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Our areas of expertise enable us to train a diverse array of majors at both the undergraduate and graduate level utilizing interdisciplinary approaches while preparing them for a multitude of career options. South Dakota's natural resources are a key factor in maintaining a high-quality workforce throughout our state. Moreover, the quality of life for many people is intimately tied to their enjoyment of natural areas.
Conservation and management of natural resources implies a considerate use of these resources in a multifaceted way. This approach includes the development of novel management practices that ensure both the preservation of habitat for rare plants and animals as well as sustainable agriculture and grazing practices, which conserve the quality of our soil, waterways, lakes and streams. Rangelands are the foundation of livestock production operations, wildlife habitat, watershed management, and outdoor recreational opportunities within the state and region. We strive to work together in an interdisciplinary way to preserve the integrity of our natural resources.
Natural resources provide (1) non-consumptive economic benefit through the preservation of terrestrial and aquatic habitat that supports plant and animal species biodiversity as well as (2) consumptive economic benefit through the annual harvest of surpluses from renewable natural resources such as waterfowl, pheasants, and fish. Rare organisms, such as the western fringed prairie orchid, swift foxes or pallid sturgeon, often are best managed through preservation. Our department's approach incorporates the fundamental knowledge that factors affecting threatened species and populations are the same as those that may affect non-threatened species in the future.
We offer Undergraduate Majors in:
- Conservation Planning and Park Management
- Ecology and Environmental Science
- Natural Resource Law Enforcement
- Rangeland Ecology and Management
- Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
We offer Undergraduate Minors in:
- Botany
- Rangeland Ecology and Management
We offer Graduate Degrees in:
- M.S. - Biological Sciences
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- Ph.D. - Biological Sciences
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Jo Crotty
Sent from: MAF UK
Serving in: Papua New Guinea
* This donation is tax deductible
Why are some donations tax deductible and others not?
Tax deductible
Gifts or sponsorship to support the relief work of MAF International (ABN 32 004 260 860) in Australia, made through "MAF Assist DGR 1 ABN 23 301 106 261" are tax deductible.
Not tax deductible
Tax deductibility on donations is only allowable by the Australian Tax Office in respect of approved relief and development activities. For this reason, tax deductibility is not available for sponsorship of staff working for MAF Canada, MAF USA and MAF Australia (Sydney), nor for support of evangelistic outreach and other non-qualifying activities.
The Story
I am a "mish -kid" who grew up in the highlands of Papua to missionary parents. Aged 9 I returned to Melbourne, Australia and completed school and university. I worked in health care for a number of years, studiously avoiding becoming a teacher but God had other plans and I ended up doing a Diploma of Education and becoming a primary teacher. I remember thinking at the time, "This is something I could take anywhere in the world" but I had no real thought or desire to really do this. However I did take my degree with me all the way to …….Scotland.
Since 2002 I have been living and teaching in Glasgow. My interest in other countries and cultures also continued to grow over the years and in 2006 I found myself beginning Bible College. I knew I didn't want to go 'into the ministry' but was keen to learn about Christianity in other countries and cultures and also pastoral care. I gained a double major in cross cultural studies and practical theology yet I was adamant that I would not go overseas in a mission context.
In early 2018 I saw the job of Education Support Co-Ordinator for Asia Pacific advertised with MAF and expressed an interest. When I received the information and realised that the M in MAF stood for Mission (I had conveniently forgotten that) I tried to back track but God had other plans and soon I found myself agreeing to pray about this opportunity. For a couple of weeks everything I read, heard and the council of trusted people pointed to God saying "Trust me, go for it" so I did. I can clearly see that all the plans I had in trying out various work avenues and the skills and experiences I gained have come together in God's purpose in bringing me to serve Him in this new role.
I am so excited about this new role that will provide education and support for the children of MAF staff which in turn will enable more families to serve in MAF's Asia Pacific programmes.
Jo is a member of MAF UK
You can make many plans, but the Lord's purpose will prevail.Proverbs 19:21

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FAST Blog
Grab the attention of your employers and educate them on the legalities of software compliance with this blog post on the effects of computer piracy.
Issue 5, 2017
News: EU publishes draft report on its proposal to ban "backdoors" allowing the reading of encrypted messaging
Case Law Update:ECJ confirms online peer-to-peer sharing platforms can constitute a copyright-infringing "communication to the public"
Consultation: European Commission consults on Database Directive
Issue 4, 2017
News: Guarding against ransomware
Case Law Update: The Filmspeler case; a media player sold with pre-installed add-ons linking users to infringing TV and film streaming sites
Consultation: European Commission mid-term review on the implementation of the Digital Single Market Strategy
Issue 3, 2017
News: Big data analytics and the ICO
Case Law Update: Illegal film streaming sites to be blocked
Consultation: Calls for views on the General Data Protection Regulation derogations
Issue 2, 2017
News: The Cost of Piracy
Case Law Update: Software Licenses & Named Users
Consultation: The Department for Exiting the European Union
Issue 1, 2017
Consultation: IP Enforcement
Legislative Update: ePrivacy Regulation Draft
Case Law Update: Genuine Use of a Trade Mark
December, 2016
Consultation: Draft Report on the Digital Content Directive
Legislative Update: ICO recommends Personal liability for Directors
Case Law Update: Groups challenge Privacy Shield
November, 2016
Consultation: Draft Report on the Digital Content Directive
Legislative Update: ICO recommends Personal liability for Directors
Case Law Update: Groups challenge Privacy Shield
October, 2016
Consultation: Modernising the European copyright framework
Legislative Update: The YouTube rule?
Case Law Update: Has the CJEU restricted the scope of the UsedSoft Ruling?
