Some of them enable patients to manage chronic conditions, others are specially designed for medical professionals, but these innovative devices can quite literally change, and even save your life.
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Designed by San Francisco-based startup 6SensorLabs, Nima is the world's first portable gluten detector. Complete with several one-time use test capsules and a proprietary app that allows you to track and share data with other users, the pocket-sized sensor could be a lifesaver for people with gluten allergies or celiac disease.
An elegant fitness tracker-watch hybrid designed by French company Withings, Activité Pop counts your steps, tracks your swimming, monitors your sleep, and records calories burned.
Made of PVD-coated metal and featuring a silicone strap, the watch has a stylish, timeless look and is extremely comfortable to wear. It is powered by a standard CR2025 cell battery that lasts for about 8 months and comes in a range of nice colors. When connected to the iPhone via Bluetooth, the Pop sends all activity information to the accompanying Health Mate iOS app.
A product by GLO Science (winner of the Thomas Edison Award for design and innovation), this high-tech teeth whitening device uses ground-breaking patented technology G.L.O. (Guided Light Optic) to deliver professional, long-lasting results at home or on-the-go.
GLO Brilliant Personal Teeth Whitening Device is powered by a compact, iPod-like controller and requires four 8-minute application sessions daily to make your teeth up to 5 shades whiter in 5 days. The kit contains everything you need for an efficient, long-lasting teeth whitening procedure with no sensitivity, including mouthpiece and case, lip care balm, and 10 G-Vials of whitening gel.
When it comes to on-the-go blood pressure monitoring, it doesn't get more stylish than Nokia BPM+. Combining elegant, minimalist design with innovative technology, the compact health gadget is extremely easy to use and synchronizes with your smartphone via Bluetooth automatically.
The dedicated Health Mate app gives you instant color-coded feedback and professional recommendations and makes it easy to keep track of your measurements.
A chic alternative to traditional air pollution masks, BioScarf is as much a warm and comfortable fashion accessory as it is an air filtration device that lowers the risk of respiratory health problems.
The revolutionary neckwear offers protection against pollutants, allergens, and viral infections thanks to its special built-in N95 air filter which strains more than 94 percent of contaminants out of the atmosphere.
Become a smarter drinker with Alcohoot, a mobile breathalyzer that connects to your smartphone and helps you keep track of your BAC levels.
The small gadget uses police grade technology and works in tandem with an Android/iOS app, which not only enables you to measure your blood alcohol level quickly and accurately, but also shows open restaurants nearby and even orders you a taxi.
Made by iHealth Lab Inc, the Wireless Smart Glucose-Monitoring System is a state-of-the-art, FDA approved glucometer that measures glucose levels in the blood and then displays them on your smartphone.
This innovative health gadget features a sleek, portable design and is compatible with Apple devices. The accompanying iHealth Smart-Gluco app allows you to keep a history of all your measurements and share them with your doctor.
In addition to the glucometer itself, the kit includes 10 testing strips, 10 lancets, control solution, a lancing device, and a carry bag.
Complete with 7 electroencephalographies (EEG) sensors, Muse monitors your brain activity during meditation and transmits the information to your computer, smartphone, or tablet via Bluetooth.
Designed to help you manage and reduce stress, the unique tool gives real-time feedback on what's happening in your brain and teaches you how to achieve peace and calm. It also offers a series of motivational challenges and rewards in order to encourage you to make meditation a part of your routine.
Traveling with asthma or allergies? The compact size (0.9 x 0.9 x 2.6 inches) and USB connectivity make Atmotube easy to use anytime, anywhere.
Thanks to its accurate sensors and free mobile app, the sleek device alerts you in real time about the presence of harmful gases (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) while also measuring air temperature and humidity in the environment around you.
A reliable travel companion, the SteriPEN Ultra water purifier uses ultraviolet (UV) light to destroy 99.9% of all the harmful bacteria, organisms, and viruses that can exist in water.
Equipped with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the award-winning device is capable of treating about 50L per charge. Moreover, in just 45 seconds, a smiley face will let you know that your water is safe to drink. Otherwise, a frowning face will indicate that the process needs to be repeated.
The UV-C light emitted by Verilux CleanWave UV-C Portable Sanitizing Travel Wand eliminates up to 99.9% of bacteria and viruses found on the surfaces we touch every day by destroying their DNA.
This 10″-long sanitizing travel wand is effective against harmful germs such as MRSA, H1N1, and E-coli. All you have to do is simply hold the device over the surface for 30-60 seconds and this will be completely germ-free and safe to touch.
Unsanitary public toilets are a serious health risk, but with Shewee, a portable urinating device, traveling ladies won't have to worry about this ever again. The discreet device allows women to urinate whilst standing or sitting without even removing their clothes.
The first smartphone ultrasound imaging device in the world, Mthe obiUS SP1 System enables medical professionals to diagnose patients in remote areas.
Developed by medical company Mobisante, the small, portable ultrasound wand is not compatible with iOS or Android devices but comes attached to a Toshiba TG01 handset running Windows Mobile 6.5. It can be used for monitoring pregnancies, but also for various abdominal, cardiac, pelvic, and peripheral vessel scans. Images are stored on an 8GB microSD memory card and can be shared via Wi-Fi, cellular networks, or USB.
Powered by Slow Control, HAPIfork helps you stay healthy by monitoring your eating habits. The electronic fork uses a built-in accelerometer to track hand motion. Consequently, it measures the time between bites, and if you're eating too quickly, it starts vibrating and its circular light turns red.
The smart utensil features a Micro USB connector and pairs with HAPIfork mobile app (Android and iOS) to help you track and sync your data as you eat.
BodyGuardian Heart allows healthcare practitioners to monitor their patients with cardiac arrhythmias and send the data to the service's cloud platform.
Developed by Preventice Solutions in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, this remote cardiac monitoring system is capable of tracking ECG, respiratory rate, heart rate, and activity level. When coupled with the PatientCare Portal or the BodyGuardian Connect smartphone, it can also remotely monitor blood pressure, weight, glucose, or peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SpO2).
Say goodbye to your sciatica, arthritis, or Carpal Tunnel pain with TechCare Massager Touch 24 Modes, a combination of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS) and Powered Muscle Simulator (PMS) which delivers low-voltage pulses to the skin to stimulate nerve fibers, blocking the pain signal to your brain.
Powered by a rechargeable lithium battery, the gizmo features a large touch LCD display and offers 24 preprogrammed massage modes, including Acupuncture, Deep Tissue, Cupping, and Combo.


What will an increasingly connected digital economy really mean for business? And what role does the digitalisation of companies in 'traditional industries' play, compared to that of digitally born tech start-ups, as a means to increase competitiveness? What can a more Digital Belgium learn from other economies, and how does that play into where Europe's digital agenda currently is and should be heading?
In April, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo presented his Digital Belgium plan. By 2020 the plan aims to get Belgium into the digital top three of the European Digital Economy and Society Index, for 1,000 new start-ups to take root in Belgium and for the digital revolution to deliver 50,000 new jobs in a variety of sectors.
At this exclusive business breakfast, De Croo will present some of the plan's main aspects and discuss the role business plays in achieving the Digital Belgium objectives. De Croo's key note will be followed by remarks from international businesses in emerging as well as mature industries.
The Deputy Prime Minister's keynote will be followed by digital business perspectives from Filip Nuytemans, General Manager of UBER and from Bart Verbeeck, Sales Director of G4S.
De Croo entered politics in 2009 and was soon after elected chairman of the Open VLD (Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats) party. In 2012, De Croo became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Pensions in the federal Belgian government. In 2013 he became vice-chairman of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Ageing. In the current Michel government, De Croo serves as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services. Before his political career, De Croo worked as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and founded his own company: Darts-ip, a consulting firm in the field of intellectual property rights. De Croo holds a degree in Business Engineering from VUB and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (University of Chicago, USA). In March 2015, De Croo was selected as Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a network of leading figures in economy, technology and international cooperation.


