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Leadership Shuffle Sparks Renewed Federal Focus On Civil Rights
by Shaun Heasley | June 4, 2010
The Obama administration is bringing new faces and a renewed energy to the Justice Department office charged with handling disability rights cases.
Since Thomas E. Perez took the helm of the Office of Civil Rights at the Justice Department in October, a division pummeled by allegations of being politicized during the Bush administration is expanding and regaining credibility with civil rights groups.
Already the disability community is seeing the effects. In May alone, the federal government took legal action against four states for failure to provide community living options for residents with disabilities.
The actions are coming with a mandate from the top. Civil rights is a stated priority of both President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
Most of all Perez says he's working to bring the division back to its founding principles and says that under the previous administration some civil rights laws were simply ignored. Now the civil rights chief is on a hiring spree and says he's working to bridge the divide between career staff and political appointees, reports The Washington Post. To read more click here.
View this article online at https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2010/06/04/doj-civ-rts/8896/


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"Why when I hire a pair of hands, do they come with a brain attached?" What a strong reminder from Henry Ford of how leadership is challenging.
Whether you want to be a leader or not, it's beneficial to know if people want to follow you. My intention is to provide awareness, so you can take action. It may sting, but it will accelerate your success.
There are three signs to look for that it's time to adjust your approach to leadership.
It's helpful when I have the privilege to do real-time coaching and shadow people with positional power, such as the C-suite, surgeon leaders and elite performers. One common thread is that no matter the situation or conversation, they win. Not only do they win, they almost never realize that when they are contributing emotional and purposeful impact, someone is losing.
When a person feels like they "lose," they will stop trying to help you win.
2. You change meeting dates and times based on your priorities.
You determine that it's more important to do something other than keep your commitment to meet with someone who reports to you. It may very well be true that your CEO calls you or something comes up that you view as a business priority. And it's completely normal to adapt and shift meetings. But what's not business beneficial is if it's a pattern and not an exception. The message it sends to other people is they aren't important and they aren't valued. Worse, they are left with ambiguity, the enemy of performance. Employees start to complain and create the story of being left on an island.
The reality is that people below you may have been looking forward to the conversation, had an innovative idea or needed your support. Rather than being focused on the business, they focus on what they aren't getting. We all need to adjust, but know the impact of your decisions. Anything you unscheduled, reschedule. It may also be an opportunity to revisit the commitments you make and schedule fewer meetings.
3. You believe the biggest problem you have is people don't take ownership.
A common challenge, where people focus on the symptoms and not the solution, is ownership. If you consistently think that people just don't step up and take initiative, it may be the case that you are a "fixer." You are highly confident and competent at making decisions, and people have learned to just sit back and be comfortable with a setback.
Leaders need to communicate what they mean by ownership and create opportunities to take on ownership. Elite performers get to where they are because they think, feel and move fast. That will get you where you want to go, but when you are there, you're going to need others to contribute and feel that they can contribute to the organization's success.
Accepting there is a challenge is the first step to solving a challenge. My intention is to help leaders realize the opportunity to create an environment where people want to contribute to success. Google discovered that who is on a team is less important than how a team functions. That finding reinforces the importance of being a strong leader who creates a strong team. Psychological safety, which is helping people feel encouraged to take risks without being embarrassed or feeling insecure, was the No. 1 predictor of a successful team.
If you find these signs are true of you, opportunity lies ahead. As a leader, you determine how your team functions and feels. A simple strategy is communicating that you want to lead the team in a way that will focus on collective success.
Create a team tally of three areas you want to improve and measure them monthly. Sample questions are: On a scale of 0 (low) to 10 (high), 1) What's your level of comfort taking a risk? 2) How frequently do you get to use your strengths on the team? 3) How frequently do you provide feedback to your team leader?
The lower the scores, the more you want to work with your team to identify what you can do to improve. After any of the three items are consistently receiving an 8 or higher, add another team-identified behavior to the list. You will create expectations and a culture of psychological safety and providing feedback and advice.
People work hard at what's on their scorecard. If you really want to have a positive impact and get a return on effort, put together that team tally. You will notice people contribute more and make a commitment to their own improvement.


The Human Rights Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday March 4 has been postponed to March 11 at 6 p.m. in the Mayor's Conference Room due to inclement weather.
The Inland Wetlands Watercourses Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday March 4 has been cancelled. The next scheduled meeting is April 1 at 7 p.m. in the Cass Gilbert Room at City Hall.


Shepherdstown, West Virginia, as Brandon Dennison is quick to tell me, "is nothing like the rest of the state." It's a small, quaint college town of around 3,500 students and 1,500 full-timers; the buildings lining the main corridor, German Street, date from the town's founding in the 18th century, though the storefronts now advertise bubble tea and organic wares. Maryland is visible just across the Potomac.
Dennison is neither a Shepherdstown resident nor native; he grew up in Ona and lives in Wayne, a small town deep in coal country, a six-hour drive from Shepherdstown and just a half an hour from the Kentucky border. He came to Shepherdstown for college because it was as far away as he could get from Wayne while still availing of in-state tuition, and he's back now on a June Sunday for two reasons.
Read the full story at fastcompany.com.


