Category: Education

MIL-Evening Report: How can I stop using food to cope with negative emotions?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Inge Gnatt, PhD Candidate, Lecturer in Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology

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Have you ever noticed changes in your eating habits when you are sad, bored or anxious?

Many people report eating either more, or less, as a way of helping them to cope when they experience difficult emotions.

Although this is a very normal response, it can take the pleasure out of eating, and can become distressing and bring about other feelings of shame and self-criticism.

Adding to the complexity of it all, we live in a world where diet culture is unavoidable, and our relationship to eating, food and body image can become complicated and confusing.

Emotional eating is common

“Emotional eating” refers to the eating behaviours (typically eating more) that occur in response to difficult emotions.

Research shows around 20% of people regularly engage in emotional eating, with a higher prevalence among adolescents and women. In a study of more than 1,500 adolescents, 34% engaged in emotional eating while sad and 40% did so while anxious.

Foods consumed are often fast-foods and other energy-dense, nutrient-poor convenience foods.

Stress, strong emotions and depression

For some people, emotional eating was simply a habit formed earlier in life that has persisted over time.

But other factors might also contribute to the likelihood of emotional eating. The physiological effects of stress and strong emotions, for example, can influence hormones such as cortisol, insulin and glucose, which can also increase appetite.

Increased impulsivity (behaving before thinking things through), vulnerability to depression, a tendency to ruminate and difficulties regulating emotions also increase the likelihood of emotional eating.

Depression increases the likelihood of emotional eating.
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So what do you do?

First, know that fluctuations in eating are normal. However, if you find that the way you eat in response to difficult emotions is not working for you, there are a few things you can do.

Starting with small things that are achievable but can have a huge impact, such as prioritising getting enough sleep and eating regularly.

Then, you can start to think about how you handle your emotions and hunger cues.

Expand your emotional awareness

Often we label emotions as good or bad, and this can result in fear, avoidance, and unhelpful coping strategies such as emotional eating.

But it’s also important to differentiate the exact emotion. This might be feeling isolated, powerless or victimised, rather than something as broad as sad.

By noticing what the emotion is, we can bring curiosity to what it means, how we feel in our minds and bodies, and how we think and behave in response.

Tap into your feelings of hunger and fullness

Developing an intuitive way of eating is another helpful strategy to promote healthy eating behaviours.

Intuitive eating means recognising, understanding and responding to internal signals of hunger and fullness. This might mean tuning in to and acknowledging physical hunger cues, responding by eating food that is nourishing and enjoyable, and identifying sensations of fullness.

Intuitive eating encourages flexibility and thinking about the pleasure we get from food and eating. This style of eating also allows us to enjoy eating out with friends, and sample local delicacies when travelling.

It can also reduce the psychological distress from feeling out of control with your eating habits and the associated negative body image.

Try to be flexible in thinking about the pleasure of food and eating with friends.
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When is it time to seek help?

For some people, the thoughts and behaviours relating to food, eating and body image can negatively impact their life.

Having the support of friends and family, accessing online resources and, in some instances, seeing a trained professional, can be very helpful.

There are many therapeutic interventions that work to improve aspects associated with emotional eating. These will depend on your situation, needs, stage of life and other factors, such as whether you are neurodivergent.

The best approach is to engage with someone who can bring compassion and understanding to your personal situation, and work with you collaboratively. This work might include:
- unpacking some of the patterns that could be underlying these emotions, thoughts and behaviours
- helping you to discover your emotions
- supporting you to process other experiences, such as trauma exposure
- developing a more flexible and intuitive way of eating.
One of the dangers that can occur in response to emotional eating is the temptation to diet, which can lead to disordered eating, and eating disorder behaviours. Indicators of a potential eating disorder can include:
- recent rapid weight loss
- preoccupation with weight and shape (which is usually in contrast to other people’s perceptions)
- eating large amounts of food within a short space of time (two hours or less) and feeling a sense of loss of control
- eating in secret
- compensating for food eaten (with vomiting, exercise or laxatives).
Evidence-based approaches can support people experiencing eating disorders. To find a health professional who is informed and specialises in this area, search the Butterfly Foundation’s expert database.

If this article has raised issues for you, or if you’re concerned about someone you know, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or the Butterfly Foundation on 1800 ED HOPE
(1800 33 4673).

Inge Gnatt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

– ref. How can I stop using food to cope with negative emotions? – https://theconversation.com/how-can-i-stop-using-food-to-cope-with-negative-emotions-238218

MIL OSI Analysis – EveningReport.nz –
September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI USA: Bicameral Statement of Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism on Release of 2023 FBI Hate Crime Statistics Report

US Senate News:

Source: United States Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes Increased By Nearly 63 Percent, Reaching Highest Level In Decades
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK), and Representatives Kathy Manning (NC-06) and Chris Smith (NJ-04), co-chairs of the Senate and House Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism, respectively, released the following statement in response to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) 2023 Hate Crime Statistics Report. The FBI data shows anti-Jewish hate crimes increased in 2023 by nearly 63 percent from 2022, which is the highest number recorded in almost three decades.
“We are deeply alarmed by the dramatic increase in hate crimes targeting Jewish Americans over the past year, as noted in the FBI’s 2023 Hate Crimes Statistics Report,” said the members. “With antisemitism skyrocketing across the United States following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, a whole-of-government approach is needed to protect Jewish communities from violence and hate.”
Anti-Jewish hate crimes rose from 1,122 to 1,832 incidents from 2022 to 2023. According to the FBI, a total of 16,009 law enforcement agencies, which represent 95.2 percent of the agencies enrolled in the hate crime data collection program, participated in hate crimes reporting for 2023.
They continued: “As the co-chairs of the House and Senate Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism, we remain steadfast in our commitment to root out the scourge of antisemitism. We’ll continue working across party lines to ensure the federal government keeps Jewish Americans safe from discrimination.”
Jewish Americans make up around two percent of the U.S. population, yet antisemitic hate crimes accounted for 15.4 percent of all hate crimes reported by the FBI. Anti-Jewish incidents comprised a little over two-thirds of all religion-based hate crimes.
As co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Taskforce for Countering Antisemitism, Senator Rosen has been leading the fight against rising antisemitism. Senator Rosen, along with the co-chairs of the Senate and House Bipartisan Task Forces, introduced a bipartisan bill to take historic action to counter antisemitism in the United States by establishing a first-ever National Coordinator to Counter Antisemitism. In May, Senators Rosen and Lankford sent a bipartisan letter urging the Department of Education to designate a senior official to oversee efforts to combat antisemitism on college campuses. They also called on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to hold a full hearing on rising antisemitism on college campuses.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Secretary for Health receives vaccinations against seasonal influenza and COVID-19

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region

Secretary for Health receives vaccinations against seasonal influenza and COVID-19
Secretary for Health receives vaccinations against seasonal influenza and COVID-19
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The Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau, received vaccinations against seasonal influenza and COVID-19 at Sai Wan Ho General Out-patient Clinic today (September 24). The Under Secretary for Health, Dr Libby Lee; the Director of Health, Dr Ronald Lam; the Controller of the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH), Dr Edwin Tsui; the Commissioner for Primary Healthcare of the Health Bureau, Dr Pang Fei-chau; the Chairman of the Hospital Authority (HA), Mr Henry Fan; the Chief Executive of the HA, Dr Tony Ko; and frontline healthcare workers also echoed the move and were vaccinated. Professor Lo said, “Seasonal influenza vaccination (SIV) is one of the most effective means to prevent seasonal influenza and its complications. I strongly appeal to all members of the public to receive SIV early as it is now the best timing to get vaccinated for effective protection in the coming year against the influenza strains predicted by the World Health Organization in preparation for the possible winter or summer influenza seasons. Separately, individuals of high-risk priority groups should also receive an additional COVID-19 booster no less than six months after the last dose or COVID-19 infection (whichever is later) to enhance protection and reduce the risks of serious complications and death.” He continued, “To boost the SIV coverage rate among schoolchildren, special arrangements have been made under the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination School Outreach Programme (SIVSOP) this year to offer a more flexible choice of vaccine options for kindergartens and childcare centres. They can choose both injectable inactivated influenza vaccines (IIV) and live attenuated influenza vaccines (LAIV) (i.e. nasal vaccines) for the same or different outreach vaccination activities. Moreover, the DH will roll out a pilot scheme in which LAIV will be provided to primary and secondary schools that had indicated earlier this year their preference for arranging LAIV for their students.” At present, around 870 kindergartens and childcare centres (80 per cent) have already arranged vaccination activities for their schoolchildren. Among them, 246 schools will offer LAIV, eight schools will offer both IIV and LAIV, and the rest will offer IIV. Separately, around 610 primary schools (93 per cent) and around 390 secondary schools (77 per cent) have arranged vaccination activities for their students. Professor Lo added, “I call on those schools that have yet to join the outreach vaccination programme to enrol as soon as possible to seize the optimum timing for vaccination and do their part to provide the best protection for schoolchildren.” Hong Kong generally experiences two influenza seasons each year. The winter influenza season usually lies between January and March or April, whereas the summer influenza season typically runs from July to August. The overall influenza activity has remained at a low level since the end of the influenza season in late July this year. However, with reference to previous surveillance data, as the weather is expected to become cooler gradually, the CHP foresaw that the influenza activity level may rise at the end of the year. All citizens should receive SIV which can reduce the risks of serious illnesses and death. The Government will launch the 2024/25 Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programmes, including the Vaccination Subsidy Scheme, the Government Vaccination Programme, the SIVSOP and the Residential Care Home Vaccination Programme the day after tomorrow (September 26) to provide free or subsidised SIV for persons aged 50 or above (including the elderly living in residential care homes); adults aged 18 to 49 with underlying comorbidities; persons aged 6 months or above with immunocompromising conditions; pregnant women and healthcare workers etc. Furthermore, individuals of the abovementioned groups should receive an additional COVID-19 booster in a timely manner regardless of the number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines received before for dual protection. A COVID-19 vaccine can be co-administered with, or separated from, an SIV under informed consent. The inactivated COVID-19 vaccines currently used in Hong Kong (i.e. Sinovac CoronaVac) will expire on October 3, and the vaccine supplier has confirmed that they will no longer produce inactivated COVID-19 vaccines. Members of the public who would like to receive an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine should make a booking as early as possible. Starting from October 4, only mRNA vaccines will be available under the Government’s COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. For more details, members of the public may call the CHP at 2125 2125 or visit the Vaccination Schemes page.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Australia: The Agtech Schools Immersion Program concludes with successful session in Wagga Wagga

Source: New South Wales Department of Primary Industries

24 Sep 2024

Nearly 100 students from across regional NSW gathered at Wagga Wagga Agriculture Institute to take part in the final session of a NSW Government Agtech program immersing kids with cutting-edge agricultural technologies.