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Strategy & Resources Committee - Tuesday, 24th November, 2020 7.30 pm
Attendance details
Printed minutes PDF 465 KB
Venue: Council Chamber - Council Offices. View directions
Minutes of the meeting held on the 8th October 2020 PDF 444 KB
To confirm as a correct record
These minutes were approved as a correct record.
Corporate Improvement Plan update PDF 125 KB
View the background to item 186.
Appendix A: Summary of progress , item 186. PDF 604 KB
The Committee had endorsed a Corporate Improvement Plan on 9th July 2020. This comprised various measures necessary to take the Council forward, particularly in the light of the COVID emergency. A summary of progress against the plan was submitted, together with a covering report which drew attention to:
the implementation of recommendations from the Centre for Public Scrutiny (Ed Hammond);
Member training initiatives;
revisions to the performance & risk regime;
the new approach to financial management initiated by the new Section 151 Officer and the fact that the budget gap for 2020/21 had closed significantly with a view to producing a balanced budget for 2021/22; and
the introduction of a new complaints policy.
It was intended to submit a further progress report to the Committee's meeting in March 2021.
During the debate, it was confirmed that an 'ICT / digital strategy' would be submitted to Members in due course. The need to revise target dates in the next iteration of the plan was also acknowledged.
R E S O L V E D – that progress to date be noted.
Q2 corporate performance and risk report PDF 119 KB
Enc. 1 for Q2 corporate performance and risk report , item 187. PDF 1 MB
Members were presented with an analysis of the Committee's key performance indicators and risks for the second quarter of 2020/21.
Regarding Risk 3 ("inability of the Council to make savings as identified in the MTFS and to balance the Council's budget in 2021/22 and 2022/23") the Chief Finance Officer explained her intended approach to tracking progress against budgeted savings.
Whilst Members welcomed the improvements being made to the risk analysis, it was suggested that risk ratings should be signed off at Executive Director level with resource allocations being driven by the 'RAG' scores.
R E S O L V E D – that the Quarter 2 2020/21 corporate performance and risks be noted.
Finance report - period 6 PDF 123 KB
Enc. 1 for Finance report - period 6 , item 188. PDF 459 KB
A report concerning the Council's revenue budget and capital programme as at the end of September 2020 (month 6) was presented.
A £400,000 overspend against the £10.6 million general fund revenue budget was projected. This represented an improvement of £100,000 from the previous month, which was largely due to a corresponding return from the Government's Covid-19 income compensation scheme. The overspend comprised additional costs / loss of income related to Covid-19 (£1.2 million) offset by an £800,000 underspend on 'business as usual' activities. The report cautioned against the uncertainty surrounding the 2020/21 forecast and advised that, if the position did not improve, reserves would have to be drawn upon to cover the overspend.
The revised capital programme had been reduced by £104.7 million to £15.4 million to reflect forecast expenditure and to provide a stable baseline.
Cashflow shortfalls in the collection of council tax and business rates were projected to impact in Q4 of 2020/21. The impact is currently being worked through.
The Committee was also informed that the Acting Chief Executive had exercised urgency powers (granted by Standing Order 35) to enable the Council to administer the Government's Additional (Covid-19) Restrictions Grant Scheme. A report concerning this matter would be submitted to the Committee's next meeting on the 16th December 2020.
During the debate, reference was made to the Committee's resolution on 22nd September 2020 that, "a budget and project plan be produced immediately for Planning Policy Committee spending and that it is updated and notified monthly to the Planning Policy Committee and added to that Committee's agenda on a regular basis." It was confirmed that the required information would be included within the finance report to be submitted to the Planning Policy Committee's January 2021 meeting and would be updated monthly for that Committee.
R E S O L V E D – that the Council's financial position for revenue and
capital be noted.
Flexible use of capital receipts PDF 205 KB
Appendix A: Flexible Capital Receipts Strategy estimates savings , item 189. PDF 434 KB
The Committee considered the merits of a strategy to enable the use of capital receipts to fund the salary costs of officers involved in one-off transformation work undertaken by the Council during 2020/21. This was permissible under Regulation 23 of the Local Authorities (Capital Finance and Accounting) (England) Regulations 2003 and subsequent government guidance (March 2016) which provided greater freedoms for using capital receipts to finance expenditure.
In accordance with the statutory guidance, a schedule of the various areas of work undertaken by the transformation team in 2020/21 was presented. This identified the cost of the work (totalling c£160,000) and the estimated associated saving of £349,000 to be achieved in the current financial year. The Council had £1,851,077 of capital receipts that could be used under the scheme, which was more than sufficient to finance the transformational work identified.
R E C O M M E N D E D – that the flexible use of capital receipts strategy be agreed.
Corporate Debt Policy PDF 567 KB
Enc. 1 for Corporate Debt Policy , item 190. PDF 328 KB
A proposed consolidated policy, reflecting a more joined-up framework for dealing with debt collection across the Council, was presented. It sought to maximise collection rates, while ensuring a fair, proportionate and consistent approach to debt recovery.
The policy's objectives were to:
· apply best practice to debt collection;
· ensure a professional and timely approach to recovery action;
· maximise levels of income collected by the Council;
· treat all debtors consistently and fairly;
· promote a coordinated approach towards managing multiple debts;
· ensure that debtors in genuine financial difficulty are supported to claim any
benefits they are entitled to and, where appropriate, are signposted towards free
debt advice; and
· ensure that vulnerable people are supported to manage their financial affairs
effectively, including the payment of debt.
The policy explained the 'three-step' debt collection process and timescales which comprised billing; instigation of legal proceedings following non-payment; and escalation to collection and enforcement agencies when necessary. Reference was made to debt management principles to be followed by officers; the expectations of debtors; and arrangements for the repayment of arrears.
The policy also highlighted the priority types of debt and the potential civil sanctions arising from court judgements. These concerned housing rent arrears; council tax; business rates; housing benefit overpayments; Business Improvement District levies; sundry debts; and commercial rents. The definition of vulnerable people in the context of debt management was clarified within the policy.
R E S O L V E D – that the Corporate Debt Policy, as attached at Appendix A to the report, be approved.
Climate Change Action Plan Report PDF 302 KB
Enc. 1 for Climate Change Action Plan Report , item 191. PDF 586 KB
A proposed initial action plan was presented in response to the Council's declaration of a climate change emergency in February 2020. The declaration confirmed the Council's aim to reduce its environmental impact and to take steps to become carbon neutral by 2030.
Several potential actions still required scoping to establish business cases before decisions could be made to proceed. The Committee was therefore invited to adopt the initial version of the plan to provide officers with a mandate to conduct the necessary work, and then submit data on significant projects to enable Councillors to make informed decisions.
The initial plan included:
the strategic priorities informed by Surrey County Council's Climate Change Strategy, adapted as appropriate for TDC;
· actions TDC could take to:
- reduce emissions from the Council's estate and operations;
- influence and encourage residents and businesses to reduce their emissions; and
- work with other agencies to collectively reduce the carbon footprint of Surrey.
It was acknowledged that certain actions could be 'quick wins' such as: creating a baseline Council carbon emissions report; conducting a feasibility study into the installation of electric vehicle charging points in the Council's car parks; and producing a climate change communications strategy.
The first iteration of the TDC's carbon emission report for 2019-20 would be
available by March 2021 and would focus on emissions that the Council can directly
influence.
The Committee was also invited to approve the establishment of a Member/ Officer Task & Finish Group to inform the development of the action plan.
During the debate, the absence of costings from the proposed action plan was questioned. Officers explained that the first objective was to prioritise potential actions to pursue. The associated financial and other key implications would then be assessed, including the scope for assigning dedicated cost centres for budget monitoring purposes. The debate concluded with the view that residents expect the Council to become carbon neutral and that its declaration of a climate change emergency had committed the Authority to an effective programme of change.
R E S O L V E D – that
A. the Council's climate change action plan at Appendix A to the report be adopted;
B. the Committee receives an update on the development and delivery of the action plan in June 2021 and annually thereafter; and
C. a climate change task and finish group be established with the following terms of reference:
i) to inform the development of the action plan, including prioritisation of actions and identification of timescales for delivery;
ii) to review the carbon emissions report when produced and propose any further actions required in light of that report; and
iii) to inform the development of an update report to the Strategy & Resources Committee in June 2021, at which point the Group will have completed its work.
(The Group shall comprise two Councillors from each of the three largest groups and one member from the Independent Group. The officers most relevant to the topics being discussed, and the climate change lead officer, ... view the full minutes text for item 191.
Feedback from the Task and Finish Group on Committee reports PDF 178 KB