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StorageCraft Named in 2019 Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Disaster Recovery as a Service
StorageCraft receives highest percentage for "Willingness to Recommend" and one of the highest ratings for "Product Capabilities"
DRAPER, UT – December 9, 2019 – StorageCraft®, whose mission is to protect all data and ensure its constant availability, announced today that in the Gartner Peer Insights 'Voice of the Customer': Disaster Recovery as a Service[1] (DRaaS) report, it has received the highest percentage for "Willingness to Recommend" with 94% of 35 reviews and one of the highest for "Product Capabilities" with 4.7 out of 5. As of December 4, 2019, 45% of all reviews were provided by mid-size companies between $50M - $1B in size.
In the report, StorageCraft received an overall score of 4.4 out of 5.
Individual categories were rated as follows:
4.4 for Evaluation & Contracting
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4.7 for Product Capabilities
StorageCraft received these reviews, with highlights including:
"Best server back-up software out there!" By Research Assistant and Analyst in Miscellaneous Industry
"Best DRaaS Product On The Market." By Operations Analyst in the Finance Industry
"Powerful hardware-independent restore feature." By Main Stack Developer in the Services Industry
"ShadowProtect: Secure & Optimum Storage Backup Platform." By Research Engineer in the Healthcare Industry
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"Simple To Deploy, You Can Recover Files In Less Than 5 Minutes." By IT Manager in the Services Industry
"Easy to implement and manage DR solution for all of our various server environments." By Network Admin in the Healthcare Industry
According to Gartner, "Gartner defines disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) as a productized service offering in which the provider manages server image and production data replication to the cloud, disaster recovery run book creation, automated server recovery within the cloud, automated server failback from the cloud, and network element and functionality configuration, as needed. Source servers supported must include a combination of both virtual and physical. To be considered DRaaS versus other options that enable do-it-yourself recovery, all elements of the service must be included in the service offering contract between the provider and customer, and offer a standardized SLA for recovery."
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Peer Insights is an online platform of ratings and reviews of IT software and services that are written and read by IT professionals and technology decision-makers. The goal is to help IT leaders make more insightful purchase decisions and help technology providers improve their products by receiving objective, unbiased feedback from their customers. Gartner Peer Insights includes more than 215,000 verified reviews in more than 340 markets. For more information, please visit www.gartner.com/reviews/home.
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Healthy Habits to Fight Junk Food Cravings - Teatox & Co.
Do you find yourself hard to break free from your unhealthy eating habits?
Many of us find it hard to resist having some sugary or fatty snacks every now and then. For those of us with a hectic schedule, junk foods or fast foods might be our go-to meal when we don't have the time to prepare nutritious, balanced foods. We might be so dependent on junk food that our body constantly craves for it every now and then. But don't let these cravings fool you! Try these healthy habits to fight your junk food cravings the natural way instead. It's simpler than you think!
Believe it or not, our body might often fool us into thinking that we are hungry or having food cravings. If you feel the sudden urge to eat junk food, try drinking a glass of water instead. Sometimes, it can actually help curb your cravings because your body is just dehydrated, not hungry. Furthermore, drinking water can improve your metabolism and help weight loss!
When you have junk food cravings and decide to give in to them, you will get hungry again sooner or later because junk food mostly contains empty calories that will not keep you full for a long time. Turn to more protein-rich snacks instead, like a protein bar, yoghurt, or nuts. Protein keeps us feeling full for a longer period of time to suppress cravings. Research has also shown that increasing protein intake may reduce cravings by up to 60% and cut the desire to snack at night by 50%!
One of the reasons for your cravings is stress! This is especially true for women. So if you find yourself easily gravitating towards unhealthy snacks way too often, it's probably because you got a lot on your mind. Relax, unwind, and find an activity that helps you feel refreshed and recharged instead. Doing a hobby or a sport might help you distract yourself from your cravings as well.
so control your habits before they control you!


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FOstering Careers for Underrepresented Stars (FOCUS) 2022
We were really excited to have you all at our inaugural program in 2022 and are excited for a new and improved program in 2023 at the VBS Annual Meeting April 13-15 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Bellagio. After feedback from you, we have decided to expand the FOCUS-directed content to a full day on 4/13. Similar to last year, this year participants will receive waived registration, a shared hotel room for four nights (4/12-4/16) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, and reimbursement for up to $500 in travel expenses.
To participate again this year, please obtain approval to attend the meeting from your medical school dean or ophthalmology residency program director. We ask that you also submit a CV and a no longer than 90 second audio statement identifying what you gained from the FOCUS program last year and what you hope to gain this year?
All audio content must be submitted in English no later than January 9th, 2023. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out at vitbuckle.ea@gmail.com.
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HELP! How to make a cron job in Cpanel?
Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by EarthIndex, Oct 7, 2004.
I need to make a cron job using CPanel to run a PHP file that has to include a username and password. Does anyone know how to do this?
or simply use your cpanel to add the log file using the simple format.
I'm not certain, but I think the question is, how do I include variables in the cron job?
I remember I had to figure that out a while back but ended up just putting the variables in the script.


For indie creators, it could be a game-changer.
Anchor, a free podcast creation app, on Thursday launched Sponsorships. The company says it's the first ad platform that's open to anyone—even your friend with that niche podcast about Mad Men season 3.
Reviews for Anchor have been flooding in since the app launched in 2016. An updated version—Anchor 3.0—shifted the aim of the app from a space for simple, short-form audio to an all-encompassing podcast shop that even lets you follow the success of your podcast after publishing.
Sponsorships is Anchor's next step. It allows those podcasters who are just starting out to generate ad revenue by pairing them with brands, allowing them to record a customized ad and add it to their podcast to get paid. The amount they earn will, of course, depend on the number of listeners, but Anchor's new platform will allow even small-time podcasters to see some kind of return for their content.
Podcasters are not forced to select sponsors that they match with if they don't think the shoe fits. Creating custom ads can be done through Anchor as well. Whether podcasters choose to use Anchor's audio tools or to upload a pre-recorded ad, Sponsorships will run it. Podcasters can choose when and where the ad appears in their episodes, even those previously aired.
Once these ads are aired in a tone that fits a podcaster's voice, the meter is running. Sponsors submit script guidelines so podcasters know what points to hit, but creators have artistic freedom in how the message will be delivered.
"Payments are made for any and all plays, whether people are listening on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, or anywhere else," the press release says. The platform takes a small portion of any payment made, of course, as does Swipe, its chosen payment partner. It's a platform in a space where there isn't much in terms of automated revenues, and could be a game-changer for the DIY circuit.


