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MENTAL HEALTH THE WINNER AS SYNERGY SCOOPS TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Synergy Group's collaboration with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS, Mumbai) in the development of a nine-language help line designed to reduce seafarer suicides and support the mental health and wellness of all maritime personnel has been honoured by SAFETY4SEA.
At a glittering awards ceremony hosted in Piraeus at the Yacht Club of Greece on 2 October, the Singapore-based shipmanager was presented with the 2019 SAFETY4SEA Technology Award.
Synergy emerged the winner of the prestigious award after more than two months of online voting by seafarers worldwide.
"It is seafarers around the world who voted for Synergy this evening and we truly are grateful," said Mr. Rune Zeuthen, the recently appointed head of Synergy's new Europe office located in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"This award is really for them. They do a fantastic job every day in very difficult conditions."
Collecting the 2019 SAFETY4SEA Technology Award, Mr. Zeuthen was accompanied by Mr. Antonios Vrondissis, Vice President QHSE and Vetting of Navios group, one of the world's leading ship owners and a longstanding and much valued customer of Synergy Group.
"Synergy's reputation for digital innovation is unmatched among shipmanagers," he said. "They are true pioneers when it comes to using technology to solve safety and operational challenges.
"It is to their great credit that they are also using their expertise to address seafarer wellness which is an issue of upmost importance to us all at Navios."
Synergy has emerged as a lead innovator of digital shipping solutions including partnering with Alpha Ori Technologies to develop SMARTShip, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables the onboard operation of multiple systems with varying degrees of autonomy.
Synergy turned its technological expertise to seafarer wellness at the end of 2018 when it launched iCALL for seafarers. The help line service is now available free of charge to all maritime personnel – at sea and on land – in English and eight other languages via phone, email and the chat-based nULTA App.
Mr. Zeuthen said taking mental health seriously was not only a social responsibility but also a business imperative. "Social isolation and depression have been recognised in a number of studies as being common mental health challenges faced by seafarers," he said. "This needs to be addressed, of course, for human reasons. It is the right thing to do.
"However, I've heard some people in our industry be dismissive of mental health, so let's put it another way. I read recently that every year in the UK mental health costs almost $1,600 per employee. Those costs can be far higher for seafarers if wellness is not taken seriously.
"So there is a business case for taking mental health seriously as well as a human one. We believe looking after our seafarers should be integral to safety and corporate culture. If your crew do not already use iCALL for seafarers, please encourage them to do so."
iCALL currently has 14 counsellors all located at TISS in Mumbai, India, offering standard professional counselling services. All the counsellors have at least a Master's degree in Clinical or Counselling Psychology.
"We feel seafarers should not only be defined and valued based on their ability to get a ship from A to B safely," said Captain Rajesh Unni, CEO and Founder of Synergy Group. "They are individuals, multi-dimensional human beings employed in a difficult and isolated environment. We believe it is imperative they are valued and treated on that basis.
"With iCALL we saw that we could use the latest technology to essentially take this message to a global maritime audience. And we thank SAFETY4SEA for recognising our efforts."


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Session 15: Growing Brands in the Age of Passion
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 1:15pm – 1:45pm
Held in: Quadrus Conference Center
Jon Mamela
John Ounpuu
Modern Craft
Modern Craft Co-Founder and Partner John Ounpuu will co-present with the Jon Mamela, who oversees multiple business units, including Global Marketing & Communications, International Markets, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Business Events Canada (Meetings & Conventions), and Partnerships. at Destination Canada. John has worked closely with Jon, making Destination Canada a worldwide brand.
John and Jon's session, titled "Growing Brands in the Age of Passion" will include deep insights into the challenges facing global marketers today. In these times of rising complexity and constant transition, it's easier than ever for brand leaders to become distracted and overwhelmed, and harder than ever to rise above the noise and win the scarce attention of media-saturated customers. The best way to stay focused and keep pace is to adopt a specific form of customer-centricity—an obsession with customer passions.
Jon and John believe human passions outlast cycles of technological change. They force brands to bridge silos, to see customers more as humans and less as targets and, ultimately, change the way they work, plan and spend. In this session, the audience will hear first-hand how Destination Canada turned this insight into a successful new working model. They'll also take away some concrete tips that can be applied within their organization, regardless of industry.
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The internet and related cultural shifts have created tribes of people around the world united by shared passions
These tribes transcend borders and demographics—and cycles of technological and behavioral change
Strongly felt passions are deeply tied to identity and self-expression—this makes them a powerful lever to earn attention and drive action
The topic also speaks to a larger trend beyond marketing: the pursuit of meaning through personal passions is forecasted to grow central to our lives as we enter the post-work world that awaits us on the other side of digital disruption and the rise of AI.
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In modern society, a lot of offshore substation technology is used 24/7. Even to the level that we have grown to be totally dependent on electrical power, as well as in our private lives as in most commercial or industrial activities.
The renewable electric power industry has installed offshore substations in their distribution grids to accommodate the ever increasing demand for dependable power with their rows of large high voltage power transformers. Many precautions have been taken to safeguard them against failure. Because when all power fails, customers complain, revenues are lost and even medical emergencies can happen.
One of the risks these large transformers have is fire. Although the manufacturers of these oil filled transformers build them with diverse imbedded safety features, if they fail they often produce very large fires that are very hard to extinguish and provoke environmental damages with the release of thick black toxic smoke and spilling of transformer oil.
This is why energy companies install fire protection systems at offshore substation to protect their investment and to prevent such fires.
SIRON Compressed Air Foam to protect transformers on Offshore Substation (OSS) platforms.
Most oil cooled high voltage power transformers have a deluge sprinkler system. Designers use NFPA-15 as a guide to design a system that will cool off the transformer and eventually, extinguish the fire.
A typical design calls for a grid of open type deluge or spray nozzles to be installed all around the transformer. Such a system will use a minimum 44 nozzles and will be designed to spray at least 1,900 L/min of water for the duration of one (1) hour. That is a lot of water!
NFPA-850 for Power Plant Design goes even further, requesting water spray duration to last a full two (2) hours! But demands for sump tanks are specified to be large enough to contain the spill and the fire water from the fire suppression systems. So the size of the sump tanks is too big, the weight is too heavy and the costs are too high.
Offshore Substation Platforms (OSP) OHVS and HVDC are mostly unmanned and should preferably not have (sea) water based fire pumps because of the cost to maintain this system. Every 2 weeks these pumps have to be test-operated. In the lifespan of an OSS and OHVS it is assumable that the pump has to be replaced or overhauled two to three times. Mixing foam with salt water is also a very costly business because of the corroding properties of sea water. A solution to these problems is available using a SIRON's Integrated Compressed Air Foam system (ICAF).
Please also note that our ICAF system does not work with a premix. Maintenance operations therefore are a lot smaller and will save costs. Premix systems must be replaced every few years, against extremely high costs because the premix tank must be cleaned and the "old" premix must be processed.
The water and foam in SIRON's ICAF system is not premixed so the quality will stay in good condition for 20-25 years. This combination will reduce maintenance during its entire life span, so SIRON can offer a fixed price for lifetime (20 years) maintenance.
This FM Approved AFFF foam system allows the designer to alleviate many of these potential problems while providing superior fire protection (AFFF stands for Aqueous Film Forming Foam and is a fire fighting foam widely used in the industry to extinguish fires in hydrocarbon fuels such as transformer oil). NFPA-11 states that where fixed spray type systems are used to protect three-dimensional equipment like power transformers, the minimum density should be applied over the projected area of rectangular prism envelope for the equipment and its appurtenances. Furthermore, system discharge duration should be designed for a minimum period of 5 minutes.
Using our FM Approved ICAF Design Manual, the designer (or we can do it for you) will locate a grid of local application nozzles to cover the transformer's surfaces, based upon the published square area of coverage versus mounting distance ratio of the TAR-225L Nozzles. But because of the coverage area of each nozzle and the dense texture of Compressed Air Foam, the spray nozzles grid all around the transformer uses a lot less nozzles than the equivalent deluge system. The quantity of foam concentrate is also reduced by using the ICAF System since its high efficiency is achieved while using only a 2% concentration of AFFF foam concentrate instead of the usual 3%! The above designed oil cooled transformers have been fire tested and approved by FM.
For a typical transformer such as the one shown in Figures 1 & 2 (see below), ICAF Systems are designed at a much lower water flow rate, for example 360 L/min for a grid of only 16 nozzles. Because of the much shorter discharge time of 5 minutes, the total water quantity will be dramatically reduced; only about 1,800L of water will be needed to completely suppress the fire.
Immediately, one can see that the need for large sea water pumps and large sump tanks is no longer necessary and large investment savings can be made and maybe more importantly: weight can be reduced. Even with a much more efficient fire protection system protecting the expensive equipment.
After extinguishing, the small quantity of water, foam and transformer oil can easily be pumped and treated. Possible damage to the environment is reduced to a minimum because the risk of overflowing the sump tank with fire water and transformer oil into the sea is eliminated.
The ICAF System is certified and full fire tested specifically for burning transformers. It provides protection against burn-back for more than 30 minutes, which other systems cannot do.
Typically, an oil cooled transformer fire will involve both a cascading fire from the oil coming down from the expansion tank situated at the top of the casing and a pool fire in the curb surrounding the transformer, which makes it very difficult to extinguish.
Video 1 (below) shows a typical ICAF System installation with its grid of discharge nozzles installed around the transformer. A first row of nozzles will be aimed at the top of the transformer casing to extinguish flames from the pooling transformer oil on its top. A second row will be installed as shown to protect the sides of the transformer casing, extinguishing the cascading fire. Foam accumulation in the curb will handle the burning oil by covering the surface. Other nozzles (as shown) will be located to properly cover the shape of the oil expansion tank.
3D view of a typical ICAF balanced piping grid.
As shown in Figure (up), the resulting balanced flow piping is much simpler to install and of small- er diameter than the equivalent deluge grid system, reducing costs for the installing contractor.