In accordance with the decision of Full Council on the 16th September 2020, a Member Task & Finish Group (comprising Councillors Bourne, Caulcott and M.Cooper) had reviewed the production of committee papers. The Group had identified the need to improve the template for committee reports and for associated guidance and training for officers. The improvements were designed to make reports more concise and accessible. The new template for committee reports would be kept under review and any councillors with suggestions for further improvement were invited to share them with members of the Group.
Training for officers on report writing, including the requirements identified by the Group, would be delivered in due course and funded from within the centralised officer training budget. A key objective of the training would be to make reports more accessible for Members and the public, and to facilitate greater transparency and more informed decision making.
During the debate, it was confirmed that authors would receive guidance on the need to consider risk implications in connection with their reports.
R E S O L V E D – that the changes to the committee report template and plans for officer training be noted.
Discretionary Test and Trace Grant - adoption of policy PDF 228 KB
Appendix A Discretionary Test and Trace policy - approved under urgency powers , item 193. PDF 382 KB
Appendix B: EQIA- test and trace policy , item 193. PDF 154 KB
A Covid-19 Test and Trace Discretionary Payment Policy was approved by the Acting Chief Executive on the 4th November 2020 under the urgency provisions of Standing Order 35 and pending review and ratification by this Committee. This followed government guidance on the award of £500 grants to support people on low incomes who are unable to work from home if they are told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace and will lose income as a result.
The policy exercised the discretion available to local authorities to extend the Government's minimum eligibility criteria, i.e.:
Minimum criteria
· Have been told to stay at home and self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace, either because they have tested positive for coronavirus or have recently been in close contact with someone who has tested positive;
· Are employed or self-employed; and are unable to work from home and will lose income as a result of self-isolating;
· Have signed up and completed the test and trace journey (receiving the initial notification to isolate will not qualify for the grant);
· Are not currently receiving Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, income-based Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit and/or Pension Credit; and
· Who are on low incomes and will face financial hardship as a result of not being able to work while they are self-isolating.
Discretionary payment – Tandridge additional criteria as relevant to the determination of whether a Discretionary Test and Trace Payment will be made
· Individuals who have made a claim for Universal Credit, Working Tax Credit, income based Employment and Support Allowance, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit and/or Pension Credit and it is likely that this claim will be successful;
· Individuals from abroad who are excluded from claiming benefits but meet all the other statutory and discretionary criteria;
· Individuals whose gross annual household income is less than £20,000 a year (£385 per week), although consideration will be given for higher annual incomes if the Council is provided with a suitable justification that is in the spirit of the grant;
· The individual's employer must confirm that, as a result of his/her isolation, s/he will lose pay as a result of the terms of his/her contract;
· If the individual is self-employed, the self-employment must clearly be of the nature where s/he cannot work from home;
· The individual does not have capital exceeding £6,000.
The Tandridge scheme for considering and allocating Covid-19 Test and Trace payments, was presented to the Committee.
R E S O L V E D – that the Discretionary Covid-19 Test and Trace Payment Scheme, detailed at Appendix A to the report, be ratified.
Investment Sub-Committee - 23 October 2020 PDF 555 KB
To receive the minutes of the Sub-Committee's meeting on the 23rd October 2020.
App A - Investment Sub-Cttee - 23.10.20 , item 194. PDF 560 KB
R E S O L V E D – that the minutes of the Sub-Committee's meeting on the 23rd October 2020, as attached at Appendix A, be received.
Chief Officer Sub Committee - 22 October and 13 November 2020 PDF 113 KB
To receive the minutes of the Sub-Committee's meetings on the 22nd October and 13th November 2020.
mCOSC13.11.20 , item 195. PDF 188 KB
App B - COSC - 13.11.20 , item 195. PDF 188 KB
R E S O L V E D – that the minutes of the Sub-Committee's meetings on the 22nd October 2020 and 13th November 2020 (the minutes of the latter meeting are reproduced at Appendix B) be received.
Appointment of Electoral Registration Officer and Returning Officer PDF 277 KB
The Committee considered the need for the Council to appoint a new Electoral Registration Officer (ERO) and Returning Officer (RO). This followed the departure of Elaine Jackson who previously held both positions, in addition to her role as Acting Chief Executive.
It was proposed that Jackie King, the new Acting Chief Executive, should be appointed to both the ERO and RO positions.
R E C O M M E N D E D – that:
A. the Acting Chief Executive is appointed as Electoral Registration Officer and Returning Officer pursuant to section 35(1) and section 8(2)(a) of the representation of the People Act 1983 on a temporary basis until a permanent Chief Executive is appointed; and
B. Lidia Harrison, Head of Legal Services & Monitoring Officer, and Chailey Gibb, Lead Democratic Specialist, continue to be appointed as Deputy Electoral Registration Officers.
CIL spending review and funding statement PDF 223 KB
Enc 1 - CIL spending review and funding statement , item 197. PDF 833 KB
The Committee considered a report which summarised the Community Infrastructure (CIL) regime, including the new statutory requirement for the Council (as the CIL charging authority) to publish an Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) by 31st December annually; the role of Parish and County Councils; and the process for identifying projects for CIL spending.
A proposed IFS was appended to the report, setting out:
· 'Section 106' funding obligations triggered throughout the District;
· 'Section 278' (Highways) agreements entered into with Surrey County Council; and
· Projects that have been / will be funded by CIL income.
Councillor Bourne, seconded by Councillor Botten, proposed the following additional resolution:
".. agree to the immediate formation of a 7 Member politically balanced group (2,2,2,1) tasked to determine a method of evaluating and rating future CIL requests, with the group advised by Officers to ensure adherence to the CIL regulations. The result to be brought back to this committee for formal agreement and implementation. This will be followed up with Member briefing sessions to inform all Members of the new process and how best to represent projects in their wards".
Councillor Cooper proposed the following amendment to Councillor Bourne's proposal:
"Without prejudice to the outcome of the CIL bid - Grange Meadow (item 19),agree to the immediate formation of a 7 Member politically balanced group … [the remaining text as per the above]
… this was agreed.
Regarding the proposed IFS, Members questioned the absence of anticipated infrastructure projects not yet presented to the Committee, especially the scheme to improve Croydon Road, Caterham which was being led by the Caterham Business Improvement District (BID) group. As projects had to be included within an IFS to qualify for CIL, Members favoured the insertion of an additional list of projects to which CIL allocations were expected. Given the initial challenges associated with the Committee having to adopt a revised IFS (incorporating such a list) at a future meeting before the end of December, it was suggested that that the recommended IFS (within the agenda pack) be adopted forthwith to comply with the Regulations. However, the Committee wished to confirm its intention to adopt an updated iteration of the IFS at the earliest practicable opportunity thereafter, incorporating an 'additional list' as referred to above.
R E S O L V E D – that:
A. notwithstanding the intention to produce a revised replacement Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) as soon as practicable during 2020/21, the IFS as attached at Appendix A to the report be agreed;
B. Officers prepare a charging schedule for the monitoring of planning obligations to bring back to this Committee for consideration; and
C. without prejudice to the outcome of the CIL bid, 'Grange Meadow' (item 19 on the agenda), a Member Working Group, politically balanced (2,2,2,1) be formed and tasked to determine a method of evaluating and rating future CIL requests, with the Group advised by Officers to ensure adherence to the CIL regulations – the result to be brought back to this Committee for ... view the full minutes text for item 197.
CIL bid- Grange Meadow
View the reasons why item 198. is restricted
The Committee resolved to move into confidential session (in accordance with Section 100A (4) of the Local Government Act 1972 - paragraph 3 of Schedule 12A) to consider this matter.
A report was presented with a recommendation to award £250,000 from Community Infrastructure Levy funds for a project to improve access to the recreation ground at Grange Meadow, Bletchingley. The site in question was owned by the Council.
Arguments for and against the recommended award of CIL funds were put forward. While not disputing the need for the scheme, reservations about the proposal included a view that the works should be funded from the Council's capital programme (given that the Council owned the site) and that the scope for contributions from other relevant agencies had not yet been fully demonstrated.
Upon being put to the vote, the motion to adopt the recommendation was lost.
R E S O L V E D – that the CIL application be refused.
(i) In accordance with Standing Order 25(3), Councillor Pursehouse wished it recorded that he abstained from voting.
(ii) Councillor Black declared a non-pecuniary interest in this matter on the basis that she was the Council's representative on the Bletchingley Sports Association. She took part in the debate as permitted by the Members' Code of Conduct.
Freedom Leisure - verbal update
The Interim Transformation Lead updated the Committee regarding the on-going impact of the pandemic on Freedom Leisure's operations within the District and the progress of negotiations regarding Freedom's request for financial assistance following the Committee's meeting on the 8th October 2020.

