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by Daryn Goodwin

MISSISSAUGA - Divisions such as Midget Silver, Mite Platinum/Gold, even Pro all wrapped up their divisions late last night, today brought just as many championship games.

Here are some recaps of Championship games that took place today:

Mite Club Championship - Hot Shots Inferno vs. Tour RoadRunners

The first championship game of the day brought us a matchup between the Tour RoadRunners and Hot Shots Inferno out of Pennsylvania for the Mite Club title. In the round robin Inferno defeated the RoadRunners 4-1, but everyone knows that it's a different story come playoff time.

After the RoadRunners would take a 1-0 lead, it would be the performance of Nick Matus who would score a hat-trick in one shift to give his Inferno club the upper-hand. They would never look back after that, beating the RoadRunners 4-2 to claim the Mite Club championship.

Mite Silver Championships - Bend Bullets vs. Cayman Islands

The Bend Bullets have been in their own league throughout the tournament, smoking through the competition. They did face a challenge in the round robin against the Cayman Islands. The Bullets did come home with the 7-3 win, but the score does not tell the full story, as it was closer until the end of that game.

In the Championship game, the Bullets would continue their dominance and defeat Cayman Islands by a score of 6-2.  Bullets Goaltender Andrew Lacrosse would win top goalie, while Cayman Islands star Jackson Cover would win the Top Scorer award.

Peewee Club Championship - Tour Lizard Kings vs. Mission Bauer BorderCats 03

The Squirt Club Championship came down between the Tour Lizard Kings out of Georgia and the Mission Bauer BorderCats 03. In a very tight division, the Club final was very competitive with a ton of skill.

Both teams could not find a way to pull away completely from one another. For example, the Lizard Kings would get a lead, but the BorderCats would come storming back in a heartbeat to tie the game up.

It would continue to happen, when the Lizard Kings would take the lead for his team with roughly 5 minutes to go in the final frame. In the last two minutes, the BorderCats would come back yet again to make it 3-3, putting the game into OT.

In the extra frame, the intensity would significantly change as both teams would rush back and worth trading scoring opportunities, contrasting to the Pro Final that took place the night before. Jaden Neeke would score in overtime, giving the Lizard Kings the gold medal in the Peewee Club division.

What. A. Game

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Here Are Some Nutritionist Tips To Break And Change These 10 Bad Eating Habits

Breakaway from the shackles of these worst bad eating habits in 2021 with Pooja Bhargava, An All - Rounder Health Coach And Holistic Nutritionist.

Tavishi Dogra
Written by: Tavishi DograPublished at: Feb 22, 2021Updated at: Feb 22, 2021

2020 taught each one of us the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. 2021 is here, and it's time to reboot our lives. We have been mindlessly following fads and playing around with our health. Over the years, we have all developed bad eating habits, and these habits are a deterrent for us. To rebuild a healthy lifestyle, we would need to access our routines and start making small changes; another thing to remember is that health is not all about eating; it's about our other habits too. In this article, Pooja Bhargava, An All - Rounder Health Coach, Holistic Nutritionist, and Fitness Expert, will be addressing ten practices you can look at changing for the better:

  • Stress-eating: Do you know that cortisol increases appetite, which can cause someone to overindulge. Cravings are caused due to high cortisol levels from stress. It can increase food cravings for fatty or sugary foods. Stress is linked with enhanced hunger hormones, too, that may add to the desires for unhealthy meals. We all go through stress, and if it's not addressed, it causes long-term damage. Obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc., are a result of excess stress. So, it is best to acknowledge you are going through stress and to give yourself the me-time you require. Do activities that make you happy, calm you down, talk to someone about your anxiety, and vent it out. Stress is physical or emotional tension. Fear can come from any idea or experience that makes you feel angry, nervous or frustrated. The pressure is your body's reaction to a demand or challenge. Stress can be positive, in short bursts, such as when it helps you meet a deadline or avoid danger.
  • Learn to enjoy your food moments: Please remember this there is nothing so important waiting for you on the world wide web. Human beings have forgotten to live in the moment and enjoy themselves. We are either thinking about the past or talking about the future. Just sit back and enjoy that conversation or the activity that you are presently doing. One of the biggest culprits is the phone, all the time, we want to check the phone; why is it so difficult to complete your task at hand and then check your phone. Over time we have forgotten to concentrate on one activity and then move to the next. What are the easiest ways to enjoy a moment? One is to appreciate that moment for what it is and engage with that moment mindfully. How can you make this? Do it in countless little ways! Remember that each day brings more significant peace and meaning to every moment. Slow down each day to appreciate how things sound, look, smell, feel and taste.
  • Eat home-cooked meals: Today, ordering food has become easy. You can order a variety of things all under one roof. On the one hand, it may be easy, and it is also unhealthy to eat outside food all the time. The point of eating to provide your body with the nutrients it requires. It's not all about taste. So, stick to home-cooked healthy meals and fix a day you will order food from outside. The study observes that people who have home-cooked meals regularly tend to be happier and healthier and consume less processed and sugar foods, resulting in better mental health and higher energy levels. Eating home-cooked meals more than five days a week is even associated with a longer life.
Skipping Meals
  • Skipping Meals: Many people believe if they skip meals, it will help them lose weight. It is the biggest myth. Eating 4-5 small meals is essential. You must start your day with a good nutritious breakfast and end your day with a light lunch. You must have your fruits too. What must you do? You must make sure you eat right and exercise. It causes us to burn fewer calories (less energy). It also causes the body to lower its metabolism, i.e. how much energy it needs to function. When we eat the usual amount of food, it can lead us to gain weight too. Skipping meal leaves us with little power because the body has run out of the fuel we get from food.
  • Checking social media constantly while eating: People currently suffer from a phenomenon called FOMO (fear of missing out). We are frequently on our phone so engrossed that we forget real people surround us, and we can have real conversations. Always staring at the phone or the laptop has also ruined our posture. If you notice these days people complain of neck pain, jammed fingers, etc., that is because we get so engrossed in our phones that we forget to move. The best thing to do is to set a stipulated time you will access social media for.

  • Stop complaining about your meals: When you complain, you are attracting negativity and focusing the same. However, if there is an issue, and you look for solutions, you focus on the positive and moving forward. Change the way you think. When you find yourself speaking or creating a negative comment about someone or something, stop and force yourself to say something positive instead. Enlist a cheerful friend's help to prevent you when you complain and help you see the situation's positive.
  • Move around: Our ancestors were hale and hearty because they gave their body the required movement. They walked or cycled to work, school, etc., women did household chores on their own. They gave their body enough exercise. What we do these days is sit in one place for hours and don’t move an inch. The best thing is to do your small chores on your own. Get yourself the glass of water or take short breaks and move around in your office.
Stop complaining about your meals
  • Stop taking over-the-counter pills: most of us have got into the habit of popping pills for every small thing. Instead, turn to your kitchen. The ingredients in your kitchen have a cure for most of the common ailments. Right from indigestion to stomach ache, and with google for our help, you will instantly know which ingredients help in what way. Work towards breaking the habit of looking for short term solutions.
  • Sleep: Sleep is one of the essential requirements of your body. You and nature have a clock, and it is necessary to follow the same. There are two aspects to sleep; one: your body requires 7 hours of sleep to rejuvenate and function at its optimum best every day, and the other element is the time you sleep. The best time to retire to bed is between 9-11 pm.
  • Compare yourself to others: human beings have a habit of constantly comparing themselves to others. This helps you in no way; all it does is make you feel inferior and less at all times. Each of us has different capabilities and the best to keep working on what we are good at daily.
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Takeaway Tip By Fitness Expert: Change is difficult, but life is changing every second. most of us are currently moving against the tide with the lifestyle we lead. Work towards changing two habits at a time, and you will notice a sudden change in your body. You will feel lighter and happier. Breakaway from the shackles of these ten habits in 2021 and start moving with the tide.

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How Checkpoints Can Help Your Business

Using GPS technology within the mobile phone and location services. As a result, the driver can check in to a precise location, fill in any relevant details, upload an image and link all the information to an assigned vehicle. Consequently, allowing the person responsible for fleet management to have a clear record of locations visited by the driver and the assigned vehicle.

Innovative Proof Of Delivery For Your Drivers

Using Checkpoints for proof of delivery allows your field team to signature captures from a customer when a scheduled item has been delivered at a precise location with a time and date stamp that can all be completed within one section in the app and notification emails sent when completed to make customer deliveries simple and traceable.

Benefits Of Using Checkpoints Within Your Business

One of the main reasons to use proof of delivery and work is accountability. These documents exist to prove exactly who is responsible and accountable for each stage of the delivery/attendance. This can help with any possible customer disputes or legal issues.

