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New T1's Establish Network Equality
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
Two new T1's will be installed on the Pacific Union College campus by February 15, which will mean much faster Internet service for students. The new T1's, as well as a server that rations Internet use, are a result of a bill proposed by PUC senator Al Ochoa. Student senate and the school administration are combining funds to help make the faster Internet possible. The idea for this bill came from computer science major, Jason Whitney. Concerned about the sluggishness of the Internet making his homework more difficult, he spoke to Ochoa about some possible solutions. Senate and the administration agreed upon a plan: Senate and the administration will each pay half of the cost for the new server, and Senate will pay for the first month's fee for the new T1's if the administration will continue paying it. Ochoa was not only surprised that the administration agreed to this plan, but also pleased that the work is being completed so quickly. There have been some concerns regarding the new rationing of the Internet, however. Cassaundra Shewmake, a graphic design major, has already been disconnected from her Internet service. "It doesn't bother me to not be able to listen to...Read Story
PUC Student Brings History to Life
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
Having a wide variety of students at Pacific Union College means that they have some fairly unique interests. Isaac Hrimnak, from Placerville, California, is one of these students. Now a freshman, Hrimnak has what some would consider to be a split personality. Aside from being a normal Californian, he has also taken part in Civil War re-enacting for half of his life. As he says, his frock coat, forage cap, and red sash may be "140 years out of style," but his uniform fits right in when he joins his friends for battles and tours of historic sites. Hrimnak's interest in history began when he was young. While his classmates were out playing soccer and baseball, Hrimnak stayed inside, absorbed in history books. At nine years old, he became interested in joining a Civil War re-enactment group, but was required to have a parent join as well. However, since his mother was a single parent at the time, she was too busy home-schooling his younger sister. Hrimnak's mother finally asked whether there was any way he could join the group and was told that the only position a child of his age could hold during the Civil War was that...Read Story
PUC Students Selected as Interns for Adventist Health System
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
Three students from Pacific Union College will serve as interns for Adventist Health System's 2002 Leadership Development Program this summer. Magally Arevalo, Chris Jones, and Timothy Ko will have the opportunity to do special projects and assignments, shadow key executives, and participate in leadership events. The interns chosen for this program were amongst many candidates in the finance and management areas. The three candidates from PUC are business administration majors, Jones has an emphasis in accounting, and Ko has an emphasis in finance. All three are in their junior year at PUC. "The program continues to attract high-quality candidates each year, with more students competing for a limited number of internship spots," says Christine To, assistant director of communications and leadership development at Adventist Health System. "These are the best students from across the nation with high grade point averages, successful and proven campus leadership experience, and a strong desire to work in the mission field of healthcare." The 29 interns selected to serve at Adventist Health System were chosen from a variety of Seventh-day Adventist higher education institutions. An orientation for all interns took place on May 14-15 in Winter Park, Florida, to emphasize the mission and values in...Read Story
Professor King's Book Published
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
Pacific Union College professor of biblical studies, Dr. Greg A. King, recently authored a book called Kings and Chronicles: A History of Divided Monarchy, published by Pacific Press. The book is intended to be a Sabbath school lesson study help. It analyzes and explains 13 different stories from the books of Kings and Chronicles. This was the time in Israel's history when the region was ruled by a series of kings. The stories in King's book include events from the lives of famous Old Testament characters such as Solomon, Elijah, Jeroboam, Ahab, and Hezekiah. These stories give in-depth historical information on the people and the times, and they provide devotional studies for personal spiritual growth. In all of the stories, God's mercy and compassion toward his people show through. "It's my hope that readers of this book gain insights into an often overlooked portion of the Bible. Many of the challenges that God's people faced in that time are still here today," says King. Greg King has been a professor in the religion department at PUC since 1987, and he is now chair of the department. He teaches courses in Old Testament theology and Hebrew. He has a Master of...Read Story
PUC Student Adds a Religion Degree to His M.D.
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
Many people look forward to the golden years of retirement, planning to do what they always wanted to do, but were too busy. Dr. Allyn Gilbert has already had a full life, and at almost 77 years old, he is continuing to make it richer in an unconventional way. Instead of finding new hobbies and investing in an RV, Gilbert is earning a degree in religion from Pacific Union College. Gilbert is a retired anesthesiologist who now lives in St. Helena. Five years ago, Gilbert was widowed and open to new ways to enrich his life when he picked up a copy of U.S. News and World Report. The issue was about the nation's top colleges, and when he discovered that PUC was amongst them, he thought he'd pay a visit on registration day. He has been taking classes part time for five years now and will graduate in June. Gilbert says, "I'm just taking the classes for personal satisfaction and to fill that void in my education." Gilbert, however, is a very educated man. After earning a master's degree in physiology from the University of Illinois, Gilbert also decided to become a doctor. He was a high school science...Read Story
Rediscovering PUC: The 1950's and 60's
By Beth Whittemore on December 18, 2007
"Did you know that West Hall Annex used to be the prized new physics building?" The words across the screen brought a chuckle from the audience as they reflected on the currently run-down condition of the building. To the surprise of some, Pacific Union College also did not used to have a student senate or student association. PUC students had a glimpse into these and other changes from the college's past when Lisa Gilbert, PUC senior graphic design major, did an honors project comparing the old and the new. Gilbert's 40-minute documentary film showing interviews with former students and faculty gave an idea of what PUC used to look like. As Keith Francis, associate professor of history and Gilbert's faculty advisor, said, the project came about as a result of "Lisa's fecund and furtive mind" and an interest in PUC history. Gilbert says, "I just wanted students to be aware of what PUC used to be like so they could better appreciate how it is today. If they know how strict the rules used to be they won't take for granted the freedom they have now, and hopefully they'll use their freedom more wisely." The three faculty members Gilbert interviewed...Read Story


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Everything You Need to Know About Schisandra
You could go a lifetime without ever even hearing about this rather obscure vine fruit, but once you learn about all the benefits it can bring to the table, you'll be thankful that you didn't.
A twining shrub native to Asia and North America, the drupes of this deciduous climber are also known to the Chinese as "wu wei zi" which translates to five flavor fruit.
Why, you ask? Well, these fantastic fruits possess all five flavors associated with classic Chinese medicine: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and pungent (spicy).
Measuring roughly 1cm in diameter with a lustrous red hue, they don't look particularly remarkable. They grow in bunches like common grapes.
They resemble blueberries in shape. If you saw them in the wild, you'd probably assume them to be poisonous, but on the contrary, these are one of the most nutritious foods on the planet.
Schisandra: What Is it Used For?
