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Questions for the University of London about Covid-19
15 October, 2020
'Our health and safety as local residents is being trampled on to the benefit of global capital'
• I WRITE regarding the possible risk of Covid-19 transmission from students living in the University of London's halls of residence in Cartwright Gardens, to the local community in Bloomsbury and King's Cross.
As co-chair of the tenants' and residents' association for a council block located in King's Cross about 100 metres from the university's halls of residence, I first wrote to the university outlining my concerns on September 9.
Given the seriousness of the issues I raised with them, I was disappointed that they did not even bother responding to my initial emails. I had to chase them several times before I finally received a reply.
I was beginning to feel the university had disdain for the local community and this feeling was exacerbated when I finally got to see their Covid-19 risk assessments for the halls.
This was because the assessments did not include the risk of Covid transmission from the students to the local community and consequently there were no control measures in place to prevent this risk. It's as if we don't exist!
And this in spite of there being a clear requirement on the university to protect our health and safety under both the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations and the Health and Safety at Work Act.
At a Camden Council District Management Committee meeting in mid-September I raised my concerns about the failure of the university to fulfil their statutory obligations towards us.
In response the public health officer for Camden and Islington said that he had met Camden / Islington universities that day – and admitted that they were "slightly behind the curve".
Why so? After all it was predicted in advance of the start of the academic year that there was significant risk of viral transmission from bringing university students back on campus – particularly so in halls of residence. Also by that stage we had begun to see huge Covid-19 outbreaks in universities across the country.
Bringing together students from around the country and the world, many of them away from home for the first time, who are of an age group in which research has shown are least likely to social distance, who are more likely than others be asymptomatic, and are of an age group in which the increase in the R rate was at its highest, and then crowd them together in shared accommodation, was always going to be a recipe for disaster.
But this potentially explosive mixture is amplified in connection with the University of London and their halls. The university is not a campus which is easily isolated from the local community, as students are straight out of the front door into the local bars and restaurants etc.
This is made worse right now because the university has closed two out of four of its bars as part of their Covid-19 control measures. So students are more likely than usual to be drinking in pubs.
Also, the halls of residence are located on the edge of the King's Cross ward, one of the poorest wards in Camden, where many residents live in overcrowded housing and there is a large Bangladeshi community (a recent council report into the impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities found that Bangladeshi and Somali families lived through lockdown in Camden in overcrowded conditions).
Poverty and overcrowded housing are key drivers for viral transmission. If there is a Covid-19 outbreak at the university and it spreads into the local community it is going to hit very hard.
I have been in email contact with Public Health Camden and Islington who have sent me updated information of what the university are doing to prevent transmission among students while on campus. But I have yet to see anything on what the university are doing to prevent the risk of virus transmission from their students to the local community.
Universities are big business – global business in the case of the University of London which has international financial backing. Unfortunately it seems that our health and safety as local residents is being trampled on to the benefit of global capital.
Co-Chair, Medway Court Tenants' & Residents' Association


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Equine flu latest: Four more horses test positive as flu hits second stable, putting racing shutdown at risk of extension
Simon Crisford yard becomes second stable hit by virus, meaning there are now ten horses nationwide to have contracted equine flu. No more horses elsewhere on Sunday tested positive.
THE prospects of racing resuming in the next few days were dealt a massive blow when four more horses tested positive for equine flu.
There must now be a real chance the shutdown – due an outbreak of the highly-contagious virus – will be extended.
The BHA are set to announce this evening at 10.30 whether Wednesday's four meetings can go ahead after six blank days.
Worryingly, the latest positive tests came from horses based in Newmarket – the country's biggest training centre. They are all from Simon Crisford's stables.
The former boss of Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation is a Flat trainer. His last British runner was Sajanjil – only fourth when an odds-on favourite – at Newcastle on Tuesday.
A statement from the BHA read: "No non-urgent journeys should be made to this yard – including by the media – and anyone who wishes to travel to the yard is advised to first contact the trainer's office.
latest in horse racing
"This yard is one of the 174 which has been required to undergo testing due to the fact that runners from the stable competed at the fixture at Newcastle on 5 February, which had been identified as a potential risk fixture. At the moment the affected horses are all contained within this yard.
"The Newmarket community – including licensed trainers, veterinary surgeries, farriers, racing school and all other relevant bodies – are being advised to continue to show increased vigilance in biosecurity."
There had been encouraging signs over the weekend when around 1,500 samples taken from horses potentially at risk of infection had come back clear.
The latest positive tests come from horses in stables 170 miles from the original outbreak at Donald McCain's Cheshire yard.
With the Cheltenham Festival just four weeks ago it was the news everyone in racing was dreading.

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Last Sunday in my Sunday school class we started off with the question of whether Jesus was ever a student.
We got there by way of a discussion the previous week about whether Jesus had been John's disciple.
This time we turned to Luke, which depicts Jesus as staying behind in Jerusalem in the temple to learn. While some movies depict him as teaching there, the Gospel of Luke says he asked questions and answered questions, as we would expect a student to do. And just to make the matter perfectly clear, Luke says that Jesus continued to grow in wisdom – i.e. he went on learning.
Where some translations have Jesus say that he had to be in his Father's house, a better rendering is that he had to be "about his Father's business" or "engaged in the matters/affairs of his Father."
While it might be going too far (OK, it would definitely be going too far) to render it "my Father's university," would it not be justified to understand from the context that Jesus' Father's "business" was learning?
We ended the Sunday school class with a question about why we never talk about Jesus' personality.
I think I know what I want my book after next to focus on. And I may need to incorporate this bit of humor that was shared by a friend on Facebook:
Q. What does that phrase "INRI" above Jesus' head on the crucifix mean?
A. (by Fr. Andrew Younan) It's Jesus' Myers-Briggs personality.
How would you characterize Jesus' personality, based on the things that he said which you consider authentic?
These discussions are obviously directly connected with – and a good way to get a discussion going about – the larger questions of Christology and how people view Jesus. And so let me conclude with a link to a podcast by Dale Tuggy about Photinus of Sirmium, an ancient church leader who took Jesus' humanity and monotheism very seriously, and also a cartoon from David Hayward:


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Mi LennhagDoctoral Student, Master of Philosophy in Political Science, Bachelor of Arts in Eastern European studies and Russian
Research areas and keywords
UKÄ subject classification
- Political Science
- Social Sciences
- Humanities
- Languages and Literature
PhD Student
Political Science
- The Post-Soviet region and other states in Eastern and Central Europe (politics, economics, foreign policy, military, culture, post-Soviet economic transition)
- Corruption (as well as other forms of informal economy and economic crime)
- Swedish politics (national and foreign policy, economics, public administration, public access to information and secrecy act, whistleblowing)
- The EU, EU relations with Eastern and Central Europe, Eastern enlargement processes.
Mi Lennhag holds degrees in political science (including courses in economics, statistics, history and rhetoric), and in Eastern European studies and Russian.
Her PhD project examines citizens' attitudes to corruption in contemporary Eastern Europe, and includes fieldwork in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland.
Since 2008, she has been giving lecturesat universities and commissioned education about the post-Soviet region (politics, economics, culture), on Swedish politics, public administration and constitutional issues, on the EU and Eastern enlargement, and on corruption and economic crime (both in Sweden and abroad).