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MS: 2022 Global Strategy Outlook – Fundamentals Will Dominate
Morgan Stanley strategists say the easy returns are over for U.S. equities, credits and Treasuries, but see value in European and Japanese stocks in 2022.
The current market cycle has been hot and fast. So much so, in fact, that investors are now confronting a very different dynamic for the year ahead—early-cycle timing, midcycle conditions and late-cycle valuations, with exuberance to boot.
"As unprecedented fiscal and monetary policy support fades, fundamentals dominate," says Andrew Sheets, Chief Cross-Asset Strategist for Morgan Stanley Research.
Inflation in Major Markets Will 'Peak Then Retreat'
While inflation will be at levels higher than many investors have seen before, Morgan Stanley economists believe prices will soon "peak then retreat" as supply chain pressures ease and prices for many commodities normalize. To that end, central banks likely won't take drastic measures to raise rates and pump the brakes on growth. That said, investors have an almost Pavlovian response to any talk of tightening, which is just one of many reasons to approach U.S. equities and Treasuries with caution.
Emerging markets seem primed for growth, but it's too early to be all-out bullish those markets, say strategists. "In China, headwinds from energy prices, regulation and COVID remain, and our expectations don't call for major policy easing, at least not yet," says Sheets. "The one exception is high-yield credit in China, where we think that the market is underestimating the resolve and ability of policymakers to control the disruption in the property sector."
Here are five highlights of the 2022 global investment outlook.
1. Time to Lighten Up on U.S. Stocks?
In a view that is "most likely to raise eyebrows," says Sheets, strategists think the S&P 500 index could decline 5% in 2022 while other developed markets could end the year higher. They recommend underweighting U.S. stocks to account for high valuations and more catch-up potential and less volatility elsewhere in the world.
"The persistent price outperformance of U.S. stocks for much of the last decade has been driven by superior and more durable earnings trends, but uncertainties are mounting around cost pressures, supply issues, policy uncertainty and tax changes," says Mike Wilson, Chief U.S. Equity Strategist.
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In Japan, equities continue to deliver improving returns on equity, while economic stimulus, business reopenings and strong global capex all suggest that Japan's stock market could appreciate 12% next year.
Meanwhile, the MSCI Europe index has enjoyed its best period of relative outperformance in 20 years compared to the rest of the world, and that pattern should continue thanks to increased mergers and acquisitions, buyback activity and changes in investor positioning since many global portfolios had been underexposed to the region.
"Our combined earnings and valuation assumptions suggest that European stocks can deliver an 8% price return and double-digit total return," says Graham Secker, Chief European Equity strategist. The team's top sector picks include autos, energy and financials, which should all benefit from the move up in real yields.
3. Stock Selection Could Matter More Than Style and Sector
Morgan Stanley strategists believe health care, financials and secular technology companies could see upside in the year ahead. Consumer goods and cyclical technology stocks could lag as supply and demand dynamics settle into a more normal pattern.
Even so, relative to other points in this market cycle, there are fewer opportunities for investors to take advantage of big swings in styles and sectors.
"In our view, the economic and political environment has been permanently altered from its pre-COVID days, although the changes are not necessarily due to the pandemic itself," says Wilson. The eventual outcome should mean greater investment and productivity, but that could take years to play out. "That breeds higher uncertainty and dispersion, making stock picking more important than ever in the year ahead," Wilson says.
4. Government Bonds Are All Over the Map
Central banks in developed markets responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with near-uniform interest policies and a deluge of liquidity.
In 2022, however, bond markets will need to make sense of differentiated policies. "Some policies, such as in the UK and Canada, will be aimed at outright tightening financial conditions, while others will attempt to ease financial conditions further, albeit at a slower pace, or maintain accommodative financial conditions," says Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy.
Morgan Stanley strategists recommend underweighting U.S. Treasuries—particularly those with intermediate maturities—in expectation of the 10-year Treasury moving past 2% by the end of 2022. They also see agency mortgage-backed securities coming under pressure from rich valuations and higher volatility.
Local emerging market debt is starting to look interesting, say strategists, but investors should be patient. "With expectations that the U.S. dollar and real yields rise to start the year, we think that investors will get a better entry point later in the year," says Hornbach, whose team thinks the U.S. dollar will strengthen in the first half of the year, but lose steam in the second half.
5. In Commodities, Oil Springs Ahead
For the first time in a decade, commodities outperformed the S&P 500 in 2021, for a variety of reasons. Gold prices have been supported by stagflation concerns and the pushing out of rate hike expectations, while base metals have benefited from the combination of constrained supply and rising demand.
Looking ahead, metals may lose their luster as high real yields weigh on gold prices, while copper and zinc prices soften with better supply. Aluminum remains a top pick for the strategists, who point to cyclical and structural factors.
Within commodities, oil offers the best combination of valuations and fundamentals, says Chief Commodity Strategist Martijn Rats. His team believes oil could top $90 a barrel in 2022 as rising demand meets relatively spare capacity.
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You guys, I know I'm behind because I've been in a migraine coma for weeks now, but the #FinalFive is cleaning up in Rio!
As a former competitive gymnast, and mega-fan of all things related to the Olympics, I couldn't be any happier. As a person who has been really sick lately, its a little discouraging to see that there are people out there my age and older in the midst of Olympic glory. If you like me, are feeling a little bummed, try a different mindset. Remember that you're a fighter too.
Generally, I don't like to think of myself as fighting chronic illness, because I recognize that my illness is a part of me, and being at odds with myself is silly. That said, sometimes this life is hard. Sometimes it is a fight, and in these times I fight the only way I know how, like a gymnast.
Although I'm no Olympian, the sport I love taught me a lot of valuable things during my formative years. In honor of TEAM USA, I'm going to share some of the most important lessons gymnastics has to offer for a person with a chronic illness.
When You Fall, Get Back UP!
This is gymnastics (and life) 101. You are going to fall (figuratively, and if you're like me, literally too). When you do, get back up and keep going like nothing happened. You can take time to review WHY you fell, and work to make things better when it's all over, but in the moment, the most important thing is to get back up.
Our coaches impressed on us that we shouldn't set score goals, because we don't have control over the judges. Similarly, setting a goal to be pain free would be haphazard. Of course that would be ideal, but I don't have complete control over whether and how well treatment works. Instead, I set goals that I CAN accomplish. I can choose to eat in a way that supports my optimal health. I can choose to complete my physical therapy exercises. I can work to make sure I remember all of my medication. See what I mean?
One of the coolest things that I learned from my years as a gymnast is that I can do hard things. So can you. It doesn't mean that I should always push myself to do those things if it's not necessary or is going to come back to bite me later on, but it's so so helpful to know when I have to do things that are hard, like medical tests and procedure, or power through something that must be done. I can do it (whatever it may be), and if I so choose, I can even do it with a smile. That's what gymnasts do.
This is a fine line for people with chronic illness or pain, i know. The word "can't" was not allowed in my gym. We were required to do push-ups every time it came out of our mouths. That's because you never know what you actually can do until you've tried (and tried again, and again, and again). So this is my rule, always try. If it doesn't work out today, it's okay, but don't decide that it will never happen. Be like Alice in Wonderland! Some days I believe (and) do six impossible things before breakfast (or at least things which I thought might be impossible that day). On other days I don't get anything done at all, but I believe that I might be able to do them again tomorrow!
Don't confuse this one for never rest. Rest is important. Don't confuse it for not feeling natural emotions (of course you will feel them when you meet adversity). Take time to rest, feel what you need to feel, and then keep on working. Whether it's working at a new skill in the gym, or working on making progress in the treatment of your chronic illness, don't give up. Keep reaching for the best possible outcome.
Image is a picture of my relatively more healthy self, rock climbing in college!
Trust I get it. The struggle is real. I wrote this because I needed to remember!
I'm Sara, bibliophile, professional napper, and disability advocate extraordinaire (kind of) aspiring to find happiness with chronic illness and pain.