Despite the many flavors whirling around in this nebulous miracle fruit, it's very rarely used as an ingredient in meals. It won't normally find a place in the fruit bowl along with favorites such as bananas, oranges, and apples either.
So, what the heck is it used for?
Schisandra is used almost exclusively as a medicinal ingredient, especially in China where it's thought to be beneficial to "qi", the essential life force shared by all living beings. Sounds pretty good, right?
Schisandra: What Does it Taste Like?
Even though you're unlikely to find them in any cuisine, Schisandra berries are completely edible — seeds and all. So, if you get the opportunity to try one, I highly recommend that you do.
In terms of what you can expect regarding flavor and texture, picture a cross between red currants and goji berries. Sprinkle on a bit of salt, and that's around about what schisandra berries taste like.
You won't find anything else like them in the entire natural world. The unique combinations of flavors balance out almost perfectly against one another, providing a truly tongue-twisting, mind-boggling experience.
What's in a Name? The Many Titles of Schisandra
It's fairly common for certain fruits and herbs to amass a collection of names, but schisandra berries have so many names, there's an element of split personality to their story, a vaguery that only enhances their almost mythic mystique.
As I've already touched upon, the Chinese sometimes refer to them as wu wei zi, or five flavor fruit. The standard western spelling of schisandra can also mutate into schizandra.
The Japanese may refer to them as gomishi, and in Korea, they become emija. The list goes on: ngu mie gee, herb of five tastes, Chinese magnolia vine, lemon wood, omicha.
And these are just the common names.
I know schisandra is starting to sound more like a character of noble birth in Game of Thrones than a fruit or herb, but as you're about to see, there are countless reasons these humble berries are so revered.
Schisandra: A Brief History
First used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat numerous ailments, such as fatigue, asthma, and to resist infections, schisandra has a long medicinal history.
It's unknown when its medical benefits were initially discovered, but the first example of it having been used can be found in Pen T'shao Kang Mu, a 1596 work on ancient Chinese medicine written by Li Shih Chen.
Despite China being the center of schisandra diversity, it was introduced to Europe via Eastern Russia in the 1850s.
The former Soviet Union conducted extensive research on it in the 1950s, experimenting with its efficacy as an adaptogen to enhance concentration and endurance.
The true medicinal potential of schisandra hasn't truly been tapped yet in Europe.
It's not certain why it hasn't received the attention it has elsewhere in the world, but thankfully, that's starting to change — part of the reason I wrote this article.
Benefits of Schisandra
It's really no surprise that the Chinese use such a general term for wellness as qi (life force) when describing the benefits of schisandra, as it can be used to treat a myriad of ailments, both chronic and benign.
- Anti-Aging – Schisandra is practically exploding with antioxidants, but we're not just talking clear, supple skin here, folks. We're talking reduced muscle degradation, and improved insulin sensitivity — full-blown fountain of youth stuff!
Perhaps most significant of all the anti-aging qualities of schisandra is that it doesn't just fight off the symptoms of aging, but it can actually extend our life span.
- Hormone Balancing – Similar to sea moss, as an adaptogen, schisandra can be instrumental in balancing out hormones and keeping both our body and mind feeling centered.
- De-Stressing – This is sort of a subcategory of hormone balancing. Schisandra does a great job of regulating our adrenal glands (the glands that help fight against stress). What's more, schisandra can actually reduce the build-up of cortisol (the stress hormone) in our bodies.
So, if you've been having a hard time as of late, infusing your tea or smoothie with some of these super berries may be just what the doctor ordered.
- Improving Sex Drive – Here's another hormonal subcategory that I think deserves its own bullet point. Schisandra helps to produce estrogen which is essential for the female sex drive, and it can stave off impotence too, so say goodbye to the oysters and get yourself some berries!
- Galvanizing Immune Systems – You'll often hear the term "the preventative is better than the cure" being thrown around, but in schisandra's case, it's possible that the preventative and the cure are the same thing.
Studies have shown that the supplemental imbibing of schisandra reinforces the immune system, reducing the chances we'll get sick in the first place — hurray!
- Fighting Fatigue – It's a tough old world out there, and keeping up with the rat race can be exhausting. According to studies on various animals (rats included), schisandra might be just the thing we need to put a pep back in our step.
- Dietary Supplement – Studies on the effects of schisandra on mice have shown that it can increase the development of lean muscle mass and keep body fat at a healthy level.
Bear in mind that we can't draw direct conclusions from animal testing, but even at this nascent point in the western world's experimentation with schisandra, things are looking positive.
- Respiratory Conditions – Whether you've got a case of the winter coughs or you suffer from asthma, schisandra could be the breath of fresh air you've been waiting for.
Studies have shown that schisandra-based tonics helped to ease the symptoms of a number of respiratory issues. As an asthmatic myself, I'm especially pleased about these findings!
- Anti-Inflammatory – A little bit of inflammation is essential to recovery, but too much can be an issue. The antioxidants in schisandra help to keep swelling at a healthy level.
- Bone Strength – Want strong bones? Omit the milk, and bring some schisandra into your diet. It will help you recover from a break and even helps to stave off osteoporosis.
- Post-Op Recovery – Much like it can help our bones get on the fast track to recovery, schisandra can help pretty much any part of us heal.
- Reducing Blood Pressure – As if all these other health benefits weren't enough, schisandra can also be instrumental in bringing blood pressure levels back into the safe zone.
Studies on rats have shown that schisandra achieves this via relaxing the cardiac vessels, thereby improving circulation.
- Fighting Liver Disease – This is probably the most common use of schisandra in the modern world. Cirrhosis or hepatitis causes the build-up of lots of fatty acids in the liver, but tests on mice have shown that schisandra will combat this unhealthy accumulation.
Furthermore, schisandra can stimulate enzymes, proteins that fast track biochemical reactions, leading to improved liver cell regeneration.
- Mental Acuity – With recent studies showing that brainteasers such as crosswords and Sudoku aren't as effective in the fight against dementia and Alzheimer's as we first thought, it's nice to know schisandra has promise.
Researchers claim that this miraculous effect is due to schisandra's uncanny ability to reduce the formation of amyloid beta peptides in the brain.
These peptides are one of the substances responsible for build-ups of amyloid plaque, which is found in the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers.
- Antidepressant – There have been no conclusive tests done on humans to determine whether schisandra could be used as a natural antidepressant, but animal studies show there's a lot of promise in this area.
- Menopause – This 2016 study shows that schisandra can be used to ease some of the symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes, heart palpitations, and excessive sweating.
Benefits of Schisandra – The Takeaway
Although schisandra testing is fairly limited at the moment, there's no doubt that this is a veritable super berry with humongous medicinal potential.