In addition, she has worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as consultant for Transparency International, high school teacher, photographer, journalist and columnist in newspapers, moderator, researcher for foreign media, expert writer for the Swedish National Encyclopedia, and as an expert on the Swedish Radio (topics: Swedish politics and Eastern Europe).
This PhD project explores corruption and informal economic practices – directly involving or more generally described by ordinary citizens (i.e. not politicians, company executives or experts) – in contemporary Eastern Europe.
The thesis contains both quantitative methods for inference and qualitative interviews for a narrative analysis and theoretical contribution. The quantitative component will focus on the whole region of "former Soviet style economies", while the qualitative parts will focus upon four European post-Soviet states: Ukraine, Russia (the European Kaliningrad oblast), Belarus and Lithuania.
The main focuses during the recorded, anonymous, semi-structured interviews were individuals' descriptions, explanations and justifications of partly changed – but simultaneously ongoing, persistent and widespread – corrupt practices in a post-Soviet context.
The thesis also presents a description of the contemporary legacy or transformation of the Soviet informal distribution system blat, which was a widespread, network-based, non- monetary channel for transactions that evolved as a reaction to Soviet time shortages, bureaucracy, and hierarchies. Instead, contemporary everyday corrupt acts involve large sums of money; usage of hierarchies; demands for services instead of goods; stricter obligations; new powerful professions and informal networks as useful channels for bribing the right persons.
In addition to its empirical aims, this thesis contributes to better theoretical understanding of informal economic stability in the post-Soviet region. Citizens' feelings regarding possibilities for change and their perceptions of and incentives for on-going informal practices are treated as important. However, we need to avoid considering everyday corrupt acts in developing countries as foremost results of lack of "desirable" perceptions of morality.
Our understanding of both informal and formal economic institutions will be enhanced when including common, everyday approaches to the informal economic arena, as well as to formal economic constrains. By highlighting aspects of the relationship and tensions between the post-Soviet states and their citizens, we will better comprehend informal economic stability. Tensions created during the Soviet era, or generating from a Soviet legacy, continue to significantly affect citizens' perceptions and attitudes.
Recent research outputs
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Specialist publication article
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Review (Book/Film/Exhibition/etc.)
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper › Newspaper article


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The Daily Walk with Miracles, October 9, 2016, by Paul Evans, with music video of БГ — Radio Silence (1989) альбом HD, courtesy of Boris Grebenshikov, CBS Records and YouTube — 47:23. I actually wrote an article very similar to this with almost the same title almost two years ago. It was meant at the time as an accomplished fact, but like so many prophecies, it came prematurely, and sometimes people discounted it or laughed. Well, I believe the time has come. This is dedicated to the people who have mattered the most in my life, my own nuclear family, who have all passed, my "second family" the Yuhanicks, my pastors Elaine Strawn and Kevan Franklin, my old friend Bert Bishop and his wife Kay, and those several ladies with whom I tried (but failed) to make a life, perhaps especially Shannon.
The Daily Bible verse at The Official King James Bible online for Sunday, October 9, 2016 is Revelation 21: 4 – "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
Personal from Paul Evans: Most of my really bad troubles in life started in 2005. Before then most of you simply rejected me for my mental illness. At that time I wrote a 50-60 page paper on Logos, joined a Yahoo Society of Christian witches, and joined the primary Atlantean society, where I even went so far as to correspond with the Director. For that you Christians mainly judged me and found me terribly evil, as I have experienced your attentions. I'll put my Christian faith up against any of yours, thank you, I just am somewhat psychic and so you judge me for that, too. Oh, and I "get around" on the various dating sites, I feel very judged for that. May I remind you, that as Christians, living as Jesus taught, you are NOT supposed to judge ANY-one, and to love (all) your neighbors as yourselves. Yet you judge me and hurt me and then are certain your own faith and doctrine are far superior to mine. (I can imagine that sometimes I feel the same sort of way Jesus felt about being judged by the Pharisees.) I beg of you: please let God be the judge, not yourselves, and that practicing kindness to everyone you can would do both you and the world so very much good. May you all know His Peace and Love, as I in fact do. A special secret is that being kind, makes you kind, and that living like Jesus taught, makes you like Jesus.
The Prophesy of Universal Peace: Peace Between God and Satan, and among the planets, the old Titans and the Olympians: may God Bless us all, and the world soon know peace and a much more harmonious, free and happy existence. Amen and May it Be.
Brothers and Sisters, Peace, Love (Caring), universal toleration, freedom, the hope of our accepting and not judging each other, (and hopefully, legal weed).
From The Fifth Dimension, The Age of Aquarius (YouTube — 3:50, 1969): "When the moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then Peace with guide the planets and Love will steer the stars." Do you, like so many people, discount any astrologically based idea or prediction/prophecy? Did you know that Ronald Reagan based his entire schedule on the advise of an astrologer? Did you know that, in terms of Jesus Christ, some Bibles translate the Hebrew (or Aramaic) word most Bibles provide as "3 wise men" as "3 magi" or even "3 astrologers," and remember, they followed a star to Jesus' nativity. My own birth chart, actually, is pretty unusual, though that's neither here nor there.
The internet itself is connecting us and awakening our minds in ways never imagined. It is changing life in other ways, too, in terms of connecting the world in one, simultaneous "real time" reality. See Internet Time and Earth Time: Is Time Ending?, The Daily Walk with Miracles, October 3, 2016, by Paul Evans.
See The New Age ~ 3rd Force, The Daily Walk with Miracles, March 20, 2016, by Paul Evans, and also see Avalanche : The Golden Sun & Woodstock, The Daily Walk with Miracles, October 7, 2016, by Paul Evans.
One thing I have noticed as this truly "New Age" defines itself and develops into a new reality is that day-to-day encounters and situations in general are more "dicey" and sometimes even more dangerous. It is as if Fate itself has a stronger presence among us. Chaos is also closer to the surface of things, too, and details matter more. For everyone, being more fully aware and mindful, paying attention to details and not skipping steps in accomplishing tasks and goals becomes fully vital. Here the study of esoteric methods of raising one's awareness can be very useful.
The real and fully existent New Age is thus different than the traditional idea of any "new age" which centered around Woodstock sorts of ideas of peace and love that many liberals and leftest and hippie types wanted. But we all really want it deep down in our hearts, and both God and Satan have heard our pleas. There shall be no Armageddon, God assures me, and God and Satan, even at a universal level, or also in a more pagan or astrological sense, (Zeus and Cronus), (Jupiter and Saturn), have basically come to an accommodation this day, and a larger peace is at hand. Even as a conservative, I have to admit to being attracted to the whole "Peace and Love" ideas, too. Was not Jesus the Prince of Peace? Did He not say, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall know God"? And the planets ARE aligning: This is truly the dawning of the New Age.
