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Home Press Statement of the Executive Director to the Annual Session of the Executive Board 2019
Distinguished Delegates,
Good morning! It is a pleasure to join you for this Annual Session of the Executive Board.
There is a saying: Starting is easy, persevering an art.
In this our 50th year, and as we look back on achievements since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development 25 years ago, we have much to be proud of – the result of five decades of passionate perseverance.
Together with our partners, we have made steady progress. I thank you, Members of the Executive Board, and your governments for your continued partnership and support. We appreciate and will continue to seek your strategic guidance on the Fund's work and priorities.
This year, we celebrate the global movement for reproductive rights and choices that began, like UNFPA, in the 1960s, and gained impetus and inspiration in Cairo in 1994. A movement that has transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women and girls.
The ICPD, together with other important global conferences in the 1990s, from Rio to Vienna to Beijing and Copenhagen, provided a unique opportunity to recalibrate development, to integrate human rights and social justice into our thinking and planning and to locate women at the heart of the development agenda. The Millennium Development Goals era followed, and now, there is a real sense that the Sustainable Development Goals are creating the political space to achieve what was envisaged in the mid-1990s through Agenda 2030.
At UNFPA, we were encouraged by the 52nd session of the Commission on Population and Development and its Political Declaration reaffirming the ICPD Programme of Action. Delegates agreed that the principles of the ICPD are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. We at UNFPA could not agree more.
This means that the global community also needs to acknowledge and affirm that sexual and reproductive health and rights, the core of ICPD, must be part and parcel of Universal Health Coverage. There can be no UHC without sexual and reproductive health.
That was my message to the World Health Assembly two weeks ago. It is a message we will continue to make loud and clear as the movement for Universal Health Coverage gains ever greater momentum in the lead up to the high-level meeting on UHC in September.
Together with our partners, including Member States, UNFPA is working for the inclusion of an essential package of sexual and reproductive health services within UHC policies, so that national plans and programmes respond to the needs of their people – all their people.
We want to achieve the "universal" in Universal Health Coverage. This means ensuring that health systems are equipped to deliver sexual and reproductive health services to all, regardless of who they are, where they live, their income level or their circumstances—even when they are displaced by conflict or disaster.
Two weeks ago UNFPA cohosted the Oslo Conference on Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Humanitarian Crises. There is widespread recognition that we desperately need to turn the tide on such violence, including rape in war. And there is growing global momentum to do so.
UNFPA is committed to strengthening prevention, protecting those at risk and ensuring that survivors get the life-saving sexual and reproductive healthcare and specialized services they need—and that are their right. And we will work with OCHA and all our humanitarian partners, and with governments, to do so.
In February, I was proud to help launch the Spotlight Initiative in the Pacific, on behalf of the core UN partners and together with EU Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica. Together, with the added impetus and resources Spotlight brings in support of country-led action, I am confident that we can empower a new generation of women and girls to live the lives they choose, free of violence and with full dignity and respect.
I also had the pleasure on a number of occasions, including in the Pacific, to engage with youth activists on protecting the rights of young persons, especially those with disabilities.
And our journey continues….to the Women Deliver conference in Vancouver opening today…to the Youth Ministers conference in Lisbon later this month…to the High-Level Political Forum in July and other important global gatherings in the months ahead…and finally, all roads lead to Nairobi for the Summit on ICPD25 in November.
I thank the Governments of Kenya and Denmark for their political and financial support as co-conveners of the Summit. Partnership is crucial to mobilize the momentum and concrete commitments needed to deliver on the promise of Cairo for all with an urgency commensurate to the task at hand. We count on the political and financial support of other Member States to make the Nairobi Summit a resounding success. We urge you to join us and to come to Nairobi with strong commitments. The clock is ticking towards 2030. It's time for everyone to step up the pace.
Universality is a guiding principle of the ICPD Programme of Action: everyone has a right to sexual and reproductive health. Rights and choices for all – our mantra, on the road to Nairobi, to 2030 and beyond.
That's also why UNFPA's work on data is so important – so we see who is being left behind and understand their needs. To make the invisible, visible.
It is the poorest women and girls, and those who experience exclusion and discrimination, who bear the greatest burden of ill health and preventable deaths. They are the ones we need to reach to achieve by 2030 the three transformative results at the heart of the UNFPA strategic plan – our three zeros:
zero unmet need for contraception;
zero preventable maternal deaths; and
zero gender-based violence and harmful practices, such as child marriage and female genital mutilation.
All based on a firm foundation of high-quality data to zero in on where needs are greatest and reach those furthest behind.
In the first year of implementation of our Strategic Plan 2018-2021, UNFPA laid a solid foundation for getting to zero and in the years ahead we will accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
We have demonstrated good performance and results as the annual report you have before you shows. We have mobilized more resources than ever in support of our work, while continuing to exercise fiscal prudence and improve efficiencies, cohesiveness and synergies to respond to countries' needs. We continue to make strides in our comprehensive change process. This will ensure that we have the organizational culture, structure, systems and skills necessary to maximize our partnerships and resources to deliver on our strategic plan.
We are pleased to note the very positive overall assessment of UNFPA in the 2017-18 MOPAN report. It recognizes UNFPA as a "well-performing organization on a positive trajectory". The assessment revealed continuous and strong operational, programmatic and managerial improvement and acknowledged UNFPA's impact in both development and humanitarian spheres. UNFPA is proud of these hard-won achievements.
We are grateful to our donors for the increased volume of support received in 2018, and we appeal to more governments to champion and support UNFPA and our ICPD mandate during this milestone year. This year, help us show that the world stands for rights and choices for all. Investing in UNFPA core resources is one of the best ways to support this vision and the work we do to make it a reality everywhere.
Our work builds on the tremendous progress made in recent decades. Yet, this is no time for complacency. This year's 50th anniversary issue of the UNFPA State of World Population Report was titled Unfinished Business for a reason. The report offers a timeline of unparalleled history, a half-century replete with steady progress on maternal health and family planning. Work on women's rights and choices is punctuated by great moments of research and discovery, with census and survey support, UNFPA contributions to policy on sexual and reproductive health, and the type of speedy and compassionate humanitarian assistance that ensures dignity for women and girls, in their time of need.
Our sights are now squarely set on addressing the unfinished business, on achieving the inclusive, equitable, sustainable, people-centred development the ICPD and the Sustainable Development Goals envision.
I believe we are moving in the right direction
In 2018, UNFPA focused on equipping countries with the programming, policy and advocacy capacities necessary to address the unfinished business and realize our transformative results. We began reorienting our programmes around the world, with a focus on making contraception accessible to women and young people, enabling women to have healthy pregnancies and safe births, and protecting women and girls from harm. As of 2018, 105 UNFPA country programmes – better than two thirds – had prioritized at least one of the three transformative results, leveraging additional resources and expanding partnerships to accelerate our path to zero.
We also strengthened our capacities for data analysis and dissemination to help governments formulate policies to close gaps in services.
We made great headway in our humanitarian work. UNFPA continued to strengthen its capacity to respond quickly in emergencies. We established a Humanitarian Response Office and aim to have it fully staffed in mid-2019. I would like to welcome Shoko Arakaki, who joins UNFPA as Director for the new Office based in Geneva. Shoko has a proven track record in the field of humanitarian action, development, peace and security, and we look forward to benefiting from her extensive experience and her dedication to the principle of "leaving no one behind".
With UNFPA support, last year 15 million people in humanitarian settings received services for sexual and reproductive health and to prevent and address gender-based violence. Reaching women and girls' in humanitarian contexts is critical to achieving the three transformative results, with no one left behind.
UNFPA assisted 1 million safe deliveries in humanitarian or fragile settings in 2018. Safe birth – everywhere! It's more than a rallying cry, and we see the results every day in countries around the world.