A lady feeds a tiger through the mesh of a truck.
Hidden in the isolated terrain of Far East Russia, one of the world's most almighty species roams under an ominous threat.
Poachers and deforestation have left the largest feline on the planet at a critical risk of extinction. With numbers in the wild dwindling below 500, the extraordinary Siberian tiger may not have long left in its natural habitat.
Across the border in Northern China, the situation is vastly different.
On the outskirts of Heilongjiang's provincial capital, a controversial breeding facility claims to hold around 800 captive cats.
Two African lions sit inside the park.
The Siberian Tiger Park in Harbin is a sprawling compound of around a million square metres, branding itself as a revolutionary sanctuary.
With an impressive collection of large cats from around the world, including African lions and pumas, it attracts thousands of tourists every year.
Unfortunately it is for an entirely different, and more chilling, reason that its popularity is soaring along with the numbers.
A white tiger paces inside its cage.
Under the guise of research and welfare, a harrowing form of entertainment has been created for the Chinese domestic tourist market.
Busloads of local holidaymakers flood the centre for the chance to feed live animals to the ravenous Siberian tigers. Chickens, goats and even cows are ordered from a simple menu, loaded into dump trucks and then thrown to the predators.
The 'menu' of the Harbin Siberian Tiger Park.
Enthused onlookers yell and cheer from the sidelines, while the petrified livestock are hunted and then consumed by up to twenty waiting cats. The bloodshed is immense. The shock factor is overwhelming.
There are two sections of the Siberian Tiger Park that are open to the public, and both offer opposing ideas on what really goes on at the zoo.
The large outdoor facility can only be accessed by driving around in caged passenger trucks, and gives the illusion of the Siberian Tiger Park being a wholesome habitat.
Huge fields of lush grass and leafy trees sprawl out between large, electrified fences. Various groups of tigers seem to be healthy and content, with ample space and shade to sleep during the heat of the day.
A tiger rests in the grass.
Overcrowding is not an issue, but the skyscrapers of Harbin standing tall in the distance does remind visitors that the tigers are a long way from their native home.
Behind the safety of steel mesh, the trucks pass through Jurassic Park-style automated gates and into the packs of felines.
Each enclosure is segregated between particular species or age groups. Adolescent tigers are paired together, and full-grown African lions doze in their own stockade.
The live feeding takes place in these outdoor fields. The customers who pre-purchased a meal watch on in anticipated excitement to observe the tigers tear the luckless animals apart.
A lady dangles a strip of meat towards the tigers.
For those who prefer a more close-up experience, strips of beef are available to buy from a guide, which can then be hand fed to the cats through the truck's mesh.
Jumping onto the wagon in hungry desperation, the tigers claw and chomp at the skewers, usually with the feeder prodding and teasing it in a horrible form of mild torture.
The driving tour lasts less than an hour, and during it you catch glimpses of smaller enclosures on the edge of the compound. But it is only once you reach the pedestrian section of the facility that the true realities of the zoo are revealed.
An elevated boardwalk meanders above a single grassy field that houses many large tigers. Vendors stand at different intervals, holding cages of live chickens.
They are all available to buy and push through a vent, where the tigers below will pounce and gorge on the birds. The sadistic feeding never stops for the amused tourists.
Dried-up pools are scattered throughout the area, surrounded by bare concrete. Smaller pens are left in shoddy states of disrepair, forcing overcrowding in the larger compounds.
A dried up pool in the park.
The final stretch of causeway contains views into the two most heart wrenching parts of the Siberian Tiger Park.
A row of narrow enclosures borders the fence, each barely a few metres wide and only slightly longer. A tiny hut punctuates the far side. No water or food can be seen. Here is where the exotic cats live in troubled turmoil.
A pair of pumas tries to hide in the shade while a neighbouring leopard paces back and forth. A rare white tiger is crammed into a corner.
The world's largest liger, an intriguing genetic blend between a tiger and an African lion, circles its cage in depressing angst. This enormous beast is confined to a space that would be more suitable for a medium-sized dog.
Only metres from the exit, the park's signature attraction garners the most attention: A Siberian tiger cub, only a few months old. Set in a circular pagoda, separated from the rest of the adult tigers, the cute cub is put on show for the entertainment of more paying customers.
Two young locals pet the scared tiger cub.
For a minor fee, singles or groups are able to pet and hold the terrified baby, with no reservation and care considered. Its mother watches on from the other side of the wall, desperate, but unable to protect its infant.
The cub screams and tries to escape while tourists wildly handle it, posing for selfies and that "once in a lifetime" photo.
There is no requirement for gloves or face masks to be worn in order to save the young tiger from catching a disease. Park officials show little concern other than collecting money.
Taking a selfie with the tiger cub.
In terms of statistics, the Siberian Tiger Park has thrived in increasing the numbers of these glorious cats. Exact numbers are hard to confirm though: The on-site museum is remarkably void of information, and instead only displays pictures of Chinese celebrities and politicians holding tiger cubs.
Some argue that by allowing the tigers to actively hunt their prey, they are preparing them for future introduction into the wild. But the reality is that these tigers will never be released into the Siberian wilderness.
Their environment is too artificial to ensure survival, and there is too much money to be made by having them stay in Harbin.
Two panthers sit in the door of their concrete pen.
The gruesome world inside the Siberian Tiger Park continues to run under the thin premise of conservation. Every day more busloads of Chinese tourists make the short drive from downtown Harbin to experience the cheap thrill of throwing live animals to the tigers.
The positive aspect of the rising numbers of Siberian tigers is being overshadowed by its unorthodox methods. But with more money to be made, will it every change?
This story was written by Jarryd Salem, and originally appeared on News.com.au.
Live chickens in a cage, waiting to be fed to the cats.
We just visited today. Personally, compared to many zoos around the world I have visited, this place was great.
Huge open spaces for the cats which were clearly in a great shape (healthy fur, chubby for the winter, active…). On the bus, it was possible to get very close, and some people fed the tigers pieces of meat – quite honestly, I've always liked buying feed for animals at the zoos, so I thought it was a good way to make sure the tigers come up close, while feeding them something safe.
Regarding small enclosures, yes, there is a big pavillion with small cages – part of it are breeding cages, and my understanding is the animals rotate in these areas so they still get to spend a lot of time in the vast open areas.