A word about an alliance between the political left and right: this alliance already exists in a de facto sense in the U.S. Senate, as led by Rand Paul. On a vote to limit NSA spying authority, the Senate vote to limit the spying was 78 to 18 in favor, with the left and the right ganging up on the influenced center. Eventually a compromise from Mitch McConnell was agreed upon, but for several days the NSA spying was illegal. Personally I feel that America has many enemies and the surveillance, under a perhaps-somewhat modified Patriot Act, is entirely necessary, and that without it, America would have fallen to its enemies long ago. But here is another important point: The CIA and Anonymous are already cooperating in the matter of ISIS and the social networks. Well let's get real, guys. You know in your hearts, both of you, that Anonymous is basically right about the evil of the big investment bankers, and Anonymous, if you are honest in your reasoning, you know we need the surveillance. Anonymous and the CIA, even now, are basically like overlapping circles in a Venn diagram, right now. So CIA, just admit the Truth that Anonymous is right about the investment banks, and Anonymous, bow to reality about the surveillance, and then work together openly, both of you, and let's clean up the mess in the world! If the right and the left can come together in Congress, and the CIA and Anonymous come to an understanding and working agreement, could actual peace and understanding in the world between the witches and Christians, Masons and the Communists, and even Jews and Arabs, not be possible, now? See The Amazing Faith of T.D. Jakes and God's Call for Trying Harder, The Daily Walk with Miracles, October 1, 2016, by Paul Evans. Also see By The Grace of God, The Daily Walk with Miracles, October 1, 2016, by Paul Evans.
We truly are in a New Age today. My own idea of what that means is not quite the same as I have read elsewhere, through the future, Mankind lies of the cusp of great things. IF we makes it through this "crisis" in our history, the future does look like it might eventually look rather like a "new age," in a sense which is actually becoming defined at this point. Why is this already a truly New Age, today? Yes, there is some reality to the alignment of the planets and the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius," but that actually is not what I am thinking of. Today, we have put so many pollutants, insecticides and herbicides, used so much genetically modified food, and especially loosed so much radioactivity upon the environment we must live in, that we have entered into a new, fundamentally different and even dangerous wholly new period in human history. As described above, this has altered our reality here on earth. I do believe that mankind lies on the cusp of greatness, and a new, greater awareness of our surroundings and each other. See The iPv6 Internet and "One World", March 19, 2016, by Paul Evans.
A truth directly inspired by Jesus: "Knowledge with understanding worked by Love through Faith is Power in The Holy Ghost." This is an idea and truth from my teacher, Paul Yuhanick, about faith held by many Christians: Read your Bible to know God!
To read about traditional ideas regarding the New Age you can find a great article about this and the whole "Age of Aquarius" conception at Wikipedia. ~ Paul Evans
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Hello Friends,
Today i am sharing my interview experience of RRB officer Scale- I, held on 7th February 2017.
Name- Neal
Venue - Bangiya Gramin Vikash Bank, Kolkata
Panel- II
Interview Duration : Around 5 min
Reached there at 12.30pm. Location was very remote but bank had provided facility for seating, drinking water and tea. Appropriate desks were allotted for Bio-metric and Document Verification. Mine was 2nd shift. Waited till 2.30pm for Bio-metric verification. Another half an hour for Document verification.
Finally name was called at around 4pm. Waited another 20min outside the panel room. Entered into the room and Greeted everyone. There were 5 Males and 1 Female.
As the time was already around 4.30 and still there were many students, they were in a hurry. Only 2 males questioned me 1 female was only clarifying or supporting my answers. Other males were just sitting...Maybe analysing me. Now,
M1 - Told me to seat down and introduce yourself.
Me - Did as fast as I can. But M1 stopped me just after qualification.
M1 - So you are a B.Com Graduate. Asked me about my College. Then 1st Question - Define Balance Sheet?
Me - Explained in detail. But again stopped in between.
M1 - Heads under Current Assets?
Me - Gave 5 to 6 heads. Among them was Trade Receivables.
M1 - Difference between Sundry Debtors and Trade Receivables?
Me - Didn't knew. Told them Frankly.
M1 - Define Capital Asset?
Me - Explained but he was not satisfied.
M1 - Explain Base Rate?
Me - Explained in detail.
M1 - Are there any exceptions?
Me - Knew but couldn't recollect at that moment.
F1 - Tried to explain in detail the question.
Me - But couldn't recollect Self Help Groups and Women. That was the last of M1. Till now, medium was English.
M2 - Kisan Vikas Patra k bare me padhe ho?
Me - Jitna aata tha bataya.
M2 - Jan Dhan Yojana batao?
Me - Bataya.
M2 - PM ne JDY ko lekr demonetisation k Baad Kya notice Diya tha?
Me - Told them about the max deposit limit but was confused about the amount.
M2 - looked at the head member and he nodded it's done. They told me You can go know. Greeted them and exited myself.
As you can see,
No HR questions were asked. Most questions were subject based. I don't think I will get through as they will give average marks. Assuming Mains marks are under 60. NO CHANCE.
All the best...!!


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Your business will most likely start out with only you as the owner/operator, but with success, you may become busy and need to hire some employees. Depending on your location, you may service areas across state lines. This can cause a small headache and require your organization to be reassessed. An LLC is the best choice for a lawn care and landscaping business. It can be setup just the same as the first three that I listed. A corporation starts getting a little messy, but I'll explain all four below!
Sole Proprietorship
This is a business that is owned and operated by one person. You'll only need to acquire the correct licenses in your state, county, and city to begin operation. The owner of the sole proprietorship should also obtain a certificate of assumed name, or as they call it in Ohio, a "Trade Name". In Ohio, the Secretary of State files these. Your state may be different.
The sole proprietor controls all of the business assets. As the owner, you'll receive all of the business profits and/or losses and report them on your personal tax return. In this method of organization you, as the business owner, undertake all risk of the business to the extent of your assets, business or personal. This is VERY important to understand. A sole proprietorship has NO LIMIT of liability should there be a lawsuit, bankruptcy, or any other type of claim against the business. All of these claims will extend to all of your personal assets once the business assets have been exhausted. For this reason, I do not recommend a sole proprietorship.
A partnership is a business that has two or more people join to operate a business. Each person contributes time, money, property, labor, etc and is expected to share profits and losses of the business.
While a partnership agreement isn't legally required, it's definitely recommended in case disputes later on happen so that they can be avoided as your business grows. The agreement should define how the partners contribute as far as money, assets, and management. The agreement should be specific on each partner's share of profit and loss.
The partnership should obtain the same type of trade name certificate as a sole proprietorship. Please also note, that a partnership also contains the same liability as the sole proprietorship.
A corporation is an association of individuals with a separate legal existence. A corporation is recognized by law as being an original legal entity apart from the individuals that own it. A good way to state it is, think of it as a separate person that can contract agreements, be in lawsuits, and have unlimited life.
The corporation is created by the authority of the state government in your home state (or where the primary business operations will occur). Corporations are created by the contribution of money and/or property by the prospective shareholders in exchange for stock in the corporation. Unlike a partnership, the corporation's financial and management structure is required to conform to your state's regulations.
A corporation is also taxed as a separate entity, unlike a sole proprietorship and partnership. With a corporation, it's entirely possible to be taxed double (double taxation). This is when there are corporate income taxes as well as tax on dividends received. There's many ways to shield you from this, one specifically that it popular is election of S-Corp status.
An S-Corp is a pass-through entity just like a sole proprietorship, partnership, and LLC. These entities are NOT subject to income tax. They're taxed by your personal income tax return.
Limited Liability Company (LLC)
A limited liability company is my recommendation for a lawn care and landscaping business that's just starting out. It's very flexible in terms of the structure. It can combine concepts of sole proprietorships, partnerships, and even the corporate structures. It's a legal entity that provides the liability needed to it's owners. The LLC is organized at the state government level.
