mexican with strong roots in her cultural heritage.
Presently, Romero-Leggott serves as Vice Chancellor & Chief Diversity Officer at the UNM Health Sciences Center, and Professor in the UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine. She also serves as the Executive Director of the UNM Combined BA/MD Degree Program and Medical Director of the Bernalillo County Youth Services Center.
Her office advances diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the Health Sciences Center and communities through capacity building and sustainable programs and collaborations. Dr. Romero-Leggott serves as a leader, convener and collaborator. She has forged important bridges between the UNM Health Sciences Center and New Mexico community groups and created cross-disciplinary programs across academic units.
Her professional interests are adolescent medicine, diverse populations, education pipeline, and enhancing a culturally sensitive & linguistically competent, diverse, and prepared health workforce to improve health and health equity.
Dr. Verduzco-Gutierrez is an accomplished academic Physiatrist and Professor and Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. She previously was the Medical Director of the Brain Injury and Stroke Program at a top three US News and World Report Best Hospital for Rehabilitation.
 Dr. Gutierrez grew up in South Texas, then moved to Houston where she earned her undergraduate degree at Rice University, her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine, and completed her PM&R residency training at the Baylor College of Medicine-UT Houston Rehabilitation Alliance. She excitedly moved to San Antonio to lead the distinguished Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in 2020. Her area of clinical expertise is the care of patients with traumatic brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, and interventional spasticity management. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has developed a Post-COVID Recovery Clinic to aid in the rehabilitative recovery of patients with functional, mobility, and cognitive deficits after infection with coronavirus.
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William Bradford Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Austerfield, England, United Kingdom
William Bradford was born 19th March 1590, to William and Alice Bradford. He was born in Austerfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, in England. He was born into a wealthy family. His parents owned a large farm, with a hint of noble ancestry.
As a young child, Bradford lived in unsettled conditions. When he was one, his father died. Consequently, his mother remarried three years later. Due to this, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel went to live with his grandfather. Two years later, his grandfather died, and he subsequently returned to his mother to live.
William Bradford became an orphan at just seven years of age. This was because his mother had died. He went to live with his uncles on their farm. Although they wanted him to help on the farm, Bradford had a long illness which prevented him from doing so.
For that reason, he then turned to read classical literature, as well as the Bible.
Church Reformists
At 12 years of age, William Bradford went to hear a sermon by Reverend Richard Clyfton. Clyfton wanted to rid the Church of England of all practices that were associated with the Roman Catholic church.
Although forbidden by his uncles, Bradford continued to attend the meetings. He had found his inspiration in Clyfton.
In 1603, the King put out a decree that he would not tolerate reform in the Church of England. The church went underground, holding secret meetings over the next four years. The authorities arrested some members and put others in prison.
The remaining congregation left England in 1607, headed for the Dutch Republic. They would be free in their new country to practice their religion. Bradford and others went to prison, but in 1608 they headed off in small groups to their new home.
Amsterdam and Leiden
Initially, it was tough for the new arrivals in Amsterdam. They lived in poor conditions and worked menial jobs to try and earn a living.
For these reasons, nine months later, they all moved to Leiden.
In 1611, William Bradford turned 21 and claimed his family inheritance. His fortunes changed considerably as a result. He purchased a house, and he established his own business as a fustian weaver.
Bradford married Dorothy May in 1613. She came from a wealthy English family that was living in Amsterdam at the time. They had their son, John, in 1617.
In 1619, Bradford moved back to England, settling in London. He lived in Aldgate, which was known as an area where troublemakers collected.
Settling in America
The congregation had been making their arrangements for several years to set up their colony in the U.S. They were also unhappy that their children were growing up learning Dutch traditions rather than their own.
In 1620, the initial group of approximately 50 headed off aboard the Speedwell for their new home. Passengers were transferred across to the Mayflower as the original ship was not seaworthy.
Three months later they landed at what would become Provincetown Harbor. The men on board signed the Mayflower Compact. This became the first governing document for those arriving in their new home. They found Plymouth Harbor after several expeditions and decided the new settlement would be based there.
William Bradford became governor after the previous governor died. He served three terms as governor – 1637, 1639-1643, and 1645-1656.
He had been a writer all his life, keeping journals consistently through the years. His most famous work was Of Plymouth Plantation. The publication gives a history of the settlement from 1621 to 1646.