The ailments I've listed thus far have been quite general, but there are a plethora of more specific conditions that schisandra can help with.
Things like insomnia, dysentery, night sweats, diarrhea, PMS, involuntary semen discharge, excessive thirst, excessive urination, and irritability all fall under the healing remit of schisandra.
Schisandra Dosage: How Much Should You Consume?
Eating this little red berry may be the closest we'll get to being superhuman, but like anything else, moderation is key.
If you've been prescribed a schisandra-based medicine by your doctor, it's imperative you stick to the agreed-upon dosage.
If you're just looking to bring some schisandra into your life to keep you fit and healthy, 500 mg to 2 grams of schisandra extract daily is sufficient.
This should improve your mental acuity and physical fitness, especially if paired with a structured exercise regime.
Should you have a crude schisandra supplement rather than extract, you can up your daily intake to between 1.5 and 6 grams.
Consuming excessive amounts of schisandra isn't deadly, but the chances are that you'll experience either severe heartburn, an upset stomach, stomach pain, decreased appetite, skin rashes, or itching.
Up to this point, no clinical human schisandra overdoses have been reported.
How to Consume Schisandra?
Schisandra berries are safe to eat as is, but they're not quite as sweet as the berries you may like to enjoy in your bowl of cereal in the morning.
In light of this, you may be better off using tablets like these Capsules, liquid extracts such as this Super Concentrated Supplement, or a powdered form like Pure Schisandra Supplement.
. Popular ways of consuming schisandra include…
- Tea – Many people like to make schisandra tea. It can be bought, or you can create your own.
- Tinctures – Much like schisandra tea, tinctures can be bought pre-mixed. You can take 30 drops of these a day. Alternatively, you can make your own tincture using liquid schisandra extract and water using the ratio 1:6.
- Smoothies – Why not drizzle some of that liquid extract into your next banana and strawberry super smoothie? If your food processor is good enough, you could even sprinkle a powdered variant into your custom health shakes.
Do Not Take If…
For all its health benefits, in some instances, schisandra should be avoided. It's best to steer clear if you…
- Are pregnant or breastfeeding – Schisandra is known to cause contractions in the uterus that may increase the chances of miscarriage. We're currently unsure of the effects it has on breastfeeding, so it's best avoided for now.
- Suffer from epilepsy – This isn't set in stone as fact just yet, but it's thought that when schisandra stimulates the nervous system, it could exacerbate epilepsy.
- Suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease or peptic ulcers – Schisandra creates quite a bit of stomach acid, which is known to worsen these conditions.
- Have high intracranial pressure – If you have high brain pressure, you should avoid schisandra for the same reasons as epileptics.
Final Thoughts
There you have it, folks; schisandra is a berry and herb used to treat a wide variety of illnesses. It's an ancient plant, but its full impact on the modern world is yet to be seen.
If you plan on introducing schisandra to your diet, be careful not to exceed the recommended dosage, but otherwise, enjoy!


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In 2013, Docker was the "it" company. Docker made headlines for the critical role it played in bringing containers to the mainstream, and in many ways displaced PaaS as the hotness of the time (Heroku anyone?). Now, the company is back in the press with the introduction of a new model for Docker Desktop that requires larger organizations to buy a paid subscription for the tools. There's been a vocal reaction to this announcement, one that reminds me of the important role Docker played in popularizing a model we know, love, and now use on a mainstream basis: containers.
Docker did not invent containers, but it made the technology accessible through an open source tool and reusable images. With Docker, developers could really and truly build software once and run it locally, or on a production server.
The fact that the Docker command line tool displaced years of sexy web interfaces is perhaps a commentary on what developers really want. But to really understand Docker's impact, it's important to go back to a time slightly before Docker container technology made its debut.
Looking for the Next Big Thing
By 2009, the value of using virtualization was well understood and it was widely deployed. Most organizations had already garnered the benefits of virtualization or had a roadmap to get there. The marketing machine was tired of virtualization. People were hungry for the next innovation in IT and software development. It came in the form of Heroku. In fact, PaaS in general and Heroku specifically became wildly popular. So much so that it looked like PaaS was going to take over the world.
At that time, Heroku was huge. You just go out to this portal and develop your apps and deliver them as a service? What's not to like? Why wouldn't you develop apps on Heroku?
As it turned out, there were a couple of good reasons not to use Heroku and PaaS platforms of its ilk. For example, applications built on Heroku were not portable; they were available only within Heroku. Developers had to work remotely on the PaaS platform if they wanted to collaborate. Unlike Netflix, it turns out, developers love to develop locally. If a developer wanted to work on their local box, they were still left to manually build the environment themselves.
In addition, although the Heroku model was extremely powerful if you used what was provided out of the box, it was complex behind the scenes. As soon as your team built something more complex than a simple web app, or they needed to customize the infrastructure for security or performance reasons, it became a difficult, very "real" engineering problem.
It was great... until it wasn't. But in typical IT fashion, lots of people went all in before realizing that platforms like Heroku have their place but are not the right tool for every job.
The Docker difference
Containers, on the other hand, solved many of the challenges with PaaS, and Docker was the company that made developers, IT managers, and business managers see and understand that. In fact, when Docker came out, its value was staggeringly obvious: All the things that were hard on Heroku were easy with Docker, and all the things that were easy on Heroku were also easy with Docker. With Docker you could quickly and easily fire up a pre-built service, but you could also easily develop locally, and customize services to make them do what you need.
That's not to say that Docker was pretty. It actually leveraged a UX first made popular in the 1970s in Unix! Docker was just a command run in a Linux terminal—a far cry from the slick graphical interfaces on most PaaS platforms. But the Docker command-line interface (CLI) was really elegant. In fact, I'd argue that the Docker CLI in particular showed the world that when we bring a modern sense of UX to the development of a CLI, it can change the world.
Docker—and containers in general—provided the underlying technology for developing cloud-native applications. They worked, and they continue to work, across highly distributed architectures and within the devops and CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) models that are required today to meet new and constant customer demands for improvements without regressions (aka bugs, security problems, etc.).
Containers enable developers to change applications quickly, without breaking the functionality users rely on. Furthermore, the ecosystem that has evolved around containers—including the seemingly indefectible Kubernetes orchestration platform—has enabled organizations to effectively scale and manage growing container collections.
Developers quickly understood the value of containers. Operations teams quickly understood, and Silicon Valley investors understood. But it took some work to convince managers, CIOs, and CEOs, who typically watch slick demos, that a command-line tool was better than all of these bells and whistles with PaaS.