I was unemployed for 2.5 years, surviving on grants. It was very hard. My eldest was travelling to school by public transport. I think that was where I lost her as she fell pregnant at 16. My life was miserable and I was stressed because I had brought these children into this world but couldn't meet their needs. I lost self-confidence and hope. I know now that there was no need to feel sorry for myself. I had to pull myself up and handle the bull (poverty) by its horns.
Now, I would not change my life for anything. Life is good for me and my kids. I provide for them and meet their education needs. They eat healthy food and dress well for all seasons.
I have learnt so many things at TCB, the most important is to save money. My self-confidence was re-built and my parenting skills have improved thanks to the mentors and life skills sessions. I established business skills, and now I excel. I have gained my children's confidence and respect back. My home renovation is in progress because I walk my pace. I take my own decisions now, I come first and I do not live for someone else.
TCB brought out the best in me and redeemed me from the world of poverty.


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Pudd'nhead Wilson
and Those Extraordinary Twins
By Mark Twain
Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury
Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
About Pudd'nhead Wilson
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.
Also by Mark Twain
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About Mark Twain
MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain
Published by Penguin Classics
Sep 30, 1969 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780140430400
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Q: Need for rigorous meaning in English for definitions from my reference book I need verification for some expression in definitions which I can't completely get. Although English isn't my natal language, I still find a confusion with these words, with which just a little bit of punctuation or tonnality can flip upside down the meaning of the mathematical concept.

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*(...) Let $ S $ be the class of all sets; (...)

*(...) for $ A,B \in S $, $ hom(A,B) $ is the set of all functions $ f $ such that (...)

*(...) Let $ G $ be the category whose objects are all groups. (...)

The expression in bold keep appearing, and as long as I'm aware of the subject, sometimes meanings are like contradicting. So I wonder if:

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*They mean by the (1) that "all this class contains is some sets" OR "this is the class constructed by all possible sets",

*"this set is of all about function-type objects inside" OR "this is the set containing every theoretically possible function"

*"whose objects are all some elements qualified as groups" OR "is the category as the whole group-universe's elements as objects"
I tried above to reformulate the subtilities for the same expression different times.
Thank you for a helping hand.

A: Consider some other sentences of the same form:

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*The sets of all integers is denoted by $\mathbb{Z}$.