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Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs Edward J. Zajac and James D. Westphal, Academy of Management Journal, January 1996, Vol. 39, No.1, 64-90 This study shows how social psychological and sociopolitical factors can create divergence in the preferences of an incumbent CEO and existing board regarding the desired characteristics of a new CEO, and how relative CEO/board power can predict whose preferences are realized. Using extensive longitudinal data, we found that more powerful boards are more likely to change CEO characteristics in the direction of their own demographic profile. Outside successors are also typically demographically different from their CEO predecessors but demographically similar to the boards.
Zajac, Edward, and James D. Westphal. 1996. Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs. Academy of Management Journal. 39(1): 64-90.


People talk about corruption, but really effective corruption requires something like organization. Like Argentina. It's organized, it's very organized corruption. Africa is certainly corrupt. But it's more that it was chaotic. The infrastructure is poor, volatility is high. In Africa, anything can happen.
Lagos, Nigeria. 2008. Photo by Robert Prather. Creative commons license, via Flickr.
n+1: Did you travel to Africa a lot?
HFM: I did. Quite a few times.
And the countries are all different. You go to South Africa and it has many aspects of a developed market. You go to Nigeria and it's weird. Lagos looked to me like a city where aliens had come and built the city and then left, and then just sort of let it decay. People kind of wandered in from the outskirts, squatted in the city. So you had this strange juxtaposition of what was clearly modern infrastructure that had just been kind of abandoned to decay–and then total squalor. You'd go one block off a main thoroughfare and the road is dirt. You go to a nice neighborhood, all the houses are behind walls and outside the walls there's somebody cooking on a garbage fire, right outside the walls of some big house. It's like nothing I've seen anywhere else.
n+1 And yet they had a lively banking sector?
HFM: If you went there it would be clear to you that there's no way that those banks could deploy the kinds of capital that was being pushed in.
Or you drive in the city and there's one bridge from the mainland to Victoria Island; everyday it's backed up for hours. It's like, "You know what? I could build another bridge next to this bridge, I could charge a huge toll!" This is a country that needs everything. There's so many obvious opportunities to invest and really increase efficiency. Physically invest. I'm not talking about the ability for a country to absorb capital institutionally, but like physically.
HFM: But then you realize that it's not like they can't figure this out. It's not like they don't get the fact that it's pretty annoying that the power goes out six times a day and it's pretty annoying to have six fuel generators humming all the time. The reason investment doesn't happen is because it's in some powerful person's interest that it not happen. There's some guy who controls the diesel trucks who makes tons of money from being a diesel distributor, and there's a guy with all these generators who would be out of business if power plants were built, and he stands in the way. There are people there, there are corrupt government officials who know how much value can be created by a power plant, but they want to extract it for themselves. That's why the country needs everything.
HFM: It was just like mechanical difficulties. This wasn't like going on Fidelity and saying, "Enter the six-month T-bill auction in Gabon." There were times where to participate in an auction you'd have to get a whole like packet of documents together, signatures and everything and fax them to the central bank of the country. Sounds simple, right? Well the phone lines don't work there half the time. So you have to fax between this hour and this hour to be eligible, but you just couldn't even get the fax machine to pick up, or your fax transmission would be halfway through and you'd get cut off. Sometimes you have to get special approval as a foreigner to invest in these markets, and we're navigating a big bureaucracy. So we would do all that, but once we do that, then we'd have permission to participate in the market, and it was worth it.
n+1: What would you do when there was a fax crisis?
HFM: A fax crisis wasn't an option, because you know you couldn't not get a fax. You'd call and try and find somebody, you know, "Could you see if the fax is working? Give me another fax number." And it was kind of silly. But then that's why the returns are there. How many people are going to put up with that nonsense?
When they finally improved their systems and you could email things or do things electronically or there were investments banks that would alleviate those trades for you, the opportunity disappeared.
n+1: Couldn't you just fly there and delivery the papers?
HFM: Well you wouldn't know, you wouldn't know until you tried if the fax machine was going to work or not.
HFM: These are the kinds of trades I love. Where the success or failure is determined by whether the fax machine works, not whether the guy you just hired's a crook.
n+1: Is this Nigeria you're mostly talking about?
HFM: No, that's some other countries we had this issue with, smaller countries.
n+1: What other places did you go that were interesting?
HFM: You name the country in sub-Saharan African, we either did some small trades there or looked into doing some small trade there. We were pretty promiscuous. By the time the bull market came around, we only had some small investment in Nigeria and Ghana.
HFM: That particular investment did not work out so well. As an economy overall it's hard to say. It was less corrupt than Nigeria, more democratic than a lot of places we operated, but it was still Africa, right? The economy was still a little bit chaotic, statistics were poorly kept, transparency was poor and the economy's subject to a lot of volatility. There was a thing at the end of last year where there was a devaluation of the currency. There was an election and the campaign spending went out of control, the incumbent tried to buy victory for his party's candidate. He was unable to. So I mean, it's Africa.
n+1: Of all the places you've dealt with, Africa was just the least developed, is that the main thing?
HFM: It's the most chaotic. People talk about corruption, but like really effective corruption requires something like organization. Like Argentina. It's organized, it's very organized corruption. Even a lot of Russia, to a certain extent. Very organized corruption. Africa is certainly corrupt. But it's more that it was chaotic. The infrastructure is poor, volatility is high. Whereas in Argentina you can predict that you will be screwed. You just know it. In Africa, anything can happen.
Like one day you're trying to transfer funds out of out of the country and suddenly they say, "Oh, sorry there are no dollars available." And you know if somebody said that to you in Argentina, it would be like, "Because I want you to buy the permission or whatever." In Africa they are just, "No, there are no dollars today," and the next day they'll call you up, "Oh yeah there are dollars now." There are things that happen there that in other places I would chalk up to an attempt to shake me down. There, it was often just chaos and disorganization.
n+1: You were the only ones willing to sit on the fax?
HFM: No, in Angola we had to get literally a presidential decree.
n+1: [Laughs.] How did you get that?
HFM: It took us lobbying for like two years.
HFM: When they would come to the UN or World Bank meetings, you'd meet with them, we met the ambassador, we were like, "Look, we want to invest in your country, but we want to get started with something simple so we want to be able to buy T-bills. Don't worry, we're not hot money, we'll keep the money in for a long time." Which we did. They let us in, they gave us a very small capacity, but we were involved in their T-bill market for like two years.
n+1: And that's considered a considered a long time?
HFM: Yeah, that's a pretty long time.
n+1: And they love you? They love you in Angola?
HFM: I don't think they remember us anymore. It was a long time ago. Actually the ambassador that we—was it the ambassador or the finance minister?—one time we went to the ambassador or the finance minister and then the finance minister at that time was later arrested.
n+1: Why wouldn't they let you in?
n+1: Couldn't you have bribed them?
HFM: It's illegal under U.S. law for a U.S. citizen to pay bribes to a foreign officials.
n+1: [Scoffing chuckle.] Even if you're over there?
HFM: Wherever you are. The government is very strict about that and we are very strict about that.
n+1: Are there places that aren't?
n+1: Does that put you at a disadvantage?
HFM: Theoretically. But if my business were based on paying bribes I wouldn't want to be in it.
n+1: They'd be like, "You should contribute to my charity fund," or how?
n+1: How do you ignore that?


