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We are looking at customers with income levels of Rs2-6 lakh a year6 min read . Updated: 24 Jul 2017, 05:19 PM IST
Rishi Gupta on launching India's fourth payments bank, partnering with ICICI Bank and BPCL, product offering, and more
Recently, India’s fourth payments bank—Fino Payments Bank Ltd—started its operations. Airtel Payments Bank Ltd, India Post Payments Bank Ltd and Paytm Payments Bank Ltd have already started their banking operations. Payments banks cannot lend. They can only take deposits. However, these banks can work with other banks to sell third-party products. Currently, Fino Payments Bank has partnered with ICICI Bank Ltd—country’s largest private-sector bank in terms assets—to provide third-party products. Rishi Gupta, the bank’s managing director and chief executive officer, spoke to Mint about the launch of the payments bank and its products. Edited excerpts:
What will the partnership with ICICI Bank Ltd bring to the table? What kind of products can we expect from this tie-up?
There are couple of things for which we are working with ICICI Bank. It is our knowledge partner, which means we will spend time with them to understand business management, risk and treasury. Wherever we want to understand and take a look at systems or want to validate, we will approach them.
ICICI Bank will also help us with infrastructure. For instance, some of our branches will have ICICI Bank ATMs. Hence, we use their ATM network. Eventually, we may have our own ATMs. As of now, we have started with 10-15 ATMs. We are also looking at currency chests and other things from them. We will also get some of the third-party banking products from them. We will be offering fixed deposits and home loans from ICICI Bank but not from day zero. Based on the experience, these products we will launched in the next 6 months. Those are the three or four areas we are working in partnership with the bank.
You have also tied up with Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL). What will this partnership offer your customers?
BPCL has 20,000 outlets across the country. The plan is to get these under banking as touch points. We will convert some of these outlets into Fino Bank branches.
We will offer everything that we offer through the bank branch at the BPCL outlets. The services would include opening accounts, cash-in and cash-out, bill payments, recharges, insurance and remittance. The people managing these outlets could be a mix of Fino employee or their own (BPCL dealers’). One of the big things for any payments bank would be a good distribution network and a good customer base. Currently, BPCL has both, plus it also wants to diversify and offer multiple financial products for its customers.
What products and services are you currently offering to your banking customers?
From day one we will only offer CASA (current account savings account), insurance, remittances, mobile banking, recharges, debit cards and business correspondence lending. We are currently offering physical debit cards and soon we will also provide virtual debit cards. We won’t be offering third-party credit cards right now.
What is the interest on savings account?
We are offering 4% interest on savings account deposits. Most of the commercial banks offer 4%, so we don’t expect to offer more than that because in our model, we can only invest at 6-6.5%. Plus we want to differentiate more in terms of services and simplicity and convenience and not on interest rate. I think the market opportunity is big. In normal commercial banking also there are banks that offer 6-7% but everyone is growing. Maybe they are growing a little shade better but everybody else is also growing.
Who are your target customers?
We are looking at more of a mass market customer segment—people with income levels of Rs2 lakh to Rs6 lakh per annum. Geographically, as a payments bank, we are starting with Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. As a payments technology firm (Fino Paytech Ltd), we already have presence in 14 states. We have covered all major cities in most of the states. Right now, in our payments bank network, 65% of the branches are in rural areas and 35% are in urban areas.
Can consumers currently open bank accounts online? What is the KYC process?
Currently you can’t open a bank account online. You can only get an e-wallet online. For accounts, you have to do your KYC. For e-wallet also you have to do KYC. People can call us and our person can visit the customer and do the KYC and open the account, or they can come to our branches. Some of the BPCL outlets can also be used to open accounts. We are only doing eKYC. Over a longer horizon, we are looking at 50 million customers. But in the short term, in the next 1 year, we are looking for 3-4 million customers.
How much will it cost for customers to use ICICI Bank ATMs and branch services?
ATM charges will be as per the Reserve Bank of India’s guidelines. If you are going to cash-out from our branches, there are no charges. But if you go to a third-party channel, then there are charges because then I have to pay him some money. Hence, there are some charges. But at the bank there are no charges. For instance, in BPCL, if I have my branch, then there will be no charge. But if it is a third-party place then there will be some.
What digital products do you plan to offer?
We provide BPay—our mobile banking app. ‘B’ is for Bharat Pay. Everything was built in-house. It is a mobile app that will do e-wallet as well as mobile banking. Customers also use it for services like NEFT and RTGS. We don’t have UPI right now as we have just launched the bank. We will now start testing UPI. For us, digital includes the BPay app, e-wallet, internet account and physical branches too. We don’t have any differentiator from other banks when it comes to digital banking. The only thing is that this one app can do everything. We don’t have any fintech partnership when it comes to digital banking. We are working with PayU for the payment gateway.
What insurance products are you offering?
Currently we are looking to offer life insurance policies from two insurance companies—ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. Ltd and Exide Life Insurance Co. Ltd. In the life insurance category, we will soon go live with both endowment and term plans from ICICI Prudential. Exide Life Insurance’s endowment and term plans have already gone live. We are also providing non-life insurance policies. For this, we have tied-up with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd and we are live with hospital cash and family floater. We are also offering personal accidental covers and it is part of our debit cards. It ranges between Rs1-2 lakh and comes as free accident cover. In the term plans, depending on premium, the cover can go up to Rs50 lakh.
When it comes to investments, are you planning to offer third-party mutual funds to your banking customers?
As of now, we haven’t started offering mutual funds. We are first trying to understand the market for this product. Only after we understand the market well will we start offering mutual funds to our customers. Even if we start offering it, we will begin with government securities or debt-based instruments.
We don’t want to start with equity-based mutual funds because our mass market customer segment may or may not completely understand equity. Debt at least gives you protection against the principal in a way and is giving you 6-7% return. So at least you are safe. Capital protection is the most important thing for us when we look at mutual funds. We will start testing the product in a month and it is likely to be launched in about 3 months.

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Getting A Prequalification Letter How to Get a Prequalification for a Mortgage – PrimeLending. – A prequalification letter will also allow you to make an offer on a home quickly, which may prevent your dream home from slipping through your fingers. It is important to note that prequalification is different from pre-approval. Prequalification is the first step in the mortgage process, and it is typically available at no charge.
Options for paying off your mortgage early 1. Refinance to a shorter-term mortgage. You can pay off the mortgage in a shorter term by. 2. Pay a little more each month. You can get all the benefits of an early payoff without. 3. Make one extra mortgage payment each year. 4. Apply all ‘found’.
How much interest can be saved by increasing your mortgage payment? This Bankrate.com mortgage payoff calculator helps you find out.
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HELOCs often have lower interest rates than mortgage payments. When approved for a HELOC, you could choose to pay off your mortgage right away and then make payments to your HELOC instead. Pay attention to the terms on your HELOC compared with the mortgage you are paying off.