*Then $\mathbb{N}$ is the set of all $x \in \mathbb{Z}$ with $x \ge 0$.

*Let $P$ be the set whose elements are all prime numbers.
To me 1. and 2. are clear as "of all" will always mean that your consider the totality of things with a given property.
Or consider for example the list of all questions asked on this site.
The construct in 3. is less clear.
One can say "These are all questions of this site." to express both the entirety of the questions of this site and the fact that an otherwise specified collection of questions all have the property of being questions on this site.

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*"Do you have a backup of the questions?"  "Yes, it's file Q. These are all questions of this site."

*"These questions are not about mathematics." "You think so? These are all questions of this site."
In this case one has to infer from context what is meant. In your case it says "Let $G$ be the category" thus $G$ is determined uniquely by what follows, which is only the case under the interpretation that we consider the entirety of groups.
If somebody says "let $F$ be the set of integers whose elements are all integers divisible by $5$" it is clear they mean the set formed by the entirety of integers divisible by $5$.
Yet,  if somebody would say  "let $F$ be a set of integers whose elements are all integers divisible by $5$", I'd tend to assume that the mean whatever set of integers with the property that each number in the set is divisible by $5$ but I'd find this a bit ambiguous.

A: Looking just at the language aspect:
"The $A$ of all $B$ 's" is unambiguous as long as you know the mathematical meaning of an $A$ and a $B$. There is only one $A$ (because of the), and every possible instance of a $B$ belongs to it.
"The category whose objects are all groups" is awkwardly worded. Grammatically, it could mean either of:

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*the category all of whose objects are groups.

*the category which has all possible groups as its objects.

The first interpretation is a much more natural way to read the words than the second, but both are possible. So the issue is which one makes mathematical sense when read in context.
The ambiguity arises since all can be read as applying either to groups or to objects: the same sequence of words fits two different grammatical structures, namely

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*[objects are  all] groups

*[objects are] [all groups].

Edit for linguists: strictly speaking, objects are all and objects are aren't proper  sentence constituents. But I wanted to use brackets to indicate the ambiguity, without changing the word order. The way are is sandwiched between objects and all prevents using strictly correct constituents.