As for life-feeding… honestly… I don't mind. These animals eat life pray in the wild, why not in captivity… after all people watch discovery channel to see the predators catch the pray, not sleep. And if they can get money to give a life chicken, goat etc., seems like a win-win. Not sure why this is so "shocking" to you… even in western zoos you can often see feeding of life animals, and to some animals there is not even a different possibility… like snakes.
Overall, I am more concerned about the e.g. selling of tiger bone for chinese medicine (which can help if done great to make poaching not worth it, but can harm if it helps legalize poached animals), and I would like to see some re-introduction to the wilderness.
But honestly, compared to zoos which have a few exemplars of a rare animal and pretend to be "saving the species", this place is actually large enough to potentially save the tiger populations… even if only by maintaining genetic diversity.
And as far as facilities, this place is pretty good. Especially if compared to animal torture entertainment parks like the Chicago Zoo.
This blog-post is incredibly one-sided, and not entirely written from the same perspective that I witnessed. I was there only a few days ago. Yes, you are allowed to hold the cubs, but there are safety measures in place, such as gloves. One person even attempted to kiss the cub on the head and the staff rushed in to stop them. Yes, there are small outside enclosures, but the conditions for the cats on the inside is unknown. Yes, I did see people "teasing" the cats with the bait food; that's just moronic human behavior. Yes, there are "menus" for visitors to purchase live animals to throw into the enclosures. No, I didn't see people yelling and cheering. No, the blood shed wasn't immense, nor was there any shock factor (you make is sound like one needs to wear raincoats to protect personal clothing), hungry desperation, or dried up pools. Even so, overall, the cats seemed content and healthy. None looked like they were starved, unkempt, or lacking of basic health. There were countless big cats in various "Jurassic Park style enclosures" that are continually interacting with tour busses roaming, sitting, playing. Some of the animals were so disinterested in the food being dangled from the bus that they didn't even as much lift there heads or open their eyes. Furthermore, I am near certain that you are not fluent with the language, so therefore cannot possibly understand the nuisance of the locale to the fullest extent, even with the digging. I do agree that it's a tourist location, and meant to make money, as zoos are generally prone to do. I completely understand that these animals should be allowed to roam free in their natural habitat, but I am certain that their numbers wouldn't be nearly as high as they are in the park. Even if you disagree with their methods, the population of tigers within has nearly doubled since the park opened in 1996. Without places such as this, the population of Siberian Tigers would be almost decimated. I will say that after seeing these incredible beasts up close I have a new found respect for the animal. They are predators, and killing live animals is in their nature; it allows them to keep their base instincts, even if it is a fabricated environment. It's not as if they are domesticated and you can serve up a bowl a kibble from a trough for them.
What is the point in breeding these animals just for the sake of upping the numbers. The only way to truly save a species is to protect their natural habitat and encourage true conservation. These animals in Harbin are bred purely for human entertainment and it's sickening. Animal protection laws don't exist in China. It is naive to believe breeding an animal in captivity is a good way of protecting a species.
I do get your concern of the welfare and health of these animals. But what would u propose?
1)Giving them larger enclosures? Like you said, they have over hundreds of animals under their care, and that would mean even more space is needed, and more man power. If we were to give each tiger their ideal roaming space, we will need thousands of square kilometre for the numbers they have.
2) these animals need alot of food. like… A lOT. If they do not push for tourist to come visit, pay the fees, participate in feeding to relieve the costs.. These animals would go hungry.
3) release them into the wild? let's face it, with human encroachment, deforestation and just increasing number of tourist/ people in general.. this animals have a better shot of survival living in their less than ideal 'homes' than to be in the wild and get hunted/ trapped.
I see your sentiment, and i agree things can be improved. It isn't perfect but it is keeping the animal safe, and giving them the edge to battle against extinction. This is the same problem i have with those condemning the Oslob whale shark feeding, and many other animal protection program.
But i rly love ur website =) thanks!
We went to this facility about 8 years ago when we were in Harbin for my wife's birthday. While we did see the 'menu' of items you could purchase, we never saw anyone actually purchasing things to feed the tigers. We were there in February so it is possible that there is not much of that going on. We did feel horrible for the animals that were out in the cold and it was well below zero degrees F. when we were there. Many were clustered together in groups of 10-15 trying to keep warm.
Hi Chuck and Kathy, so glad you both didn't see the live eating when you were there. Unfortunately it is a big attraction now at the park and many buy live animals to feed to the tigers. They say it is a research park but we dug around and could not find any evidence at all, just a room filled with photos of famous Chinese people holding tigers. We felt the park was not in it for the tiger's well-being, just the money coming in the door. We hope you both had a great trip in China.
Wow, this is just sad, exploiting animals for profit again. Thanks for keeping us informed.
I know. We hope things change there but I know it will not happen fast. Thanks for reading Rob.
Thank you for highlighting the horrors of this animal 'attraction'. :'( The tourism industry needs to wake up and ban such operators. Please do carry more posts about responsible tourism like this. Thank you for what you're doing.
Thank you for reading Priya. We agree. Things need to change.
What a tragedy. Can only hope by drawing attention to issues like this that there might be the start of a push for change. An excellent article Jazza.
I know. We were so shocked when we went. It was terrible. Thanks Dan.
We had exactly the same thoughts when we visited this place, we are not zoo people and it was a very difficult one for us to decide if we want to visit the park and there was not much about it online too that would make us avoid it.
In the end we thought, lets see how it is, at least to get an idea of it ourselves first hand.
We went in Jan, and it was winter, so did not see the dried up ponds and barren lands, but the thing that hit us most was the excessive and gory feeding of live animals, we only had poor chickens being thrown out by the ranger, lucky us, it was not sheep or cow, but it definitely was not a balanced diet either, in all it was overfeeding, we felt.
It was nice to see such wonderful cats up close, but all other aspects of it are not worth it to mandate a trip.
Given a chance we would have avoided it, it was definitely a tourist setup, and for the cats to be freed into the wilderness later, we don't know.