The document disappeared around 1780 but was found again in London at the library belonging to the Bishop of London. After much debate, it was returned to America in May 1897.
After his first wife, Dorothy, died at sea in 1620, William Bradford married Alice Carpenter in 1623.
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We lazed around in the morning and then went for "brunch" to The Tourist Trap, a restaurant just at the bottom of our road. We had heard the lobster rolls and Bloody Marys were really good and they were...but seating was outside under a cheap canopy and it was HOT with no breeze so we didn't stay long. But it was a cute place!
We had a couple of ideas of things to do -- and agreed completely on one: we wanted to do a short hike to the ruins of a sugar plantation (Annenberg). It was a very beautiful hike up through the jungle to the top of a hill. Very interesting to learn a little about the sugar trade.
We had a very great snorkel there...went way around the island and saw lots of very beautiful fish, including the fish I had seen there the day before that I think are little sharks. AND, as we were headed in, WE SAW A BIG SHARK!!! Wowza. I think it was between 3 and 5 feet long, DB thinks it was 7 feet long. However big it was, it was bigger than anything else out there by far. And, oddly, it was not THAT scary to me (I'm more scared of the rays although they are really pretty -- and we saw some there that day too -- this was "just" a nurse shark and I knew they are not dangerous to people), just really exciting...he was a very fast swimmer!!! After that, we figured we had hit the jackpot and that was a good way to end our snorkeling for the trip. So we went back up on the beach and lounged with a beer...enjoying the beautiful view.
It was time to go back to our favorite bar, Island Blues for a last round of LCs, then to shower and make our way to Sweet Plantains again that night (curry night, which we had heard was fantastic...it was!).
The next morning, we got up fairly early (8-ish) in order to enjoy our last morning at the villa. We had breakfast and just lounged around until it was time to go. I almost shed a tear, it was that perfect a vacation, that perfect a place.
We got home at 11:40 pm LA time...just about 3 am our bodies' time...yawwwwwn. But such a great vacation that I still have the afterglow over a week later!
great pics and such a nice story!
Oh that last day is so bitter sweet. Sounds like you did it up right. And a shark?! Wow. How cool.
You look great in your pics!!!


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Learn how to make these delicious family friendly organic fruit kabob recipe that everyone will love!
You need 6-8 metal or wooden skewers. If using wooden skewers, soak them in water to help prevent them from burning on the grill.
Cut fruit into similar size chunks and put on skewers.
Preheat grill over medium to medium low heat.
In a small saucepan, melt honey on low heat (just until melted) with the butter.
Place the skewers onto the grill and baste the skewers with honey glaze.
Cook for 5 minutes and turn and cook for 3-5 more minutes.
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After finishing the journey, the documents (including the documented evidence of conformity) have to be send to the grace-office. For further information please contact Ms. Engelmann (contact).


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Drought Finance Taskforce
The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP
Taskforce Chair
Josh Frydenberg was elected to the Australian Parliament in 2010 as the Member for Kooyong. He is the seventh person since Federation to hold this seat.
In August 2018, he was appointed Treasurer, having previously served as Minister for the Environment and Energy, the Minister for Resources, Energy and Northern Australia, Assistant Treasurer and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister since the 2013 election.
Josh holds degrees in Law and Economics (with Honours) from Monash University. Following university, Josh undertook his articles of clerkship at the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He was offered both a Fulbright scholarship to the United States and a scholarship to Oxford University from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom. He accepted the Commonwealth Scholarship to Oxford University where he completed a Master of Philosophy degree in International Relations.
Josh was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. From 1999-2004 Josh worked as a ministerial adviser in Canberra. He worked in succession as an assistant adviser for the then Attorney General, The Hon. Daryl Williams QC, as an adviser and later senior adviser to the Foreign Minister The Hon. Alexander Downer and finally as a senior adviser to the Prime Minister, The Hon. John Howard.
After leaving Canberra Josh spent a month as a jackaroo on a sheep station in South Australia before joining Deutsche Bank as a Director of Global Banking in January 2005. Later that year Josh took leave to complete a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, before returning in 2006 to Deutsche Bank in Melbourne.
The Hon David Littleproud MP
Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
Taskforce Deputy Chair
David was born and raised in Chinchilla. He was educated at Chinchilla State High School before finishing secondary education at Toowoomba Grammar School.