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"Cluster Collaboration Day – Clusters in the face of new challenges. Horizon 2020, COSME, POIR, RIS" is organised by NCP in Poland (22 February 2019, Warsaw), during UE Cluster Weeks.
It is aimed at cluster members and representatives, Horizon 2020 project implementers and representatives of business environment institutions.
The event is co-organised by the National Contact Point for Research Programmes of the European Union, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Industrial Development Agency and the Mazovia Development Agency.
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Katina Rogers earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature in 2010 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since then she has had a variety of positions that take advantage of her scholarly training but are not the standard career for an academic. She was managing editor of the MLA Commons, a website for members of the Modern Language Association. She is currently co-director of the Futures Initiative, a City University of New York project that promotes equity and innovation in higher education through student-centered teaching and learning. She is also co-director of the CUNY Humanities Alliance and an adjunct faculty member in the CUNY Graduate Center's master's program in digital humanities.
From that background -- and research -- she has written a book, Putting the Humanities Ph.D. to Work: Thriving in and Beyond the Classroom (Duke University Press). In the book, she argues for training humanities Ph.D.s broadly, and for more investment in all kinds of humanities jobs. She answered questions via email.
Q: How do you view the academic job market in the humanities, pre-pandemic?
A: Any discussion of the academic job market must be embedded in a broader consideration of labor structures, resource distribution, values and power. The increasing reliance on adjunct faculty nationwide has reached a crisis point, with the majority of highly skilled instructors underpaid and unprotected by job security or benefits. Meanwhile, the work of governance and service falls to the dwindling proportion of tenure-line faculty, leaving them overworked and burned out. Addressing the issue requires a radical reinvestment in higher education at the city, state and federal level.
The proportion of public revenue supporting higher education has been shrinking dramatically for decades. Public institutions -- which serve over 70 percent of postsecondary students in the U.S. -- are constantly pushed to do more with less. The fact that so many of these cuts are made to teaching, though, reveals that teaching is undervalued even within the institutions themselves. One reason that teaching, mentorship and service may be undervalued is that they tend to be feminized forms of labor. Improving the health of the academic job market requires recognizing and valuing this work.
Moreover, the racism and sexism ingrained in higher education are especially visible in hiring and promotion processes. Faculty of color are more likely to be overburdened by service work and yet denied tenure, something that Patricia Matthew examines in depth in Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure. It's not just about representation, though that matters. It's about building more structural support and dismantling the implicit bias and double standards that serve to uphold the status quo. Without addressing these fundamental concerns that threaten the core of higher education, deep and lasting change in other areas will be extremely difficult.
Q: And in the pandemic?
A: Again, it's not only about the job market, though it is a terrible time to be looking for a job, academic or otherwise. The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected students of color and their families and is as much an issue of racial justice as the global protests against anti-Black racism and police brutality.
At the very least, now is a time to re-examine funding priorities. With the calls to defund the police come parallel calls to support social and educational structures, like community colleges. This is a moment to leverage that collective will, invest in these institutions and train the next generation of community college faculty. The reality, though, is that many access-oriented institutions have been subject to severe budget cuts and have implemented hiring freezes, furloughs and layoffs -- often starting with the most vulnerable workers.
Education has long been a place where cuts happen first when budgets are tight, something that my institution, the City University of New York, is facing right now. Even though CUNY's summer enrollment is up 17 percent as more students look to affordable online learning options in the midst of COVID-19, CUNY has just laid off nearly 3,000 workers -- many of whom will now lose health insurance -- and is bracing for budget cuts of 10 to 25 percent. Students from marginalized racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds will likely be hurt most significantly by these cuts. Larger class sizes, fewer course options and the loss of crucial supports like advising may make it harder for first-generation students to succeed. Many students in marginalized groups are already in precarious positions -- not only with respect to their education, but also with respect to their health, safety and financial well-being. They've been hit by COVID, by unemployment, by police brutality. Now their educational goals are at risk, too.
Because colleges and universities are in a state of upheaval right now, with upcoming semesters highly uncertain, people at the decision-making level have a unique opportunity to reinvest while also fundamentally reimagining how educational structures function. But to prioritize such a significant change, public advocacy and a firm commitment to antiracist practices are urgently needed.
Q: For those who want to work in academe, what are the keys to preparing themselves?
A: First, learn as much as you can about the structures around you so that you can make informed decisions about your possible futures. Most students do not have a window into the inner workings of academic administration, budgeting, service work or the myriad other elements that are part of a faculty or administrative career. Understanding how decisions are made demystifies much about higher education, while also making someone a stronger job candidate. It can't all be on the backs of students to decipher these structures, though. Equipping students to understand the academic ecosystem is a systemic issue that must be built into the kind of training that graduate programs offer, as much as any other part of the curriculum.
Beyond that, there isn't one way to prepare yourself to work in academe and another way to prepare yourself to work anywhere else. Start by focusing on the skills you have and making them more legible, rather than trying to accumulate new skills (unless they serve a real need for your research or another project). In many ways this is the work of translation -- learning how to help others see the ways that your strengths fit with their needs.
That said, at the individual job-seeker level, this is a time to be extremely gentle with yourself and to be really clear about your goals -- not only intellectual, but also material. What do you need to do to get or retain health insurance? How important is it for you to be geographically close to loved ones, especially if travel is difficult or impossible? The concept of "the life of the mind" is a misnomer that makes it too easy to dismiss concrete needs.
Q: Do most graduate programs prepare students well … for jobs?
A: Earning a Ph.D. means that someone has incredible research, writing and analytical skills, not to mention a great deal of tenacity. But programs could do a much better job of fostering a sense of the value of that work -- in higher education, but not only there.
Doctoral education in its current state could be described as reproductive: faculty members train students to do the specific thing that they are doing, and once today's grad students become tomorrow's professors, the cycle repeats. However, even by this narrow measure, most institutions are not particularly successful; the professional development that students receive is often mediocre at best. With minimal preparation and a limited view of the systems and structures that affect academic employment, more and more Ph.D.s find themselves shut out of the next steps within that linear professional trajectory. The fact that the story of getting stuck on the adjunct track is so common is a sign that it is rooted in structural failings rather than individual factors.
My book includes recommendations for faculty members and administrators to improve career preparation efforts in their programs; while some suggestions are concrete and relatively easy to implement, like tracking alumni and celebrating their career pathways, other recommendations require a deeper shift in mind-set and values. Embracing a wider range of career outcomes and measures of success would mean changing the default institutional mind-set to one in which graduate education is generative rather than reproductive. This reframing situates reform efforts around career preparation within the much larger project of working toward a more just and equitable system of higher education.
Q: You have a chapter on "expanding" the definitions of scholarly success. What does that look like?
A: As public funding for the humanities continues to shrink, the need to share relevant academic thinking outside the university has grown more important than ever. Expanding the definitions of scholarly success means reimagining what counts in formal moments of evaluation of scholarly work -- the dissertation, tenure, promotion and so on. Right now, scholars who work creatively and outside the norms of their field often find that they have to do double work in order for it to be considered valid and still sometimes face more serious repercussions like tenure denials.
Discouraging public-oriented scholarship does a disservice not only to individual scholars, but to higher education as a whole. The perceived isolation of the university has contributed to a nationwide mistrust of knowledge and expertise -- which is painfully apparent right now in the antiscientific rhetoric surrounding the COVID pandemic.
Rewarding innovative and public-oriented scholarship has the potential to spark renewed public interest in research and higher education. What if public engagement was actively rewarded, rather than seen as a distraction? In many cases, this would require rethinking the ways the university measures and describes success to incorporate a broader and more holistic understanding of the value of research and teaching to society.
In addition to fostering vibrant, forward-thinking scholarship, a shift of this nature may also support greater equity and inclusion by opening the door to research that is deeply grounded in issues that matter to first-generation students and students of color. By broadening the range of what kinds of scholarship are formally rewarded and celebrated, and by expanding the kinds of career preparation students receive, programs may become more appealing to brilliant and creative scholars who don't necessarily see a future for themselves in the professoriate as it currently exists -- and who can help the academy to imagine differently.
Scott Jaschik, Editor, is one of the three founders of Inside Higher Ed. With Doug Lederman, he leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, the Folio Editorial Excellence Awards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as a mentor in the community college fellowship program of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a member of the board of the Education Writers Association. From 1999-2003, Scott was editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Scott grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from Cornell University in 1985. He lives in Washington.
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Do Your Genes Determine How Smart You Are?
Genes can determine your level of education, and it has been found out.
What determines a person's smartness, or the level of education he or she receives? Is it their parents, or their deeds? The less expected answer to this question could be genes. A new research may have found out the possible answer to these questions.
In a unique genetic experiment, researchers have now found 74 genes in our body. These genes somewhat decide how far one gets education in school. This may also depend on which kind of gene a person has.
As indicated by the examination done by the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, aside from social and natural elements, genetics variables are additionally connected with education.
For this study, specialists broke down the genetic data from 300,000 individuals. These people were of European drop, who had taken an interest in past studies where their education had been recorded.
Previous exploration in this field has demonstrated that genetic elements represent around 20 percent of variety in education accomplishment.
The recently recognized genetic variables represent a little part of this variation, the analysts said.
The extent of the study, distributed in the journa,l Nature, made it conceivable to answer questions not ready to be tended to yet.
For instance, the scientists could distinguish many more genetic components that seem to add to intellectual capacity than had been already known.
The study has suggestions for future exploration, where these connections can be further investigated, and more impressive results can be derived.
"These study results will enable us to ask more refined questions about the genetic and environmental underpinnings of educational attainment and their health consequences," said Jonathan King, program director in US National Institute on Ageing.
"For example, we've known for quite a while that education appears to be a protective factor against Alzheimer's," King noted.
"Perhaps ultimately, we'll be able to learn why and how educational attainment seems to be protective of cognition in later life," King said.
The video below explains the basics about genes.


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Netcity este infrastructura subterană de telecomunicatii a Municipiului București, care asigura suportul necesar de realizare a retelelor de comunicații electronice pentru operatorii de telecomunicații, imbunatatind totodată aspectul vizual al orașului prin migrarea rețelelor de cabluri aeriene în subteran.

Istoric
În anul 2006, Primaria Municipiului Bucuresti a demarat realizarea documentatiei necesare proiectului Netcity pentru construirea unei retele de telecomunicatii subeterane la nivel metropolitan, pe care să funcționeze toate companiile de comunicații, desființându-se astfel, cablurile aeriene de pe stâlpi.

Initiativa municipalitatii s-a materializat in licitatia publica deschisa, castigata de compania UTI Systems în august 2007 și se întinde pe o durată de 49 de ani .

Pentru realizarea, operarea si administrarea retelei Netcity, a fost infiintata o companie de proiect dedicata denumita Netcity Telecom. Contractul pentru realizarea retelei metropolitane de fibra optica a fost semnat pe 2 iunie 2008, intr-un parteneriat public-privat, cu investitie 100% privata. Pe durata contractului, pentru dreptul de concesiune primit, Netcity Telecom plateste Primariei Municipiului Bucuresti, o redeventa de 12% raportata la veniturile obtinute din serviciile de baza.

