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Google Rejection - Intellectual Property Infringement
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EXAMPLE OF MESSAGE FROM GOOGLE PLAY
After review, [NAME OF YOUR APP], [PACKAGE NAME OF YOUR APP], has been suspended and removed from Google Play as a policy strike because it violates the impersonation policy.
Read through the Impersonation:impersonation policy for more details and examples of policy violations.
Make sure your app is compliant with the Impersonation and Intellectual Property policy and all other policies listed in the Developer Program Policies . Remember additional enforcement could occur if there are further policy issues with your apps.
Sign in to your Developer Console and submit the policy compliant app using a new package name and a new app name.
What if I have permission to use the content?
Contact our support team to provide a justification for its use. Justification may include providing proof that you are authorized to use the content in your app or some other legal justification.
Additional suspensions of any nature may result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts. If your account is terminated, payments will cease and Google may recover the proceeds of any past sales and/or the cost of any associated fees (such as chargebacks and transaction fees) from you.
If you've reviewed the policy and feel this suspension may have been in error, please reach out to our policy support team . One of my colleagues will get back to you within 2 business days.
The Google Play Review Team
DO YOU HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ON ALL THE CONTENT OF THE APP?
This is the first question you need to ask yourself: "Do I have the right to use ALL the content included in the app?"
The answer to this question is YES or NO.
Important: Google will not tell you precisely what particular content has caused the suspension. Neither will GoodBarber.
You are the creator and developer of your app. You are supposed to know its content, and are fully responsible for it.
You must review the content both created from the back office (CMS pages, icon, splashscreen, etc...) and brought into the app from external source.
For example, if a page of your app displays content from your website or your Facebook page, if only one image is not compliant with Google's policy, it can cause an app suspension.
"YES, I HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY RIGHTS ON THIS APP"
You are using your own content in the app, or using someone else's content with their authorisation : this is good news, now all you have to do is send Google Play a proof of this right.
For example, it could be an official letter with the logo of the company which employs you to create the app, or your own, if the app is for a personal project.
This letter must explicitly name the owner of the Google Play account where the app is being published.
If the Google Play account has been created under the name "John Smith", the letter must state "We confirm that Mr. John Smith has the necessary rights to publish this application".
If the account is under the name "Smith Communication", the letter must state "We confirm that Smith Communication has the necessary rights to publish this application".
The letter must be sent through the link they provided in Google's message, or this one: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/troubleshooter/2993242
Google will ask a series of questions before you can send your appeal:
- Has your developer account been terminated?
- Do you believe your app was rejected or removed in error?
Then the following message will appear:
Please be advised that any perceived compliance or non-compliance of other developers' apps doesn't affect the compliance of your apps. We will approve or reinstate your app if we find that the initial decision was made in error. You can appeal your app's current status by submitting an appeal request .
Click on the link provided (or this one https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/appappeals ) and fill in the form.
Scroll down the page, and you will be able to upload the file after selecting "Intellectual property and impersonation or deceptive behavior" as the app removal reason.
When you are done, Google will send a reply to the mailbox associated with the Google Play account (it can take up to 2 business days).
"NO, I DON'T HAVE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ON SOME CONTENT OF MY APP"
To be able to send your app on Google Play, you need your app to be compliant with their guidelines.
If some content of your app is not, you have to fully remove it from the app. That also implies removing it from your website, Facebook page, etc. if the content of that source is pulled into the app.
Only after this has been done, contact the support of GoodBarber to inform them the app has been suspended due to intellectual property infringement, and you have solved the problem by deleting the content in violation of Google's policy.
Provide a screenshot of the APK menu of your app in your Google Play account.
The support will set the Android version back at the beginning of the publication process.
There you will have to choose a new package name and do the whole publication process again from the start (create a new project and API Keys in your Google Cloud console, as explained in this online help) before you can submit the app as a new one on Google Play.
Important: Make sure you have actually deleted ALL the content in violation of the policy, otherwise the app will be suspended again as soon as resubmitted to Google.
AVOID NEW APP SUSPENSIONS
To avoid new app suspensions in the future, read very carefully Google's guidelines: https://play.google.com/intl/fr/about/developer-content-policy/
Repeated violations of Google's policy can cause the suspension of the whole Google Play account, and all the apps published on it.
The app has been rejected by Google


While rowing was once considered an elite and exclusive sport, it has become more and more popular around the country and will soon be available to students at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The Coulson Foundation has donated $50,000 to the university to start a rowing club, which will be one of the extracurricular activities available to students this fall. With the money, the university has purchased two Hudson bow coxed four-person shells to be used by the men's and women's teams. In addition, the Trojans will have access to various single and double sculls through the Arkansas Boathouse Club, where the boats are stored. The team will practice on the Little Maumelle and Arkansas Rivers, just west of the Big Dam Bridge and right on the city's River Trail at Two Rivers Bridge and Park.
The Coulson Foundation also is in the early stages assisting the communities of Arkadelphia and Conway in developing rowing, Coulson said.
Northwest Arkansas and Russellville both have rowing clubs in early stages of development, and neighboring states Oklahoma, Texas and Tennessee have growing and well-established youth and collegiate programs.
UA Little Rock's club rowing team will be open to male and female students. Ted Riedeburg, a U.S. Rowing Level III coach, will serve as the club's coach and adviser.
While UA Little Rock Athletics is assisting with the club's start-up, the rowing program will be overseen by Student Services, which oversees student organizations.
Students interested in rowing are encouraged to contact Ted Riedeburg at triedeburg@ualr.edu.


COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2008 Attending NVIDIA's Mobility Launch was the last press event we attended.
With the agenda of bringing a more balanced GPU to the mobile sector, something that is no longer just a graphics processor but a multi processor that is capable of hardware encoding of movies and digital HD rendering as well as physics to the mobile sector.
NVIDIA is aiming to bring some of the features found on the desktops to the mobile sector. With battery life of a notebook the main concern of most users, NVIDIA has put a lot of emphasis on power savings, while still offering great features, this being Hybrid SLI in notebooks. Hybrid SLI will help conserve power by disabling the discrete onboard GPU while in a low 3D state and turn it back on when more 3D power is needed. If you set a max battery life power option, the discrete GPU will not turn back on at all.
NVIDIA made some projection on how much you will save on battery life, but this depends on the overall system configuration, so take these figures at face value. Hybrid SLI is something that should be in the mobile sector. AMD has already committed to this same feature on its new Puma products, so it's good to see NVIDIA following suite, however, for it to work you can only use a NVIDIA based mobile chipset, which we have yet to see.
NVIDIA were kind enough to run a live demo on a new notebook, unfortunately we can't go into specifics on the notebook configuration as this was still under NDA. We were allowed to take some shots of the OS running and 3DMark scores providing no info on the configuration was shown. The first test that was run was in boost mode, which is where the discrete GPU and onboard GPU work in Hybrid SLI mode.
With boost mode the system scored in 3DMarks Perlin (SM 3.0) noise test 23 FPS.
Next power saving was set, this is when the onboard GPU only runs, no matter what.
11.6 FPS is all the onboard GPU was able to run, this shows us that there is a benefit to having a discrete GPU onboard, however, no test was run with just the discrete GPU enabled, so we don't know if there is much advantage to Hybrid SLI to performance, only to power savings.
Lastly we have a shot of the mobility GPU's that NVIDIA plans to release to the market.