Over the past 20 years he has owned a small business in Warwick and forged a career in agribusiness while living and working in towns such as Miles, Nanango, Charleville, St George, Stanthorpe and Warwick.
This background provides David with an acute understanding of the important role small business and agriculture plays in creating jobs and promoting economic growth in Maranoa. He understands the importance of economic development as a means of building a prosperous future for younger generations and developing the capacity of health, education, agriculture, telecommunications and small business sectors.
Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash
Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education
Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash is Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education, and has held this portfolio since August 2018.
Senator Cash was previously the Minister for Jobs and Innovation and prior to this was the Minister for Employment, Minister for Women and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public service between September 2015 and December 2017, and Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection and the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women from September 2013 to September 2015.
Senator Cash has also been actively involved in several Senate committees including as the Deputy Chairman of the Joint Statutory: Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.
Prior to entering Parliament, Senator Cash was a senior lawyer practicing in employee relations with Freehills in their Perth office.
Senator Cash holds an Honours Degree in Law from the University of London and a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science) from Curtin University in Perth, graduating with a triple major in public relations, politics and journalism. In addition, she holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Western Australia.
The Hon Dr John McVeigh MP
Federal Member for Groom
John McVeigh was declared as the Federal Member for Groom on 22 July, 2016. John was sworn in as the Minister for Regional Development, Territories and Local Government on December 20, 2017.
Before his elevation to Cabinet he was a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade; the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit; and the Standing Committees on Industry, Innovation Science and Resources; and Agriculture and Water Resources.
John also chaired the Coalition's Policy Committee for Industry, Innovation, Science and Northern Australia and was the chair of the Federal Government's Select Committee on Regional Development and Decentralisation.
John was the Member for Toowoomba South in the Queensland Parliament (2012 – 2016) during which time he served as the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and as a member of the four-minister Cabinet Budget Review Committee.
He was previously a Councillor on the Toowoomba Regional Council from 2008 to 2012 where he held the Corporate Services Portfolio and Chaired the Audit Committee.
John has a Bachelor of Business (Marketing & Economics) (University of Southern Queensland), Master of Business Administration (Bond University) and a PhD in Agribusiness Management (University of Queensland).
His commercial career prior to politics included administrative, marketing and management positions with the Bank of Queensland, Elders Pastoral, Cargill Australia, Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries Research And Development Corporation and the International Food Institute of QLD.
In 1996, John established a management consulting practice based in Toowoomba and went on to manage projects covering aquaculture, beef, cotton, dairy, grains, horticulture, timber, wool and food processing throughout Australia and New Zealand and in America, Brazil, China, Europe and South Africa.
Ms Fiona Simson
National Farmers' Federation
Fiona Simson is a farmer from the Liverpool Plains in NSW where she, husband Ed and family run a mixed farming enterprise including broad acre farming and breeding commercial poll Hereford cattle.
With tertiary qualifications in business and education, Fiona's passion for local food production and the growth and sustainability of rural and regional Australia led to a career in local government as an elected Councillor in Liverpool Plains Shire Council and an elected representative of NSW Farmers' Association. In 2011, she became the first woman President of the Association retaining that position for a full four year term.
Passionate about the power of a unified voice for agriculture, Fiona also believes in its role in a strong and vibrant future for regional Australia.
Fiona sits on the Board of NRMA (NSW), the Australian Made Campaign Ltd, AgStewardship Australia and the Australian Farmers Fighting Fund.
Fiona was elected President of the National Farmers' Federation in November 2016.
Mr Mark Bennett
Head of Agribusiness and Specialised Commercial
Mark currently leads ANZ Agribusiness in Australia with a focus on strategy and industry insights that are designed to deliver information and promote positive change for our industry. He also has direct accountability for our portfolio of large or complex commercial businesses in regional Australia that together with Agri make a significant contribution to our regional economy.
Mark has worked in Agribusiness for 25 years with previous senior business management roles at Rabobank that exposed him to agribusiness in Australia and around the world.
His family continue to farm on a dry land cropping property at Waitchie, Northwest Victoria where he was brought up.
Mr Grant Cairns
Executive General Manager, Regional Agribusiness Banking
Grant's team is responsible for serving and meeting the financial services needs of our rural commercial and agribusiness customers in over 70 locations across Australia.