Proof of delivery and proof of work stating exactly when, where, and by whom the delivery was passed on to its next stage. This makes it easier to go back and trace order/service fulfillment. It functions as a clear indicator of each delivery stage, which makes management far easier.

If you manage deliveries and logistics, then your business understands the importance of carefully monitoring every step of the delivery process. If you have multiple deliveries taking place, keeping track of every step in each delivery process can be incredibly challenging. Proof of delivery and work makes it easier for managers and customers to keep a clear record of the different steps in the operational cycle.

Proof of delievery and work is a vital part of any service/transport operation.

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Note: The Court will hear all scheduled oral arguments for the upcoming term in the Courtroom. Seating for the oral argument sessions will be provided to the public, members of the Supreme Court bar, and press. The three minute line is temporarily suspended. The building will otherwise be closed to the public until further notice. Please see the announcement here.

The Court holds oral argument in about 70-80 cases each year. The arguments are an opportunity for the Justices to ask questions directly of the attorneys representing the parties to the case, and for the attorneys to highlight arguments that they view as particularly important. Arguments are generally scheduled on specified Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings beginning on the first Monday in October, and continuing through the end of April. Typically, the Court holds two arguments each day beginning at 10:00 a.m., each lasting one hour. The days on which arguments are held are identified on the Court’s yearly calendar. The specific cases to be argued each day, and the attorneys scheduled to argue them, are identified on hearing lists for each session and on the day call for each argument session. Courtroom seating is available to the public on a first-come, first seated basis.

On the afternoon of each argument, the Court posts transcripts of that day’s arguments. On the Friday of each argument week, the Court also makes the audio of the week’s arguments available.

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Do you know what the fair use concept is?

On Behalf of | Jun 2, 2020 | Intellectual Property

Most of us have probably heard that the reproduction of any copyrighted work is unlawful. Additionally, many individuals have likely come across the signs posted alongside photocopiers that highlight how anyone who violates copyright laws may be subject to significant fines. However, artists of all kind should know that there are some instances in which an individual can use copyrighted material without permission and not face penalties for doing so.

Individuals are allowed to utilize certain pieces of copyrighted work in a limited capacity under the concept of fair use. In fact, anyone can generally sample a copyrighted piece provided that they intend to use it in a limited and transformative way. Many legal scholars have interpreted that an individual is generally allowed to criticize, parody, or comment about a work without first seeking permission from the copyright owner.

Fair use is a valid defense against claims of copyright infringement. Thus, if someone’s use of your copyrighted work qualifies as fair use, you won’t be able to sue them for copyright infringement.

Typically, fair use falls into one of two categories; commentary and criticism, or parody. For example, a student writing a book review for an assignment is often classified as fair use. It is generally acceptable for the student to quote lines or even some paragraphs of the book to support the position that they are taking in the report they’re writing.

When someone is doing a parody of another’s work, they’re usually allowed to sample a very liberal amount of that person’s work to ridicule, imitate or make fun of what they’ve written.

It can understandably be disheartening when you feel that someone has stolen or utilized your intellectual property without your expressed consent. You may be eager to sue the apparent violator for copyright infringement. However, you shouldn’t rush to file a lawsuit. The individual who used your work may have done so lawfully under the concept of fair use. An experienced intellectual property attorney can review how your material was used and advise you whether it warrants filing a copyright infringement lawsuit in California.


Climate in Muhafazat Hadramawt

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All climate diagrams on this page result from the collected data of the official weather station in Muhafazat Hadramawt in a height of 25m above sea level. All data correspond to the average monthly values of the last 20 years.

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Muhafazat Hadramawt is the coldest region in Yemen with an average high temperature of only 31°C. High humidity and hot temperatures make the weather at times pleasant but also tropical humid. It is yearlong warm or hot. Because of the lower temperatures the best time for traveling is in January.
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Warm air can absorb more moisture than cold air. The relative humidity indicates how much moisture of the physically possible is actually contained in the air. At high humidity, the person feels uncomfortable and perceives this as oppressive. In general, a relative humidity of 40-60% gives as pleasant. With humidity averaging 83%, September is the most uncomfortable. In February, on the other hand, it is easier to endure.
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Kilmia2,01312° 11' 9"N52° 13' 60"E

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Efficient Sequence Modeling for On-Device ML

The increasing demand for machine learning (ML) model inference on-device (for mobile devices, tablets, etc.) is driven by the rise of compute-intensive applications, the need to keep certain data on device for privacy and security reasons, and the desire to provide services when a network connection may not be available. However, on-device inference introduces a myriad of challenges, ranging from modeling to platform support requirements. These challenges relate to how different architectures are designed to optimize memory and computation, while still trying to maintain the quality of the model. From a platform perspective, the issue is identifying operations and building on top of them in a way that can generalize well across different product use cases.

In previous research, we combined a novel technique for generating embeddings (called projection-based embeddings) with efficient architectures like QRNN (pQRNN) and proved them to be competent for a number of classification problems. Augmenting these with distillation techniques provides an additional bump in end-to-end quality. Although this is an effective approach, it is not scalable to bigger and more extensive vocabularies (i.e., all possible Unicode or word tokens that can be fed to the model). Additionally, the output from the projection operation itself doesn’t contain trainable weights to take advantage of pre-training the model.

Token-free models presented in ByT5 are a good starting point for on-device modeling that can address pre-training and scalability issues without the need to increase the size of the model. This is possible because these approaches treat text inputs as a stream of bytes (each byte has a value that ranges from 0 to 255) that can reduce the vocabulary size for the embedding tables from ~30,000 to 256. Although ByT5 presents a compelling alternative for on-device modeling, going from word-level representation to byte stream representation increases the sequence lengths linearly; with an average word length of four characters and a single character having up to four bytes, the byte sequence length increases proportionally to the word length. This can lead to a significant increase in inference latency and computational costs.

We address this problem by developing and releasing three novel byte-stream sequence models for the SeqFlowLite library (ByteQRNN, ByteTransformer and ByteFunnelTransformer), all of which can be pre-trained on unsupervised data and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks. These models leverage recent innovations introduced by Charformer, including a fast character Transformer-based model that uses a gradient-based subword tokenization (GBST) approach to operate directly at the byte level, as well as a “soft” tokenization approach, which allows us to learn token boundaries and reduce sequence lengths. In this post, we focus on ByteQRNN and demonstrate that the performance of a pre-trained ByteQRNN model is comparable to BERT, despite being 300x smaller.

Sequence Model Architecture
We leverage pQRNN, ByT5 and Charformer along with platform optimizations, such as in-training quantization (which tracks minimum and maximum float values for model activations and weights for quantizing the inference model) that reduces model sizes by one-fourth, to develop an end-to-end model called ByteQRNN (shown below). First, we use a ByteSplitter operation to split the input string into a byte stream and feed it to a smaller embedding table that has a vocabulary size of 259 (256 + 3 additional meta tokens).

The output from the embedding layer is fed to the GBST layer, which is equipped with in-training quantization and combines byte-level representations with the efficiency of subword tokenization while enabling end-to-end learning of latent subwords. We “soft” tokenize the byte stream sequences by enumerating and combining each subword block length with scores (computed with a quantized dense layer) at each strided token position (i.e., at token positions that are selected at regular intervals). Next, we downsample the byte stream to manageable sequence length and feed it to the encoder layer.

The output from the GBST layer can be downsampled to a lower sequence length for efficient encoder computation or can be used by an encoder, like Funnel Transformer, which pools the query length and reduces the self-attention computation to create the ByteFunnelTransformer model. The encoder in the end-to-end model can be replaced with any other encoder layer, such as the Transformer from the SeqFlowLite library, to create a ByteTransformer model.

A diagram of a generic end-to-end sequence model using byte stream input. The ByteQRNN model uses a QRNN encoder from the SeqFlowLite library.

In addition to the input embeddings (i.e., the output from the embedding layer described above), we go a step further to build an effective sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model. We do so by taking ByteQRNN and adding a Transformer-based decoder model along with a quantized beam search (or tree exploration) to go with it. The quantized beam search module reduces the inference latency when generating decoder outputs by computing the most likely beams (i.e., possible output sequences) using the logarithmic sum of previous and current probabilities and returns the resulting top beams. Here the system uses a more efficient 8-bit integer (uint8) format, compared to a typical single-precision floating-point format (float32) model.

The decoder Transformer model uses a merged attention sublayer (MAtt) to reduce the complexity of the decoder self-attention from quadratic to linear, thereby lowering the end-to-end latency. For each decoding step, MAtt uses a fixed-size cache for decoder self-attention compared to the increasing cache size of a traditional transformer decoder. The following figure illustrates how the beam search module interacts with the decoder layer to generate output tokens on-device using an edge device (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, etc.).

