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The first half of 2015 looked set fair to offer a promising start to the year but ultimately investors were left feeling short-changed by the time 30th June arrived. The attractive base that had been built in the early part of the year was impacted by the decline in markets in June. While uncertainty over the debt negotiations in Greece and the future of the euro were the main concerns, the manner in which both equities and bonds were affected was the startling feature with the pain of the initial failure to get an agreement over the debt talks for Greece distributed equally.
After the harrowing period witnessed in June, markets have since regained their poise as investors digest the implications of the agreement achieved between Greece and the European Union. We have read a large amount of literature predicting doom and gloom both pre and post the settlement in Greece. Whilst we can't predict when and where the future strains in the fortunes of Greece or additional European countries will emerge, we refused to be shaken out of any of our investments ahead of the deadline for a settlement. This mirrored our views on previous occasions when there has been an EU debt "crisis," namely that politicians rarely act to make themselves redundant – as they inevitably would have been if there had been a Greek exit from the EU. The media remained all too quick to take a negative stance on almost any story about the possibility of a resolution in Greece. A resolution was there to be found eventually and the fine-tuning of the settlement can now take place.
We never believe it is appropriate to act in too euphoric or pessimistic a manner and that predicating an investment strategy on a knee-jerk reaction to one piece of news, however bleak it seems at the time, is not appropriate.
The additional highlight of the first half of the year was principally the fall in the Chinese equity markets – following a pronounced period of strong performance. We take the same line on China as one of our favourite equity market strategists, that the drop in the equity markets reflect a period of cooling down for financial assets rather than anything dramatically changing in the underlying economy. We remain keen on Asia as a whole due to rising consumption and supportive demographics. When the leap in the levels of innovation of the leading Asian technology businesses is aligned with the ongoing structural development in Asia, the prospects for earnings is impressive, particularly when compared with some other parts of the emerging market peer group.
In terms of any particular sector of global equity markets being rewarded, or whether the current favourites will continue, there is no doubt we have to acknowledge that it has been a period when the popularity for income generating equities has been almost unrivalled. We will be checking for signs of the durability of this trend. At the same time, the ongoing rise in the popularity of technology shares points to a possible swing in sentiment towards growth. Companies which consistently prove to be thorns in the side of significantly large well establish rivals, whether that be in retail, healthcare or ecommerce, will need to be monitored. Finally, those businesses where the value of the investment in their own intellectual innovations is not currently recognised by investors, despite the company reporting rapid progress, offer enticing levels of potential.
For the first time in a long time the major central banks are likely to take differing actions over the next 6-12 months. The Federal Reserve in America is now likely to raise interest rates towards the end of 2015 and the Bank of England, emboldened by the passing of the UK General Election, beginning to talk about the possibility of raising interest rates in 2016. This stands at odds with the need for the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank to carry on with their current accommodating stance. In the short-run, we are hopeful that with issues such as the Greek debt settlement having taken place, the need for investors to feel excessively pessimistic can disappear. Longer term we believe no central bank will look to raise interest rates until they can be sure their economies and monetary systems have come close to recovering from the nerve shredding damage to the global financial system which the world has been overcoming since late 2008.
Overall we remain firm believers in the new levels of innovation, technology and global economic development currently being seen on an almost daily basis, delivering a positive backdrop for financial assets well into the latter part of this decade for those investors with a clear objective for their portfolio
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Are government regulators such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Essential Services Commission too busy servicing its own knowledge needs rather than the very people they regulate? Is it the transference of responsibility rather than knowledge that motivates governments in the 21st century?
The introduction of knowledge management (KM) in this country around 5 years ago may be regarded by some as a wake up call from the world of academia to both the Private and Public Sectors to do better at listening, sharing and learning. This passing of the KM 'innovation-baton' is a message to further develop the knowledge nation and produce sound methods to share and learn.
For years in Australia managing digitised information (explicit knowledge) was a challenge and took some time to understand that we needed to do more than just collect and store information. Fortunately, with the introduction of business intelligence in the mid to late 1990's we moved on to concepts like data visualisation to add value to our outputs.
An extension to knowledge creation is having others determine what is needed from what is available. This process influences the transfer of tacit knowledge and value adds our intellectual capital. As an intangible asset (especially the human capital) it provides the greatest return on investment or effort. This transparent benefit reports the measurement of our intangible assets such as organization capital, customer capital and human capital on the balanced scorecard.
If we agree that knowledge management processes have encouraged a cultural shift in Australia to share and learn, then as an appealing exercise let's reverse the situation and revisit the opening paragraph. Why not assess what is actually transferred from government regulators to embrace the payback to the Private and Public Sector and further motivate the (knowledge creation, capture, transfer and use/reuse) loop.
A good example is the knowledge transfer needed from the Public Sector to keep Public Authorities informed. The regulation and legislation demands are enormously high in most authorities, and unfortunately they experience a culture of 'one-way only' sharing (upward) which is expected by governments. In this country for instance, enormous overarching changes are presently taking place in the Water Industry. Apart from more than seventy separate pieces of legislation already being monitored by this industry, there are the regulatory bodies like the Department of Natural Resources & Energy, the Environmental Protection Authority, the Department of Human Services and the Essential Services Commission (ESC) policing quality, pricing and service.
The government's transfer of responsibility in this area will have enormous impact on the authorities that service water and wastewater, especially in rural and regional areas. The Water Industry in Victoria is expecting the ESC to have as much impact on constituents as the amalgamation of Water Boards to Water Authorities in 1994.
There is no doubting that regulators have an enormously important role to play but it must be transparent, two-way and humanized to motivate stakeholders and promote compliance. Transparent knowledge management strategies in the initiation phase will build confidence to share and learn, and promote the partnership-trust concept.
What strategies have the ESC in place to service their Staff, the Caretakers and ultimately the customer to support 'two-way' sharing and learning, and balance inter-agency diffusion?
There is an opportunity to act now and determine a common platform of operation and avoid an unacceptable curve-rate of diffusion (the bandwagon affect from either the regulators or authorities) that will only widen the communication gap, generate chaos and more importantly fail to meet expectations. For instance, the Water Industry needs to know now, how and when the shift will occur from, imposed pricing and performance standards disclosure, to a rigorous independent price setting and performance improvement regime.


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Christopher Markus a Stephen McFeely jsou američtí scenáristé a producenti.

Mezi jejich nejvýznamnější práci patří filmová série Letopisy Narnie a filmy Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: První Avenger, Thor: Temný svět, a dále Captain America: Návrat prvního Avengera, Captain America: Občanská válka, Avengers: Infinity War a Avengers: Endgame, na nichž pracovali s režiséry bratry Russoovými; také psali seriál Agent Carter televize ABC.

Christopher Markus vyrostl v Buffalu. Získal titul Bachelor of Arts v tvůrčím psaní na Rutgers University v roce 1991.

Stephen McFeely vyrostl v San Franciscu. Titul Bachelor of Arts v angličtině získal na University of Notre Dame v roce 1991.

Oba aspirovali na spisovatele a setkali se v programu tvůrčího psaní na Kalifornské univerzitě v roce 1994. Postupem času přehodnotili své plány stát se spisovateli a začali se věnovat psaní scénářů.

Po získání magisterského titulu v roce 1996 odjeli do Los Angeles, kde se jim podařilo získat agenta, jehož zásluhou získali první placenou zakázku na scénář, který nebyl nikdy zfilmován. Přesto tato zakázka pro ně znamenala zlomový bod v jejich kariéře. HBO je pověřila napsáním životopisného filmu o Peteru Sellersovi. Jejich práce na sérii Letopisy Narnie jim umožnila pracovat na filmech Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Zurich - Credit Suisse (Schweiz) AG, SFS & Mikron announce the successful completion of a Pilot using eNotes™ as a financing instrument. In a pilot transaction, leveraging the technology built by the Zurich-based FinTech FQX, Credit Suisse provided financing to SFS & Mikron using the electronic Promissory Note, or eNote™. The eNote™ is a blockchain-based short-term debt instrument with which corporates like SFS & Mikron can radically facilitate their corporate treasury operations while increasing financial steering flexibility.
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I have just got back from vacation and I cannot have been happier with the destination I ended up in! I had initially planned to go to Thailand. However, due to the flooding over there, had to change the plan. Kind of very far off route, Seychelles was where I ended up!
I was so excited about going to Thailand – yes it is a gorgeous place – but my main interest was Thai cuisine, Thai produce and the local Thai food scene. You see, when travelling, I am one to whom cuisine and food are as important as museums, scenery and current culture. I find that you never fully experience a new country, city or place without exploring its cuisine and local food scene. The intercontinental experience – to me – is like taking home to a new place. In other words: doing what you normally do, just in a different location. What is the point of travelling? A change of scenery? It can be, but it is way more interesting to get to live a completely different lifestyle for a short period of time, and preferably that country's lifestyle. That is when you have truly visited the place. There is no better way to get a full understanding of people and the local life of a place than with venturing into what they eat, how they eat and their views on food. Food is the shortcut to understanding a culture. So when it came to Thailand, and being on the top of my top list Culinary Destinations, I was completely disappointed that I had to change direction!!
I eventually ended up going to Seychelles. With the whole culinary destination in mind, I was not sure what Seychelles had to offer. I knew their cuisine is called Creole, not very versed with Creole foods but have had a taster a few years ago in Mauritius and whatever I managed to eat of the Caribbean foods. From there I knew they cooked curries, and had some French influences in their cuisine but that was that. Vaguely remembered and not exactly familiar!
Despite all that, I decided to go with an open heart ready to take in what this adventure was about to bring. So little did I know, that this spontaneous trip to a destination I thought small on food, would turn out to be the Culinary Experience I had been looking for! I found Gastronomy in Seychelles! Or maybe it found me, I am not sure! But what I do know is: I could not have wished for more!!
Seychelles is an island country in the Indian Ocean, East of Mainland Africa. Having been colonised by the French, the country is very much influenced by the French culture. They speak Creole, which in their definition is broken French. If your French is good you will be able to understand almost everything they say. But worry not, as they can also speak English.
is the cuisine of this beautiful island as well as its surrounding islands/countries such as Mauritius, Zanzibar and other areas in West Africa. It is also the cuisine of the Caribbean and countries in which African settlers are dominant. Creole Cuisine is very influenced by the French, Chinese and Indian cuisines, where in many concoctions it employs the same techniques, and even uses many of the same ingredients and aromatics!
Seychelles' cuisine is more French and Asian influenced than Indian though. I guess it would be safe to say that the cuisine is a French-Asian Fusion with an African twist in terms of exotic ingredients. Being situated just to the south of the equator, the country is rich with exotic produce. Mangoes, papayas, breadfruits, pineapples, coconuts, tamarind… all grow naturally in Seychelles. The exotic produce together with other Provençal and Asian ingredients have mingled together and formed this super tasty creole cuisine.
Seychelles' Creole cooking includes a lot of fish and seafood, rightly so as it's an island on an ocean very rich in all sorts of fish and seafood. They also cook chicken, and least of all meats ( I have not eaten meat or found them on any menu while there, but told that it is sometimes cooked.). They use a lot of spices in their cooking, such as curry powder, saffron powder (saffron root, not the flowers), ginger (fresh and powder), chili powder…etc. Coconut milk – freshly made at home – is also widely used in their cooking! Follow this link for how to extract coconut milk at home. Garlic, fresh cinnamon leaves, and fresh curry leaves, as well as soy sauce, oyster sauce and fish sauce and rice vinegar are all regular ingredients in this island's cooking. In the more French concoctions they tend to use lots of garlic, shallots, thyme, cream as well as butter. There are some dishes where they fuse Asian and French ingredients, then toss in something like a baked breadfruit to the equation and that just becomes pure creole! Sounds strange, but really delicious!
In beautiful, breathtaking Seychelles the concept of farm-to-table takes a whole other dimension. Freshness is ultimate, most of the time right from the backyard's tree, chicken or even bats! On other most likely occasions fished from the sea across the street! Over there, you can rest assured that the ingredient is in premium condition, in its natural state as it's meant to be. Mostly naturally grown and not even cultivated!
Seychelles are also known for eating Bat Meat! Yes, that is right! They have humongous bats there, that actually look a lot like Batman! I was super taken when I saw them flying in flocks to the full moon, it looked like a live Halloween decoration! Super cool. The bat looks like a fox with wings! It has no beak but rather a face and body of a fox, covered with orange hair! Attached to that body are black leather wings with little hands on top!! How weird is that?! The strangest looking creature ever! They even call it the flying fox over there!
As it turns out, these bats are 100% vegetarian, feeding off ripe fruits on the trees. They even refuse to eat the fruits that have fallen off the trees, as they are not as good a quality! Since they only eat excellent quality fruits, and are flying around free, they happen to have the most tender and delicious meat you can ever taste! I mean, talk about organic and free range meat! This is exactly it! The taste is slightly gamy, but quite milder than game. It is super tender and bizarrely delicious!
What I found most inspiring though, came as a little surprise! It was the fresh heart of a coconut palm (a good story, read it on this link) ! I seriously like palmitos. I mean what is a Salade Panache without palmitos? But I had never had the pleasure of meeting the fresh heart of palm! Yup, like many, I had been eating the processed, canned, soured palm hearts! Of course I knew that they are not the real deal/ fresh ingredient; so you can imagine my happiness when I came across a real heart of palm!! I had to convince the guy to sell it to me, but did I manage to do that? read the story and see how again I got myself in a bit of a pickle!!
I was repeatedly told by the cooks in Seychelles that Creole cooking is all about bringing out the beautiful flavours and textures of the ingredient, enhancing them by using spices with balance, and never overwhelming the ingredient or underestimating its presence! The way they design a dish is by deciding on a specific ingredient, then building everything else around it, making sure that one ingredient remains the star of the dish.
When travelling, I always prefer to stay at villas instead of hotels. The experience is way more unique and personalised than that generic experience of hotels. Most villas are very luxurious and fully serviced, so you are still being pampered. Some, even come with butlers, cooks, stay-in house-keepers, baby sitters and drivers!
Staying at a villa is the best insight to the local lifestyle and local food – if you are looking for a local experience. As you get to learn a little something about local cuisine, as it is cooked at home, from its source. You get a chance to talk to the staff and ask them about places to go (you know, those real hangouts, not the tourist stuff). When in a villa you don't have to wait until you are out in the city to start the cultural experience. You are right in it from the start!
I had stayed at Villa Di Aldo in Takamaka – Mahe. I cannot tell you enough about how beautiful the villa is, its breathtaking views and how fully equipped it is for any need that shall arise. The villa is on a mountain top, overlooking the magical views of the volcanic mountains to one side, the beautiful ocean right in front, and the jungles of tropical forests to the opposite side as if hugging the ocean.
This Villa had it all. It was so fabulous, that you hardly felt the need to go out!! The villa was furnished with Colonial African tones and furniture pieces, at times reminded me of the old commissary movies on Africa and African exploration quests. There were mosquito nets over the beds, it had huge sofa beds – with leopard and tiger skinned pillows – on the terrace overlooking the ocean. Then comes the contrast of varieties of green from the tropical trees against the very dark and old wood of the Villa. Everything in it, although brand new, reflected an era so far gone, that you actually felt like you got a chance to experience what life was like back then.
The warmest and loveliest people you will ever meet! A husband and wife, they are the Villa Managers and Karl is also the Villa's Cook, whom I have come to discover as Le Chef Extraordinaire! I have met many people around the world who love food, who cook, who eat, who write about food, who aspire to become something in regards to food… But up until I met Karl, I had never met a person who honestly lives to cook!
I have seen passion manifest itself in so many ways, but that passion for cooking which Karl has is unlike any I have ever seen before! The care and respect he has for ingredients, the attention to details, and the techniques are all spot on, and over the top. The result is always heartfelt food that not only fills you up with bliss, but talks straight to your soul. Food that makes you wonder and think and at times will even unexpectedly delight you with hints of the exotic when least expected. That is how I found Gastronomy at Seychelles.
You see, it is meeting people like Karl that make Culinary Travel so much more interesting than just travel. I always look for these people and surround myself with as many of them as I can. People who can inspire you, who allow your thoughts to go places, who can bring the extraordinary out of the everyday. Those who can teach you a world of things out of the very stuff you thought you had thoroughly examined to the point of exhaustion. These people make life interesting, they add value, and most of all bring the best out of you. You are unlikely to just stumble upon strangers in the street and find all this, but throw food in the middle and it just gets interesting. Although I had thoroughly enjoyed my trip to Seychelles, meeting Karl, exchanging so much food conversations, cooking together and just simply watching him in action had enriched the experience to the point that -to me – it was the most exciting bit of the whole trip!
Straight forward breakfast menu, but the smell of those vanilla crepes was creeping in, it was actually what woke me up! So we sit for breakfast before we head out to explore the island. Then I have noticed, there was a moment of complete silence! Everyone was eating crepes with papaya (just the crepes with fresh papaya, so few are the times when you eat such an everyday item with so much indulgence, but the flavours are a match made in heaven!). It is a crepe at the end of the day! But it was succulent! I thought this is a good start.
Then Karl comes and asks us, what we would like to have for dinner, I thought it's time to have that chat: " We would like to try authentic local cuisine. It would be great if we get to sample different preparations each day, in order to see what your cuisine is about. We love good food, and would like to learn more about your food." I told him, and that is all it took for a whole gastronomical experience to kick start. It was like giving this guy the key to heaven, and when he opened that door, the experience reflected so much goodness on everyone, that my son came and whispered – 5 days into the vacation – and said: "You know I love you mum, but I have to tell you, Karl cooks fabulous food!" he went on explaining how he thought I also cook great food, and he thinks am the best cook in the world, blah, blah, blah… but the bottom line is Karl managed to feed my 2 very young kids: curry, papaya chutney, coconut chutney, spicy tomato based fish curry, mixed exotic vegetable fried rice, King crabs in ginger sauce…. all flavours they would not happily have at home! They were actually looking forward each day to what he was going to cook for dinner! Just seeing him cook, and hearing him talk about food reflected his passion, so much so that even the kids wanted to see what he was on about, and the result was always outstanding!
Every evening, we would come back from island explorations and island hopping exhausted and ready for food, and would find Karl and Catherine there with the fresh produce, preparing succulent food. I would sit with them in the kitchen for hours, talking about food, how its done, creole cuisine and would cook, take pictures and then sit down to sample the great cuisine coming out of the open plan, modern African minimalist kitchen with breathtaking garden, pool and ocean view! Pure heaven in my terms… I can go on forever about this, but I guess you get the drift!
In a nutshell, Seychelles is an extraordinary destination for those who are big on nature and natural life. It is a place where you get a glimpse of how life is, should it be lived naturally. It is beautiful, with breathtaking views everywhere, truly unspoiled by humans. The people are very friendly, the culture is extremely interesting and the cuisine is Divine! With that said it is raw nature, it has not been modified for those who have to be in manufactured surroundings. It is basic and simple! Just how I like it 🙂 However, the insects can be quite irritating especially if you are squeamish! Nature does come with bugs, and in a place like Seychelles, there is not much you can do about that!
I totally recommend Villa Di Aldo especially for those who are on food quests and like to do some culinary travel. Karl loves nothing more than showing you the goodness of Creole Cuisine and you will thoroughly enjoy it! The Villa is fully serviced, breakfast is included and the staff are extremely friendly and accommodating. You will also get to learn a lot about the cuisine, just by watching Karl and talking to him about their foods. I give this Villa a rate of 100% satisfied.
Creole BBQs by public beaches, amazing food and an authentic cultural experience.
A bit of research is always required prior to your trip. If you don't know what to look for, then you won't be able to find it!
Anse Soleil Restaurant. Absolute favourite for Bats curry and Octopus curry. The restaurant is right on the beach with such a magnificent strip of sea for snorkeling (saw 2 large stingrays and 1 eel just snorkeling slightly off the beach). The restaurant is very casual and laid back. You eat, go to the beach, snorkel, come back for more food and drinks, and even keep your belongings there while at the beach!
Chez Batista in Anse Soleil – Mahe, who also offer a fabulous Creole buffet on Sundays.
Les Dauphins Heureux in Anse Royale, for the best king crab in ginger sauce and octopus salad.
Bonbon Plume Restaurant in Anse Lazio – Praslin.
Maria's Rock Cafe for cook it yourself fish fillets, creole style.
Cafe Des Arts on the beach, Praslin.
The Place in Grand Anse – La Digue offers an all you can eat BBQ & salads.
You can hire a boat via one of the Seychelles Boat Charters on Mahe to experience a full day dive or snorkeling trip around Mahé, Praslin and La Digue. You can even go for a diving course with PADI if you do not have a diving license. If you are not feeling too sporty, then go for a day trip to one of the islands (Praslin or La Digue), which usually includes, a Buffet lunch of Creole food. You will spend the whole day on the island, with food, drinks and can snorkel by the beach or just take in the sun. Otherwise you can go for the live aboard trips, which are a fabulous way to explore some of the outer island around Mahe (which make up the 115 Islands of the Seychelles).
Casino. There are some local Casinos if you want to try your luck and have a good laugh.
Fishing is a must. I mean it is after all an island! Why not go out and catch your own dinner? Seychelles offers big game fishing or deep sea fishing the choice is yours and the local Seychelles operators will be more than happy to assist you. Otherwise, and for a more relaxed fishing experience, Mahe also has some wonderful spots for fly fishing. Or you can simply take a fishing rod on the beach sit back relax, sip your Seybrew and watch the sunset.
Glass Bottom boats trips around the Seychelles Marine National Park,where you get to snorkel with the fish and feed them as well. Do not forget to bring along some bread.
Fancy some Golf? Seychelles Golf Club which is a nine-hole course built on an old coconut plantation, would be perfect for that. Situated at Anse aux Pins just off the road leading to the Reef Estate. Praslin also has its own Golf Course.
Horseback riding on Mahé Island. You can explore Mahé's west coast – Barbarons and Grand Anse area on horseback. Watch the sunset, and go on the beach… what can be better? The stables are close to Le Meriden Barbarons hotel.
Seychelles Walks, hikes, trails and tours. A variety of walks (with different degrees of endurance) are available at the Chalets d' Anse Forbans. But you can also get individual trail brochures by the Seychelles Ministry of Environment which can be purchased at the Antigone book store in Victoria and at the Seychelles Botanical Garden situated about 10 minute walk from Victoria. While you are at Victoria, do visit the produce market, where you will find fresh Seychelles produce, spices (must buys), and many other artifacts. You can also visit the Hindu temple there and walk around the market for some souvenir shopping.
Culinary Destination Seychelles – Done!
If you have visited Seychelles and would like to recommend places, activities or accommodations, please go ahead and leave a comment. Let us know which parts of Seychelles were your favourite.
Disclaimer: I go on my Culinary Trips on my own behalf, self-funded and do not earn any income or compensation in any form for recommending any accommodation, restaurant, activity…etc. I share my experience with you to hopefully inspire you to try the locations and activities which I have personally found outstanding. The views expressed in this website are my own, unless otherwise indicated.


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The call for expression of interest for the Junior Professionals in Delegation (JPD) Programme is open until 31 January 2019.
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The European External Action Service (EEAS) and the European Commission (EC) have established a high-level traineeship programme which gives an opportunity to highly qualified junior professionals from the EU Member States to work in the EU Delegations worldwide. The aim of the programme is to enable young people to gain a first-hand experience in the work of Delegations and an in-depth understanding of their role in the implementation of EU external policies.
Every 24 months, the EEAS and EC open a call for expression of interest. For the current round 2017-2019, there are 78 junior professionals posted in different Delegations.
The JPD programme is based on the:
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Cerebral palsy can be accurately diagnosed by 6 months of age, researchers say, yet kids often aren't flagged until they're 1 or 2, potentially losing out on valuable early intervention.
In a study looking at a half-dozen scientific reviews and two sets of clinical guidelines from experts in the field, researchers found that doctors can make a reliable diagnosis of cerebral palsy in the first months of life.
The findings published in the September issue of JAMA Pediatrics indicate that three tools should be used to assess children under 5 months: neonatal magnetic resonance imaging, the Prechtl Qualitative Assessment of General Movements and the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination.
In children over 5 months, doctors should use MRI, the Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination and the Developmental Assessment of Young Children, the study said.
If a diagnosis is suspected, but can't yet be verified, the researchers recommend that children be given an interim label of "high risk of cerebral palsy" and referred for early intervention specific to the condition.
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Ghanaian chief calls for commercialization of GMOs
Richmond Frimpong | Cornell Alliance for Science | July 10, 2020
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A Ghanaian chief, Nana Adjie Panin II, has called for the country's commercialization of genetically modified (GM) seeds.
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) would be a panacea to the existing negative agricultural practices around the globe, according to the chief, who lives in Deduako, a farming community in the Ashanti region of Ghana.
His assertions are based on his observations that chemical usage associated with agriculture is having a grave toll on the environment, human health and soil nutrients, and GM crops could reduce that impact.
The chief, who is also a peasant farmer, made his remarks to members of the Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) during their recent visit to his five-acre conventional farm at Deduako. He grows a variety of crops, including yam, plantain, cocoyam, cassava and cocoa.
Despite the controversy around GMOs in the country, he said this appropriate technology should be adopted with no shred of doubt since it can stand the test of time.
To him, genetic engineering offers a dramatic step forward to a more friendly way of saving the environment from complete destruction.
The chief observed that pesticides and insecticide are causing the soil to lose its rich mineral content and fertility.
He said these chemicals have had an adverse effect on nature, arguing that previously, after plowing and fallowing, mushrooms, snails, cocoyam and other crops sprang up from the soil naturally. But that is not the case today because of the abuse of farm chemicals.
Studies conducted in 2018 show that on average, GM technology has reduced chemical pesticide use on farms by 37 percent, increased crop yields by 22 percent and increased farm profits by 68 percent.
Related article: Will legal 'assault' on Bayer's Roundup weedkiller in US, EU threaten Africa's access to glyphosate?
The chief urged Ghanaians to learn to adapt to change and support this technology so the country can thrive. He implored the government to liaise with the appropriate stakeholders to work towards the introduction of GMOs into the country without any delays.
Ghana's parliament passed the National Biosafety Act in 2011 to guide the management of GMOs in the country. The law established the National Biosafety Authority to manage the introduction, transportation, import, export and handling of GMOs in Ghana. So far, however, no GM crop has been commercialized in the country.
Currently, trials are ongoing to allow for the introduction of locally produced GM cowpea and rice. A study published last year by scientists at the University of Ghana and other institutions predicted the nation's cowpea sector will grow by nearly 10 percent annually over the next six years if GM cowpea is introduced. The study forecasts the new insect-resistant cowpea could add US$52million (GH₵230m) to the cowpea production economy by 2025.
Richmond Frimpong is the president of the Ghana Agricultural and Rural Development Journalists Association (GARDJA) and a 2019 Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellow.
This article ran at Cornell Alliance for Science and has been republished here with permission. Follow the Alliance for Science on Twitter @ScienceAlly


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Q: Select a specific row with the following rows sorted by some value in PostgreSQL I have a table with id and value:
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2  20
3  10
4  50
5  30
6  40

I want to select a row by id with the following rows sorted by value. If multiple rows have the same value, sort them by id. Technically, it is similar to this question, with the difference that not only the nearest row, but also more.
For example, row with id = 2 with the following three rows:
id value
2  20
1  30
5  30
6  40

I know there are window functions for this, but I don't know which ones to use.

A: SQL:
with CTE
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select distinct value from tab order by 1
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select * from tab where value in (select * from cte where value >= (select value from tab where id=2 ) limit 3) ;

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We begin the show with a special archive edition from 2009, part of our Urbanite Radio Stories series in partnership with the Urbanite magazine. The topic of the show is The Latino Community and the Justice System and we explore what happens when members of the Latino community become victims of crime but fail to report it out of fear of the police and legal system.
With: Major Roger Bergeron, Commander of the Baltimore Southeastern Police District; Evelyn Vargas, a bilingual advocate in the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office; and Elizabeth Alex, Senior Manager of the Baltimore office of Casa de Maryland.


When people work together as a team in every endeavor of life they tend to achieve more than individuals. Most organisations have a budget item on team building every year for various teams in the organisation, including executive teams. What is surprising though is that most of the team building interventions fail. They fail because most executives and Consultants introducing such interventions do not understand the science behind team working. In this article, I am going to share with you what science and research says about working together in teams.
In 2012, Google in its quest to understand how teams function, embarked on a project code named Project Aristotle. They based this project on results from what scientific research has found about teams. They studied all the factors that are normally considered when building teams; personality variables like – are the people outgoing, demographic variables and the level of interaction and collaboration among team members. They looked at more than 180 teams within the organisation and how they worked. They collected enormous amount of data about each of these teams and the results are amazing.
They discovered that at the top of high performing teams is what is called psychological safety. Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson (1999) says "Psychological safety is a belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns or mistakes." In practice, my experience in consulting agrees with this startling finding. I have observed people in group meetings for example where they "agree" with the leadership on issues being discussed but the moment they step out of the meeting they start raising with their colleagues serious concerns and misgivings about what was being proposed. You often hear words like "it does not work", "it's a waste of time" and other such statements that shows that the system does not tolerate divergent views especially those that do not support the leadership proposals. As a result, such people will not support whatever cause the leadership is trying to advance. They will support the cause when the leader is present but in private, they will be doing everything possible to discredit the proposals.
In order to foster psychological safety in a team you need to allow team members to voice concerns and give each other feedback in the presence of all team members without fear of retribution. You must create an environment where team members are able to acknowledge their own mistakes without being punished for disclosing those mistakes. The team leader and all team members must create an environment that allows individual team members to take ownership of issues. Blaming others or the environment is unlikely to create the psychological safety required for the team to function effectively. There is a lot that can be done to create psychological safety that will make sure your teams succeed. Project Aristotle by Google pointed out that out of all the other important factors about working with a successful team, psychological safety was the most important of all of them. Before you embark on that team building exercise, do an assessment of psychological safety and work on gaps identified before wasting money climbing mountains and other such activities aimed at building teams.
In the same study, Google identified other important factors but less influential than psychological safety. They discovered that the team needs to have dependable team members who will deliver on their promises for the team to be successful. If team members are not reliable, renege on their side of the agreed goals and targets, the team will not succeed. This includes team members honoring their commitment to deliver high quality work for the benefit of the team.
They also identified goal clarity as one of the drivers of successful teams. When the goals for the team are clear and how each individual team member will contribute to the success, the team will succeed. In practice, teams are set up with goals that are imposed and not agreed and naturally the team members do not take ownership of such goals. The third factor was whether individuals feel that what they are working on is personally meaningful. In teams when tasks are allocated, they must show that they are meaningful to the individuals working on them. When individuals see no connection between what they are working on and what they see as things of value they will not put hundred percent effort towards the achievement of such goals. The forth driver of team success is, do the team members believe that the work they are working on matters. I have seen people working on tasks but asking why? What is the value? When such questions are being asked by team members, you will have problems with the team achieving its goals.
Given that this is what science says about successful teams, how have you been incorporating these findings in your team building efforts? If you fail to heed what scientific research says, you may be wasting your time and money embarking on team building efforts. It is very possible that your team building efforts can be structured in such a way that all the drivers of successful teams are incorporated in your team building program. I am sure for those who have attended team building sessions; sometimes you come back to the office with nothing changed. So why repeat the same unsuccessful ways for building teams?


Expressions VEE facial mask, based on the sting of the honeybee, purified and used in high concentration will help with skin tightening, stimulate blood flow and collagen production. Honey bee venom has been famously known to be exported to Europe and used is many cosmetics products. Thanks to its high concentration of Melittin, a biologically active as a antiviral agent with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effect, the Vee-Mask helps reducing acne and spots. Ingredients are tested and proven to help whitening, repair skin damage and lift V-shaped face. Achieving healthy and naturally beautiful looking supple skin.
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Expressions VEE facial mask, based on the sting of the honeybee, purified and used in high concentration will help with skin tightening, stimulate blood flow and collagen production.
Together with the Bee's natural activate ingredients such as royal jelly and wild honey that are tested and proven to aid cell renewal, whitening and repair skin damage. Achieving healthy and naturally beautiful looking supple skin.
Honey bee venom has been famously known to be exported to Europe and used is many cosmetics products. It has a high concentration of Melittin, a biologically active as a antiviral agent with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effect.
Expressions VEE facial mask is formulated from highly sought after bee venom, an ingredient used in many European cosmetic products. Upon purification and used in high concentration dosage it promotes skin tightening, stimulating blood flow and collagen production. The high concentration of Melittin, a biologically active antiviral agent with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial effect, Vee-Mask helps reduce acne and spots. With other natural ingredients such as royal jelly and wild honey that are clinically tested and proven to aid cell renewal, whitening and repair skin damage.
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Back-To-School season is a naturally stressful time! You have a list of supplies you have to buy, after school activities to sign up for, and your baby is getting older and older each school year! There are emotional tears and there are anxiety tears. To help reduce your anxiety-riddled sob sesh, we've created a small and basic organization list to help you rock the new school year. Creating positive habits now will help keep that same energy all throughout the year.
If you've been around school aged children, then you know exactly what happens as soon as they walk through the door after school. Shoes are kicked off, bags go flying, and schoolwork is left to be forgotten. A "drop zone" can prevent this frazzling time. Creating a specific area for all items to prevent clutter and clear up space. It also makes it incredibly easy when you're young children tend to lose things! You can simply remind them to check the drop zone.
Having a home office isn't everyone's idea of a perfect home, but having a clear workspace can be beneficial for both working parents and studying children. Creating a space that lacks stress and clutter, a space that motivates, will make homework sessions run much more smoothly. Having a spot in the drop zone or in the workspace for current homework assignments/projects with a clear calender for due dates means you'll have smooth studying students!
Before the school year begins, have your kiddos try on their clothes and donate all items that are too big, too small, or not their style anymore. Once the closet only has items that will be put to use, organize the items by category (shirts, pants, accessories, etc). Create a space where five outfits can be hung up each weekend. Your child can pick their outfits for Monday-Friday on Sunday to preserve precious time in the mornings. That way they only need to worry about bathing and accessorizing throughout the week.
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Yacht racing is a noncommercial boating activity. It may be racing sailing boats, cruising to distant ports, or just day sailing around a bay.
Whilst sailing's invention is prehistoric, racing sailing boats is believed to have started in The Netherlands some time in the 17th century, whence it soon made its way to England where custom-built racing "yachts" began to emerge. In 1851, a challenge to an American yacht racing club in New York led to the beginning of the America's Cup, a regatta won by the New York Yacht Club until 1983, when they finally lost to Australia II. Meanwhile, yacht racing continued to evolve, with the development of recognized classes of racing yachts, from small dinghies up to huge maxi yachts.
These days, yacht racing is a common participant sport around the developed world, particularly where favorable wind conditions and access to reasonably-sized bodies of water are available - most yachting is conducted in salt water, but smaller craft can be and are raced on lakes and even larger rivers.
Whilst there are many different types of racing vessels, they can generally be separated into the larger yachts, which are larger and contain facilities for extended voyages, and smaller harbor racing craft such as dinghies and skiffs.
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Brahim Haddane
Brahim is a graduate of the Veterinary School of Rabat (IAV Hassan II), wildlife option and holds a Master in biological science option Nature Conservation from ' the Royal College of London 'and a certificate on zoonotic diseases from Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp / Belgium. He worked for 30 years at Forestry Department / Ministry of Agriculture in Rabat on the ex situ conservation and management program for the reintroduction of national endangered wildlife species. He is a founding member of The ASMAPEC (Moroccan association for environment and climate protection), NGO member of IUCN. Hi sis also Member of the Moroccan Association for ecotourism and nature conservation. Brahim is also a Bureau member of the Royal Moroccan Federation for Hunting and promotion of sustainable hunting in responsible eco tourism for rural development in remote areas.
Since 1984 he joined IUCN as a member of the successively Commissions - SSC, WCPA and CEC. He works on threatened species of fauna and flora, on the AP / KBA and their benefits for local population and fragile ecosystems services to humanity and the promotion of responsible ecotourism. He is also an expert who has worked with FAO and IPBES on environmental health and the role of biodiversity in human being and animal welfare. He was elected Regional Councilor for Africa during WCC 2008 in Barcelona and re-elected in WCC 2012 Jeju South Korea. He is also S. G. of IUCN National Committee he created in 1998 and the Coordinator of the Regional Committee of IUCN members in North Africa. Since 2005 he leads an educational program on the environment with school groups and the public awareness strategy for the protection of nature in general that he developed with other experts. Currently, over 30 000 children from 380 schools annually benefit from the program developed in the botanical gardens of our city. Sessions are transmitted on radio and on television every year on the occasion of the national days. He is currently in charge of Biodiversity program at the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and Director of the Exotic Botanical Garden of Rabat Salé.
Dr. Haddane is married with 3 children. He speaks fluently French, English, Spanish in addition to his native language Arabic.
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Corruption; a Western word to indicate the rest of the world is wrong
On a yearly basis, Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perceptions Index CPI (http://www.transparency.org). This index gives an indication of the perceived level of corruption for each country in the world, and defines corruption as 'the abuse of entrusted power for private gain'. Transparency International recognizes three main kinds of corruption:
grand corruption (committed at a high level of government, enabling leaders to benefit at the expense of the public good)
petty corruption (where low- and mid-level officials abuse their power)
political corruption (where policies and procedures are manipulated by decision makers who want to sustain their power, status and wealth).
The 2013 index was recently published; it indicates the perceived abuse of power in 177 countries across the world, and below map shows where perceived corruption is highest (dark red) and where perceived corruption is lowest (yellow).
The perceived corruption index mapped to all countries in the world (original source: Transparency International)
Although there are remarkable shifts over the years, the general tendency is the same year after year. The Anglo-Saxon world (UK, US, Western-Europe, Scandinavia) has low scores, indicative for low perceived corruption. This holds as well for the Asian countries with a strong economy: Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and to a lesser extent S-Korea. High scores (high perceived corruption) are found for most African countries, Russia and the former Soviet states, the less stable Middle-eastern countries (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq) and some Central American economies (Honduras, Venezuela). N-Korea scores worst in the world (in good company of countries like Somalia and Afghanistan), while the best score in the world is for Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The Netherlands is at position nr 8, the US at 18. For full results visit this page. A first look at the rankings learns immediately that the richer a country, the lower the perceived corruption seems to be: the level of corruption is negatively correllated with BNP. In other words: the relative wealth of a country is a good predictor of the level of corruption in that country. From a cultural perspective, the most wealthy countries are individualistic cultures with a low power distance. Individualism indicates that people behave as individuals: they look after themselves and social bonds are relatively weak. In collectivistic societies on the other hands, people feel part of a strong in-group of family, friends, colleagues or other equals: they are very loyal to these groups and their own interests have lower priority than those of the group. The power distance of a country is another cultural characteristic: it indicates the degree to which people accept that one person has more status and power than the other person. In high power distance cultures (high-PDI) there is strong social inequality between members of society: status and power reside with a selected group of individuals. Low power distant cultures (low PDI) have more difficulty with this concept, and value to treat everybody equally: hierarchy in these countries is purely functional and practical. Collectivism and power inequality seem to be necessary conditions for corruption to flourish. Indeed the following plots underline the conclusion that the level of corruption correlates positively with PDI (power distance) and correlates negatively with IND (individualism). This correlation can be understood by looking at the earlier definition of corruption: in countries with high power distance people accept that power is unequally distributed, and that people with more power have more priviledges and can give themselves more rights than others. Also, in collectivistic cultures it is much more accepted that people form in-groups (groups of people that are very loyal to each other and feel connected) in which in-group members get better treatment than externals. Here the wealthy class that has the power forms a strong group, that takes good care of each other (at the expense of those who do not belong). The correlation of corruption and power distance and individualism seems obvious, given the definition of corruption that is used. We have to conclude that the definition of corruption is a very Western one: in a society where individuals take care of themselves, where everybody has equal rights and status differences are minimal, corruption – as defined above – by definition is low. The opposite holds as well: in a society where people belong to groups and want to belong to strong in-groups (where powerful people have more rights than others and where status differences are the norm), corruption by definition is high. When your definition of corruption is a very Western one, and you define corruption in moral terms (corruption is a bad thing), the rest of the world is morally inferior (in other words: corrupt). From collectivistic, high power distant cultures a more nuanced definition of corruption can be expected: although political corruption in these cultures will be formally disapproved of, people much more readily accept that it happens and that this is normal. They will even have less problems with 'petty corruption', being used to officials to use their power to get what they want. When speaking of corruption in moral terms, it is important to keep in mind that different cultures are different, and that the risk of cultural ethnocentrism (our culture is superior: we strongly disapprove of corruption) is high. The above presented corruption index than becomes an instrument for the Western world to tell the rest of the world they are 'not good', rather than a neutral instrument to point out that different cultures deal differently with an unequal power distribution.
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BELL'S Player of the Month: Mikko Paatelainen, Cowdenbeath F.C.
BELL'S Young Player of the Month: Bryan Deasley, Dundee F.C.
BELL'S Manger of the Month, First Division: Ian McCall, Queen of the South F.C.
BELL'S Manager of the Month, Second Division: Rowan Alexander, Gretna F.C.
BELL'S Manager of the Month, Third Division: Mixu Paatelainen, Cowdenbeath F.C.
Brothers Mixu and Mikko Paatelainen have both been awarded trophies in BELL'S February monthly awards for their performances this season with Cowdenbeath FC.
Mixu Paatelainen has taken home the trophy for Manager of the Month (Third Division), while Mikko was awarded BELL'S Player of the Month.
This is Mixu's second award, having won his first in October 2005. Cowdenbeath remained undefeated for four games in February, including an impressive 6-0 victory over Queen's Park. Mixu, 39, came to Scotland in 1987 and joined Dundee United, before moving on to play with Aberdeen and Hibs. Cowdenbeath FC is his first managerial position.
Mikko, 25, has scored seven league goals for Cowdenbeath FC this season, including a hat-trick in the 6-0 game at Queen's Park. With his first BELL'S trophy, Mikko is leaving Scotland on a high as he is returning to his native Finland to rejoin his old club.
Iain MacDonald, BELL'S Sponsorship manager, comments, "The Paatelainen brothers have made a great contribution to the fortunes of Cowdenbeath. Our judges congratulate both Mixu and Mikko on their awards and wish Markus a speedy recovery."
Queen of the South manager Ian McCall finally makes it a hat trick of BELL'S awards with his Manager of the Month (First Division) award for February.
It's Ian's first trophy with Queen of the South – he won the award in both August 2002 and January 2003 as manager of Falkirk. Since taking over at Queen of the South, McCall has revitalised the club's chances and pulled the team up from bottom of the Division. He has been rewarded with the Manager of the Month trophy this month.
McCall led Queen of the South through a successful February, with the team remaining undefeated and enjoying a 3-2 win over Dundee.
Iain MacDonald, BELL'S Sponsorship Manager, comments, "Ian's latest BELL'S award has been a long time coming; but Queen of the South have put in a strong performance throughout February under his leadership and the judges felt his accomplishments deserved recognition."
Rowan Alexander has won the Manager of the Month (Second Division) trophy for the fourth time this season. He has led Gretna FC through a spectacularly successful season, culminating in the club reaching the semi-final of the Scottish Cup, for the first time in the club's history.
Rowan has previously won the award in September and October 2005, and February 2006. He can now add a fourth trophy to his burgeoning collection for leading the club to the top of their division, with three straight wins in February.
Gretna FC is currently the top scoring SFL club, and the Scottish Cup's top scorers, with 18 goals this season.
Iain MacDonald, BELL'S Sponsorship Manager, comments, "Rowan has taken Gretna from strength to strength and his team's performance throughout the season has been consistently high. The judges felt he was the natural choice to receive February's award."
Bryan Deasley has been awarded the Young Player of the Month trophy in the BELL'S February awards, following his Dundee FC team-mates to make it three in a row for the club (Craig O'Reilly and Scott Murray won the Young Player awards in December and January respectively).
After graduating from Dundee's under-16 youth team, Dundee-born Deasley joined the club and has been propelled into the first team, scoring his first goal for the club recently. Bryan has been dubbed one to watch as he goes from strength to strength during his season with Dundee FC.
Iain MacDonald, BELL'S Sponsorship manager, comments, "Bryan did tremendously well during February. He is another of Dundee FC's bright hopes for the future and the judges felt he deserved this, his first BELL'S award."


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Mediterranean: Commission's Action Plan on the Central Med Endorsed by EU Interior Ministers Amid Critiques Over Recycling Old Mistakes, High-Profile EU Politicians Accused of Committing "Crimes Against Humanity" Over Cooperation with EU-Funded Libyan Coast Guard
2nd December 2022 | News
As the Italy-France clash over the disembarkation of survivors by civilian search and rescue operators escalated the European Commission's launched an action plan to "address challenges along the central med". While, the plan has been endorsed by EU interior ministers it is criticised by NGOs for being unworkable and recycling old mistakes. European politicians taken to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accused of conspiring with the so-called Libyan Coast Guard to push back migrants.
Following the tensions between Italy and France over the disembarkation of survivors rescued by Ocean Viking civilian rescue operators have "become the focal point of a mounting tempest over migration" between member states and the European Commission. On one side, Italy, leading a coalition of southern European countries, argued that NGO rescue ships operate in an "uncoordinated fashion", encourage "asylum seekers" to flee to Europe and "should be more closely linked to the (often faraway) country where they are registered". On the other side are countries like Germany, where several of these NGOs are registered, fearing that southern countries just want to "expel NGO boats". Germany's Italian ambassador, Viktor Elbling, said that NGO rescue boats are "merely filling a vacuum EU countries are creating" and "saving lives where state aid is lacking". ECRE director Catherine Woollard in an editorial writes: "States accuse NGOs of creating a pull factor, a claim that has not just been rejected but also rebutted. People would still leave and smugglers would still put them on boats. NGO SAR presence means that fewer of them drown". However, Italy continues to deny these facts, arguing that Italy's coast guard rescues the great majority of migrants. Meanwhile, the Commission called for discussions with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and member states on new international maritime rules on sea-rescues for charity boats. "The situation today with the private vessels operating at sea is a scenario which still lacks sufficient clarity," said EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, continuing: "This current challenge was not thought of when maritime law was first agreed. There is a need for more cooperation between member states, flag states and coastal states and other relevant actors". Johansson further noted on behalf of the Commission: "We have no concrete proposal and it's not really the role of the commission to have that either". Woollard criticises the commission's selective approach saying: "The Commission is rather obtusely selective about when it chooses to play an active role. This year, the Ukraine crisis again has demonstrated how much more effective Europe's response is when the active Commission is present, rather than the passive Commission that self-defines its role as 'doing what the Member States want'".
The European Commission proposed an action plan on 21 November to "address the immediate challenges along the Central Mediterranean migratory route, recalling that sustainable solutions are needed, as set out in the Pact on Migration and Asylum". The action plan brings forward measures based on three pillars: cooperation with partner countries and international organisations, strengthening cooperation between all actors involved in search and rescue, and reinforcing the implementation of the Voluntary Solidarity Mechanism. On 24 November ahead of the EU interior ministers' meeting, the UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi called on the EU to place the migration routes in the Mediterranean at the center of its action, adding: "There's been nearly 2,000 people who died or went missing in the Mediterranean only this year. While Member States are busy accusing each other, human lives are lost". On the day of the meeting on 25 November, the European interior ministers welcomed the commission's plan in an "extraordinary", yet "productive" although "more can and must be done" to "find a lasting solution". The ministers will gather again on 8 December to pursue the "difficult discussion", and the search and rescue organisation, SOS Humanity called on the EU and its member states to give top priority to the right to life and compliance with international maritime law and human rights at Europe's external borders in the Central Mediterranean. Meanwhile, NGOs didn't "find anything new" about the commission's plan, underlining that it is "just another reshuffle of old ideas that do not work". SOS Humanity added: "EU continues to rely on its policy of preventing people fleeing to the EU. The EU is planning to expand cooperation with non-EU countries such as Libya" despite ongoing violations including detention, pushbacks and torture towards refugees by the EU-funded so-called Libyan coast guard". Furthermore, Wollard says the commission plan's "focus on the responsibilities of the non-European states on the other side of the Med" is a "notable weakness", adding: "First priority for Europe should be agreements within Europe. There is a paradox here with the Commission downplaying its responsibilities for ensuring an EU-wide agreement– on the basis that SAR is not part of the EU's legal order – but then claiming it can secure action by non-EU countries which have no reason to assist Europe".
Meanwhile, high-profile European politicians, including the EU's former foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, Italy's current and former interior ministers and the current and former prime ministers of Malta, the former executive director of European border agency Frontex Fabrice Leggeri and others have been named as the "subjects of a criminal complaint at the international criminal court alleging they conspired with Libya's coastguard to illegally push back refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe". The criminal complaint, which was submitted at the Hague by the German NGO the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), accuses the politicians of committing "crimes against humanity in the form of the severe deprivation of physical liberty" between 2018 and 2021 by "systematically intercepting boats in the Med and sending refugees back into detention in Libya". Marco Minniti, Italian interior minister at the time of the Libya-Italy deal, commented on the complaint saying: "I don't know [about the] complaint. I will evaluate it, like the other interior ministers from 2017 until today. At the time, the agreement was signed by the Italian prime minister, [Paolo] Gentiloni, and his counterpart, [Fayez] al-Sarraj. So, from all the records, it appears that I am not the signatory." If the International Criminal Court in the Hague accepts the complaint, the listed politicians and officials "could in theory become suspects in a criminal trial and be summoned to appear in front of the Netherlands-based international tribunal".
ECRE, Editorial: Shipwreck or Solidarity – What's Next on the Mediterranean SAR Crisis?, November 2022
ECRE, Mediterranean: Stand-off Over Disembarkations of Survivors Rescued by Civilian Search and Rescue Operators Leaves Italian Government on Collision Course with France, NGOs and International Law, November 2022
This article appeared in the ECRE Weekly Bulletin. You can subscribe to the Weekly Bulletin here.


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Het woord fout kan verschillende betekenissen hebben. Meestal gaat het over een afwijking van een situatie ten opzichte van de ideale situatie.

Afrondfout
Een afrondfout is het verschil tussen de werkelijke waarde en de waarde na afronden (of eventueel het tegengestelde; vaak gaat het sowieso alleen om de absolute waarde). Bij een gegeven systeem van afronden kan men het maximum (althans een bovengrens) van de absolute waarde van de afrondfout bepalen. Zo is deze d/2 bij afronden op een veelvoud van d, bijvoorbeeld 0,5 ×  bij afronden op n cijfers achter de komma.

Bij sommige systemen van afronden is er geen (zinvolle) bovengrens voor de absolute waarde van de absolute fout, maar wel voor de absolute waarde van de relatieve fout. Bij een zwevendekommagetal en wetenschappelijke notatie is de relatieve fout in absolute waarde kleiner dan de helft van de kleinste eenheid van de mantisse, gedeeld door de minimale mantisse. Dit minimum is vaak 1, dan krijgen we dus simpelweg de helft van de kleinste eenheid van de mantisse. Als in het geval van een zwevendekommagetal wordt afgerond op een gedenormaliseerd getal (inclusief 0) dan kan de fout groter zijn.

Statistiek

Een statistische fout is het verschil tussen enerzijds de berekende, geschatte of gemeten waarde en anderzijds de echte of theoretisch correcte waarde (zie Statistische toets). Fouten zijn onder te verdelen in toevallige of stochastische fouten, systematische fouten en uitbijters of uitschieters. Om nauwkeurigheden onderling te kunnen vergelijken, moet bekend zijn volgens welke standaard deze zijn opgegeven.

Toevallige fouten

Bij toevallige fouten is de gemiddelde fout nul. Bij voldoende waarnemingen zullen deze fouten zich volgens de normale verdeling rond de werkelijke waarde, de verwachting μ, vormen. Hierbij geldt dat bij meer metingen de normale verdeling steeds beter gevolgd gaat worden en dat het gemiddelde de werkelijke waarde steeds beter benadert. Doordat veel waarnemingen afgerond worden, zal er ook sprake zijn van een uniforme verdeling.

Systematische fouten
Bij systematische fouten kan de werkelijke waarde niet op deze manier worden gevonden. Het gemiddelde zal een afwijking hebben met de grootte van de systematische fout. Als een systematische fout vastgesteld is, kan deze gecorrigeerd worden, wat bij een toevallige fout niet opgaat. Deze fout kan echter niet altijd vastgesteld worden en zal dan als toevallige fout verwerkt worden.

Menselijke fouten
Een menselijke fout is een aanduiding van gedrag waarbij een gesteld doel van een actie niet wordt bereikt. Fouten kunnen de vorm aannemen van vergissingen, uitglijders (slips) en blunders. Er bestaan fouten in de waarneming, geheugen, aandacht, taal en motoriek. Blunders zijn moeilijk te definiëren en kunnen bestaan uit technisch of menselijk falen zoals verkeerde aflezing, het invoeren van een verkeerde waarde en andere fouten die niet onder de andere twee zijn onder te brengen. Als de gemiddelde grootte van de fouten bekend is, kan een blunder eerder herkend worden. Een goede gewoonte is om de meting met een ander systeem te controleren.

Wetenschappelijke experimenten
Bij een wetenschappelijke meting van natuurkundige grootheden worden fouten gemaakt, er is dan sprake van een meetfout in een gemeten grootheid. Een gemeten waarde heeft een bepaalde nauwkeurigheid en is altijd een benadering van de werkelijke waarde.

Bij wetenschappelijk metingen worden systematische fouten en statistische/toevallige fouten gemaakt.

Om een uitspraak te kunnen doen over de grootte van een fout; hiervoor hanteert men de begrippen relatieve fout en absolute fout.

Systematische fout
Systematische fouten worden veroorzaakt door niet-willekeurige fout, bijvoorbeeld een verkeerde ijking, het consequent verkeerd hanteren van een instrument of het verkeerd aflezen van een schaal. Meestal kan bij nader onderzoek deze systematische fout worden bepaald en kunnen de meetgegevens zo gecorrigeerd. Een recent voorbeeld is de neutrino's in het CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso-experiment die sneller dan het licht zouden gaan. Uiteindelijk bleek dit te wijten te zijn aan een slechte glasvezelverbinding.

Statistische fout
De statistische fout is te wijten aan bijvoorbeeld willekeurige fluctuaties en onnauwkeurigheden in de meetapparatuur of het niet consequent hanteren van de meetappartuur.

Een statistische fout wordt genoteerd met het teken ±. De afstand van Amsterdam naar Brussel is bijvoorbeeld 176 ± 0,5 km, waarmee men aangeeft dat de juiste waarde ergens tussen 175,5 en 176,5 km ligt. De fout is dan 0,5 km. Met het woord 'fout' geeft men niet aan dat de waarde onjuist is, maar alleen dat de nauwkeurigheid beperkt is.

Wordt de fout niet vermeld, dan mag men aannemen dat de fout de helft is van het laatste significante cijfer. Zou men schrijven dat de afstand 176 km is, zonder dat de fout wordt vermeld, dan is de fout kennelijk 0,5 km. Daarom is 176 km niet hetzelfde als 176 000 meter, want daarmee geeft men aan dat de afstand tot op een halve meter nauwkeurig is gemeten.

Soms is het moeilijk te vermijden overtollige nullen te vermelden. Schrijft men dat Groningen 186 000 inwoners heeft, dan zal een lezer wellicht aannemen dat het aantal in werkelijkheid tussen 185 500 en 186 500 ligt, dat wil zeggen 186 000 ± 500. Letterlijk genomen staat er echter dat het aantal inwoners nauwkeurig 186 000 ± 0,5 is. Het is duidelijker om '186 duizend' te schrijven.

Nauwkeurigheid bij conversie tussen eenheden
Bij conversies tussen eenheden moet men oppassen de waarden niet te nauwkeurig op te geven. Staat in een Engelse tekst dat een paard 10 mijl aan een stuk kan galopperen, dan mag men dat niet vertalen naar '16 kilometer', en zeker niet naar '16 090 meter'. Die waarde van 10 mijl is ongetwijfeld een benaderde waarde die men beter kan vertalen met '15 kilometer', of desnoods met '10 à 20 kilometer'.

Taalkunde
Uit vrees een taalkundige fout te maken, maken mensen soms juist hypercorrecte fouten. Soms maakt een spreker opzettelijk een fout (bekend als correctio of epanorthosis) om zo meer de aandacht te trekken. Ook kennen we fouten die doorgaans per ongeluk worden begaan: de spelfout en de grammaticafout. Wanneer men een tekst met een dusdanige fout citeert wordt soms het woordje sic achter het woord met de fout geplaatst, om aan te geven dat de fout in het origineel staat en niet bij het citeren is ontstaan.

Geneeskunde
Een medische fout is een fout die door een arts of zorgverlener veroorzaakt werd bij een patiënt.

Computers
Een computercrash kan te wijten zijn aan de computer zelf, maar vaak ligt de oorzaak bij de programmeurs, of de gebruikers van bepaalde software.

Een fout in een computerprogramma wordt ook bug genoemd.

Bouwwerken
In de civiele techniek wordt een fout bij bouwwerken die tot gevolg heeft dat de beoogde kwaliteit niet wordt behaald, een bouwfout genoemd.

Tweede Wereldoorlog
Mensen die in de Tweede Wereldoorlog samenwerkten met de Duitse bezetters, bijvoorbeeld leden van de NSB werden
fout genoemd. De kwalificatie wordt ook gebruikt voor kranten die tijdens de oorlog bleven verschijnen, zoals De Telegraaf.