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Washington Is Actually Much Less Polarized Than the Rest of the Country
Written by Michelle Cottle
| Published on March 18, 2016
The Charge: We're hopelessly polarized.
The Defense: No, you are.
As the haters tell it, Washington is the root of all political polarization—a town riven and defined by its toxic tribalism: Conservatives holed up in this steakhouse, liberals in that wine bar, and never the twain shall meet. No wonder nothing meaningful ever gets done, right?
Bollocks. Unlike much of the nation, Washingtonians don't have the practical option of shunning the other team, because we all work, play, and live smooshed right up next to one another.
Yes, the current political climate is less conducive to across-the-aisle schmoozing and deal-cutting. But if you're wondering whom to blame for, say, the House Freedom Caucus's compromise-is-for-traitors philosophy of governing, don't look at Washington. Look at the voters back in the ideologically homogeneous districts who dispatched these partisan kamikazes.
For years now, myriad forces have been sorting the United States into a patchwork of politically segregated enclaves where like-minded denizens need never encounter anyone with an opposing viewpoint. I have many lovely friends from points north who can't fathom the existence of Paul Ryan, much less Ted Cruz. Certainly no one they know has ever voted Republican. Likewise, plenty of my Deep South kin regard Democrats as exotic, vaguely ridiculous creatures akin to pygmy marmosets or spider monkeys. You think Fox News is a conservative echo chamber? Try holidays with my family.
This sort of insularity can't hold if you live in Washington very long. No matter how blood-red or true-blue your immediate orbit, at some point you'll find yourself up close and personal with members of the other tribe. You'll be seated next to them at dinner parties and policy conferences and in the greenroom at CNN. You'll bump into them at the kids' soccer games or standing in line at Georgetown Cupcake. At some point, you'll be introduced at one of Juleanna Glover's soirees.
And, inevitably, you'll talk—maybe about nothing much deeper than Netflix or vacation plans or José Andrés's newest culinary venture. Even so, you'll come to know and like at least a few members of the opposition. You'll discover things you have in common: a dislike of FroYo, an addiction to House of Cards, an abiding faith that someday the Nationals will go all the way. Equally crucial, you'll realize that, even on matters where you differ—discussion of which you may diplomatically opt to avoid—it isn't because the other person is evil or stupid. This may sound like a thuddingly obvious epiphany, but in today's fractured political landscape, it's an increasingly rare one.
So I'd like to extend an invitation to the rest of America: Come to Washington. Stay a while. Mingle with the enemy. People here often disagree, at times passionately. But by necessity, we've learned to live with—and talk with—one another. It's no bipartisan paradise, but it's a start.
Michelle Cottle (@mcottle on Twitter) is a contributing editor at the Atlantic.
This article appears in our Defense of Washington feature in the March 2016 issue of Washingtonian.
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As mentioned, the rotating crown on the Q watches is a bit stiffer than it should be. This makes it somewhat more difficult to spin through notifications or scroll through a longer bit of text with the tip of one finger. The fix is to push the crown forward or backward from a lower angle, or roll more of your finger over it. It's easier to turn with two fingers, but that's definitely not a convenient gesture; you'll likely just learn to get the rolling right.
In 2003, Fossil released the Wrist PDA, a watch which ran the Palm OS and contained 8 MB of RAM and 4 MB of flash memory.[27][28] It contained a built in stylus to help use the tiny monochrome display, which had a resolution of 160×160 pixels. Although many reviewers declared the watch revolutionary, it was criticized for its weight (108 grams) and was ultimately discontinued in 2005.[29]
For a device that gives you more of the functionality you enjoy with your smartphone, you'll want to opt for a dedicated smartwatch. The leading players at the moment are the Apple Watch for iPhone users and the Samsung Gear S3 for those with Android phones. Apple Watch has its own operating system, Samsung employs its Tizen OS, and a host of other smartwatches use the Google Wear operating system.
Samsung released its Galaxy Watch, a follow-up to the Gear S3, a prior pick. The Galaxy Watch is available in 42 mm and 46 mm configurations, with either a Bluetooth-only connection or Bluetooth plus LTE from T-Mobile (at launch). The biggest update seems to be the battery life, which the company claims will last for days between charges. The Bluetooth version of the Galaxy Watch is available for $330 for the smaller version and $350 for the larger (46 mm) model; the 42 mm LTE version is available for $380 and the 46 mm is $400.
The Samsung Gear Live is the first of the company's smartwatches to be compatible with any Android phone running Android 4.3 or higher; other Gear models can be paired only with specific Samsung phones. Like the LG G Watch and Moto 360, it runs the Android Wear OS, allowing voice commands and pushing relevant information to the wearer. Compared with the LG G Watch, we prefer the style and fit of the Gear Live. The watch body is slightly curved, which made it more comfortable. The Gear Live also has a heart-rate monitor, which the G Watch lacks.
Wirecutter writers have been researching, testing, and writing about smartwatches since early 2013, just after the first Pebble watches were shipped to Kickstarter backers. I've personally worn nearly every notable smartwatch since that first Pebble and have written about them for a number of publications, including IT World and Fast Company. I also have extensive experience with Android phones, having written the (since outdated) Complete Android Guide and numerous articles about Android. I also contribute to and help edit the Wirecutter guide to the best smartwatch for iPhones.
Flaws but not dealbreakers: Wear OS, Google's name for Android for smartwatches, still feels like a work in progress, and in our testing, the Google Assistant voice feature frequently dropped responses—though that could improve via software updates. The Q line's button at the 3 o'clock position is easy to accidentally trigger, bringing up Google Assistant and sometimes sending it nonsense questions. Wear OS also lacks a left-handed mode to allow you to switch the watch around. On the workout front, Fossil Q watches lack a heart rate monitor, so they're not able to detect workouts or help with pacing; and the size of these models—and most Android smartwatches, really—and the touchscreen interface make workouts more difficult to monitor and pause than with a dedicated fitness tracker.
The Amazfit Bip is thin and light, looks like an Apple Watch, has a lot of sensors inside—GPS, heart rate, accelerometers, barometer, and compass—and can run for about 30 days (which we confirmed) between charges, all for around $100. Those facts are compelling, but actually using the watch is frustrating, and it doesn't do any one thing well. The GPS and heart-rate monitors can be slow to start, sometimes drop out, occasionally have wild inaccuracies, and produce results notably different from those of running watches and dedicated fitness bands. The screen is also dim and noticeably low-resolution, and the phone software for managing the watch is dense and unintuitive on Android. (We didn't test iOS, but the reviews imply that it's not much different.) The watch materials are plastic and rubber, and look and feel like it. Those are all trade-offs you could reasonably make if you just wanted a Pebble-like smartwatch that tracked steps and showed notifications, but even there, the Bip does not succeed: It often dropped connectivity with my phone (a Pixel 2), and it cannot show emoji—getting a dozen blank squares when someone sends you a thumbs-up sign is not helpful. If all you care about is battery life, the Bip has that, but it lacks useful functions while it's charged up.
Tizen is a Linux-based operating system for devices, including smartphones/tablets, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices, smart TVs, laptops/desktops and other platforms. Tizen is a project within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group (TSG) composed of Samsung and Intel among others. Samsung released the Samsung Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, Samsung Gear S, Samsung Gear S2 and Samsung Gear S3 running Tizen.[86]
The newest member of the TicWatch family from Mobvoi is the TicWatch Pro. The biggest feature about this smartwatch is that it actually has two displays. The first is a transparent and low-power FTSN LCD display, and that is placed on top of its OLED display. While the top FTSN display shows you basic info like the time, the date, your heart rate and step count, you can switch over to the OLED display, which shows off all of the features of Google's Wear OS.
Wrist watches have been fashion accessories since they were first invented. The first generation of smartwatches were dull, chunky looking devices, more functional than fashionable. How things have changed. You can select from thousands of watch faces and even design your own. Wrist straps can be swapped out and designers have come up with clever quick-release clasps for them, knowing that the need to charge your watch regularly will see you needing to remove it quickly.
Samsung treads between smartwatch and fitness tracker, also packing in a heart rate sensor along with that GPS and its much-improved Samsung Health software. There's also the option of LTE (coming soon), if you wish for an untethered connection, with a standalone speaker for taking calls on the watch. It's now waterproof, too, adding swim tracking skills that are on par with the Watch Series 4.
Dropping the phone: Some models of smartwatches in the Samsung and Apple line-ups feature a mobile network chip, allowing you to plug in a micro SIM card to make and receive calls, texts and emails and access the internet without being paired to your phone. It sounds great, but remember that the smartwatch has a very small battery, so relying on it for communications will drain the power quickly.
The Fitbit Ionic works fine as a Fitbit tracker, but despite being more expensive than our picks or the Apple Watch Series 1, it lacks many smartwatch functions you'd hope to have. It passes notifications from your phone to the watch, but you can only respond to some of them (with only five quick reply lines); and dismissing them (either one by one or as a group) involves annoyingly hard presses and long scrolls. Syncing music files and offline Pandora playlists requires you to use a desktop app, which is laborious. Two Wirecutter writers who tested the Ionic also had trouble setting it up to work with their Android phones (a 2015 Moto X Pure and a 2016 Samsung Galaxy S7) and had to perform significant troubleshooting to get their data to sync. The Ionic's battery life, even while using GPS for outdoor exercise tracking, is its most impressive feature, lasting at least five days in one test and nearly seven days in another. The Ionic is most useful to Fitbit enthusiasts who want to track outdoor exercise without bringing a phone; it's not a good option if you're looking to deal with incoming information.
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The Gear S3 also offers a dual-core Exynos 7270 processor, 768MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. The watch also features sensors such as GPS, NFC, and even optional LTE. The standout features, though, include Samsung Pay (on any smartphone) and the rotating bezel. The Gear S3 is a pretty big watch, though, coming in at 12.9mm thick with a 46mm diameter.
As you'd expect, it has GPS and GLONASS alongside a heart rate monitor to bolster its fitness credentials. Other features include offline Spotify support, which is great for anyone who wants music without having to carry along their phone. Tizen is currently the only watch operating system to offer offline Spotify, too. Unfortunately, Tizen app support is otherwise lacking compared to rivals.
Why we like it: Garmin's Vívosport fitness band gives you more (and more-accurate) fitness tracking features than a smartwatch, though you won't be able to respond to messages and notifications or use apps on your wrist. The Vívosport lasts up to a week on a single battery charge, while an Apple Watch or Android Wear device requires overnight charging. Its screen always shows stats during a workout, while smartwatches like the Apple Watch typically turn off when you're not looking at them. And you can wear a Vívosport while you sleep to get at least a rough view of how restful your night was without having to worry about charging it every morning. All these things give you a better overall picture of how active and healthy you are, and make it more convenient to wear one smaller device all the time: You won't have to grab a phone to track a run, you won't have to wear a large, utilitarian-looking GPS watch to work, and you'll rarely have to worry about battery life during a long workout. The Vívosport also tracks heart rates and GPS location nearly as well as a GPS watch (with some exceptions), but in a smaller and less noticeable package.
Samsung's Gear Sport is not as stylish as Fossil's Q watches, and because it runs Samsung's Tizen operating system instead of Wear OS, it has nowhere near the app support of Wear OS. But as a smartwatch that shows your phone notifications and lets you respond to them, lasts all day, and tracks your recreational workouts, it is a great device. It's not meant for competitive speed training, but it has built-in GPS and heart-rate sensing, offline Spotify storage, and a rotating bezel that's much easier to use while exercising than a touchscreen. It does suffer from weak voice transcription and a barely-there S Voice "assistant," but it fits a lot of core smartwatch functions into a relatively smart-looking package that's better for fitness-minded wearers than our top picks.
Most smartwatches have a fitness component for the very good reason that a watch is moving with you throughout the day. For counting steps, encouraging activity, and tracking occasional long walks, runs, or bike rides, most smartwatches will do fine. If you want a device to track your everyday runs or cycling sessions, you want a GPS running watch. If you're serious about tracking and improving your movement and sleep, a fitness tracker will do that for less money and look more discrete doing so (and if you have health insurance, you may get a discount or incentives to use one). There are smartwatches that lean heavily toward sports and fitness in their marketing, but there are drawbacks to each of them not found in a dedicated device. At the other extreme, if you all you really need is step counting, a hybrid smartwatch—with an analog face like a traditional watch, but with built-in motion sensors and months-long battery life—may be a better option.
The new Diesel Full Guard 2.5 has a 47mmx56mm casing which is bigger than most Wear OS watches, and there's a 1.39-inch display at the center of that. This new refresh of the watch also includes NFC for Google Pay support, a heart rate sensor, and built-in GPS. Diesel also says this watch will last two days on a charge from the 300mAh battery. The watch also has 3ATM water resistance.
Some smartwatches have robust offerings of apps, either preinstalled on the watch or available for download in an app store. Apps can be as simple as a timer or stopwatch, or can control your smart-home devices, switch up your music, or provide turn-by-turn directions for walking or driving. In our testing and everyday use, however, these watch apps rarely offer a great experience. But there are some exceptions, including some fitness apps and apps that track things like water or food intake.
The Explorist and Venture cases are an average thickness for a round smartwatch (at 12.5 and 11.5 millimeters, respectively), with widths of 45 mm and 42 mm, respectively. Neither watch feels too heavy or awkward on a larger wrist, though even the smaller Venture watch is still quite chunky on a smaller wrist. Each model's battery regularly lasted a whole day in our testing, and the voice-dictation functions are on a par with those of most smartwatches; the same goes for Google Assistant's accuracy. Both watches and their Google Fit system track day-to-day activity, and although Wear OS apps don't have quite the buy-in from app makers that the Apple Watch does, you can likely find your favorite apps in Google's Play Store, and most phone apps provide rich notifications that you can interact with through the watch. Both show signs of good build quality, with thoughtful attention to detail on all surfaces and no cheap connectors or pieces.
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To charge the watch, you have to clip on the charger and align it with contacts that you can't see when you're clipping. Why make it so complicated? There's no NFC for easy pairing, and you have to find the smartwatch app in the app market, download it, and install it on your mobile device. The Frame's display readability in bright sunlight was judged to be only good. It's relatively heavy, at 2.7 ounces (only the Toq is heavier).
Samsung Gear S3 Frontier: Until we see what Google can pack into a smartwatch with its long-awaited Pixel Watch, the best smartwatch for Android users is the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. It pretty much has everything a user with an Android phone needs in a smartwatch - GPS, heart rate monitor, water resistance, near field communications, an always-on digital display, messaging alerts and app support. I don't see a real need to opt for the 3G version yet, which would untether you from your phone completely but adds around $100 to the price. ($549)
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Alliance Employment and Learning Spokesperson Anna Lo MLA has congratulated Queen's University on winning an award for being 'Entrepreneurial University of the Year'. They won the accolade at the Times Higher Education Awards and Anna Lo said that it shows that the university is one of the leading institutions in the UK.
South Belfast Alliance MLA Anna Lo said: "This award is great news for Queen's University and provides recognition of the excellent work being carried out there.
"This is a prestigious award and shows that Queen's is right up there with the best in the UK. People in Northern Ireland are right to be proud of the excellent standard of higher education we have on offer here.
"Promoting entrepreneurship is a particularly important endeavour because for Northern Ireland to significantly grow its economy, we need to create more jobs within the private sector."