Last year, thousands of midwives were trained and deployed with support from UNFPA, helping us bring life-saving services to the women and girls who need such services, wherever they may be. Midwives save lives!
To support countries' family planning initiatives, in 2018 UNFPA procured the equivalent of a year's worth of contraception for about 68 million couples in developing countries.
We estimate that family planning commodities provided by UNFPA helped avert more than 30 million unintended pregnancies, nearly 9 million unsafe abortions, more than 6 million sexually transmitted infections, and more than 70,000 maternal deaths.
UNFPA provided over 1 billion male condoms alone in 2018.
Now, I would like to turn to our efforts towards achieving our third zero, an end to gender-based violence and harmful practices.
Thanks to the efforts of UNFPA and our partners, last year nearly 900,000 women and girls subjected to violence had access to medical or psychological support.
More than 1.8 million girls received child-marriage prevention or protection services.
Just under half a million girls and women accessed services to prevent or address the impact of female genital mutilation.
We also saw important policy and legislative action at country level. Armenia developed an action plan to combat gender-biased sex selection. Bangladesh developed a national plan of action to eliminate child marriage. Burkina Faso passed a criminal code law to address violence against women. The Democratic Republic of Congo developed a law to protect vulnerable people, including survivors of sexual violence. Honduras formulated a bill to strengthen comprehensive care for women survivors of gender-based violence and developed policy frameworks for the protection of the rights of indigenous and Afro-Honduran women.
These are just some of the results UNFPA achieved in 2018, together with our partners, with countries and with communities.
And I am very excited to report that, for the first time, UNFPA is now sharing its programme results publicly. The UNFPA Results Portal illustrates UNFPA's commitment to innovation, transparency, accountability, and above all, results, which we report straight from our country offices.
This initiative, a pioneer among UN agencies, is more than an investment in improving transparency and accountability, it is also an investment in engaging the general public in our work. This is a vital strategy for making our goals everyone's goals.
By allowing UNFPA and the communities, governments and partners we work with to monitor progress and efficiency, the results portal will help drive evidence-based decisions, optimize investments and, hopefully, achieve better results faster.
Collective learning, knowledge sharing, and mutual accountability are crucial to ensuring that we achieve our goals. By revealing what works, under what circumstances and why (and, just as important, what might not work) evaluation plays a central role.
UNFPA appreciates the efforts made by the Evaluation Office to further strengthen the evaluation function, and we welcome the 2018 Annual Report on Evaluation. The implementation rate of corporate evaluations is 100%, and almost half have been joint or system-wide, reflecting a real commitment to the UN reform.
The evaluation of the UNFPA response to the Syria crisis provides evidence and lessons learned that will help UNFPA enhance our response to the needs of populations affected by the Syria crisis and improve response capacity to humanitarian crises elsewhere.
As UNFPA works with our partners to achieve strong results and reach those furthest behind, we do so in the face of daunting challenges.
The past year saw an unprecedented rise in the scope, frequency and complexity of humanitarian emergencies. By the end of 2018, 136 million people required humanitarian aid, compared to 128 million in 2017.
Another challenge: climate change. The past four years were the warmest ever recorded. Extreme weather affected 60 million people in 2018. From the Arctic to the Sahel to the Pacific, I have witnessed this with my own eyes.
At the same time, rising populism and extremism continue to affect multilateral policies and institutions, the provision of services, and the progressive realization of rights.
The last mile is always the most difficult. Leaving no one behind means we all will have to dig deep, to address the social, economic, cultural and political inequalities that are keeping people behind. This is challenging for all of us.
The majority of those still waiting on the unfinished business reside in countries with some of the most fragile health systems, high rates of poverty, low literacy, high gender inequality, limited access to modern transport, and populations in some of the hardest-to-reach areas.
We have ambitious aims to end unmet need for family planning, end maternal death, and end gender-based violence and harmful practices by 2030. This will require more innovation, better mapping and estimation of needs, new partnerships and funding, and the interdisciplinary approach of One-UN.
Our collective success in these areas is integral to the success of the 2030 agenda. So how do we bring in new voices and a broader range of partners, and above all, the robust financing we need to deliver bold, integrated, innovative solutions that drive transformative change for the women and girls still waiting for all that the ICPD and the SDGs promised? This is the task ahead.
In the current era of reform, UNFPA is working with our partners to pioneer new solutions, deliver better together and enhance financing for transformative results. This work includes a costing and financing initiative for sexual and reproductive health and rights that will support efforts to fill the tremendous financing gap for the Sustainable Development Goals. With just 11 years left to the 2030 deadline, it's time for urgent action and ambitious financing commitments, based on the best available evidence and data.
To this end, UNFPA is also working with countries and the UN system to build stronger population data systems that can find the furthest behind, a foremost priority of ICPD that the entire 2030 Agenda depends on.
In this milestone year, we have a collective opportunity to recommit to ensuring that everyone everywhere reaps the benefits of this transformative agenda, whose implementation is essential for accelerating progress across all 17 SDGs. The High-level Political Forum and other high-level UN events throughout this year will help galvanize political and financial commitments and action commensurate with our ambitious global goals.
Many countries are also facing issues related to low fertility and population ageing. These, too, are real challenges, even as they represent gains of development, including greater human life expectancy and greater freedoms for women and girls.
More and more governments have been requesting advice and support from UNFPA on policies and programmes to address and prepare for population ageing and low fertility. Our challenge is to do so in a way that does not undermine the advances countries have made, with UNFPA's support, in providing family planning information and services worldwide, and advocating for women's reproductive rights. If the last 50 years have taught us anything, it is that demographic challenges cannot be confronted by limiting choices, but rather by enhancing rights and expanding choices.
Ensuring rights and choices for all at all ages requires working across sectors. No more silos! This means bringing the health sector together with the education, gender, population, and development sectors, with ministries of the treasury and finance, and providing integrated support to national planning ministries for coordinated action across sectors. This holistic approach is also at the heart of our efforts to help countries achieve the demographic dividend.
UNFPA is committed to assisting countries in addressing all these challenges via a life cycle approach that ensures that every young person today can fulfil her potential as she transitions from childhood to adolescence to adulthood and, finally, into old age. Because the evidence shows that when all people attain the empowerment, education, and employment vital to harmonize their reproductive and productive lives, individuals, societies and countries prosper.
The midterm review of the strategic plan in 2020 will provide an opportunity for UNFPA to prioritize addressing these very complex challenges, which do have solutions, as we scale up our efforts to ensure that the three transformative results can be achieved globally by 2030.
In 2018, UNFPA continued to harness innovation and partnership, including with the private sector, to create and scale up data-driven, sustainable, open solutions to bring about transformative change for and with women, adolescents and young people. From mHealth solutions to data innovations and more, UNFPA is committed to expanding the possible to transform the lives of those we serve.
Our approach to innovation can be seen in Burkina Faso, where 6 million people lack proof of identity. UNFPA is partnering with the Government and a tech start-up to help parents register their newborns digitally so that they can access basic services. We are also partnering with the World Food Programme's Innovation Accelerator to support UNFPA's in-house entrepreneurs in launching new ventures that can help us deliver even greater change.
Innovation also contributes to UNFPA efforts to strengthen our relationships with United Nations partner agencies so that we all deliver more and deliver better together. The empowered, independent Resident Coordinator (RC) system is central to the repositioning of the UN development system. UNFPA is taking partnerships with the RC system to the next level to advance progress towards the ICPD, the Sustainable Development Goals and other collective results. This includes implementation of the common chapter of the strategic plans of UNFPA, UNDP, UNICEF and UN Women.
A dedicated UNFPA strategy focused on engaging with Resident Coordinators is helping our staff and Representatives add strategic value within the broader UN context. It also defines our value proposition at the country level and the cross-cutting nature of our work.