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Weibo, a New Dimension of Marketing
Weibo, or Micro-blog, is becoming the brightest new star of social network platforms in China after Twitter detonates its explosive development in America. Due to its increasing popularity, more and more companies are striking to take advantage of micro-blog service to broaden their business network and build their brand. As Weibo is becoming an increasingly fierce battlefield for businesses wanting to promote their products and services, Chinese companies have entered a new era of marketing, that is, Weibo Marketing. Weibo Marketing can be defined as the marketing process by which companies and non-profit organizations influence their potential customers by disseminating, sharing and collecting information through Weibo platform in order to fulfill such marketing functions as market research, product promotion, brand marketing, consumer relationship management, public relations crisis management and so on (Hu and Song (2011:15-16)). The author of this paper believes that the increasingly important role of Weibo Marketing can be attributed, at least, to two elements: the wide prevalence of micro-blogging and the distinctive features of Weibo Marketing. Therefore, this paper will examine the current situation of Weibo in China and the distinctive characteristics of Weibo Marketing in order to seek explanations for the growing importance of Weibo Marketing, and finally offer some suggestions for companies to improve Weibo Marketing. ⅠWide Prevalence of Weibo in China
The increasing importance and popularity of Weibo Marketing can be firstly attributed to the prevalent usage of the platform itself. In this section, the paper will examine the current situation of Weibo in China from two perspectives, that is, major players and users of China’s micro-blogging. 1. Major Players of China’s Micro-blogging
China's major web portals such as Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent have all started micro-blogging services. Figure 1 shows the results of an iResearch study about micro-blog industry in China in 2010 offered by iResearch in its “Microblog Industry & User Research Report”. According to the study, Sina takes 56.5% market share on active users basis and 86.6% on browsing time basis in 2010 China’s micro-blog market, which tends to show that Sina Weibo is the definite micro-blog leader in China (iResearch (2011:8)).
Figure1. Micro-blog Industry in China in 2010 (Source: iResearch (2011:8) “Microblog Industry & User Research Report”. http://report.iresearch.cn/1549.html#) 2. Weibo Users in China
Over the last year, micro-blogging has become wildly popular in China. According to the results of the latest research by CNNIC, the amount of Chinese netizens has almost reached 500 million and micro-bloggers 200 million by the end of October, 2011. What is more, in China, as many as 54,362 firms, 1,337 media companies, 5,269 public organizations and 9,300,000 celebrities have opened their own account through Sina Weibo by November 10, 2011. 2010 China’s Weibo Market White Paper released by Sina on September 9, 2010 shows that China’s micro-blog market will continue its high-speed expansion and is expected to cover 280 million users by the end of 2012 and 460 million users by the end of 2013, when China’s micro-blog market will enter its mature stage (cf. Hu and Song (2011:6-8)). Ⅱ Unique Features of Weibo Marketing
Apart from the wide prevalence of micro-blogging in China, Weibo Marketing’ intrinsic features have also contributed a lot to the opening of this whole new marketing dimension. According to iResearch’s analytic data illustrated in Figure2, among the five listed major marketing approaches in China, microblog marketing currently is with the lowest cost and performs best in these three important indexes: influence, interactivity and accuracy (iResearch (2011:12)). Based on this research, the paper summarizes the distinctive features of Weibo Marketing as follows....
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Health has become an essential part of taking care of your body.
So many food varieties help to increase your health, like energy drinks and power gummies.
Among them, one of the most helpful health supplements is drinking tea. And what is better than to drink the famous earl grey tea?
Earl grey tea is a famous tea blend with the added flavor of Bergamot oil. It is one of the best-known tea blends in the whole world.
Earl grey tea’s flavor gives a very floral scent, and the taste has a citrusy note because of the Bergamot present in the tea.
What is Earl Grey Tea?
The main ingredient for a good earl grey tea is Bergamot. Bergamot is an orange fruit.
It is commonly grown in parts of Italy. It is a hybrid of lemon and bitter orange.
Its rind is cold-pressed to produce its oil. This oil is added to earl grey tea to give its famous blend.
The earl grey tea leaves get extracted from a tea plant called Camellia Sinensis. It contains potent antioxidant properties, which makes it the perfect health drink.
The Earl Grey blend name comes from the British Prime Minister Charles Grey.
His most famous title was Earl Grey and hence, the name Earl Grey Tea.
What Does Earl Grey Tea Taste Like? Does Earl Grey Tea Taste Good?
Earl grey tea has a very delicate smell. Its aroma is very flowery and soothing for your senses.
It gives a very refreshing and pleasing taste to drinking it.
Many tea brands sell earl grey tea. Because there are many flavors added into the tea, this results in varied flavors and tastes.
The trademark of all these types of earl grey tea is Bergamot oil as the main ingredient.
One of the most popular tea brands is the ‘Twinings’ brand. It is a London-based tea marketer and uses cornflower and Seville oranges in their earl grey tea.
Twinings Lady Grey Tea is lighter than earl grey tea. It also has a unique taste with a soft citrus note.
Click here to know more about earl grey tea and Twinings Lady Grey’s differences by tea enthusiast Lu Ann from The Cup of Life.
Tata Tea is another Indian company that produces earl grey teaa under their brand name ‘Tetley.’
It is the largest producer of Assam and Darjeeling tea in the world.
The taste of their earl grey tea has a strong flavor but not too overpowering. Its taste is classic, soothing, and gives a delightful aroma.
Tea with Bergamot oil helps in lowering your cholesterol and blood pressure. Since it reduces your cholesterol level, it allows you to have a healthy heart.
Bergamot contains flavonoids that are good for improving your digestion.
Click here to know more about the benefits of drinking earl grey tea from HealthLine.
How to Drink Earl Grey Tea Properly?
Earl Grey Tea is best when you prepare with boiling water. That way, you will enjoy the whole aroma and flavor of the tea without any other added ingredients.
Please ensure that you boil the exact amount of tea and duration for boiling the tea as mentioned in your Earl Grey Teabox.
It is a personal choice whether to pour milk and sugar into your tea. Some may like it, and some may not.
Our advice is to try both blends and see which one you prefer at the end. If you feel your Earl Grey Tea is quite bitter with plain boiling water, we recommend you to add some warm milk and a sugar cube for starters.
That way, you can either add more or less according to your taste and preference.
Click here to prepare Earl Grey Tea step-by-step if you are a first-timer.
Earl Grey is also a popular ingredient for many types of cakes, chocolates, and ice cream.
Not only that, Bergamot oil is used as an ingredient for making perfumes.
Try this Earl Grey Cake with Vanilla Buttercream recipe from Liv for Cake.
Also, try this simple Earl Grey Tea ice cream from Epi Curious.
Earl Grey Tea is described as “the melodious harmony of citrus flavours and warm spices that blend together to form a divine sip.”
We cannot exaggerate beyond their words how much Earl Grey Tea means to daily tea drinkers.
We ask you to try it out. Maybe this will be your new favorite, and you may have never known it.

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Heads up, all you fans of the Library of Congress National Book Festival – it’s going to be two days again this year, with more than 100 authors, following last year’s successful launch of the full-weekend approach.
The festival will be held on the National Mall between 9th and 14th Streets on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Sunday, Sept. 23 from noon to 5:30 p.m., rain or shine. As in all its 12-year history, the event will be free and open to the public.
The delightful Rafael López, whose work summons imagery of Mexican street life, surrealism and myths, is this year’s artist for the festival commemorative poster.
His illustrations for “Book Fiesta!” written by Pat Mora, won the 2010 Pura Belpré Illustrator Award.
Additional festival-related events will take place in the days and weeks preceding the much-anticipated yearly gathering, which celebrates the joys of books and reading. More information, including authors who will attend, will be posted as planning for the festival continues at the festival’s website.
The 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival will feature award-winning authors, poets and illustrators in several pavilions dedicated to categories of literature. Festival-goers can meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, have photos taken with mascots and storybook characters and participate in a variety of learning activities.
Here’s a sampling of one of the popular children’s events launched at last year’s festival: the Okee Dokee Brothers (Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing), singing on the Family Storytelling Stage sponsored by Target, one of the festival’s longest-term sponsors.
More author talks and performances for kids from last year’s festival can be found here.