Grant joined the Commonwealth Bank in 2005 and has broad experience across the Business and Private Banking (BPB) division. He has held senior leadership roles in Corporate Business Development, Transaction Banking, Asset Finance and Property Finance. He has also held executive roles managing the Bank's Commercial Lending and Asset Finance products and portfolio.
Prior to joining the Commonwealth Bank, Grant worked as a General Manager with McCarrolls Automotive Group. He started his career as an accountant at KPMG.
Grant has completed Australia's flagship Asia Leadership Program and holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting and Finance as well as a Master of Applied Finance. He is also a Chartered Accountant. Grant is also a member of the Agricultural Industry Advisory Council (AIAC).
Mr Mark Cox
Mark Cox was appointed Chief Risk Officer Rabobank Australia & New Zealand Group in December 2016, responsible for maintaining a comprehensive regional view of all material risks and a solid risk management framework and culture. Mark is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Group Executive and Rabobank's International Risk Management team (comprising all activities outside of the Netherlands).
Mark joined Rabobank in May 2000 as Director of Corporate Banking managing many of Rabobank's Australia and New Zealand institutional Food and Agribusiness clients. Mark moved to Risk into the role of Head of Credit Risk for Australia in 2010, with responsibilities for credit across all Rabobank Australian business lines. Prior to this, Mark commenced his career in Banking with the State Bank of NSW in the 1980's. There he followed a traditional banking career path, his final role being the Head of Corporate and Agribusiness Banking for Colonial State Bank based in Sydney before joining Rabobank.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Business, a Masters of Applied of Finance, and is a member of the Australian Risk Management Association.
Mr Steve Hannan
National Manager, Agribusiness
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He is deeply passionate about people leadership, innovation and regional, rural and remote Australia.
Steve is a strong advocate of leadership by authenticity, trust and humility. He has a long standing track record of creating high performing and deeply passionate teams based on these attributes.
He is a visionary in the field of agribusiness and unique opportunities that arise for Australia and constantly questions the implications of new trends and developments in this field to set up Westpac Agribusiness for the next 100 years.
Steve has dedicated the majority of his career (spanning almost 30 years) to his vision of creating "vibrant and sustainable communities for our children and their children's children so that they have a bright future should they choose to raise their families in regional, rural or remote Australia".
He is a Sports Science Graduate of Southern Cross University, Graduate/Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian School of Management.
Ms Julie Rynski
Customer Executive, Nab Partners, Regional & Agribusiness and Private Bank
National Australia Bank
Julie Rynski is a career banker joining NAB Business Banking in October 2017.
Julie leads NAB's team of dedicated bankers in Agribusiness and diversified banking including Health, Education, Government, Community and Property across Regional Australia, inclusive of ACT, Tasmania and NT Metropolitan areas. She is a passionate advocate for Regional Australia and works hard to ensure that broader Australia understand the importance and contribution they make to the country.
Ms Rynski grew up in country WA and joined NAB from Westpac where she was Executive General Manager of several divisions, including Commercial Banking, Agri, Small- Medium Enterprises and Connect NOW and Retail Banking. She has also worked as chief of staff for the Westpac CEO, Head of HR for Pacific Islands, Country Head Fiji and lead many turnaround projects. Her banking career has been across Westpac, Bankwest and HBOS - UK.
Julie holds an MBA from the University of Sydney, completed the Snr Execuitve program at the London Business School,The Snr Executive Breakthrough Programme at IMD, Lausanne - Switzerland and the Australian Rural Leadership Program. Accredited Coach from IECL.


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Types Of Work Injuries
How Common Are Workplace Fatalities?
On behalf of The Law Office of Gretchen Hall | Jan 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Workplace safety must be taken seriously, especially in dangerous occupations. There is always room for improvement, always ways to lower the number of people who die on the job each year.
With that being said, looking at those numbers provides some perspective. According to an article from Forbes, 5,250 people lost their lives at work in 2018 based on recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In contrast, about 35,000 people are killed in car accidents each year. People are approximately 7 times more likely to die in a car accident than a work accident.
Perhaps not surprisingly, most fatal work accidents actually are car accidents. In 2018, 40% of on-the-job fatalities resulted from traffic accidents. In other words, people whose occupations do not require time on the road are even less likely to be killed at work.