The final event of the 2024 Agtech Schools Immersion Program took place today, with dozens of eager students participating in six workshop rotations covering everything from feed testing and livestock EID to field equipment including Swarmbot, handheld infrared sensors and drones.

The Agtech Schools Immersion Program has provided students an opportunity to visit NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) research institutes and participate in hands-on learning at TAFE NSW where they design model smart farms, use drone mapping, and learn to use data and artificial intelligence to analyse weather patterns.

The delivery of this program would not have been possible without the considerable support provided by the Charles Sturt University’s Global Digital Farm team over the course of the program at Wagga.

This final event followed a series of excursions held in Tamworth and Orange throughout August, showcasing the program’s commitment to equipping students with essential skills and hands-on experience in using agricultural technology.

NSW DPIRD Schools Program Coordinator Michelle Fifield said these sessions help spark interest, drive innovation and attract investment, contributing to the growth and development of the agricultural technology sector.

“Giving students hands-on experience with Agtech helps provide them with the right tools and enables them to gain essential skills, opening the door for more opportunities for those looking to enter agricultural industries,” Ms. Fifield said.

“This experience not only allowed these students to explore innovative tools but also deepened their understanding of how Agtech is shaping the future of farming and how this technology can be used practically.

“The excitement and enthusiasm we’ve witnessed over the course of the program is a testament to the bright future of our agricultural industry and the willingness of the participants in furthering their skills with agricultural technologies.

“By investing in our youth and their education in Agtech, we are ensuring a sustainable and innovative future for agriculture in NSW.”

The Agtech Workforce Development Strategy is part of the NSW Government’s ongoing work to invest in skills and employment to future-proof the agriculture sector.

This event is being delivered by the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and Training Services NSW under the Targeted Workforce Development Scheme.

Media contact: pi.media@dpird.nsw.gov.au

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: NSU to host first international student cybercriminology festival CrimeLab Fest-2024

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –

Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –

On September 27-28, the first international student cybercriminology festival CrimeLab Fest-2024 will be held at NSU. The event will involve 9 student teams: 8 of them represent Russian cities such as Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk and Krasnodar, and one combined team, which will include students from Harbin (China). Using cyber simulators, they will compete in investigating simulated situations. The students’ results will be assessed by an authoritative jury, which will include leading Russian experts in the field of forensics. The festival will also include lectures and a round table, where experts and students will discuss the prospects and future of the profession.

— Several years ago, educational institutions began to request the introduction of modern products at the intersection of IT and forensics into the educational process. This is how the idea of creating cyber simulators appeared, which are based on the idea of a computer game, a quest, but at the same time they incorporate the entire arsenal of forensic tools for investigation, evidence collection, verification of versions, etc. That is, they allow you to simulate the situation of investigating certain types of crimes in a game form. At the moment, 10 such simulators have been developed. Our festival will be the first platform where we will test these simulators in action, — said the head of the CrimeLab project, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Forensics of NSU Roman Borovskikh.

The simulators were created by a team of developers from the ANO “Digital Educational Technologies”, which includes NSU graduates. Each simulator simulates the investigation of individual types of crimes, including bribery, murder, fraud, robbery, etc. The user of the simulator has the opportunity to choose not only the type of crime, but also the location. In the future, it is planned to introduce this tool into the educational process and make it part of the curriculum.

According to Roman Borovskikh, “our task now is to test how this tool works, what the impressions and feedback from students will be, and to understand how these electronic educational tools need to be improved in order to use them in real educational practice.”

The festival will feature student teams, 3 of which are from out of town, representing Altai State University, Kuban State University and Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University. Also, one team is international, it is formed by students of Heilongjiang University and NSU. During the competition, the guys will have to demonstrate their knowledge and skills at all stages of the investigation, such as collecting evidence, checking versions, etc., using correct forensic methods, using simulators.

The teams’ work will be assessed by an expert jury chaired by Igor Mikhailovich Komarov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Forensic Science Department at Moscow State University. The jury also includes leading Russian forensic scientists. Among them are Lev Vladimirovich Bertovsky, Doctor of Law, Professor, Director of the Institute of High-Tech Law, Social and Humanitarian Sciences at the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology. As well as practicing forensic scientists, led by Colonel of Justice Vitaly Vitalyevich Brytkov, Head of the Forensic Support Department for the Siberian Federal District (based in Novosibirsk) of the Forensic Support Directorate for Investigations in the Federal Districts of the Main Forensic Science Directorate (Forensic Center) of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

On the second day of the festival, there will be an off-site session, during which experts will give original lectures on new methods and the future of the profession, and a student round table will also take place.

The festival is organized by NSU, Institute of Philosophy and Law of NSU And Student Center NSU initiatives. The project partners are the Department of Forensic Support of Investigations for the Siberian Federal District, the ANO Digital Educational Technologies, and the federal project CrimeLab.

More detailed information about the festival.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Russian specialists complete internship in the Turkish Republic

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –

Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

On September 18, as part of an internship in the Republic of Turkey, Russian specialists visited the city of Kocaeli.

The business program started at Kocaeli University Technopark. The Russian delegation was welcomed by Deputy Director General Omer Ozer. He introduced the activities of the Technopark aimed at promoting the spread of skilled employment, the production of technological products with high added value based on the comprehensive implementation of import substitution and innovation. Omer Ozer spoke about close cooperation with the Kocaeli and Gebze Chambers of Industry and Commerce and the GOBS Technopark, and emphasized that the Technopark is the center of digital transformation and innovation in the region. Russian businessmen presented the activities of their enterprises and discussed issues of interest to them with their Turkish colleagues.

The next stop was one of the largest ports in Turkey – Poliport. The delegation was received by Poliport CEO Selcuk Denizhan. He noted that the port is not only Turkish, but also one of the largest and most important ports in the European Union with geographical proximity to the industrial zone, where 45% of Turkey’s GDP is generated. The port is the country’s only independent terminal for storing chemicals and one of the few terminals for storing liquids. Russian specialists were given the opportunity to get acquainted with the technologies for handling cargo of various purposes, with the Poliport warehouse sector, as well as with the specifics of managing port infrastructure.

The business program continued with a networking conference at the Kocaeli Chamber of Industry, whose Secretary General Mehmet Barış Turabi presented the region’s activities in his report, emphasizing that Kocaeli has 14 organized industrial zones, 2 free economic zones, 5 technology parks, 2 national research centers and 2 technology transfer offices. The networking conference ended with a B2B meeting, where Russian and Turkish specialists discussed possible areas of cooperation and exchanged contacts for further interaction.

The final part of the internship of Russian specialists in the Republic of Turkey took place on September 19-20 in the city of Istanbul.

On September 19, a meeting was held at Istanbul Kent University with the Consul General of the Russian Federation Andrey Buravov, the head of the branch of the Trade Mission of Russia in Turkey in Istanbul Vera Borisova, the representative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia in Turkey Vladimir Emmer, the head of the Russian export center in Turkey Timur Safin, as well as representatives of Istanbul legal, consulting, financial and transport companies. The key topic of the event was the practical experience of doing business in Turkey. The current state of foreign trade relations between Russia and Turkey, promising export directions, the peculiarities of local buyers’ perception of Russian products, as well as issues of certification, logistics and mutual settlements were discussed.

The next meeting in the format of a networking conference was held at the Independent Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Istanbul (MUSIAD), which specializes in technology, research and development, innovation and knowledge. The meeting was also attended by members of the ASKON association. The conference ended with an exchange of opinions, establishment of business contacts and B2B meetings with Turkish entrepreneurs.

Next, Russian specialists visited specialized enterprises: the mechanical engineering company Haffner Makina, one of the world leaders in the production of manual and automatic machines for processing PVC and aluminum profiles, and the logistics company Ata Freight, specializing in innovative solutions for managing freight transportation.

On September 20, the Director of the Federal Resource Center, Alexey Bunkin, joined the internship. The Russian delegation met with the leadership and members of the Turkish-Russian Business Council (TRBC) of the Foreign Economic Relations Council under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Turkey, where a round table was held on the development of cooperation between Russia and Turkey in the current conditions. The meeting was opened by the Vice President of TRBC, Handan Eren, and Alexey Bunkin also gave a speech. A presentation of the project portfolio of Russian specialists and a discussion platform took place, where Russian and Turkish entrepreneurs considered possible areas and prospects for cooperation, and exchanged contacts for further interaction.

The next event of the program was a visit to the Bagcilar District Administration of Istanbul, where a networking session was held with representatives of the administration and Turkish businessmen. The Bagcilar District is one of the most important trade and production centers in Turkey. The session was opened with a welcoming speech by the head of the district administration Abdullah Ozdemir and the director of the Federal Resource Center Alexey Bunkin. Russian and Turkish specialists presented their companies, shared their experiences and established business contacts.

An equally important business meeting was held at the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce. The Russian delegation led by Alexey Bunkin was received by the Vice President of the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce Mehmet Develioglu. The meeting was held in the format of an open discussion, during which businessmen discussed issues of development and expansion of trade, creation of new markets, existing problems of development of the business world and measures to eliminate them.

On September 21, the day of completion of the internship of Russian specialists in the Republic of Turkey, the director of the Federal Resource Center held a briefing during which the results were summed up, the achieved results were presented, and the prospects for the development of subsequent similar projects were discussed. The participants of the program were also awarded certificates of advanced training from the State University of Management in the programs “General Economic Cooperation and Trade” and “Economic Cooperation in Industry”.

The results of the intensive practice-oriented internship of Russian specialists in the territory of the Republic of Turkey were acquaintance with successful examples of entrepreneurship, establishment of contacts both with representatives of Turkish business and with Russian representative bodies that ensure the state interests of Russia in the sphere of foreign economic activity in Turkey.

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September 29, 2024

MIL-OSI USA: Reps. Carson, Jayapal, Schakowsky Introduce UNRWA Funding Bill

Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Andre Carson (7th District of INDIANA)

WASHINGTON, DC—Representative André Carson (IN-07) has introduced H.R. 9649, the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2024 with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09). This bill will end the congressionally and administratively mandated pause on funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA).

The United States has historically been one of the largest financial supporters of UNRWA, which serves nearly 6 million Palestinian refugees across the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. In March of this year, the U.S. paused UNRWA funding after the Israeli government alleged that 12 agency employees had direct involvement in Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack.

Following the UN’s investigation and proactive commitments made by UNRWA toward complete accountability and reform, all countries except the U.S. have resumed their UNRWA funding, including the European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Finland, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. Approximately 1.9 million people – 9 in 10 Gazans – have been displaced at least once, and an estimated 43,580 are pregnant women. UNRWA has served as the primary humanitarian aid organization operating in Gaza, and without funding, hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians are left vulnerable. It is estimated that over 1 million Gazans will not have enough food this month, and availability of basic hygiene items has dropped to 15%. In addition to a polio outbreak, Gazans are suffering from malnutrition and treatable diseases due to “systematic dismantling of healthcare”from bombardments on civilians.

“The scale of this devastating, man-made crisis in Gaza cannot be overstated,” said Congressman Carson. “Providing humanitarian aid to a starving nation – with funding Congress has appropriated year after year – should not be controversial. I urge my colleagues who care about basic human rights, the rights of pregnant women, and the wellbeing of innocent children to join our bill. UNRWA has taken appropriate and proactive steps towards accountability and transparency, conducting multiple independent reviews that continue to prove the organization is both in compliance and imperative to provide the region with lifesaving assistance. It’s past time we restore funding and save lives.”

“UNRWA has played a unique and integral role in supporting the welfare of Palestinian refugees for decades. Their on-the-ground understanding is invaluable to ensure that humanitarian aid makes it to the people who need it most — in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and critically in this moment in Gaza,” said Congresswoman Jayapal. “There is no question in my mind that revoking funding for UNRWA will lead to more devastation and loss of life in Gaza. We must ensure that those acting in good faith to save civilian lives are not undermined by a lack of US funding.”

“For decades, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has been a lifeline for Palestinians, providing food, clean water, healthcare, shelter, education, and livelihoods. Today, UNRWA remains the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza as it endures ongoing war and a dire humanitarian crisis. UNRWA and the United Nations have taken swift and decisive actions to address the concerns raised by the U.S. government when it paused funding in January and our allies have all resumed funding for UNRWA. The U.S. must follow suit and resume funding for this critical humanitarian agency,” said Congresswoman Schakowsky. “I am proud to co-lead the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act to restore funding to UNRWA and help Gazans get the humanitarian assistance they need at a time of unprecedented crisis.”

“J Street is proud to be supporting the UNRWA Emergency Restoration Act of 2024 introduced by Representatives Carson, Jayapal, and Schakowsky. We should restore funding, as all our major allies have, and stop playing politics with Palestinian welfare and Israel’s security,” said J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami. “As UNRWA’s largest donor and Israel’s key security guarantor, the United States has a special obligation to address this crisis.”

“Gaza isn’t starving. It’s being starved,” said Hassan El-Tayyab, legislative director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. “Over two million Palestinian civilians are enduring a man-made humanitarian catastrophe, with famine and disease spreading due to blocked aid access. Meanwhile, the Biden administration and Congress continue to withhold all U.S. funding for the largest aid operation in Gaza—the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UNRWA is the backbone of aid delivery in Gaza, ensuring that millions receive desperately needed assistance. Blocking U.S. funding for UNRWA’s critical work is a cruel and unjustified decision that only deepens Gaza’s humanitarian suffering. Congress and the Administration must act swiftly to correct this wrong by supporting the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act and restoring this urgently needed aid.”

“Restoring funding to UNRWA is a humanitarian imperative,” said Sharif Aly, President of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). “For over six decades, the United States has been one of the strongest supporters of UNRWA, which provides lifesaving aid and social services to millions of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East. Those services are desperately needed in Gaza right now, and UNRWA is the only organization with the capacity and expertise necessary to provide them at scale. The United States must uphold its commitment to the human rights of the Palestinian people and pass this legislation to reinstate funding to the humanitarian agency immediately. Failing to do so would lead to further human suffering.”

“In restoring funding for food, water, shelter, and medical care for Palestine refugees, the UNRWA Restoration Act honors this most basic and inalienable truth — that the people of Palestine are human beings, just like all of us, and all lives are sacred, not just some,” said Mara Kronenfeld, Executive Director UNRWA USA.

“UNRWA is indispensable to providing Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria with the education, healthcare, and other critical services that are key to successful, productive livelihoods and citizenry, and a future of peace and prosperity, which should be in everyone’s interests. We support full restoration of funding to UNRWA,” said Sean Carroll, President and CEO of Anera.

“We express our gratitude to Representatives André Carson, Pramila Jayapal, and Jan Schakowsky for introducing the UNRWA Emergency Restoration Act of 2024,” said James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute. “This lifesaving legislation aims to restore critical U.S. financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) by repealing previous funding restrictions and encouraging the Secretary of State to lift the temporary pause on federal funding. UNRWA plays a vital role in providing essential services to millions of Palestinian refugees across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The ongoing genocide in Gaza has resulted in increased displacement, starvation, and death. It is both inhumane and unconscionable to continue withholding financial support from UNRWA. We recognize that the majority of Americans are horrified by the death and destruction they witness daily in Gaza and the West Bank. UNRWA’s humanitarian aid and services often mean the difference between life and death for these vulnerable populations. Restoring U.S. funding to UNRWA is urgent, just, and the only morally responsible option. We urge lawmakers to prioritize the passage of this crucial legislation and ensure that UNRWA can continue to provide life-saving assistance to Palestinian refugees in the region.”

The UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act of 2024 has been endorsed by the following organizations as of 9/19/24:

18 Million Rising

Action Against Hunger

Action Corps

ActionAid USA

AFSC, American Friends Service Committee

American Baptist Churches USA

American Friends of Combatants for Peace

American Friends Service Committee

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

Americans for Justice in Palestine Action

Americans for Peace Now

Anera

Avaaz

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Carolina Peace Center

Center for American Progress

Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Gender & Refugee Studies

Center for International Policy

Center for Jewish Nonviolence

Center for Security, Race and Rights

Center for Victims of Torture

Charity&Security Network

Christian Aid

Church World Service

Climate Refugees

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)

CODEPINK

CommonDefense.us

Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, U.S. Provinces

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Danish Refugee Council

DAWN

Demand Progress

Doctors Against Genocide

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September 29, 2024

MIL-OSI Russia: NSU team successfully performed at the ICPC World Finals

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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University – From September 15 to 20, Astana hosted the 48th ICPC World Finals, a world championship in competitive programming. 142 teams from more than 111 countries took part in the competition, selected from 72,000 participants representing 103 countries and more than 3,000 universities. The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is an international student programming contest founded in the 1970s in the United States. The first international ICPC was held in 1977 in the United States, at the University of Michigan. Since then, the competition has been held annually in various countries, such as the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Japan, Sweden, Poland, Thailand, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Portugal. The NSU team includes students Faculty of Information Technology: Sofia Lylova (4th year), Anton Mokrousov (2nd year postgraduate student), Artem Plyusnin (master’s graduate). The team solved six problems, sharing 20-50 places with such leading universities as ITMO, HSE, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and others. – The problem set turned out to be very interesting and balanced, our team solved six problems, and the winner of the championship only nine. Of all the problems, there was one that no team solved. As in previous years, the level of teams at the world championship is very high, it cannot be otherwise – the best university teams qualify. There is a lot of pressure – to compete with the strongest, especially with those who have already won medals in previous seasons of the championship. Our team took a long time to get to the world championship final and trained a lot. For example, the guys have repeatedly participated in training camps in Petrozavodsk, where the best teams of our region practice, and at the end of August they went there for in-person participation, – said Vladimir Isachenko, coach of the NSU team in sports programming, senior lecturer of the Department of Informatics Systems of the NSU FIT. In the final table, Peking University took first place, and MIPT took second place. MIPT’s team in algorithmic programming Yolki-Palki became the only one from Russia to climb the ICPC podium. MIPT overtook their strongest rivals from the University of Massachusetts and Xinhua University.

Saint Petersburg University took 22nd place, HSE University — 29th, ITMO University — 36th, MAI — 43rd, NSU — 45th, Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design — 92nd, and Skoltech — 102nd. — Despite the successful performance of the NSU team, we know that we still have room to grow and develop, our goal is to prepare better and win medals. According to the rules, Artem and Anton can no longer participate in ICPC competitions, they will join the coaching staff and help prepare the teams. And Sofia can still participate, so she will prepare for next year with a different team, — concluded Vladimir Isachenko.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Charge laid following threatening email, Andersons Bay, Dunedin

Source: New Zealand Police (District News)

A teenager is due to appear in court after a threatening email was sent to Bayfield High School this morning.

Police were alerted to the incident at 8.17am.

Around 550 students and staff from the college were escorted from the premises with assistance from Police.

At around 1.30pm this afternoon, Police executed a search warrant at a Dunedin property where the youth was arrested without incident.

“We understand incidents like this can be distressing, and we hope this arrest can provide reassurance to the community,” says Detective Senior Sergeant Nik Leigh.

Police is providing those involved with support and will continue to investigate what has taken place.

A 16-year-old is due to appear in Dunedin Youth Court on Thursday 26 September, facing a charge of threatening to kill.

“Police is working with the school and further charges may be likely.”

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Translation: 500 Years of the Three Leagues Free State – Diet in Valchava, Val Müstair

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Source: Switzerland – Canton Government of Grisons in Italian

The Diet of 6 October 2024 in Val Müstair will be the seventh and final Diet in the 500th anniversary celebrations. The whole day on Sunday will be dedicated to gratitude towards nature and history, but there will also be time for fun and celebration.

Even before the founding of the Free State of the Three Leagues, Val Müstair was an important transit and trade route. However, the valley has also been the scene of dramatic war events on several occasions. In its anniversary year, the municipality of Val Müstair is recalling its history and its significance for the present and the future. The Diet takes place on the same day as the traditional harvest festival. The combination of the two festivals allows us to delve into the history, nature and culture that characterise Val Müstair today. The play written especially by Eva and Magnus Schleich and performed for the anniversary by the theatre groups of Val Müstair offers insights into the conflicts that have characterised the valley in the past.