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This is an extract from the activity report sent to the funder at the end of the project. We implemented this project with Better Community Life Initiative (Lead Partner).
Overall objective: To sustain vaccine financing on the national/ state levels and strengthen household/ community -driven vaccine demand in Nigeria to improve maternal/ child health and economic prosperity in the area.
To urge states to cost share with the federal government on central procurement of vaccines.
To urge State government to provide sufficient budget line for immunization.
To mobilize the 4 target communities to access immunisation for their women and children.
The vision of the project is to achieve 100% immunization coverage and demand uptake by mothers.
To achieve the 4 specific objectives we embarked on the following activities – Advocacy meetings with National/State & Community stakeholders to get their positive attitude towards immunization as a key component of primary health care which is to be made accessible to all despite the location, gender, creed, age and other factors.
We carried out an in depth advocacy in the 4 target communities aimed at the making immunization a community policy by meeting with Traditional Rulers, Town Union Leaders, Women Leaders & Youth Leaders. We are happy to report that we achieved behavioural change towards immunization demand by the communities who now perceive immunization as an ally and key to child development.
The choice of Umueze1, Umueze 2, Agbajah & Dioka Nzerem for Vaccine Demand uptake in the present WAVA sponsored Immunization Project is predicated in the geographical record that Ehime Mbano communities are not in the mainstream of community development domain in Imo State. There are few socio-economic facilities in the area with particular reference to Agbajah, Dioka Nzerem, Nzerem Ikpem and other closed communities in the LGA. The LGA is at the extreme end of Imo State. During rainy seasons, the communities are completely cut off and inaccessible by other communities. Community members are locked up. The undulating nature of topography is intimidating to visitors. Civil Servants posted there go on protest and accept the offer as retirement decision.
This is why this project is focused on these areas. Areas of great needs produce opportunities for great impacts. BECOLIN/OLPHI had carried out community mobilisation on Breast Feeding Programme in Ehime Mbano LGA and we discovered that the situational problems in the area impede immunisation coverage and other environmental services. We also discovered during the implementation of this project that open defecation is prevalent in these communities which we tried to mainstream during the community engagement.
Community / Public Awareness: Community by community Awareness was also carried out at the grassroot with immunization messages that Immunization is Safe, critical for child development, cost effective and an investment into national development. Some slogans were employed – Vaccine Good oh; Vaccine Save Life; Vaccine Saves Money; Money invested in Immunisation is an investment well spent.
Immunization is a sustainable and futuristic program because the child today is the leader of tomorrow. Every program on children and women are sustainable because they are the planks for National Development. There was a wide reach of awareness information to over 4000 persons or 16,000 in the 4 target communities.
Training Objective – to train immunization agents and ambassadors who will cascade training and knowledge acquired to their peers in the remote corners of their communities leaving no one behind in the campaign. This is in sync with the vision of Sustainable Development Goals and the Voice Nigeria Campaign which is aimed at involving ALL in democratic and developmental processes at the community levels.
Training Timeframe: The trainings were conducted between November 1 – 30th.
Participants – in each community 9 persons were trained – 5 women and 4 men for gender sensitivity. These were trained as immunization agents (8 agents and 1 ambassador). These are the sustainable structures we established for continuous immunization awareness, education, sensitization and conscientisation.
Training Curriculum: the curriculum with subject on immunization, maternal & child health and child development. Each participant had a copy of the curriculum as their own daily guide. The method was interactive and language employed was English & native dialect to drive home the message of immunization.
Training Outcome: a. 8 immunisation agents &1 ambassador were trained in each community or 32 agents in the 4 communities and 4 ambassadors in the 4 communities each was equipped with a curriculum and a register to capture the demographic data of new born, their parents & their immunization schedule. This is another structure established in these communities as a sustainable reference for immunization data analysis.
Community Impact Assessment on the Project: there was one day impact assessment forum in each community where we shared ideas & information on the project, lessons learnt, level of peoples change towards immunization and the way forward.
Child immunization has become a household word in the 4 target communities. Women, now, know the value of immunization and immunization schedules and where to access them.
Each community raised a community song in their own dialect depicting their acceptance and knowledge that immunization is indispensable to child development. A dvd copy of the song will be forwarded to WAVA for your information.
The curriculum is now a permanent community resource on immunization knowledge and the register containing demographic data of the child and immunization schedule is also community resource as reference points for future immunization records and development programs.
Immunization Handbills are everywhere in the communities speaking the language and message of child immunization.
Handover of the Project: During the Community Impact Assessment forum, we officially handed over the project to the community traditional leaders, women leaders and the trained community Immunisation agents and committees as part of our sustainability strategy.
Looking Forward: BECOLIN / OLPHI will continue with quarterly monitoring and evaluation exercises in the communities to ensure that the sustainability strategies are in place and functioning.
Media Roundtable: The project was rounded up with a media roundtable for review of the project on the 15th December to officially end the program. The participants were representatives from BECOLIN & OLPHI, Journalist from 2 newspapers, Radio Nigeria Heartland FM and representatives from the 4 target communities male & female and WAVA member CSOs – DIG Ebonyi & FENRAD Abia. Radio Nigeria Heartland FM achieved a wider coverage on Imo State level in its program "Issues of the Moment" which was aired publicly on Monday 18th December 2017. Copies of the media tools will be sent to you for your information.
During our advocacy engagements with the ministries necessitating continuous re-scheduling of our meetings with their attendant increased expenditures.
The rumour peddled in the country that immunization was dangerous also affected our program. We had to repeat advocacy meetings with community leaders to dissuade them from that rumour and accept the traditional truth that immunization is key to mother and child health.
The geographical terrains of the communities during the rains impeded our movement. The roads were almost impassable with undulating features and sloopy formations that scared away motorcyclists. The roads are not motorable. All the above had hard delaying impacts on our campaign.
In development work, areas of greatest need have opportunities of greatest impacts. Despite the challenges mentioned we were able to change behaviours of the people at the grass root which will indicate, from now on, increased immunization uptake to correct the poor records before our campaign.
The advocacy meetings held at the National and State levels especially the ministries of Budget and National Planning produced high level awareness of increased immunization budget.
Interactive Sessions on immunization behavioural change, free speeches during the meetings in their dialects and good attendance.
Immunization is good for mother and child. Communities passed resolutions to affirm immunization as a community policy which every parent must adhere to.
That protocols are permanent features in governance at all levels. We contended with so many protocols in the National and State Ministries and the Community Traditional Rulers.
Alliance building is important for program success as indicated in Becolin/Olphi collaboration in this project.
The greater the challenge the greater the outcomes & impacts.
Quarterly Monitoring & Evaluation to ensure that the strategies are in place and in application.
We intend to replicate this program to other disadvantaged communities in Imo State on Immunization demand uptake.
Thanks for sharing this important training. Did your organization help implement this initiative? How are the vaccinations being subsidized, then, so that women and children can receive them? I hope that only certain, safe immunizations are being promoted as I personally don't believe all vaccinations are healthy or beneficial. While I understand there are definitely some that are integral for the overall well being for a lot of people, this would be my concern.
I hope the program will continue to help educate and empower more disadvantage communities.
Yes jlanghus, thank you for your time. Yes we were part of the implementing organisation that carried out the above immunization activities. We were the co-applicant and implementer. In Nigeria we have a process of immunisation that is general supposed to be free under the Expanded Programme on Immunisation(EPI) - Rountine Immunization. Federal Government of Nigeria supported by some development partners like GAVI - Vaccine Alliance, Bill Gates Foundation and others to make sure vaccines are financed to the last level of immunization process. It is supposed to be completely free for all especially for newborns till the age of 9 months. These vaccines are safe and really works. most of the life threatening child diseases have disappeared through the immunization, if taken seriously and religiously as scheduled. But unfortunately, the process is not as free as it is supposed to be. most PHCs collect a token to administer these vaccines. This very important issue were part of what we discussed with National Primary HealthCare Agency(the supervisory agency for immunization and primary healthcare centres) at the state level advocacy and they promised to take a serious look to check why the token is being implemented at the PHCs. Yes the programme will continue as we left sustainability and scalability strategies in place which we continue to monitor. thank you for your interest.
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You're welcome. Thanks for the clarification. It's great that your implemented such a crucial program and that they are helping so much. Too bad they aren't being properly subsidized, however. I hope it improves, dear.