A comparison of cloud server decoding and on-device (edge device) implementation. Left: Cloud server beam search employs a Transformer-based decoder model with quadratic time self-attention in float32, which has an increasing cache size for each decoding step. Right: The edge device implementation employs a quantized beam search module along with a fixed-size cache and a linear time self-attention computation.

After developing ByteQRNN, we evaluate its performance on the civil_comments dataset using the area under the curve (AUC) metric and compare it to a pre-trained ByteQRNN and BERT (shown below). We demonstrate that the fine-tuned ByteQRNN improves the overall quality and brings its performance closer to the BERT models, despite being 300x smaller. Since SeqFlowLite models support in-training quantization that reduces model sizes by one-fourth, the resulting models scale well to low-compute devices. We chose multilingual data sources that related to the task for pre-training both BERT and byte stream models to achieve the best possible performance.

Comparison of ByteQRNN with fine-tuned ByteQRNN and BERT on the civil_comments dataset.

Following up on our previous work with pQRNN, we evaluate byte stream models for on-device use to enable pre-training and thereby improve model performance for on-device deployment. We present an evaluation for ByteQRNN with and without pre-training and demonstrate that the performance of the pre-trained ByteQRNN is comparable to BERT, despite being 300x smaller. In addition to ByteQRNN, we are also releasing ByteTransformer and ByteFunnelTransformer, two models which use different encoders, along with the merged attention decoder model and the beam search driver to run the inference through the SeqFlowLite library. We hope these models will provide researchers and product developers with valuable resources for future on-device deployments.

We would like to thank Khoa Trinh, Jeongwoo Ko, Peter Young and Yicheng Fan for helping with open-sourcing and evaluating the model. Thanks to Prabhu Kaliamoorthi for all the brainstorming and ideation. Thanks to Vinh Tran, Jai Gupta and Yi Tay for their help with pre-training byte stream models. Thanks to Ruoxin Sang, Haoyu Zhang, Ce Zheng, Chuanhao Zhuge and Jieying Luo for helping with the TPU training. Many thanks to Erik Vee, Ravi Kumar and the Learn2Compress leadership for sponsoring the project and their support and encouragement. Finally, we would like to thank Tom Small for the animated figure used in this post.

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Molybdenum Powder Price - February 9, 2022

molybdenum powder image Molybdenum market quotation in China: ferro molybdenum price edges higher while concentrate and molybdenum powder prices remain firm and stable on February 9, 2022.

Chinese Spring Festival holiday has just ended, and many traders are still in a wait-and-see state, but due to the continuous tight supply of ferromolybdenum, the bullish sentiment of the holders is generally strong.

The molybdenum concentrate market is generally in a state of weak balance between supply and demand. The main reasons for the lack of spot molybdenum concentrates are most molybdenum mining companies have not resumed work in time and a large number of molybdenum concentrates have been shipped before the Spring Festival; and downstream users are restrained from consumption. The factors of desire are that suppliers are reluctant to sell at a higher price and some ferromolybdenum merchants still have a certain amount of inventory.

In the ferromolybdenum market, the fundamentals are relatively optimistic. The holding of the Winter Olympics has restricted the production of many intermediate smelting enterprises, and the supply of ferromolybdenum is difficult to increase, which has prompted the merchants to raise their quotations slightly. In addition, there are still steel companies willing to enter the market to bid for ferromolybdenum, but also to a large extent to increase market activity.

In the market of molybdenum chemical industry and its products, the transactions were average. Affected by the strong bullish sentiment in the upstream market, the willingness of suppliers to cut prices to sell is basically low, and the end customers are mostly just purchasing.

In terms of news: China IOT Steel Logistics Professional Committee stated that in January 2022, the domestic steel PMI index was 47.5%, an increase of 8.8 percentage points from the previous month, and the steel market boom has rebounded.

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☀ We are delighted to see measures being put in place to keep our school community safer.

Coloured spots and road markings were being put outside our school this afternoon. The purpose of these spots is to raise awareness among road users that they are entering an environment where there is a school and therefore lead to slower speeds.

Keep an eye out for them in the morning.  #SchoolCommunity #KeepSafe #Waterside #Woodquay #GalwayCity #HiddenGem


Super Bowl winning quarterback Joe Flacco has an expected net worth of $85 million which mostly he earns from his NFL career.

Joe Flacco signed a 1 year, $3,500,000 contract with the New York Jets to play as a quarterback of the team in National Football League in 2022.

In the 2008 NFL Draft, He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens and shown his performance over time and finally turned into the Ravens' all-time leader.

As a Baltimore Ravens' starting quarterback, Joe Flacco won a Super Bowl ring. He settled to a 5 year $30 million agreement with Baltimore In 2008

In 2013, Flacco agreed to a six-year, $120.6 million contract with the Ravens which was a record-high amount.

A big number of endorsement deals with brands like Reebok, Nike, McDonald's, Pizza Hut and others have notably boosted his net worth along with his football contracts.


Awards and Honours related General Knowledge questions and answers

1. Who was the first actor to get Oscar Award?

Answer : Janet Gayner

2. Which country awards the Nobel Prize?

Answer : Sweden

3. Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010?

Answer : Liu Xiaobo

4. Who among the following is not a recipient of Bharat Ratna?

Answer : Sardar Vallbhabhai Patel

5. Hari Om Ashram Trust Awards are presented to outstanding

Answer : Scientists

6. Who was the first Indian to receive a Nobel Prize?

Answer : Rabindranath Tagore

7. The Nobel prize for Economics was instituted in 1967, but was first awarded in

Answer : 1969

8. Who was the first Indian lady actress to receive the Padma Shri Award?

Answer : Nargis Dutt

9. Who was the first Indian to receive the Magaysay Award?

Answer : Vinoba Bhave

10. Which of the following is India’s highest honour in the field of literature?

Answer : Jnanpith Award

11. The Oscar Award was won 36 times by

Answer : Walt Disney

12. Which State Government of India has instituted the Lqbal samman award?

Answer : MP

13. Manav Seva Award has been instituted in the memory of

Answer : Rajiv Gandhi

14. Shirin Ebadi, who won the nobel peace prize in 2003, is from

Answer : Iran

15. Who was the first to win the Nobel Prize for literature?

Answer : Rene Sully Prudhome

16. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnager award are given to those who in the field of science and technology. The institution associated with prof. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar is

Answer : CSIR

17. In the context of the Indian defence, what is Dhruv?

Answer : Advancedlighthelicopter

18. Which of the following authors won the Booker Prize twice?

Answer : M Coetzee

19. Where were the principles of Panchsheel regulated ?

Answer : Bandong

20. India’s highest award given for exceptional work in art, literature and recognition of public service of the highest order is

Answer : Bharat Ratna


How to Help Someone With Depression

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How to Help Someone With Depression

Knowing how to help someone with depression can be challenging. The symptoms of depression can range from being down in the dumps to a severe mental illness. To help someone with depression, here are some tips for talking to someone about their feelings. First, try to understand what depression is. Knowing the symptoms will help you identify depression. Moreover, if you want to help a friend or family member, you can also talk to them about their feelings.

What Are The Signs Of Depression

Common signs of depression include feeling tired, lagging energy, and a loss of interest in activities that once occupied you. These symptoms can worsen overtime, and can negatively affect your mood, ability to work, and relationships. Depression is treatable, and you can get antidepressants and anxiolytics to combat the symptoms. You can recognize symptoms of depression by looking for a listless look, a hunched posture, or sadness in the eyes. Crying spells are also common. Depression is often accompanied by low self-esteem and feelings of pessimistic blame.

Some of these symptoms may be physical, but not everyone suffering from depression exhibits them. A person’s weight may fluctuate, and they may not engage in physical activities. Other signs of hidden depression include drug use, or a loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities. If you suspect your loved one is experiencing hidden depression, offer support and nonjudgment, and consider seeing a mental health professional. If you suspect a loved one may be suffering from depression, consult a mental health professional to help you find out if there are any hidden signs.

What Are The Symptoms Of Depression

If you are experiencing these symptoms, it is time to talk to your doctor. They can help you determine whether you are depressed and recommend the appropriate resources for you. Depression is a serious disease that can affect anyone at any time. Whether you’re a teenager or an adult, a medical diagnosis will help you get the appropriate treatment. This article outlines some of the most common symptoms and signs of depression. To begin, you should understand that you might not have depression. However, it does not mean that you’re unable to feel and function normally.

Depression is a serious mental illness that can impact people of any age or race. It can be triggered by major stress in a person’s life or by an illness, such as diabetes or cancer. It affects both men and women, and can also be caused by biological differences in the brain. Women are almost twice as likely to develop depression as men, and children are just as susceptible to this illness. In addition to treating depression, it is also important to prevent its onset.