Varied programmeThe day will begin at 10:45 a.m. with a short ecumenical service in the open air at the eastern entrance to the village of Valchava. Immediately afterwards, at 11:10 a.m., the traditional large Thanksgiving procession will begin at the same location with the participation of folklore associations, music societies, pupils from the schools of Val Müstair as well as festively decorated floats and animals. The festivities with speeches by State Councillor Marcus Caduff, Mayor Gabriella Binkert and Grand Councillor Rico Lamprecht will begin at 2 p.m.

Theatre performance «Spranza chi vegnan meglders temps» (Hoping for better times), 3:00 p.m.The theatre performance about the Free State of the Three Leagues shows the dramatic nature of the time. The introduction to the play reads: «This alliance, signed 500 years ago, is unique, not least in light of the current threat to democratic rights. But all that glitters is not gold.» The performance alternates between historical scenes and discussions between the actors, with the director’s explanations leading from one scene to the next. Always hoping for better times. The theatre performance will also be performed on Wednesday, 2 October, and Friday, 4 October, at 5:00 p.m.

The celebrations will take place in Valchava. The village will be richly decorated. More than 70 stalls will offer regional specialties, a refreshment point invites you to take a break. Of course, there will be musical entertainment and a children’s program. The cheerful festival will offer the population and guests from near and far a chance to have fun. The Diet will mark the fitting end of the jubilee year celebrations. The detailed program is available in the attachment, as well as on https://500.gr.ch/bundstag-valmuestair.

We recommend travelling by public transport. Thanks to the offer “Return for the price of a single journey”, those going to the Diete only have to pay for the outward journey. The return journey to the starting point in the Canton of Graubünden is free.

Further anniversary activities until the end of 2024A number of other anniversary-related activities will take place in all language regions until the end of 2024. These can be found at https://500.gr.ch.

Photograph:

Landsgemeinde celebration at Plaun Schumpeder, Sta. Maria, Val Müstair, around 1920, photo by Gian Battista Gross. Grisons State Archives, N2.1420.

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Anniversary flyer Diet in Val Müstair (Romansh/German)

Contact persons:

Questions about the 500th anniversary celebrations:

Prime Minister Dr. Jon Domenic Parolini, Director of the Department of Education, Culture and Environmental Protection, e-mailJondomenic.Parolini@ekud.gr.ch
Daniel Camenisch, project manager «500 years of the Three Leagues Free State», tel. 41 78 659 63 60, e-mailcamenisch@vinavant.ch

Questions about the Diet in Val Müstair:

Competent body: Department of Education, Culture and Environmental Protection

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September 29, 2024
MIL-Evening Report: Surrogacy is booming. But new research suggests these pregnancies could be higher risk for women and babies

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University

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A new study from Canada has found women who agree to carry and birth babies in surrogacy arrangements face a higher risk of complications than other pregnant women.

These women were at two to three times the risk of health problems such as postpartum haemorrhages and pre-eclampsia. They were also more likely to give birth prematurely.

With an increasing number of people in Australia and elsewhere having children via surrogacy arrangements, what can we make of these findings?

First, what is surrogacy?

Surrogacy is a situation where a woman becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby (or babies) for another person or a couple in a planned arrangement.

There are two types of surrogacy.

The first is where the pregnant woman is the full biological mother, with the child conceived using her own egg (sometimes called “traditional” or “genetic” surrogacy).

The second is where the pregnant woman is not the genetic mother and the child is conceived using the egg of a different woman (called “gestational surrogacy”).

Gestational surrogacy involves the transfer of an embryo or embryos into the uterus of a woman who has agreed to carry and birth the child using in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Gestational surrogacy is now the most common form of surrogacy arrangement in Australia.

The new study looked at gestational surrogacy specifically.

What the researchers did

The study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, was retrospective. This means it used existing data that is gathered routinely on people using health services.

It included 863,017 women who had a single baby between April 2012 and March 2021 (multiple births were excluded).

The researchers compared outcomes for women and babies where the pregnancy was achieved naturally, those who got pregnant using IVF, and those who were pregnant in a gestational surrogacy arrangement where the woman had no genetic link to the baby.

Most babies were conceived naturally, 16,087 were IVF pregnancies, and 806 women were pregnant in gestational surrogacy arrangements.

The study looked at more than 860,000 women in Canada who had a baby over a nine-year period.
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The researchers found pregnant women in gestational surrogacy arrangements had a rate of severe maternal complications of 7.8%, more than three times the rate of those who became pregnant naturally (2.3%) and almost twice the rate among those who got pregnant through IVF (4.3%).

These risks included postpartum haemorrhage (losing excessive amounts of blood following the birth), severe pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure associated with pregnancy) and serious postpartum infection (sepsis). There was also a higher risk of the baby being born preterm (before 37 weeks) in gestational surrogacy situations.

The researchers attempted to take into account differences between the three groups like age, weight, health problems and socioeconomic status, which can all influence the risk of complications for pregnant women and their babies. Despite this, they still saw these concerning results.

Why might the risk be higher?

Previous research looking at outcomes with gestational surrogacy has had mixed results. But it is thought the reason risks could be greater for the woman and baby in gestational surrogacy arrangements may be because the baby is genetically unrelated to the woman.

Pregnancy has a strong impact on the immune system. During pregnancy, women’s immune systems are altered so they do not reject the growing baby.