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The Trap of Clausewitz – Why Imperialism Fails Even Without Climate Collapse
Internationalist Observer | 31.12.2014 13:33 | Analysis | Climate Chaos | History | World
And suddenly it is gone – once again the ocean swallowed a passenger plane, presumably with a little help from above. It is unknown just like the last time whether there was human intervention on board, which could have steered the flying mass grave away from the likely places to look before the burial, or whether it was crashed by ground control. Yet it appears a notable coincidence or causality-induced appearance thereof that it does again happen at a moment when the calculations of war are ushering toward a dead end. In the first instance, it was the Chinese head-in-the-sand approach to the independence of Crimea which encountered a rude awakening. Then the Netherlands found themselves punished for their complicity with the European fascists in the independence issue. And now Indonesia gets its extra oath unwrapped and fingered by an apparent coincidence. It is as if the "Bermuda triangle" of the past century was reappearing in the cloth of a "Gaia triangle" that can pop up just everywhere and rip a hole into the illusion of normalcy. And there could be meaning in the increased lapses: Like the shepherd that raises its voice in the moment the fire circle is gliding into a shouting match, the holes in the climate-justice-incompatible normalcy do occur like warning shots directed at preventing an irritated Unitednations structure from decline into overt fascism. The root cause of this risk is a system construction that favours power brokers more than fundamental reflection of purpose, and once the flaw becomes "normalcy" the normalcy of the flaw occasionally transforms into a flaw of normalcy, such as in the cases of the lost aircraft passengers. Did they not know that they were using a dead-end technology?
Lenin´s word of imperialism as the last stage of capitalism is true in so far as from the industrial reconstruction onward the role of the pillage economy with other means expanded to the succession of the historical empires. Yet the deeper truth in it is found only when it is being put from its head onto its feet, and said that capitalism is the last stage of imperialism. That implies that of whatever capitalism is now, there have been earlier stages and their incarnations might teach something as to what it is and what can be done about it. The occurrence of capitalism as a geopolitical threat to any hope and survival coincides with the industrial expansion by means of the dead resources. The line from whereon it exists is to be drawn with the overruling aspect in mind that at some point preceding its death the emerging capitalist system goes from exploiting overwhelmingly renewable resources to exploiting overwhelmingly fossil resources. Actually only then what is a mere destructive outgrowth of a corrupt agrarian society becomes the whole of what the contemporaries know as capitalism, which is a paradox in itself as the maturity period of it is already based upon decay, suggesting no good was to be expected from its own decay period when it is to make room for something fresh. And indeed the relapse from overwhelmingly fossil to overwhelmingly renewable exploitation that coincides with the emergence of capitalism as the new imperialism indicates that profound transformation from "outside the box" is necessary to prevent a prolonged suffering by means of a brand of capitalism wired to whip up itself to walk the obvious dead end until the very tip of the triangle.
At this point there is an atomic precaution to be announced, although it better were to remain a historical footnote: When it comes to issues of Unitednations, its veto circle and its "nuclear satellites" such as India or Israel, above the post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki-construction there is the invisible veto of the Juche family. Atomic bombs have already been used for decision making, and though Japan must not reciprocate, Korea which at that point had been Japanese-occupied took the challenge and equalled the balance of possibility, making it the last state of all to disarm although eventually it must as well. The special situation resulting from the determination of local history by the foreign atomic bomb use might bring about that this appears to be the case forever, but once the nuclear fire is extinguished everywhere the shine of it is going to cease as well. Yet out of its inverted reality where atomic power is vital and quitting it suicidal, due to calculations of which the atomic bomb cannot be factored out, it might appear as a lasting condition as it is indeed a circumstance that prevents decline into overt fascism, although it is of temporary nature. Such as that includes the inviolable principle of "no disarmament before revolution" it is however in association with everything else which is to be postponed after revolution due to existential reasons. The atomic age must be irreversibly over for anything fresh to arise, and any premature reinvention of anything must neither be provided nor demanded.
There shall be no illusion though that Japanese imperialism is a mere plagiarism of the European product, such as the swarm of stuff in its fallout, namely the colonialist expansion at the crossing of the renewable/fossil ratio line. Like a sprout grafted on a stump, it had put its own line-crossing on the remainder of the plantation empires that lost significance for European style capitalism as the dead resources gained it. For understanding the momentum capitalism had when it captured the dead resources, and for that purpose went to enslave the deserts, it is vital to perceive the whole of the plantation legacy without which capitalism might have suffocated itself before it became able to suffocate the species. Not only because that historical stage is the key to the current relapse and its catch-up in a survivalist system change to communism as the economic guiding star of a finite Earth, but also because yet before the dialectical implications there is an impact on the evolution tree inflicted by means of territorial displacement of species into monoculture. Plants grown for everything from sugar to rubber were kicked around the globe and plantations far from their natural habitats stole the space of local wild-growth.
While it is noteworthy that this kind of damage is older than the era of the dead resources it is decisive that it has not stopped with it, and deforestation is rampant as monoculture gravitates toward replacing dead resources preserving the lethal business model. It is the former colonies in South East Asia where these large scale land misuses have occurred which now feel the impact of the holes ripped into capitalist normalcy by the mere echoes of its self-proclaimed outlook. As mirrored by the farce of Unitedstates chemical warfare in the 20th century, the impact on the landscape was so lasting that Japan could easily roll up the legacy which dropped into its lap as it chose the dead end. But Japanese imperialism merely was a wet cardboard tiger compared to the century-long devastations of regional biodiversity that laid its foundations. With a similar tactic the Germans aimed to build their successor empire on the conquest of the wrecked colonialist motherlands, as the Japanese eyed upon invading the deprecated colonial plantations for their misguided "wearing of the boots that kicked them." (see July 4, 2014). Japan chose this aberration sitting in the neck of Korea, whose sovereign side consequentially has inherited the rivalry with the primary instance of capitalism and imperialism as the atomic bomb turned the tide.
It is no one less than Karl Marx himself who has described the plantation economy, when Europe was infected with madcap militarism of the Bismarck type, the Americas busy with their slavery issues, and the impact from the displacement of plant species alone as well as the resulting trade wars was the worst. But it was not so much the blowback against the European territories which also experienced the influx of foreign monoculture such as the potato (see May 4, 2014), as the pharmaceutical ingredient of the colonialist monoculture, namely the opium economy, that caught his attention. At the time colonialist plantations in India produced surplus palliatives for proliferation in China as a lure to break it for market access. The drug was dumped in the same attitude as alcohol toward the natives of North America, leaving a deep-seated resentment against the substance and anything associated with it that is still being exploited for barbarous persecution of plant-related religion by Unitednations.
Marx´ remark of religion as "the opium of the people" is to be read as a description that colonialism used the medication against pain in the same manner as it uses, or more precisely misuses, religion: By trying to push it upon the dissenting spine of others instead of adhering to it for itself and displaying a worthy example. Of course experiencing the same rise of cancer and other painful civilisation disorders as all industrial societies, the sentiment has taken a merely abstract nature. But it can serve as a natural illustration how it comes that the quality of a thing makes it that its forceful introduction cannot be cleaned of evil intent by its good effect. Imperialism is like the tell-tale king who dies of misery because everything he touches turns into gold. Yet before the fossil monopoly arose, where this undeniably is the case, the same thing happened time and again with every product of the colonial plantation economy, making the Chinese experience with the colonial machinations of Britain a showcase model for any later such failure.
The opium trade war of the 19th century can easily be stripped of all substantial connotations when it is being taken into account that the same works with water once there is a monopoly. For the malignant effects of the market power any potential effects of the substance are entirely irrelevant and no conclusion can be made on them from the former. Yet such as capitalism chose opium as its means of disguise it can do with immaterial items like religion. Medically spoken, what is the case there is an obsessive compulsive disorder which merely uses the commodity of opium (or this or that living species or dead branch of the evolution tree) as its vehicle. While true religion cherishes spiritual independence as the predecessor of material independence (such as dialectics is a predecessor of revolution) the kind of religion peddled by capitalism is an entrapment scheme to bring about dependency.
But the agnostic perspective on capitalism, which abstains from any definition of religion for the sake of universal clarity, can only see it as the medical disorder it is as it perceives the hallucination that every idea it touches would be drastically increased in value as if it was real (in fact its usefulness decreases). Marx termed this the commodity fetish. When an idea or substance becomes a commodity, i. e. is subject to trade and speculation beyond its own purposes, then the defect of capitalism that turns everything of any purpose into the same single-purpose stuff comes to perceive itself as an advance, and the result is the obsessive compulsive peddling of deprecated derivatives. So while China is not necessarily a model of a communist society, its export production certainly is one of commodity theory.
Politically, the bottom line of the 19th century pre-fossil trade war experience is of an immediate significance far beyond its economic background. In the Unitedstates/Islamic conflict, or more precisely the triangle it forms together with China, the Chinese opium experience and the Islamic experience with religiously-clad capitalism, resp. imperialism at that stage, are parallel lines that make an important difference to the oil constellation, in which Unitedstates and China are the two slaves at the sides of the current Arab monarch. Yet when it comes to objective interests, China has much more in common with the Islamic revolutionaries than with the American janissaries. Africa is going to be the test case whether China is going to understand its conflict with imperialism and act accordingly instead of merely repeating the past mistakes of the imperialists.
There can be no "ecological relapse" to overwhelmingly renewable capitalism as in its early stage, because the scenario cannot be sustained. The system of renewable monoculture had already ruined itself so much that it was seemingly saved by the fossil boom. It cannot save the remainder of the fossil burnout. Clausewitz, the military icon of symmetric war, lived in conditions where he could not see the origins of the looting feeding the distribution disputes he was trying to mediate. After this position, the idea that the economic system of capitalism was a zero-sum undertaking if it were not for this or that aspect of it is being called the Clausewitzian trap. Whoever believes that is neither aware of the time and limitations Clausewitz lived in nor of these of the current.
The only path out of the Clausewitzian trap is the realisation that under the conditions of "deranged normalcy" outlined in the rise and decline of capitalism as it befalls the living and the dead branches of the evolution tree, increased likelihood of catastrophe does not mean increased chance of change and only total abolition can enable a regeneration period for the whole damage of capitalism to heal and something entirely new to grow. For the plantation legacy both pre- and post-fossil being transformed back into open and biodiverse spaces takes time, and the first thing to achieve it is to bring about unmistakable intent across generations. The elimination of the oil tyranny with its accomplices is merely the beginning of tackling the entirety of global capitalism and the breaking down of its imperialist legacy both where it entirely destroyed itself and all the biodiversity and where it did not yet.
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I thought it would be useful to summarize what is going on with respect to Islam in Angola.
We are not aware of any "ban" on Islam in Angola, however we are aware that many religious groups have difficulty registering in Angola.
So no ban, but it doesn't mean Muslims are not operating with difficulty there.
The Cairo Post has a very enlightening article on the situation.
In sum, there has been no legislation to prohibit Islam in Angola.
However, Islam has not been registered as an official religion, as the law requires.
To register as an official religion, the body must have at least 100 000 members. Registration gives the religious body the right to build houses of worship.
Since the overwhelming majority of Muslims in Angola are illegal aliens, their numbers cannot be counted towards registration.
That means that whatever mosques are built to service this population of Muslims are illegal structures.
These mosques may service both legal and illegal residents of Angola.
The purpose of the clampdown is, of course, to fight Islamism. The fear is that foreign elements are gaining access to Angola to spread jihad.
Given the focus on fighting Islam, given that mosques are de facto illegal in Angola, it gives the air of being a ban.
It's not a ban on Islam per se. A Muslim can choose to pray five times a day. And Muslims can gather to pray.
They just can't build mosques and the government doesn't recognize them.
If the Muslim community could gather 100 000 legal residents to sign up and register, perhaps they could obtain registration.
Maybe. Because the government knows that if such a registration takes place, a lot of illegals will take advantage of those mosques.