Life in a containerized world
And here we are in 2021 with a command-line tool still making waves. That's pretty remarkable, to say the least. It even appears there's room for two players in this market for container CLIs (see "Red Hat Enterprise Linux takes aim at edge computing" and "When do you use Docker vs. Podman: A developer's perspective").
Now, thanks to the road paved with container technology, developers can work locally or in the cloud much more easily than before. CIOs and CEOs can expect shorter development cycles, lower risk of outages, and even reduced cost to manage applications over the life cycle.
Docker isn't perfect, and neither are containers. Arguably, it's more work to migrate applications into containers compared with virtual machines, but the benefits last the full life cycle of the app, so it's worth the investment. This is especially true with new applications just being developed, but it also applies to lift-and-shift migrations, or even refactoring work.
Docker brought container technology front and center and top of mind, displacing PaaS as the reigning hotness, and for that reason alone it really did change the world.
At Red Hat, Scott McCarty helps to educate IT professionals, customers and partners on all aspects of Linux containers, from organizational transformation to technical implementation, and works to advance Red Hat's go-to-market strategy around containers and related technologies.
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Synopsis Summary for Episode 11 of Fashion King
Jae Hyuk lets Ga Young leaves Young Gul and walk her own path, Young Gul happened to see the scene, and both of them fight for the sake of Ga Young. Jae Hyuk gives Ga Young one last chance to work at his company. Ga Young in panic and agrees to his request. The angry Young Gul throws out the luggage of Ga Young, but ultimately he still snatches away Ga Young from the hand of Jae Hyuk.
Jae Hyuk arranges to meet Ga Young, saying that he wants to sue her and Young Gul. Ga Young has mixed feelings after hearing it.
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By Seán Ua Cearnaigh
The Dublin street ballad, 'The Wearing of the Green', with its' rousing martial air, was composed, it is believed, in the early years of the eighteenth century. It has always been popular and particularly so on Saint Patrick's Day, wherever Irish people foregather. Although Dion Boucicault was, at one time, erroneously credited with its' authorship, nobody knows who wrote it.
Napper Tandy is mentioned in the second verse. But who was this man?
He was a true Irish patriot. Although now largely forgotten, even in his native city of Dublin, he played an important role in the affairs of the United Irishmen and the 1798 Rising.
He was born into a Protestant, unionist family in 1740, but he himself, as he grew to manhood, was no unionist.
Although he started his working life as a land agent – an occupation not likely to endear him to the Irish public – he abandoned this career in favour of politics. He went on to become a member of the Anglo Irish Parliament in College Green, where he soon became known as an ardent champion of Catholic rights.
Joining the Volunteers on their formation and closely associated as he was, with Henry Grattan and Henry Flood, he commanded the approaches to the Houses of Parliament, when legislative independence was announced on May 27th, 1892.
Tandy, described by an unfriendly critic, as the ugliest-looking man in Dublin, if not indeed, in Ireland, was hated by the ascendancy clique of the city.
Often in danger of arrest and persecution by his enemies, he found refuge by continually changing his places of residence. He is believed to have resided in no less than ten houses in Dublin, in the years between 1779 and 1795, in which latter year, he went to America.
He championed the rights of Catholics, time and again, in Parliament, but sadly, to no avail. In 1791, following a difference of opinion with the infamous John Toler, afterwards, Lord Norbury, the hanging judge who sentenced Robert Emmet to death, he suffered much persecution and harassment, at the hands of the ascendancy chiefs in College Green.
But his days as a member of parliament were numbered.


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The Chinese premium smartphone brand OnePlus is all geared up to launch OnePlus 7T in India today. The latest smartphone is the upgraded variant of the OnePlus 7 that the company launched a few months ago in the country. The launch event will be hosted in Delhi where the company will introduce the smartphone for the first time. Interestingly the company will also unveil its OnePlus TV during the launch event.
By launching the Television OnePlus will enter into the smart TV industry for the first time. Both the products of the company have been the talk of the town for the past couple of months as the company has been teasing the smartphone and the Television every now and then across all its social media platforms. Additionally, the company is also expected to launch OnePlus 7T Pro at the same event. The said smartphone is the updated version of OnePlus 7 Pro.
OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV expected price, availability and how to watch the live stream
OnePlus will unveil OnePlus 7T and OnePlus TV in India at 7 PM today. The company will be holding the launch event in New Delhi later this evening. If you are interested to watch the event live where OneOlus will be introducing its new flagship phone and its first-ever smart TV then you can watch it live here and we have embedded the link below for your convenience.
As for the pricing, OnePlusTV will be competing with Mi TV and Motorola in the same price segment. While OnePlus 7T might carry the price tag somewhere around OnePlus 7 that was introduced in the country at Rs 32,999 for the 6GB of RAM with 128GB of internal storage option.
OnePlus 7T, as well as OnePlus TV, will go on sale via e-commerce website Amazon during the Amazon Great Indian Festival sale that is commencing from September 29.
OnePlus 7T expected specifications
Ahead of the launch, OnePlus has officially confirmed that OnePlus 7T will arrive with a 90Hz display that we have already seen in the OnePlus 7 Pro. The company has also teased some of the pictures of the upcoming smartphone that also revealed that this time the device would come with a fresh new design with triple rear cameras placed in a circular module. It will come preinstalled with Android 10 out-of-the-box.
OnePlus 7T is expected to come with a 6.55-inch 2K Super AMOLED display. It will be featuring a triple-camera setup combined with 8-megapixel, 16-megapixel and 12-megapixel sensors on the rear panel. It is suggested to be powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ SoC paired with 8GB of RAM along with 128GB of storage. Another one will be available with8GB of RAM with 256GB of internal storage options. It might carry a 3,800mAh battery supported with 30W Warp Charge.
OnePlus TV specifications
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After several unsuccessful attempts, a swath of South Los Angeles won a hard-fought battle to receive "Promise Zone" designation, a move that pushes the neediest neighborhoods to the top of the list when applying for competitive federal grants to tackle issues related to poverty.
Federal and local leaders made the announcement Monday at a news conference, flanked by college and high school students from Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. They hugged and cheered over an accomplishment that had become something of a mission.
"We have been able to clear the mission to improve the lives of brothers and sisters in need," said Councilman Curren Price, who represents parts of the area. "We will soon have another powerful tool under our belt to rewrite the South L.A. story."
Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement that "this will bring new resources, energy, and urgency into our movement to expand opportunity in all of L.A.'s neighborhoods."
In 2014, when President Obama created Promise Zones to help struggling communities recover from the Great Recession, South L.A. did not meet the requirements, according to officials.