In many countries we see Resident Coordinators championing UNFPA priorities, keeping the focus on rights, advocating for UNFPA's engagement in joint resource mobilization, and supporting UNFPA's leadership role in the UNSDCF and Joint Work Plans.
Our objective is to capitalize on the repositioning to mobilize the UN system around UNFPA's three transformative results. In this context, we see the RCs as amplifiers and enablers of our work on the ground.
We are pleased to note that the UNDAFs developed in 2018 put our three zeros front and centre, with 50 per cent prioritizing ending the unmet need for family planning; 69 per cent prioritizing ending preventable maternal deaths; and 85 per cent prioritizing ending gender-based violence and harmful practices.
The RC system's ability to deliver more strategic and better integrated results is interlinked with the redesign of UNDAF, now known as the UNSDCF or the "Cooperation Framework" – a process UNFPA is proud to have co-led. UNFPA will proactively support the RCs and UN Country Teams to coordinate and lead the cooperation framework planning process.
We are committed to the implementation of UN development system reform. As discussed during the Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards last Friday, we are working together with UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women and others to build on the lessons we have learned and to strengthen our impact on the ground.
As I stated last Friday at the joint session on the topic of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, we also continue to strengthen our capacity to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment, and we made significant strides in this direction in 2018. We have strengthened victim support and accountability, and revised our policy on the prohibition of harassment and abuse of authority, in line with UN system best practices.
A joint external review, together with UNDP and UNOPS, confirmed the overall adequacy of our institutional framework for ensuring a victim-centered approach to the prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. Our priorities for 2019 include further strengthening of in-country mechanisms for safe reporting, quality survivor assistance and accountability.
We are committed to creating a respectful organizational culture and work environment, free of any kind of harassment or abuse, where everyone feels safe and free to raise concerns without fear of abuse or reprisal.
Since 1994, governments, activists, civil society organizations, academia and institutions such as UNFPA have rallied behind the Programme of Action and pledged to tear down barriers that have stood between women and girls and their rights and choices. Yet, too many women and girls still are not enjoying their rights.
Not the more than 800 women who die every day in pregnancy or giving birth…
Not the more than 200 million women who want to prevent pregnancy but lack access to modern contraception...
Not the one woman in three subjected to physical or sexual violence...
Nor the 200 million girls and women who have been subjected to female genital mutilation or the 33,000 girls forced to marry every day.
Making reproductive rights and choices a reality for all is going to take each and every one of us. We're all part of this tapestry of actions. All countries, all donors, all civil society and multilateral organizations, all community and youth leaders, all parliamentarians, all international financial institutions and the private sector.
I urge all of us to arrive in Nairobi with concrete commitments. This is not a conference, it is a launching pad for commitments about what really matters to the millions women and girls who depend upon our advocacy and material support. Let's recommit to meeting women's urgent need for contraception; to ending preventable maternal deaths; to stopping sexual and gender-based violence and ending female genital mutilation and child marriage, including during humanitarian crises.
Yes, let's look at how far we've come. Much more important: let's recommit to completing the unfinished business that will bring us to where we want to be by 2030 — a world of rights and choices for everyone, no matter who you are, in full equality and in all our beautiful diversity.
I close with the words of Dr. Nafis Sadik, former Executive Director of UNFPA who presided over the International Conference on Population and Development. Describing the path to sustainable development, she said:
"People are at the heart of the process, as agents and as beneficiaries. We have it in our power to lighten their burdens, remove obstacles in their path and permit them the full flowering of their potential as human beings. That is the moral and ethical basis of the ICPD."
People, their rights and their choices, these remain the moral and ethical basis of UNFPA's work. And we are committed to bringing the promise of Cairo to every person on the planet.
I am confident that together we shall do so, with your support, with your commitment and your partnership, and with our collective and passionate perseverance. Thank you very much.
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Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father and a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that the all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.
The world was run by the elvenlords. Powerful, proud, secure in their dominion over the puny humans and halfbreeds, they built cities of wondrous beauty, kept legions of slaves for work and entertainment, and took their pleasure with Elven or human concubines. The Prophecy was the only cloud on an otherwise perfectly clear horizon of Elven supremacy.
In the desert, Serina Daeth, formerly the favored human concubine of Elven overlord Dyran, is about to change all that. Driven into the desert when her lord discovered her pregnancy, as planned by a jealous rival who tampered with Serina's anti-fertility drugs, she dreams—as she dies—of a midwife helping to deliver her baby. She doesn't realize her dream is the dragon shaman Alara, shape changed to provide the mercy of midwifery as a human.
Alara, herself about to give birth, takes pity on the babe and with her son, Keman, raises the girl, Shana. Father Dragon, the wisest shaman of the dragons, can tell the halfbreed is more than a mere pest in their midst. She is the most dangerous and treasured person, the fulfillment of the Prophecy, whose magic and fortunes will remake the world. Shana, full of her own bright dreams of the future little realizes the love, betrayal, wizardry and adventure that lie ahead for her and those who become part of her extraordinary life. For her story is legend, the true myth and history of the Elvenbane.
Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father with a human mother. Her exiled mother dead, she was rescued and raised by dragons, a proud, ancient race who existed unbeknownst to elven or humankind. From birth, Shana was the embodiment of the Prophecy that all-powerful Elvenlords feared. Her destiny is the enthralling adventure of a lifetime.
Andre and Mercedes showed off their world-building talents in this one. Firstly, the world has humans as its native race. Several hundred years ago, Elves came through a gate seeking a world to conquer and DRAGONS (The Kin) came through fleeing perils of their homeworld. While the dragons hid, the Elvenlords who possessed all kinds of powerful magic enslaved the humans. The humans whose magic consisted of mind-reading and telepathic communications had no choice in the matter, as the elves made collars to block the humans' talents. The elves learned that when elves mated with humans, these "halfbloods" later called "Wizards" often gained the powers of both races and could be more powerful than the elves. Naturally, the Elvenlords, who couldn't tolerate anyone with more power outlawed cross-breeding and decreed that any Halfblood along with its mother should be killed on sight. Meanwhile, the dragons, who couldn't stand how the elves ran rough-shod over the ecology causing all kinds of environmental mayhem, decided to meddle. Among the dragons' talents was shape-shifting. The more adept could assume just about any form or size. Disguised as elves or humans, they conjured up the Prophesy of "The Elvenbane", a Halfblood who would defeat the elves. 400 years ago, some wizards almost defeated the Elvenlords, but were betrayed to their doom.
A collaborative effort from fantasy grande dame Norton and relative newcomer Lackey (the paperback Magic's Price), this tale of magic and intrigue offers a mixture of standard genre elements and an engaging plot. When Serina Daeth, favorite concubine of the Elf-Lord Dyran, conceives a half-blood child by him, she flees his wrath into the desert, where she quickly succumbs. But the child, born in Serina's dying moments, is rescued by a friendly dragon and raised with her own draconic brood. As the child Shana grows, she develops prodigious sorcerous powers--so strong that it seems she might be the fabled Elvenbane, powerful enough to free the enslaved humans from their elven oppressors. The dragons come to fear her unplumbed power, though, and cast her out. With a renegade elf-lord and his half-blood servant, and the aid of her remaining dragon friends, Shana prepares to challenge the elfish supremacy. Though battle is joined, a sequel is plainly on the way. Thoroughly rooted in genre traditions--with elves, dragons, unicorns, and sorcerers--but some variations make it more enjoyable than the average example: theses elves and unicorns, for instance, are cruel and dangerous, where in most fantasies they are shining examples of superhuman purity. Overall, then, despite shallow characters and a lack of real tension (we never doubt that Shana and friends will succeed), an entertaining adventure.
(1993) Published by TOR, PB, 0-812-51171-1, LCCN 91-021177, $5.99, 566pg ~ cover by Boris Vallejo ~ Reprinted in 1995 with same numbers ~ Reprinted in 2002 @ $7.99.
(2004) Published by Demco Media, HC, 0-606-29787-1, $14.39 ~ cover by Boris Vallejo ~ "Turtleback" library binding.