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On The Nature Of Consciousness
February 3, 2014 February 3, 2014 Swami Tripurari Jiva Tattva, Shakti Tattva
We might translate Gaudiya Vedanta's acintya bhedabheda as "trans-rational monistic dualism." It is a form of substance dualism, but one in which the natural world (maya-sakti) is also one with consciousness (jiva-sakti), despite their larger difference from one another. They are one with one another in that they are both saktis of Bhagavan. They are different from one another in that one is experiential and the other is non-experiential.
In Gaudiya ontology the world is really there but we only experience an idea of it. It could also be called idealistic dualism perhaps. But this is Hane Htut Maung's term for his position, and his form of it acknowledges only correlation between the natural and the spiritual (objective process and subjective experiences). He understands subjective experience to supplement the physical world as an extra fact, preserving causal closure while remaining ontologically distinct from the physical world. But here we are getting away from Gaudiya Vedanta it would seem. And causal closure is far from a scientific fact.
While Advaita Vedanta does not posit the idea that consciousness is an agent of action, but rather a witness, an awareness alone, Gaudiya Vedanta does. The jivatma is an agent (doer), experiencer of qualia, and an apprehender, among other things. Somehow it moves matter. The Bhagavata describes it's doing so as more or less magical. It gives the example of a magnet moving iron filings by is magical power (sakti), without itself undergoing transformation. Such a folk science explanation of how consciousness is a causal agent in the world is probably not much more convincing to a naturalist that the centuries long argument of Christianity that attributes God's intervention in the world to his miraculous power.
But as I mentioned in my earlier comment, I believe it is more reasonable to be a mysterian with regard to exactly how consciousness moves matter rather than to embrace the performative contradiction that does not acknowledge the causal efficacy of consciousness staring us in the face. All of us think, feel, and will and live our lives as if consciousness has such efficacy, but exactly how it does remains a mystery that there is no need to solve.
What the objective world is, is another related question. Is there any "thing" out there? And the quantum perspective really brings our understanding into question. The teaching of the Bhagavatam is that it is impossible to fully grasp. So how does the jivatma move "what" might be the question? Chomsky reasons that while we thought we took the ghost out of the machine, in fact the machine has been taken out. The mechanistic world is in question. As Russell writes in his study of matter, all we really "know" is our own consciousness. And I might add, we don't know it very well. But I am not suggesting pure idealism.
That said, when I say there is no need to solve the mystery, I mean that there are better things to do. Solving it proves the existence of the immaterial, the supernatural. So that would be good, if possible to do so objectively. I now doubt it is possible. But it has no bearing on those who have ruci.
The naturalist project is doomed to failure if it involves demonstrating that consciousness is reducible to matter.
While there is a rationally unknowable aspect of Gaudiya Vedanta, does it include knowing how the jiva moves matter? I do not think it explicitly says this. It does not seem particularly interested in this detail. God wills and "glances" at the world and it begins to move. Then within the world the jiva also moves matter. Today's more rational world wants a more detailed explanation because it seems that movement requires a point of contact and their appears to be universal physical closure to some (I don't agree). So the Bhagavata gives an answer but it causes the modern world to ask further. And its answer is also interpreted differently by different systems of Vedanta, sometimes very differently.
I think that the naturalist method could lead objective persons to conclude that consciousness is not part of or does not emerge from the brain. But I would think that they would have to go much further to turn to mysticism. Still I think that will happen. Modern science as a whole was born Christian. In its adolescence it became agnostic. Now in its adult life it is heavily influenced by atheism. But it if it so live into the wisdom of old age, I argue that it must become a mystic.
acintya-bhedabheda consciousness jiva jiva-sakti
Nistha
Nama, diksa, and siksa