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The city was one of five in the U.S. to earn the status, but for neighborhoods bounded by Hollywood, MacArthur Park and Koreatown. Some South L.A. residents and community leaders were angered at falling short.
"We thought that the way that Promise Zones were organized that we would be prime in South L.A. to get the Promise Zone," Congresswoman Maxine Waters said at Monday's announcement. "However, we learned a lot about the criteria and how it was all put together. "
That fall, Larry Frank, president of Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, led the charge in putting in a second application with support from USC, the Los Angeles Unified School District and more than 40 other community partners. But, once again, South L.A. didn't make the cut.
After the failed attempt, the Department of Housing and Urban Development met with Frank and others to show them where their application was failing. It turned out South L.A. had scored low points in the areas of housing need and unemployment.
"Unless we changed the way they were going to score these Promise Zones applications, we were dead," Frank said.
The way the federal government evaluated housing need was based on the number of foreclosures that sit empty.
"That's a Detroit measure, not a South L.A. measure," Frank said. "In South L.A. we have three families fighting for a single apartment and living in a single apartment. We have the worst homelessness in America. We have an unaffordability crisis in L.A."
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro took a tour of the region to better understand the problems that plagued the community. Over the next year, the community leaders refined their application for Promise Zone status and lobbied the federal government to change the way it graded South L.A.'s bid.
This time South L.A. was chosen.
South L.A. is one of 13 communities in the nation picked in the final round of Promise Zones designations. Los Angeles is the only city to have had two designations within its city boundaries.
The new zone will straddle major transit lines of the Exposition, Blue and Crenshaw/LAX lines as well as the proposed Vermont bus rapid transit line. The boundaries include about 200,000 residents living in parts of Crenshaw, Leimert Park, Exposition Park, University Park, Historic South-Central, Central-Alameda, Florence and downtown Los Angeles.
"One of the goals is how does the community realize opportunities of the transportation investments without having mass displacement," said Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who represents parts of South L.A.
Harris-Dawson worked as the president of the Community Coalition, a South L.A.-based nonprofit organization, when South L.A. was skipped over in the first round of designations.
"We thought it was definitely an injustice," he said. "But we licked our wounds, we got in the room, and tried to come up with something so innovative and so powerful that the federal government can't resist and that has been accomplished now. It's a really bright and shiny moment."
These are the final nine Promise Zones across the country in high poverty areas, according to a release by the U.S. Department of Housing. Eight other communities include Atlanta; Nashville, Tenn.; San Diego; Evansville, Ind.; Southwest Florida Regional Planning Commission; Spokane Tribe of Indians, Washington state; Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Rolette County, N.D.; and Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico.
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On Monday, Tesla Motors chief Elon Musk will finally reveal his concept for a high-speed transit system called Hyperloop. The Hyperloop, according to Musk, will be able to whisk you from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco in roughly the time it takes to watch an episode of Veep. He's been intentionally vague about details—but that doesn't mean we can't make some educated guesses about how he's going to pull this off.
The plan will be revealed on Monday at 3PM. It'll be followed by a call at 5PM. Make sure to follow our liveblog of the call right here.
Musk's inspiration for the Hyperloop was borne out of his distaste for another state-of-the-art transit proposal, a high-speed railroad connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles. That project's estimated $68 billion price tag would make it the most expensive high-speed line in the world, despite being significantly slower at just a 133 mph clip. To put that in context, the Amtrak Acela line maxes out at 150 mph, while Japan's "Bullet Trains" can hit up to 20o mph.
If that LA to SF estimate is accurate, Musk's Hyperloop would average nearly 700 mph, at a tenth of the cost of the existing high speed rail proposal. Or so he claims.
Faster and cheaper is enough to make most people's ears perk up, but Musk hasn't provided too many substantive details about how the Hyperloop is supposed to work. Back in May, he described the system as a "cross between a rail gun, the concord, and an air hockey table." Using this tiny bit of insight and a few other details that he's divulged, let's see what we can put together.
What seems certain
Magnetic levitation
There's a broad consensus that Hyperloop will transport people in magnetically levitated or magnetically propelled pods. This is the same maglev principle used on Japan's bullet trains, the latest generation of which will average about 300 mph once construction is finally complete.
As we'll see below, virtually every concept for high-speed transit of this kind—on land, at least—relies on magnetic levitation. To achieve ludicrous speeds in any remotely scalable way, you need to eliminate the friction from tracks. That's tough to achieve, given that stubborn little bugger called gravity.
By using "tracks" and "train wheels" of opposite magnetic polarity, you can achieve movement without introducing any actual physical contact between container and solid ground. Better yet, magnetic levitation doesn't just provide a source of lift, it can also serve as the thrust to push a container—or car, whatever—down a line. As a maglev expert told The Verge a while back, the speed you can achieve with maglev is limitless—as long as you're traveling through a vacuum.
Sealed Tubes
Speaking of vacuums, the other huge source of friction is that life-giving air we breathe. That's why, in order to reach the speeds Musk describes, Hyperloop will almost certainly need to move people through sealed tubes that have had at least some of the air sucked out of them.
Again, as we'll see below, the best ideas about how to achieve absurdly high speeds involve eliminating as much friction from drag as possible. While you don't necessarily need to suck all of the air out of a tube to get this done, you definitely need to build a pressurized tube that allows you to control how the air is flowing through them.
Pods, not trains
We're not talking about mass transit in the traditional sense here. While exact designs vary, all prominent theories rely on "pod" or "capsule" designs, which can hold 4-6 passengers. Elon Musk has publicly called them pods, and even divulged the 2 meter diameter dimension.
Very High Speed Transit System
As first pointed out by BI, the system could be a variant of the Very High Speed Transit System (VHSTS) proposed in a paper published by the Rand Corporation in 1972. The proposal calls for a MagLev-based underground vacuum tunnel system with a main line running diagonally across the country making a few stops along the way. These stops would serve as regional hubs for connection to other lines. According to Rand, travel between New York and Los Angeles under this system could take as little 21 minutes, achieving speeds as fast as 14,000 mph. This wasn't the first system of its kind either; proposals for a vacuum-sealed MagLv transit date back to the turn of the twentieth century.
An underground solution presents several unique challenges, though, ones that almost certainly wouldn't fit into Musk's promise of relative affordability. While we certainly have the technology to build massive underground tunnels, there are an incredible number of challenges and costs associated with burrowing for hundreds of miles in heavily populated areas. So it's probably better to look to the sky.
John Gardi's Twitter proposal
In recent weeks, engineer John Gardi has become a popular "expert" on Hyperloop because Musk publicly told him that his theory was the closest he'd seen to his own—and indeed, it looks much like what you can piece together from Musk's limited descriptions.