An LLC is unincorporated, so it's not a corporation, but when it comes to liability, it acts as one. When tax time rolls around, you'll be pleased to know that an LLC is taxed through your personal income tax return rather than standing chance at double taxation like a corporation. It's much more flexible in nearly all aspects of business and is very well suited for businesses with a single owner.
An LLC can also elect to be treated as a corporation for tax purposes, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Final Thought
If you're looking for a business organization that will suite you for years to come, I highly suggest forming an LLC. It shelters you in the event of a lawsuit unlike a sole proprietorship. I started by business as a sole proprietorship and looking back, I was stupid for accepting that kind of risk. What if I were to somehow hit a gas line and blow up a house? I'm now stuck paying for a house! Yes, I know that's unlikely, but plan for the worst, and hope for the best. With the "pass through" taxation that an LLC has, you won't be double taxed and the forms for filing are fairly simple for a CPA to complete for you.
Disclaimer: I am NOT an attorney. Do not take any advice from this blog as legal advice. This is purely business experience that I wish to share with you. Save yourself time and money in the long run and hire an attorney that can steer you in the right direction and even file everything for you!
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A list of job openings for Krispy Kreme's Cagayan de Oro branch has been released online just a couple of days ago.
Shown below are quite a number of vacancies (60) available for those who need jobs. Based on the qualifications required, except for Delivery Drivers, graduates of HRM and related course are preferred. The job vacancies were posted by Strategic Imperatives, perhaps the doughnut firm's consultant.
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Public Notice: Fun Is Where You Find It
Some things to look forward to(?) this summer
By Nick Barbaro, Fri., May 19, 2017
Okay, this is sad but, when they said "Summer Fun issue" in the editorial meeting, my mind immediately went to school bonds and CodeNEXT meetings, and City Council's hiatus-followed-by-budget-rush, and the ongoing political and legal war over immigration enforcement, not to mention the national scene ... but if you're still reading this, I'll presume you find those sorts of things, well, entertaining at least, if not necessarily always fun. So, without further apology, here's some "fun" stuff to look forward to on the political scene this summer:
Bonds. School Bonds.
AISD's Facilities and Bond Planning Advisory Committee is trying to whittle a $1.2 billion "needs" list for facilities into a $900 million bond proposal to put on the November ballot – with the big issues being whether to include $125+ million to move the LASA magnet high school away from the campus it shares with LBJ High, and whether to split the bond into multiple proposals, or go all-or-nothing. Lots to discuss here, including public meetings today and Saturday (see "Naked City," at right). Originally, the AISD board of trustees was hoping to have a proposal they could vote on by June 19, but they'll probably have to punt to a special-called July meeting. Legally, they have until August to put something on the ballot, but it's presumed that not having a solid package together until the last minute (or not getting a unanimous Board vote in favor), would be bad optics to the voters.
The AISD board is also under the gun to appoint a trustee (likely on June 12) to replace Southeast Austin's Paul Saldaña, who resigned right after voting against the facility master plan on which the bond package is to be modeled. There are two public candidate forums, Saturday and Tuesday; see "AISD: Refilling the School Board," May 19.
City Council may be going on hiatus for the month of July, but City work continues through the summer – most visibly on the CodeNEXT land development code rewrite, which has been getting mixed to extremely negative reviews for its first draft. There are several more public meetings coming up, but the real action will be at the Zoning and Platting and Planning commissions, which have both started to dig into various aspects of the code, and the mapping – and what they've dug up has made for some frank and lively discussions. Both the ZAP and PC meetings are televised live on Access Channel 6; those should be must-watch TV throughout the rest of the summer. There's a June 7 deadline for comments to be submitted, in order to be included in version 2.0 of the code, so ZAP and PC, along with the Code Advisory Group, and the architects' group AIA Austin, will all submit reports by then. July 7 is the deadline for mapping comments – and seriously, to all property owners reading this: You should absolutely look at the maps (www.austintexas.gov/codenext), because you are likely being rezoned, and it may affect your value.
D7 Mapping Meeting: Sat., May 20, noon-2pm, Burnet Middle School, 8401 Hathaway
D2: Tue., May 23, 6:30-8:30pm, American YouthWorks, 1901 E. Ben White
D9: Sat., June 3, 10am-noon, Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second
Mobility Code Talk: Wed., May 31, 6-8pm, City Hall
Permitting & Process: Wed., June 7, 6-8pm, City Hall
City Council estivates June 23-July 31, but on the budget agenda before then, they have to decide by early June whether to again expand the homestead exemption on property taxes, and they jump into budget discussions right away on Aug. 1, leading up to formal budget readings Sept. 11-13.
Movement on Mobility The City has begun spending some serious money on the Mobility Bond authorized in November: $39 million for road projects, sidewalks and trails, and 21 new full-time employees across four different city departments for starters, and there's a lot more to come. Can't wait to see when actual work begins. For now, Corridor Mobility Plans are being developed for Slaughter Lane, William Cannon Drive, and Brodie Lane. The public input process starts this week with three open houses, each presenting info and taking input on all three of those southern corridors. Or provide feedback online at www.austintexas.gov/corridors.
Thu., May 18, 4:30-7:30pm, Langford Elementary School, 2206 Blue Meadow
Mon., May 22, 4:30-7:30pm, Covington Middle School, 3700 Convict Hill
Tue., May 23, 4:30-7:30pm, Bethany Lutheran Church, 3701 W. Slaughter
Lawsuits against Senate Bill 4 have already been filed, and will keep piling up all summer – the state's attempt to crack down on "sanctuary cities" is currently set to go into effect Sept. 1, but will certainly be delayed or killed in the courts. (See "Austin, Texas Cities Promise Legal Fight Against SB 4," May 19.)
Campus Carry goes into effect at Austin Community College Aug. 1. They've developed a set of policies on the matter after a public process this spring; see those at www.austincc.edu/campuscarry.
The Circus may be staying in town: Sine die, the last day of the biennial Texas legislative session, is Memorial Day, Monday, May 29. But at press time, the deadlock between the House and Senate over key budget details appears such that there may be no budget bill by then; in that case, expect a special session, and for the Lege to be right back at ... can we call it work? ... on Tuesday the 30th.
Death Watch: Okay, this is really not fun at all, but, it's worth noting that there are three executions scheduled at Huntsville this summer: Kosoul Chanthakoummane on July 19, Taichin Preyor on July 27, and Steven Long on August 30.
Win the next election: Help citizens register to vote by becoming a Volunteer Deputy Registrar. Attend a one-hour training session, the first Tuesday of any month: Tue., June 6, 10:30am, 12:30pm or 6:30pm at Travis County Tax Office, 5501 Airport. (www.traviscountytax.org).
Queer Events:
• Queerbomb, she's back – with an all new kweer krew to drop glitter bombs, Sat., June 3, at Fair Market, 1100 E. Fifth. And something this sparkly takes money – give what you can via their donation page, www.queerbomb.org.
• Texas Equality March for Unity and Pride is a sister march with the big one in D.C., hosted by Queer Rights ATX and Austin Pride in resistance to the legislated discrimination against LGBTQIA communities. Sun., June 11, noon-4pm, Texas State Capitol. www.fb.com/events/254661681636389 or www.equalitymarch2017.org.