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tags: DACA, DACA Threatened, Dreamers, Press Releases
Leading Outlets Highlight Successes of DACA and What's at Stake at Supreme Court
by AV Press Releases on November 7, 2019
With less than a week before the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) case heads to the Supreme Court, leading outlets are previewing what's at stake if the conservative majority Supreme Court panel choose to terminate DACA — the futures and opportunities of nearly 700,000 contributors to workplaces and communities across the country.
In these uncertain times, the New York Times uplifts three Dreamers' stories and highlights the American dream they would be forced to give up if DACA protections ended.
In a New York Times article entitled, "They Achieved the American Dream. Will the Supreme Court Let Them Keep It?," Miriam Jordan notes the traumatic change that immigrants Jorge Alvarez and Evelyn Duron would have to endure after building a life in America.
What if DACA is cancelled? "We wouldn't be able to work," Jorge said. "We'd probably have to file for bankruptcy." They'd lose the house. They try not to think about that.
Sara Aridi for the New York Times, highlights a DACA recipient once fearful of discussing her immigration status, now emboldened to tell her story and advocate for others. Aridi writes:
Before Ms. Galicia enrolled in college, a friend told her she could defer her tuition payments until after graduation. When she tried to enroll for a second semester, she learned that was not the case. Because she was undocumented, she would have had to pay roughly $2,300 in fees — an amount she could not afford. So she dropped out and focused on work… Ms. Galicia has since made plans to apply for financial aid and to continue her communications studies. Her goal as a journalist, she said, is to cover issues that affect immigrants.
While Dreamers' lives are at risk, Americans nationwide will also feel this everlasting effect if DACA is overturned, especially because so many DACA recipients work in health care.
As David Skorton, a cardiologist, states in an op-ed for the Washington Post,
…it's not only their lives that hang in the balance. DACA recipients also play an essential role in our health-care system.Today there are approximately 27,000 doctors, nurses, dentists, physician assistants and other health-care workers whose DACA status allows them to work and contribute to patient care…Excluding these talented individuals from the workforce would do more than simply thwart their professional aspirations. It would also deprive a huge number of Americans of accessing quality care. In fact, research indicates that the physicians and trainees who stand to lose their eligibility if DACA is eliminated would, collectively, serve as many as 5.1 million patients over the course of their careers.