How To Support Somone With Depression

Learning more about depression can be a great help in supporting someone in your life. It can be difficult to know how to support someone when they are depressed, but you can help them feel better by providing some helpful information and advice. Depression is an illness that is difficult to face alone, and keeping it secret will only worsen the situation. Reach out to a small circle of friends and family members to offer support, or simply ask for their help.

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Remember that even small tasks can be a drain on someone’s emotional bandwidth. Whether it’s doing laundry, bringing the kids to school, or taking the family to the store, offering assistance can go a long way in helping them feel better. If you know that they have limited time to do things on their own, try to make sure that you offer your help as often as possible. You should limit your efforts though, as this can lead to burnout.

How to talk to someone about depression

Identify the symptoms of depression in a loved one. Depression is a serious medical condition that requires professional help. Family and friends can offer emotional support as well as professional care. If someone in your life is suffering from depression, it is important to talk to them about it and encourage them to seek help. Knowing the warning signs of depression and how to talk to someone with depression can help you understand the signs and symptoms. Here are seven tips for communicating with a loved one who is depressed.

Remember that it is OK to have feelings of sadness. However, talk about how these feelings make you feel. Depression is common, and everyone goes through bad days. Depression often makes us feel isolated and guilty. But if you’re someone who suffers from depression, remember that it’s normal to feel isolated from the world. This can make it difficult to reach out to others for help. But by talking to a loved one, you can make them feel less alone. While some things are helpful to them, others don’t. If you’re not sure how to talk to a loved one with depression, it’s a good idea to check with a therapist.

Encouraging the person to get help with their depression

Despite the stigma surrounding mental health issues, you can help encourage the person with depression to seek treatment. While a depressed person may not be open to discussing their problems, you can listen to their concerns with a sympathetic ear. Don’t pressure them to make a decision right away, but instead give them the time they need to consider the options and decide if they want to seek help. Although depression seldom gets better without treatment, it can get worse without help. In addition, people who are suffering from depression usually respond better to treatment if they have support and information available.

Providing encouragement is crucial for those suffering from depression. Asking questions and being curious about their thoughts can provide space to talk about difficult feelings and thoughts. When difficult thoughts are aired, they become less powerful. A person with suicidal thoughts may be less likely to feel a burden if others can relate to their situation. In addition, asking questions can help the person feel more connected and relieved. If the person with depression is seeking help, you can offer to help them with appointments and suggest that they seek treatment.

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Sentiment, like food, is best enjoyed fresh.

Firstly, what is sentiment?

Sentiment is, quite simply, the present mood of the market. The market, like people, has different moods depending on what has just happened. As traders, we always want to know what the current sentiment is. Trading sentiment is a basic market skill as we try to make sure we are always trading in line with market sentiment, unless we are fading market sentiment, which is a valid pursuit, but the subject of a different article. So, what are the keys to trading fresh sentiment? In this article, I will briefly present the case that the two key concepts to trading fresh sentiment are as follows:

• Picking which sentiment change to focus on and;
• Trading that sentiment while it is still fresh

Picking which sentiment to focus on

The very best time to trade sentiment is when we notice the sentiment change. Sentiment can change on a number of different issues. It could be a surprise data point, a political development, or some other unexpected event that causes a currency to move; the point is, that changing sentiment provides opportunities.

Not all sentiment is equal

One of the challenges of trading sentiment is that there is a plethora of different data points and comments every day that flow across feeds. Not all of those data points move the market, so the first thing to realise is that sentiment varies in importance. This is obvious in that a central bank interest rate decision holds far more sway over a currency than a retail sales release. However, aside from the stark and self-evident differences, it is important to recognise which sentiment is going to be important ahead of the event. Let’s take a worked example with the CPI data released on Wednesday for Canada.

Canadian CPI this week

The Canadian CPI data release was my key focus for this week, as it was widely known prior to the CPI release that the Bank of Canada was in a unique position amongst its central bank peers. This is an excerpt from last week’s full rundown on the BoC:

“The Bank of Canada remains the only major central bank to not turn explicitly dovish. However, in an increasingly bearish central bank world, the pressure is increasing on the Bank of Canada to follow suit.”

This means that the market was just waiting for a reason to sell CAD as the expectations were that the BoC will follow their central bank peers. They just need a data reason to nudge them in that direction. Also, we know that the BoC are not reluctant to cut interest rates and surprise the markets, as they did here in 2015.

So, that sets the expectations for the potential of a strong CAD sell-off if the CPI print was a negative read. That would be the ammunition to fuel increased expectations of a coming BoC dovish tilt; the sentiment change. This would have resulted in a strong sell-off for CAD. In the event, the release was a positive uptick in inflation, so the chances of a September rate cut from the BoC faded into the background. The trade was not there; it was better to move on to the next opportunity.

The key takeaway

The key point is that the market-moving event with the most influence would have been a negative CPI print. In this case, we could have been poised and ready to take an immediate CAD short out of the event; it would have been a high conviction trade. So, when selecting a decent sentiment trade you should see:

• A clear bias going into the event
• A data release or event that clearly confirms or contradicts that bias; in other words, it is clear that the market will respond in a certain way.

Now let’s move on to the next principle, trading sentiment while it is still fresh.

Trade sentiment while it’s still fresh

Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you took a similar trade like the one outlined above that actually played out. You missed trading out of the event because you were away from your desk, at sleep, or at work but there is often a second chance to enter a trade on that sentiment in the next 24-48 hours. If you don’t want to just chase the selling or buying price at market, an alternative would be to wait for a retracement to a key level before trading back down to those prior lows. Below is an example of a trade I took this week on the AUD/NZD pair that illustrates this.

AUDNZD: An example of trading sentiment while still fresh

I have been core long on AUDNZD since August 07 and remain so at the time of writing. You can read my reasons for that in the previous links, but the bottom line for the AUDNZD longs was the growing diverging outlook between the RBA and the RBNZ. The RBA minutes out on Tuesday this week further confirmed that divergence and the market chances of a rate cut from the RBA went down to ~12% from ~50% the previous week. So, having missed the release of the minutes overnight, I set orders to buy on stop around the 50% Fibonacci level and took profits at the prior high. Check out the chart below; my entry is denoted by the small blue arrow and my exit by the small red arrow. My order was filled about 12+ hours after the minutes, but I still got it while it was fresh.

So, there you have it, sentiment is a dish best served fresh. What sentiment trades are you looking into for the coming week?


Sunrooms for Detached Two Storey Homes

Sunrooms for Detached Two Storey Homes in Ireland

Most detached 2 storey homes will have a kitchen and a living room/dining room to the rear

This presents a few options for the location and design of the new sunroom.

Below are some tips when thinking about the best and most suitable location for your new room.

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Here are the key things to consider for the design

  1. Are you planning to redesign or fit a new kitchen? Most homes have the kitchen sink at the kitchen window. To create an open-plan area between the kitchen and the sunroom it may be necessary to remove the kitchen window to make the space bigger, this will mean relocating the sink and waste pipes etc. Easy if you are considering a new kitchen but maybe a bit tricky if you are not planning any kitchen remodelling. If you would like to keep the existing layout then maybe try just removing the kitchen window and leaving as an open area to the new sunroom. See below for example.
  2. Would you prefer an open plan area or is this new sunroom a separate living room for the family and work? If the preference is to build a separate room then it might be better to consider building the new sunroom off the living/dining room. The kitchen is the busiest room in the house and normally experiences a lot of traffic so creating a quiet space off the kitchen may be a challenge.
  3. Consider the direction of the sun on the rear of the house. Building a new sunroom may cast a shadow on another room so always check where the sun will rise and set and how the new room may affect any natural light you currently enjoy.
  4. Check the distance to the neighbouring property. If you are building a new sunroom within 1 m of the boundary with your neighbours then you must build this as a concrete solid wall and not have glass facing your neighbours. If more than a metre then you can choose between glass or solid wall or a combination of both.
  5. Check if planning permission is required for your sunroom. Most sunrooms will not require planning.

Planning permission for Sunrooms in Ireland

Planning permission is not required for a sunroom once the following applies

  1. It is positioned to the rear of the property.
  2. Any glass facing a boundary must be a least one metre away.
  3. You must have 25sqm of garden left after the new sunroom is complete.
  4. The sunroom floor area must not exceed 40sqm or the sunroom plus any other extensions you may have already added must not exceed 40 sqm.
  5. The sunroom roof must not exceed 4m in height.
  6. The sunroom must be on the ground floor.

For further information on planning permission for sunrooms please feel free to contact the Brightspace team


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One of the most salient features of the contemporary Pakistani political system has been the emergence of the superior judiciary – made up of its provincial high courts, the Federal Court of Islamic Law and the Supreme Court – as a center of assertive power and active. Historically, the Pakistani military was the dominant center of power in the country, but with elected institutions and political parties seeking more government space, inter-institutional conflict has become the norm. In this competitive space, Pakistan’s superior judiciary has played a central role in the Pakistani political system, arbitrating contestation between political elites and state elites.