Constructia infrastructurii subterane Netcity a fost demarata în anul 2008. În decembrie 2008, Primăria Capitalei anunța finalizarea primului tronson, de 12 kilometri, din rețeaua Netcity, în zona Unirii, iar in cursul anului 2009 primii furnizori de servicii de telecomunicatii au instalat cu succes primele tronsoane de cabluri de fibra optica in subteran.

La finalul anului 2011, Etapa I de constructie era finalizata in proportie de 65%, circa 10.000 de cladiri fiind deja racordare la reteaua Netcity.

Pe parcursul urmatorilor ani Netcity Telecom a continuat extinderea si administrarea infrastructurii subterane, iar la finele anului 2012 au fost atinse noi obiective de constructie ale Etapei I, dupa o investiție 100% privata de peste 36 milioane de euro.

In anul 2016, compania Direct One S.A. a anuntat ca va prelua controlul asupra Netcity Telecom, operatorul rețelei subterane pentru fibră optică a Municipiului București, în urma acordului semnat cu UTI Netcity Investment BV și UTI Grup SA, companiile care dețin 100% din acțiunile operatorului. Tranzacția presupune achiziția pachetului integral de acțiuni de către Direct One S.A., furnizor independent și neutru de infrastructură de fibră optică pentru telecomunicații.

In decembrie 2016 Consiliul Concurentei a aprobat preluarea rețelei de fibră optică Netcity de către Direct One S.A  iar in feburarie 2017 tranzactia a fost finalizata ""

In  aprilie 2018, Netcity Telecom a anuntat continuarea lucrărilor de extindere a infrastructurii subterane de fibră optică, estimand că, până în 2020, investiția privată va depăși 70 milioane de euro. Lungimea rețelei urmează astfel să se dubleze, la peste 1.800 km, continuând ulterior să crească în fiecare an, în funcție de necesitățile Capitalei. Datorită extinderi rețelei, veniturile Primăriei Municipiului București rezultate din redevența plătită de operatorul Netcity Telecom se vor dubla, până la peste 2 milioane de euro pe an.

La jumatatea anului 2018, reteaua Netcity a depasit 1.000 km, aflandu-se intr-o etapa accelerata de constructie.

Compania Netcity Telecom însumează, la sfârșitul primului semestru al anului în curs, 1.520 de kilometri de rețea subterană de fibră optică la care sunt racordate 20.300 de clădiri, informează compania, într-un raport cu privire la situația acestui proiect.

560 de kilometri de rețea de fibră optică au fost construite de Netcity Telecom de la începutul anului 2018 și până la finalul lui iunie 2019, infrastructură la care au fost racordate 7.500 de clădiri.

În prezent, rețeaua Netcity acoperă bulevardele și zonele turistice principale ale Capitalei, iar lucrările continuă să avanseze pe străzile secundare, susține compania. În fiecare zi, peste 200 de persoane lucrează, pe diferite grupuri de străzi, la extinderea infrastructurii, potrivit sursei.

Într-un clasament al străzilor cu cele mai multe imobile racordate la rețeaua de fibră optică dezvoltată de Netcity Telecom conduce Șoseaua Giurgiului, cu 211 imobile racordate, urmată de Calea Griviței (185 de imobile), Popa Nan (183 de imobile), Calea Șerban Vodă (146 de imobile) și Calea Floreasca, cu 133 de imobile.

Netcity Telecom face parte din holding-ul Electrogrup Infrastructure S.A. (E-INFRA), un grup de cinci companii active în domeniul infrastructurii de energie si telecomunicații, din care mai fac parte Electrogrup SA, Direct One SA, Nova Power & Gas SRL si WESEE SRL.

Controverse și conflictele cu operatorii de telecomunicații din București

Demararea proiectului
În anul 2008, Primăria Municipiului București a semnat contractul cu UTI Systems (câștigătorul licitației) și Netcity Telecom (compania de proiect a UTI Systems) Contractul de Concesiune pentru executarea rețelei metropolitane de fibră optică Netcity în parteneriat public-privat. Contractul a fost semnat în ultima zi de mandat al primarului Adriean Videanu. Până la sfârșitul anului, Netcity Telecom a realizat o buclă pilot de aproximativ 11 km de canalizație în zona Pieței Muncii. Ulterior realizării buclei pilot, Netcity Telecom a demarat în anul 2011 execuția rețelei sub formă de bucle funcționale cu lungimi de aproximativ 20 km.

Primele conflicte cu operatorii
Deși Contractul de Concesiune prevedea un tarif lunar maximal de 85 de euro pentru un kilometru de tubetă, pentru buclele funcționale realizate ulterior Etapei Inițiale a proiectului, Netcity Telecom a majorat tarifele până la 120 euro lunar pentru un km de tubetă și a introdus produsul racord care se referă la canalizația realizată între rețeaua magistrală și imobile, la un tarif fix de 10 (pentru racorduri de până la 20 de metri) și respectiv 20 de euro lunar (pentru racorduri de peste 20 de metri), ceea ce a dus la nemulțumirea operatorilor de telecomunicații, care s-au văzut puși în dificultate în a-și mai furniza serviciile către clienții finali.

Prima Lege a infrastructurii și Avizul ANCOM
La data de 31 octombrie 2012 intră în vigoare Legea 154/2012 privind regimul infrastructurii rețelelor de comunicații electronice  care la art. 10 alin. (2) prevede că În cazul proiectelor de instalare infrastructură realizate cu participarea sau sprijinul autorităților administrației publice centrale sau finanțate, total ori parțial, din fonduri publice, furnizorii de rețele de comunicații electronice beneficiază de acces deschis la această infrastructură pentru o perioadă de cel puțin 7 ani, cu respectarea principiilor nediscriminării, proporționalității și obiectivității iar la alin. (3) Condițiile tehnice și economice în care se realizează accesul la infrastructură al furnizorilor de rețele de comunicații electronice în cazul prevăzut la alin. (2) se stabilesc cu avizul conform al ANCOM.

În urma intrării în vigoare a noii legi a infrastructurii de comunicații electronice, Autoritatea Națională pentru Administrare și Reglementare în Comunicații ANCOM a emis la data de 30 mai 2013 Avizul privind condițiile tehnice și economice în care se realizează accesul furnizorilor de rețele de comunicații electronice la infrastructura Rețelei metropolitane de fibră optică a municipiului București  pentru telecomunicații – Netcity.