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Белорусский банк развития и реконструкции «Белинвестбанк» () — один из крупных универсальных банков республики, предоставляющий полный комплекс услуг юридическим и физическим лицам различных форм собственности и направлений деятельности. Обеспечивая устойчивое функционирование Банк сохраняет свое присутствие среди крупнейших банков республики.

Лицензия: №3 от 15.01.2022 г.

Собственный капитал: 657,5 млн BYN (на 1 января 2022 г.)

История
Открытое акционерное общество «Белорусский банк развития и реконструкции "Белинвестбанк"» создано 03 сентября 2001 г. в результате реорганизации путём слияния ОАО «Белбизнесбанк» и ОАО «Белорусский банк развития».

Банк осуществляет деятельность на основании специального разрешения (лицензии, выданной Национальным банком Республики Беларусь). Имеет лицензию на право осуществления профессиональной и биржевой деятельности по ценным бумагам, выданную Министерством финансов Республики Беларусь, а также другие лицензии на определенные виды деятельности, подлежащие лицензированию в соответствии с законодательством.

Банк является членом Белорусской торгово-промышленной палаты, членом Ассоциации белорусских банков, членом Ассоциации участников рынка ценных бумаг, членом ОАО «Белорусская валютно-фондовая биржа», агентом Правительства Республики Беларусь при обслуживании внешних государственных займов, прямым участником системы BISS (Belarus Interbank Settlement System) — системы межбанковских расчетов Национального банка Республики Беларусь.

В течение более чем 20 лет проводится аудит финансовой отчетности Банка по международным стандартам финансовой отчетности.

Банк входит в группу крупнейших системообразующих банков Республики Беларусь, выполняя пруденциальные требования, устанавливаемые Национальным банком для обеспечения безопасного функционирования банковской системы.

Собственники и руководство
Доля государственной формы собственности в уставном фонде Банка составляет 99,3 %.

Деятельность

Реализуя позиционирование «Первый ЭкоЛогичный банк», банк активно развивает принципы ESG-банкинга – экологического, социального и корпоративного управления.

Банк развивает уникальную финансовую ЭкоСистему банковско-клиентского партнерства. Где «Логичность» включает в себя развитие дистанционных каналов обслуживания, предоставление возможности комфортно распоряжаться финансами, наличие быстрых и легких в использовании сервисов, высокое качество обслуживания и выстраивание доверительных отношений с клиентами и партнерами. «Эко» в составе понятия «ЭкоЛогичный банк» означает поддержку и финансирование «зеленых» проектов, создание и продвижение «зеленых» продуктов, продвижение «зеленых» инициатив в части корпоративной социальной ответственности, формирование экосознания общества.

Банк осознает необходимость осуществления своей деятельности и кредитования организаций таким образом, чтобы сохранять окружающую среду, предотвращать негативное воздействие на нее; обеспечивать социально-устойчивые, уважительные и взаимовыгодные отношения с работниками, партнерами, обществом и государством. В целях реализации своих намерений в банке утверждена Экологическая и социальная политика.

На 1 января 2022 года банк обслуживает около 31 тысячи юридических лиц и индивидуальных предпринимателей, а также 1,4 млн частных клиентов, что составляет около 15 % населения республики.

Банк продолжает развитие сферы услуг, основанное на использовании карточных технологий, современных систем дистанционного банковского обслуживания, единого расчетного и информационного пространства.

На начало 2022 года количество эмитированных банком платежных карточек, находящихся в обращении, составило более 1,2 млн штук.

Широкая региональная сеть банка включает 87 точек обслуживания.

Эквайринговая сеть насчитывает 520 банкоматов, 13,6 тыс. единиц платежного оборудования в 10,4 тыс. торгово-сервисных предприятиях.

Банк постоянно внедряет новые услуги и онлайн-сервисы, совершенствует системы безналичных платежей, динамично развивает цифровые каналы банковского обслуживания как для юридических, так и физических лиц, активно использует инновационные технологии, предоставляющие дополнительные возможности для развития бизнеса.

Безопасность, оnline-технологии, ЭкоЛогичность и партнерство – основные тренды в развитии банковских услуг.

Санкции
В 2022 году банк включен в санкционный список всех стран Евросоюза и отключён от SWIFT «в ответ на то, что Белоруссия значительно способствовала и поддерживала вторжение России на Украину, а также поддерживала вооруженные силы России».

24 февраля 2022 года «Белинвестбанк» и принадлежащие ему «Белбизнеслизинг» и «Белинвест-Инжиниринг» попали в санкционный список специально обозначенных граждан и заблокированных лиц США. В марте того же года к санкциям против всех этих юридических лиц присоединилась Канада, а против «Белбизнеслизинга» и «Белинвест-Инжиниринга» — Великобритания. С октября 2022 года «Белинвестбанк», «Белбизнеслизинг» и «Белинвест-Инжиниринг» находятся под санкциями Украины.

Также против банка введены санкции со стороны Швейцарии и Японии.