Inside the Judiciary

Why has the judiciary become an assertive and active center of power in Pakistani politics after a history of collaboration and deference to the powerful civil-military bureaucracy? To see also : Is politics a problem for markets?.

First, a combination of constitutional articles and judicial innovations allowed the judiciary to intervene in the actions of other branches of government. The 1973 Constitution strengthened the supervisory powers of the judiciary. The Constitution granted the High Courts jurisdiction to enforce respect for fundamental rights by state institutions. The Supreme Court could now also make orders on matters it deemed to be of “public importance” with reference to the application of fundamental rights. Public interest litigation began in the late 1980s and grew significantly after 2006, becoming a tool used by the court to intervene in executive and legislative arenas on behalf of the public interest. The Chief Justice began taking suo moto cases (in the absence of a petitioner), often based on newspaper and television reports. Discretion as to when to use suo moto powers rested with the Chief Justice, allowing him to cater to popular sentiments and maximize the court’s visibility and impact.

Second, the judiciary separated from the executive, taking control of judicial appointments from the executive. The formal role of executive institutions was first reduced by legal action in the 1990s and then again by a constitutional amendment in 2010. The Judicial Commission responsible for managing judicial appointments and promotions is made up of multiple stakeholders, but it is dominated by the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court and High Courts.

Third, high court judges are primarily recruited from a legal profession where the legal culture has increasingly shunned procedural restraint and favored confrontation with executive leadership, whether elected or military. During the democratic decade of the 1990s, when political parties were weakly institutionalized and inter-institutional conflict was the norm, the fragmented political landscape and the growing importance of the courts as sites for the management of political conflict generated a perception among judges and lawyers regarding the limited legitimacy of state political leadership and the potential of the justice system to shape national politics and policies. direction.

With the impact and intervention of the judiciary in political processes and outcomes, the role and authority of chief justices has become particularly important. Beyond public interest litigation and judicial appointments, the chief justices of the high courts and the Supreme Court also came to decide when cases would be accepted for hearings and how many and which judges would hear those cases. Thus, chief justices can set the agenda for their court and indirectly influence the outcome of cases through the selection of judges. Given the centralized structure of the judiciary, a flexible chief justice co-opted by the military or a political party can now have a significant impact on the jurisprudence of a particular court.

However, the judiciary’s close relationship with the bar associations complicates efforts by military and political elites to co-opt and control the judiciary. While judges train and socialize as professional lawyers, bar attorneys are the primary audiences with whom judges seek to build their reputations. The bar is politically committed and has effectively mobilized around political and professional issues. The bar’s propensity for collective action and disruption was most apparent in the lawyers’ movement in 2007, and it can act as a counterbalance to efforts by political and military leaders to tame the justice system. Recognizing this, political parties and the military are increasingly making efforts to pressure and persuade bar leaders to indirectly influence judges. The close, if often antagonistic, ties between the bar and the judiciary and the overlapping legal culture have each played some role in the increasingly divisive orientation of the judiciary.

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The Judiciary and the Two Executives

How have changes within the judiciary impacted its relationship with executive institutions? Historically, the upper judiciary was viewed by Democrats as the military’s junior partner, providing legal cover for the military’s political actions. During the 1990s, Pakistan’s national politics were shaped by the relationship between three offices known as the “troika”: the Prime Minister, the President, and the Chief of Army Staff. This may interest you : All Politics Must Be Local – And Response. Clashes between the elected executive office headed by the prime minister and the unelected executive leaders of the presidency and the military regularly resulted in constitutional disputes until the 1999 coup in which General Pervez Musharraf took over. presidency.

From the 1990s, for the reasons discussed above, the courts gradually began to chart a more independent and interventionist course, culminating in a confrontation between the superior judiciary and Musharraf’s regime in 2007. An interventionist Supreme Court challenged the fundamental interests of the regime, including the interests of Musharraf. power to remain president while serving as army chief of staff, prompting the regime to suspend Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and attempt to purge the judiciary. Judges resisted and lawyers rallied in support of the upper judiciary, galvanizing a nationwide movement for democracy that led to the downfall of Musharraf. The court’s resistance and its impact on Musharraf’s regime cemented the upper judiciary as a center of power in its own right.

After Musharraf’s exit and with the return of elected civilian rule, judges began to play their own role as guardians of the political system, challenging what they saw as the excesses and corruption of other centers of power in the Pakistan. A “new troika” has emerged in Pakistani democratic politics: the Prime Minister, the Chief of Army Staff and the Chief Justice of Pakistan. The shifting alignments and conflicts between these three office holders shaped national politics during this decade. The higher judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, has adopted the mission of improving governance and combating corruption by frequently intervening and reversing bureaucratic transfers and assignments to limit the interference of elected politicians in the unelected bureaucracies. The courts have also formulated policy on socio-economic issues and prosecuted the political leaders of the ruling parties, the Pakistan People‘s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), in corruption cases. The Supreme Court’s focus on political corruption and the broad interpretation of its authority led to the removal of two elected prime ministers, Yousuf Gilani and Nawaz Sharif. While political and administrative corruption were serious issues that needed to be addressed, repeated judicial interventions in the realm of executive and legislative institutions undermined elected civilian supremacy. In contrast, there were relatively fewer confrontations between the military and the judiciary after 2010. The Supreme Court not only allowed the military to play a role in homeland security as part of the war on terror , but it has also given itself a role in overseeing certain aspects of and these operations. The courts have tried to draw some red lines against the military’s political interference, even accusing now-deposed Musharraf of treason for his past actions, but the courts have not pushed for the implementation of the judgments related to the military as they have done in cases related to civilian government. judgments.

The position of the judiciary against the political interventions of the army and its interference in the executive and the civilian legislature were the essential elements of its jurisprudential strategy to carve out a role as the legitimate authority of intervention of the country. He adopted the selfish, anti-corruption rhetoric of the military and used constitutional and popular support to legitimize himself in this role. The courts’ tactics, combined with their softer approach to the military, left democracy unconsolidated and after 2017 weakened the elected system of government and facilitated the return of the military to political primacy, to the detriment of both democracy and judicial independence.

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The Judiciary and the Same-Page Regime

In 2017, military leaders, several senior Supreme Court justices and the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) developed a consensus that the various players in the political system should be put on the same pitch. wave with institutional stakeholders. See the article : Dobbs rule is an attack on women’s health, a healthy health culture. aligned around a common platform. These stakeholders agreed that the root of Pakistan’s problems was a corrupt political class personified by the leaders of the main political parties (the PML-N and the PPP). The solution was to rescue state institutions from their control and influence, by any means necessary.

From 2017 to 2018, the Supreme Court’s anti-corruption jurisprudence focused on the PPP and the PML-N, often hearing petitions filed against them by members of the PTI. This concentration led to the disqualification of the leaders of these parties from political office, including Sharif. Led by Khan, the populist PTI took advantage of these disqualifications. The party hitched its wagon to court interventions, using court judgments to validate PTI claims that mainstream political parties were corrupt. Khan’s popular appeal, the Supreme Court’s anti-corruption jurisprudence, and the military’s efforts to stage the election in favor of the PTI helped secure the party’s victory in 2018. With elected leaders, military and judiciaries aligned around key policy issues, the new arrangement was popularly known as the Same Page regime. Under the PTI, military authority and influence over state institutions increased dramatically, and democratic backsliding set in with the growing suppression of opposition and dissent. It seemed that the new troika in Pakistani politics was the prime minister, the army chief of staff and the director general of Inter-Services Intelligence.

The military was happy to allow the powers of the courts to be asserted so long as the judges exercised those powers against the elected executive and legislature. While some judges have willingly aligned themselves with the military to regulate political branches, judges have also come under the growing influence of an increasingly authoritarian executive and its watchdog apparatus. As the public profile of judges increased, they became more vulnerable to threats from executive agencies holding information that could damage their reputations and careers. Through a combination of an alignment of interests between judicial and executive elites and executive pressure on judges, a significant faction of judges became unwilling to confront military power.

Members of opposition parties, including the PPP and PML-N, have spent time inside and outside courtrooms and jail cells on corruption charges. With many judges under executive influence, the likelihood of a high court upholding a detention order or rejecting a bail request for an opposition member could almost be predicted by the state of relations between the leaders in power. and this opposition party. While the Supreme Court remained relatively reserved towards the federal executive institutions during the reign of the PTI, it regularly clashed with the provincial government of the PPP in the province of Sindh. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution strengthened provincial authority and autonomy, but the federal political and bureaucratic elites who opposed the PPP found the superior judiciary a useful tool to constrain the government of Sindh. Especially during the pandemic, the Supreme Court has castigated the PPP government and commented on the limits of provincial autonomy. Such court disclosure has eroded provincial discretion in critical policy areas.