What is surprising is that the second most common cause of on-the-job deaths in 2018 was violence from people or animals, overtaking the previous year's runner-up, which was falling.
How Did Minnesota Fare In Workplace Deaths?
Wyoming had the highest workplace fatality rate in 2018, at 11.5 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers. Our neighbors in North Dakota were near the top of the list, with 9.6. In Minnesota, we were on the low end of the spectrum, but by no means the lowest, with 2.7 deaths per 100,000 workers. Delaware came in with the lowest workplace fatality rate at 1.6.
While workplace fatalities are not as common as some may think, we believe that even a single death on the job is one too many. Thankfully, new standards, procedures and equipment are being brought into workplaces every day to keep workers safe. As we move into 2020, we will continue to stand beside those who are injured on the job to help them get the benefits they need to move forward, and to seek justice for families who lose loved ones in the workplace.
Construction Worker And Industrial Injuries (8)
Industrial Workers' Accidents (1)
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Day 135 (10/5): This morning before hitting the road I did a oil change and cleaned the air filter which was much needed. This should be my last trail maintenance before I'm "home". I then headed out to Zion Nation Park. It was a beautiful drive with some great scenic overviews.
Once you get into the park the views are breathtaking.
I took the short hike to the Canyon Overlook.
Just as I got off the Canyon Overlook it started to rain. Then once I got to my vehicle it started to pour. I headed back to my campsite and enjoyed a dinner as it rained the rest of the evening. I did not do the Zion Canyon drive as it requires taking the shuttle bus and with the weather and it starting to get late I did not thing it was worth it. Hopefully tomorrow morning the weather will be better and I will go on the bus. If not I will head north.
Day 136 (10/6): When I woke up this morning the weather was mediocre in Zion NP so I decided to take off. Today was a game of mileage. I drove highways and interstates all the way to slightly passed Grand Junction, Co. I did end up stopping at Alcan Springs to talk to them and ordered a new set of leaf springs for my vehicle so the current ones on my vehicle can go on the trailer for a more durable set. I also made a few phone calls around to find a place to rebuild and repair my shocks and struts along with getting some spare parts delivered. Hopefully this weekend I can get my vehicle on a lift and figure out everything I need to fix everything back up to specs. I ended up stopping at a Colorado state park to camp I was surprised at the cost of them they are very nice and some of the cleanest I have seen though. The drive was truly beautiful but I did not stop to take any pictures as I want to consider Zion the final destination.
Day 137 (10/7): This morning was a nice half day drive over to Thornton and Denver through some great terrain. I ended up arriving around at Insain Fab to drop off and park my camper at noon. After a short talk and unloading my vehicle of some weight I headed out to see some friends. This is the official end of my trip. But please stay tune. I will be posting about smaller road tips I take along with a recap of my thoughts on the trip and my favorite picture from the trip.


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Up and Vanished First Look: See Which True Crime Cases Oxygen Will Tackle This Season!
by Emily Mae Czachor | Wed., Jan. 8, 2020 7:00 AM
Documentarian and podcaster Payne Lindsey's investigative work is returning to Oxygen.
Payne's Tenderfoot TV true crime podcast and its subsequent TV special, Up and Vanished, will return to the network for a brand new full season starting Saturday, Feb. 15 at 7 p.m. and E! News has the exclusive first-look promo. Per the clip above, the new episodes will continue to explore unsolved missing persons cases similar to the disappearance of Georgia woman Tara Grinstead, which the show investigated in 2018.
"She was on her way to work, then disappears off the face of the earth," says a male voice at the new promo's start, while a string of young women's faces flash across the screen. The video goes on to tease a witness interview, lie detector test and shocking confrontation with one of the case's suspects.
During Up and Vanished's upcoming two-hour premiere episode, Payne and his team examine the case of Jodi Huisentruit, a news anchor from rural Iowa who disappeared before delivering her morning newscast. That was 24 years ago, and Jodi's loved ones have been looking for her ever since. The team will explore several cases like hers over the course of the season, including that of Korrina Malinoski and her daughter Annette, who went missing from their home in South Carolina 30 years ago.