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On the heels of the publication of his book 'The Future of Justification', John Piper delivered the heart of his message to the Evangelical Theological Society, and effectively answers the objections N. T. Wright and those of the New Perspective raise.
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Selective doxorubicin drug eluting beads chemoembolization of hypovascular hepatocellular carcinoma using cone beam computed tomography
Naveen Kalra1, Divyesh Mahajan1, Yogesh Chawla2, N Khandelwal1
1 Department of Radiodiagnosis, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
2 Department of Hepatology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Date of Web Publication 7-May-2013
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) of the liver is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. Only one-third of patients with HCC are suitable candidates for hepatic resection. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is performed in unresectable HCC. Drug-eluting beads (DEB) TACE is a modification of TACE, in which doxorubicin beads are used as embolizing material.These beads deliver the drug and embolize the vessels; however, it carries the risk of non-target embolization and it is difficult in cases with absent arterial blush on digital subtraction angiography (DSA). This is resolved using C-arm cone-beam computed tomography in the DSA suite. It identifies the tumor-feeding vessels, their area of supply, and differentiates between tumor and normal liver parenchyma. In addition, it is very useful in the embolization of hypovascular HCC. It helps and guides the radiologist in performing TACE effectively and also prevents non-target embolization of normal liver parenchyma.
Keywords: Cone-beam computed tomography; hepatocellular carcinoma; transarterial chemoembolization
Kalra N, Mahajan D, Chawla Y, Khandelwal N. Selective doxorubicin drug eluting beads chemoembolization of hypovascular hepatocellular carcinoma using cone beam computed tomography. Indian J Radiol Imaging 2012;22:254-6
Kalra N, Mahajan D, Chawla Y, Khandelwal N. Selective doxorubicin drug eluting beads chemoembolization of hypovascular hepatocellular carcinoma using cone beam computed tomography. Indian J Radiol Imaging [serial online] 2012 [cited 2020 Jan 18];22:254-6. Available from: http://www.ijri.org/text.asp?2012/22/4/254/111472
Worldwide, there are approximately 500,000 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) per year, making it the fifth most common cancer in the world. [1] Typical HCCs are hypervascular during the arterial phase and show washout in the portal venous phase. Hypovascular HCCs enhance minimally because of poor arterial blood supply. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a treatment option for unresectable HCC. [2] Drug-eluting beads (DEB) TACE is a modification of conventional TACE, in which doxorubicin DEBs act as the embolizing material. [3] As DEBs are expensive and permanently embolize the vessel, there is a need to deliver the beads into the tumor vessels superselectively to prevent the risk of missing the tumor or causing incomplete embolization of the tumor. This can be made feasible by using contrast-enhanced cone-beam computed tomography (CT), which also helps prevent embolization of normal liver parenchyma. In this case report, we demonstrate the utility of cone-beam CT for selective chemoembolization of the tumoral vessels. [4]
A 60-year-old male with child-pugh class A cirrhosis was detected to have elevated α-fetoprotein levels (180 international units/ml) during routine screening. He was a chronic alcoholic with a history of coronary artery disease. He underwent biphasic contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, which showed a 6 cm × 5.6 cm hypodense exophytic lesion in segments five and eight of the liver, with minimal enhancement in the arterial phase [Figure 1]A. There was no significant washout or enhancement in the portal venous phase [Figure 1]B. Mild hypertrophy of the left lobe was also observed, with a few collaterals at the porta and splenic hilum. Fine-needle aspiration of the lesion confirmed the lesion to be HCC.
Figure 1: Contrast-enhanced computed tomography scan of the liver. Arterial phase image shows (A) hypodense exophytic lesion in segments five and eight of the liver, with minimal enhancement. Venous phase image shows (B) no washout or enhancement of the mass lesion in the portal venous phase
As the patient was unfit for surgery, we decided on DEB TACE. He was taken up for DEB TACE in the digital subtraction angiography (DSA) suite. Selective angiograms of the celiac artery and hepatic artery [Figure 2] were performed, which showed no significant abnormal blush from the branches of the right hepatic artery (RHA). We decided to selectively cannulate the RHA branches. We first cannulated the medial-most branch, which showed mild abnormal blush, although it was not in the anatomical region of the tumor [Figure 3]A. Before embolization we carried out XperCT™ (Philips Healthcare, Best, The Netherlands) acquisition, which showed that the vessel was exclusively supplying the normal hepatic parenchyma [Figure 3]B.The possibility of embolizing this normal vessel was thus avoided. XperCT™, a kind of cone-beam CT, was performed with a flat-panel detector C-arm angiography system. Scanning was performed with propeller movement, with an acquisition time of 10 s, a detector size of 30 cm × 38 cm, a fixed tube-detector distance of 0.9 m, a total scanning angle of 240°, and 2480 × 1920 pixel matrix with a 154 μm pixel pitch. Fifteen milliliters of contrast was injected at an injection rate of 1 ml/s in the selectively cannulated hepatic artery branch. The XperCT™ scans were acquired approximately 6 s after the start of injection. The raw datasets from the angiographic C-arm system were sent to a dedicated workstation and reconstructions were performed to generate the volume data. The multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) and maximum intensity projection (MIP) images were studied and the vessels to be embolized were selected based on these images.
Figure 2: Selective catheterization of the right hepatic artery shows no abnormal tumor blush
Figure 3: Super-selective catheterization of the medial-most branch of the right hepatic artery shows (A) minimal abnormal blush that did not conform to the vascular territory of the tumor;XperCT™ run shows (B) that the catheterized vessel exclusively supplies the normal uninvolved hepatic parenchyma
Next, we selectively cannulated the middle and the lateral branches of the RHA and these were seen to be supplying the tumor. Vascular supply to the tumor by these vessels was confirmed on XperCT™ [Figure 4]A and B and we selectively embolized these vessels using DEB. Using XperCT™ we could deliver the drug precisely and accurately into the tumor-feeding vessels and prevent unnecessary embolization of normal hepatic parenchyma. No procedure-related complications occurred. Post-procedure follow-up CT showed almost complete tumoral necrosis [Figure 5].
Figure 4: Super-selective catheterization of the middle branch of the right hepatic artery shows (A) minimal tumoral blush;XperCT™ confirm the catheterization of the abnormal vessel, which is seen (B) to supply the tumor bed
Figure 5: Follow-up contrast-enhanced computed tomography shows almost complete tumor necrosis
HCC is now the leading cause of death in patients with cirrhosis, and its incidence is on the rise.Treatment options include resection or transplant; however, in patients who are unfit for surgery, alternative procedures for treatment can be used; these include chemoembolization, radiofrequency ablation, and alcohol ablation. Conventional TACE is catheter based and involves the injection of chemotherapeutic agents, with or without lipiodol and embolic agents, into the branch of the hepatic artery that feeds the tumor. The most commonly used chemotherapeutic drug combination includes doxorubicin, cisplatin, and mitomycin C. Doxorubicin is the most common single agent used. The success of TACE depends on identification of the lesion on DSA; however, due to tumor hypovascularity or irregular enhancement of the cirrhotic parenchyma, the lesions may be missed on DSA. [5] DEB TACE is the latest modification of TACE, where the embolization particles are made from polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel that are loaded with doxorubicin. The beads are of varying sizes and lead to lumen occlusion and ischemia. The doxorubicin is gradually released locally; the decreased leakage of drug to the systemic circulation and the longer exposure of tumor cells to the drug result in decreased systemic side effects and increased response. [6] As the beads are expensive and permanently embolize the vessel, there is a need to selectively embolize only the tumor vessels.
Typical HCCs are hypervascular during the arterial phase and show washout in the portal venous phase and tumor blush on DSA. Meyer, et al., [7] reported the sensitivity and specificity of C-arm CT in detecting hypervascular hepatic tumors to be 97-99% and 79-85%, respectively, compared with biphasic multidetector CT. Hypovascular HCCs are minimally enhanced because of poor arterial blood supply and are hence difficult to detect on DSA as no or only minimal abnormal blush is visible on DSA. Angiograms may give a false tumor blush and there is difficulty in exactly delineating the tumor-feeding vessels with DSA in cases of hypovascular HCC. Cone-beam CT is very helpful in confirming the vascular supply from the feeding vessels.The source beam is conical in shape in contrast to conventional multidetector CT, where the beam is fan shaped. The C-arm rotational run is approximately 240°, and multiple 2D projections are acquired and sent to the workstation for image reconstructions.
MPR and MIP images are visible in any plane when viewing the vascular supply of the cannulated artery. In our patient however, the use of cone-beam CT prevented embolization of normal vessels showing abnormal blush.Complete embolization of normal-appearing tumoral vessels showing minimal or absent tumoral blush was achieved. Cone-beam CT thus can be used to roadmap the feeding artery of hypovascular tumors. Superselective chemoembolization can be performed successfully and accurately. This technique reduces the number of DSA runs required, thereby reducing the dose requirement. Kim, et al., [8] concluded that the CT dose index for C-arm CT for body scans was reduced by 49% using a body phantom compared with multidetector CT (MDCT).
In conclusion, the use of cone-beam CT during TACE helps in selectively embolizing the tumor-feeding vessels, thus sparing uninvolved liver parenchyma and allowing efficient and precise drug delivery to the target area. It is especially useful in hypovascular HCCs in which the tumoral vessels show minimal or no abnormal tumoral blush. It also prevents unnecessary chemoembolization of normal liver parenchyma.
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6. Lewis AL, Gonzalez MV, Leppard SW, Brown JE, Stratford PW, Phillips GJ, et al. Doxorubicin eluting beads-1: Effects of drug loading on bead characteristics and drug distribution. J Mater Sci Mater Med 2007;18:1691-9.
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Naveen Kalra
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh - 160012
Kalra N
Mahajan D
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The geography of Cornwall () describes the extreme southwestern peninsula of England west of the River Tamar. The population of Cornwall is greater in the less extensive west of the county than the east due to Bodmin Moor's location; however the larger part of the population live in rural areas. It is the only county in England bordered by only one other county, Devon, and is the 9th largest county by area, encompassing 3,563 km² (1,376 mi²). The length of the coast is large in proportion to the area of the county. Cornwall is exposed to the full force of the prevailing south-westerly winds that blow in from the Atlantic Ocean. To the north is the Celtic Sea, and to the south the English Channel.