• Austin Pride Sat., Aug. 26, 11am-6pm at Fiesta Gardens, is the largest annual LGBTQ advocacy and fundraising event in Central Texas, and Central Texas' single largest HIV testing day of the year. Two stages, games and activities, drinks, food, and over 140 vendor booths featuring nonprofits and local businesses that support the LGBTQ community.
June 3: March for Truth: A call for an impartial investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election and ties to the Trump administration. 11am-1pm at Austin City Hall. www.fb.com/events/1899873973623688
June 17: Juneteenth Celebration: A 2K run/walk, a parade, and all-day festival in Rosewood Park. www.juneteenthcentraltexas.com.
Donald Trump may be ruining our country, but you have to admit, he's the most wildly entertaining thing to happen to D.C. since Mayor Marion Barry, and the most prolific media hog since Adolf Hitler. But the act is getting a bit stale, and impeachment talk is heating up and getting serious. Expect more fun on that front all summer long.
U.S. laws won't let bookies put a line on political events. But at least six British betting agencies are laying odds and taking bets on various Trump impeachment scenarios. At the popular Irish bookie site Paddy Power, Trump is now a 4-6 favorite to not finish his first term in office. That site offers seven different categories of specialty bets: You can get about even odds that the FBI will confirm Trump/Russia collusion and bring charges against members of the Trump campaign team, 66-1 odds that Trump will have a Russian airport named after him, and 100-1 odds that "Joe Biden meets Trump at an event and punches him right in the face." There's also a list of 11 things, including women's voting rights (300-1), that Trump will ban during his first term.
Over at bet365, they have it about even odds that Trump will resign during his first term, with the same odds (5-1) that he'll be impeached and convicted of a crime, or that he'll be declared unfit to serve by a vote of Congress under the 25th Amendment.
SkyBet is the only agency I found that takes bets specifically on this summer; they'll give you 10-1 odds that Trump won't make it through the next six weeks and will not be president on July 1, but it's dead even on whether he'll complete his first term, and about 7-1 that he'll make it through two terms.
Of course, there are plenty of other "specials" out there. Regrettably, I couldn't find anyone laying odds on the likelihood of global thermonuclear war – but then, I suppose in that event, the betting markets would be somewhat disrupted anyway. No fun.
Bike Austin's annual Bike to Work Day is this Fri., May 19, with some 45 fueling stations offering riders free coffee, snacks, and swag. See details and make a pledge at www.biketoworkaustin.org. The official afterparty is 5-7:30pm at Google Fiber Space. And if you don't want to ride your own bike, B-Cycle is offering free one-day memberships; see austin.bcycle.com.
The sixth annual AHS Pup Crawl is Sat., May 20, 2-8pm on historic Rainey Street. Pup Crawlers pick up their $25 wristband and T-shirt at Bar 96 and meet some of the Humane Society's adorable adoptable dogs, then move on in 90-minute increments to Lustre Pearl, Container Bar, and Clive Bar. More info and pre-register at www.bit.ly/AHSPupCrawl.
Shoal Creek Conservancy presents the third annual Shoal Creek Awards on Tue., May 23, 5:30-7:30pm at Cirrus Logic Conference Space, 700 West Ave. Free appetizers and beverages by watershed restaurants, live music, and mingling with the local heroes who work to protect Shoal Creek. Tix are $40, or $75 including a 5pm VIP reception; see www.shoalcreekconservancy.org.


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Petroleum Engineering Institute of Technical College of University of Tehran, in association with the Iranian Petroleum Engineering Society, is due to hold the congress on October 18-19, 2011 in the venue of the institute.
Increasing the knowledge and training specialized experts as well as creating job opportunities, approaching sustainable development and a serious look at the preservation of the environment and improving technologies in the upstream industries are among the objectives of the congress.
Studying the role of modern technologies in the fields of exploration, manufacturing excavation equipment, reservoir engineering, and the production of petroleum products are among the scopes related to nanotechnology, which will be dealt with in the congress.
Parallel to the congress, there will be held five roundtables about reservoir engineering, exploitation, and the production of petroleum products. One of the roundtables is entitled 'Modern Technologies and Innovation in Excavation'.
A specialized exhibition will be held in the field of petroleum industry in order to introduce the abilities of the industrialists with the participation of the firms active so that they can take part in the domestic market and in order to create more interaction between the manufacturers and the equipment providers.
For more information about registration and participation in the Third Iranian National Congress on Petroleum Engineering, visit the congress' website at http://www.ipec3.com.


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Bottle carrying Texas man's ashes with family's letters washes ashore Florida beach
"Please keep him traveling."
A bottle carrying the ashes of a Texas man along with letters from loved ones washed up on a Florida beach after being released into the tide over a month ago.
Someone found the glass bottle near Miramar Beach in northeast Florida and reported it to the Walton County Sheriff's Office last Thursday. The bottle, sealed tight with a purple cap, was handed over to Sgt. Paula Pendleton, who opened it from her patrol car. Inside was a small bag holding some human ashes, a few dollar bills and two handwritten letters dated Aug. 1 that included a telephone number, according to social media posts from the sheriff's office.
"This bottle contains the cremation ashes of my son, Brian, who suddenly and unexpectedly passed on March 9, 2019," the first letter read. "More than anything, he longed to be free, so I'm sending him on one last adventure."
"This bottle was launched from Destin, Florida. If you find it, please call or text me and let me know. I have left $4 to cover the call," the note continued. "Feel free to add your own note, then kindly set him free once again. My son was 39-years-old at the time of his passing and he was deeply loved. Please keep him traveling."
The second letter was from the deceased man's daughter.
"My name is Peyton and I am Brian's daughter. When he passed, I was 14-years-old," the note read. "It struck our whole family pretty hard and, so far, it has been a very hard road. But, like my granny said, he loved to be free. So that's exactly what we are doing."
In a recent interview with ABC Dallas affiliate WFAA, Peyton Mullins said her father, a tow truck driver from Garland, Texas, died from a sudden heart attack just five days after his 39th birthday. She and her grandmother entrusted the bottle with his ashes to relatives who were heading to the Florida coast and promised to set him adrift from there.
"We just wanted him to be free, because that was his whole thing. He wanted to travel the world," she told WFAA. "I want what's best for him, even though he can't tell me what that is."
Sgt. Pendleton was moved by the letters, having suddenly lost her husband last year when he fell ill and died just weeks later, according to the sheriff's office. So she texted the family, telling them she had found the bottle with their loved one's remains and would give it to a friend who is a charter boat captain.
"He has offered to bring Brian way out into the Gulf so he can continue his adventure," Pendleton wrote in the text, according to the sheriff's office. "But, before that, I want you to know he got to do a ride-a-long with a deputy before drifting out once again."
The bottle, with the ashes, dollar bills and letters from the deceased man's family plus one more from the sergeant, returned to sea last Friday.
Pendleton has since talked to Peyton on Skype and hopes to meet her in person soon, according to the sheriff's office.
"There's someone that doesn't know me but cares," the teen told WFAA after speaking with the sergeant. "It felt really good."


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Cargo supports features to allow expression of:
- conditional compilation options (usable through
- optional dependencies, which enhance a package, but are not required; and
- clusters of optional dependencies, such as
postgres-all, that would include the
postgrespackage, the
postgres-macrospackage, and possibly other packages (such as development-time mocking libraries, debugging tools, etc.).
A feature of a package is either an optional dependency, or a set of other features.
[features] section
Features are defined in the
[features] table of
Cargo.toml. The format for
specifying features is:
name = "awesome"
# The default set of optional packages. Most people will want to use these
# packages, but they are strictly optional. Note that `session` is not a package
# but rather another feature listed in this manifest.
default = ["jquery", "uglifier", "session"]
# A feature with no dependencies is used mainly for conditional compilation,
# like `#[cfg(feature = "go-faster")]`.
go-faster = []
# The `secure-password` feature depends on the bcrypt package. This aliasing
# will allow people to talk about the feature in a higher-level way and allow
# this package to add more requirements to the feature in the future.
secure-password = ["bcrypt"]
# Features can be used to reexport features of other packages. The `session`
# feature of package `awesome` will ensure that the `session` feature of the
# package `cookie` is also enabled.
session = ["cookie/session"]
# These packages are mandatory and form the core of this package's distribution.
cookie = "1.2.0"
oauth = "1.1.0"
route-recognizer = "=2.1.0"
# A list of all of the optional dependencies, some of which are included in the
# above `features`. They can be opted into by apps.
jquery = { version = "1.0.2", optional = true }
uglifier = { version = "1.5.3", optional = true }
bcrypt = { version = "*", optional = true }
civet = { version = "*", optional = true }
To use the package
version = "1.3.5"
default-features = false # do not include the default features, and optionally
# cherry-pick individual features
features = ["secure-password", "civet"]
The usage of features is subject to a few rules:
- Feature names must not conflict with other package names in the manifest. This
is because they are opted into via
features = [...], which only has a single namespace.
- With the exception of the
defaultfeature, all features are opt-in. To opt out of the default feature, use
default-features = falseand cherry-pick individual features.
- Feature groups are not allowed to cyclically depend on one another.
- Dev-dependencies cannot be optional.
- Features groups can only reference optional dependencies.
- When a feature is selected, Cargo will call
--cfg feature="${feature_name}". If a feature group is included, it and all of its individual features will be included. This can be tested in code via
#[cfg(feature = "foo")].
Note that it is explicitly allowed for features to not actually activate any optional dependencies. This allows packages to internally enable/disable features without requiring a new dependency.
Note: crates.io requires feature names to only contain ASCII letters, digits,
-, or
Usage in end products
One major use-case for this feature is specifying optional features in end-products. For example, the Servo package may want to include optional features that people can enable or disable when they build it.
In that case, Servo will describe features in its
Cargo.toml and they can be
enabled using command-line flags:
$ cargo build --release --features "shumway pdf"
Default features could be excluded using
Usage in packages
In most cases, the concept of optional dependency in a library is best expressed as a separate package that the top-level application depends on.
However, high-level packages, like Iron or Piston, may want the ability to curate a number of packages for easy installation. The current Cargo system allows them to curate a number of mandatory dependencies into a single package for easy installation.
In some cases, packages may want to provide additional curation for optional dependencies:
- grouping a number of low-level optional dependencies together into a single high-level feature;
- specifying packages that are recommended (or suggested) to be included by users of the package; and
- including a feature (like
secure-passwordin the motivating example) that will only work if an optional dependency is available, and would be difficult to implement as a separate package (for example, it may be overly difficult to design an IO package to be completely decoupled from OpenSSL, with opt-in via the inclusion of a separate package).
In almost all cases, it is an antipattern to use these features outside of high-level packages that are designed for curation. If a feature is optional, it can almost certainly be expressed as a separate package.


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My Thoughts on spec
In the beginning of this year I started a new job, and I am now fortunate enough to be writing Clojure full-time. I believe that Clojure is a very well crafted language and enables developers like few others, but I have also some grievances to report. I want to prefix this by saying that I love Clojure despite its faults, and this is more of a constructive criticism piece than anything else.
What Is spec?
What I want to discuss today is
clojure.spec, the gradual typing solution shipped with Clojure since 1.9.I am of course aware that spec is officially in alpha, and that there is a second alpha version which might address some of my points here. But as I have not tried alpha 2 yet, and a lot of people are using alpha 1, we will be mostly looking at alpha 1 in this post. Still, feel free to contact me and tell me how alpha 2 will improve things.
In case you are not familiar with spec, here is a quick run-down of how it works:
Clojure is a dynamically typed language, meaning no (or very few) type annotations in the source code, unlike say Haskell or most curl-brace languages. While this removes a lot of visual clutter, and the language is designed in such a way that most functions can operate on most types for maximum flexibility, this also means that sometimes things break at run time due to type errors. To make dealing with types easier, spec allows you to place type definitions in strategic places, say at entry- and exit points of an app or a module to ensure that your idea of structure and type of your data still lines up with reality.
The benefit of this approach over static typing is that you can encapsulate parts of your software with type safety without having to deal with the encumbrance in the internals. You define a contract to the outside, but stay flexible in your implementation.
In practice it looks like this:
(ns spec-demo
(:require [clojure.spec.alpha :as s]
[clojure.spec.gen.alpha :as gen]))
(s/def ::name string?)
(s/def ::age pos-int?)
(s/def ::person
(s/keys :req-un [::name
(s/valid? ::person
{:name "John"
:age 35})
;; => true
(s/explain ::person
{:name 35})
;; => 35 - failed: string? in: [name] at: [:name] spec: :spec-demo/name
;; {:name 35} - failed: (contains? % :age) spec: :spec-demo/person
(s/gen ::person))
;; => {:name "3o311eSXA4Dm9cLkENIt3J5Gb", :age 3318}
This snippet demonstrates creating a spec
person which has sub-specs
name and
age, validates some data against the spec, explains why some data does not validate, and also generates some random data compliant with the spec. The last bit is incredibly useful for testing, as you can imagine. There are some more advanced features than what I have shown here, like specs for in- and output types of functions, but this is the gist of it.
So What Is Wrong with spec?
specs as Macros
spec is implemented using macros, which are compile-time expansions, think template meta-programming in C++. This brings some limitations, which are especially noticeable in Clojure where, like in most other Lisps, code is treated as data and many parts of your software are introspectable at run time. specs are, once defined, not easy to extract data from.
Contrast this with schema, a Clojure library which does essentially the same thing, and got started before spec. schema "schemas" are just hash maps, which are easily constructed and introspected at run time. schema has other problems, but the community seems to generally flock to spec as the officially blessed version.
The situation I have now repeatedly seen is one where I have a spec defining a specific representation of an entity, where for example one spec extends another one. A practical example here is when augmenting an entity with additional data, so that the output representation is a modified version of the input type.
You can define a spec as a superset of another spec, and only in that direction, using
s/or, but at that point you are already stuck in the spec an cannot get the list of fields easily out of your specs. It would be nice to be able to define one spec in terms of flat data, which would also be available at run time. This would be incredibly helpful for use with something like
There are ways of working around this, for example by using
eval, or wrapping your spec macros in another layer of macros, but both of these are more hacks than solutions. spec alpha 2 promises to solve this particular problem by separating symbolic specs from spec objects, the former being just flat data which can also be generated programmatically.
If spec alpha 2 works out the way I hope, this will be solved soon, and the documentation looks promising so far.
spec is very intent on you using namespaces for your keywords, which in general is a good idea. Many developers, including myself, have been using the namespace of a key to give context about its use, for example
:person/name is a different spec from
:company/name. The problem with this is the overloading of namespaced keywords, which are an existing Clojure feature. These namespaces
person and
company do not actually exist, and I do not want to clutter all my keys with a long prefix like
:myapp.entities.person/name to make it match a real namespace.