This is the Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss, created as a parting gesture in the road car collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and McLaren. It costs a breathtaking £660,000. And for that vast amount of cash you don't even get a windscreen or a roof.
Such luxuries have been deleted in a programme that has pared 200kg off the Merecedes SLR's kerb weight, bringing it down to 1551kg. The basis is the standard SLR roadster's carbonfibre monocoque. It has been further developed with beefed-up sills which, together with an extra crossmember behind the seats, make the Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss one of the most structurally rigid open-top cars ever.
Those sills make climbing in rather tricky, but once you're there, the view is like nothing else, with a long bonnet sweep that plunges away out front.
The two-seat cabin has been pared back to essential basics, all trimmed in a mix of carbonfibre and leather. Should you expect more for £660k? Possibly, but I doubt potential owners will complain.
The Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss receives the same engine as the SLR 722, with 641bhp and 604lb ft. It endows the car with truly colossal performance; Mercedes claims 0-62mph in just 3.5sec.
The great thing is, this pace is just a nudge of the throttle away. With a five-speed automatic 'box sending drive to the rear wheels, there's no tricky clutch to contend with as you fire the SLR Stirling Moss from the line. Traction control working overtime, it lifts its nose ever so slightly, squats at the rear and catapults forward with the sort of abandon you'd expect from a street-legal race car.
You sit exposed to the elements, so the ever-present roar being thrown back from up front enters your head and doesn't leave. Passing beyond a high-pitched mechanical whine at low revs, it shifts into a deep exhaust blare nearer the redline. The blast of wind rushing over the bonnet (enclosed goggles are a must) accentuates the feeling of speed.
As you accelerate hard up to and beyond 100mph, wind buffeting and various vibrations begin to blur your vision. On the motorway, you can call up 150mph without any hint of strain from the engine – and there's still a further 67mph to come.
Directional stability is good by open-top standards. The set-up is inherently firm, but there's still sufficient travel in the suspension to stop it from being thrown off line by bridge expansion joints. However, larger irregularities send nasty jolts through the chassis, so you need to choose your back roads with caution.
The steering, compromised by a 12.2-metre turning circle and a penchant for tramlining, is not whip-crack fast, but with measured inputs it proves confidence-inspiring enough. There is a faint trace of body roll, but it's not going to upset the cornering line to a great degree.
The lack of a windscreen and roof structure have lowered the centre of gravity dramatically, translating to sharper turn-in and an ability to carry greater speed through corners than you get in the standard SLR.
Building up to the limits of adhesion takes time. But I'm not sure my nerves would have been up to the job of sending £660,000 of motor car into a smoky drift – not on public roads, at any rate.
However, a spell alongside former F1 star Mika Hakkinen in the car showed that there is a good deal of progressiveness once the grip limit is breached. By then you're really travelling, but the colossal brakes and a brake flap (which shifts the centre of pressure towards the rear) help to wipe off speed.
Some will see the SLR Stirling Moss as nothing but a marketing folly. It initially comes across as a throwback to a bygone era. But there is a good deal of substance here, too. Aggressive and involving, this car possesses the singularity of focus that we had all hoped the original SLR would contain.
I recently saw a pre production car whilst visiting the Woking facility..... I just dont get it, I think it is ugly in comparasion to the "roofed" SLR's. Sorry.
The litmus test with cars like this has to be 'do I want one'. And the short answer is no: too ugly, too heavy. And saying 'it's agile despite it's size' is like saying Cher is good for her age: you still wouldn't.
Even the passenger in the photo has taken to wearing a blindfold to avoid it's looks. frankly I'd have to wear a bag as well to avoid beinbg seen in one.
I don't get this review - why is it more focussed than the other SLR's? Because it has no roof? I'd take a roofed version any day of the week. Or save a shedload of cash and get a Merc SL55/65 AMG! 230SL is right about the Smart Crossblade comparison!
On another matter, is it my imagination or is 'tramlining' being mentioned in every other Autocar review these days? It seems to be that there is less and less to criticise on cars nowadays and so some rather dubious negatives appear in reviews such as tramlining, being 'under wheeled', 'progressive' braking or lack of, steering being 'dead' at the centre, and - for goodness sake - performance over 'expansion joints'!!
I agree with Sandy T but I'm not too fussed about the weight issue in this and other reviews - I seem to remember the Porsche Carrera GT, which Autocar and many others claimed at the time was the best supercar ever, weighs in at about 1500kg or thereabouts. But because its a Porsche they didn't moan about it.
To my eyes its better looking than the standard SLR and a heck of a lot nicer than the equivalent Veritas monstrosity. Looks like it could do with a little flip up clear perspex screen to remove a little of the wind blast, but this is after all a posing car for places like California, not some trackday monster.
Not sure about the Stirling Moss name, but I'd rather have this than an SL black.
If one of these came trundling down the high street it would just look out of this world.
It weighs less than an M3, and people love cars like that. I would love to have one to cruise around in - with a Simpson Diamondback helmet on of course (a la Stig)!
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Home player Julius Omollo produced a brilliant round of 40 Stableford points to claim the top prize during the first leg of this year's Nation Classic Golf series at the par 70 Nyanza Golf Club course at the weekend.
Playing off handicap 12, the left-hander Omollo made a strong start, picking up four straight pars at the opening nine.
He dropped two shots at the par three-fourth and par five-fifth after missing the greens on regulation. Dropped one more shot at the par three-eighth, but holed in a birdie putt at the ninth for an impressive 22 points.
However, with the heat picking up in addition to the hard greens, Omollo bogeyed the two par fives 10th and 14th added more bogeys on the 12th and 13th and the last two holes at the back nine for 18 points.
"The greens became harder and tricky at the back nine and after the hot sun though I am so excited emerging the overall winner. It's a humbling experience winning this.
I have been putting a lot of effort on my game and I am so glad it has started paying off'," said Omollo, who will now lead Nyanza in the 2019 Nation Classic grand finale at Limuru Country Club later this year.
"I will continue practicing to make sure that I represent the Nyanza/Western region well in the grand finale."
He will be accompanied by Thakrar Bhayani and the lady winner, while the Club chairman and captain will be invited to play as special guests of the Nation Media Group during the finale.
"I must thank the Nation and Grand Royal Swiss Hotel for supporting Nyanza Golf Club," added Omollo.
Besides winning a beautiful golf bag, Omollo also won two nights for two on full board basis at the magnificent Grand Royal Swiss Hotel, which partnered with the Nation Media Group in the event that attracted a field of 91 players drawn from Nyanza, Kakamega, Kisii, Kericho, and Mumias clubs.
Finishing second with a score of 38 and after a countback with Raju Bhayani, was Prashant Thakrar, while Beatrice Bisonga carded 37 points to clinch the ladies prize.
Emerging the best among the guests was Nyali Golf and Country Club's Charles Odoo, who carded 39 points in a round that included a number of pars.
"I am so happy to win the guest prize for the second year running. It is also great winning a prize in a Nation event. I had a chance of winning with even a higher score if I did not pick up a number of double and single bogeys," said Odoo, who thanked the Nation Media for always inviting him to play in the series.
Also winning the staff prize for the second year running, was "Yours Truly", though this time with 31 points, while the nines went to Maurice Oduor and Kakamega's Eliud Siganga who carded 22 and 20 points respectively.
Speaking during the prize giving ceremony, which was followed by a dinner hosted by the Nation, Nation Broadcasting Division Managing Director, Alex Kobia, said the company was excited kicking off the 2019 Nation Classic series edition in Kisumu.
"The Nation Classic golf series, which has been in existence for the last 34 years, has a rich heritage and continually gives us an opportunity to interact with you our clients and readers in the different parts of the country and appreciate the key role you play in our business," said Kobia.
The Grand Royal Swiss Hotel's General Manager, Shanawaz Basheer, said the hotel was proud to partner with the Nation Media and promised to continue with the partnership.
Besides donating a special prize to the overall winner, Grand Royal Swiss also offered complimentary accommodation to staff of the Nation Media group as part of its partnership.
The next event in the series will take place at Nanyuki Sports Club on May 18.