Cornwall is the location of Great Britain's most southerly point, The Lizard, and the southern mainland's most westerly point, Land's End. A few miles further west are the Isles of Scilly.

Physical geography
Cornwall is located at . The highest point is Brown Willy at 420 m (1,378 ft), part of the granite Bodmin Moor, of which such intrusions are covered by rough grass, heather and bog flora. Woodland is prevented from growing on the granite uplands because of the poor soil and the height giving them the full force of the wind and climate. The rest of the inland contains pastureland and arable farmland. The coastline, at 697 km (422 mi), is mostly occupied by high cliffs, but also featuring islets, stacks, coves and bays. Lowland stretches are also to be found, particularly along the south coast, sometimes backed by large expanses of towans or dunes such as near Par. The Isles of Scilly are the largest archipelago in the British Isles outside Scotland. The largest other islands are off the south coast: Looe Island and St Michael's Mount.

The sea to the north of Cornwall is the Celtic Sea; before the usage of Celtic Sea it was part of the Bristol Channel. On Joel Gascoyne's map of 1699 this part of the Atlantic Ocean was named "The North Sea or Severn Channel".

Cornwall was one of the most important mining areas in Europe until the 20th century, due to its intrusions of granite into surrounding sedimentary rocks which resulted in metamorphism and mineralisation. Bodmin Moor and Carn Brea are examples of such granite intrusion. The Lizard peninsula is an example of an ophiolite.

The north coast is more exposed to the prevailing winds from the Atlantic Ocean than the south coast and is more rugged, with many sheer cliffs and steep valleys. The south coast is more sheltered and is interrupted by several rias which provide deep water harbours such as Carrick Roads.

Cornwall has varied habitats including terrestrial and marine ecosystems. One of the lower plant forms in decline locally is the Reindeer lichen, which has been made a priority for protection under the national UK Biodiversity Action Plan.

National character areas
The national character areas recognised by Natural England that lie wholly or partially on Cornish soil are:

 The Culm – NCA 149
 Cornish Killas – NCA 152
 Bodmin Moor – NCA 153
 Hensbarrow – NCA 154
 Carnmenellis – NCA 155
 West Penwith – NCA 156
 The Lizard – NCA 157
 Isles of Scilly – NCA 158
 Lundy – NCA 159

Hills

Human geography
One of the oldest maps still in existence depicting Cornwall is the 1290 Hereford Mappa Mundi currently on display in Hereford Cathedral in the United Kingdom. Many maps of the British Isles prior to the 17th century showed Cornwall (Cornubia/Cornwallia/Kernow) as a nation on a par with Wales and examples include the maps of Sebastian Münster, Abraham Ortelius, and Girolamo Ruscelli. After the 17th century, maps of Cornwall tended to no longer make the distinction between Anglia and Cornubia, the British Sea was renamed the English Channel and Cornwall as a separate entity was omitted from the maps.

From 1889 to March 2009 Cornwall was administered by Cornwall County Council; the second level of local government included municipal boroughs, urban districts and rural districts, and within each of these were a number of civil parishes. Cornwall consisted from April 1974 to March 2009 of six districts, which are, from west to east: Penwith, Kerrier, Carrick, Restormel, North Cornwall, and Caradon. While traditionally administered as part of Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly are now a separate unitary authority though they are included in the ceremonial county. Natural resources include: granite, slate, tin, copper and kaolinite. Agricultural land: 73.64%; Woodland cover: 7.5%; Other types: 18.86%. The deposits of tin, copper and kaolinite were heavily exploited during the 19th and 20th centuries. Some species of fish are abundant in the coastal waters; the pilchard fishery was of great importance from the late 18th to the early 20th century.

Camborne is the county's largest town and more populous than the capital Truro. Together with the neighbouring town of Redruth, it forms the largest urban area in Cornwall, and both towns were significant as centres of the global tin mining industry in the 19th century; nearby copper mines were also very productive during that period. St Austell is also larger than Truro and was the centre of the china clay industry in Cornwall. Until four new parishes were created for the St Austell area on 1 April 2009 St Austell was the largest settlement in Cornwall.