Now namespaced keywords can have any namespace, and the namespace does not actually have to exist for everything related to keywords to work well, except when it does. If you want to use a spec from another namespace, but
alias that namespace to shorten it, you need to
require that namespace, for which it needs to exist. As a workaround to this I have created "fake" namespaces in the past using a helper.
This actually leads me to another problem, which is the question of where to place specs in the first place. spec comes with a global, centralised registry for specs, which in alpha 1 you cannot opt out of. In theory this allows you to define/register your spec once in any place you like, and then access it from anywhere without having to know where it comes from or requiring it. This, while having the potential for being too opaque and magical, is actually a very good feature in my opinion. It is trivial to override specs when reloading them, and I have not experienced any issues with evaluation order yet. Due to specs referring to other specs by their name, you can define dependencies of a spec after the fact, and the system will pick them up accordingly.
My current solution for this is having a file & namespace for every entity which can be required and aliased normally, the only problem with this being relationships between specs. As soon as one spec needs to include another spec, dependencies get muddled, so I have experimented with having a special namespace for specs which are shared across many other specs, but this is far from ideal. I wish there was a cleaner way to do this, especially leveraging the global registry.
Function spec Definitions
I mentioned above that spec also allows instrumenting functions, but the semantics for this are a bit wonky in my opinion. See for yourself:
(defn double [x]
(* 2 x))
(s/fdef double
:args (s/cat :x int?)
:ret int?
:fn #(= (:ret %)
(-> % :args :x (* 2))))
This naive spec restricts in- and output types to integers, which is okay in this case. The
:fn key describes the relationship between in- and output, and is in this case actually absurdly strict, but this is just an example. There are two issues I have with this:
First the
:fn definition tends to be very elaborate and hard to understand at a glance. Even in this simple case, there is a lot going on in there, and the use of anonymous functions does not help it. In practice, this key is optional and I omit it almost always, because I cannot think of any formal assertions I want to make about the output which are also reasonably simple to encode. And if you want to make several separate assertions about the output, you almost cannot avoid breaking up the spec into pieces, at which point you have predicates which exist purely for spec.
The other issue I have is that this is decoupled from the actual function definition. In theory you can place the spec in a different namespace and refer to the function using its fully qualified name, and this is tempting, especially when looking at my previous point about these specs having the potential to be far more longer than the actual function definitions. But then your function exists conceptually in two places, and these two places have to be kept in sync. If you move, rename, or modify the function in almost any way, you have to modify the spec, too, but first you have to find the spec.
The problem I can see with this is that
:fn can be used to make assertions about the functions, which can in almost all cases be made in unit tests as well. In fact, unit tests are meant for exactly this, asserting single assumptions about units at a time. The condition above could just as well be a test called
the result equals twice the input value. Functions are usually only instrumented locally and/or during testing, as they incur non-negligible overhead, and I would argue that they do not provide significant assurances over unit tests.
I would much rather drop the
:fn key, and include type declarations in the actual function definition, which is incidentally how schema works:
(s/defn double :- s/Int
[x :- s/Int]
(* 2 x))
In the end, I am looking forward to the next iteration of spec, and hope it addresses as many issues as possible, and I am already blown away by how much better it is than alternatives available in other languages.


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Full Name
D.J. Blockhus
Job Title
V.P. Subsea
PERC Engineering
Speaker Bio
D.J. Blockhus is V.P. of Subsea at PERC Engineering responsible for work scopes related to SURF and downstream offshore projects. He has 28 years of experience in offshore pipelines, umbilicals, structures, facilities design and project management. Experience includes a wide variety of shallow and deep water projects both in the Gulf of Mexico and abroad in water depths from onshore to over 3,000 m water depths.
Speaking At
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President Sarkozy receives ADI Award
20 March 2012 - French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been presented with the ADI Award 2012 for his efforts to improve the lives of people with dementia and their carers in France and across the European Union. Sarkozy's groundbreaking National plan for Alzheimer and related diseases 2008-2012 has become an important example for many other countries around the world.
The Award was presented at ADI's 27th International Conference in London, UK on 7 March 2012. Mme Marie-Anne Montchamp, Secretary of State to the Minister of Solidarity and Social Cohesion in France, accepted the award on behalf of President Sarkozy and delivered a personal message from the President.
President Sarkozy stated, 'I attach so much importance to this Alzheimer's Disease International Award 2012 because it comes from those who are the undisputed specialists in the subject, who are the authorities on this subject internationally, the leading experts and practitioners.'
He added, 'If I insisted on making it a priority while I was in office, that was because I refused to accept the appalling situation victims are living in, nearly 800,000 in France and 35 million worldwide. I also refused to give into the tiredness, sometimes exhaustion and, too often, even the despair of the families touched by this tragedy, affecting their husbands and wives, their mothers and fathers, their uncles and aunts.'
The French Alzheimer's Plan has resulted in the expansion of scientific knowledge about Alzheimer's, the addition of more than 600 practitioners trained in clinical epidemiology and more than 100 fundamental research projects have been launched. The addition of 65 new memory clinics have focussed on early detection and an effort is underway to add more than 500 new diagnostic centres throughout the country.
There has been an increase in the number of respite care facilities to help carers of people with Alzheimer's and health and social care service sectors work more collaboratively at the local level for more efficient and effective services for people with dementia and their families.
The ADI Award is presented to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution towards increasing awareness of dementia and encouraging policy initiatives and improvements in the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers. The first ADI Award was presented to ADI founder, Jerome Stone, in 2006.
Read the French National plan for Alzheimer and related diseases 2008-2012.


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Gdynia Film Festival Day 1: Deluge Redivivus / Polish Shit
Love, war and other crap at the Gdynia Film Festival, Poland's largest and most prestigious showcase for its national cinema.
Founded in 1974 and now in its 39th year (two were lost to the imposition of martial law in the early '80s) the Gdynia Film Festival (15-20 September 2014) is the oldest and most prestigious event in the Polish film calendar, and one of the primary showcases for national cinema. (Recent winners include Agnieska Holland's In Darkness [2012] and, last year, Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida.)
The range of movies, events, exhibitions and workshops that the festival offers clearly plays a large part in that reputation, while its blissful location in the gorgeous Gdynia (the northern seaside locale that's part of the so-called "Tri-City", or "Trójmiasto", alongside Gdansk and Sopot) doesn't hurt, either. As a first-time attendee, I've been struck over the last couple of days by the festival's excellent organisation and welcoming atmosphere, and by the richness of its programming which offers a sometimes overwhelming choice of things to do and see.
This year, the festival boasts a new artistic director, Michał Oleszczyk who, along with his team, has fashioned a programme that includes not only the most significant new Polish films in the Main Competition, but also a range of other enticing strands: Pure Classics; Pre-War Cinema Treasures; HBO Film Nights (including screenings of The Normal Heart [2014] and Behind the Candelabra [2013]); a Young Cinema Competition; and the freshly-inaugurated Visions Apart, a similar proposition to Cannes's Un Certain Regard section which aims to showcase films of particular originality or stylistic freshness.