November, 2015
By Mike Schramm, the former head of eCommerce Programs and Operations for Autodesk who is now advising software companies on digital marketing, ecommerce, and operations change management.


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This is the entrance of the summer "cottage" of Cornelius Vanderbilt. I have walked into that room about 7 times over the years and it always leaves me completely breathless. You can't see it, but to the right of that chandelier are massive doors that lead out to a ridiculously expansive lawn that sits on the Atlantic Ocean.
Although somewhat masculine, the library above is where I tend to linger the longest on the self-guided tour. The upper rectangular panels are made out of Spanish leather to mimic the leather bound books in the collection.
Okay, let me get to my ultimate point: My 10-yr old, like me, looked over the grand entrance and said:
"This makes me sad that I can't live here. I mean, the kids used to slide down those banisters on plastic trays!"
"I know what you mean, honey, it makes me kind of sad too."
Guilded Age Society people wouldn't like me very much. I'm kind of loud, and I'd put my elbows on the table. My guestroom would be a mess and I'd leave makeup stains on the towels which would really piss off the maids in charge of laundry. I'd push the buttons to call the butler just for fun and send things down the dumbwaiter to see where they ended up (My daughter compared the dumbwaiters to the elevator in her Barbie Dreamhouse.) I'd sleep too late for croquet and they would call me lazy.


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Session Tracking
A Session refers to all requests a single client makes to a server. A session is specific to a user. For each user, a new session is created to track all requests from that user. Every user has a unique session identified by a unique session identifier. Session Tracking enables the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC to limit the number of sessions originating from a particular client IP address in a given interval of time. Limiting the session generation rate by client IP address helps prevent session-based Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. To configure Session Tracking go to the SECURITY > Advanced Security page, scroll to Session Tracking, and click Edit in the Options column.
You can specify the following session protection options:
- New Session Count – Maximum number of new sessions allowed per IP address; Range: 1 - 65535; Default: 10.
- Interval – Time in seconds for which the number of sessions from the same client cannot exceed the New Session Count setting; Range: 1 - 6000 seconds; Default: 60.
- Status – Set to On to enable session tracking.
- Session Identifiers – The token type used to recognize sessions. Choose from the list, or see Configuration of Session Identifiers to add a Session Identifier.
- Exception Clients – List clients which are exempted from this protection. IP address ranges should be separated by a "-" (hyphen). Multiple ranges or IP addresses can be listed with "," (comma) separation. The list should not contain overlapping IP address ranges.
When you have finished configuring these options, click Save.
Configuration of Session Identifiers
Configuring session identifiers allows the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC to recognize session information in requests and responses.
To create a new session identifier, perform the following steps:
- Go to the SECURITY > Libraries page and scroll to the Session Identifiers section.
- Locate the desired identifier and click Edit, or to add a new identifier, click Add Session Identifier.
- Enter or modify the session Identifier Name. This name will appear in the list of Session Identifiers from which you choose when you configure Session Tracking.
- Enter or modify the following session token parameters.
- Token Name
- Token Type
- Start Delimiter
- End Delimiter
- Newly added or edited Session Identifiers appear in the Session Identifiers list on the Edit Session Tracking page on the SECURITY > Advanced Security page in the Session Tracking section.
The following example shows how to enable the Barracuda Load Balancer ADC to extract the Session ID 12345 from session identifier: "JSESSIONID=12345;"
- Token Name – JSESSIONID
- Token Type – Parameter
- Start Delimiter – =
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Brand Analytics Data Scientist II at Expedia Group
ExpediaBrand Analytics Data Scientist II
We are looking for a business facing Data Scientist to join our Brand marketing measurement function. You will deliver optimization and ROAS measurement tools for the Global Brand Marketing (GBM) team at Expedia.
We structure problems, extract and analyze data and present the findings to our internal clients. In addition, our analysts handle the communication and relationships with internal customers across Expedia Worldwide. We are an award-winning team of analysts resolved to push the boundaries of analytics and embrace new technologies. The Analytics and Revenue Management team is essential to the company's mission of becoming the world's most intelligent travel marketplace.
Do you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world? If so, this is the job for you!What you will do:
- Develop methodologies and tools to optimize our existing Brand marketing performance, actively identify use-cases to apply data science techniques
- Enhance and automate our existing ROAS methodologies for TV and other media, both online and offline
- Work directly with internal engineering and external vendor resources where appropriate to ensure optimization findings are scalable and repeatable
- Interact directly with multiple departments across the organization. Identify key analytical opportunities that deliver valuable business insight
- You have at least 4-5 years' experience in a data science role, preferably in a marketing measurement context
- You have a deep understanding of advanced statistical modeling and/or machine learning techniques and have frequently applied these to drive business value
- You have a high level of proficiency in building data science tools in either R or Python, especially with large data sets. Experience working directly within or alongside engineering teams is highly desirable
- You have knowledge of and real passion for Big Data. Experience with SQL & Hadoop required. Experience with unstructured data is highly preferred
- You have demonstrated the ability to work through complex business problems, identify opportunities to apply data science techniques, and partner with internal clients with a consultative approach
- You have well-rounded commercial knowledge covering product and marketing. Experience of ecommerce strongly preferred
Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, hardworking, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.
Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.
If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.
Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.
LPS-ARM-NAExpedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.


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DALLAS, Sep 17, 2007 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(r)) (Nasdaq:ZIXI), the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, today announced that the company's Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Rick Spurr, will present at the ThinkEquity Partners' Fifth Annual Growth Conference on Tuesday, September 18 at 7:30 a.m. PST. The conference, which runs Sept. 17 - 20, is being held at The St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, CA.