Who are the authors and illustrators you’d like to see at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival?

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When the arch is reversed, like this , it is called a syncline.
Looking north from the Central Downs over the Solent we are looking at a syncline.
We must lean together in the common struggle of life: the syncline is stronger than the anticline.
There each mountain-ridge corresponds to an anticline, and each valley to a syncline, or trough-shaped arrangement of strata.
"The porphyry dykes here are in syncline," the engineer went on.
The whole mountain is part of a syncline, the beds dipping into it from the north-west and south-east.
On the north shore of the Island the strata rise slightly on the northern side of the syncline.
A downfold, where the strata dip from either side toward the axis of the trough, is called a syncline (Fig. 170).
Hence the anticline noses out to the north and the syncline to the south.
A fold of rock layers that slope upward on both sides of a common low point. Synclines form when rocks are compressed by plate-tectonic forces. They can be as small as the side of a cliff or as large as an entire valley. Compare anticline.

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- On-chain evaluation revealed that BTC has the potential to rally to $42,000 earlier than the yr runs out.
- Within the meantime, coin distribution exceeds accumulation.
At the moment buying and selling at its September 2022 stage, CryptoQuant analyst Oinonen_t has opined that Bitcoin [BTC] “has a big likelihood to succeed in its honest value of $42K this yr.”
In line with Oinonen_t, an evaluation of two on-chain indicators, specifically BTC’s trade stablecoins ratio (ESR) and trade reserves, confirmed the potential for an extra value improve.
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The analyst famous that BTC’s ESR has surpassed a technical inflection level and is diverging from the spot value, which is a optimistic signal.
Moreover, BTC’s trade reserves have been in a long-term downtrend, reflecting entities holding their belongings off-exchange, which the analyst known as a “wholesome improvement” for the market.
These elements, together with the approaching 2024 halving occasion, point out that BTC is shifting towards a brand new pre-halving accumulation cycle, Oinonen_t concluded.
Additionally sharing an identical perception in a continued rally in BTC’s value, one other CryptoQuant analyst working underneath the pseudonym Yonsei_dent assessed BTC’s Provide in Revenue metric and located that the present market has handed the Backside Discovery section and entered the Transition section, which regularly precedes a possible for a bull market.
He discovered additional that BTC’s Adjusted Spent Output Revenue Ratio (aSOPR) on a 400-day shifting common has reached the earlier cycle’s low, suggesting that additional declines are unlikely.
“In comparison with the time of entry into the 2019 bull market, it appears a bull transition is within the technique of passing via the underside. Nevertheless, within the case of the 2015-2016 Backside, Provide in Revenue (%) went down after getting into the Transition section, and the Backside interval turned longer. Since aSOPR 400MA reached the earlier cycle’s low, additional declines are unlikely. Nevertheless, there’s a concern that the present state of affairs might be extended until it adjustments to a optimistic (+) slope,” Yonsei_dent famous, including a caveat.
Learn Bitcoin’s [BTC] Price Prediction 2023-2024
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In line with knowledge from CoinMarketCap, BTC’s value decreased by nearly 5% within the final week. At press time, the king coin exchanged fingers at $21,885.
A each day chart evaluation of value actions revealed a big decline in BTC accumulation within the final week. At 1.74 million on the time of writing, the coin’s On-balance Quantity (OBV) had declined by 1% since February started.
A gentle fall in an asset’s OBV signifies that there’s decreased shopping for stress and elevated promoting stress, suggesting that market individuals have gotten extra bearish on the asset. This could signify potential downward value motion, as there’s much less demand for the asset.
The place of BTC’s Chaikin Cash Move (CMF) confirmed the place market sentiment rested. At destructive -0.07 at press time, extra traders took to distributing their BTC holdings somewhat than holding on to them. A continued downtrend in BTC’s CMF is perhaps adopted by a value downside. Therefore, warning is suggested.


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Son to Tell Story of His Parents’ Escape during Holocaust from Poland to the Soviet Union and Iran
April 25 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dr. Victor Borden, a retired obstetrician and gynecologist from Bergen County, Thursday, April 25 at 12 p.m. in the H-wing Auditorium (H-129) at Ramapo College of New Jersey will recount how his parents escaped the Holocaust in a presentation with the title, “Flight from German Oppression:Lodz, Arkhangelsk, Teheran, Tel-Aviv, & Paterson.” The program will be presented under the auspices of the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and is free and open to the public.
With only approximately 10% of Polish Jews having survived the Holocaust (around 330,000 people), the vast majority did so by escaping to the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. provided a refuge that may have been inadvertent and involuntary, and conditions were extremely harsh for those who endured them. For example, by deporting Victor Borden’s parents and other members of his family to a slave labor camp near Arkhangelsk (Archangel in English) in the Russian frozen north, the Soviet authorities saved their lives. How they fared in captivity and eventually ended up in Iran and pre-independence Israel forms the rest of Dr. Borden’s remarkable story of survival.

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Infinix has brought a new Flagship to market that is Infinix Zero 8 with some high-end specs and you should consider it because its offering some stylish looks and performance oriented specs. The device is powered by a MediaTek chipset that is called Helio G90T.
Helio G90T is a powerful chipset that will provide you with a smooth and fast experience either you use it for gaming or daily tasks. Infinix Zero 8 comes with a 8GB RAM that is quite impressive. It will make your user experience more smoother as it is more than enough to handle more apps at one time.
So you can imagine that your smartphone experience will be on another level with this high end chipset and a huge RAM. You will not have to worry about clearing the RAM after every task and you will be good to go even if you are using several apps at one time.
The giant Infinix Zero 8 comes with a massive 128GB of storage that is more than enough for an average smartphone user and it is never ending. In addition to this, you get an option to expand this storage via an SD Card incase you run out of storage. Zero 8 comes with a dedicated SD Card slot that allows you to expand the storage upto 256GB.
The New Infinix Zero 8 is equipped with all new Quad camera setup at the back that is ; 64 MP, (wide), 1/1.72″, PDAF + 8 MP, (ultrawide), 1/4.0″ + 2 MP, f/2.4, (macro) + 2 MP, f/2.4, (depth),LED Flash.
The Front facing camera gives you an amazing photography experience with a Dual 48 MP, (wide), 1/2.0″ + 8 MP, (ultrawide), 1/4.0″, HDR, Dual LED Flash, Video (1080p@30fps) .
Further more, the Infinix Zero 8 comes with a massive 4500mAH battery that is enough to give you a full day of heavy usage on a single charge. The new Infinix Zero 8 is going to give a tough competition to its competitors like Samsung and Huawei.
Infinix Zero 8 Price and Detailed Specifications
PKR 36,000 – USD $224 – Approx.
Android 10 OS
Android 10 was launched back in 2019 with some new and improved features like
- Dark Theme.
- Smart Reply in all messaging apps
- Enhanced location and privacy tools
- Incognito mode for Google Maps
- Focus mode
- Live Caption
- New parental controls
- Edge-to-edge gestures and much more.
168.74 x 76.08 x 9.07 mm
Dual Sim, Dual Standby (Nano-SIM)
Silver Diamond, Black Diamond, Green Diamond
Infinix Zero 8 supports network bands up to 4G LTE.
Octa-core (2 x 2.05 GHz Cortex-A76 + 6 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
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Philippine Consul General Donates Books to Five Corners Branch Library
The Jersey City Free Public Library was honored to accept a donation of books from the Consul General of the Philippines, in a special ceremony at Five Corners Branch Library on Friday, October 20, 2017.
In honor of Filipino American History Month, which is observed in October each year, the Five Corners Branch Library partnered with the Consulate General of the Republic of the Philippines to expand the Library’s collection of books about the history and culture of the Philippines. Books by noted historian Ambeth Ocampo on the national hero José Rizal, as well as bilingual Filipino-English children’s books, were included in the donation.
Read more: Bridging Through Books
JERSEY CITY, N.J.: Sep. 18, 2017 – The Director of the Jersey City Free Public Library, Priscilla Gardner, announced today that the Library will unveil a new permanent exhibit of City Icon Mayor/Senator Glenn D. Cunningham’s Personal Library and Memorabilia, to be housed on the third floor of the Main Library, 472 Jersey Avenue.
“This exhibit will attest to Cunningham’s lifelong history-making achievements,” said Gardner. The late Mayor and State Senator made history in 2001 by becoming the first and only African-American to be elected to the office of Jersey City Mayor.
The exhibit will feature not just that story, but also others, including Cunningham’s work as a United States Marshal, which he gave up to become the mayor of New Jersey’s second-largest city. Cunningham also led Jersey City through pure horror, as it became the lifeline to lower Manhattan for manpower and supplies following the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center Towers.
Read more: A JERSEY CITY ICON: LIBRARY INSTALLS PERMANENT EXHIBIT IN HONOR OF GLENN DALE CUNNINGHAM

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On this day, May 20th, in hip-hop history…
1997: While already a revered Rap icon, KRS-One’s artistic direction was hard to pin down as the genre saw increased mainstream adoption. The South Bronx emcee initially broke out on Boogie Down Productions’ 1987 gangsta archetype Criminal Minded, then flipped to a nonviolent lyrical approach two years later on By All Means Necessary. And after BDP established itself as both Afrocentric and commercially viable, KRS promptly went solo.
I Got Next was The Teacher’s response to Hip-Hop moving continents away from Kool Herc block parties and the Boogie Down Bronx. The goal of his third solo album, and ninth total in 10 years, was simple: Distinguish the difference between a rapper and an emcee. The album begins with commentary on the culture’s five pillars, then cuts to KRS taking acapella “Free Throws” while urging a crowd to get the verses down on their tape decks.
Despite being vehemently anti-commercial, I Got Next spawned three singles. “The MC” climbed to No. 67 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, but the Blondie-sampling “Step Into A World (Rapture’s Delight)” was instantly the most popular track. Sixteen years after Deborah Harry name-dropped Fab Freddie and Grandmaster Flash on “Rapture,” KRS emphatically reclaims the joint. “I’m not sayin’ I’m number one, uh, I’m sorry, I lied / I’m number one, two three, four and five!”
I Got Next also includes two upbeat Redman features, a surprising attempt at metal on “Just To Prove A Point,” and an even more surprising Puff Daddy remix of “Step Into A World.” The album moved more than 94 thousand copies and remains KRS-One’s best selling solo project.
After I Got Next, KRS was hired as an A&R at Reprise Records. He quit the gig in 2001, and released five LPs between ‘01 and 2004. In 2007, he and Bridge Wars rival Marley Marl squashed beef over the collaborative Hip Hop Lives.—Steven Goldstein


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An automatic turret tracking apparatus utilizes error signals from the missle tracking system to control the turret elevation and azimuth positions so that the turret can automatically track the target position without requiring active tracking activity by the gunner. This enables the gunner to concentrate on control and communication, eliminates gunner errors and optimizes gunner performance in high-speed/low-altitude engagements.
An automatic tracking apparatus for driving missile arms on a turret of an air defense system to track a heat-emitting airborne target across the sky, comprising: means for rotating said turret about a vertical axis, said rotating means including an azimuth drive motor having a drive pinion, and controls for energizing said motor to rotate said drive pinion selectively clockwise or counterclockwise; means for changing the elevation of said missile arms about a horizontal axis of rotation, said elevation changing means including an elevation drive motor a...


Californians fleeing wildfires are talking about climate change like never before
California continues to burn, and it’s hard to focus on much else.
I’m guessing your news feed, like mine, has offered an endless stream of doomsday images and headlines: More than 1.4 million acres burned, at least seven dead and 136,000 people ordered to evacuate, even as weather conditions began to improve. More than 1,600 structures destroyed, mostly by the second- and third-largest fires in state history. Nearly 14,000 lightning strikes.
The numbers and facts can be overwhelming. Difficult to comprehend. They start to become meaningless.
To get a handle on what it all means, I called Anita Chabria.
Anita is a Times staff writer based in the Sacramento Valley. She was on the front lines of the 2017 Tubbs fire, the 2018 Camp fire and the 2019 Kincade fire. This year she’s covering the LNU Lightning Complex fires. She’s learned to always bring a paper map because of all the times her GPS has lost signal on remote mountain roads where the smoke is so thick it’s hard to see.
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“It’s like being on the moon,” Anita told me. “You go down these roads where all the trees are black and everything’s burned, but some of the utility poles are still standing and burning more slowly. It’s hot. I always have to wear boots because when you get out it’s hot on the ground. And propane tanks are popping. It is a little crazy at times.”
Anita and I spoke Monday afternoon as she prepared to go back into the field. She talked about what makes the current fire emergency so unprecedented, why California isn’t prepared to deal with this scale of devastation, and how people living through these disasters are thinking about climate change.
Here’s an edited and condensed version of our conversation. Scroll down for the rest of this week’s news.
ME: You’ve covered a lot of big fires. What’s different about what’s happening right now?
ANITA: What’s striking about these fires is how quickly we went from nothing in California to our largest fire crisis in history. Just in the span of a couple days, we’ve seen 1.4 million acres burn. We just have never seen anything else like this.
And what’s becoming more and more clear is we do not have the resources to fight it. So our only goal right now is to protect people and property and infrastructure, and wait it out for cooler weather to help us get this under control.
We have 14,000 firefighters out right now. I’ve heard people say we need three times that many folks just to start to get a handle on these things. We don’t have the equipment, we don’t have the engines, we don’t have the air power.
ME: What aren’t we doing right now that we would be doing if we had more resources?
ANITA: Normally you set a defensive line around the fire. Your goal is to ring the fire in and keep it from spreading. And you do that by sending hand crews to dig fire lines, bulldozers to dig fire lines. You literally circle the fire, and then you have a defensible perimeter.
We don’t have enough people to set lines at all the fires. So that means our priority is not containing these fires from going farther like we normally would, it’s simply pushing them back from our most populated places, from the places where they’re going to do the most damage.
ME: That’s so depressing.
ANITA: We’ve just been incredibly lucky. I think what the firefighters don’t want to say out loud is that one good windstorm and we could lose total control of this. Right now, if there’s one blessing in this, [it’s that] Santa Cruz saw some high winds for a while, but we haven’t seen those gusting winds that blow it across the freeway and take it into the neighborhoods.
My little contribution to the world is when I talk to people in the evacuation centers, I always get their address, so if I’m near their home I can take a picture and tell them if it’s there or not. Because the anxiety for people is they’ve left and they have no idea if their house is there or not, and they can’t get through. But I can.
ME: There’s been a lot of research showing how climate change is making these wildfire crises worse. Have you seen that in your reporting?
ANITA: Time and again this week, people have told me they are living through climate change.
I see it the most in the interviews I do with people in places like Sonoma County, who will tell me over and over again that when they were kids, it was wet this time of year. They remember it being so lush and so cool. And now, literally within one generation, they see they are living in a different climate than they grew up in, even though they’re in the same town.
I hear it from moms all the time. They’re in these towns where they grew up, and then they’re raising their kids there, but it’s not the same place that they grew up in, weather-wise. And that makes it not the same place fire-wise and safety-wise.
ME: So often the narrative about climate is that it’s hard to get people to care, because it’s not their lived experience. It’s in the background, exacerbating existing crises. So it’s fascinating to me to hear about people who realize that climate change is happening to them.
ANITA: It wasn’t so much a discussion before, like with the Tubbs fire. But now everywhere I go, it comes up in the interviews. Because they aren’t just a community that has lived through fire. They’re a community that is living through perpetual trauma.
It’s not just that your house gets burned. It’s children being taken out of school, children whose safety is threatened, families that are having to flee in the middle of the night on an annual basis. That’s a horrible thing to grow up with, that’s a terrible sense of insecurity.
Then if you combine it with maybe not speaking the language or not being socioeconomically at the top, and you’re having to flee in the middle of the night when maybe you don’t own a car — the sense of safety of a whole generation growing up in these fire places is really compromised.
ME: The people you’re having these conversations with — are they thinking about moving somewhere else?
ANITA: Absolutely. I talked to a woman in a story I recently did, her name is Harvest Echols. She grew up in Healdsburg. Actually, her dad and his siblings built a geodesic dome in the hills there. So she grew up very hippie. She’s in her 40s, and she has two kids.
They were evacuating in an RV when I spoke to them. Last October when they had to evacuate, it was a middle-of-the-night run to Sebastopol, where they found a hotel, went to bed, and a couple hours later there was pounding on their door because the hotel was in the fire zone now. And so they had to flee again. And she was just so traumatized on behalf of her kids that this time they’re not even waiting for the evacuation order. They bought an RV and they’re getting out of town. And she said she’s thinking about moving.
People are so tied to this region. It’s Northern California, we’re Californians. No one wants to go anywhere else, really. But a lot of people are talking about Oregon.
ME: Have you seen anything in the course of your reporting that makes you optimistic we’re going to figure this stuff out as a state, and learn to live in a reality with bigger and more devastating fires?
ANITA: I do personally think that California has some of the best firefighters in the world, because they’re the most experienced, unfortunately. If there is a body of fire professionals that can handle this now and in the future, it is California’s firefighters. I haven’t met one of them that is not willing to to give their life to this fight.
What I hear over and over again from the experts is that we need to get our act together when it comes to the reality of fire. We prepare for earthquakes, we have earthquake drills. We build earthquake-proof buildings. We could rebuild fireproof buildings. We could treat fire the same way we treat other potential disasters where preparing for it is an expectation.
We need to up our game when it comes to living in those zones where the wilderness is coming into contact with our suburbs. There are things we can do to prepare for the reality that fire is going to come through. California just hasn’t fundamentally embraced that truth.
After Anita and I spoke, she reported a heartbreaking story about three of the people killed by the LNU Lightning Complex. Mary Hintemeyer was talking with her son on the phone when she saw flames approaching her home, near Lake Berryessa, and realized she had to flee. But she didn’t make it. Neither did her boyfriend, Leo McDermott, or his son, Thomas.
“I can’t stress it enough, when you are told to evacuate, evacuate,” Hintemeyer’s youngest daughter said.
And now, here’s what else is happening around the West:
California might let four gas-fired power plants stay open past the end of this year. In the first energy decision for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration following this month’s rolling blackouts, state officials are poised to extend the shutdown deadline for four gas plants along the Southern California coast. Here’s my story on next week’s vote. (As a reminder, there are clean energy technologies that can help keep the lights on in the absence of gas plants; here’s another story I did listing some ideas.)
Pacific Gas & Electric spent an entire decade delaying and watering down regulations designed to prevent utility-sparked wildfires. That’s the key finding of this devastating investigation from PBS’ “Frontline” and public radio station KQED, which also implicates Southern California Edison and the California Public Utilities Commission. There’s been no evidence that this month’s fires were ignited by utility wires. But power lines have caused several of California’s most devastating blazes.
The Trump administration killed a major clean energy study. I’d been wondering what happened to the final version of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s much-hyped Seams study, which found that the country could reduce emissions and save billions of dollars by linking up its Western and Eastern power grids. Now Peter Fairley reports for the Atlantic and InvestigateWest that political appointees buried the study when they realized its recommendations would be bad news for the coal industry.
California doesn’t have enough firefighters to deal with the amount of land that’s burning. Yes, it’s inspiring to read about rural towns setting up their own FEMA-like response and banding together to protect their homes, as Susanne Rust and Alex Wigglesworth report for The Times. But these kinds of measures shouldn’t be necessary. We also shouldn’t have emergency alert systems marred by coding errors, outdated maps and other glitches, a problem my colleague Joseph Serna delves into here.
Lightning-sparked blazes might be the “fires of hell,” but that doesn’t mean they’re a new phenomenon. In a story that reminds us how short and selective our collective memory can be, The Times’ Bettina Boxall points out that 1987, 1999 and 2008 all featured massive fires ignited by hundreds or thousands of lightning strikes. This reminds me of what Anita Chabria said earlier: For far too long, Californians have failed to accept the fundamental truth that this place is built to burn.
The ancient redwoods at Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived. A fire that tore through California’s oldest state park destroyed the headquarters and other historic facilities, as Stuart Leavenworth reported for The Times. But in a rare bit of good news this week, the AP’s Martha Mendoza and Marcio Jose Sanchez hiked the beloved Redwood Trail and confirmed that most of the ancient redwoods, including the tree known as Mother of the Forest, withstood the flames.
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In a win for environmentalists and Alaska Native communities, the Trump administration rejected a massive copper and gold mine. If you’re confused as to how that might have happened, my colleague Richard Read has answers: Donald Trump Jr., who has fished in the Bristol Bay area near the proposed Pebble Mine, called for the project to be stopped. So did two donors to President Trump. Just one month ago, the administration had signaled it would approve the mine.
Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke at the Democratic National Convention via cellphone video as he visited fire-ravaged areas. The governor slammed Trump for threatening to strip the state’s federal fire-prevention funding and trying to block its clean-car standards, as Phil Willon reports for The Times. The Democratic convention as a whole featured more discussion of climate change than ever before; more details here from Timothy Cama and Nick Sobczyk at E&E News.
There’s a last-minute proposal in Sacramento to pay for wildfire response and climate resiliency projects. As the legislative session nears its end, Taryn Luna reports for The Times that some lawmakers want to extend an existing fee on electricity bills. The money would go toward $500 million in immediate measures such as training new firefighters and $2.5 billion in longer-term priorities such as prescribed burns, forest restoration, cooling centers, evacuation systems and disaster planning.
AROUND THE WEST
Sage grouse face a new threat: Kanye West. I wish I could tell you this one was a joke, but dear reader, it is not. The billionaire musician-turned-presidential candidate bought a sprawling ranch in Wyoming and is building out the property in key sagebrush habitat, threatening the iconic dancing bird known as sage grouse and other at-risk species, as Jackie Flynn Mogensen reports for Mother Jones. The Kanye situation “illustrates how a lack of protection under the Trump administration — which has aggressively sought to dismantle safeguards for the species — has further threatened the already vulnerable bird,” Mogensen writes.
California is deeply reliant on out-of-state power plants. This was one of the causes of the recent rolling blackouts; it was hot all over the West, so there was less excess energy for the Golden State to import, as Rob Nikolewski reports for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Some experts have also wondered whether market manipulation may have contributed to the power shortages, per the Union-Tribune’s Jeff McDonald, although the evidence for that is not yet clear.
One of my favorite things about Southern California is the dry heat. Even when I lived in Palm Springs, extreme temperatures were (relatively) bearable because there was little humidity. Alas, climate change sucks. The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Deborah Sullivan Brennan reports that global warming is bringing not only hotter heat waves to the region but also more humid ones.
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When you think about California’s climate future, what comes to mind? What keeps you up at night, and what gives you hope or gets you excited? What do you want to understand, and what should I?
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Last night I had the opportunity to host a conversation with the clean water activist Erin Brockovich — made famous by the film that bears her name — about her new book, “Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It.” It was a fascinating discussion, part of The Times’ Ideas Exchange series, and you can watch it here.
Erin and I talked about the crisis of contaminated drinking water across the U.S., the many ways climate change is affecting our water, and the still-unfinished business of cleaning up the chemical infamously used by PG&E in the town of Hinkley, Calif.
Many thanks to Erin, and to the folks who organized the event.
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Role of sanitation-hygiene practices and social norms on open defecation free status in households of Suna-west sub-county, Migori county
Aluoch , Naomi Roosevelt .Ochanda
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The government of Kenya adopted Community-led total sanitation as a national strategy to elicit sanitation-related behaviour change and eliminate open defecation. Since then, several villages have achieved open defecation free status, increased access to sanitation and reduced sanitation-related morbidities. Suna West Sub-County particularly recorded increased access to sanitation and achieved partial ODF status since the adoption of CLTS within the county. However, research shows that close to 70% of villages in Kenya that received partial or full open defecation free status have reverted back to non-ODF status after a while. This study aimed at determining the role of sanitation hygiene practices and social norms on open defecation free status in households of Suna West Sub-County. Specifically, to determine ODF status in households, determine association between sanitation and hygiene practices and ODF status and to determine the association between social norms and ODF status. The study employed a cross-sectional study design targeting 384 household heads, administered questionnaire, used observation checklist and also conducted 6 key informant interviews for 2 public health professionals and 4 community leaders. Informed consent was sought from the participants and ethical considerations ascertained as reviewed by the University’s ethics review committee. Results revealed 33.9% of households had sustained ODF status and 66.1% had partially reverted back to non-ODF status. The odds of being ODF for households that carried out sanitation-hygiene practices includes: treated water (OR=3.17; CI=1.20-8.40; P=0.020), used elevated racks (OR=2.17; CI=1.08-4.37; P=0.030), regularly cleaned their latrines (OR=4.88; CI=1.12-21.37; P=0.035), poured ash over the pit of the latrine (OR=4.25; CI=4.20-8.87; P<0.001) and used dug out pits for waste disposal (OR=4.51; CI=2.09-9.78; P<0.001). On social norms, the study found significant association between; laws/penalties (OR=0.31; CI=0.21-0.48; P<0.001), need to improve things in the family (OR=0.50; CI=0.28-0.92; P=0.025), rewards/incentives (OR=0.21; CI=0.13-0.33; P<0.001) whose odds of being ODF were less likely. The odds of being ODF was less likely for households with perception that; construction/maintenance materials were expensive (OR=0.52; CI=0.33-0.80; P=0.003), most people don’t have a latrine (OR=0.40; CI=0.25-0.64; P<0.001) and it is okay to defecate in bushes/rivers/dams (OR=0.31; CI=0.19-0.51; P<0.001). There was partial reversion to non-ODF status in households one year after certification of Suna West Sub County mainly attributed to 3 major indicators; provision of hand washing facility, squat hole cover and privacy. Secondly, there was significant association between sanitation-hygiene practices and open defecation free status and that there were higher odds of sustained ODF status in households that carried out sanitation hygiene practices in Suna West Sub-County. Finally, even though there was association between social norms and ODF status, the odds of being ODF were significantly lower due to the weakly embedded social norms that failed to influence the perceptions on benefits and/or risks on sanitation-related awareness positively.

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Is your passion giving excellent care to sick children whatever their diagnosis? Are you career minded with drive and enthusiasm? Do you enjoy playing a key role within the multidisciplinary team in acute care? Then read on.
Rainbow Centre for Children and Young People based at Newham University Hospital is one of three children's acute sites within Barts Health NHS Trust.
The unit cares for children and young people aged 0-16 years admitted with acute nursing and medical needs. The diverse staff are renowned for their friendliness and can do attitude and always extend a warm welcome to new members and visitors to the unit.
You will be supported by the senior nursing team and professional development team. We can offer a robust preceptorship programme and an internal rotation programme, encompassing Paediatric Emergency department. We work closely with our Higher Education partners and support nurses reach their full potential. The Government has announced that the legal requirement for all NHS workers in England, to be double vaccinated,is currently under legislative review. We do however encourage those in roles that have face to face contact with patients to be double vaccinated against COVID-19 (unless they are medically exempt), and are continuing to support the vaccination uptake for all staff as this remains the best line of defence.Main duties of the job
Responsible for the continued assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for children & young people within the Children's Unit including Acute, Ambulatory and Day Care areas and on occasion working in OPD.
Responsible for the management and supervision of junior members of the team and teaching qualified and unqualified staff.
Deputise for ward managers in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility and take charge of the unit as required .
Actively participate in service development activity.About usWorking for your organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.Job descriptionJob responsibilitiesMain duties and responsibilities
- Ensures the process of nursing is developed to meet the individual needs of each patient, providing well documented assessment, care planning and evaluation
- Responsible for setting, providing and maintaining high standards of clinically effective nursing care at all times
- Provide leadership and management to the staff team during shift ensuring effective use of human resources on the ward to ensure safe and efficient service deliver
- Ensure that a child and family-centred approach to care is provided in inpatient areas, which takes account of childrens individual medical, psychological, emotional and social needs
- Identifies and receives clinical supervision in line with Trust Policy
- During shift, responsible for providing clinical support and guidance to junior members of staff/students and identification of opportunities for continued professional development and competencies
- Responsible for ensuring organization of resources to ensure delivery of effective, competent nursing care within identified clinical area
- Provides technically skilled nursing care that is sensitive, relevant and responsive to the needs of the individual client in liaison with child/young person and parent/carer
- Enable independence by teaching, supporting and encouraging children/young people and their parents/carers to participate in meeting their own care needs. Making appropriate onward referral to other paediatric teams and specialists as required
- Responsible for the safe co-ordination of admissions within the unit for children & young people booked for surgeries, investigations, tests or ongoing treatment, ensuring best use of available resources and in line with local policy and procedures
- Following period of training and evaluation undertake technically skilled clinical care as identified in line with scope for professional practice e.g. Phlebotomy, cannulation, specialist transfusions, immunizations
- Provides technically skilled clinical care and/or advice to junior team members in the planning and delivery for escort duties for children and young people e.g. planning for emergency or booked treatment/tests or investigations at local or tertiary centre
- In partnership with multidisciplinary team develop and contribute to pre-admission programmes for children & young people to be admitted to unit for planned procedures, treatments or elective surgery
- Responsible for identifying and maintaining own professional development in line with Post Registration Education and Practice
- Practice a high standard of professional conduct in accordance with the policies, protocols and guidelines of the Trust and the NMC Scope of Professional Conduct and Standard Documents
- Liaises effectively with members of the multi-disciplinary and multi-professional teams to ensure delivery and implementation of nursing care and effective and co-ordinated discharge planning
- With the support of Band 6 nursing staff and Management team be partly responsible for an identified area of specialist interest and development within the childrens unit, ensuring up to date research methods are implemented in care delivery and planning
- In partnership with the Nurse Team Managers and band 6 staff, ensures the regular audit and evaluation of identified area of clinical practice and implementation of change management
- Ensures client confidentiality at all times in line with trust guideline
- Maintaining and accessing Electronic Patient Records and utilisation of software packages eg: outlook, wor
- Undertake role as advocate for child and family representing best interests of child or young person, in partnership with parents, at specialist meetings, in decision making et
- Maintaining nursing records to the Trust Standards and in accordance with the Standards for Records and Record keeping (NMC
- Undertake roles and responsibilities of Nominated nurse fire bleep holder in line with trust guidelines when deemed competent to become Nurse in Charge/ Shift co-ordinator.
- Responsible for the management of nursing staff within the ward during a span of dut
- To attend Team Meetings, Away Days and contribute to the development of ward polices and procedures within the childrens uni
- Acts as an assessor to nursing students through mentorship system
- Acts as expert Preceptor for newly qualified staff nurses within the team and clinical supervisor to junior members of the team
- Responsible for 1st line management and reporting of incidents, complaints and comments from patients, carers or relatives in accordance with Trust policies and procedures
- Is involved in the setting and maintaining of standards of care (including Health & Safety) in accordance with Trust policies
- Co-ordinates the care given by other professionals as appropriate within the Team
- Co-ordination and management of Child Protection Procedures in line with Trust policies and procedures, accessing regular supervision from Trust lead Child Protection Nurse Advisor
- Responsible for ongoing daily identification and management of clinical risk within the Childrens Unit e.g. infection control, risk management
- Undertake proactive role in development of clinically effective care
- Advises parents, carers and child/young person in the promotion of health and safety, prevention of illness.
The job description is not intended to be exhaustive and it is likely that duties may be altered from time to time in the light of changing circumstances and after consultation with the post holder.
The post holder might be required to work across the Trust at any time throughout the duration of his/her contract, which may entail travel and working at different hospital.Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential
Knowledge and ExperienceEssential
- RSCN/RN Child
- Assessing and mentoring qualification
Employer detailsEmployer name
- Knowledge of resource management
- Knowledge in education process of patients, families, students and other qualified/non qualified staff
- Knowledge/ experience of providing nursing care for children within an acute paediatric setting
- Awareness of working with children/families within a multi-cultural environment
- Previous involvement in/ knowledge of child protection process & procedures
Barts Health NHS TrustAddress
Newham University Hospital
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Nigeria’s military lifts suspension of UNICEF activities
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military has lifted a suspension of UNICEF’s work in the extremist-threatened northeast just hours after it accused the U.N. agency of training people for “clandestine activities.”
The new military statement issued overnight said the reversal came after an emergency meeting with UNICEF representatives. The military says it “admonished” UNICEF against activities that could undermine its efforts against extremist groups like Boko Haram.
Military spokesman Onyema Nwachukwu earlier accused UNICEF of harming counterterror efforts via “spurious and unconfirmed allegations” of human rights abuses by the military.
UNICEF, which focuses on aid to children, has not commented publicly.
Nigeria’s military is highly sensitive to repeated allegations of rights abuses raised by multiple organizations.
Amnesty International Nigeria called the UNICEF suspension part of a wider effort to intimidate international aid groups.


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We’re expecting the Verizon Droid DNA made by HTC to be unveiled at tomorrow’s event and with all the rumors and recent press render leaks we have a pretty good idea of what to expect: it will be a Big Red variant of some sort of the HTC J Butterfly which was recently introduced for the Japanese market by the manufacturer.
The images above and below seem to be consistent with the press render we’ve seen representing the Droid DNA, with slight changes (though the accented camera on the back seems to follow the design guidelines used by HTC recently in its One X+). Strangely this phone is being referred to as the HTC DLX, a moniker we’ve recently seen. Is the Droid DNA the name for the Verizon variant and the HTC DLX the name for non-carrier devices in certain regions? It appears that this HTC DLX is reportedly the Asian version (Japan has the J Butterfly, US will have the Droid DNA) and apparently will debut on December 6 in China and December 10 in Taiwan in three colors: white, black and brown.


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Depending on your perspective, the New England Patriots are either as cold as ice or extremely welcoming.
The Patriots also confirmed the move in a statement on their team website.
Underwood was used sparingly on the Patriots offense, catching three passes for 30 yards in the regular season.
What it Means
From an on-field perspective, not a lot. Underwood was certainly not an integral part of the Patriots team this season, so they are not going to miss Underwood's presence in the lineup.
On the other side of the ball, Silvestro is likely not going to be brought in less than 24 hours before the kickoff of the Super Bowl and then be a big part of the team.
The Patriots certainly need the help on the defensive side of the ball more than on offense. Their passing attack will run almost exclusively through Wes Welker, Rob Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez and Deion Branch.
Silvestro plays a position that will bring a little more punch to the Patriots. If anything, the extra lineman will give the New York Giants a different look than what they have been expecting.
Win or lose, I certainly hope that Underwood gets a full share. No matter how you view it from a football perspective, it is cold to cut someone the day before the Super Bowl.
Still, don't expect it to mean much on the field. If the Patriots are in a spot where the lack of Tiquan Underwood costs them the game, they probably weren't going to win anyway.
Still, he was a part of the team all season and cutting someone now is extremely bizarre. It at least raises a question as to what happened.
Stay tuned to see if Bill Belichick or any member of the Patriots sheds some light on the matter.


Rare footage and new insights illuminate Elvis Presley’s life and work in an HBO documentary that, Priscilla Presley says, reveals “his heart and soul.”
Elvis Presley's big breakthrough, some reckon, wasn't when he scored his first hit single; it was when he competed in his Memphis high school's talent contest.
Until then, most classmates didn't know that this quiet boy from a poor family sang. But after performing "Till I Waltz Again with You" in that captivating voice, he won a thundering ovation, first prize, and, as he stated, a lot more friends.
"The moment that applause broke through, that's probably the first real validation that he's had," says singer-songwriter Tom Petty in the new HBO documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher. Petty hypothesizes that it also lit the way forward, as in "That's what I'm going to do."
Presley appreciators should revel in The Searcher as much for what it reveals about him as for what it doesn't. This documentary does not dwell on his pill popping. The kitschy films. The rumored affairs with costars. All those tabloid-fixated aspects of Presley's life — which have undermined his legacy as an extraordinary singer-musician — serve as mere footnotes here.
Directed and produced by Thom Zimny and written by Alan Light, this three-hour, two-part documentary, which debuts April 14, instead embarks on a deep and thoughtful examination of Presley's life in direct relation to his singular musical career. The film puts his music at the forefront, tracing it to his roots and through those who accompanied him on his journey, including record producers, band members and session players.
"We had an early conversation," Zimny says, referring to producers Jon Landau and Kary Antholis. "Let's make sure that everyone who's talking was there, either in the studio or in his life in a real way, or because you truly believe," like Petty did, "that Elvis Presley changed their life."
Zimny, who won an Emmy Award for editing the HBO concert film Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Live in New York City, approached The Searcher with a clear vision of how he wanted it to look and sound. Using only voiceovers and no talking heads, he weaves an engaging and seamless visual chronology of Presley's life. "So that we truly are in the '50s era of Elvis, or the '60s," he says, and not suddenly jolted into, "Oh, there's the interviewee."
He also elbowed past the stale photos commonly associated with Presley. "One of the things I relied on," Zimny says, "were stills and footage that grounded you to an Elvis that didn't seem like the giant, iconic Elvis moments." He similarly refrained from taking a dog-eared greatest-hits approach to revealing Presley's rich musical legacy.
Years earlier, Ernst Jorgensen, an Elvis Presley catalog expert who served as a coproducer on The Searcher along with Zach Russo, had been allowed to open a locked filing cabinet in Presley's father's office at Graceland, the singer's Memphis refuge.
There, Jorgensen discovered all kinds of recordings. "He sent me 6,000 songs of outtakes of Elvis, including studio recordings, rare B-sides and live performances," Zimny says. "That was key in helping me dig deep into the catalog." It also, he says, "gives the ear something new to hear from Elvis."
That includes recordings from Presley's early performances on the show Louisiana Hayride, where he is on fire. There are rare audio recordings from when he served in the army and never-released cuts from his film Viva Las Vegas.
Another musical delight Zimny cleaned up for the documentary is Presley's appearance on a Frank Sinatra special, when they collaborated on a playful duet, taking stabs at each other's trademark lyrics.
There are also home recordings of him sitting down with friends at his piano and trying out material for what became his 1967 gospel album, How Great Thou Art. Priscilla Presley, his former wife, likewise gave Zimny access to never-before-seen photos, film footage and audio recordings that had been kept under wraps in the Graceland vault.
Among these were a family heirloom of Presley's mother, Gladys, singing gospel, along with rare clips of Elvis speaking. "I made available his voice. His own voice," Priscilla Presley says. "And when you hear that voice, you hear his sincerity. You hear his heart and his soul."
In one instance, Presley talks about how he discovered that his movements on stage provoked a strong reaction. It was his first live performance as a touring artist, "And everybody was hollerin', and I didn't know what they were hollerin' at," he says, explaining that once he got backstage his manager told him people were reacting to the way he gyrated his hips and legs. "I went back out for an encore and I did a little more," he says.
Although many early film clips demonstrate how Presley instinctively eats up the stage, camera operators rarely shot wide enough to provide a satisfying look at what was driving audiences wild. Presley bounces in and out of the frame.
While working on the documentary, Zimny says he became aware that camera operators weren't prepared "for this dynamo to come across the stage." He says, "So I actually see the cameras trying to keep up with him and the editing trying to keep up with him."
Priscilla served as an executive producer along with Glen Zipper, Jerry Schilling, Andrew Solt, Alan Gasmer and Jamie Salter. Zimny says that because Priscilla had known Elvis since she was 14, she was critical to helping him better understand the artist. "I was blown away by her knowledge and love," he says. "I really tried to make Elvis as close to the portrait that she was sharing in the room."
In a recent phone interview, Priscilla disclosed that she's been frustrated by the persistent caricatures and misunderstandings concerning Presley's lifestyle and creative choices.
"He didn't understand the critiquing," she says, referring, for instance, to his so-called "wiggle," which critics initially condemned. "Elvis felt that music. He experienced it, felt it and moved with it. It was never intended to be sexual. He didn't even know what he was doing when he moved. He was lost in his songs."
He was also unfairly ridiculed, she says, for his embellished Las Vegas jumpsuits. A costume designer came up with that concept because Presley was always ripping his suits on stage. After audiences expressed how much they loved them, he kept wearing them. "But it wasn't like he was trying to show off," she says. "He wanted to entertain. That's what he was there for — entertaining and, he always said, 'to make people happy.'"
She thinks Zimny got that and much more. "This is what's been needed," she says. "I truly believe that this is the definitive story of Elvis and his music." Zimny says what helped him connect to Presley was spending time at Graceland when the red ropes were down and no tourists were around to distract him from quietly roaming the premises.
"This is the home where he had his family. And this is where he recorded his albums. And this was his turntable." When he flipped through Presley's private record collection, he says, "I found a black gospel group, a folk singer, an opera singer. It was all there. He was taking it all in."
Sometimes Zimny just sat back and soaked in the atmosphere. "It was 3:30 in the morning in the Jungle Room, and you had to sit with that silence and say, 'Elvis sat here. What was he thinking?'" he says. "And by me being in that space where it actually took place, I feel like it brought me to the place where I made these choices to tell the story in a real way."
One key moment in Presley's life that Zimny wanted to recapture was the TV special Elvis, commonly known as his "'68 Comeback Special," which was intended to revive his singing career after years of making movies and not touring.
Priscilla told Zimny that Elvis had been a nervous wreck over it, fearing his audience wouldn't accept him back. And when they sat down in their Graceland living room in 1968 to watch it on air, she recalled, "Not a word was spoken."
Her insights gave Zimny the idea to film that setting and zoom into Presley's old RCA television screen (all of his furnishings have been meticulously preserved), then have it appear to be tuned to the '68 special. "It's chilling," Priscilla says. "The room is nostalgic. Seeing the camera moving forward on the TV and seeing him on that stage in that special — it's quite chilling."
At Graceland, Zimny also discovered an image of young Presley pausing on his bicycle on a country road seemingly outside Memphis.
"And slowly, as I'm building the film," he says, "I would return again and again to this image. For me, that was the beginning of this artist being on the road in some way. I thought it captured the searcher," who, Zimny explains, "is the person in this world looking to connect to music and looking to connect to a higher power through music."
Memphis was a music mecca when Presley was growing up. It's where he absorbed the various influences that coalesced in his particular sound. Zimny could easily imagine him as a kid biking past the music joints on Beale Street, where he'd catch whiffs of R&B, or turning on the radio to a country music station, or slipping into churches, as he often did, to listen to gospel. "He was always mixing genres," Bruce Springsteen says in the film.
Memphis is also where Presley made his first recordings at Sun Records. The Searcher tells some good stories about those days, like how Presley was initially too shy to venture into the recording studio. Instead he'd drive slowly past it, peeking in from his truck so many times that producer Sam Phillips and his staff began to wonder about him.
Zimny says he was acutely aware of the superficial and shortened version of Presley's catapult to fame, which is that he made hit records with Phillips, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and is credited with inventing rock and roll. "Everything in between seems to get lost," Zimny says, including acknowledgments of the black artists who heavily influenced Presley, like B. B. King and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup.
"That's the sort of focus that I wanted to do," and he made sure The Searcher pays homage to many of those artists. The film also notes how Presley's appreciation of black music was unusual at the time. "Elvis was very different," says Petty on screen. "Color lines were rarely crossed. You just didn't find white people who tuned into black music and stayed and listened to it," the way he did. Elvis, he says, "longed to be a great gospel singer."
The second half of The Searcher takes viewers through the latter part of Presley's career, when he became more isolated. "He's trapped in a level of celebrity that we can't understand," Zimny says. "The tragedy that unfolded is that Elvis got less challenges and more distractions and at the end was exhausted."
Priscilla says watching the documentary gave her fresh insight into him. "Even I get a little emotional when I watch it," she says, "because he did the best that he could without having an equal who had the success that he had. He was on uncharted territory."
It is Presley's powerful and moving singing, however, that Zimny roars back to in the end. Again he tapped into the '68 special, listening to all the raw outtakes before choosing a passionate rendition of "If I Can Dream," a song written by Walter Earl Brown that includes quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The very last song," Zimny says, "was an amazing vocal for Elvis but also gives you that moment of redemption.
"I leave with that moment," he says, "because for me that's the height of Elvis the artist, and one of the most powerful healing moments. If you're going to the honest place of showing Elvis die and the tragedy that was lost, you want a moment when you can remember him as the active, searching artist."
This article originally appeared in emmy magazine, Issue No. 3, 2018