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Q: how to include dot operator in Edittext & Backspace for android calculator application I'm a java beginner,I decided to made simple android calculator When i run this code Bksp doesn't work,let me help to solve this.what i'm wrong.
i also need a help how to adding a dot operator in EditText and how can i write the code to perform floating addition.
package com.tools.calculator;
import android.R.string;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.text.Editable;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

     public String str ="";
     Character op = 'q';
     int i,num,numtemp;

        EditText showResult;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        showResult = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
        }
         public void one(View v){
           insert(1);
              }
           public void two(View v){
           insert(2);
            }
          public void three(View v){
           insert(3);
            }
          public void four(View v){
           insert(4);
            }
          public void five(View v){
           insert(5);
            }
          public void six(View v){
           insert(6);
          }
          public void seven(View v){
           insert(7);
            }
          public void eight(View v){
           insert(8);
            }
          public void nine(View v){
           insert(9);
           }
          public void zero(View v){
              insert(0);
          }
          public void dot(View v)
    {
            /*----******** NEED HELP FOR INCLUDE THE DOT OPERATOR*****------*/
          }
          public void plus(View v){
           perform();
           op = '+';
           showResult.setText("");
          }
          public void minus(View v){
            perform();
            op = '-';
            showResult.setText("");

          }
          public void divide(View v){
           perform();
           op = '/';
           showResult.setText("");
          }
          public void multiply(View v){
           perform();
           op = '*';
           showResult.setText("");
          }
          public void equal(View v){
    //Calculate the numbers
           calculate();

          }
          public void Bksp(View v)
    {     /*  --------------------- BackSpace function-------------------  */
              showResult.setText(str);
              String str = showResult.getText().toString();
            if(str.length()>1){

                str = str.substring(0, str.length() - 1);
                showResult.setText(str);
                }else if(str.length()<=1){
                    showResult.setText("");
           /*  --------------------- BackSpace function-------------------  */
                    }
             }
          public void CLR(View v){
              reset();
          }
             private void reset() {
     /*  --------------------- Reset the EditText-------------------  */
          str ="";
          op ='q';
          num = 0;
          numtemp = 0;
          showResult.setText("");
     /*  --------------------- Reset the EditText-------------------  */
        }

          private void insert(int j) {
                //Insert the  values by clicking button
                   str = str+Integer.toString(j);
                   num = Integer.valueOf(str).intValue();
                   showResult.setText(str);

               }

          private void perform() {
                // move the variable to temporary register
                str = "";
                numtemp = num;
          }
          private void calculate() {
                // Calculation process
                if(op == '+')
                 numtemp = numtemp+num;
                else if(op == '-')
                 numtemp = numtemp-num;
                else if(op == '/')
                 numtemp = numtemp/num;
                else if(op == '*')
                 numtemp = numtemp*num;
                showResult.setText(""+numtemp);
                str = "";
               }
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}
}

LAYOUT FILE
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"
    android:background="#333333">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button1"
        android:text="@string/zero"
        android:onClick="zero" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button2"
        android:text="@string/equal"
        android:onClick="equal" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button5"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button2"
        android:text="@string/two"
        android:onClick="two" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button6"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button5"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button5"
        android:text="@string/three"
        android:onClick="three" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:text="@string/four"
        android:onClick="four" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button8"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button5"
        android:text="@string/five"
        android:onClick="five"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button9"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button8"
        android:text="@string/six"
        android:onClick="six" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button10"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_marginBottom="14dp"
        android:text="@string/seven"
        android:onClick="seven"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button11"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button10"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button8"
        android:text="@string/eight"
        android:onClick="eight"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button12"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button11"
        android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/button11"
        android:text="@string/nine"
        android:onClick="nine" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button4"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/button7"
        android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/button5"
        android:text="@string/one"
        android:onClick="one" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button17"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/button12"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_marginBottom="18dp"
        android:text="@string/CLR"
        android:onClick="CLR"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button13"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button12"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button12"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:text="@string/add"
        android:onClick="plus" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button14"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button9"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button9"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button13"
        android:text="@string/sub"
        android:onClick="minus" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button15"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button6"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:text="@string/mul"
        android:onClick="multiply" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button16"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button3"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button15"
        android:text="@string/div"
        android:onClick="divide" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/button17"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button10"
        android:layout_alignTop="@+id/button17"
        android:background="#ffffff"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="number" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/button5"
        android:layout_marginLeft="18dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:text="@string/dot"
        android:onClick="dot" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button18"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_above="@+id/button17"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/button17"
        android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
        android:text="@string/Bksp" />

</RelativeLayout>

XML FILE   ###
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <string name="app_name">Calculator</string>
    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>
    <string name="hello_world"></string>
    <string name="dot">.</string>
    <string name="one">1</string>
    <string name="two">2</string>
    <string name="three">3</string>
    <string name="four">4</string>
    <string name="five">5</string>
    <string name="six">6</string>
    <string name="seven">7</string>
    <string name="eight">8</string>
    <string name="nine">9</string>
    <string name="zero">0</string>
    <string name="add">+</string>
    <string name="sub">-</string>
    <string name="mul">*</string>
    <string name="div">/</string>
    <string name="equal">=</string>
    <string name="Bksp"><--</string>
    <string name="CLR">CLR</string>

</resources>

A: Your Bksp method is not implemented in your xml file.

A: Your code is horrible (one method per number?), looking your insert method you should do some edits.
private void insert(int j) {
    //Insert the  values by clicking button
    str = str+Integer.toString(j);
    num = Integer.valueOf(str).intValue();
    showResult.setText(str);
}

First:

*

*You should use Double.* methods because Integer cannot have float values.

*I don't see any code which do the math so you should do the edits.