The presentation will be web cast live and may be accessed by visiting the Investor Relations section of the company website at www.zixcorp.com. Spurr's 25-minute presentation will also be available on the ZixCorp website for a limited period of time following the conference.
About Zix Corporation
ZixCorp is the leading provider of easy-to-use-and-deploy email encryption and e-prescribing services that Connect entities with their customers and partners to Protect and Deliver sensitive information in the healthcare, finance, insurance and government industries. ZixCorp's hosted Email Encryption Service provides an easy and cost-effective way to ensure customer privacy and regulatory compliance for corporate email. Its PocketScript(r) e-prescribing service reduces costs and improves patient care by automating the prescription process between payors, doctors, and pharmacies. For more information, visit www.zixcorp.com.
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text: Good news everyone! Salva just put out a killer original featuring some of the greatest rappers LA has to offer and he's giving it away as a free download! Drop That Bitch feat. Kurupt, ScHoolboy Q, Problem and Bad Lucc is a contemporary who's who of LA rapping talent from the last decade and is as sure a sign as any that not only is hip hop still alive... its strong as ever … [Read more...]


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We are pleased to announce that we are expanding and will be opening our new Lichfield office at Ground Floor, New Media House, Lichfield, WS14 9DZ on Monday 22nd October.
We have outgrown our offices at 168 Birmingham Road, which has been our home for the last 2 and a half years. New Media House will become our main office but we will continue to offer appointments at 168 Birmingham Road, Shenstone Wood End, WS14 0NX as we currently do now. Therefore clients who visit us at our offices can choose which location they wish to visit.
The new Lichfield office is on the outskirts of Lichfield and there is plenty of parking at the rear of the office. We will be based on the ground floor with an easily accessible meeting room.
We look forward to welcoming you to our new office soon!


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Now we will try to understand the coding techniques of maniacbug and how the same code runs one transceiver in TX mode and the other in RX mode.
Lets start with the Getting started code.
- First of all you write all the header files that will be needed for the working of the transceivers.
- Since our ce pin is pin 9 and cs pin is pin 10 we pass the arguements 9,10 when we set up the radio.
- Then you need to initialize the pipeline addresses thorough which the nodes will cmmunicate . A nice article on deciding what pipe addresses to choose and what not to chose can be found HERE . (btw i just copy paste the pipelines used in the library codes!!!)
- Now he defines a user defined data type (enum) called "role_e" that can take the values "role_ping_out " and "role_pong_back" only with the numeric value assigned to "role_ping_out" being 1 and 2 for "role_pong_back".
- Note that "role" variable of the datatype "role_e" is "role_pong_back" that means numerical value of "role" = 2;
- Now we enter the setup function.
- Here we begin the serial communication and begin the radio.
- The author has created a library "printf_h which allows you to use the "printf" command just like you use in c programming.
- Since role = 2 hence it prints the third element of the string array.
- If you have the list of commands from the documentation and their utilities then you can clearly understand what the rest of the functions do.
- Now we enter the loop part.
- Since the role is "role_pong_back" it enters the second "if" statement,but then it will do anything only if a payload is available which is NOT available so it keeps on coming out and checks whether a serial buffer(whatever you write in the serial monitor i.e 't') is available or not.Once you have entered 't' and since in the beginning role is "role_pong back" it make the node to be a transmitter by changing its role to "role_ping_out" and opening the first pipe for writing and the second one for reading.
- The else if part code the exact opposite things i.e changes the "role" to "role_pong_back" and opens the second pipe as a writing pipe and the first one for reading.
- After this it will enter the first "if" statement and transmit something which will be received by the other node as we haven't typed anything there it still looks for the payload(and of course the serial buffer from the serial monitor).
- What does the TX node transmit?
- As soon as it enters the TX mode ,it first of all stops listening for any payload(that's the constraint here with nrf24L01+ transceivers or the way this library has been designed) then it stores the current time in the time variable and then sends it.
- Now lets have a look at the minute details–
- The write function returns a boolean datatype i.e true if it was executed properly and false if it failed to execute and this has been beautifully used as conditions for the "if" statements.
- What the other node does meanwhile?
Now the RX node now which was looking for payloads will enter the if condition on the availability of the payload.Now we need to read the payload.If the payload was read successfully then we need to proceed to do the next thing ,but if the payload although available was not read properly then we need to keep on trying until it is read properly. For this we have beautifully used the while loop.First of all we declare a boolean variable named "done" and initialize it as "false". This necessarily makes the program to enter the while loop for the first time. Now if the payload was read then done will become "true" otherwise "false". Suppose it was NOT read properly then it will still be "false" and this will cause the program to enter the while loop once again.But if the payload was read properly then it will exit the loop.Then it will stop listening and write a payload to be transferred and then start listening once again.
- Now when the act of transmitting has been done it comes in RX mode as it starts listening due to the call of "radio.startListening" function call.
- In the "started_waiting_at" variable it stores the time when it entered the RX mode.Then we declare a boolean variable called timeout and initialize it as "false",now it checks the condition in the while loop.
- If payload is available then radio.available will return true otherwise false.
Let's assume that payload is NOT available then both the conditions in the while loop will be satisfied and it will enter the loop.inside the loop in the if condition it calls "millis()" once again and subtracts the time when it entered the rx mode and checks if it is greater than 200 ms , if it is then it modifies "timeout" to "true" which then causes it to exit the loop and then again causes it to enter the next if statement which then prints "failed,response timed out." Now it is very possible that the program runs more than one iteration of while loop as the first call would not have lead the timeout to be > 200ms and causing the exit from while loop. To check that you can just add a "printf" statement which prints anything you like, so that the number of times it prints that particular statement that many times the loop has iterated.