Примечания

См. также
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Литература

Банки Белоруссии
Санкции ЕС против Белоруссии
Санкции США против Белоруссии
Санкции Канады против Белоруссии
Статьи с эдитнотисом об осторожности при редактировании
Компании, подвергнутые санкциям в связи с вторжением России на Украину

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by Alicia Smith | Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 11:55:20 | Tech
Tango Gameworks, a Bethesda Softworks development studio, may soon release a new game with Hi-Fi Rush.
Tango Gameworks may experiment with new strategies when it comes to small games, as was shown last year by game designer Shinji Mikami.
Hi-Fi Rush might be just that. BillbilKun has recently discovered variations of the game.
According to the leaker, Hi-Fi Rush was created under the project name "Hibiki". There was also mention of a Standard and Deluxe Edition with a PEGI 12 age rating.
The game's initials came from last year when ZeniMax became the parent company. This is also where the article's background comes from.
An official announcement is still pending.
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Google Duplex explained: How it works, controversy, and passing the Turing test?
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The amazement over Google Duplex at I/O 2018 quickly veered into criticism over the lack of disclosure and questions about the on-stage demo itself. I think, somewhat lost in this furor, is the sheer impressiveness of Duplex and what an achievement it is for technology. But what exactly is it, and how does it work? And what will it be able to do for you?
What is Google Duplex?
While online booking systems are increasingly common, the majority of businesses today don't have one in place. In the US, 60% of smaller shops, according to Google, do not have a way to automate how they get customers and rely on phones.
Problematic for businesses, this is also an inconvenience for end users. With Duplex, the Google Assistant can place a call on a user's behalf for appointments that are still only over-the-phone. That's the primary use-case Google is demoing, for now.
Will people use it?
Some scoff at how much time Duplex really saves, but there are definitely occasions when something like it would be truly convenient and a real "assistant" for a relatively simple interaction. One ideal scenario is having your hands full — literally or figuratively — and attention divided. Rather than stretching out a call and possibly making errors, users can just direct one command to the Assistant.
In general, voice interactions help solve this problem and are increasingly common with the rise of Google Assistant apps. In a way, Duplex is the Assistant Action for those 60% of small businesses and helps them stay level with businesses that offer these automated experiences. Automation has always been the general trend with technology given how we are already automating home appliances with Routines and responses with Smart Reply.
Meanwhile, one use case that was immediately suggested by people on the web was the ramifications for accessibility. Duplex as Google has already demoed today could be used by those who have difficultly speaking due to a lack of language proficiency or social anxiety. This use case falls under Google's idea of creating a general assistive service for all.
Sundar Pichai noted on stage that Duplex was a culmination of the company's various efforts over the years in deep learning, natural language understanding, speech recognition, and text-to-speech.
Users can start by telling the Assistant that they want to schedule an appointment at such-and-such place, noting the desired time, activity, and other pertinent details. The Duplex system then takes this information and places a call to the business in the background.
After disclosing itself to be a machine and to be in accordance with several state laws, it will speak with a natural-sounding voice to the human on the phone. It takes into account the imperfections of the other person's replies, including common occurrences like correcting mid-sentence, complex phrases, omitting words, and relying on context rather than explicitly stating things.
Meanwhile, Duplex's voice relies on Google's recent TTS advancements; inserting speech disfluencies ("hmm" and "uh") and artificial pauses, which are naturally expected and give the system time to process. As noted in last week's episode of Alphabet Scoop, we were told by a source that the Duplex's collection of phrases might be prewritten with the system choosing the appropriate one to reply with.
Why is it controversial?
There are several issues that make Google Duplex controversial. What makes Duplex so natural — namely the uses of "uh" — is one thing that bothers people. At issue is how without proper disclosure it can be seen as tricking the human on the line. Not to mention how some laws require both parties to be aware that a phone call is being recorded.
Besides people's natural inclination to dislike deception, the assumption that people are talking to a human raises the level of expectation for advanced speech and responses.
When calling the bank or customer support today, many first encounter an automated computer system that asks to note the problem before directing them to the appropriate department. When interacting with these less than perfect systems, people immediately try to game it by talking as simple as possible.
If Duplex is incapable of fully understanding advanced responses but provides the expectation of complexity though its natural voice, the human's high effort and attempts on the line might be wasted. This results in Duplex calls becoming an inconvenience and hassle in contrast to the natural experience that Google wants to provide both parties.
Pichai ended this announcement by reiterating that Google is working hard to get "the expectation right" and that "done correctly it will save time for people and generate a lot of value for businesses."
Meanwhile, the other, more minor controversy is criticism by some that Google's I/O demo was less than forthcoming. One critique was how the two businesses did not identify themselves as is typical in a phone call, with Bloomberg later reporting that Google did edit the calls to protect the privacy of the stores.
What is the Turing test?
Created in 1950, the Turing test is a benchmark of whether a machine can "imitate" or pass as a human. Named after the father of artificial intelligence Alan Turing, this test sees one human converse with a computer, while a third person tries to determine which one is the machine. If the evaluator cannot tell, the machine is considered to have "passed."
I believe that in about fifty years' time it will be possible, to programme computers, with a storage capacity of about 109, to make them play the imitation game so well that an average interrogator will not have more than 70 per cent chance of making the right identification after five minutes of questioning. — Alan Turing
Without disclosure, could a busy restaurant employee actually distinguish between the dozens of mundane calls they might get over the course of a working day? Meanwhile, if they weren't aware of what the Google Assistant is at the start, would they just assume it was a human assistant on the other end?
Does Google Duplex pass it?
It really takes a close listen to analyze how the system is less than human in certain responses. It most likely does pass, but with the key qualifier that Duplex only passes it in the very specific task of making appointments. This is according to Alphabet chairperson and distinguished computer scientist John Hennessy at an I/O 2018 talk about the "Future of Computing."
In the domain of making appointments, it passes the Turing test in that domain, which is an extraordinary breakthrough. It doesn't pass it in the general terms, but it passes it in a limited domain and that's really an indication of what's coming.
The Turing test was more intended to rate an artificial general intelligence — or a machine that can perform any task done by a human. Something like Duplex, in an ideal fully working state, can only tackle one common task that is performed daily.
Google has been very clear that its system has a limited scope, "Duplex can only carry out natural conversations after being deeply trained in such domains." It further emphasizes that by explicitly noting how Duplex "cannot carry out general conversations."
Despite this, given the pace of recent of advancements, there's noting to say what Duplex can do down the road. It's application and possible training could one day be expanded to a whole host of other fields.
When can I use Google Duplex?
Google will begin testing Duplex this summer for making restaurant reservations and scheduling hair salon appointments. It's unclear whether that means it will be available to a limited set of regular users or just testing internally within the company to fine-tune the system's responses.
However, Google will be experimenting with a variant of the technology in the coming weeks for holiday hours. The idea is to have Google place just one call to a small business and update times on the Search Knowledge Graph card for everyone.