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Punjabi 2nd official language in Delhi
New Delhi, June 25
The President has given his assent to The Delhi Official Languages Bill, 2000, making Urdu and Punjabi the second official languages in the Capital, it was announced today.
The government in the process fulfilled the four-decade-old demands of Sikhs and Muslims in Delhi.
The President accorded his assent to the Bill on the recommendation of Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani, a Home Ministry official said.
"The enactment declares Punjabi in Gurmukhi script and Urdu in Urdu script to be second official languages of Delhi for official purposes,'' he disclosed.
With this enactment, it would be necessary to publish the translation of important government rules, regulations and gazette notifications and of important government advertisements in Punjabi and Urdu.
The official said it had also been made obligatory on the government functionaries in the Government of Delhi to reply to the applications and petitions made in Punjabi and Urdu in the same languages. The enactment further provides that the proceedings of the Delhi Legislative Assembly shall be recorded and issued simultaneously in Punjabi and Urdu also whenever required, he said. — UNI
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[LIVE RESULTS!] Victorian Junior and Para Track & Field Championships
February 23, 2018 /in Frontpage, News /by Athletics Victoria
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Australia Day OAM Honours
February 14, 2018 /in Frontpage, General News, News /by Athletics Victoria
It was with great pride that three members of Athletics Victoria's extended family were announced as recipients of Order of Australia Medals (OAM) in the Australia Day honours this year. Lavinia Petrie was awarded an OAM for Service to Athletics in Victoria, Simon Baker was awarded his OAM for Service to Athletics, particularly Race Walking, whilst Tom Hancock was awarded his OAM for Services to Athletics.
We congratulate them all for being duly recognised for their wonderful achievements, which are outlined below as they appeared on this year's awards list –
Lavinia Petrie
Service include:
Victorian Masters Athletics:
Manager, Knox Venue, 6 years.
Co-Venue Manager, Croydon, 5 years.
Past Club Captain, 10 years.
Life Membership, 2012.
Active Member, since 1977.
Ringwood Athletics Club:
Vice- President, since 2012.
Past Secretary
Active Member, since1966.
Athletics Victoria:
White Zone Secretary, since 2010.
Former Manager, State Cross Country Teams and Track Teams.
State Selector, current.
Active Member, Athlete and Official.
Member, first Australian women's Cross Country representative team to World Cross Country, Morocco, 1975.
Awards and recognition include:
Recipient, Female Masters Athlete of the Year, International Association of Athletics Federation, 2014.
Recipient, Edwin Flack Award, Athletics Australia, 2015.
Recipient, holder of 8 world records, World Masters Athletics Championships.
Athletics Australia:
Member, Racewalking Commission, since 2013.
Board Member, 1993-1996.
Co-Founder, Athletes Commission and Chair, 1992-1997.
Recipient, E H Flack Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Athletics, 1992.
Australian Track and Field Coaches Association:
Director for Strategy, current.
Coordinator, Racewalk Coaching Course.
Oceania Representative, International Association of Athletics Federations Athletes Commission, 1991-2001.
Track and Field Coordinator, Australian Capital Territory Academy of Sport, late 1990s.
Race walking:
Level 5 (Elite/International) Coach, since 1994.
Co-Founder, High Performance Squad, Victorian Racewalking Club.
Founder and Co-Coordinator, annual Falls Creek New Year Racewalking Training Camp.
Australian Institute of Sport:
Former Coach, late 1990s.
Scholarship holder, 1985-1994.
Member, Australian Olympic Team, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996.
Member, Australian Commonwealth Games Team, 1986 (Gold Medallist), 1990 and 1994. World Cup Representative, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 (Gold Medallist), 1991 (Silver Medallist) and 1993.
IAAF World Championship Representative, 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1993. World Indoor Championships Representative, 1989.
Tom Hancock
Ivanhoe Harriers Athletics Club, Melbourne:
Coach, since 1964.
Competitor, since 1964.
Life Member.
Coach, Maclean Throwers Club (NSW).
Coach of Paralympians including:
Andrew Martin. Terry Giddy. Peter Negropontis. Kieran Ault-Connell. James Bertalli.
Coach, Maclean Little Athletics Club (NSW).
Lecturer in Charge of Athletics, Institute of Technology in Bundoora, Melbourne,1976-1979.
Former Athletics Course Coach Oceania Region (IAAF Level 1 course), International Amateur Athletics Federation.
Former Australian Discus Coach, Australian Institute of Sport.
Winner of Victorian Junior and Open Championships and Australian Universities Championships.
Holder of 5 world championships in high jump, discus, shot put and the throws pentathlon twice.
Gold Medal, Javelin 30m, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Gold Medal, Discus 30m, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Silver Medal, High jump 120cm, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Silver Medal, Hammer Throw 34m, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Silver Medal, Shot Putt 10.45m, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Silver Medal, Weight Throw 14m, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney, 2015
Silver Medal, Throws Pentathlon, Australian Masters Athletics National Championships, Sydney,
2015 Awards and recognition include:
Recipient, Henri Schubert Award for Australian Athletics Coach of the Year, 1995.
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2017/18 AV Shield Season End On A High
Another season of AV Shield has been run and won, culminating in a huge day of competition at Lakeside on Saturday.
The program was interrupted early as the Queen's Baton Relay entered the stadium as part of its long journey to the Gold Coast for the Commonwealth Games.
Across 14 different categories, their emerged 12 different winning teams on the day, with the only teams to win multiple categories being Glenhunty and Mentone with 2 category victories apiece.
Full individual results can be found here, with team results being available to view here.
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2XU On Show at Vic Junior Champs