- Now lets check the the other possibility.
- Lets assume that the payload is available or that before the timeout becomes > 200 ms it detects a payload then it will either not enter the while loop or if it is inside it then it will exit when it checks the conditions for the next iteration.Since nature of timeout would still be false it will then enter the else statement and print the time sent by the TX node and subtract the sent time from the present time to give you the round trip delay.


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Jenni Olson was doing double duty at Outfest this year, representing her own film, The Royal Road, as well as supporting Wolfe Video's Liz in September (she's the LGBT video distributor's VP of E-Commerce & Consumer Marketing.) We talked with the queer filmmaker about the making of her movie and what other lesbian flicks from the last year she'd recommend watching.
Find out more about The Royal Road at the film's website.


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George's Dock
George's Dock was a dock on the River Mersey which was connected to Canning Dock to the south and George's Basin to the north. It was opened in 1771 having been designed and built by Henry Berry and expanded by John Foster Senior. Canning Dock is still used as part of the Albert Dock development today however in 1899 the George's Dock and the adjoining George's Basin were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head, to provide one central place for Liverpool Docks' offices, which up until then had been scattered across the city. The site now contains the 'three graces' of the Port of Liverpool Building, the Cunard Building and the Liver Building as well as the Pier head where the Mersey Ferries continue to arrive from Birkenhead and Seacombe across the river.
A section of the original George's Dock wall is still visible in the basement of the Cunard Building which stands on the site but the most visible remnant of George's Dock to passersby is the street name sign on the wall between the Strand and outside the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas.
More recently excavation work has seen a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on the site of the former George's basin at the Pier head. The canal extension provides a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway to the canal which was completed in March 2009.
Simpson Fountain
On the corner of the Strand and Chapel Street built into the Georges Dock Gates wall below the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Simpson Fountain.
William Shaw Simpson was a well known character in Liverpool, known as a person willing to help anyone. He was born in Lancaster in 1829. He owned a refreshment stall on the Princes landing stage of the ferries on the river Mersey which he ran from 1857 until his death.
On a number of occasions he placed a large bowl outside his cafe to collect money for various charities dedicated to the alleviation of distress of the poor including striking South Wales miners and families affected by the famine in Ireland. Because of the number of passengers using the ferries he raised thousands of pounds. The bowl became famous and was known as the 'Simpson bowl'.
He was a teetotaller and ran his cafe as a temperance cafe. He also tried to be elected as a member of parliament on a number of occasions, but was narrowly defeated on each occassion.
William Simpson died in 1883 of a 'stoppage of the bowels'. At his funeral the crowds lining the roads along the funeral procession were so great that traffic was suspended, and there was a crowd of around two thousand at the Smithdown Lane cemetery where he was buried.
After the funeral it was agreed to erect a memorial drinking fountain to him, being paid for by public subscription. The fountain was designed in a gothic style by sculptor Mr. Rogerson and architect Mr. Thomas Cox. In the middle of the fountain is a large bronze medallion showing the head of William Simpson. There are four lions on top of the fountain supporting shields. Originally the shields were going to have carvings on them, but this was never carried out.
The fountain was erected against the outside wall of the grounds of St. Nicholas Church about half a mile from the site of his cafe and was unveiled in July 1885 by Sir James A Picton. The fountain is a grade II listed building through English Heritage.
Simpson's Refreshment and Luggage Rooms survived through to October 1940 and were run by William Simpson's daughters. But the cafe ceased to be a paying proposition and the Simpsons relinquished their tenancy and the building was removed.
Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas
Behind the Georges Dock Gates wall which houses the Simpson Fountain lies the Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas.
It is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool and is known as the 'sailor's church'. The church is situated close to the River Mersey opposite to the current Pier Head. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257. The Chapel of St Nicholas who is the Patron Saint of Sailors, was built on the site of the small stone chapel known as St Mary del Quay which was built around 1257. In 1355 St Mary del Quay was determined to be too small for the growing borough of Liverpool.
The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is a Grade II listed building and is still an active parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. The church was from 1813 to 1868 the tallest building in Liverpool at 53 metres high. It was surpassed by the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Toxteth which was built in 1868.
The new chapel dedicated to St Mary and St Nicholas was under construction for more than a century. In 1361 a plague hit the town and the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry licensed the burial ground and the chapel was consecrated the following year. The church has been developed in various forms since the fourteenth century and between 1673 and 1718, the building was extended piecemeal, and galleries were built to seat the increasing population of Liverpool with a spire being added in 1746.
In 1699 Liverpool, now with a population of about 5,000 people, was created as an independent parish with two parish churches and two rectors. Our Lady and St Nicholas (the "Old Church" or "St Nicks") and the new parish church of St Peter's (which was located in what is now the Church Street shopping centre) were established as the two parish churches.
Since 1916 Our Lady and St Nicholas has been the sole Parish Church of Liverpool as St Peter's, was demolished in 1922, having served as pro-cathedral for the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool prior to the building of the current Anglican Cathedral built on St James's Mount.
On Sunday 11 February 1810, as the bells rang and people were gathering for the morning service, the spire crashed into the nave below, killing 25 people. The original ring of six bells, dating from 1636–1724, was destroyed in the disaster. Between 1811 and 1815, a new tower and lantern were built at the north side of the church. The tower was designed by Thomas Harrison of Chester. The last remains of the original chapel of St Mary del Quay, which had been used as a tavern, were demolished. Within the tower, a new ring of 12 bells was installed.
However after a devastating World War II air raid in December 1940 much of the church was destroyed leaving only the tower and vestry. Rebuilding began after the war with the foundation stone being laid in 1949 and the rebuilt church was consecrated in October 1952.