However, some judges were less willing to acquiesce in autocratization. The High Courts of Islamabad and Peshawar, headed by more independent chief justices, have become important sites for opposition parties and dissidents to fend off the worst excesses of executive institutions. On the Supreme Court, there was a growing polarization between justices who were willing to align themselves with political and military leaders and those who were not. These cracks became more apparent in the case of Judge Qazi Faez Isa. Isa’s willingness to deal with military interference in politics made him a target, and a citation was filed with the Supreme Court to have him thrown out for alleged financial misconduct. During the proceedings, some justices who sided with the executive called for judicial accountability, while others who sided with Isa called the reference an attack on independence. judicial. In the end, Isa’s supporters on the bench overturned the case against him, but the polarization within the judiciary was now evident, as was the growing fatigue of the judiciary and the bar in the face of increasing autocratization. and the crisis of legitimacy of the court caused by the fact that it allowed this autocratization.

In 2021, the relationship between the military rulers and Khan frayed, providing an opportunity for opposition parties to push back against the PTI and leading to Parliament’s vote of no confidence in April 2022 in Khan. When Khan attempted to block that vote, it was apparent that the military did not side with the PTI, but there were fears that several bench judges who were involved in judgments that helped bring the PTI to power would still come out in favor of the PTI. . Khan’s defense of blocking Parliament’s vote rested on flimsy legal grounds, including allegations of foreign conspiracy, restrictions on the judiciary to intervene in parliamentary affairs and the need to allow elections in the so-called national interest. But the tutelary court was reluctant to accept limitations on its prerogative to intervene in parliamentary affairs. And given that the foreign conspiracy allegation remained unsubstantiated and there was broad legal consensus that Khan’s actions constituted an attack on the constitutional order, a ruling in favor of Khan would have further harmed the legitimacy of the court in the legal community. Bar leaders and several judges pushed the Chief Justice to learn of Khan’s actions. The reopening of the court at midnight on the night of the vote, on the advice of the Supreme Court Bar Association, was intended to show the court’s strength in upholding the law by a recalcitrant PTI. But it convinced PTI supporters of judicial bias.

The guardianship of the judiciary and the associated political interventions have helped both to establish and dismantle the hybrid of the same page, but they have also exposed the judiciary to threats against its authority and legitimacy.

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Toward Elections and Beyond

Going forward, the courts may continue to play a vital role in shaping the rocky path to the upcoming elections in Pakistan and beyond. When courts embark on resolving major political issues, some stakeholders may be disappointed with their decisions; judges risk damaging their credibility and legitimacy with these constituencies. As Khan’s supporters rallied across the country following his ousting, Khan questioned the court’s motives, leading PTI supporters to launch a smear campaign against the judges. Broad segments of the bar saw the court’s actions as an assertion of constitutionalism in the face of a populist attack on constitutional norms. However, outside the legal community, Pakistan’s broader urban middle classes have long supported Khan’s anti-corruption populism. Thus, judges will have to balance the conflicting expectations of their primary constituents: their professional networks in the legal community and their social networks of middle-class urban households.

Judicial reputation and legitimacy are being tested by a series of political disputes brought to court during this complicated and contested transition. Already we have seen lawsuits over the chief ministry and governorship in Punjab, the fate of elected officials who turn against their party leadership, the process of delimiting electoral constituencies and the treatment of PTI staff. , to name a few. As PTI amplifies foreign conspiracy claims and demands immediate elections, PTI urges courts to review judgment on no-confidence vote, pursue corruption charges against PML-N leaders, challenge the electoral commission, to facilitate new elections, to investigate Khan’s allegations of a foreign conspiracy and to ensure that Khan can organize demonstrations and sit-ins in the capital without hindrance. Meanwhile, as the new PML-N-led government seeks to consolidate power, it seeks to pursue corruption and treason charges against PTI leaders in court and wants the courts to deal with PTI petitions in such a way as to allow the stability of the political transition.

The PTI has developed a strategy to pressure judges through social media. As the party files petitions in court, its social media activists are slamming judges for not accepting their petitions quickly or giving them a fair hearing. Pakistan’s unelected judges and generals are less vulnerable to electoral pressure than to pressure from their social, professional and institutional networks. Targeting forensic reputations within pro-PTI social networks has paid off; many recent PTI petitions have been heard quickly. This strategy is similar to that used by bar associations: appointing and humiliating judges when they act against the interests of bar leaders. The current leadership of bar associations in most high courts is opposed to the PTI (although, over time, more bar associations are willing to hear Khan’s narrative). The increasing public visibility of judges in electronic and social media has made them more vulnerable to reputational pressures from these constituencies.

The pressures exerted by Khan’s effective mobilization since his impeachment, combined with the judiciary’s continued mistrust of the main political parties, particularly the PPP and PML-N, and an ongoing judicial interest in restraining power Political discretion and holding politicians accountable means that the new PML-N government cannot expect much relief from the courts. The Supreme Court, responding to Khan’s requests, ordered that there be no withdrawal or government interference in corruption proceedings against members of the new government. The Supreme Court has also ruled that the votes of party members who contradict their party leader – known as party defection – should not be counted in a vote of no confidence, which effectively means that a Prime Minister with a party majority can never be dismissed. . The judges who handed down the ruling argued that it would deter elected politicians from supposedly trading votes for private benefits, illustrating the judges’ continued mistrust of politicians’ motives. Parliament was weakened because the Court circumscribed parliamentary responsibility for the political executive and weakened the constituency-based model of parliamentary representation. Military and judicial leaders seem eager to steer the state toward political dispensation with a reformed institutional structure, perhaps with a new troika that better suits their preferences. If the current government is replaced by an interim government before new elections, the courts are likely to receive petitions regarding the actions of the interim government from across the political spectrum, giving judges a new opportunity to maneuver political dynamics in their preferred direction, but at the risk of angering political elites aggrieved by their decisions.

The court can also hear important cases relating to the military, in particular relating to Musharraf’s treason conviction and the military’s internment centers and real estate empire. The relationship and divisions between civilian and military leaders will continue to influence the approach of justice to these cases.

How the justice system responds to these challenges will also depend on the judges themselves. It is apparent that many judges disapprove of mainstream political parties and sympathize with Khan’s anti-corruption rhetoric, even as they objected to Khan’s blatantly unconstitutional actions in April. But there are also judges who focus on ensuring judicial independence rather than participating in greater autocratization. To predict which direction the courts will take, observers can look at which judges, and their associated normative positions, are elevated to positions of authority. With the current leadership of the Supreme Court, the trend of constraining political institutions run by the PML-N and PPP is likely to continue. But Justice Isa, of different spirit, is nominated to be the next chief justice of Pakistan in 2023. elections. Beyond this transition, some judges are concerned about the courts’ entwinement in politics and policy-making, but for now the judiciary is unlikely to reverse that role.

Today, the government and opposition parties seek support from both the military and the higher judiciary. Political elites criticize these institutions for their overreach when the institutions intervene against their interests and celebrate the role of these institutions when the institutions act in their interests. Pakistan now has two supervisory institutions: the army and the higher judiciary. Although the military remains the most powerful, the interests of these two institutions, their disregard for political elites and their mutual relations will shape Pakistan’s political future.

This article is part of the Politics of Opposition in South Asia initiative led by Carnegie’s South Asia Program.

Carnegie does not take institutional positions on public policy issues; the views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Carnegie, its staff, or its directors.

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39-year-old man avoids amputation after doctors pull 10 cm long blood clots out of his leg

Mr. Matthew Erickson falls into a relatively uncommon category on The COVID Blog™. He is not a vaxx zealot. Like Ms. Jessica Turner, Mr. David Menchinton, Mr. James Cooper Sawyer, et al., Mr. Erickson is a self-identified Republican and/or conservative. He loves Donald Trump and very much dislikes Joe Biden. Mr. Erickson is a Christian and, according to his Facebook page, attended a Bible college called Christ for the Nations, Inc. (CFNI). He is also very close to his father, who suffered a stroke sometime in 2016. The two do almost everything together since Mr. Erickson has been his father’s primary caretaker since the stroke.

Mr. Erickson is anti-mask and against vaccine mandates. He praised Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers for avoiding the injections, while acknowledging the effectiveness of natural immunity against so-called COVID-19.

Mr. Erickson, in April 2021, wondered why people still had to wear masks in public places even after receiving the magic vaccines.

He also criticized Pfizer in September 2021 for, ironically, manufacturing a “vaccine” that causes blood clots, while also manufacturing drugs to treat blood clots.