The festival opened on Monday night with the premiere of Deluge Redivivus (Potop Redivivus), Jerzy Hoffman's Oscar-nominated 1974 epic, which has been restored and reconstructed under Hoffman's supervision in order to give new life to the film and to help introduce it to a younger audience. (The original cut ran at five hours; the new one runs at just over three.)
Based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1886 novel, the film takes place during the 17thC Swedish invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and focuses on the exploits of a nobleman soldier, Andrzej Kmicic (played by Daniel Olbrychski in a star turn of swoonsome romantic glamour and sly humour), and his experiences in love and war.
Far from the worthy, dry experience that such a synopsis might suggest, Hoffman's film is, in fact, a rousing spectacle that's full of action and plentiful (often goofy and cartoonish) humour. If the cuts made in the new version result in some weird narrative leaps and blips (especially in the second half, where the indefatigable Kmicic now seemingly jumps from one near-death and miraculous resurrection to another in a matter of minutes), narrative incoherence is partially compensated for by the movie's beautiful restoration.
The images -- whether of costumes, actors' skin tones, or landscapes after battle -- have a wonderful vividness that seduces the viewer, while seeing the movie with such an enthusiastic Polish crowd (many of whom greeted individual lines and sequences with heartily affectionate applause) also added to the experience on Monday night. Hoffman, introducing the premiere, paid a touching tribute to the actors featured in the film who are now deceased but who, for tonight, are "living among us again, on the screen".
Polskie Gówno (2014)
The other film I saw on the first day was one of those featured in the Visions Apart section. Grzegorz Jankowski's evocatively titled Polish Shit (Polskie Gówno) is an irreverent, cheerfully scuzzy satirical musical comedy that follows the fortunes of a rock band, The Transistors, as they battle drink, drugs, financial woes and an inept Manager (played with considerable relish by the corpulent Grzegorz Halama).
As scattershot as its subjects, the film is sometimes clumsy in its construction, but it's good fun and, even after a gag misfires, it's not long before you hear yourself laughing out loud again. As such Polish Shit (the title gains in English, irresistibly bringing to mind the "you can't polish a turd" analogy) takes its place as Poland's answer to the likes of Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap (1984) and Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys films.
The movie's script is the work of Tymon Tymanski, the popular musician who takes the lead role as the band's singer Jerzy. Tymanski also wrote the songs, which include ditties about paedophile priests and a breathtakingly filthy and funny lament for lost years of Polish promiscuity. Best of the bunch is the ballad "Brothel for Dogs": surprisingly plangent, it sounds ripe for a Nick Cave cover.
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Above: Still from Deluge Redivivus (1974)


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Chaos ruled the streets. Foto: humedica/ Christian Stolber
Return from Manila - Dr. Scholber reports
Sent out by humedica, Dr. Scholber arrived in Manila last week together with three other humedica-volunteers. He wrote down his experiences following tropical storm "Ketsana" in this report:
There is a foul stench in the air that burns in your nose and is absorbed by your clothes. The streets are covered in knee-high, putrid mud with remains of furniture, garbage and animal cadavers scattered in it. Overturned cars are scattered at the sides of the road, as if a crazy giant had been ravaging in town. A dented, mud covered fridge hanging on a power pole.
Chaos ruled the streets. Foto: humedica/ Christian Stolber
On Saturday, the 26th of September, cyclone "Ketsana" ("Ondoy") had swept through the northern Philippines causing the worst flooding in decades. Water and mud slides swamped the lower parts of the metropolis of Manila inundating them up to the second floor.
As one member of a humedica-team of four, I had set off for Manila on Monday, 28th of September, equipped with medical instruments and drugs in order to provide medical aid for the people in the most severely affected poor quarters of Manila, in cooperation with our partner on the spot, Scandinavian Children's Mission (SCM).
The mayor of Marikina City showed us to our first treatment room: an open basketball gym that, in a hurry, had been at least partly cleaned of mud and debris. On this day, our team (two doctors, one nurse and a coordinator) was supported by two Philippine doctors.
humedica-members are helping people in cooperation with local medical staff and SCM. Foto: humedica/ Christian Scholber
The nurses and volunteers of Children's Mission set up makeshift, but nevertheless professional treatment stations, Philippine soldiers ensured that order was maintained and helped with registering and translating.
Patients, among them many children, suffered from respiratory infections, diarrhoea and asthma. Besides, one of the major ailments consisted in cut injuries on the feet which had happened while people had been wading through the debris-filled muddy brew. Many patients suffered from skin infections, some of which have already begun to spread. Almost all of the patients had caught a foot fungus.
The next day, we set up a treatment station in an evacuation centre, a school that had been transformed into a shelter for those whose homes had turned completely inhabitable. There, people live huddled together on limited space. The hygienic problems that arise from such a mass shelter are obvious. Smelling garbage everywhere. Barefoot and with their bare hands, garbage workers tried to get the situation under control.
In the meantime, an attempt has been started to collect the enormous heaps of rubble and garbage left by the cyclone and transport them to a main road on the outskirts of the town.
The mountains of waste are growing. Foto: humedica.
On that road that has been half-closed, the waste is stored temporarily. The smell is unimaginable. It seems that the waste dump, which is also home to some people, is insufficient for these huge amounts of waste and then the rubbish is still too wet to be burnt.
On Saturday, we were condemned to inactivity due to approaching cyclone "Pepeng" ("Parma"). People were afraid that Manila would be hit again by this super cyclone, which was expected to be even stronger than the first one. All the time, warning announcements and recommendations for action were broadcast on TV.
After people had been panic buying, the shops were empty and there was an eerie silence on the otherwise busy streets. Fortunately, "Pepeng" spared the city of Manila, which only got some harmless wind and rain.
The next day of treatment brought us to Taytay, a quarter of the city that had been affected very severely by 'Ketsana'. In this poor area, people live either in plain stone houses or in the numerous shanties and huts made of wooden slats and plastic tarps.
People here call these overpopulated parts of the city, where hygiene is a problem, "high density areas". Large parts of Taytay are still under water and it is feared that it will stay like this till December.
Everything that can float is being used as a raft. Foto: humedica/ Christian Scholber
People have built rafts with whatever material was suitable: wood slats, plastic items, roof parts. Empty canisters that are mounted on the sides provide flotation. We also saw a converted bathtub. For a small fee, these rickety vehicles are pushed through the dirty water by their captains. Those who cannot afford the fee have to wade through the sometimes breast-high mud.
In a tiny church, where the water reached up to the threshold, we held a surgery. Keeping our equipment dry during the transport was not an easy task. We were supported by members of the Free protestant Church who had informed us about the misery of the people living in this area.
The members of the church, a German pastor and his wife, a physiotherapist and volunteers from Germany had all been affected by the flooding themselves, some of them had lost everything and their lives had been in serious danger. Now, they distributed rice and water to the people around. Like on the former days of treatment, people mainly suffered from respiratory and skin infections. In addition to that, many children suffered from severe, purulent ear inflammations, caused by the filthy water.
On the same evening, I returned to Germany according to schedule. My work was taken over by a colleague from Portugal, who arrived in Manila few hours later. The humedica relief project, which, in the meantime, has received financial support from the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, will be continued until the middle of November. This will be absolutely necessary since the most severe consequences of the water pollution are to be expected during the weeks to come.
Dr. Christian Scholber is being shipped through the flooded streets. Foto: humedica.


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