In May 1892 a deed was granted laying out the graveyard as an ornamental garden in memory of James Harrison whose shipping company's offices faced the church yard. The gardens have acted as a focal point for memorials to those that have lost their lives during the last war. These include those who died at sea in the Russia Murmansk convoy in 1944-45 and the Arctic campaign of 1941-45.
Probably the most striking memorial in the gardens is the sculpture by local artist Tom Murphy in memory to the citizens of Liverpool and Bootle who lost their lives in the Blitz 1940 to 1942 this was unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh on 7 July 2000. Tom Murphy has produced a number of public sculptures in the city. These include Captain Johnny Walker at the Pierhead, Billy Fury at the Albert Dock, the Moores brothers in Church Street, John Lennon at the airport and Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock in Lime Street railway station.
It makes a fine shot with the famous Liver Building right behind it.
The bell from TSS Sarpedon is another artefact in the church gardens. TSS Sarpedon was built in 1923 by Cammell Laird & Co. at Birkenhead with a tonnage of 11,321 (gross registered tonnage). She was commissioned by the Liverpool based Alfred Holt & Co who ran the Blue Funnel Line and its operating company the Ocean Steamship Co. One of four sister ships she was built to accommodate 155 First Class passengers after a request from the British Government to provide additional passenger accommodation on cargo vessels on the Far East service. TSS Sarpedon's regular ports of call were Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
In 1927 she carried supplies and ammunition to Hong Kong during the second Sino-Japanese war. She survived WW2 and returned to commercial service on 5th January 1946 when she made the first post war sailing to Australia from Liverpool to Brisbane with 48 passengers. On 5th June 1953 she made her last journey when she arrived at Newport in south Wales where she was broken up by John Cashmore and Co.
I haven't managed to find out why the ship's bell of the TSS Sarpedon has found its last resting place in the gardens of Our Lady and St Nicholas church.
The Blue Funnel line made a number of acquisitions and mergers over the years and in 1972 it acquired William Cory, a major shipping agent, and the following year, it changed its name to Ocean Transport & Trading. However the Blue Funnel Line came to an end in 1986 when the Ocean Transport & Trading company withdrew Overseas Containers Limited and it no longer operated a shipping line. In 1990 it renamed itself Ocean Group a global transport and services company.


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Blue Origin launches rocket to space in 'extreme' test of the crew capsule
"Just another day at the office."
"Just another day at the office."
An unprecedented landing feat.
There's no better party than a rocket launch party.
SpaceX could make history today.
This is a huge test for SpaceX and the rocket industry at large.
They're starting to make this look (relatively) easy.
Well, no one is perfect, not even Elon Musk.
SpaceX is going for a landing on a drone ship in the ocean again today after launching two satellites toward orbit.


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David Cowgill
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David Cowgill, advised Leman on the relocation of its UK Headquarters to a site situated on Don Pedro Avenue, within the Normanton Industrial Estate, where it will offer freight-forwarding and distribution services for 3PL customers.
The Danish-owned company, is an international transport and logistics business.
The main attractions of Normanton 108 for LEMAN is the 10,000 sq ft of office space, which will accommodate its UK head office workforce, as well as the links to the region's motorway network to serve its customers in the northern supply chain.
The unit comprises 12 covered dock bays and a large parcel of land adjacent to the building, should the tenant decide to expand its operations.
Jesper Thygesen, the Danish company's managing director UK, said: "We chose Normanton mainly for its ideal size and configuration as well as its strategic distribution location. We were merging two depots so being able to bring all our staff under the one roof was brilliant. The location close to Junction 31 of the M62 was another attraction. We send all of our trailers out of Hull and Immingham, so it's great to be have easy access to those ports."
Onward Holdings, the managed third party warehousing firm which secured the letting, appointed joint agents Iain McPhail of Knight Frank and Andrew Miller Chartered Surveyors to promote the warehouse.


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pH and pKa relationship for buffers
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- [Voiceover] We're gonna talk about the relationship between pH and pK_a and buffers. And specifically, we're going to be talking mostly about this in terms of the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. But before we go to the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, which I am gonna assume you've seen before, and if not we have some other videos introducing it and also deriving it, let's do a quick review of what exactly is a buffer. So a buffer is something that contains an aqueous solution. It's something that contains both a weak acid, which generically we write as HA, and it also contains in equilibrium the conjugate base of our acid, so A minus. This is, as written, it's the acid dissociation on reaction for HA and since it's an equilibrium we can write an expression called K_a, which is just the equilibrium constant for this equation. And it just has a special name, 'cause it happens to be for the dissociation of an acid. K_a is just equal to H_three O plus times A minus all over the concentration of HA, and we don't include water because it's a pure liquid, so we assume that the concentration is always one. Based on this expression for K_a, we can, and do, in the separate video, derive the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation. So the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation just says that the pH is equal to the pK_a plus the log of A minus over HA, where HA is our weak acid and A minus is its conjugate base. And as you can see up here, an acid and its conjugate base are just related by the fact that the acid has an extra H. We can rearrange the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to get a lot of different kinds of information. One kind of problem you see a lot is for some buffer, you know, they might ask you, oh, what's the pH? And then that means you probably know the pK_a and you know the concentrations of A minus and HA. The other thing that you can use the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation to tell you is the relationship between A minus and HA which is something you might wanna know. A lot of times, you just wanna know, you know, what's in your solution, depending on what you wanna do to