But ultimately, Mr. Erickson loves traveling internationally, and loves going to concerts and sporting events. He and his father traveled to the Bahamas in August 2021. Based on all the clues we could piece together from his Facebook page, Mr. Erickson received a Johnson & Johnson viral vector DNA injection in July or August 2021. His stroke-victim father also received the injection.

Mr. Erickson and his father kicked off a trip across Europe on April 18, 2022. It started in the Azores Islands (Portugal), followed by Spain, France, Italy and Greece. They reached Istanbul, Turkey on May 7. But Mr. Erickson wrote on that day, “my legs are killing me.” He described perpetual cramps in his legs that Turkish doctors said might be blood clots.

The next day, on May 8, Mr. Erickson shared a photo of himself in a hospital. He wrote that doctors may have to do a “surgical procedure” on his legs.

Mr. Erickson went under the knife a few hours later and talked more about how he went from just having sore legs to getting blood clots removed. Doctors told him that the situation almost required partial or full amputation of his leg and/or foot.

The next day, May 9, Mr. Erickson shared graphic photos of the blood clots that were removed from his leg, including one that was 10 centimeters (four inches) long.

One month later, and back in the United States, Mr. Erickson looked back on the incident. He knows that he’s lucky to be alive and to still have all of his limbs intact. Mr. Erickson also said the cause of the blood clots is “pointing directly at the J&J COVID Vaccine.

Mr. Erickson appears to be on the mend. He’s since posted photos of himself hiking, attending concerts and at a family reunion. We’ll provide updates in due course.

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Never A More Exciting Time for Teams: Here’s How ConnX Makes Microsoft Teams Experiences Better

March, 2022
Author: ConnX Marketing
The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated all things digital, including e-commerce, automation, and most notably remote work, as known as work from home (WFH). Pre-pandemic, only roughly 2 percent of the U.S. workforce was working remotely, but by May 2020, that number had risen to close to 70 percent. Even now, nearly two years removed from the start of the quarantine, 16 percent of companies in the world are 100 percent remote, with 85 percent of managers believing that having teams with remote workers has become the new norm.

The main reason driving the continuation of WFH stems from the side of the employee, as 77 percent of remote workers say they’re more productive when working from home. However, this increased productivity can only happen if the employees are able to reliably contact and work with each other from afar. This has made stable, efficient digital communication and collaboration platforms a priority for the modern-day enterprise.

An adequate communication/collaboration platform enables employees to interact and share ideas, and can build a sense of community and trust, which encourages innovation, and helps solve problems in real-time. Along with increased productivity, they can also help reduce turnover by up 60 percent, saving companies money in the long run,

While there are a variety of innovative devices and applications that can help create the communication and collaboration platform organizations today seek, the most commonly used platform today is Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is cloud-based team collaboration software that is part of the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suite of applications. The core capabilities in Microsoft Teams include business messaging, calling, video meetings and file sharing.

As of the start of 2022, Microsoft stated that the monthly active Teams users surpassed 270 million, up from 250 million monthly active Teams users, a figure Microsoft officials cited in July 2021. With the increased use in technology and WFH by businesses, as well as the benefits Microsoft Teams has to offer, these numbers were not surprising.

Leveraging Microsoft Teams collaboration capabilities enables companies to move beyond transactional messages and meetings and focus on the flow of work. Abilities like shareable calendars and offline autosend make it easy for employees to always be on the same page.

Videoconferencing, which has become a mainstay of life post-pandemic, also gets improved through a series of Teams enhancements that make meetings more efficient and intuitive. Automatic noise suppression allows employees to remove unwelcome background noise during Teams calls. On top of this, automatic end-of-meeting notifications tell participants when five minutes are remaining in a meeting, so everybody knows when it’s time to start wrapping up.

Finally, Microsoft Teams streamlines work, saving time and money for the business, by bringing together chat, calls, meetings, Microsoft 365 apps, and third-party tools in one centralized location. Streamlined file sharing enables users to create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Teams also includes a history menu, enabling users to quickly return to places they’ve recently visited, including activities, channels, conversations, tabs, files, and apps.

At ConnX, we see that enterprises continue to adopt Microsoft Teams as a simplified and unified cloud- based productivity platform, and understand the impact it’s having on the business world. This is why we offer ConnX Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, the fully-managed global solution for cloud voice and premium remote meetings.

ConnX delivers a fully-managed global solution on our resilient global backbone that satisfies even the most stringent quality and security requirements of Wall Street financial solutions that depend on ConnX for clear, secure, and always available communications.

ConnX optimizes Microsoft Teams Direct Routing to deliver the highest quality voice, video and messaging for truly unified, cloud-based collaboration and communication. ConnX provides georedundant UC nodes aligned with Microsoft data centers, as well as full PBX capabilities including key system functionality and low-cost POTS alternatives.

ConnX can also support hybrid PBX networks via SIP trunking and develop phased migration plans. We also support a variety of devices, from phones, headsets, video systems, SBC, uCPE, and edge/access devices.

Overall, ConnX Microsoft Teams Direct Routing offers companies faster deployment, interoperability, in- depth planning, ease of porting, and simplicity across the board. And as we as a society continue to venture into a new digital age, WFH and digital communications and collaboration tools are only going to become more critical. For companies who wish to remain competitive and meet consumer expectations, ConnX Microsoft Teams can help them achieve that goal.

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The trend of digital transformation grew swiftly, with business now looking vastly different than even just a decade ago. One of the most notable changes of digital transformation is the abundance of digital devices and applications being adopted and leveraged, especially by industries that usually weren’t known for their technology use. Now, an industry like manufacturing is virtually unrecognizable, with factory floors being transformed into digital havens ripe with devices adding efficiency and ease to a variety of processes.

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The recent, and extremely rapid onset of digital transformation has forever greatly shifted the way work gets done seemingly overnight. Businesses now leverage numerous digital devices and applications, looking to increase efficiency, productivity, and of course revenue during their daily processes. However, though technology seeping into all industries may appear to be the biggest change brought about by digital transformation is the transition to a mainly remote/mobile workforce.


At least 30 out of 47 prefectures in Japan plan to start coronavirus vaccinations for the elderly in populous areas, as supplies in the first batch are expected to be limited when the rollout begins next month, a Kyodo News survey found Saturday.

While 12 other prefectures have yet to decide on a plan, declined to respond or plan to announce one later, the rest said they will begin inoculations in areas such as remote villages and islands as prefectural governments struggle to find effective means under the limited supplies, according to the survey conducted from March 8 to 12.

Japan is in the process of inoculating 4.8 million health care workers and plans to expand the vaccine program to include people aged 65 or older from April 12 as it aims to secure vaccines for the group of about 36 million people by the end of June.

The populous Tokyo, Osaka and Kanagawa prefectures will receive enough vaccines for around 2,000 people, with others scheduled for 1,000 people in the first batch.

In the survey, 30 prefectures such as Kanagawa and Tokushima said they will begin vaccinations of the elderly in their capitals or areas including the capitals, while Okinawa, Tottori and three others said their capitals are excluded from destinations for first inoculations.

Vaccinations in Tokyo are to be conducted in Setagaya, which has the largest population among its 23 wards, and Hachioji in western Tokyo. Osaka Prefecture plans on distributing its share of vaccines to all of its 43 cities, villages and towns.

Seven prefectures including Toyama and Shizuoka said they would make an announcement soon or declined to answer, and five others such as Fukushima, Fukui and Kochi are still working on plans.


Best Western Romance in 2022

The Genre of Western Romance

The genre of Western Romance is a subset of the general category of Romance literature. Sometimes referred to as cowboy romance, Western Romance still adheres to all the qualities of Romance, with the added twist of being set in a western setting, usually on the American frontier. Among the most popular examples are romance novels and short stories that feature western settings, such as a ranch in Wyoming or a frontier town in California.

The setting and characters of western romances are a common theme in American literature. A rancher, a vet, or a horse trainer may be the hero of the story. These heroes may be reassigned to the western frontier or are fleeing the big city. In historical western romance, there are often adventures along the way, such as a cattle drive, bank robbery, or saloon brawl. Native American characters may also be included in the story, although stereotypes exist.

To gain a deeper understanding of the time period, authors must learn as much as they can about the setting. Look up maps of that era and travel to the locales that are central to the story. If possible, visit the actual location for authenticity. Also, become familiar with the structures and terminology that would be prevalent at the time. In some instances, authors can choose to use conventional characters, but try to give them a unique spin.

Historically, western romance novels follow the lives of an action hero and a beautiful heroine. While the genre has been around for centuries, the hero has become smarter and more independent. Most popular cowboy romance novels feature alpha male protagonists who are fierce and sexy. Aside from their tough exteriors, western romance novels also often involve characters who have a faith. Despite the genre's long history, many modern western romance novels feature a diverse cast.

The setting of a Western Romance novel is typically in the American West, and it is often romantic and dangerous. In fact, the American West of the 1800s was a far cry from the comfortable, coddled world we know today. The romance, however, is what makes the experience worthwhile. It creates an inner spark that gives a character the drive to succeed. Westerns also feature innovative settings, with trails meandering down the mountain and stopping to admire the terrain. The exhilaration of falling in love is enough to make the reader want to read the next western novel!

The setting of a Western Romance novel varies greatly from one book to the next. Western Romance Novels can range from historical fiction to contemporary romance. Some Western Romances novels are faith-based or contemporary, while others use more traditional historical themes. The setting of Western Romance novels is rich and unique, and they use detailed landscapes to enhance the story. This style of fiction is popular among romance readers, and PublicBookshelf offers a large selection of western-themed novels.

One of the most exciting aspects of romantic suspense novels is their unique combination of romance and suspense. Suspense makes the story even more gripping and the reader feels as if they're part of the action. Romantic suspense novels aren't always perfect, but they can be challenging. For action-packed romantic suspense novels, try Cristin Harber's Titan series, which is available for free at major ebook retailers.

One popular type of romantic suspense novel is called Deja Vu, a subgenre of romantic suspense novels. They feature independent heroines in perilous situations. These books are often incredibly sexy and plot-driven. The heroines are typically strong women and the heroes are alpha males. Both are drawn together by high-stakes circumstances. As a result, they form an unlikely relationship that could change their lives.

In this Western Romance Thriller, a woman on the run is in a dangerous situation when she finds herself on the trail of a murderer. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been on the run for twenty years. But now, she's back and trying to get past the heartache and pain that drove her away. But she must work with the new chief of police, Dillon Bowie, who is obsessed with his latest case and his lust for his young daughter.

Paranormal elements

The genre of paranormal romance has its roots in gothic fiction, but has emerged in the 21st century as one of the fastest-growing trends in the romance genre. These stories can include characters with supernatural abilities, as well as romance between a vampire and a human. Some books also feature characters with psychic abilities. Paranormal romances may include elements of the supernatural, such as a villain and a time machine.

One of the subgenres of paranormal romance is urban fantasy. Its main focus is on blending contemporary life with elements of the supernatural or magical world. Other types of paranormal romance focus on alternate worlds, and develop these worlds meticulously. These stories often re-imagine childhood tales into romantic stories. And some paranormal romances incorporate elements of science fiction, fantasy, and mythology. In any case, the main character in a paranormal romance will have an adult personality and a happy ending.

Urban fantasy is fast becoming its own subgenre. Urban fantasy is typically ominous, with more graphic violence than paranormal romance. However, the cover art of urban fantasy books usually features the main character in a tough-guy pose. On the other hand, paranormal romances tend to have cover art that's more sexual, and the back-cover blurbs tend to focus more on the character's situation and issues in their relationship.

There are countless reasons to read a Western Romance novel. The characters are tough, romantic, and down-home. It's no wonder that Western Romance authors are incredibly popular. Here are a few of the best known authors in the genre. Read on to learn more about these characters! And remember: Western Romance novels aren't just for boys. Women also love Western Romance! Whether you're looking for a sexy cowboy or a romantic western with a strong female lead, you'll be able to find a story to satisfy your inner Cowgirl.

The Western Romance genre combines the genres of western and romance into one form. Novels set in the American West tend to be the most romantic, combining elements of both genres. Whether you want your romance to take place in the 1800s on a ranch, or in the modern outback of Australia, you're sure to find a novel by a Western Romance author. These stories are full of intricate details and are sure to make readers feel swept away.

A country romance novel that takes place in 2022 is Montana Sanctuary. The protagonist, Evelyn Taylor, has been running away from her past for four years. After a series of events sends her to Montana, she ends up staying in a ranch owned by former US Navy SEALs. She discovers that the ranch's owner, Wes Broward, is the son of a rich ranching family, and she will attempt to get Wes at a cowboy auction.

There are so many wonderful books about love and romance in the Western genre, but which are the best? Many people enjoy reading romance, and the genre has many top sellers. Janet Dailey, a New York Times bestselling author, is a prime example. Her novels have been translated into many languages and have sold over 300 million copies worldwide. Others include Julie Garwood, C.J. Petit, Lauren Landish, and Natalie Dean. Western romance novels are unique experiences, and as new authors and readers discover them, they continue to be popular.

A Western Romance Novel combines elements of romance and the American West. Whether the story is historical, contemporary, or faith-based, it features a romantic hero and beautiful heroine. These novels use beautiful scenery, outdoor-y heroes, and Western activities such as horseback riding and ranching as an extension of the story. Western romance novels are often full of intricate details, and keep readers yearning for more.

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    Marriott’s web3 strategy explained: 'it's about amplifying vs. replacing'

    Marriott has become an industry pioneer in emergent blockchain-based technologies like NFTs and virtual reality. Here's what they've learned.

    In late 2021, as the grip of the pandemic began to slacken, Marriott International was in need of a spark - something that would reignite a passion for travel among an audience that, for much of the previous two years, had been living under lockdown.

    It found such a spark in web3. The metaverse - a three-dimensional, interactive virtual ecosystem contain a vast and growing number of specific experiences - is just one manifestation of web3, which, as the name suggests, is a term used to describe what's envisioned as the next evolutionary stage of the internet.

    Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs - essentially non-reporoducible stamps to verify ownership of a particular asset - are another manifestation of web3. They were also Marriott's gateway into the world of blockchain-based technologies. In December 2021, the brand launched its first branded NFT drop — becoming the first hospitality brand to create its own NFTs, per the company. Unveiled at Art Basel in Miami Beach, the drop included three tokens, each of which was designed by a separate artist. The artwork for the NFTs was inspired by its “Power of Travel” campaign, which had recently launched. The NFTs were awarded to three individuals and came with 20,000 Marriott Bonvoy points, which Harper says “is pretty substantial.”

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    In addition to inspiring those three winners to start traveling again, “NFTs were definitely a strong marketing tool,” says Nicolette Harper, vice-president of global marketing and media at Marriott International.  “During the pandemic, we had to basically start from scratch. We had to identify where our current and potential future customers are spending their time: What were they doing? How were they connecting? How did they want to socialize? And then how does a brand like Marriott fit into all that? Through all that data in the research, we really found that the metaverse … was really where they were spending their time, whether it was playing games, watching games, going to concerts … This whole social component that they were missing out on during the pandemic, they were getting their fix, if you will, in a very different way, through metaverse experiences. And so we knew we had to be there.”

    Next stop for the hotel chain: augemented reality

    In July, the brand began experimenting with augmented reality (AR) - a technology which uses devices like smartphones or tablets to superimpose elements of virtual reality (VR) onto the physical world. The AR experience was launched for Moxy Hotels - a Marriott-owned brand that markets itself as “stylish and playful” and which is geared towards younger travelers - in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) market and aimed to “break the rules in an unconventional hotel stay,” Harper says.

    The experience allows guests, for example, to create and dress up virtual avatars; it was also launched in conjunction with a major regional gaming competition. “It really was the beauty of combining in-real-life experiences, AR avatars, the social component - which you need in order to really be classified as metaverse - as well as eSports, which I don't think a lot of hotels have gotten into.”

    Marriott has also been dabbling in VR. It recently constructed a digital twin of one of its hybrid hotel and conference locations in Madrid; visitors to the virtual space can explore and “really get a sense of space,” Harper says. “I actually had some business meetings in the metaverse at that hotel … It was so unbelievably cool just how realistic everything was. We could rearrange the setups of the conference rooms and create totally different experiences. It was probably one of the coolest things that I've done metaverse-wise this summer.”

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    ‘Amplifying versus replacing’

    The basic business model of the hotel industry obviously requires an in-person experience; it may be entertaining to explore a virtual hotel as an avatar, but at the end of the day hotels need guests to actually visit their IRL locations and stay in actual rooms.

    One informative aspect about Marriott’s web3 ventures over the past several months has been the brand's methods for using novel technologies to supplement and support its existing - and fundamentally unchangeable - core business model. “While we believe that web3 is definitely the place we want to be, and we certainly think that'll bring a lot of new and exciting virtual opportunities, it's really about using that space to enhance our current offerings, and really amplifying versus replacing in-real-life travel,” Harper says. “You can't fly in real life and defy gravity, but you can do that in the metaverse. So you can have this additional experiential layer to enhance the things that really make us the best in the industry … We want to inspire you in new ways and connect with you in new ways, but ultimately, we'd love for you to stop on by and stay with us  in real life.”

    While she declined to provide specific details, Harper said that Marriott is “going to be looking at other AR and VR experiences,” and also plans to expand its NFT strategy. “Definitely more to come,” she says.

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