Climate
Cornwall has a temperate Oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb), with mild winters and cool summers, and hot weather is rare. Cornwall has the mildest and sunniest climate in the United Kingdom, as a result of its oceanic setting and the influence of the Gulf Stream. The average annual temperature in Cornwall ranges from 11.6 °C (53 °F) on the Isles of Scilly to 9.8 °C (50 °F) in the central uplands. Winters are amongst the warmest in the country, due to the moderating effects of the warm ocean currents, and frost and snow are very rare at the coast and are also rare in the central upland areas. Summers are, however, not as warm as those of other areas in southern England. The surrounding sea and its southwesterly position mean that Cornwall's weather is relatively changeable.

Cornwall is one of the sunniest areas in the UK, with over 1541 hours of sunshine per year, with the highest average of 7.6 hours of sunshine per day in July. The moist, mild air coming from the south west brings higher amounts of rainfall than in eastern Great Britain, at 1051 to 1290 mm (41.4 to 50.8 in) per year, though not as much as in more northern areas of the west coast. The Gulf Stream moderates the climate of Cornwall enough that Cornwall's weather is distinctly milder than other places in the world at the same latitude, such as Newfoundland. The mild climate has resulted in a number of botanical gardens, such as Trebah and the Lost Gardens of Heligan.

The Isles of Scilly, for example, is the warmest place in the whole of Great Britain with an average temperature of 11.6 °C, where there are on average less than two days of air frost per year, are in the USDA Hardiness zone 10, which is thus the only area in the UK that is in this zone. However, compared to most other climates in zone 10, Scilly has cool summers. In Scilly there is on average less than one day of air temperature exceeding 30 °C per year and it is in the AHS Heat Zone 1. Pendennis Point in Falmouth is the warmest place on mainland Great Britain, with an average temperature of 11.4 °C (52.5 °F).

Extreme temperatures in Cornwall are particularly rare; however, extreme weather in the form of storms and floods is common. The Shipping Forecast areas bordering on Cornwall are Lundy (north coast) and Plymouth (south coast).

Temperature tables

Natural hazards

Cornwall is not known for being prone to natural hazards, although they do happen. The county experiences droughts and heat waves with the rest of Europe as they happen, but its location close to the ocean dampens their severity. Also, European windstorms in the winter usually make landfall on the west coast of Europe, including Cornwall, resulting in severe gales and flooding. Cornwall's many valleys also make it prone to rapid flooding when an unusually heavy amount of rainfall occurs, as seen in the Boscastle flood of 2004.

Although not lying on any plate boundary, Britain occasionally experiences intraplate tremors as a result of the Eurasian Plate's motion, reactivating weak points in the rock. The west coast is more prone to these tremors than the east.
The strongest tremor so far recorded in Cornwall was in 1815, measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale with its epicentre near Penzance.

The 1755 earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale sent a tsunami towards the south coast of Cornwall. Historical accounts describe the waves of 3 metres (10 feet) in height and significant loss of life and property.

See also

Flora and fauna of Cornwall
List of hills of Cornwall
List of Special Areas of Conservation in Cornwall

References

Further reading
 Burton, S. H. (1955) The Coasts of Cornwall. London: T. Werner Laurie.
 Gascoyne, Joel (1991) A Map of the County of Cornwall, 1699; reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by William L. D. Ravenhill and O.J. Padel (Devon and Cornwall Record Society: new series; vol. 34.); Exeter: Devon and Cornwall Record Society.
 Henderson, Charles & Coates, Henry (1928) Old Cornish Bridges and Streams. London: published for the University College of the South West by Simpkin Marshall
Kain, Roger; Ravenhill, William (eds.) (1999) Historical Atlas of South-West England. Exeter: University of Exeter Press
Kain, Roger (ed.) (2006) English Landscape: the South West
Woollett, Lisa (2013) Sea and Shore Cornwall. Zart Books in association with Eden Project

External links

Cornwall Rivers Project

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Q: Difference between getElapsedTime() and getQTime() in solr for java I'm using Solr for Java and want to know what is the difference between  getElapsedTime() and getQTime(), after optimization solr indexes I'm confused which one is for what.
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Alexander Smith White (born 3 November 1950) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a left winger.

Career
White began his professional career with Dundee United alongside his identical twin brother Joe, with the siblings playing together for the first time on 18 December 1971 in a 3–0 defeat away to Aberdeen (they were the first pair of twins to play for the club).

White spent three years at Tannadice before moving to Forfar Athletic in 1975, where he went on to make over sixty league appearances. In 1978, White left the senior game and returned to Glenrothes, rejoining his brother who had returned to the Fife Junior club four years earlier.

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Living people
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When word surfaced last week about President Barack Obama's plans for a trip to New Orleans, Gulf Coast newspapers and politicians immediately complained that the visit was too short. | REUTERS
Nerves raw for Obama's trip to Gulf
By EAMON JAVERS
When word surfaced last week about President Barack Obama's plans for a trip to New Orleans, Gulf Coast newspapers and politicians immediately complained that the visit was too short.
"That's it?" wrote The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune.
"Why are we invisible?" wondered Mississippi's Sun Herald newspaper.
And Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, Obama's fellow Democrat, last Thursday issued this politely worded critique: "If this visit is too brief, it will not afford the president the opportunity to see firsthand the impact that an effective and committed administration can have on rebuilding neighborhoods and communities."
Media reports last week suggested that Obama was planning to come to New Orleans only for a town hall meeting and a second, unspecified event. The White House announced Friday that Obama will host a town hall and visit a charter school — for a total of about four hours. But Landrieu now says she's pleased the town hall event will give the public a chance to bring directly to Obama its concerns about the effort to rebuild the city four years after Hurricane Katrina
All of the critiques add a layer of political tension to Obama's New Orleans trip this Thursday, his first to the region since he was sworn in as president. Not only will he have to deal with the tangled cultural and economic legacies of the hurricane and its aftermath, but he will have to prove to area residents that he's still as focused on their needs as he was during the presidential campaign.
"The president made a promise to come to the Gulf Coast and wanted to fulfill that promise as soon as his schedule allowed it," said White House spokesman Nick Shapiro. "He also wanted to host a public event so that he could talk to residents directly about their thoughts and concerns."
Obama will bring some backup when he arrives: He'll travel with three Cabinet secretaries who will fan out across the city at events of their own Thursday: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
What's more, the White House points out that Obama has been to New Orleans five times since Katrina, in trips before he was elected in 2008. Aides say he's had plenty of opportunity for thorough tours of the damage from the hurricane and has even had the chance to indulge in the local culture — eating gumbo at the restaurant Dooky Chase in 2008 and attending services at First Emanuel Baptist Church during a visit in 2007 that included tours of the wreckage and briefings from officials.
White House officials also argue that as president, Obama has cleared bureaucratic hurdles to Gulf Coast assistance, allowing more than $1 billion in federal aid to flow to the area. But nerves are still raw. The Times-Picayune even compared Obama with President George W. Bush, who visited the area 13 times after the federal hurricane response became a signature failure of his administration.
"Say what you will about former President George W. Bush and his administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath — the man knew how to put together a post-Katrina White House visit to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast," wrote the newspaper's Jonathan Tilove. "They were exhaustive, exhausting, sun-up-to-sundown, sometimes multiday and multistate affairs."
Obama's day will begin Thursday with a visit to the Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward. In the afternoon, he'll hold a town hall meeting at the University of New Orleans Lakefront campus. Soon after that, he'll depart for San Francisco, where he will attend a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.
On Friday, Obama will head to College Station, Texas, where he will attend a presidential forum on community service hosted by former President George H.W. Bush and the Points of Light Institute at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.