your solution, if you wanna add things to it, maybe you wanna add some acid, you wanna add some base. You wanna know what's going on. The Henderson-Hasselbalch equation gives you a really quick and easy way of doing that. So what we're gonna do, is we're gonna rearrange this equation to solve for this ratio that we might be interested in. So we're gonna subtract pK_a from both sides and that gives us a log of A minus over HA. And I don't know about you, but I actually find, well, (laughs) I find logs not super-intuitive sometimes. So I'm actually going to get rid of the log by raising both sides to the 10th power. So that gives us 10 to the pH minus pK_a is equal to A minus over HA. So what does this tell us? It may not look like it tells us a whole lot more, but actually, it tells us a lot. It tells us about the relative relationship and size between A minus and HA concentration. And it's saying that these two things are related to the relative size of pH and pK_a. So if we look at this, we can derive a couple relationships. We're saying that pH versus pK_a, this relationship, can tell us about A minus over HA, which is a ratio, but that in turn we can relate to just the relative size of HA versus A. So let's go ahead and look at all the possible scenarios for these three things. We're going to start with the simplest possible scenario, which is that pH is equal to pK_a. When pH is equal to pK_a, we're raising 10 to the zeroth power. So anything to the zeroth power is equal to one. Which tells us that this ratio is equal to one. And if A minus concentration over HA concentration is equal to one, that means that they have the same concentration. I forgot a minus sign there. This is a really helpful thing to remember. Any time you have a buffer and the pH of your solution is equal to the pK_a of your buffer, you immediately know that the concentration of your acid and its conjugate base are the same. And this comes up a lot not just when you're talking about buffers by themselves, but also when you're doing titrations. And the point in your titration where the HA is equal to A minus is called the half-equivalence point. Half-equivalence point. And if you haven't learnt about buffers, that's okay. Oh, sorry, if you haven't learn about titrations yet, that's fully fine. Just ignore what I just said (laughs), but if you have, the moral is just that, this is a really, really important relationship that is really helpful to remember. And I said really a lot there. So there are two other possibilities for pH and pK_a. We can have a pH that's greater than pK_a for your buffer, and you can have a pH that is less than you pK_a for your buffer. So if your pH is bigger than your pK_a, then this term up here, 10 to the pH minus pK_a, is going to be positive. And when you raise 10 to a positive number, when you raise 10 to a positive number, you get a ratio that is greater than one. So if our ratio A minus over HA is greater than one, that tells us that A minus, the numerator, is actually greater than the denominator, HA. So if you know the pH and you know it's bigger than the pK_a of your buffer, buffer's acid, to be more specific, then you immediately know that you have more conjugate base around than your acid. The last scenario, pH is less than pK_a, well in that case, we're raising 10 to a negative number, because we're subtracting a bigger number from a smaller number. And that means that our ratio, A minus over HA, is actually less than one. So that tells us that our denominator, HA, is actually bigger than our numerator. So just to wrap up, we can look at the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation and we can just look at the relationship between pK_a and pH, and depending on whether they're equal to each other or one is bigger than the other, we can immediately know what the relationship is between our acid and its conjugate base in our solution. It's very easy to derive. We did it in just a few minutes, so it's okay if you don't remember this all the time. I usually just remember that pH equals pK_a means you have the same concentration, and then, if I forget, I will derive the other relation.


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Amanda Knox, the photogenic student convicted of murdering her roommate while studying abroad in Italy back in 2007, finally set free. Denmark gets their first female Prime Minister. Tiger Woods: not very good at golf any more. California prisoners go on a hunger strike. NBA locked out. Sarah Palin announces that she will, unfortunately, not run a no-doubt hilarious presidential campaign. NYPD bust the largest identity theft ring in American history. Occupy continues to multiply, first across cities in the U.S. and then overseas. Gaddafi on the run. An intricate and convoluted plot by Iran to kill a Saudi ambassador is broken up. Underwear bomberpleads guilty. iPhone 4S released, many buy it. Google says goodbye to Google Buzz, which nobody used, ever. 100-year-old man runs a marathon, making most of the world feel terrible about themselves. Richard Branson opens up the world's firs commercial "spaceport". Most deportations out of the US ever. Libyan civil war ends, Gaddafi killed, everyone still not entirely sure how to spell his name. Owner of exotic animal farm in Ohio opens up their cages, releases them, kills himself, causes all sorts of ensuing panic, Dr. Jack Hanna weeps. Obama announces the end of the Iraq war. Wikileaks suspends publishing in order to make some money. U.S. dismantles their biggest nukes. Occupy Oakland gets tear-gassed. World population reaches 7 fucking billion. Cardinals over Rangers, capping an extremely entertaining baseball postseason. Everyone dresses up like Charlie Sheen for Halloween.
Lohan back in jail, again. Pakistan cricket players in jail for fixing games. Greenhouse gases are bad as they've ever been, so please just stop breathing, OK? Paintings by Hitler go up for auction. Michael Jackson's doctor was not a very good doctor, as evidenced by his client's death, so he's in jail too. Tibetans cannot stop setting themselves on fire. Crazy paedophile sex scandal breaks out at Penn State. Turns out, Obama and French president don't really like the Israeli Prime Minister all that much, no doubt hurting his feelings and sending him to cry in his room. In the end, it wasn't the embarrassing accusations of banging teens that got Berlusconi, it was the economy, you stupid ass. Bionic legs! Moscow, we have a problem. Scientists develop a single-molecule electric car because, what, they got nothing better to do? Everyone in the Middle East kind of puffing up their chests at Iran, who ignores them all and continues to heart nukes like mad. Modern Warfare 3 sets new nerd record. City police finally start kicking out those pesky Occupy protesters. Crazy dude fires gun at White House. LA reopens their investigation of the 30-year-old drowning death of actress Natalie Wood. Pfft, nukes are soooo old-fashioned, here in America, we have hyper-fucking-sonic weapons. NBC finally ends lockout, basketball by Christmas! American Airlines done gone bankrupt.