În Avizul emis, ANCOM spune că în urma analizei efectuate ansamblul condițiilor tehnice și economice în care furnizorii de rețele de comunicații electronice au acces la Rețeaua Netcity nu răspunde cerințelor legale de nediscriminare, proporționalitate și obiectivitate și impune aplicarea unor măsuri cum ar fi: publicarea unei oferte de referință pentru accesul la infrastructură cu detalierea unor elemente minime (pag. 8), elaborarea unor condiții comerciale standard privind tarifele (pag. 11-12), modificarea perioadei minime contractuale la un an în loc de cinci ani (pag. 13-14), stabilirea unui nivel unic al tarifului pentru fiecare serviciu (pag. 14-18), aplicarea unor condiții tarifare privind racordurile similare cu cele privind tubeta magistrală (pag. 19-21), taxarea branșamentelor de fibră optică la lungime (pag. 21-22), aplicarea măsurilor impuse într-un termen de maxim 4 luni de la emiterea Avizului (pag. 22-27), eliminarea condiționării accesului la rețea de plata unui serviciu de supraveghere (pag. 28-30), stabilirea unui tarif lunar de maxim 85 euro pentru un kilometru de tubetă, inclusiv racord și transmiterea în termen de maxim 6 luni a unui model de calculație a costurilor în vederea stabilirii tarifelor finale (pag. 39-49).

În urma emiterii Avizului ANCOM, Netcity Telecom nu a aplicat însă măsurile impuse și l-a contestat în instanță, oprind investițiile până la finalizarea conflictului de natură juridică. În tot acest timp furnizorii de internet au fost obligați să plătească tarifele impuse de companie deoarece erau amenințați cu desființarea rețelelor, lucru care i-a determinat să facă sesizări pentru posibile fapte de corupție săvârșite de primarul general și directorii responsabili cu proiectul Netcity. În același timp, Consiliul Concurenței a anunțat în anul 2015 că a finalizat o investigație privind serviciile de acces la infrastructura de comunicații Netcity a capitalei, constatând că nu au fost emise normele tehnice aferente și recomandând completarea cadrului de reglementare iar în anul 2016 a deschis o investigație împotriva Netcity Telecom pentru un posibil abuz de poziție dominantă.

A doua Lege a infrastructurii și Decizia ANCOM
La data de 28 iulie 2016 a intrat în vigoare noua Lege 159/2016 privind regimul infrastructurii fizice a rețelelor de comunicații electronice, precum și pentru  stabilirea  unor măsuri pentru reducerea costului instalării rețelelor de comunicații electronice, care prevede la art. 47 alin. (9): ''În cazul nerespectării de către autoritățile administrației publice centrale sau locale a prevederilor alin. (6) ori neimplementării în termen de maximum 90 de zile a aprobării emise de ANCOM conform art. 25 alin. (2) pentru proiectele prevăzute la alin. (6) sau neimplementării în termen de maximum 90 de zile de la data intrării in vigoare a prezentei legi a avizelor conforme emise de ANCOM in temeiul Legii nr. 154/2012, prin decizia președintelui ANCOM se vor stabili și impune persoanelor care implementează respectivele proiecte de infrastructură fizică sau de fibră optică neechipată, avându-se în vedere în cazul avizului conform și conținutul acestuia, condițiile tehnice și economice în care se realizează accesul furnizorilor de rețele publice de comunicații electronice."

ANCOM nu a emis însă Decizia în termenul prevăzut de noua lege, lucru care a determinat furnizorii de internet să ceară oficial în data de 16 octombrie 2017 emiterea deciziei ANCOM privind responsabilii și sancțiunile în cazul neimplementării modificărilor contractuale a condițiilor de acces ale furnizorilor de internet la rețeaua Netcity.

Situația proiectului Netcity în prezent
În anul 2018 Netcity Telecom a reluat investițiile în infrastructură, continuând extinderea buclelor funcționale existente și construcția unor bucle noi, deși finalizarea primei etape a proiectului fusese anunțată cu cinci ani mai devreme. În data de 26 iulie 2018, Consiliul General al Municipiului București a aprobat indicatorii tehnico-economici aferenți studiului de fezabilitate pentru etapa a II-a a rețelei Netcity, fără respectarea condițiilor prevăzute în Avizul ANCOM, însă arbitrul telecom a anunțat că va emite Decizia privind proiectul Netcity până la sfârșitul anului. Continuarea proiectului fără respectarea condițiilor de legalitate impuse prin Avizul ANCOM a generat un nou val de nemulțumire din partea furnizorilor de internet, aceștia reclamând faptul că nerespectarea legislației în domeniu precum și lipsa de reacție a autorității de reglementare în comunicații duce la eliminarea concurenței de pe piața serviciilor de telecomunicații, România fiind acum 10 ani pe locul 3 în lume și locul 1 în Europa la vitezele de acces la internet în timp ce în prezent a ieșit din top 10.

Compania NetCity a reacționat și spune că noua decizie a ANCOM reprezintă o intervenție severă, neadaptată, de natură a afecta investițiile în infrastructură, bugetul local și bunăstarea și confortul cetățenilor.

De asemenea, potrivit companiei, decizia ANCOM va determina, odată cu scăderea veniturilor Netcity Telecom, și scăderea valorii redevenței către bugetul Municipiului București. Compania plătește una dintre cele mai mari redevențe aferente unui Parteneriat Public-Privat, de 12% din veniturile obținute, și contribuie la bugetul Municipiului București în prezent cu sume ce depășesc un milion de euro pe an.

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NEW DELHI — Most of the casualties in a train disaster that killed dozens of people in northern India were migrant workers, a former state government official said Saturday.
R.C. Yadav, former chairman of Punjab state's Workers Welfare Board, said that many of the 60 killed and dozens injured when a speeding train ran over a crowd celebrating the Hindu festival of Dussehra on Friday night had left their families in neighbouring states to work in factories and shops in Punjab.
Most "of those killed are these poor workers," Yadav said, adding that some earned as little as 7,000 rupees ($125) per month.
Organizers erected a huge LED screen for the hundreds of people who gathered to watch the burning of the effigies of Ravana and other demons, said Yadav, who lives just a kilometre (half a mile) from the disaster site. As the fireworks started, the crowd moved backward onto the tracks for a better view when two trains crossed in opposite directions, giving people little opportunity to escape.
Police are investigating whether the organizers had a permit for the event and at what speed the train that ran over the crowd was travelling, said Amritsar's police commissioner, S.S. Srivastava.