February 9, 2018 /in Frontpage, General News, News /by Athletics Victoria
We're thrilled to have 2XU attending the 2018 Victorian Junior and Para Track & Field Championships from February 23-25 to show off their latest range, including their celebrated compression products. Be sure to drop by their tent and check out what they have on offer.
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XCR'18 Season Taking Shape
We're not willing summer to end by any means, but alas, it will be over before we know it. The colder months aren't all bad though; the fashion is better, open fires are kind of nice, but above all else, it's the time for XCR!
Planning is well underway for XCR'18 and yet again there are some exciting new venues and format changes. Notably –
Distances for Open Men & Women Cross Country will now be 8km/10km/12km
Women's 50+ and Men's 60+ competition will be introduced to the XCR'18 season.
U20 women will now do the 10km race at Albert Park replacing the 3km distance.
2018 will see a new venue become part of the XCR rotation. St Anne's Winery will host the 8km Cross Country taking place there on the 5th May 2018. More than just an exciting new course, it's a chance for the adults to taste some fantastic wines afterwards (responsibly of course!) and take in the on-site farmers market. With ample parking, this is a great round to bring the family along to.
The XCR'18 Handbook with all relevant and important information and rules of competition about the season will be released March 2018. As soon as it's been finalised, team gradings and duty roster will be sent out to clubs.
XCR'17 awards will be presented at the first round of XCR'18 at the Jells Park Relays this year.
Saturday 21/04/2018 XCR Rd 1 – Jells Park XC Relays (Jells Park)
Saturday 28/04/2018 XCR Schools – Jells Park XC Relays (Jells Park)
Saturday 5/05/2018 XCR Rd 2 – 8km XC (Short XC) (St Anne's Winery, Myrniong)
Saturday 12/05/2018 XCR Schools – XC Road Relays (Princes Park)
Saturday 26/05/2018 XCR Rd 3 – 12km XC (Long XC) (Cruden Farm)
Saturday 16/06/2018 XCR Rd 4 – XC Championships (Bundoora Park)
Saturday 16/06/2018 XCR Schools – Schools XC Championships (Bundoora Park)
Saturday 7/07/2018 XCR Rd 5 Sandown Road Relays (Sandown Racecourse)
Sunday 22/07/2018 XCR Rd 6 – Albert Park 10k & 3k (Albert Park) To be confirmed
Saturday 4/08/2018 XCR Rd 7 – Lake Wendouree 15km & 6km (Ballarat) To be confirmed
Saturday 18/08/2018 XCR Rd 8 – Anglesea Ekiden Relays (Anglesea)
Sunday 19/08/2018 – Australian Half Marathon Championships (Sunshine Coast, QLD)
Saturday 25/08/2018 – National XC Championships (Maleny, QLD)
Sunday 2/09/2018 XCR Rd 9 – Burnley Half Marathon & 5km (Burnley)
Saturday 15/09/2018 XCR Rd 10 – Tan Relays (Kings Domain) To be confirmed
Sunday 16/09/2018 Australian Marathon Championships (Sydney, NSW)
2018/19 Athletics Victoria Membership Changes
After considerable feedback from members and clubs, the 2018/19 season will see a few key changes to the membership registration process.
XCR: The XCR Relay Package will no longer exist. Any athlete who submits a membership* registration and is approved by their nominated club by the appropriate time, will be eligible to compete in all XCR Relay events in 2018. This also applies for track relays later in the year. The XCR Package will remain, with the purchase of this automatically entering an athlete into all individual XCR events for the season.
Bib allocation: For the 2018/19 season, athletes will be issued with their bib number once their membership is approved by their nominated club. Athletes will no longer be required to purchase a package or individual event entry in order to be allocated a bib number, you will still need to purchase a package to be able to compete.
Bibs: In 2017/18 we trialled the use of Tyvek bibs due to a new timing system for XCR. These bibs will again be used for the XCR season as it allows us to attach a timing chip on the back of the number, however we will also be using cloth bib numbers. Each athlete who registers in the XCR'18 season will be issued with three (3) individual bibs (all with the same number), one Tyvek bib (with timing chip attached), to be worn on the front, and two cloth bibs, one to be worn on the back for the duration on the XCR'18 season and the other (for the front) to be used for XCR Relay events and the duration of the summer track and field season. Athletes who register after the final individual XCR'18 event will be issued with two cloth bibs (again with the same number on both) for the remainder of the Athletics Victoria season.
XCR Relays: Cloth front and back
XCR Individual Rounds: Tyvek front and cloth back
Summer competition including relays: Cloth front and back
Membership registration: The Athletics Victoria online member portal will open for 2018/19 season on April 1, 2018. Please refrain from registering for the 2018/19 season prior to this date as memberships will not be rolled over to the new season.
*Membership refers to the base membership fee only. Packages will again be available for purchase either with your membership, or at a later date once your membership has been approved by your club. For a full explanation of what each of the packages offers, please refer to the Join Now page.
We look forward to seeing you at the start of the XCR'18 season.
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It wasn't perhaps the most fortuitous timing, but the same day as the fire-damaged Carnival Splendor limped back into port in San Diego, Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, the newest world's largest cruise ship, arrived with great fanfare into Fort Lauderdale.
The $1.5 billion ship was met by a flotilla of maritime escorts including water-spurting fireboats and private watercraft as it arrived at its new homeport of Port Everglades. As it was Veteran's Day, hundreds of onlookers also greeted the vessel by waving U.S. flags from shore.
The 5,400-passenger Allure is a sister ship to the popular, one-year old Oasis of the Seas. Both ships were built in Finland.
The 225,282-ton ships are so big they have neighborhoods. Features include a Boardwalk area with a real carousel and high-diving show, Entertainment Place with an ice rink, open-air Central Park with thousands of real plants and trees and a Pool and Sports Zone with a zip line.
Allure of the Seas also debuts new offerings including appearances by DreamWorks characters (Shrek, Fiona, et al) and the first Starbucks at sea.
The new ship officially begins its roster of Caribbean cruises on Dec. 1.