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Naivasha upbeat over plan to establish two dry ports
From hosting a flourishing horticultural sector that employs thousands of workers to a booming hospitality industry, Naivasha is fast rising as a commercial hub in the region.
And the recent move by Kenya to offer Uganda land for the building of a dry port is even raising the town's stakes higher. Investors are watching keenly the unfolding scenario, and will certainly angle themselves to cash in on the opportunities expected to be created by the setting up of two dry ports at the lake side town.
President Uhuru Kenyatta recently announced during President Yoweri Museveni's visit that Nairobi would provide land for Kampala to develop a dry port for its cargo.
Nakuru county Tourism executive member, Raymond Komen, said the move will spur economic growth in the county and Naivasha in particular.
"Although the details of the agreement are scanty, one thing that's quite obvious is job creation… to me it is an excellent idea and in line with our county development plans," he said.
Mr Komen pointed out that with two cargo depots in Naivasha, the ripple effect will be enormous with the players from the hospitality sector expected to directly benefit from influx of traders.
"The traders from Uganda and other states within the region will lodge in Naivasha and that means increased business for hoteliers and traders within the satellite towns," added Mr Komen. Further gains, he noted, include the setting up of export-oriented firms that will access cheap energy from the nearby power generating company KenGen.
"It also means the centralisation of cargo for both countries which will also act as a dispatch point for goods being ferried within the East African states," said Mr Komen.
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He said Nakuru County is ready to offer logistical support to ensure the proposed project is a success, adding that the county is keen on exploiting available business prospects.
The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture director in charge of East Africa, Njuguna Kamau, also welcomed the Ugandan project.
"When we talk of Eastern Africa trading bloc, it basically means exploiting opportunities that will ensure that involved countries reap gains accruing from a favourable trading partnership," he said. Mr Kamau told off those opposed to trade partnership, describing the pact as "a win-win situation for the two countries."
He said Uganda is Kenya's biggest client for transit cargo.
"Having Naivasha as cargo distribution point will mean growth in the housing sector, transport sector and other areas of economic importance including 'mama mboga' selling her wares in a stall," he said.
The town will attract more people who will need housing, especially those who will seek employment in the cargo depots, he noted.
Naivasha Professionals Association (NPA) Secretary General, Absalom Mukuusi said the setting up of the Ugandan port will boost the town's attractiveness to investors.
"Endowed with tremendous valuable natural resources, the county is also a cosmopolitan magnet for high number of entrepreneurs, innovators and a capable human capital," he stated. The proposed industrial park in Naivasha, where export-oriented firms will access cheap power as well as affordable transport via the standard gauge railway to the Mombasa port, is also expected to be a game-changer.
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Haverá um atraso para executar o script, pois o mesmo é verificado de minuto em minuto. É feito isso para que o mesmo site nao seja aberto 2 vezes no mesmo minuto
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WASHINGTON, D.C., September 30, 2013: Morgan Lewis was named Healthcare Pricing and Reimbursement Firm of the Year at the inaugural LMG Life Sciences awards ceremony held on September 25th, 2013 in New York City. In addition, Life Sciences partner Steven Paul Mahinka was one of five attorneys inducted into the LMG Life Sciences Hall of Fame, while FDA partner Kathleen Sanzo was named the FDA Pharmaceutical Attorney of the Year.
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The iconic physicist is known as one of the greatest scientific minds in the history of the world, and worked to peer into the most mysterious parts of the universe. But Professor Hawking was known also for the accessible way in which he communicated those discoveries, with his work including A Brief History Of Time making its way into pop culture.
He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his family said.
In a statement, his children Lucy, Robert and Tim said: "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.
"He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years.
"His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.
"He once said, 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him forever."
Professor Hawking explored both the very smallest and very largest parts of the universe: testing the limits of human understanding across time and space space, and peering into the sub-molecular world of quantum theory.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the world wide web, was one of the first to respond to news of his death, saying on Twitter: "We have lost a colossal mind and a wonderful spirit".
Professor Hawking shot to international fame after the 1988 publication of A Brief History of Time, one of the most complex books ever to achieve mass appeal, which stayed on the Sunday Times best-sellers list for 237 weeks. Over the years, he would also embrace areas of popular culture appearing in both The Simpsons and hit US science comedy The Big Bang Theory.
His work ranged from the origins of the universe itself, through the possibility of time travel to the mysteries of space's all-consuming black holes. His most famous theoretical breakthrough was the idea that black holes are not really black, but can produce thermal radiation and potentially "evaporate". Scientists refer to such potential emanations as "Hawking radiation."
"My goal is simple," Professor Hawking once said. "It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
With Roger Penrose, Professor Hawking showed that Albert Einstein's theory of relativity implies space and time would have a beginning in the Big Bang and an end in black holes. He spent much of his career trying to find a way to reconcile Einstein's theory with quantum physics and produce a "Theory of Everything."
Professor Hawking said he wrote A Brief History of Time to convey as clearly as he could the topics that excited him. "My original aim was to write a book that would sell on airport bookstalls," he told reporters at the time. "In order to make sure it was understandable I tried the book out on my nurses. I think they understood most of it."
Born in Oxford on January 8 1942, he attended Oxford University before moving onto Cambridge. From 1979 to 2009 he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge - a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton. He was later director of research in the university's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.
Professor Hawking was confined to a wheelchair for much of his life, after contracting a rare form of motor neurone disease, at the age of 21. As his condition worsened, he had to resort to speaking through a voice synthesiser and communicating by moving his eyebrows.
Professor Hawking was married twice. In February 1990 he left Jane, his wife of 25 years, to set up home with one of his nurses, Elaine Mason. The couple married in September 1995 but divorced in 2006.
In his 2013 memoir My Brief History Professor Hawking related how he was first diagnosed with the rare disease that he would live with for decades: "I felt it was very unfair - why should this happen to me," he wrote.
"At the time, I thought my life was over and that I would never realise the potential I felt I had. But now, 50 years later, I can be quietly satisfied with my life."
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Atherosclerotic vascular disease, the leading cause of death in the industrialized world, begins when lipoproteins retained in the arterial wall provoke a series of cellular reactions involving macrophages, endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and immune cells. The lesion is propagated through a series of complex cell-cell and cell-lipid interactions, leading to inflammation, extracellular matrix alterations, and necrosis. These events, in turn, promote plaque disruption, acute thrombosis, and sudden vascular occlusion. The cellular processes of atherogenesis represent key therapeutic targets, but successful strategies will require a thorough understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved. In this meeting, leading cellular and molecular biologists will discuss the latest advances in these areas of research. A major goal is to spawn new interactions between researchers focused on atherogenesis per se and those with expert knowledge in cell biological areas that warrant greater representation in atherosclerosis research.