The Cain Train got derailed after nearly every woman he ever worked with accuses him of sexual harassment. Tiger Woods: Now good at golf again. After 541 days without one, Belgium finally has an official government again. The Year of the Protest moves over to Russia, who don't like that Putin just kind of up and took back control of the government. Former Illinois Governor Blago and his gorgeous mane of hair sentenced to 14 years. Russia just gives up on their Mars mission, telling everyone they might want to duck in 2012. The European Union tries to get their shit together. An unmanned stealth drone crashes in Iran, giving them access to American technology, whoopseedaisy. Canada, we didn't forget about you, we saw you make some noise and back out of Kyoto Protocol. CERN may have found the Higgs Boson particle, which is of crazy significance to science somehow, but this is not the time nor place to unpack that. Every other American isclassified as low income or poor. Christopher Hitchens finds out if he was right. Carlos the Jackal, already serving a life sentence, gets life again, double-life, just in case Christopher Hitchens was wrong. Batman causes a ruckus in China. Kim Jong-il dies from overwork after dedicating his life to the people.
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As we were leaving the shelter, a message came in from a local hospital. One of our families had put together a memory box to be given to another family experiencing a stillbirth. The beautifully decorated box contained a couple of books on stillbirth, a disposable camera, a candle, a journal, some wildflower seeds, powdered clay for hand and foot molds, and a blanket and hat knitted by bereaved grandmother, as well as some other items. It also contained a personal letter from the bereaved parents. The hospital let us know that the box had been given to another family and that the family very much appreciated it and that it is helping them in their grief. The family in turn wants to put together a memory box for the next family. It's an incredible feeling to be part of a chain of compassion at the first link. It must also have been a powerful gesture for the care providers to experience. I look forward to hearing both sides of those stories one day.


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This is an updated announcement and invitation to Appalachian Region – PCA members to attend the Harmony Motors/Porsche Asheville and Appalachian Region – PCA Member Appreciation Track Day at Roebling Road Raceway on November 10, 2017. Registration for the event is now open on a first-come, first-served basis to include all members (even those who have been to a Harmony Motors/Porsche Asheville Roebling Road event previously and those who have attended a DE).
Members who have no track experience are still welcome to apply.
This is not a competition, but an educational opportunity for drivers of all experience levels, with PCA-approved instructors riding along and PCA safety rules in effect. We are very pleased to offer this event exclusively to Appalachian Region – PCA members with the assistance and support of Harmony Motors/Porsche Asheville. The event will be run as a PCA Drivers Education (DE) session. There will be multiple run groups, with student groups (with PCA instructors riding along) on the track at different times than the instructor group. We anticipate fewer groups than a typical DE, so you should have plenty of time on track during the day.
When? Friday November 10, 2017, 7:30 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Where? Roebling Road Raceway, Bloomingdale (Savannah) Georgia. Driving time to the Bloomingdale area from Asheville is just under 5 hours.
Who? Appalachian Region - PCA members are invited to register. You need not have purchased your Porsche at Harmony Motors/Porsche Asheville to participate. This event is limited to 22 participants driving Porsches.
Cost? Harmony Motors/Porsche Asheville, Appalachian Region - PCA and the members that participate are sharing the expenses for this event. Participating AR - PCA members will be charged a fee of $115/driver, which includes lunch and refreshments at the track. Reduced room rates are available at the Hampton Inn and Suites Savannah Airport, which is located about 15 minutes from the track. (Note: these reduced room rates will be available 11/9/17 - 11/12/17 for those that would also like to visit the Savannah area after the event.)
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BERWICK -- The Ku Klux Klan is known to distribute fliers in different communities, and now some residents in Berwick are the victims.
About half a dozen fliers were reported in people's yards this week, but Berwick police believe there could be a lot more.
People in Berwick found KKK fliers in bags held down with rice. Berwick police say the most they could cite anyone for is littering because whoever put the fliers out did not trespass or touch anyone's mailboxes.
Even so, people are upset.
Bette Grey was outside her home on Arbor Street in Berwick on Friday when she saw a piece of paper on her lawn. She thought some of her mail blew away.
"And I picked it up. It was neatly folded. It wasn't weathered. Then on Sunday when I got home from church, there in our yard was a bag of rice and a flier," said Grey.
The flier was folded inside a bag, weighed down with rice.
"Then I read down farther and at first I thought it was another organization, and there was a hotline number and a website. When I read I was like, 'Oh, this is the KKK.'"
Berwick police say this is the second time in the last few months that KKK fliers were put in the area. The first time was in September in a nearby neighborhood in Luzerne County.
Berwick police tell Newswatch 16 six fliers were reported but there could be a lot more since most people just throw them away.
If police see anyone distributing these fliers the most they could cite them for is littering because they are not trespassing or putting the fliers in mailboxes.
Even so, Grey went to Berwick city council with her concerns. She is upset about the fliers and the message they send.
"This is pure evil and this is pure hate and I don't stand for that. I'm a Christian and I believe that everyone is created equal," Grey said.
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Special mentions for Autumn go to this Row-esque satin knotted bag (but which colour to go for??); these boots (trust me, we'll all be wanting to wear a black pair with our dresses come Winter…); I'm ever so lightly obsessed with this jumper; and I am definitely feeing a ballet pump with a little block heel and jeans (so many great jeans…) right now.