Gardi's proposal, highlighted in the graphic above, shows tubes that aren't complete vacuums because, well, Musk has actually said they won't be. Somehow the system has to be virtually frictionless, though. Gardi's tube loop is filled with columns of circulating air that suck pods through from one end of the tube to the other.
In a longer analysis published last week at Motherboard, Gardi compared this to the pneumatic tubes used to transport messages or small packages within buildings. At either end of the loop, cars are blasted into the system by linear magnetic induction, which is the same magnetic phenomenon that powers the absurdly powerful rail guns the military is developing.
Laying the groundwork
Musk has reportedly said that a company called ET3 is on the right track to making the type of super-fast transit he's thinking about. last week about ET3 The basic principle of the system is similar to the VHSTS described by Rand previously: MagLev containers blasted through a vacuum at very high speeds. I spoke with ET3's founder and chief Daryl Oster last week, who explained that the system could ultimately transport people from New York to Beijing in just a couple of hours for $150 a pop. But he says that ET3 designs scale easily and could be used to cover distances as short as five miles. In other words, any time you jump on the freeway, you could be jumping in a capsule instead.
Currently, ET3 is in the process of finding a three-mile stretch of land where it can build a demonstration tube so it can blast a capsule through at nearly 600 mph. While there are a few spots under consideration, ET3 is focusing its energy on stretches of land in California because, as Oster points out, the tax payers of the Golden State already spent $100 million studying the land for a huge mass transit project, so ET3 could save money on environmental impact studies and the like.
According to Oster, ET3 uses 1/50th the energy of high-speed rail. He told me he could build a tube connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles for 1/10th the cost of the high-speed rail proposal—we doubt it's a coincidence that this is the same savings number thrown around by Musk.
Hyperloop will be elevated, not underground
When Gardi expounded his theories about Musk's Hyperloop, he described it as an above-ground structure. And Oster agrees that this is the most likely scenario for a system of the California project's scale. Whenever possible, it's best to build above ground because according to Oster, building tunnels costs roughly three times more than building elevated eyesores.
At extreme speeds above 4000 mph, like those described by the Rand study or ET3's ludicrously fast New York to Beijing concept, you basically have to tunnel in order to keep the train on as close to a perfectly straight line as possible. Oster says above those speeds, course adjustments have to be extremely gradual over huge distances to the point that any big adjustment is impossible because G forces from moving too quickly would cause people barf all over the pods.
Since a capsule traveling the California coast will only go 600-700 mph, it won't get going fast enough to need to go underground. The Hyperloop would almost certainly need to tunnel through cities, mountains, and affluent nimbys, but from a health and safety perspective, it doesn't need to go underground ground.
But is it ever going to happen?
Musk has said that he has no plans to actually execute his Hyperloop proposal himself. He's just throwing out an open source, alpha concept to see what people do with it.
Even if Hyperloop is developed into a viable concept that would save taxpayers a bundle of money, assembling the political will to get it built is another issue entirely. Targeting the California high speed rail problem is a good idea because it might get some political traction, but any construction project of this magnitude is going to be met with resistance. Still, if ET3 can garner support for its test route, it could show that there's willingness for a larger-scale implementation.
The only thing that's for certain about any of this, though, is that we'll know a whole lot more on Monday than we do today. And that's something to be excited about.
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In advance, this option should be chosen whenever the company puts quality and user experience ahead of investment and development time.
Native development implies a larger budget than hybrid applications, since it includes a budget for iOS development, a budget for Android development and also a common one for interface design (with nuances and adaptations for each operating system) and backend.
As examples of a native application that we have developed in Cualit, we can mention the cases of:
- FanWin, an app from the entertainment industry that gives its users the opportunity to have the latest news on their favorite sports and teams, forecast results, score and be part of a fans community.
- The Flet logistics app with Artificial Intelligence. An innovative service that takes advantage of the blockchain to improve the security and general traceability of orders and works to facilitate the delivery service of companies. It is adapted to different businesses, from a restaurant with its own delivery, to a logistics company that handles orders and tracing.
When to develop a hybrid App?
It is recommended to choose this option when the app is aimed at projects related to news, media and content distribution, in which the user may be more used to waiting a few seconds for loading to obtain the content. And in general for projects in which the user may have a certain predisposition to wait a few seconds to access the information, such as applications for corporate use or for a segment of users who are very loyal to the brand.
This option is also usually selected when you want to launch a proof of concept on the market, trying to reduce the initial investment and time to market as much as possible.
A hybrid app that continues to grow in the Health area is the one we developed for Sanatorio Mautone. A tool that helps their users and is used daily by most of its members.
To sum up, for example…
- If the priority of your project is performance and accessibility to the device, we will develop a native or hybrid app.
- If your priority is price and that the app is multiplatform, we will develop a hybrid or web app.
- If you have a medium budget and you want the app to be uploaded to the App Store, we will develop a hybrid app.
So what is better?
There are many different directions in which you can take your application, they all have their pros and cons. The important thing is to spend enough time to calculate and reflect before starting, taking into account your needs and the characteristics of the different types of apps to determine what type of development is best for your project in terms of: speed, efficiency, profitability, design, UX consistency.
If you are looking to create an app for your business and you still don't know where to start or what option to choose, count on us to help you find the easiest and most direct route to the app stores and thus take you to the next level!
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Staying Level
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Staying Level
I've been playing for a while, but I don't do it for a source of income. Poker is a hobby, but I want to be good at anything I do, so I'm working toward that.
Historically, I've lost the most by tilting, playing high stakes, and tilting. So, I'm starting this journal to keep my head on straight. I'm going to stick to low stakes, and if I feel like I'm tilting, I'm just going to stop playing. My goal is to play the best poker I can for every hand and improve along the way.
We'll see how it goes. I'm optimistic that forcing myself to post updates here will keep me in line (it's like I have someone watching over me). I'll try to post some hands I find interesting as well as graphs. I'll be playing ZONE and some 6 max cash on Ignition.


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Kingstowne VA Real Estate | Home For Sale at 6431 Castlefin Way |
Open House Sunday, August 16 1-4
Kingstowne is one of Alexandria VA's more popular neighborhoods. Located in Fairfax County, Kingstowne VA runs from the intersection of Fraconia Road and Van Dorn Street, to Beulah Road and Kingstowne Village Parkway.
If you're looking at real estate and homes for sale in Kingstowne VA, be sure to stop by 6431 Castlefin Way this Sunday for the open house. This home is located in the North Village and is within the Fairfax County Public school boundaries of Anthony T. Lane Elementary School, Mark Twain Middle School, and Thomas Edison High School.