The Shocking True Story of Up and Vanished: How an Arm-Chair Detective Solved a 12-Year Old Cold Case
In addition to mystery disappearances dating back decades, Up and Vanished will dive into more recent cases. One of them involves 29-year-old Kristal Reisinger, who hasn't been seen since 2016, after having moved to an isolated Colorado town in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. The other, a 2019 case, concerns 17-year-old Molly Miller and 21-year-old Colt Haynes, who disappeared in Oklahoma after a high-speed car chase.
Check out the exclusive promo above! Up and Vanished returns to Oxygen for a two-hour season premiere Saturday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m.
(E! and Oxygen are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
And for more updates on Kristal Reisinger's case and other major true crime cases, scroll through the gallery below.
Kristal Anne Reisinger, Up and Vanished
For the second season of his Up and Vanished podcast, host Payne Lindsey chose to investigate the bizarre disappearance of another woman, a mom who was allegedly last seen at a full moon drum circle in the small and spiritual town of Crestone, Colorado.
Throughout the season, Lindsey talked to her ex-boyfriend and the father of her young daughter, her landlord, her friends, as well as the group of men Kristal was hanging out with shortly before she went missing in 2016.
By the end of the podcast's second season, Lindsey had a pretty good theory of what happened, suspecting a small circle of friends, including a man named Catfish, at the very least knew something.
"I definitely think Kristal's case can be solved, I think it's going to take some time though," Lindsey said on the podcast.
And his final words in season two? "We've seen a lot come to light in a short amount of time. All I can say is, good luck hiding this forever, guys. The clock is ticking."
Lindsey will continue to investigate the case in season two of Oxygen's Up and Vanished.
AP Photo/Winona Times, Dale Gerstenslager
In the Dark, Season 2
Baran & Co. played whistleblower once again in their highly anticipated 2018 follow up, which focused on Curtis Flowers, a black man who has been tried for the same crime—murdering four people in Mississippi in 1996—six times. Yes, six times. And each time, he was tried by the same white district attorney. The last trial of five took place in 2010, with all ending in a hung jury or being thrown out.
Flowers has maintained his innocence, and In the Dark looked into the crime itself, how Flowers was accused, and how the district attorney, Doug Evans, put together his case against him. (Spoiler alert: His tactics might've been dubious, including several eye witnesses claiming they were coached on what to say and offered incentives to testify.) Although, it must be noted Flowers was never allowed to speak to Baran for the podcast.
That may change now that Flowers has been released from prison on $250,000 bail, 25 years after his wrongful conviction. In January, according to NPR, a U.S. Supreme Court found prosecutors "had shown an unconstitutional pattern of excluding black jurors from Flowers' trials."
Tara Grinstead, Up and Vanished
The 2003 disappearance of a beloved former beauty queen and high school teacher made national news when Up and Vanished podcast host Payne Lindsey actually helped bring new attention to the case, with two of Grinstead's former students being arrested and charged with the crime and it played out in real-time on the podcast. (Grinstead's body has never been found.)
While the first season of the podcast ended in July 2017, Oxygen recently debuted a special, giving fans an update on the investigation: After both pleading not guilty, Ryan Duke and Bo Dukes' respective trials began in 2019. In March 2019, Bo Dukes was found guilty and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Ryan Duke's trial is still ongoing in Georgia.
Steven Avery, Making a Murderer
Netflix's docu-series focused on Avery, a man who was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and attempted murder and served 18 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA evidence in 2003. After going on to sue the county for $36 million, he was arrested and charged with the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer who was reportedly last seen on his property, an auto salvage as she was taking photos of car for sale for Auto Trade Magazine. After a two-year legal battle, Avery was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2007.
Avery has denied murdering Halbach, and after the smash success of Part One, which spanned 10 years, prominent defense attorney Kathleen Zellner took on his case and filed a post-conviction motion in June 2017. But a few months later, a motion for a new trial was denied. In December 2018, Zellner filed a new motion for DNA testing of possible human bones, which were never tested during the original trial.
And that same month Zellner called a recent defamation lawsuit filed by a former Manitowoc County detective against Netflix and the MaM filmmakers "an early Christmas present" in a statement provided to Rolling Stone.
Herald Times Reporter/Eric Young via AP, Poo
Brendan Dassey, Making a Murderer
He was 17 when he was convicted as an accessory to Halbach's murder and rape though he recanted his confession; he was sentenced to life in prison with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048.