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Q: Entity Framework errors while saving base class if there is any inheritance I am using EF 6.1.  I have a model "Request" built from the wizard directly from my database.  In my context file (EMContext.vb) I have
Public Overridable Property Requests As DbSet(Of Request)

When I type in
        Dim db As New EMContext
    Dim req As New Request()
    With req
        .RequestedBy = "bar"
        .EventName = "Goo"
        .RequestedOn = Now
        .RequestStatusID = 1
    End With

    db.Requests.Add(req)
    db.SaveChanges()

everything works exactly as expected.  No problems.  It saves.
However, if I add a class (anywhere in the app)
    Class foo
       Inherits Request

       Public Property s As String
    End Class

and then run the exact same code I get

{"An error occurred while updating the entries. See the inner exception for details."}

Looking at the inner exception:

{"Invalid column name 's'.
  Invalid column name 'Discriminator'."}

Why in the heck is it even looking at the inherited class properties?
BTW, if I remove all the properties from the inherited class, I still get the Invalid Column 'Discriminator' error.

A: Then create a custom class that the json parses to and then you can call the Entity and make it from this class.
<Serializable()>
Public Class jSonParsedObject
  'properties that match the Entity object
  'custom properties you need for other work
End Class

Usage:
Dim jsonObj As jSonParsedObject = SomeMethodThatParsesAndReturnsData()
Dim req As New Request()
With req
    .RequestedBy = jsonObj.RequestedBy
    .EventName = jsonObj.EventName
    .RequestedOn = jsonObj.RequestedOn
    .RequestStatusID = jsonObj.RequestStatusID
End With
...