Sited on a cul-de-sac, and backing to trees, this move-in ready Kingstowne VA home offers special touches including:
- Three fully finished levels of living space
- Three bedrooms plus den
- Three full baths + one half bath
- Hardwood floors in foyer and dining room
- Ceramic tile in kitchen, gas cooking, side-by-side refrigerator
- Separate dining room
- Step-down living room
- Rear balcony, walk out basement, backing to trees
- Master bedroom with walk-in closet and luxury bath (double vanity sink, separate soaking tub, separate shower)
- Rec room with gas fireplace
- Two assigned parking spaces in front + ample visitor parking


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Ontario Patient COVID Test Result Portal
Toronto Region COVID-19 Assessment Centre Locations
No interactive map but very solid advice on locations, testing criteria and contact info for triaging.
Hamilton Assessment Centres
Hamilton has COVID-19 Assessment Centres that are now open. These clinics will assess whether people need more medical care and/or testing for COVID-19 based on symptoms (cough or fever), travel history and/or exposure to known cases.


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In recent years, French President Emmanuel Macron was best known internationally for being the target of bright yellow-vested protesters, thousands of whom took to the streets for months to vent anger at domestic misgovernance. Lately, though, Macron has become more famous for something else: taking up the banner of the clash of civilizations.
With France on edge owing to a slew of terror attacks, most recently a pair of gruesome killings within a few days of each other in mid-October, Macron has arguably fanned, rather than quelled, the flames of unrest. His highly touted response to the growing tensions in France over its Muslim population — the largest in Europe — and the terror threat seems less about directly stopping terrorist attacks than turning a security issue into a culture war, as well as galvanizing support for France's growing geopolitical rivalry with Turkey.
"They need to find a political scapegoat. For them, that would be the Muslim community."
"There are human rights issues and an issue of racism in France, and at the same time there is a terrorist threat in France. We can't oppose one to the other," said Marwan Muhammad, the former director of the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, a civil rights organization focused on discrimination against French Muslims. "The government has been consistently failing to address the terrorist threat from the standpoint of security and criminality. When they fail on that front, they need to find a political scapegoat. For them, that would be the Muslim community."
Macron's decision to make fighting Islamism and reviving the glory days of European empire has been popular with some Europeans looking for assertive leadership. But it risks doing something else: turning a manageable domestic security problem with terrorism that France faces into an unwieldy, grand project. It's unclear that Macron can actually carry out his mission successfully — which may very well do more harm than good.
The latest turn began in mid-October, not long after Macron's high-profile sojourn to France's former Lebanese protectorate. After returning, Macron delivered a provocative speech about the crisis of Islam that quickly went viral around the world. In short order, events seemed to conspire to underline his point. All of Europe, not just France, was jarred by the beheading of a history teacher, Samuel Paty, by an 18-year-old Chechen refugee angered over rumors that Paty had displayed disparaging images of the Prophet Mohammed to his class. Days later, an extremist went on a stabbing rampage in the southern city of Nice, killing three people in a church.
In the wake of national tragedy, a level of sympathy and solidarity should be expected. But following the attacks, the global response very quickly moved to criticizing France. This was at least in part due to disastrous public relations by the French government, which responded to the attacks by projecting the cartoons on public buildings, arresting four 10-year-old children, and launching an indiscriminate crackdown on French Muslim political organizations that had nothing to do with the killings. Protests and calls to boycott French products spread around the world, while the initial context of the killings was drowned out in a tidal wave of anger and mutual incomprehension.
Within a few weeks Macron himself was calling up the New York Times to complain about perceived bias in American news coverage, claiming that an alleged over-focus on racism in French society by the media was "legitimizing" violence. An article on the Financial Times website that had irked Macron was pulled down after he submitted a letter of complaint, while a similar article about French secularism in Politico was terminated after editors post-facto decided it didn't meet editorial standards.
The irony of Macron's campaign to suppress speech critical of his government has not escaped notice. "Racism and double standards cannot be challenged by caving in to those who wish to restrict speech or the right to blaspheme," wrote Guardian columnist Kenan Malik in a pointed piece remarking on Macron's ironic censorship campaign. "Nor can free speech be bolstered, or terrorism contained, by ignoring double standards, racist bigotry and the illiberalism of much of Macron's policies."
The debate was in line with a growing international discourse about free speech and integration, but it failed to address the root problems that gave rise to terrorism in France.
Few would argue that France doesn't face a serious terrorist threat. Since 2015, hundreds of French citizens, including many French Muslims, have been killed in extremist attacks linked to groups like Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. Macron's reaction, seemingly assigning collective blame for the atrocities, has suggested that France's sloganeering about liberty would not extend to its Muslim population, including the vast majority who have been as equally horrified by the attacks as the rest of their compatriots.
A more targeted approach focusing on problems in France — treating it as an organized crime problem rather than a sectarian conflict with half the planet and the global media — would yield more obvious results.
Take France's Fiche S, or "S File," security watchlist. The French government has thousands of individuals categorized as Fiche S, which tracks extremists, including many alleged Islamic radicals. Many people have found themselves on this list for spurious reasons and had their lives disrupted as a result.
These injustices aside, the list also fails from a security standpoint: The criteria for inclusion on such lists are often so broad that they become ineffective as a tool for finding actual terrorists. Rather than finding individuals prone to violence, particularly people with criminal histories like French terrorists often have, the government approach has inclined toward viewing piety as a precursor to violence.
"There are too many false positives in part because the government idea of radicalization is too extensive," said Muhammad, of the Collective Against Islamophobia. "If having a beard or attending prayers is considered a sign of radicalization, resources are going to be wasted surveilling a lot of ordinary Muslims while missing a lot of gangsters and criminals."
Then there is the fiery rhetoric. In addition to Macron's own recent statements, some of which he has sought to clarify or backtrack from, his voluble Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has generated alarm about what is actually happening in France. Not long ago, Darmanin was best known for facing serious for sexual assault allegations. Now he has become better known for his provocative comments about French Muslims. He has expressed shock over seeing religiously certified food stocked in grocery stores and mainstreamed far-right terminology to describe sections of society as descending into savagery. The interior minister has also stated that the government has been carrying out raids on individuals and groups unrelated to the attacks to "send a message."
This sort of indiscriminate tough talk may resonate with the ideological far right and even some ordinary people reeling in the aftermath of collective trauma, but it's also contributed to the same global media backlash that has so irritated Macron. In the white-hot atmosphere following the attacks, his own disastrous government messaging encouraged even more extreme rumors about the country. A proposal to extend ID numbers to all French school children as a means of tracking attendance was misinterpreted internationally as a plan to spy on French Muslim children, an unhelpful misconception shared by social media users that quickly spread around the world.