Then, to make the dot method you could just do it
private void insert() {
    //Insert the  values by clicking button
    str = str+".0";
    num = Double.valueOf(str);
    showResult.setText(str);
}

It's what you should do to support dot.
Anyway, you can get remove .intValue() from Integer.valueOf(str).intValue()

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2-3 oz (56-84 g) salt pork. Salt pork is a fattier part of the pig that looks similar to bacon but is never smoked.
Fry the pork in the butter. When the fat has melted, add the carrots, onion, bay leaf and thyme. Cook the vegetables, stirring regularly. Add in the flour. Once it has browned, add in the tomatoes and veal stock. Stir the ingredients together until well mixed, then bring the sauce to a boil. Add the rest of the seasonings and the clove of crushed garlic. Place in the oven under moderate heat for 90 minutes. Remove the sauce and pass it through a sieve. Butter the top to prevent the formation of a skin.
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The Merciad • February 5, 2019 • https://merciad.mercyhurst.edu/22696/sports/womens-bowling-team-announced/
Women's bowling team announced
Katy Vacceriello, Staff writer
Mercyhurst University recently announced the creation of an all new sports team, the Women's Varsity Bowling team. The creation of this women's bowling team is lined up with the recently introduced new Director of Athletics on campus, Bradley Davis.
Upon the hire of Davis, a consulting firm working with Mercyhurst advised that the addition of a new team would a great boost to expand the athletics on campus. "It is exciting to introduce a new program," said Davis. "There hasn't been a new program introduced to Mercyhurst in 10 years. We're excited to introduce a new program in a bowling-rich community like Erie. We're also excited to introduce new opportunities for women athletes here at Mercyhurst University."
The closest Mercyhurst was towards a new program was the announcement of heavyweight rowing last year.
That, however, is not a separate sport, but rather a new addition to the already existing rowing program.
For Davis, the perfect fit for the school was a bowling team. Bowling was a nice fit for the need to expand the sports program. The sport is different from most colleges around the Erie area.
The forthcoming Laker bowling squad will be the only collegiate team of its kind currently in the area. It also provides simplicity for the campus because there is no need to build a facility.
With bowling being quite popular in the area, there are three nearby bowling alleys ready to sign an agreement with the school, according to Davis.
To top off the wonderful addition the bowling team provides for the school, it works hand and hand with Title IX to provide women with a sports platform all their own. For the women's bowling team, the premiere season will be 2019-2020. As of now, there are no registered team members, but formal recruiting will begin in preparation for the upcoming school year.
There will also be tryouts for anyone who holds a passion for bowling.
Ultimately, the announcement for the coach will also reveal the finalized home facility to the wider community. This facility will host the regular practices, as well as being the potential future home for tournaments hosted by Mercyhurst.
One final step in the works is finalizing the conference Mercyhurst bowling will fall under. Unfortunately, the current conference for the school, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, does not sponsor bowling. A conference request has been made by the Mercyhurst athletic department, but they are patiently waiting for the response.
Coinciding with the announcement of the women's bowling program was also the formation of a bowling club here on campus. However, there is no collaboration or concrete connection, as both efforts are independent. The only connection between the varsity bowling team and the bowling club is the goal to strengthen Mercyhurst with the introduction of a new sport to the campus community.
In a way, the new team and the club will be expanding the world of sports and competition for Mercyhurst, starting at the club level being less competitive than the official Varsity team.
At this point, there is no men's bowling team in the works currently at Mercyhurst.
The introduction of a women's team is important to set the ground work for any future sports endeavors on Mercyhurst's campus.


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These are some programs I have written which are generally suitable for public consumption. The C programs work on Linux and (most likely) OSX, and probably Windows if you can get the libraries in the right place.
A program to compute with surfaces in free groups and free products of cyclic groups. Scallop now contains the (improved) functionality from scallop, scylla, trollop, gallop, and scabble. Scallop requires GMP and GLPK, and supports using Gurobi as a linear programming solver.
A Gtk+2.0 (graphical) application which allows you to manipulate fatgraphs, mostly fatgraphs coming as output from scallop, which is included with wallop. Note the included scallop is the older scallop, which only computes in free groups.
A gtk and opengl C program which allows you to interact in real time with the computation of 3d scl norm balls in B_1^H.
A C/C++ program which uses the same theory are scallop to compute a 2d slice of the scl norm ball in the space B_1^H. Note you may need to use the -m option to avoid some rigor problems more evident with scabble than scallop (see the readme). Requires GMP and GLPK. See scallop above.
A C program which implements the algorithm described in "SCL, Sails, and Surgery", By Danny Calegari. The algorithm is, except in very special cases, way slower than the one in scallop, so this is probably useful only if you want to really understand the paper.
Schottky draws limit sets and many other things for 2-generator iterated function systems. This project is joint with Danny Calegari and Sarah Koch, and the program is joint with Danny Calegari.
Angle explores the space of linear circle actions.
A program to numerically find periodic orbits of rational functions. It also draws Julia sets.
A program to mess with rotation numbers.
A program which computes and draws minimal positions for loops on surfaces. Note: the algorithm of this program is suspect on closed surfaces.
An online version of branched.
Shine displays embedded surfaces in 3D, finds hyperbolic structures on them, and draws hyperbolic geodesics. This program can output .eps and .svg files which essentially duplicate the standard blackboard pictures of curves on surfaces. Deprecated in favor of shine.js, below.
A program to draw rays on the sphere minus a Cantor set and act on these rays by homeomorphisms.
A C program which generates the integer hull of a rational polyhedron. It implements the algorithm described in "Theory of Linear and Integer Programming" by Alexander Schrijver, especially as explained in these course notes by Rekha Thomas at UW. ihull uses lrslib and Normaliz.
An example cryptogram decoder program written for Math 2b (probability and statistics), which demonstrates using Bayes' rule to score potential decrypts of a cryptogram (and try to find the best one).
A script which takes a 2 dimensional CW complex as input and outputs a (homeomorphic) simplicial complex. This can be handy for using Sage to check homology, etc.


The school's principal and cheer coach have been placed on leave.
Denver police are investigating an incident at a local high school after a video emerged of a teen cheerleader screaming as she is forced into splits.
The footage shows Ally Wakefield, 13, being held down by her fellow East High School cheerleaders and coach at a June training camp as she screams in pain.
"No, no, no, no, no! I can't!" she cries. "Please stop. Please stop. Please stop."
The footage was provided to local NBC affiliate KUSA, which reported that it had been sent other videos showing a total of eight East High cheerleaders being forced into the splits.
Wakefield and her mother, Kirsten, spoke to BuzzFeed News on Friday. Read that story here.
Team coach Ozell Williams — who has thousands of followers on Instagram, where he posts videos of himself tumbling — was only recently hired as the team's coach, KUSA reported. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson told BuzzFeed News investigators were looking into the footage.
"It was brought to our attention," he said Thursday. "We have a lot of interviews to conduct."
"We're still looking into it at this point in time."


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Changes in Lipids and Electrolyte Leakage during Nonnetted Muskmelon Ripening
in Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
Authors: Dominique Lacan1 and J.C. Baccou1
1 Laboratoire de Physiologie et Technologie des Végétaux CC 024, Université de Montpellier II, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS.121.3.554
Respiration, C2H4 production, lipid composition, and electrolyte leakage were monitored during ripening of two nonnetted muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) varieties differing in their storage life: `Clipper' (a long-storage-life variety) and `Jerac', which was used as a control. Respiration rates were comparable in both varieties. Although `Jerac' exhibited normal climacteric C2H4 production, `Clipper' continued to produce significant amounts of C2H4 until senescence. Electrolyte leakage increased with ripening and was always higher in `Jerac'. The loss of membrane integrity seems to be related to changes in the lipid composition due to a breakdown of phospholipids, an increase of sterol synthesis, and an increase in fatty acid saturation. On the contrary, in `Clipper', the absence of a major change in sterol and phospholipids content and the high level of fatty acid unsaturation suggest that membrane permeability is not greatly affected during ripening. This is consistent with the low loss of solutes measured and may delay senescence in `Clipper' fruit.
https://journals.ashs.org/jashs/view/journals/jashs/121/3/article-p554.xml
Volume 121 (1996): Issue 3 (May 1996)
© American Society for Horticultural Science 1996
ethylene; lipids; muskmelon; permeability; respiration; ripening
Article by Dominique Lacan
Article by J.C. Baccou


1-) Emergencies requiring artificial respiration ………….
Artificial respiration pumping the breath of life into the lungs of a victim of drowning, suffocation, electric shock or gas poisoning is one of the most vital of all first-aid procedures. Such emergencies are so frequent that it is quite possible to be confronted by one at any time. Mechanical devices do the job the lungs with pure oxygen, but such equipment is seldom available in the desperate three minutes in which the life can still be saved seconds count! Hence, life saving usually depends on some bystander who can perform artificial respiration with his own bare hands.