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The Mindset Of An Entrepreneur
If you were to ask any ordinary person if they would like to start their own business and work for themselves, 96% would say yes, but only 4% actually do. You'll hear employees complain all the time that business owners have it made and they make tons of money. Of course employees put in their time and they get a paycheck every week, while the business owner has to deal with the stress of paying those people each week.
The Employee Concept
The business model of employer-employee has been around for ages. The interesting thing is, the vast majority of people have no desire to be controlled by someone or something. When we're young we think about all the possibilities that lie before us and we envision a life of doing something we truly love without the shackles of a boss. But soon life itself gets in the way and we find ourselves sentenced to 40 years of the 9-5 rat race. Not exactly what we had in mind.
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If you have an entrepreneurial bone in your body, watching those video clips is like witnessing someone drag their nails across a blackboard. It makes your skin crawl. So why then do so many people do it? Why do they subject themselves to the lunacy of the employee concept, when that's clearly not what they had in mind when they entered real world of making money?
It comes down to a simple fact of life. We become comfortable in our environment. It reminds me of my favorite movie "The Shawshank Redemption". After spending nearly 50 years in prison Brooks (James Whitmore) was parolled and even though he was a free man, he couldn't handle life on the outside and ended up killing himself. As Red (Morgan Freeman) said, Brooks had become institutionalized and Shawshank Prison was his comfort zone.
So what's the biggest reason that people find it so very hard to leave their comfort zone? In most cases, it's the fear of the unknown. You see there are no guarantees. Bill Gates started Microsoft without any guarantees, so did Mark Zuckerberg when he launched Facebook and Steve Jobs was promised nothing when he introduced the Mac computer to the marketplace.
It's curious that the fear of the unknown stops most people from moving forward in business, but they don't let it stop them in other respects. A perfect example is driving down a dark deserted country road late at night. You've never driven this road before and the only light there is comes from your headlights that allows you to see a few hundred feet in front of you. There are lots of twists and turns too, and yet you keep driving. Even though the road is a complete unknown, that does not stop you from continuing to drive.
The second fear is the fear of failure. Here's the thing, failure has such a negative connotation for most people. The reality is quite the opposite and this quote kind of sums it up...
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"
~Winston Churchill~
Truth be told, to have success in just about anything you've gotta fail your way out of your comfort zone. In business and life, failure is a learning experience and a stepping stone to reach your true potential. It's not an option. Ask any successful person in any endeavor and they will tell you that they've learned far more from their failures than their successes.
Plus failure is a relative term. Case in point. What do you call a major league baseball player who year after year fails to get a hit 7 out of every 10 times he comes to bat? You call him an all star millionaire. Why? Because if he fails to get a hit 7 of 10 times, then he does get a hit 3 of 10 times. And that means he's hitting 300. Major league baseball players who consistently hit 300 are paid millions. Bottom line; baseball players are paid millions to fail 70% of the time! Michael Jordan missed one of every two shots he took and Wayne Gretzky said that you'll miss 100% of the shots you never take.
The Rejection Perspective
There are many roadblocks and potholes when it comes to the mindset of an entrepreneur, but one of the biggest is rejection. Why is that? Cause people just don't like being told 'NO' over and over again and even worse being put down for getting involved in a business. But the reason rejection has such a devastating effect is that people take it personally. They feel like THEY are being rejected, when in fact people are saying no to transforming their own circumstances.
So many people are unhappy in their current situation and by saying no to your offer, they are not rejecting you, but rather they are refusing to change. They have made a decision to maintain their life as it is even though that's not where they want to be. In reality they are willing to settle for the status quo and downsize their dreams rather than escape the land of the job dwellers.
Think about it this way. There are 4 aces in every deck of cards. The question is are you willing to go through all 52 cards to find the 4 aces (Yes's)? If not, this entrepreneur thing might not be for you. That's because in any business that acquires customers, clients or subscribers, the most successful people not only get the most Yes's, but they also get the most No's along the way.
Sooner or later your perspective has to change to one that welcomes the No's and appreciates the fact that every no gets you closer to a yes. For instance, when Babe Ruth set the home run record with 60, he also led the league in strikeouts. But no one remembers that. They remember the Yes's (homers) not the No's (strikeouts).
In the end, there are many factors that play a significant role in determining your success as an entrepreneur. However, mindset is the foundation for everything else hands down. Through which lens you view the world will influence your beliefs, which will determine your actions and that will dictate your success.
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Q: How can I correctly convert geographical coordinates to pixels on screen? I'm trying to make a Java project that pinpoints the place on a image of a map, when given coordinates (taken from Google Maps).
I've tried using the top-left corner of the image (place that has highest latitude, and the lowest longitude), as an some kind of an reference point, which would be (0,0) point on the map image, and than I've tried to calculate every place on the map based on that reference point. However, this method proved inaccurate, probably because of the curvature of the Earth (mind that the map I'm working with (Serbia) covers area of 4° latitude, and 4° longitude).
I've seen couple of answers talking about converting into Mercator projection, but they are not very clear to me, because they are not covering a case similar to mine, and are not written in Java.
What can I do to pinpoint those points more accurately (±3km would be accurate enough)?

A: As comments have pointed oit correctly, in order to precisely convert between geographic coordinates and map position, you have to know the method of projection used for the map, and a sufficient number of parameters so that tuning the remaining parameters using a suitable set of reference points becomes feasible.
So if you assume a conic projection, then read the document David pointed out, and this referenced follow-up as well. As you can see, within the family of conic projections, there are a few alternatives to choose from. Each of them is described by a few parameters (i.e. standard parallels, cone constant, aspect ratio, …). You'd make guesses for these and then use some numerical optimization to obtain a best fit. Then you take the best parameter fit for each kind of projection and see which of them has the best overall fit. Quite a bit of work. If you don't want to implement the code for all these projections you can use proj.4 either on the command line or as a native library. To do the numeric optimization, you could possibly try to adapt one of the COIN-OR projects to your application.
In any case, the first step would be creating a suitable set of reference points which you can use to evaluate the fit. So pick a few prominent points on your map and find Google Earth coordinates for these. I'd say you should have at least a dozen points, to account for the fact that you know so little about your map. Otherwise there is a great risk that you will tune the large number of parameters to exactly fit your points while the rest of the map is still completely off. Even with this number of reference points, since the area of Serbia is not that big (compared to maps spanning whole continents), the errors of a wrong guess or a bad fit might be very small. So it might be hard to actually decide which projection has been used.
With all that I said above, and even with external libraries taking care of the projection and the numerical optimization, it might easily take you half a year just to set up the tools to work out the projection. So decide whether that's worth the effort. If not, there are several alternatives. One would be to take a different map, one where you know the projection. Or contact the author of your map and obtain the projection. Or ask someone working in geodesics in Serbia, because they might have enough experience to recognize the projection at a glance, I don't know.
One other option is by combining the fact that you need reference points with the fact that you might not be able to work out the exact projection in any case. Simply combine these in the following way: choose a suitably dense set of reference points, evenly distributed over the map. Then interpolate between them, picewise linearily or with higher degree or using some weighted interpolation scheme or whatever. You know there is a projection behind all this, but you give up on working out the projection, and simply mitigate the symptom: by having enough reference points, each data item is close enough to a reference point to keep the error smaller than your threshold.

A: I found an answer I was looking for in this thread: Java, convert lat/lon to UTM
I find out that the actual projection of my map was UTM. From there, it was simply finding a class that would convert my lat/lon coordinates into UTM eastings and northings (very useful code in this answer), and then I would do simple math to find out where the point is compared to the boundaries of the map, and it's actually working.


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