But fans of the first season of the Netflix hit were shocked when it was reported in August 2016 that Brendan's conviction was overturned by a federal judge, who ordered that Brendan be "released from custody." The State of Wisconsin appealed the ruling, and in December 2017, his conviction was upheld in a 4-3 vote.
Another blow came in June 2018, the Supreme Court decided it would not hear Brendan's case.
Karl Merton Ferron/TNS via ZUMA Wire
Adnan Syed, Serial
Ah, the podcast that started it all. Back in 2014, everyone was asking each other "Do you think he did it?" because of Sarah Koenig's gripping quest to find out if Syed really did murder his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999.
After the podcast exposed possible ineffectiveness of counsel after his attorney did not interview several key witnesses and errors in the cellphone tower location data used during the original trial, a judge granted Syed a new trial in 2016.
But Syed is still behind bars, with the Court of Special Appeals upholding a decision that Syed deserves a new trial earlier this year, and Maryland's highest court head opening arguments in late November. They have yet to complete their review.
Greene County Sheriff's Office; Instagram
Hulu is set to tell the shocking story of murderer Gypsy Rose Blanchard, a young woman who brutally killed her own mother, Dee Dee Blanchard, in 2015. After Dee Dee's dead body was found in their Springfield, Miss. home by a concerned neighbor, their family and friends slowly began to unravel the truth about what was going on behind closed doors.
It was later discovered that Gypsy, who everyone believed to be disabled and very ill, murdered her mother with the help of her lover, Chris Godejohn. In reality, it was her mother's Munchausen by proxy that lead to Gypsy's seemingly failing health.
Gypsy, now 27, is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, and took part in the 2017 HBO documentary, Mother Dead and Dearest. Joey King is set to play Gypsy in Hulu's The Act, with Patricia Arquette portraying Dee Dee.
In 2017, Netflix released a seven-episode docu-series looking into what happened to Sister Cathy Cesnik, who was killed in 1969, as well as abuse allegations at Keough High School in Baltimore in the late 1960s. The man at the center of it all was Father Joseph Maskell, who died in 2001 and was at the center of the abuse allegations made in the series.
After the series premiered, the police exhumed Maskell's body and tested his DNA, which ultimately did not match a sample from the crime scene where Sister Cathy's body was found.
The Keepers lead the Archdiocese of Baltimore to address the abuse allegations against Maskell directly, as well as answer questions about Sister Cathy's still-unsolved murder.
Jessica Chambers, Unspeakable Crime
The shocking death of a former cheerleader in 2014 was at the center of Oxygen's special, as the 19-year-old was burned alive, with burns over 98 percent of her body. Several first responders reported she had uttered a name that sounded like "Eric" or "Derek" just before she died.
But the police believed a recent acquaintance named Quinton Tellis, who was 27 at the time and the prosecutors claimed texted Jessica asking for sex, was responsible. Tellis maintains his innocence, and is currently serving a five-year sentence in Mississippi after he was convicted for burglarizing an unoccupied dwelling.
The first trial ended when the jury failed to reach a verdict, with the judge declaring a mistrial. But the second trial also ended with a hung jury, with the judge once again declaring a mistrial in October 2018.
The Australian's Hedley Thomas caused a major stir down under when he launched his investigative podcast in May 2018 that looked into the 1982 disappearance of Lyn Dawson, unearthing the relationship between her husband Chris Dawson and Joanne Curtis, his student-turned-babysitter-turned second wife. The professional rugby player-turned-schoolteacher claimed his wife and the mother of his two children had run off with a religious cult, with the 16-year-old Joanne moved in with Chris Dawson three days after Lyn Dawson was last seen.
After 27 million downloads worldwide and a new spotlight on Lyn's disappearance and likely murder, along with major allegations of sexual abuse in the Australian school systems in the late '70s and '80s, fans of the podcast were shocked when Chris Dawson was arrested in early December 2018 and charged with Lyn's murder (police have never found her body).
Dawson, now 70, has denied killing his first wife, though two coronial inquests concluded she had been killed by a "known person."
Just before Christmas, he was released on bail, and is due back in court in February 2019.