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Bougainville has voted to become a new country, but the journey to independence is not yet over
Written by Anna Powles, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Massey University
The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a chain of islands that lie 959 kilometres northwest of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby, has voted unequivocally for independence.
The referendum saw 85% voter turnout during three weeks of voting, with 97.7% of voters choosing independence from Papua New Guinea over the second option, which was remaining, but with greater autonomy from PNG. As the Bougainville Referendum Commission stated, the numbers told an important story, reflecting the support for independence across genders and age groups.
It's a momentous event, not only because it could a new country, but also because the referendum marks an important part of a peace agreement signed almost 20 years ago. The 2001 Bougainville Peace Agreement ended the deeply divisive nine year conflict (1988-1997) that lead to the deaths of approximately 20,000 people, or about 10% of Bougainville's population.
The referendum, however, is non-binding. The ultimate outcome will be determined by a vote in Papua New Guinea's National Parliament following negotiations between the Papua New Guinean government and the Autonomous Bougainville Government.
But as former President James Tanis said to me hours after the result was announced:
we survived the war, ended the war, delivered a successful referendum, what else can now stop us from becoming a successful independent nation?
China's interest in Bougainville
For the broader region, an independent Bougainville has a number of implications. Firstly, it sends a strong signal for other self-determination movements across the Pacific, including in New Caledonia which will hold a second referendum for independence in 2020.
There are also geopolitical implications. The referendum has taken place during a period of heightened strategic anxiety among the Pacific's so-called traditional partners – Australia, New Zealand and the United States, as well as the United Kingdom, France and Japan.
There have long been concerns China will seek to curry influence with an independent Bougainville. As one Bougainvillean leader informed me, Chinese efforts to build relationships with Bougainville's political elite have increased over the past few years.
Beijing's interest in Bougainville is two-fold: first, it is seeking to shore up diplomatic support in the Pacific Islands region, thereby reducing support for Taiwan which lost a further two Pacific allies this year. And second, to access to resources, namely fisheries and extractive minerals.
Although it will be tempting for many in Canberra, Washington and Wellington to view an independent Bougainville through the current strategic prism – adhering to narratives about debt-trap diplomacy – doing so undermines the importance of local dynamics and the resilience of Bougainville people.
An independent Bougainville navigating a more disordered and disruptive international environment will need nuanced grounded advice, rather than speculation.
The road ahead for Bougainville will be challenging and it will need its friends – particularly New Zealand and Australia.
The much vaunted respective "Pacific Reset" and "Pacific Step Up" policies provide entry points for the kind of genuine engagement and support that Bougainville will require in the coming years.
Celebration with cautious anticipation
Following the result's announcement, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape said his government had heard the voice of Bougainvilleans, and the two governments must now develop a road map that leads to lasting political settlement.
And Bougainville Referendum Commission chairman Bertie Ahern urged all sides to recognise the result and said the vote was about "your peace, your history, and your future" and reflected "the power of the pen over weapons". Acknowledging the result is non-binding, Ahern said:
the referendum is one part of that ongoing journey.
And here lies the challenge. The post-referendum period was always going to be one of celebration, cautious anticipation and the management of expectations.
As one of Bougainville's formidable women leaders told me, there are concerns about security in the post-referendum period as expectation turns to frustration if there are perceived delays in determining Bougainville's future political status.
What's more, the negotiations are likely to take a long time, since there's no deadline they're required to meet.
There are, however, critical milestones that still need to be hit first. This includes the Autonomous Bougainville Government elections, the first elections following the referendum, so will likely see intensified politicking as politicians jockey for a potential role in building an independent Bougainvillean state.
The Papua New Guinea's national elections are also scheduled for 2022. The risk in both cases is that Bougainville's future becomes a political pawn.
An independent Bougainville will face significant challenges and diverse choices.
Not least of which is Bougainville's economic security and the choices that will need to be made about the Panguna Mine, the gold and copper mine at the heart of much of the conflict, and fisheries, once the new nation's 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone is created.
A young nation built on a past mired by the extremes of resource nationalism, Bougainville has difficult decisions to make about how it secures its economic self-reliance.
Authors: Anna Powles, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies, Massey University
Read more http://theconversation.com/bougainville-has-voted-to-become-a-new-country-but-the-journey-to-independence-is-not-yet-over-128236
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Friedman's Acela Ride
https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/10/friedman-acela-ride
From Thomas Friedman's New York Times column:
In the past two weeks, I've taken the Amtrak Acela to the Philadelphia and New York stations. In both places there were signs on the train platforms boasting that new construction work there was being paid for by "the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009," that is, the $787 billion stimulus. And what was that work? New "lighting" — so now you can see even better just how disgustingly decayed, undersized and outdated are the rail platforms and infrastructure in two of our biggest cities.
I take Amtrak to Philadelphia sometimes and I disagree with Mr. Friedman's premise that the Philadelphia station is decayed or undersized. It's a grand old building with soaring high ceilings.
But assume he's right: How did these Amtrak stations get so run down? They are run by the government. If Mr. Friedman wants to spruce them up, he should suggest turning them over to the private sector, and they might wind up as fancy as the Four Seasons.
But if the government is going to spruce them up, it should keep in mind that in doing so it's going to be taxing people who take the bus, or people who own airlines or work at airlines or bus companies, to subsidize a competing form of transportation. Where's the justice in that? Why should some guy who earns $40,000 a year and gets to Philadelphia from Washington by taking a $25 bus be taxed to subsidize the Acela ride of Mr. Friedman, who reportedly charges $75,000 for a single lecture, belongs to two country clubs, and who lives in a $9.3 million, 11,400 square-foot house? If Mr. Friedman doesn't like the way the Acela platform looks, let him take a limousine to Philadelphia from Washington, or a private jet, or let him hire someone to "update" the decor. Or let him avert his gaze. But don't tax me any more to deal with his aesthetic issues. I don't want to have to pay so that he doesn't have to be disgusted. I just don't agree that that is the role of government.
by Ira Stoll | Oct 23, 2010 at 11:34 pm Related Topics: Press, Reverse Robin-Hood, Stimulus receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list
Where is Amtrak's slice of the pie?
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The Yoker line is part of the North Clyde lines. It is not an extension to a line but one of two routes between Dalmuir and Hyndland  stations (the other route between them being the Singer line). The stations that lie on the Yoker line are:

 Jordanhill
 Scotstounhill
 Garscadden
 Yoker
 Clydebank
 (Dalmuir) (Platforms 3, 4 & 5)

As the shortest route between Dalmuir and Hyndland, with the journey time being 13 minutes, the Yoker line is also the line that the express services to Helensburgh Central pass through (although these do not call at the stations).