"The horrific comments from the government regarding French Muslims, and the ensuing debates, led to this unfortunate confusion."
"The whole affair was interpreted as: The French Government is going to assign an ID number to Muslim students to track them — which is absolutely untrue," said Rim-Sarah Alouane, a French legal scholar and Ph.D. candidate in comparative law at University Toulouse 1 Capitole. "On a legal level this would never pass. Data on religion, race, or ethnicity in France are strictly illegal, with some very regulated exceptions for academic research. But the horrific comments from the government regarding French Muslims, and the ensuing debates, led to this unfortunate confusion."
Several actions already taken by the French government have been extreme enough without the need for embellishment. In recent weeks, the government moved to liquidate many French Muslim civil society organizations and charities, including the Collective Against Islamophobia in France, an effectively secular political group created to fight discrimination. In response to government threats, the collective announced that it had relocated its operations out of the country.
At the same time, the government began taking steps to create a state-approved French Muslim civil society under its control. Given Macron's apparent sensitivity to criticism, it's unlikely that these new organizations will be empowered to provide substantive feedback to government policy like the Collective Against Islamophobia and others have done.
Photo: David Cliff/NurPhoto/Getty Images; Christophe Ena/AP
Macron has become a stereotypically polarizing figure across Europe and around the world. On one hand, he's been demonized as a racist chauvinist at war with a helpless minority. On the other, he is being celebrated as a warrior against political correctness, unafraid to call out the real problems in society and who is allegedly causing them — in this case, poorly integrated French Muslims and their "Islamic separatism." Amid all this, Macron has also been in the news almost constantly with abortive plans to reconstitute the French empire in the Middle East and revive the era of great European civilization.
As is often the case, the more you narrow the aperture, the more complex things start to appear. While Macron is clearly interested in taking strong positions on the great issues of world history, there are also the more prosaic, perhaps boring, questions of administering the economic, political, and security needs of the country. On those counts, Macron has appeared less inspiring.
"It baffles me that right now almost no one is talking about what the intelligence services were doing before this attack and why they didn't catch the assailant beforehand."
Before he rebranded as a global warrior of the Enlightenment against religious obscurantism, Macron's biggest problem was dealing with a long-running protest movement triggered by a proposal to raise gas taxes. Even before the recent terrorist attacks — which, at the end of the day, his security agencies failed to prevent — Macron's pivot to culture war over Islam seemed curiously timed for a country reeling from a public health and economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
When the French government proposed a new security law that would restrict the filming of police officers, people poured into the streets. In the wake of this outrage, Macron appears to be walking back the effort. On his efforts to shutter nongovernmental Muslim groups and legislate official ones, though, Macron is pressing forward with his plan — and an uprising does not seem to be in the offing. That the two would-be related efforts are linked but garner drastically different responses is not lost on everyone. And few see any hope for dealing with the security situation through a civil society crackdown on French Muslims or a grand project of religious reformation.
Macron is now pushing ahead with what he calls a "draft law to strengthen republican values," following a global outcry over his comments about Islamic separatism. Some of the measures aim at outlawing common cultural practices among some conservative Muslims that are generally unpopular in France. Experts, though, say that such measures focusing on culture over security are unlikely to stop attacks like the ones that hit the country this fall.
"It baffles me that right now almost no one is talking about what the intelligence services were doing before this attack and why they didn't catch the assailant beforehand," said Francesco Ragazzi, an expert on counterterrorism and associate professor in international relations at Leiden University in the Netherlands, commenting on the terrorist attacks and the government response. "We still need to see what kind of law comes out of the parliamentary process in the end, but my sense is that the new measures are unlikely to prevent terrorism."


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Survivors in Pakistan now risk unsafe blood transfusion
survivors of the October 8, 2005, earthquake in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and northern areas of Pakistan risk deadly diseases such as hiv / aids, hepatitis B, cerebral malaria and syphilis. Chances of unscreened blood transfusions are rife. Farhana Memon, program manager and secretary, Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (sbta) said, "There are about 3,000 blood banks in Pakistan but most of them are unregistered and lack a pathologist. There are also no by-laws for safe blood transfusion."
"The blood supply in Pakistan is 1.5 million units per annum against an annual demand of 4.5 million units. The earthquake has increased this demand," said Tahir S Shamsi, consultant haematologist and transplant physician at Bismillah Taqi Hospital, Karachi. He was speaking from earthquake-affected area where scores of physicians and surgeons are involved in relief work.
"We have sent screening kits to teams in Karachi but need refrigerated vans which are only available with Hussaini Blood Bank and Red Crescent Society," Memon said. Blood transfusion ethics demand that blood be properly screened and stored at 5 c.
Altaf Nazim, chief of (hbb), Karachi, said about 1000-1500 blood bags have been dispatched to earthquake-affected areas, courtesy sbta. Also rapid screening process was being used to monitor blood quality but he added that the method was inefficient. So though thousands of people have responded to appeals for blood donation, it's not certain if these donations would help.
The Sindh Transfusion of Safe Blood Act enacted in 1997, remained dormant till 2003 when the sbta was established and given powers to register blood banks and seal the illegal ones. With a small staff of 10 people and only four doctors, the authority sealed 104 unsafe blood banks within a few months and forced others to register. But many illegal blood banks have re-opened as they have influential patrons.
The situation has worsened since the earthquake due to lack of a good disaster management plan. Memon felt they "needed a back up system in blood banks" and registered donors of blood rather than emergency donors.
Muneeb-ur-Rehman, chairperson Ruit-e-Hilal Committee and a top religious scholar of the Brelvi sect, said, "Donating blood is in accordance with the teachings of Islam. Maulvi s are called rigid, but we have submitted a draft ordinance to the ministry of law justifying kidney donation. However, we are yet to receive a response from them."
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Good luck in your new role. You are doing the right thing by seeking out the advice of others and being aware of how new all this will be for you. You've received a lot of great advice. I would only add a few other ideas.
It sounds like you might be starting in a new role where there is not yet a defined process. If this is the case, i would take some time to really think about what the process should be and be sure to ask all your stakeholders how you can best help them in your role. This will ensure you've got buy-in on the direction you take.
The other idea you might consider is soliciting the help of a mentor. Look for a mentor in your organization, at your IIBA meetings, or through social networks like this one. A mentor would be able to help you be more confident in your approach and craft responses to any issues that come up. They'd be able to provide guidance based on their experiences, review deliverables, make suggestions to help you avoid common pitfalls, etc.
Again. Good luck!
Laura Brandenburg
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