Gerald R. Brimacombe/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images
In the Dark Season 1
The first season of APM Reports' thorough and captivating investigative podcast focused on the kidnapping of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in 1989. But then, less than two weeks before the first episode was set to drop… the case was solved, as Danny Heinrich, who had once been questioned by police and was a person of interest in another abduction case, confessed to kidnapping and murdering Jacob, leading investigators to his remains.
Still, the podcast, which included nine months of investigative reporting by host Madeleine Baran and her team, examined the impact the crime had on the community, as well as the investigators' handling of the case. "We saw ourselves as investigating the investigation," Baran said in a 2016 interview.
As for Heinrich, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a child pornography count in 2016, and as part of his plea bargain, which included providing the details of Jacob's murder, he was not charged with murder.
Have questions? See if Lindsey and his team can help answer them starting Saturday, Feb. 15.
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8:00 am on August 6, 2020 By Michael Young
Demolition preparations are underway at 45-03 23rd Street in Hunters Point, Queens, the site of a 544-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper. Designed by Fogarty Finger and developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital under the Court Square 45th Avenue LLC, the 50-story tower will contain condominiums as well as commercial and community space.
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Permits have been filed for a 50-story mixed-use skyscraper at 45-03 23rd Street in Hunters Point, Queens. Located at the intersection of 23rd Street and 45th Avenue, the corner lot is steps from the Court Square subway station, serviced by the E, M, G, and 7 trains. Tavros Capital under the Court Square 45th Avenue LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Track 1: The Omagh, Co. Tyrone, background to the O'Shiel family, Kevin O'Shiel's education in England and his career at the Bar, are outlined by Eda Sagarra, as is his membership of Sinn Féin and the Irish Nation League. His writing for several Sinn Féin newspapers and his letters to the Irish Independent are also discussed. His brief membership of the Irish Volunteers is recalled. Track 2: In Omagh, Kevin O'Shiel began a publicity campaign against conscription in 1918, and this is discussed. Track 3: Eda Sagarra outlines the activities of her father, who was a member of the Standing Committee of Sinn Féin, following the arrest of many of the leaders as a consequence of the "German Plot" in 1918. Kevin O'Shiel became Special Commissioner for the Sinn Féin Courts in 1920. He acted for Countess Markievicz during one case. Track 4: The conducting of cases before the Sinn Féin Courts is described, as is the enormous amount of work involved, the large number of cases settled, and the location of these Courts. Possible intimidation, and fear of raids and/or attack on the Courts is also explored. Track 5: Eda Sagarra speaks of the signing of the Treaty. Kevin O'Shiel's convictions at this time are explained – he took the Treaty side. His daughter explains that he was very reluctant to ever discuss the events of the Civil War. Kevin O'Shiel became a Director of the North Eastern Boundary Bureau in September 1922. The death of Michael Collins in 1922 is discussed, as is its effect on his great friend, Kevin O'Shiel, who had acted for him in the North. The gift sent to Kevin O'Shiel by Seán Collins, brother of Michael Collins, and its present location, is described. Track 6: Eda Sagarra discusses her father's first marriage to Miss Montgomery on the day following the shooting of Collins, the death of his wife, and his second marriage to Miss Smiddy, Eda's mother. Her father's contact with his comrades of earlier turbulent days later in his life is recalled, as is his anger at much of what he regarded as de Valera's self-seeking politics. The writing of Kevin O'Shiel's memoir in the 1960s is also discussed.


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Q: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not P (position: START_DOCUMENT seen P... @1:1) @ line 1, column 1 POM file :: I am using 4 java classes in this project. Build getting sucuess but
POM FILE::
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Getting below error message:

[INFO] Scanning for projects... [ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were
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  C:\Users\KANE1354\workspace\Login\target\Login-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar:
  only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not P (position:
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  build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] [ERROR]    [ERROR]   The
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  has 1 error [ERROR]     Non-parseable POM
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Please help me to solve this issues.

A: Try deleting the "repository" folder in maven's .m2 folder. The maven local repository is a local folder that is used to store all your project's dependencies. The location of your local repository can be changed in your user configuration. The default value is ${user.home}/.m2/repository/.

A: I encountered the same problem. In my case the POM downloaded in to my .m2/repository were corrupted and did not have a valid XML syntax. I did a clean install -X so that I could see the detailed error log and identify which POMs were corrupted
I deleted all the error causing POMs from .m2/repository and did a clean install and it worked!