Transport in Glasgow

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Bless Our Hearts: Can She Bake A Mango Pie?
I have one in the oven and it is beautiful in its formative stage, it's raw stage.
Anyway, the deal is, a lot of my mangoes and all of the peaches I had in the house were going way too soft way too fast so I cut them up and added a few frozen cherries for excitement and tartness and added sugar and cornstarch and poured the goopy concoction into that pie shell I made.
It'll probably just end up being a mess but I've tried.
And if it's good, well, it'll be very, very good.
I believe I've just been tired today. I haven't done much. I blanched and froze a few vegetables and while that sounds like something, it ain't much. I hung clothes on the line. I brought them in. I picked a few beans and peas and okra. That was enough time outside for me.
Mr. Moon came home and said, "I can't take this heat. I just can't."
"Let's move to Canada," he said.
"I can't take the cold, either," I said, rolling out my pie crust.
I have also made some bread with asiago cheese, rosemary, and black olives. Do you know how easy it is for me to cook and bake? It's like rolling over in my sleep and adjusting the pillow without waking up. That's how easy it is.
I slept for two hours this afternoon. Deep, heavy sleep. I dreamed again but this time things were random. I was telling someone that I was not the sort of person to live in a dorm. I instructed another person on how to download audio books from her library. I was helping people pack and we were all going to leave on a journey.
"Let's just eat the rest of that pizza," I said. "Then we won't have to put it in anything and carry it."
I was a little-miss-know-it-all in those dreams, wasn't I?
But I think that was good advice about the pizza.
Summer's dog days and honestly, we may not even be there yet but I am. I just want to dig a hole under the porch in the cool, damp black earth and lay down and scratch my fleas in my sleep.
Sleep and food seem to be the theme of today.
Well. We all need both.
That pie is a thing of beauty. I love you.
I love you too, you amazing baker, you.
I can't wait to hear how the pie turned out! Yum!
I took a good nap this afternoon, too. All I want to do on these miserably hot summer afternoons is sleep. My husband and I talk about moving north, too.
Mango pie! Why have I never eaten that! Please take pictures of the finished pie and report in on how it tastes. Yum.
I love pie crust and that bread, oh my💖. My thing is carbs unfortunately. I've never had ever heard of a mango pie but why not? Mango is so good. I hope you sleep peacefully tonight. I didn't take my morning walk and I'm contemplating skipping my evening walk too. It's hot and Ollie is on my lap kneading me and it feels good.
I made a mango clafoutis a couple of weeks ago. So simple and wonderfully delicious. We had a bumper crop of mangos this year. I cut up a bunch and just froze them straight up in ziploc bags. Now I am using them as ice cubes in my wine. ;-) It is fantastic. Give it a try. Your pie looks wonderful.
Mango pie! Sounds delish! Years ago I made a nectarine pie, which was so damned good....then saw a recipe for it a year later. I thought I'd created it myself! As for the heat, here in the humid hell that is Illinois, today's high was 103. Tomorrow's forecast is 104 and Saturday's is 107. My forecast is A/C, egg salad sammiches and sweet tea.
it would never have occurred to me to make a mango pie. as for the dog days, not yet as least by the calendar but it is not and hot outside. I'd move too, somewhere, if I could find a place that did not get hot hot but did not get cold either and if I could drag all my family there with me.
Wow...Let us know how that tastes...my mouth is watering.
Yes, it's the scorch of summer here too. In the hundreds this week. I could do with Augusts that were more like May.
And please, how did the pie taste?
It's not cold where I live. It rarely gets below freezing. So yes, move to Canada. Bring your kids and grandkids. Sometimes I wish I had the money to sponsor a family from the US to move here for real.
Is raw cookie dough considered a raw food? I'm going to go with a yes!
That pie DOES look amazing.


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Women's center advocate creates domestic violence booklets for police
Kirstin Kennedy @kirstinkennedy
No local police department is immune to the threat of domestic violence in its area of enforcement.
Fortunately, the Beaver County Domestic and Sexual Violence Task Force�s protocol for how officers handle domestic violence reports has been approved and recommended by the county�s district attorney�s office.
Unfortunately, the protocol is a lengthy document, and reports of domestic violence can be just as complicated as they are dangerous for victims and first responders.
So Monique Anderson, a legal advocate for the Women�s Center of Beaver County, came up with a solution � a pocket-sized guidebook for law enforcement to carry at all times. The booklet was modeled after a similar pamphlet created by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, which addresses reports of sexual assault.
�We were at one of our meetings and I just thought it would be nice to have a smaller version (of the county�s recommended protocol),� Anderson said.
The booklet contains eight pages of information including safety concerns for police and victims, how to identify the victim and the aggressor, important things for officers to investigate, how to continue the investigation after the initial report, how to conduct a warrantless arrest in a domestic violence situation and the different crimes that are associated with domestic violence.
�The (domestic violence) protocol is pages and pages long,� said Millie Anderson, an advocacy coordinator for the women�s center who is not related to Monique Anderson. �A police officer is not going to be looking through all those pages if he has a question.�
Millie Anderson said that prompted Monique Anderson and the women�s center to work with the district attorney�s office to take the county protocol and turn it into a handy guide.
�Our thoughts were, �How can we make this easier for the officer to be able to quickly look and file the correct charges?�� Monique Anderson said.
Because there is no single law that addresses domestic violence, police have to determine what has been violated in each individual situation. According to the booklet, crimes associated with domestic violence include simple assault, aggravated assault, aggravated assault of an unborn child, reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats, harassment, stalking and endangering the welfare of a child.
The booklet also includes a informational tear-off sheet for officers to hand to victims once the threat of the call has been eliminated. On the sheet, the officer can write his or her name and department down. It also includes information on how victims can contact the women�s center and how to apply for an emergency protection from abuse order.
�Most of the time, in the crisis (victims) don�t remember who they talked to,� Millie Anderson said. With the tear-off sheet, she explained, victims can contact the same officer or department if they have any questions or concerns.
ADOPT A DEPARTMENT
The project was initially funded with money from a STOP grant, a county grant that provides funds for law enforcement, victim services and prosecution, Millie Anderson said. That money is allocated through the federal Stop Violence Against Women Act.
Monique Anderson and the women�s center were able to print several copies of the books through Minuteman Press in Beaver Falls.
With a bulk order of 300, each individual booklet costs $1.69, Monique Anderson said.
Although there is no county requirement that departments purchase the booklets for its officers, nearly all the departments were interested in the project, she said.
�We went out to the police departments and took them a copy of this as well as one of the order forms,� Monique Anderson said. �Some of them ordered right off the bat and there was no problem. But we then realized that some of the departments couldn�t afford them.�
So she created Adopt a Department, a program that encourages churches and organizations to raise money to buy local departments the booklets.
�If a department (can�t) afford the booklets because of whatever budget restraints they (are) working with, someone or a church in their community (can) to adopt them,� she said.
The adopting organization can pay outright for the department�s booklets, or it can host a fundraiser to raise the money that the department needs.
The goal of the project is to get enough copies for every officer in the county to carry, Millie Anderson said.
WHO HAS THE BOOKS
Several departments, including the district attorney�s office, have already purchased the books and their officers carry them.
�The DA�s office purchased quite a few to distribute to new officers as they come ... to the courthouse,� Millie Anderson said.
Other departments include Beaver Falls, Aliquippa, Freedom, Monaca, Beaver, Center Township and New Sewickley Township, Monique Anderson said.
�It�s easy to forget the steps,� Detective Steve Roberts of Aliquippa said, referring to responding to a domestic violence call as a police officer.
Roberts explained the booklet contains all the different things that an officer needs to know for such a call. He noted new officers, part-time officers, or any officer who doesn�t see a lot of domestic calls, could benefit from the booklet.
�I want every police department to be able to have it (and) every new police officer (to have one),� Monique Anderson said. �It kind of makes it easy for the whole system.�


Robotics software company 5D Robotics Inc., known for its technologies advancing human-to-robot interaction, has moved its headquarters to a new location in Carlsbad.
The new office, located in Suite 113 at 2236 Rutherford Road, encompasses 14,500 square feet, and includes executive offices and a bay for robotic research and development. In a release, the company said it will continue to rent a large outdoor space for robotic testing and demonstrations, as needed.
The company indicated the move is part of an effort to expand its operations at a time when its business is thriving.
The company is also working with partners and customers on products for the distribution, mining and lodging and hospitality sectors, he added.