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"What fun it must be a theoretical regulator. The triumph of theory over practice needs does it not our admiration." These are the words of Sir Alan Moses, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) Chairman, poking fun at rival press regulator, IMPRESS, when speaking at this year's London Press Club Awards lunch. Read the rest of this entry »
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On 29 December 2015 Section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 came into force. It creates the specific offence of "controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship" where the victim and the abuser are, as the Act puts it, "personally connected". Read the rest of this entry »
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Despite a surprise rise in defamation claims in 2014, libel actions are largely a thing of the past. The official statistics show a substantial decrease in the number of issued defamation claims over the past few years. For example, in 2013 there were 142 claims as opposed to 186 in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
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The cryptocurrency mining marketplace NiceHash, which was formed in 2014 and serves as a marketplace for miners to rent out their hash rate to others has been hacked, its team said Wednesday.
Via their social media accoun, NiceHash said that "there has been a security breach involving NiceHash website" resulting in a loss of funds.
The announcement follows an hours-long outage and reports from several users that their NiceHash-associated wallets had been emptied. NiceHash previously announced that it was "under maintenance," a message that it had posted to its official website as well but which turned out to be false.
The company wrote in its statement:
"Importantly, our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen. We are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken. Clearly, this is a matter of deep concern and we are working hard to rectify the matter in the coming days. In addition to undertaking our own investigation, the incident has been reported to the relevant authorities and law enforcement and we are co-operating with them as a matter of urgency."
Though the NiceHash team didn't disclose an exact amount, a wallet address circulated by NiceHash users suggest that it could be in the range of 4,736.42 BTC – an amount worth over than $62 million (and counting) – has been stolen.
"While the full scope of what happened is not yet known, we recommend, as a precaution, that you change your online passwords," they wrote in the statement.


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Afterpay Touch executive David Hancock has decided to use his $12.7 million pay day on a property upgrade.
Domain reports that he bought the Espie Dods-designed residence for $7.65 million, signalling a return to Sydney for Hancock and his wife Fee, who sold their Centennial Park home in 2015 for $7 million to move to the Southern Highlands.
Hancock was brought on in 2017 to the 'buy now, pay later' app aimed at millennials. The alternative to credit cards, Afterpay is a 2018 fintech success story, recording more than 2.3 million Australian customers.
"Its share price soared to a high of $21 in late August before it settled at $13 this week, which was up 120 per cent from the start of the year," says Domain. "Hancock joined the Afterpay board less than two years ago, with his $12.67 million pay revealed in the annual report, of which almost $12 million was thanks to loan shares."For more information, click here.
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Scrap metal… This third instalment of the sci-fi franchise joins Sam Witwicky as he and the Autobots battle to stop the Decepticons from activating a devastating Cybertronian technology. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley pouts throughout.
Wedding belles… Asked to be her best friend's maid of honor, Annie attempts to lead her ragtag group of fellow bridesmaids through a series of pre-wedding rituals with disasterous – and hilarious – results.
Bear necessities… Jack Black's high-kicking panda gets into more high jinks in this sequel to the hit animated adventure.
Bottom of the class… Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Jason Segal go back to school for this gross-out classroom comedy.
Cop clash… Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle star as two mismatched law enforcers partnered to investigate a drug-smuggling ring in this Irish comedy.
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Eddie and Meredith Bone seeking Strikers' first AHL title
Orange will have three players flying its flag in the Australian Hockey League finals series which kicks off on Thursday.
Eddie and Meridith Bone will line up for Canberra in the quarter final against South Australia, with Eddie to skipper the side as the Strikers push for their first ever AHL title.
Meanwhile, former Wanderers gun Hayden Dillon has been named in the NSW Waratahs squad for their finals series, which begins against Western Australia on the Gold Coast.
The Strikers will face South Australia at 2.45pm on Thursday at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre after finishing third in their pool behind Queensland and NSW, while the Waratahs play at 4.30pm.
All three sides finished with two wins in Pool A, with the Strikers losing 5-1 to Queensland before defeating NSW 2-0 in an upset result in their final match to have momentum heading into the finals.
The main difference in the pool was the points difference gained from trouncing last-placed Tasmania, which Queensland did 15-0 to shoot to the top of the pool, while the Strikers' 3-0 win was modest in comparison.
Meredith Bone scored both her goals for the tournament in that win, with a field goal and conversion.
South Australia also finished their pool with two wins, overcoming Western Australia and the Northern Territory 3-2 and 3-0 respectively before the Suns' 1-0 loss to reigning champions Victoria on Monday.
Should the Strikers defeat the Suns win through their qualifying final, they will come up against the winner of Queensland and the Northern Territory on Saturday, with medal matches to be played on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Dillon played just the one game for the Arrows, taking the field in NSW's 3-1 loss to ACT, but the 21-year-old has been named in the squad which will line up against Pool B winners WA Thundersticks.
NSW are winless from three games, going down 4-6 to Queensland, 5-4 to Tasmania in their two other matches.
The Thundersticks were undefeated in their pool, and will be bolstered by returning Kookaburras players Aran Zalewski, Jake Harvie and Tyler Lovell.
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In a setback, Asian Development Bank reportedly refuse to finance CPEC projects
ISLAMABAD - It has been revealed that Asian Development Bank has refused to finance projects being executed in Pakistan under the banner of CPEC.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said that it would not finance CPEC projects, saying that the bank is an international financial institution and since the CPEC is a bilateral initiative, ADB cannot become part of it. This was communicated by Tomoyuki Kimura, Director-General for ADB Strategy, Policy and Review Department while speaking to journalists.
The lending agency also linked its budgetary support to a good economic health certificate from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ------------------------------
However, the ADB official said that the bank was ready to support regional initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also a brainchild of the Chinese president. If the bank finds common objectives in any regional project including the BRI, it will extend financing.
ADB's country director Yang maintained that there were common objectives between CPEC and Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC).