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PM directs to ensure protection of green areas in Ravi City project at all costs
Prime Minister Imran Khan says Ravi City is a flagship project that will go a long way in economic development of the country.
He was speaking at a briefing on progress in Ravi City and Central Business District projects in Islamabad on Thursday.
The Prime Minister directed to ensure protection of green areas in the Ravi City project at all costs. He said the steps taken by the present government for environmental protection are unprecedented.
Imran Khan also directed to bring into his notice the issues in the Ravi City and Central Business District projects so that they could be addressed on priority basis.
The meeting was briefed about the development of different zones of Ravi City and keen interest of foreign investment companies in the project, especially launch of bidding by the five renowned investment groups for a one zone of Ravi City and interest by the international consortium for land development in new zones in future.
Various recommendations were also presented in the meeting on consultation with investors regarding planning of the launch of the first phase of the Central Business District project.
The Chairman Naya Pakistan Housing authority also briefed the Prime Minister about the positive progress in the Ravi City.
Source: Radio Pakistan


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Happy Sunday, y'all! My wild thing sang a duet in church this morning, and since then, we have just been enjoying family time and the glorious spring weather. I got all of the blocks for my latest quilt finished last night, and took a few minutes this afternoon to put the top together though.
I am just loving the colors in this quilt. The bright, fresh colors of a beautiful sunny sky have been really fun to work with. I made the quilt using my Purse Strings Block Tutorial, and it went together pretty quickly. The blocks finish at 15 inches, so that helps things go fast.
Spring is one of my favorite times of the year, and I hope you're enjoying some family time, and some gorgeous weather as well!

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The theme was “Social Network” and Meredith Prescott’s story won at the second of four Story Slams at the Edythe Dyer Community Library, sponsored by Katahdin Trust Company. The November 1 theme is “Friend in need”.
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Change of shifts in ICU B with ICU nurses and “buddies.” During this handover, information about the patient, the progress of their case, and details of the past shift are told to the colleagues on the next one. The buddies are doctors from other specialties, nurses from the surgery complex and even retired former colleagues.
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The George’s Creek Regional Library in Lonaconing will hold special Mother’s Day programs for young children. On Tuesday, May 4 at 11 AM, the program is designed for ages 18 months to 3 years, and on Wednesday, May 5 at 6:30 PM, 3-6 year olds are invited to participate. We will be reading stories and making crafts for Mother’s Day at both programs.
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text: It is essential to acquire substantial quantity of cells in every differentiation in order to use iPS-RPE for study. Y27632 was beneficial for obtaining iPS-RPE efficiently. Y27632 inhibits Rho-linked, coiled-coil made up of protein kinase, which contributes to stress fiber development and actin filament stabilization. Y27632 also inhibits human iPSC/ESC apoptosis and supports the 92169-45-4 biological activity passage of human RPE derived from iPSC/ESC. When we utilised Y27632 during DD7 to DD11, not only the enlargement of pigmented colonies, but also the adhesion of non-pigmented cells seemed to be enhanced. It is attainable that Y27632 promoted colony growth by influencing cytoskeleton formation, and it is also possible that some soluble factors from non-pigmented colonies promoted pigmented-colony growth. The cell variety we obtained at DD11 was not secure in every single experiment and ranged from nine.68~105 to two.94~106 cells. The cell quantity would be affected by the differentiating point out of DD7 aggregates, which are potentially influenced by the maintenance problem of iPSC. Preceding investigators showed that the mouse pressure influences the efficiency of generating ESC. Consequently, there are at least 3 factors customers of this protocol must maintain in mind concerning its reproducibility: mouse pressure used, maintenance situation of iPSC, and differentiation situation of retinal progenitor cells. Though the cell variety was not stable, the mobile morphology evaluated by gentle microscopy and gene expression information had been regular in every experiment.Finally, as an immunologic characteristic, mouse iPS-RPE suppressed lymphocyte proliferation related to human iPS-RPE and mouse pRPE in prior studies. The expression patterns of MHC-class one and MHC-course two have been similar to these of previously noted human and monkey iPS-RPE. PD-L1 is a ligand of PD1, which is expressed on T cells. The conversation in between PD-L1 and PD1 inhibits lymphocyte proliferation. In human RPE, PD-L1 is constitutively expressed. In mouse pRPE, PD-L1 is not expressed constitutively, and its expression is induced by IFN-gamma remedy. Similarly, our mouse iPS-RPE did not convey PD-L1 beneath normal servicing conditions, but expressed the molecule by IFN-gamma treatment method, which is a reaction that is comparable to mouse pRPE. These outcomes propose that mouse iPS-RPE may behave otherwise from human RPEs, but may possibly nonetheless be in a position to suppress activated T cells by means of mobile-to-mobile speak to because activated T cells produce inflammatory cytokines such as IFN-gamma that could induce PD-L1 on mouse iPS-RPE. It was described that mouse pRPE suppresses immune cells also by soluble variables these kinds of as reworking development aspect, which is equivalent to the process in human iPS-RPE. These immunologic qualities of mouse iPS-RPE will permit us to examine immunologic reactions soon after human iPS-RPE transplantation, like rejection and graft integration.Static automatic perimetry is a well-set up check of visual operate employed routinely for the diagnosis and administration of ailments affecting the visible pathway. White-on-white normal automatic perimetry is the most generally carried out scientific perimetry test protocol.Contrast sensitivity is calculated in SAP through the use of light-weight increments at numerous areas in the visual discipline , generally of ~a hundred-200 ms period.Although 5 stimulus sizes are available for testing in most industrial perimeters, the Goldmann measurement III is the common stimulus size used in standard white-on-white perimetry. Distinction sensitivity is dependent upon the dimension of the take a look at stimulus, in other words, it is governed by spatial summation.

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Solid Automotive Bhd operates in the Motor vehicle supplies and new parts sector.
In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Solid Automotive Bhd with three other
automotive dealers and parts suppliers in Asia:
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Solid Automotive Bhd reported sales of 129.24 million Malaysian Ringgits (US$30.83 million)
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Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court through the All Progressives Congress (APC) asking the apex court to declare him the senatorial candidate of APC for Yobe North and set aside the judgement of the trial and appellate courts which declared Bashir Machina as the rightful senatorial candidate for the party.
According to the court documents obtained by SaharaReporters on Monday, in the suit number FHC/DM/CS/11/2022, the APC is challenging the decision of the two lower courts that affirmed the candidature of Machina who won the May 28th primary election of the party.
A credible source revealed to SaharaReporters that Lawan had budgeted $60Million to get a favourable judgement at the apex court especially after seeing the judgement of former Minister of the Niger-Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio who was declared authentic senatorial candidate of APC for Akwa Ibom North West senatorial district.
Lawan according to sources had tried repeatedly to bribe Machina to relinquish his ticket for him which Machina vehemently rejected.
He had also made efforts to convince APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to prevail on Machina to withdraw which also did not work.
The Supreme Court has fixed Wednesday, February 1, for the hearing of the suit.
SaharaReporters had on November 28, 2022, reported that the Court of Appeal in Abuja upheld the senatorial candidacy of Machina.
The Appeal Court had in a unanimous judgment affirmed the earlier decision of the Federal High Court, Damaturu which declared Machina as the rightful senatorial candidate of APC for Yobe North.
The court dismissed the petition filed by the ruling party for being unmeritorious and awarded N1 million to Machina.
President of the Court, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem who delivered the judgement held that the lower court was right when it validated the May 28th APC senatorial primary election that produced Machina because it was duly monitored by INEC.
In June, a Federal High Court in Damaturu, Yobe State had declared Machina as the party’s senatorial candidate for Yobe North having emerged from a valid primary election that was conducted on May 28, 2022.
Though Lawan initially accepted the verdict and made public his decision not to appeal the judgement, he, however, made a U-turn and secretly sponsored an appeal at the Court of Appeal, Abuja.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Lawan; the APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu and some key officials of the presidency were working round the clock to upturn the decision of the lower court using President Muhammadu Buhari’s name to intimidate the Justices of the panel.
SaharaReporters exclusively gathered that the job of influencing the Appeal Court Justices was being coordinated by the governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu and one Usman Musale.
“Lawan has also been putting intense pressure on Mai Mala Buni, Yobe State Governor to reach out to his Plateau State counterpart, Simon Lalong who played a vital role in the emergence of Monica as President of the Court of Appeal,” a top source had revealed.
It was also gathered that Lawan had asked the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Opeyemi Bamidele to undermine the budget of the Judiciary should the Justices refuse to do his bidding.
Machina won the primary election organised by the APC in May 2022, while Lawan opted to contest the presidential primary election organised by the APC in June.
Lawan lost the APC presidential ticket to former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu.
However, Machina was asked to step down for Lawan but he insisted that he would not withdraw for the Senate President.
Amid the controversy, the APC submitted the Senate President’s name to INEC as its senatorial candidate for Yobe North.
Miffed by the development, Machina headed to court to seek redress. Specifically, Machina in his suit asked the court to declare him as the validly elected senatorial candidate of the APC for the 2023 election.
Justice Aminu nullified the parallel primary election that produced Lawan on June 9, 2022.
Consequently, the trial judge ordered the APC to forward the name of Machina to INEC as the authentic winner of the primary held in May 2022.
Documents: Embattled Nigerian Senate President, Lawan Heads To Supreme Court, Seeks ‘Ex-Minister Akpabio’s… by Sahara Reporters on Scribd

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Hendrick Motorsports driver Kyle Larson won the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season Championship Presented by Coca-Cola and was awarded the trophy after the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
The driver of the No. 5 Chevrolet has led the point standings since his fifth win of the season at Watkins Glen International earlier this month. For the season, he has five wins, 14 top fives and 18 top 10s — all of those marks are the best in the Cup Series this season. In his first year with Hendrick, Larson also won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway in the Coca-Cola 600, Sonoma Raceway and Nashville Superspeedway as well as the non-points NASCAR All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway. In July, Larson inked an extension to keep him at Hendrick through the 2023 season.
“We had a stretch there where we won like every stage and every race for a few weeks in a row,” Larson said. “I think we took huge chunks out then. I think I read somewhere where we overcame I think a 166-point gap to Denny (Hamlin). I didn’t think it was possible, but our team has worked so hard all of the regular season. I couldn’t do it without Mr. Hendrick and Linda and all of their support. Everybody back at the shop, too. This is a long season and we still have 10 races to go.”
Clinching the regular-season title hands Larson a 15-point bonus heading into the 10-race NASCAR Playoffs, which begin Sept. 5 with the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. The top-10 finishers in the regular-season standings receive bonus points on a sliding scale, starting with 15 for first and ending with one playoff point for 10th.
With five victories, paired with a series-high 12 stage wins, Larson will carry 52 playoff points and will enter the postseason as the top seed.
“I mean, I think there’s a lot of good tracks for us,” Larson said. “I don’t know which ones specifically. I feel like we have a shot to win anywhere right now. That’s encouraging.
“I really just look forward to getting it started next week, kind of getting into the flow of that, racing in the playoffs against multiple other drivers chasing points and wins. Yeah, I feel good about it.”
Kevin Harvick won last year’s regular-season championship, Kyle Busch took the honor in 2018 and 2019, while Martin Truex Jr. scored the prize in 2017. Truex and Busch (in 2019) are the only regular-season champions to date to win the playoff title in the same season as the regular-season title.


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As the Marine Corps builds up the Special-Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force – Crisis Response (MAGTF –CR) under Marine Forces Africa (MARFORAF), there are valuable lessons to be learned from recent French military operations on the African continent. This essay gives some background on France’s historic interventions in Africa and makes recommendations for future changes to the force structure of the SPMAGTF-CR.
Although the popular press in the United States often maligns the French military in general and France’s willingness to involve itself in Coalition military endeavors in particular, in reality, the French are both powerful and active in the realm of military affairs, especially when it comes to Africa.
France is the sixth most powerful nation in the world from a military perspective; in addition to a large and modern conventional force, it maintains a credible nuclear deterrent arsenal. Interestingly, the French military connection to its former colonial possessions in Sub-Saharan Africa does not extend to arm sales; while the French are the world’s fourth largest exporter of military hardware, (Rapport au Parlement, 10) exports to Sub-Saharan Africa account for only 5 percent of their total sales, and France has never made the Top Ten list of African arms suppliers compiled annually by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Historically, Russia and Ukraine have occupied the top spots on this list, but since 2006, China has edged out the former Soviet Republics as the preeminent supplier of military hardware in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Arms sales aside, France has long maintained strong economic, linguistic, cultural, political, and diplomatic ties to Sub-Saharan Africa, and this special relationship, dubbed “la Françafrique” has existed to a greater or lesser extent from the end of the Colonial Era in the 1960s to the present day. The recurrent theme of la Françafrique most relevant to this paper is the French record of military involvement in Africa, which since the end of World War Two has dwarfed that of any other Western power, consisting of 37 major military operations in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa operations in the last 50 years (Griffin, 3) most of which have been conducted without the involvement of other Western states. France also maintains permanent bases in Mali, Niger, Chad, and Burkina Faso, and has defense agreements with the governments of Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Comoros, Côte d' Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Gabon , Senegal, and Togo. (Livre Blanc, 55)
By contrast, the United States is a relative late-comer to the stage of modern warfare in Africa. Bloodied by Somali insurgents, the U.S. pulled out of Somalia in 1995, and like most of the world was a mere bystander to the genocide in Rwanda. There has been a U.S. presence in Djibouti, Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) since 2002, but its focus has largely been on combating militant Islam and piracy in the Horn of Africa. Popular pressure from KONY 2012 campaign resulted in the dispatch of about a hundred advisors from the Special Operations communities, but the elusive warlord remains at large. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and its Marine Component, Marine Forces Africa (MARFORAF) were stood up in 2008, but were based in Germany because no suitable home could be found for them on the African continent. In the context of first the “Long War” and then the “Pivot to Asia”, Africa remains, as former AFRICOM Commander General Carter Ham observed in 2012, “not a part of the world that the United States military has focused on very intently.”
But that is likely to change. Africa has become a leading U.S. supplier of strategic natural resources, including oil, gas, and minerals, with Angola and Nigeria being two important suppliers of oil. The rise of non-state actors, including violent extremists and transnational criminal organizations engaged in trafficking drugs, people, and weapons is another reason, and is linked to the third driver of change; an increased emphasis on human security and the “Responsibility to Protect.” (Brown, 6-10) This latter has been described by David E. Brown as:
A post-Cold War paradigm that has reshaped the traditional notion of national security by arguing that a people-centered view of security is necessary for national, regional, and global stability.
Combatant Commanders like General Ham and his successor, General David M. Rodriguez , may be the key to changing this traditional perspective; according to a recent RAND report, in the future, “the process of defining what U.S. overseas presence is needed is left largely to the regional theater commanders in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Central and South America.” This same report then completely ignores Africa in favor of discussing the Middle East and Asia as potential focuses for U.S. military efforts.
For their part, the French Ministry of Defense observes that Europe and Africa remain a lower military priority for the U.S., and suggest that that the European states most directly affected by Africa’s stability, and “disposant des moyens d’en assumer charge” (possessing the means to take charge) should plan to play the greater role in security for the African continent. (Livre Blanc, 29) For their part in this role, the French government plans a quick-reaction force of 1,500 ground troops, including armored vehicles and helicopters, which can deploy within 7 days anywhere within 3,000 kilometers of the French mainland, or of a host-nation base, of which France has several to choose from in Africa. This force would be supported by an air component consisting of 10 fighter/attack aircraft and additional tactical transport and reconnaissance planes. The French military plans to use airstrikes to stall enemy advances in the 7-day window before their ground forces arrive. (Livre Blanc, 91) This force is intended to provide France with the capability to react autonomously to security crisis in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa, indicating the significance placed on response time to emergent security issues. This construct even includes a naval component; not surprising, considering that three quarters of Francophone African countries border the Atlantic Ocean.
Sound familiar? It should. A “Security Cooperation MAGTF” was envisioned in the 2008 Operational Concept The Long War: Send in the Marines. Renamed the SPMAGTF-SC in MARADMIN 011/11, this notional MAGTF contained an infantry battalion, a Combat Logistics Battalion, and an Air Combat Element (ACE) as shown in Figure 1.
|Figure 1: Notional Security Cooperation MAGTF (The Long War: Send in the Marines)|
What is currently in place, instead, is a SPMAGTF –CR (Crisis Response) comprised of 550 Marines from Third Battalion, Eighth Marines, supported by an ACE consisting of a Medium Tiltrotor Squadron of MV-22s augmented with2 KC-130Js. This force represents an increase of nearly 50 percent over the original SPMAGTF-CR, (which was stood up with a reinforced Reconnaissance company and 6 MV-22s) but it may fall short of what is required.
According to Expeditionary Force 21, Special Purpose MAGTFs:
…will assume a greater role in crisis response and generate greater capacity for forward presence in more locations. Based on GCC requirements, these organizations are tailored appropriately to conduct security cooperation activities with partner nations in order to develop interoperability, facilitate access, build defense and security relationships, gain regional understanding, and position for immediate response to episodic crises.
Further, according to this publication, “for the EUCOM/AFRICOM AORs, the goal is a single seabased MAGTF trained for both aggregated and disaggregated employment.” But is this future vision or the force currently in place correct based on the recent history of military operations in Sub-Saharan Africa? Missions executed not by the U.S. or NATO, but on a unilateral basis by French forces? Answering that question is the goal of this essay.
To answer that question, it is useful to look to the French experience in two recent military operations in Francophone Africa; Opération Serval against Islamic and Taureg separatists in Mali, and Opération Sangaris against militias in the CAR.
The genesis for both operations was similar; in December 2012 and January 2013, Muslim military forces in both CAR and Mali mounted fast-moving campaigns against government forces. CAR petitioned France for support, but their request was rejected; within 4 months, the rebel forces would overrun the capital of Bangui and install their leader as the head of a transitional government.
In Mali, on the other hand, with Islamic and Taureg forces days away from seizing that country’s capital of Bamako, and with the coalition-building efforts of the United Nations and the African Union too slow to react, France intervened unilaterally, using Mirage jets and Gazelle attack helicopters to stop a column of enemy technicals that was moving on Bamako. The rebel offensive stalled, an although the French lost one Gazelle to anti-aircraft fire, sufficient time was bought to allow French units from Chad, Côte d' Ivoire and Senegal to converge on Bamako and form a contingency defensive force. Within 3 weeks, the French had a brigade-sized force engaged in systematically clearing the enemy from the towns of Timbuktu and Gao through a series of ground attacks and airborne assaults. Following that, French airborne and armored units, along with their African Union counterparts began the slow work of clearing the terrorist sanctuaries in the Ifoghas mountain range. (Tramond and Seigneur, 42) This rapid and sizable intervention stabilized Mali; the same cannot be said of neighboring CAR.
At the same time the French were clearing the last of the major Malian cities of Islamic separatists, rebel forces in CAR overran the capital of Bangui, and the “Seleka” militias, officially disbanded after their success against the government forces began a campaign of killing (often by machete), looting and rape in both the cities and the countryside. Christian “anti-balaka” (anti-machete) militias rose up in response to the Seleka, and by December 2013, with hundreds dying in the capital, French President François Hollande authorized a 1200-strong intervention force under the mandate of UN Security Council resolution 2127, and visited them less than a week later, declaring that “Il était temps d’agir.” (“It is time to act.”)
Today, despite the actions of the French and African forces to disarm militia groups and stop the violence, CAR remains in chaos. The Christian anti-balaka militias gained an upper hand after the disarming of the Seleka by international forces, resulting in a mass exodus of Muslims into neighboring countries to avoid the killings. Contrast this with Mali, where the enemy threat has now been functionally suppressed, Chad has withdrawn its troops, and a combined French/German brigade –sized force will take up the mantle of training the Malian army to handle future conflicts.
The French experience in Opérations Serval and Sangaris should lead us to conclude that the probable enemy force will be similar to the forces that we’ve previously encountered in Afghanistan; light infantry with little access to armor, but capable of using “technicals” (light wheeled vehicles) to move quickly and employ anti-aircraft weapons. They are also likely to disappear into the populace or inaccessible hinterlands if pressured. Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) have been less prevalent in these operations than during Coalition operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but they have been used and French soldiers were killed by these devices.
Terrain can and will vary from desert to mountain to jungle; and the tyranny of distance has the potential to be challenging in Africa, a continent nearly four times the size of the United States. The conflict zones in Mali and CAR have often been well beyond the range of assault support range and combat radius of un-refueled MEU shipboard assets.
The mission will likely begin as a “block, drive back and clear” series of operations, with the final phase running concurrent with providing security and engaging in the civil/military operations necessary in a post-conflict environment.
In these phases, armor and close-air support were vital to French success; armored cars, light tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles were required to win the fight, sometimes after crossing distances of 3,000 kilometers from their port of debarkation to the battlefield. Expeditionary logistics and communications proved a particular challenge, according to Maj. Gen. Olivier Tramond, Director of the French Army Doctrine Center:
The huge dimensions of the Malian theater are well beyond the theoretical area of operations for a single brigade. The broadband global area network and other satellite communications systems proved indispensable but are not in the standard army inventory and cannot be used on the move.
Tactical and strategic airlift has been another issue; prior to Opération Sangaris, France was obliged to solicit strategic and tactical lift from several allied nations, including the United States and other members of NATO. Ultimately, this resulted in British C-17’s and Belgian C-130’s supporting the operation. The current SPMAGTF-CR already has sufficient tactical lift in its complement of KC-130J and MV-22 aircraft, but operational planners must coordinate strategic lift with external agencies. While the U.S. Air Force possesses significant strategic assets and would normally be the “go-to” agency for this type of support, the French experience suggests that obtaining strategic lift from European partners may give such allies an “easy” means of supporting a military operation without committing combat troops themselves, and thereby be a useful tool for coalition-building.
Finally, the response time (and size of the response force) in the case of emerging crises, especially those involving violent extremism or ethnic violence, will play a critical role in determining the outcome of the situation, for better or worse. Situations can go from bad to worse in a matter of days; months of deliberate planning time or movement of forces will not suffice to forestall instability and human tragedy. The timeline of both the conflict in CAR and Mali, along with earlier examples in Rwanda shows that response must come within days of the initial events, not weeks or months.
The notional SPMAGTF described in Expeditionary Force 21 is supposed to “conduct security cooperation activities with partner nations… and position for immediate response to episodic crises.” Based on lessons learned from recent French operations in Africa, our current regional SPMAGTF-CR structure is probably not sufficient to excel in either capacity, lacking in particular the combat airpower required to blunt enemy ground attacks and buy time for U.S. or African ground forces to aggregate and engage.
Recognizing that speed, surprise, security, sustainment, and concentration of effects are the modern military principles (Van Avery) most applicable to crisis response in Africa, the future Marine presence in Africa should look more like the notional SPMAGTF-SC envisioned by General Jones in The Long War, with the addition of the AH-1Z and “Harvest Hawk” KC-130Js needed to execute offensive air operations in accordance with those principles.
To engage in ground combat, we’ll need a light armored presence, and bringing in the required number of vehicles from ship-based inventories may not be feasible, especially as ship-based assets may not be readily available to meet an emergent need, especially if tensions continue to rise around the Black Sea. Engaging with French and African states to obtain the rights to preposition vehicles and stores at existing French bases in Sub-Saharan Africa (possibly in exchange for providing a more robust communication architecture in the region) would be one way to overcome this challenge.
U.S. commanders acknowledge that Africa has so far received short shrift from the American military, and French defense officials don’t believe that is likely to change.
But there are political, military and economic factors that will likely result in a greater future U.S. involvement in African security affairs, and the Marine Corps is positioned to remain the “go-to” force for both security cooperation and crisis response in the region.
In planning for operations across the spectrum in Africa, the SPMAGTF commander will create stability on a daily basis by administering an “ounce of prevention”, using their culturally and linguistically knowledgeable troops to engage in theater security cooperation and build the capacity of African allies. But they will also be ready at a moment’s notice to deliver “a pound of cure” if armed violence breaks out.
Drawing on the lessons of the past, strategic-level military and political leaders of the future will no doubt be aware of how very quickly violence in Africa can spiral out of control, and what a devastating effect that can have on current and future stability, and will therefore be quick to utilize their “Force in Readiness” to forestall genocides, the takeover of weak states by fundamentalist religious groups, and similar tragedies which have played out all too often in recent years upon the African stage.
Napoleon Bonaparte once said “Prenez du temps de délibérer, mais quand le moment pour l'action est arrivé, cessez de penser et entrez.” - “Take the time to deliberate, but when the moment to act arrives, stop thinking and take action .” It’s time for the Marine Corps to do the deliberate planning and preparation required so that next time action in Africa is required, we are prepared to engage to decisively overcome the threat and secure U.S. interests. If we do not, we will likely see the mantle of security guarantor retained by France, and the resulting regional influence and strategic benefits will continue to accrue to them, instead of the U.S.
Maj Edward H. “UTAH” Carpenter is an Aviation Logistician and Foreign Area Officer.
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Today is the National Day of Mourning and across Canada communities are recognizing those who were hurt, fell ill or lost their lives due to work-related incidents or disease. Here are the facts from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS):
- The National Day of Mourning has spread to about 80 countries around the world and has been adopted by the AFL-CIO and the International Confederation of Free Trade.
- In 2013, 902 workplace deaths were recorded in Canada. While it’s the lowest total since 2000, this number still represents 2.47 deaths every single day.
- In the 21 year period from 1993 to 2013, 18,941 people lost their lives due to work-related causes (an average of 902 deaths per year).
Every day but in particular on this day, the CCOHS reminds employers to strive to prevent workplace deaths, illnesses and injuries by establishing safe conditions in the workplace.
That is our mission here at DriverCheck. Physician owned and operated, our priority is prevention and we do our best to assist employers in making their workplaces healthy and safe.
Have you asked yourself, how safe is my business? Are my workers properly protected? When you hire an employee, do you ensure they are physically fit to perform their work without jeopardizing their health and safety and the safety of others?
Unfortunately, many employers tend to exercise complacency when it comes to health and safety risks, assuming that if it isn’t regulated, it isn’t worth addressing. This is one of three dangerous attitudes that can lead to workplace injuries:
- “My workplace is safe. We use common sense.”
The so-called ‘common sense’ approach to safety sensitive work, which overlooks the need for formal health and safety training or medical testing to mitigate health and safety hazards, is risky. For example, sleep apnea testing isn’t regulated in the U.S. or in Canada, but that doesn’t mean a sleep apnea problem doesn’t exist. In fact, a 2009 study by the Public Health Agency of Canada found that over one in four Canadian adults (26%) are at a high risk of having sleep apnea. If any of these respondents are in safety sensitive positions, they could be putting themselves, their co-workers, and the public in danger. Sleep apnea testing can ensure these individuals are identified, treated and safely returned to work.
- “Ignorance is bliss. What I don’t know can’t hurt me.”
The belief that if you don’t look for any health and safety regulations that affect your industry or your workplace, you don’t have to comply with those rules, is a dangerous attitude that could lead to unnecessary injuries and illnesses and unnecessary costs and fines for your company. Occupational health and safety regulations (and any other safety-related regulations) are established to protect workers and their employers, as well as the public and the environment. Anyone and any business has an obligation to seek out applicable legislation that impacts the workplace at all levels – federal, provincial, and municipal – and compliance will improve worker health and safety, productivity, and your corporate image.
- “There is no benefit to investing in health and safety.”
The benefits of investing in health and safety are well established. An article published in Canadian Occupational Health and Safety just this week highlighted a Nova Scotia-based company that saw lost-time injury claims cut by 50 percent after putting a bigger focus on safety. Not making the investment could open your company up to preventable workplace incidents, injuries and illnesses, and increased workers’ compensation costs.
If you have any questions about how to improve health and safety in the workplace and what medical testing and/or assessments may be required or recommended for your safety sensitive work environment, feel free to get in touch! You can reach out to us here or on Twitter @DriverCheckCA.
(Statistics from the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety website)


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Reasons to love this milkshake: Twix is a chocolate bar that a lot of people enjoy on a weekly basis. For those who do enjoy it, just imagine that great Twix taste all wrapped up inside a thick and creamy milkshake! While you can forgo half of the work required for this recipe, it is best made as it states.
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THE DELHI High Court Monday passed an order exempting TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee from physical appearance before a court in Delhi, where she was summoned in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.
Rujira has approached the High Court against the complaint filed against her by the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly not complying with the summons issued to her by the agency under Section 50 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Taking cognisance of the complaint, the trial court had directed her to appear before it personally on October 12.
Listing her petition for hearing on October 29, Justice Yogesh Khanna Monday granted exemption to Rujira from personal appearance after Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta requested the court to take the matter for hearing after Dussehra holidays and submitted that she may not appear in person in the meantime.
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Salvatore keynotes Camelot fanfest
Fantasy author R.A. Salvatore signs on to speak at this year's Dark Age of Camelot Roundtable Fan Gathering in Las Vegas.
There are three places where it's acceptable to wear tunics--the annual Dark Age of Camelot Roundtables, Renaissance Faires, and...OK, maybe only two. Tunic wearers at the former this year will be treated to a keynote speech by fantasy author R.A. Salvatore, who penned the Icewind Dale, The Hunter's Blades, and The Dark Elf trilogies.
Salvatore wrote the story for Atari's Demon Stone, and his works have influenced several games, such as Black Isle Studios' Icewind Dale. The author will talk about his experiences as a writer, how he got into the business, and his future projects in books and games.
This year's Dark Age of Camelot Roundtable Fan Gathering, a celebration of the massively multiplayer role-playing PC game Dark Age of Camelot, will take place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on September 29 and 30. The event marks the first public showing of the upcoming Dark Age of Camelot expansion Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
Gamers who register for the event before August 25 will receive a beta account for Labyrinth of the Minotaur, a free copy of the expansion, and in exclusive in-game item. Hear ye, hear ye, for more information, head over to the convention's official Web site.

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Director of Advancement at Pace Academy
Heather White is Pace Academy's new director of Advancement. She was previously the school's major gifts officer and was instrumental in the success of its $32-million campaign for a new Upper School. White has worked at CARE, the Learning Makes a Difference Foundation, the Center for the Development of Philanthropy and Coxe Curry & Associates.
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Amina Figarova Sextet
Amina Figarova is a globe-trotting Azerbaijan-born, Rotterdam-based composer/pianist/bandleader with more than a dozen recordings to her credit. With her husband, Bart Platteau, Figarova arranges for her sextet, playing artful and heartfelt changes on the urbane, bluesy lyricism originally developed by the likes of Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, et al.
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Bahrain, the land of 30 islands, is a favorite place of top mobile brands, so that the Korean giant company LG Mobile is launching smartphones in Bahrain (Manama) to inspire the people with their good and quality phones. Currently, LG Mobile Bahrain is competing with four other leading brands Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Nokia Mobiles in Bahrain.
LG Mobile is a multinational smartphone company, headquartered in South Korea. LG Mobile had entered in Bahrain since 2010 and the first LG Smartphone in Bahrain was “LG Optimus”. In a short duration, LG Mobiles got a considerable position in Bahrain (Manama) because of their leading innovations.
LG Mobile Phones in Bahrain are well-known for their tremendousness in display, camera and performance. LG Mobiles in Bahrain are mostly available in all budget ranges high, mid and low. LG V-series devices are one of the best LG devices. LG G-series smartphones are famous for their flagship level features. LG Q-series devices offer mid-end specs whereas the LG K-series smartphones deliver low-end features.
LG manufactures good quality products, therefore, LG Mobile Prices in Bahrain are higher than the Chinese mobile prices in Bahrain such as Vivo and Xiaomi Mobile Prices. On the other side, LG Smartphone Prices in Bahrain are still lower in comparison to the Samsung and Apple Mobile Prices in Bahrain. LG Smartphone Prices in Bahrain are not rising too fast, but gradually. You can buy a nice LG smartphone even for BHD 50 or BHD 60.
Let’s check out the latest LG Mobile Phones in Bahrain.
LG Velvet: A military compliant and a rugged smartphone, LG Velvet rated at IP68 and MIL-STD-810G certification. The device comes with a 6.8inches Plastic OLED Display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 chipset, and an Adreno620 GPU. LG Velvet carries a Triple Rear camera setup comprising a 48MP primary lens. There is a 15MP Selfie Shooter. The cell phone arrives in 8GB RAM and 128GB ROM. LG smartphone houses a 4300mAh battery, which supports 30W fast charge. The Price of LG Velvet in BAHRAIN is BHD 265.
LG V60 ThinQ 5G: The flagship phone of LG, V60 ThinQ enables 5G connectivity. The cell phone has a 6.8inches Plastic OLED Display of FHD+ resolution. LG V60 driven by MediaTek Helio P22 and 8GB RAM paired with 128GB ROM. It offers a Quad Rear Camera setup consisting a 64MP primary sensor. There is a 5000mAh battery for non-stop performance. LG V60 ThinQ Price in BAHRAIN is BHD 285.


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Since launching on November 1, 2019, Apple TV + has provided a lot of quality entertainment, but it has yet to produce a huge cultural success.
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Apple TV co-stars + The Morning Show (Apple)
On November 1, 2019, Apple finally launched its longtime Apple TV + streaming service. During construction, the company had spent billions of dollars, hired a long list of leading artists and filmmakers, and made massive advertising efforts to play in the booming field of streaming television. The launch accounted for most of Apple’s growing focus on services.
Six months after its launch, Apple can report undeniable creative successes on the service, including programs that have been critically acclaimed and one that has won awards.
But Apple TV + has not yet managed to deliver a massive hit, which is talked about and attracts culture, the kind of show that would add thousands of subscribers, not to mention the proliferation of memes online. At around the same time, Disney + had The Mandalorian, while Netflix had Tiger King.
And of course, there is no way that Apple could have known that just a few months after the launch of this service, circumstances would force the majority of households, in most of the countries in which it operates, to stay at home at any time, which leads to an explosion in the use of streaming services.
Judging the shows
In its first six months, Apple released live script series, as well as children’s programming, a handful of documentary series, and five films.
Apple’s Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet
This represents a lot of content for an entity to be published in six months, and it is clearly much more, in quantity and in quality, than Netflix or Amazon published in its infancy. Netflix, let’s not forget, did not publish House of Cards until a year after its first streaming broadcast, while the Amazon Prime Video broadcast, Transparent, did not arrive until almost 18 months after the start of Amazon’s original televised efforts.
However, it is a different world now, with much more competition and much more to come. And with that, the potential audience for streaming suddenly skyrocketed, due to social distancing.
Apple’s big gamble, out of the gate, was The Morning Show, with its A-list cast and heavy subject matter. Although the show started off creatively slowly, probably in part due to the backstage turbulence, it has improved considerably throughout its season.
The Morning Show won two Screen Actors Guild awards, for Jennifer Aniston and Billy Crudup, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best drama series.
However, The Morning Show did not win at the Globes, and prestigious Reese Witherspoon television projects have appeared in the past 18 months, it seems to have less cultural impact than Big Little Lies or Little Fires Everywhere. No other Apple show has received award nominations, although most of them were released outside of last year’s eligibility window.
Another launch program, Dickinson, got positive reviews and seemed to please fans of its young star, Hailee Steinfeld. And while the two have been renewed, neither For All Mankind nor See has been any freak while Servant, which debuted in late November, seemed to have barely made a mistake.
Shows that arrived later, Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet was an always funny and surprising sitcom, while Little America was a series of often touching anthologies on the American immigrant. Home After Dark, Truth Be Told and Defending Jacob also lived their moments, while Trying, which debuts on May 1, is funny and charming.
As for Amazing, it only lasted five episodes – less than expected when it was first announced – and in particular did not receive a renewal.
Among Apple’s films and other special programs, Beastie Boys was exactly the type of energetic, music-centric show that Apple should pursue, while Visible: Out on Television was a skillfully assembled look at the salvation of LGBT people on the television.
The film The Banker, while a good film, saw its original release scuttled after allegations of sexual abuse against one of its producers, the coronavirus having canceled its brief theatrical release. The film finally arrived, mainly in indifference, in March.
Apple TV + has done more good shows than bad ones, but certainly nothing that can be considered a cultural phenomenon.
“It is truly amazing to see contradictory and misleading informationon on streaming statistics on the Internet,” said longtime journalist David Poland. said Wednesday on Twitter. “It’s like the worst phone game in the world.”
There are a lot of things we don’t know about Apple TV +. There is no solid, publicly available data on subscribers or number of viewers for Apple TV + shows, nor does Apple publish such figures in its earnings releases.
Apple did not indicate an Apple TV + subscriber number in its press release or investor appeal on April 30, although it announced that its Services category, of which Apple TV + was a member, had recorded a figure of record business of $ 13.3 billion. CFO Luca Maestri said on the call that Apple TV +, along with other new services, “continue to add users, content, and features, while contributing to overall service growth “.
The TV rating firm Nielsen has started measuring audience ratings for Netflix shows, but has done nothing like that for Apple TV +. There are clues about how the service works, but this informationon is very incomplete.
Tim Cook, without quoting figures, called Apple TV + “a resounding success” in an interview with Reuters in January, also saying the service’s performance was “very good, both the people who get it in the bundle and people who pay for someone who hasn’t bought a new device. “
In January, Apple TV + had about 34 million subscribers, according to Ampere Analysis, although the “vast majority” of this estimated number takes advantage of the free year that accompanies the purchase of an Apple device. Disney +, which launched shortly after Apple TV +, passed the 50 million subscriber mark in April, although it was three months later, after the pandemic started, and based on an officially published issue.
Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Financial suggested in a February note that the new service “did not resonate with customers, perhaps because of its limited content offering”.
The research firm Antenna, cited by Forbes, measured that each of the main streaming services had registered an increase in registrations at the start of the pandemic in the United States in March. However, Antenna also found that Apple TV + had a 10% gain, which was the smallest of the services included.
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Aside from its revolutionary lack of success, one thing that is clear after six months is that Apple TV + doesn’t really have an identity. Aside from the vague appreciation of quality and medium to high programming, there is no established house style, or a specific type of show that makes people say “it’s an Apple TV + show” or “c is a good fit with what Apple Do. ”
It may be something that will eventually emerge over time, but it certainly isn’t yet.
Second, with Disney + booming, HBO Max arriving in late May and NBC Universal’s Peacock not far behind, Apple TV + faces stiffer competition than ever, without benefiting from the vast catalog of old movies and shows offered by its competitors. .
And an important part of Apple’s launch strategy was clearly to go into business with big names, the kind of people who could introduce themselves to company keynotes and get product attention in the media. with which they are associated.
But in its first six months, Apple has made no exclusive offer with any type of big name creation. They brought in former HBO president Richard Plepler for an exclusive five-year production offer, but Plepler is better known as a studio director than as a director or creator of shows.
In addition, the producers with whom Apple went into business have not always been the main creative voices behind their shows.
Steven Spielberg may have participated in an Apple event last year to talk about his rebirth of Amazing, but when the series arrived, Spielberg was not credited as a writer or director for any of the episodes. M. Night Shyamalan, although he directed two episodes, was not Servant’s showrunner.
Reasons for optimism
There are, however, many reasons not to count Apple TV +. Apple has continued to devote massive financial resources to the business, and there is no evidence that Tim Cook or any other senior executive has lost confidence in the project.
And it can wait. It has the financial resources to continue producing shows with no tangible return for years, if not decades.
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Apple has renewed all of the original live action shows that have already debuted, with the exception of Amazing, while Defending Jacob is a limited series. The service has all of these second seasons underway, as well as another phase of new originals, although Apple has had to stop production of several shows due to coronavirus, including The Morning Show, the Isaac Adaptation Foundation Asimov and Ben Working session produced by Stiller Severance.
Upcoming promising series include JJ Abrams produced Little Voice, the animated comic series Central Park, a CIA-based show with Brie Larson and Masters of the Air, a World War II mini-series produced by Spielberg, and Tom Hanks, which is Apple’s very first series. internal production studio.
The rapprochement with Plepler is intriguing, since he was the executive in charge of HBO at a time when they regularly produced acclaimed hits. HBO’s long-standing strategy of focusing on quality rather than quantity seems to be suitable for what Apple is trying to do, and Plepler would have left HBO because, under the new owner AT&T, they were moving away of this strategy.
Apple also has an agreement with the popular film distributor A24 to develop films together, which will include the next star of Bill Murray On The Rocks, and Apple is also making a film with Mahershala Ali, who won two Oscars during the last four years. Apple has even been reported to be considering a bid on college football streaming rights.
In the longer term, Apple has other opportunities to develop Apple TV +. With all of the traditional Hollywood studios struggling due to movie theater closings, Apple, with its huge cash reserves, could see an opportunity to acquire an acquisition frenzy.
Apple is in a unique position to buy a distressed movie studio like Paramount, Sony or a smaller one like Lionsgate. The company could also simply purchase the rights to certain legacy movies and TV content to make them available to Apple TV + subscribers, or even as intellectual property for future development.
And, if Disney as a whole went on sale, Apple is, financially speaking, one of the very small companies on the planet that could play a realistic role. Although this rumor is emerging with alarming frequency, it seems unlikely, however.
The next six months
Apple has clearly had a mixed start in its original streaming efforts, with no sort of massive success in the first six months. But Apple TV + retains the benefits of money and stability, as well as what looks like firm support from company management.
We are very early in the streaming wars, and there is a good chance that the landscape will be completely different in a year, no matter what happens with the coronavirus. And the more Apple continues to create new content, the more likely the company will find this revolutionary program or film.
It is not there yet and does not seem imminent.


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'In the village' location of this house makes the use of the car unnecessary. You are at the walking distance of all amenities in the village of Lake Placid, just minutes from the both lakes. We are centrally located, couple of minutes walk from the Main Street. Minutes to the beach (walk) and to the center of the village. The house is in the quiet street near the park. The kitchen is well equipped. Living room has wood burning stove/fireplace, sofa, 2 comfy chairs, TV, DVD, VCR, Stereo, Internet Access... Master bedroom has one king-size bed, the others queen and twin beds. Linens and towels are provided.
All utilities, parking, taxes, etc. are included in the price. There are no extra (hidden) fees.
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The Wrong Child
A Gripping Thriller You Won'T Forget...
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When twenty-one of its twenty-two children die in an accident, an entire community turns on the sole survivor: the 'wrong child'. A must-read for fans of THE BAD SEED by William March, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE by Shirley Jackson.


I hope You will be able to enjoy a faster and lag-free performance as the upcoming OnePlus 9 Pro lets started
In the last few months, one plus 1 to 1 big lakes about are all-rounders one plus 9 series and one plus talk about this was faster and beast camera phones and leg free performance smartphone.
onePlus 9 Pro comes with high-end specifications and striking features. The phone will come with high performance and will come with a new impressive design. specs and rumors talk about this phone come with new color (Black and Gold colors)
There are any major surprises here, but it does give us all one plus smart in a very good look at what OnePlus 9seres has in store for us at the end of the month. And evidently, the company has a similar design to Samsung s21 series. also speculates that the OnePlus 9 may skip the glass design of the 9 Pro.
The rumored smartphone from the OnePlus 9 is expected to come with a fluid AMOLED display that might measure 6.78 inches and will have an aspect ratio of 20:9 thus providing you an immersive experience while playing games and watching movies. The screen resolution of the phone is to be 1440 x 3200 pixels with a pixel density of 518ppi and a 120 Hz refresh rate.OnePlus 9 Pro might come with Corning Gorilla Glass protection.
one plus 9pro in total 5 camera setup.OnePlus 9 Pro, it is expected to feature a quad-rear camera setup with highly advanced features so that you can click pictures and record high-quality videos. There might be a 64MP primary lens, a 16 MP wide-angle camera, a 12 MP telephoto lens, and a 2 MP depth sensor. Features on the rear camera setup include auto flash, touch to focus, face detection, digital zoom, and more. While on the front, the smartphone is likely to sport a 32 MP primary camera for selfies and video calls.
It was the main port for all smartphones is performance because phone are totally depend on performance and optimization lets talk about performance OnePlus 9 Pro smartphone is rumored to be equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset along with an Octa-core 2.84 GHz, Single core, Kryo 680 + 2.42 GHz, Tri core, Kryo 680 + 1.8 GHz, Quad-core, Kryo 680 processor configuration and you will be able to access multiple access simultaneously, play intense graphics games, browse the internet, and do other things without any glitches.
In addition to this, the phone will be powered with a massive 5000 mAh non-removable battery that will support fast charging(55w). Hence, you need not charge the phone frequently or worry about battery drainage in the middle of a call, playing a game, or doing other things.


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Striking workers and other widespread woes could feel like we have stepped back into another decade. So why does prime London’s property market suggest it’s not as bad as all that – Zoe Dare Hall Reports
You might be forgiven for feeling like a time-traveller right now. With teachers, train drivers, nurses and even British Museum workers among the millions poised to join picket lines this month, there are echoes of the General Strike of 1926. Or maybe you feel it’s all looking more like the 1970s with inflation running high and food prices rising at their fastest in 50 years. Heavens, John Cleese is even bringing back Fawlty Towers! Who turned back the clocks without us noticing?
It has, in many ways, been a winter of disgruntlement. But just as there are early signs of Spring emerging from the dark days, there is a feeling in the prime property market that it really isn’t as bad as all that. “It’s a tricky market,” comments Billy Harvey, head of sales at Lurot Brand, “but it’s more positive than the headlines suggest. The economy is improving, interest rates are falling. We’re seeing many clients who are saying ‘let’s get on with it’.”
Although the prime London market will be lucky to see any growth this year, double-digit capital growth is forecast over the next five years. Current values look attractive to many overseas buyers –particularly those from the US and other dollar-denominated countries; London has seen a record number of €5m+ sales over the past 12 months. The 600 transactions at that level last year beat even 2013, before stamp duty rises came into being, and post-lockdown 2021.
As eternal optimists, we all start the year with good intentions – hence the hoards who subject themselves to Dry January and Veganuary. Whether it’s optimism, though, or sheer stubbornness, “there is still a gap between vendors’ and buyers’ expectations of price. Vendors are taking time to work out what the market is doing,” says Harvey. But this year began “with offers flying around”, he adds. “One sale that fell through at the end of last year has now gone under offer for nearly £100,000 more. The market is pretty stagnant but we are not seeing any slashing of prices. Asking prices need to be sensible, obviously, but there are no major price drops or renegotiation of prices already agreed.”
The mortgage landscape is easing up too, and fixed rate costs are coming down. But that matters little to most buyers in prime central London, two thirds of whom have no need for finance. Price will always be key to vendors, but buyer profile is becoming a bigger part of the equation now, says Harvey. “Vendors like the security that comes with a cash buyer; they also want to know the reason for buying. A second home that’s only used for a few days a year is not an urgent purchase, so vendors may worry that it’s more likely to fall through.”
Equally, though, someone who can afford a second home in central London could be seen as a less risky bet. They don’t need to buy; they just want to. In the mews market, three-quarters of buyers are London – or UK-based and mainly cash buyers. “Mews buyers aren’t flaky; they are experienced,” says Harvey.
Positive news for mews vendors, too, is that while Notting Hill and South Kensington will always be highly sought- after markets, most buyers of mews properties are not fixated on being in a particular postcode. They often fall within the empty-nest age bracket or, as wealth appears to be in ever younger hands, are a long way from starting a family. In either case, they are not driven by schooling and the need to be in a certain catchment area. “If they can’t find what they want in South Kensington, they will look at Hyde Park instead because it’s the same distance from the park. They fall in love with the look of the house and the street, not necessarily the postcode,” says Harvey. Those with houses in need of some work right now, however, will find it harder to sell. Totally unmodernised properties, where buyers/developers have factored renovation costs into the price, and newlyrenovated houses with no work needed are both popular at present. The sticking point is the middle ground. “People don’t want to spend the money on having to put in a new kitchen while the cost of building work and materials is so high,” says Harvey.
Harvey describes 2023 as “draw breath year”. Good properties are still achieving strong prices, “but if something has an issue or is slightly quirky, it will be penalised on price. Buyers are aware that they need to be sensible, not overstretch and not take on something that may have unforeseen costs,” he says.
One legacy of the Covid era remains, however, and that is the desire to have some home-working space. The pandemic has given us a taste of work-based freedom, and new research by LinkedIn shows that more than a third of UK workers would resign if told to return to the office fulltime. On viewing properties, says Harvey, most buyers will identify where the desk will go – or even better, which room will be their study (or studies; separate workspaces for flexi-working couples are in high demand).
Many mews properties lend themselves to live/work properties, with their easy street access, quiet environment and the charm and character of having big old stable doors and cobbled streets. Lurot Brand is marketing a property in Notting Hill’s Ledbury Mews North, whose two combined apartments contain a residential studio and an office. There is also a garage in Russell Gardens Mews in Kensington with planning permission for conversion into a studio or an office.
It’s all change in the world of work in 2023 – but is it a return to the 1970s or a taste of the future? That’s up to you to decide.


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The Ultra Street Fighter 4 update is live now on Xbox 360 a day earlier than planned.
The 1.92GB update is available from the Xbox Marketplace priced £11.99. This is not the full digital version of the game, which launches alongside the disc version on 5th August.
Reports are coming in that the update is available from the North American PlayStation Store (thanks, EventHubs), but we can't see it on the European Store yet. We expect it'll be live there soon.
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So looking forward to speaking about art and copyright law at ArtsWestchester on May 1, with Jana S. Farmer (Wilson Elser), Jill A. Ellman (M. Ross & Associates LLC), and Nisa Ojalvo (VP, Legal Affairs, LVMH). Come join us for the panel and drinks from 4-6:30pm. Space is limited. RSVP to Beth Gould at Bgould@nysba.org. ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck av., 9th floor, White Plains, NY.
For those of you who attended, the materials that I referenced during my presentation can be found here: Copyright Basics Copyright Registration Copyright Office Fees Multiple Works and Copyright Registration of Pictorial, Graphic and Sculptural Works
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Over the years, South Africa has made a notable improvement that is aimed at supporting online activities. Some of the people who have benefited from these efforts are those looking to date online. Currently, millions of South African singles are utilising online dating apps to help them find their soul mates. Some of them are free while others are not. Thus, one can subscribe to one of the best apps depending on their courting needs. In the article, we discuss some of the best South African dating apps with the highest number of users.
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The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cell phone—based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a computer. But the rapidity with which they master new technology reflects the era in which they are living. This is the first generation to have direct access to high technology.
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According to statistics from a new report from the GSMA trade body, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to outpace other regions when it comes to mobile-money services. An estimated million of them are active users. The total value of the Sub-Saharan Africa, which has mobile-money services to date, has also been the driver behind the global rise of the sector since With an adequately banked population and plenty of liquidity, Southern Africa continues to show little interest in mobile transfer and payment services.
The sub-region has just 3 million active users, versus million in East Africa, 56 million in West Africa and 20 million in Central Africa. Central Africa has been working hard to catch up, with the sub-region holding the status of the most dynamic on the continent since The situation varies widely from one country to the next.
But another contributing factor is that the region is not necessarily the preferred market of operators like Orange and MTN. There is no question that the double-digit growth expected for this year is related to a tragic turn of events: the COVID pandemic, which to date has claimed lives and infected 4, people confirmed cases in Africa according to statistics from the World Health Organisation. After the decisions taken on 2 April by the BCEAO to facilitate digital money transfers free electronic money transfers between individuals and free household bill payments under a certain amount, elimination of fees charged by service providers for payment transactions, etc.
Just like in , the new report from the GSMA calls on mobile-money players to increase the level of sophistication of their product range by offering savings, loan and insurance services.
Africa: over 500 million mobile-money users expected in 2020
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A mobile phone , cellular phone, cell phone , cellphone or hand phone , sometimes shortened to simply mobile , cell or just phone , is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The radio frequency link establishes a connection to the switching systems of a mobile phone operator , which provides access to the public switched telephone network PSTN.
Modern mobile telephone services use a cellular network architecture and, therefore, mobile telephones are called cellular telephones or cell phones in North America. In addition to telephony , digital mobile phones 2G support a variety of other services , such as text messaging , MMS , email , Internet access , short-range wireless communications infrared , Bluetooth , business applications, video games and digital photography.
Mobile phones offering only those capabilities are known as feature phones ; mobile phones which offer greatly advanced computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. The development of metal-oxide-semiconductor MOS large-scale integration LSI technology, information theory and cellular networking led to the development of affordable mobile communications. Mitchell   and Martin Cooper of Motorola in , using a handset weighing c.
From to , worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew to over seven billion; enough to provide one for every person on Earth. A handheld mobile radio telephone service was envisioned in the early stages of radio engineering. In , Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a “pocket-size folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone”. Early predecessors of cellular phones included analog radio communications from ships and trains.
The race to create truly portable telephone devices began after World War II, with developments taking place in many countries. The advances in mobile telephony have been traced in successive “generations”, starting with the early zeroth-generation 0G services, such as Bell System ‘s Mobile Telephone Service and its successor, the Improved Mobile Telephone Service.
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In , 50 million sub-Saharan Africans created a mobile-money account via a mobile phone, is times the value of transactions recorded in South Asia, the second-highest ranked region in terms of mobile-money services. Sub-Saharan Africa, which has mobile-money services to date, has.
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Large majorities in all six sub-Saharan countries surveyed own mobile phones. Ownership is highest in South Africa, where about nine-in-ten adults own a mobile device, and lowest in Tanzania, where three-quarters own a phone. Basic phones — such as flip phones or feature phones — are generally the most common type of mobile device owned by sub-Saharan Africans.
In Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria and Kenya, just about one-third of adults own smartphones. Worldwide, sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest rate of smartphone ownership of any geographic region. But smartphone ownership is increasing across much of the developing world , including in sub-Saharan Africa. From to , smartphone ownership also increased significantly in Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. Smartphone ownership has remained relatively stable — and low — in Tanzania since , when the question was first posed there.
Even as mobile phones and smartphones have become more ubiquitous across much of sub-Saharan Africa, important educational, financial and generational divides in ownership remain. Gender gaps also persist in some countries.
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We present a review of the studies that have been published about addiction to cell phones. We analyze the concept of cell-phone addiction as well as its prevalence, study methodologies, psychological features, and associated psychiatric comorbidities. Research in this field has generally evolved from a global view of the cell phone as a device to its analysis via applications and contents.
The diversity of criteria and methodological approaches that have been used is notable, as is a certain lack of conceptual delimitation that has resulted in a broad spread of prevalent data. There is a consensus about the existence of cell-phone addiction, but the delimitation and criteria used by various researchers vary. Cell-phone addiction shows a distinct user profile that differentiates it from Internet addiction.
Without evidence pointing to the influence of cultural level and socioeconomic status, the pattern of abuse is greatest among young people, primarily females. Intercultural and geographical differences have not been sufficiently studied. The problematic use of cell phones has been associated with personality variables, such as extraversion, neuroticism, self-esteem, impulsivity, self-identity, and self-image.
Similarly, sleep disturbance, anxiety, stress, and, to a lesser extent, depression, which are also associated with Internet abuse, have been associated with problematic cell-phone use. In addition, the present review reveals the coexistence relationship between problematic cell-phone use and substance use such as tobacco and alcohol.
Local number portability LNP for fixed lines , and full mobile number portability FMNP for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability of a “customer of record” of an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone number assigned by a local exchange carrier LEC to reassign the number to another carrier “service provider portability” , move it to another location “geographic portability” , or change the type of service “service portability”.
Location Portability and Service Portability are not consistently defined or deployed in the telecommunication industry. The government of Hong Kong has tentatively approved fixed-mobile number portability; however, as of July , this service is not yet available. Some cellular telephone companies will charge for this conversion as a regulatory cost recovery fee. Though it was introduced as a tool to promote competition in the heavily monopolized wireline telecommunications industry,  number portability became popular with the advent of mobile telephones , since in most countries different mobile operators are provided with different area codes and, without portability, changing one’s operator would require changing one’s number.
Some operators, especially incumbent operators with large existing subscriber bases, have argued against portability on the grounds that providing this service incurs considerable overhead, while others argue that it prevents vendor lock-in and allows them to compete fairly on price and service.
Gabriella Razzano does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Tracking people infected with COVID has become an important weapon in global responses to combatting the virus. Through the use of geo-location, mobile technology offers a simple solution for tracing people possibly exposed to COVID But at what cost?
These are exceptional times calling for extraordinary measures. But do they justify the wholesale sacrifice of our rights? Concerns loom large across the globe. More than civil society signatories and intergovernmental organisations have already warned as much in a joint letter.


In a scathing critique of his Republican colleagues in the Oklahoma state Legislature, Rep. Doug Cox (R-Grove) questioned his party's efforts to restrict women's access to birth control.
"All of the new Oklahoma laws aimed at limiting abortion and contraception are great for the Republican family that lives in a gingerbread house with a two-car garage, two planned kids and a dog," Cox wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in NewsOK. "In the real world, they are less than perfect."
"And in the world I work and live in, an unplanned pregnancy can throw up a real roadblock on a woman's path to escaping the shackles of poverty," added Cox, a practicing physician who has delivered more than 800 babies, according to NewsOK.
The Oklahoma Legislature has been one of the most aggressive nationwide in limiting access to contraception and family planning services. By law, abortion is not covered by private or public health insurance plans except when the mother's life is in danger or if an optional rider has been purchased. Legislators have also pushed bills that would require women under a certain age to obtain a prescription for the morning-after-pill. And last week, just days after a tornado swept through the town of Moore, killing 24 people, the state Senate in nearby Oklahoma City passed a measure that would effectively defund Planned Parenthood in the state.
"While the Oklahoma Legislature prides itself on its anti-abortion legislation, stopping funding to an organization that provides access to family planning to prevent unwanted pregnancies and putting obstacles between young women and safe, effective birth control methods make absolutely no sense," Cox wrote in The Huffington Post last week.
"What happened to the Republican Party that felt that the government has no business being in an exam room, standing between me and my patient?" Cox lamented in his Wednesday op-ed. "Where did the party go that felt some decisions in a woman's life should be made not by legislators and government, but rather by the women, her conscience, her doctor and her God?"
Cox told HuffPost in an interview last week that his arguments have not always fallen on deaf ears, but sympathizers have not been willing to buck the party line.
"I have people who tell me they feel the way I do, but are afraid to vote the way I do," he said.


Where are all the Physicans? Private vs. Public Health Care
AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine the interplay between public and private health care. We consider a situation where public and private health care are perfect substitutes, and the government sets the wage in the public sector and the subsidy to (or taxation on) the private sector. Each physician decides how much to work in each of the sectors, and earns revenues from wage income in the public sector and patients'payments in the private sector. We find that the scope for public health care is limited if each physician does not have a genuine interest in working in the public health sector. Competition between physicians triggers a shift in production from public to private health care, and an increase in total production. The production is higher in the public sector and lower in the private sector than in the first best outcome. The endogenous nature of labour supply may have counter-intuitive effects. For example, a cost reduction in private sector may lead to a higher wage in the public sector.
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This background paper presents a review and analysis of the literature at the intersection of the fields of health economics and public health.
On January 14–15, 2013, the National Collaborating Centres for Public Health (NCCPH), in collaboration with the Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), partnered to co-host the workshop “Advancing Population and Public Health Economics”.
This workshop was organized to ask experts in economics how the funding, generation, dissemination and use of economic evidence might be enhanced to better develop population and public health policies and programs in Canada.
The following document by Lori J. Curtis, a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Waterloo, was commissioned by CPHI-CIHI as a background paper to this meeting.
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A PLACE FOR CREATION DANCE
For thirty five years, Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique has supported professionals on both technical and artistic levels, offering them spaces and services adapted to research, creation, advanced training, and professional development in dance and getting involved in its milieu. Open to the whole community, this resource-sharing-based organization has nine members: Louise Bédard Danse, Sylvain Émard Danse, Le Carré des Lombes, maribé – sors de ce corps/Marie Béland, Frédérick Gravel, MAYDAY, Compagnie Catherine Gaudet, Compagnie Ebnflōh and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage.
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Circuit-Est has 5 studios, located in 2 venues: édifice Jean-Pierre-Perreault and espace Saint-André. The choreographic centre rents these spaces at very reasonable rates, as well as it offers a programming of activities—compounded of master classes, workshops, mentorship projects, residencies, and international exchanges—intended for dance professionals.
OUR RECOGNIZED COMMITMENT
Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique was awarded the 2013 "I love dance/J'aime la danse" Organization Award by the Canadian Dance Assembly and was finalist for the Prix de l'Action culturelle de la ville de Montréal-2015 for its project Alors, on crée ? in collaboration with Louise Bédard Danse.
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Another one of my interests is Skim boarding. I have been skim boarding for about three years now and I enjoy it a lot. I compete in competitions and last summer I placed 2nd out of about 50 kids in my age bracket at Skim Fest down in Grand Haven. The best part of skim boarding is just having fun chilling with your friends at the beach.
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