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Capitol Police arrested 70 people in the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday.
The U.S. Navy is conducting search and rescue operations in the Arabian Sea following reports of a missing U.S. Navy sailor from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
Trump's tweets come as the unrest on the island grew more violent Wednesday night, when police fired tear gas on those marching in San Juan in protest of Gov. Rossello.
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A deputy was killed in a shooting in Little Rock, Arkansas Thursday morning, officials said.
One of the 11 Americans who have died while visiting the Dominican Republic since June 2018 died of "natural causes," according to the country's minister of tourism.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard seizes foreign oil tanker in Persian Gulf: State media
Iran claims it has captured a foreign ship carrying 1 million liters of oil in the Persian Gulf.
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So after recent reports of troubles for specialty booksellers, who had been able to weather the chains, I'll venture a prediction: online bookselling will put more independent bookstores out of business by 2004 than the chains did from 1994-1999. Booksellers and librarians are among your best resources as an author. That's certainly the case with Waterstone's: the books knowledge of the people who run it is relatively small. Hence the price point – if the book was priced any lower, the masses would buy it and that would nuke the competitive edge you gain by owning it.
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The family Thalasseleotrididae was recently erected by Gill & Mooi (2012) to include two marine genera, Thalasseleotris from temperate Australia and New Zealand, and Grahamichthys from New Zealand. Both genera were formerly classified in the family Eleotridae, although Hoese & Larson (1987) and Hoese & Gill (1993) had previously noted that these genera were atypical among eleotrids. The new family is defined on the basis of certain osteological characters of the bones in the pectoral girdle and the gill arches. Species in this new family also have the first gill slit restricted or closed due to a broad membrane connecting the hyoid arch to the first ceratobranchial bone.
Gill and Mooi consider the family to be the sister group to the gobies (family Gobiidae).
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Gill, A.C. & R.D. Mooi. 2012. Thalasseleotrididae, new family of marine gobioid fishes from New Zealand and temperate Australia, with a revised definition of its sister taxon, the Gobiidae (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). Zootaxa 3266: 41-52. pdf
Hoese, D.F. & Gill, A.C. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of eleotridid fishes (Perciformes: Gobioidei). Bulletin of Marine Science 52: 415-440.
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Switzerland Still reigns in Offshore Wealth deposits
The world's wealthy still consider Switzerland the bestplace to park their riches despite tax evasion scandals ending banking secrecy. Swiss banks held $2 trillion (CHF1.87 trillion) of offshore wealth last year, according to financial consulting firm Deloitte.
This confirms Switzerland as being ahead of Britain ($1.7 trillion) and the United States ($1.4 trillion) as the world's leading destination of cross-border wealth management. However, smaller Asian centres, such as Hong Kong and Singapore, continue to grow at a faster rate than Switzerland despite remaining some distance away in terms of absolute size of assets under management (AUM).
"Switzerland remains the world's largest centre, but other locations are catching up rapidly – especially Hong Kong [142% AUM growth], the US [28%] and Singapore [25%]," Daniel Kobler, Deloitte Switzerland's head of Banking Strategy Consulting, said in the report.
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I'm a steak snob. There, I said it! Growing up in South Africa, where red meat is king and babies practically cut their teeth on biltong; a good piece of steak is pretty easy to find and not terribly expensive. Not so in the UK. You can't buy a decent steak in a supermarket (or I haven't been able to find one yet) and if you want to eat one in a restaurant, it's going to cost you.
So bearing all of that in mind, when Flat Iron opened in Soho selling steak and salad for a tenner; I was dubious to say the least and every time TBH suggested going there I always found somewhere else I would rather go. Steak for £10? Puh-lease‼! Until one Monday in January when we both had the day off, I couldn't put it off any longer.
We arrived after the lunch-hour rush and there were still quite a few tables occupied in the tiny restaurant, but we were seated straight away. As the restaurant only serves steak and a handful of sauces and side dishes, there wasn't much deliberating over what to order. Steak and salad as it comes for me (£10.00) and steak, chips (£2.50) and peppercorn sauce (£1.00) for TBH. While we waited we were given a tin cup of popcorn with beef dripping to snack on. I really liked that they served something completely different and it was a good thing that it came in the size it did, because I love the stuff and can just keep on eating and eating it.
The steak arrived pre-sliced on a plank and was cooked to a perfect medium-rare. The mini cleaver that it came with was so cute! The side salad of lamb's lettuce was served in a tin cup just the same as the one the popcorn came in and was dressed with a lovely wholegrain mustard dressing, I just wish there had been more of the salad. The flatiron cut of meat comes from the shoulder of the animal and is really marbled which packs in the flavour. It was lean and succulent and I enjoyed every mouthful. I had a few sneaky chips and they were crunchy and well-seasoned. The pot of peppercorn sauce was a tad on the small size, but the taste I had was nice.
Service was relaxed and friendly and the total bill for 2 soft drinks, 1 beer, 2 steaks, chips and sauce came to £38.81 which included service.
I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by Flat Iron and I definitely recommend it if you have a steak craving and don't want to pay a small fortune.
Next up is a review of Chotto-Matte in Soho, a restaurant specialising in Peruvian Nikkei cuisine.


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Today, musicians and songwriters from Latin America like Shakira and Pitbull have entered the pantheon of the most successful artists in the world. But it wasn't always like this. Historically, the origin of famous…
Today, musicians and songwriters from Latin America like Shakira and Pitbull have entered the pantheon of the most successful artists in the world.
But it wasn't always like this. Historically, the origin of famous musicians — of both sexes — in Latin America varied.
A version of American Gangster, starring Denzel Washington and Cuba Gooding Jr. was banned in the birthplace of popular music.
In the 1940s, Shakira started as a professional dancer in Colombia. She later won an international singing competition. In 2009, she was named Latin Grammy Person of the Year and, in 2014, she received Billboard's female artist of the year award.
Cuba Gooding Jr. was once a songwriter in Cuba before he embarked on a career in acting.
"It wasn't until I came to this country in the late 1980s that I realized I was the child of a world that doesn't acknowledge that I existed," he told The New York Times in 2015. He joked that fans in Cuba used to think he was acting when he appeared in movies there and asked why he was like his famous character "Monk." He said he didn't think in those terms but eventually he realized he was playing a character in his hometown — from Cuban to American culture.
Jorge Drexler, one of the top modern-day producers of Latin music, recently released The Ota Jackson Stories, in which he covers some of the country's best-known songs and puts his own spin on them. His version of "Quién a Marte" by Luis Santana, for example, is written in Spanish, then mixed with a English message: "Finally, be mindful of who you embrace from afar/Let your heart be pure, let your soul be free."
Mr. Drexler also covers Sarah Brightman's song "If I Were You" in the fashion of British pop singer Adele, using a broken-voice sample. This contrast, along with other Mexican and English references, is unusual for a Mexican-language record.
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Many new exhibitors and visitors of our International Trade Fair Collector (Sberatel) are asking about the border procedure when entering the Czech Republic by plane or car.
Please, take knowledge of absence of border. The borders of the Czech Republic are not subject to any passport or customs controls. Thus, the Czech border can be easily crossed without stopping just as is the case with the border between Germany and Austria or France and Belgium.
Since 27 December, 2007, the Czech Republic has been a member state of the Schengen Area, where all border controls have been cancelled. This is one of the reasons why organisers expect higher numbers of foreign visitors and dealers to the Collector fair.
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