Populaire cultuur
Foute mannen zijn mannen waar een vrijgezelle niet op zou moeten vallen, omdat zij bepaalde foute karaktertrekken hebben. Dat ze "fout" zijn, maakt hen desondanks of juist daardoor vaak interessant en aantrekkelijk.

Foute films zijn films die niet goed zouden moeten gevonden worden vanwege de verkeerde boodschap ervan.

Foute muziek is muziek met een hoog gehalte camp die tevens naïviteit en vrolijkheid uitstraalt, en dan ook aanzet tot het meezingen ervan. Foute nummers komen aan bod bij radiostations die, overeenstemmend met de tijdsgeest, meestal bedrukte en uitzichtloze nummers laten horen. Ter afwisseling zorgt foute muziek voor een vrolijke en lichtvoetige noot. Foute nummers worden voornamelijk door de arbeidersklasse gewaardeerd, omdat, tijdens het horen van dit soort nummers, in de werkomgeving een losse en minder stresserende sfeer hangt.

Trial-and-error
Door uitproberen kunnen fouten boven water komen of men kan er bewust naar op zoek bijvoorbeeld door gericht/systematisch te testen.

Recht

In het verbintenissenrecht is een fout een onrechtmatige gedraging die aan de dader kan worden toegerekend.

Zie ook
 Fout-positief en fout-negatief
 Blunder
 Trial-and-error
 IJking
 Spellingcontrole
 Typefout

Taalkunde
Statistiek


Datakortet is a Norwegian testing services organization with some 400 test centers. The company administers many national and international exams, including the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) exam, which tests basic computer skills in seven areas including word processing, spreadsheets and Internet/email. Through its subsidiary, Norsk Test, the company runs several other national accreditations related to finance, banking, and information technology as well as leisure activities such as boating and hunting.
The ECDL is widely used in most European countries as a certificate of competence in information technology. (Outside Europe the program is called the International Computer Driving Licence). Millions of people worldwide have taken this test, which in Norway is created and administered using Questionmark's Assessment Management System. Questionmark created a test center administration package that enables Datakortet to deploy assessments via its nationwide network of test centers and transfer all test results nightly to a special database for record keeping and detailed analysis.
Norsk Test has developed advanced tests for the national adult vocational training organisation in helping people increase their abilities to use information technology. Participants learn a wide variety of skills related to technology-related activities: everything from booking a vacation or selling a care online to connecting a DVD player to a television.
Datakortet and Norsk Test CEO Bernt Nilsen says that the ability to create hot-spot, drag-and-drop and simulation questions in Questionmark enables Datakortet/Norsk Test to provide tests that more accurately measure participants' knowledge and skills while at the same time making the tests interesting and engaging.
The company creates simulations designed to pose realistic situations to test takers. People learning how to sell their cars via the Internet, for example, are presented with a browser and must click through the sales process, navigating to sales sites, registering the model and year of the car, and so on. If the person clicks on the wrong menu or provides the wrong type of information they are alerted to the problem and taken to the next question. These simulations utilize Macromedia Flash files. Scores from the simulations are combined with scores from regular multiple choice questions to produce a final grade.
Using Questionmark's branching capabilities, Datakortet creates adaptive tests that direct participants to different sets of questions according to how they answer some preliminary questions. This helps channel learners into tests that match their skill level while offering the same test for everyone.
"By using an adaptive test you do not have to stigmatize people before the test by saying, 'you look like you should do the easy test,'" Nilsen explains.
Questionmark's Assessment Platform enables Datakortet to select appropriate security levels for different types of assessments. Certifications require a dual log-on utilizing Questionmark's monitoring feature: a test leader must log on before a candidate can access an assessment.
Candidates for many exams can take tests either at one of Datakortet's testing centers or in other test centers or city halls. The company checks on each of these additional centers to ensure that it is legally registered and has a secure firewall, robust internal systems and a suitably qualified test leader or proctor.
Datakortet have had success with their "pay-your-test-with-your-mobile" concept. A number of non-certification tests are available on their web site. People pay for the test by sending a text message and receive the necessary password in return. The test is paid for by debiting their telephone bill.
For a lower-stakes assessment such as diagnostic tests and knowledge checks, all that's required is a user name and password. Participants can take these non-certification assessments, at the office, at home – anywhere they like. The company also offers demonstration assessments to show potential test takers the user interface.
Norsk Test has persuaded several national awarding bodies of the benefits of online versus paper-based testing, including the department responsible for country's mandatory national hunting diploma.
"It was impossible to calculate the pass rate for the old paper-based test, because people who sent in their score once they'd passed," recalls Datakortet CEO Bernt Nilsen. "Nor did the awarding body know which questions people missed. The distribution of the paper test on an annual basis meant it was easy to obtain a copy of it before actually taking it.


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VIRTUAL REALISM: Constraints on Validity in Textual Evidence of Caribbean Language History
LALLA, Barbara. (OP No.32, Apr 2005).
Abstract: Complementary to theorising the creolisation process is the documentation of this process by reconstruction of stages in the historical development of the language(s) involved. However, textual reconstruction of linguistic history in the Caribbean must take into account conflicting impulses of representation. This paper explores the question of whether some index of precision may be derived for evaluating textual evidence of Creole language change.
A dialectic of what narratologists term legibility and of accuracy governs the precision with which Creole speech is represented in written texts. Accuracy is essentially a function of writer profile in relation to general text profile, while legibility is mainly a function of audience profile (or write perceptions of audience) in relation to text profile. The play between accuracy and legibility influences coverage of Creole—in nature, extent and dimensions of coverage. Moreover, evolving language attitudes which affect writer and/or audience profiles influence boundary maintenance (between codes) in written text and, so, further impact on representation. While these factors by no means negate the value of textual material for linguistic history, they constrain the precision with which evidence of Creole structure can be derived from scribal evidence.
BARBARA LALLA is Professor of Language and Literature in the Department of Liberal Arts at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine . Her research areas are Caribbean language history, medieval studies, and literary discourse. She is also committed to her creative writing. Professor Lalla is former President of the SCL.


In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of long shot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and other countries. Known as filibusters, the goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier, helping turn the tide in a Nicaragua civil war and through violence and treachery making himself president -- until he was finally driven from power after angering Cornelius Vanderbilt by seizing his very profitable transit route across the isthmus, and after a bloody war pitting the American adventurers against soldiers from Nicaragua, Costa Rice and Guatemala.


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Man makes Mississippi history with $3.5 million World Series bet
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Photo courtesy of the Scarlet Pearl Casino
The largest single bet in Mississippi sportsbook history has been placed at the Scarlet Pearl Casino in D�Iberville.
On Tuesday, Houston�s Jim �Mattress Mack� McIngvale brought a briefcase filled with $3.5 million into the DraftKings at Scarlet Pearl Sportsbook and put it all on his hometown Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series (+220). If the Astros do win it all, McIngvale's net payout on the bet would be $7.7 million.
McIngvale, a Starkville native, had reached out to several casinos across the country with interest in placing his bet, and he says that the Scarlet Pearl was the first one to step up to the plate.
�This is the greatest casino and sportsbook in the country,� McIngvale said. �They play the most action.�
'Mattress Mack' currently owns Gallery Furniture in Houston, and if the Astros do win the World Series, he may have to dip into his winnings. According to the store�s website, McIngvale is offering a �100% refund on your $3,000 or more mattress purchase OR 150% of your purchase total back in Gallery Furniture store credit� if the Astros win their second championship in franchise history.
Scarlet Pearl CEO LuAnn Pappas knows that there�s risk involved when taking on a bet like this, but she says that it's all part of the business.
�We have made sports betting history here today,� said Scarlet Pearl CEO LuAnn Pappas. �This all about gamblers. This is the business we�re in, and we�re honored that we were chosen for this wager. Providing an unparalleled customer experience is the driving force behind everything we do at Scarlet Pearl.�
DraftKings at Scarlet Pearl opened on November 16, 2018, as the first collaboration between DraftKings and a land-based casino.
�This wager is a momentous milestone, both for Mississippi sportsbooks and the greater sports betting industry collectively,� said Matt Kalish, CRO and co-founder of DraftKings. �As the legal sports betting market continues its inevitable expansion, we are excited by the prospect of these high-profile bets to garner mainstream attention and demonstrate our customer-first priority.�
The Astros begin their quest for a World Series title on Friday in Game 1 of the ALDS. They�ll face the winner of tonight�s Wild Card game between the Oakland A�s and the Tampa Bay Rays.
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