An imbalanced or overactive immune response can contribute to pregnancy complications including preterm birth and pre-eclampsia. Having a baby with different genetic material may affect a woman’s immune response during pregnancy, and increase the risk of complications in this way.

Some limitations

Only women having a single baby were included in the study, so we don’t know the outcomes where a multiple pregnancy was involved. However, multiple birth is common in surrogacy, and there are increased risks associated with multiple births for women and babies.

Multiple embryo transfer increases the risk of twins and triplets and is prohibited in the context of surrogacy in Australia (and discouraged in IVF treatments more broadly). But Australians engaging in overseas surrogacy commonly request it.

Also, the study includes a relatively small number of women pregnant in a gestational surrogacy arrangement (806), meaning there’s an increased risk for statistical error and limited ability to detect rare outcomes.

People may use a surrogate to have a baby for a range of reasons.
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Ethical questions

An increasing number of Australians are having children via surrogacy arrangements. This is due to a combination of factors including a decline in adoption, women delaying motherhood, and increased social acceptability of male same-sex parenting.

Australia only allows altruistic surrogacy, where the woman who agrees to have the baby for others is not paid.

However, some other countries allow women to be paid to become pregnant for others (commercial surrogacy). Concern regarding the exploitation of women via commercial surrogacy is such that Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory have made it illegal for residents to travel overseas to engage in commercial surrogacy.

Even so, most Australia children born as a result of surrogacy arrangements are born through overseas commercial surrogacy.

Despite some limitations, this research indicates increased risks for women becoming pregnant in gestational surrogacy arrangements, and the babies they carry. It seems important the potentially elevated risks should be made clear to women considering carrying and birthing a baby for someone else, and to the prospective parents.

Considering the rise in surrogacy globally it’s important more research is undertaken on the potential health and other impacts of this practice on women and babies. Health, ethical and human rights implications should inform legislative frameworks, policy and practice.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

– ref. Surrogacy is booming. But new research suggests these pregnancies could be higher risk for women and babies – https://theconversation.com/surrogacy-is-booming-but-new-research-suggests-these-pregnancies-could-be-higher-risk-for-women-and-babies-239574

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Public urged to get flu jab early

Source: Hong Kong Information Services

The Government will launch its 2024-25 Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Programmes on Thursday, with Secretary for Health Prof Lo Chung-mau today urging the public to receive vaccination early.

The health chief said now is the best time to get vaccinated for effective protection in the coming year against the winter or summer influenza strains predicted by the World Health Organization.

The health chief today received vaccinations against seasonal influenza and COVID-19 at Sai Wan Ho General Out-patient Clinic, along with other health officials and frontline healthcare workers.

Prof Lo said Seasonal influenza vaccination (SIV) is one of the most effective means to prevent seasonal influenza and its complications.

“To boost the SIV coverage rate among schoolchildren, special arrangements have been made under the Seasonal Influenza Vaccination School Outreach Programme this year to offer a more flexible choice of vaccine options for kindergartens and childcare centres.”

He explained that kindergartens and childcare centres can offer injectable inactivated influenza vaccines or nasal vaccines in their outreach vaccination activities.

The Department of Health will also roll out a pilot scheme in which nasal vaccines will be provided to primary and secondary schools that indicated a preference for them earlier this year.

At present, around 870 kindergartens and childcare centres, around 610 primary schools and around 390 secondary schools have arranged vaccination activities for their students, according to the Health Bureau.

Prof Lo called on schools that have yet to join the outreach vaccination programme to enrol as soon as possible.

Separately, he added that individuals in high-risk priority groups should receive an additional COVID-19 booster no less than six months after their last dose, or infection with COVID-19 infection – whichever occurred later – to enhance protection and reduce the risk of serious complications and death.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: “Eastern Breeze”: Polytech became a prize winner of the All-Russian competition in marine robotics

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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –

The 7th All-Russian competition in marine robotics “Eastern Breeze” was held in Vladivostok. Over the course of eight days, 31 teams (more than 120 people) competed in the field of promising developments of robotic complexes created by enterprises and research institutes. SPbPU was represented by teams from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport, studying at the Higher School of Automation and Robotics. The Polytechnicians managed to take three prize places in two categories.

The students’ trip was supported by the SPbPU Center for Technological Projects, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport, and the SPbPU Youth Policy Department.

In the category “Unmanned boats” our team with the device “Bublik-Pi” (developed with the support of the Priority 2030 program) managed to take second place, and the team with the Barracuda apparatus took third place. The teams’ tasks included autonomous or remotely controlled navigation in the sea, namely movement along specified routes and trajectories. Bublik-Pi was the only one that successfully completed all tasks in autonomous mode, but had a low speed at sea (1 knot).

Also in the category “Remotely controlled unmanned underwater vehicles” among developers, the submarine “Atlant-S” took third place. During the tests, it was necessary to detect objects under water and move them.

The first team (the Bublik-Pi and Atlant-S devices) included second-year master’s students Artem Akzhigitov, Andrey Klinovitsky, and fourth-year student Artem Klochikhin. The second team (the Barracuda device) was represented by first-year master’s student Vladimir Marin and 2024 graduate Artem Kondratyev.

The event was quite large-scale, with teams from all over Russia participating, and they represented not only educational institutions, but also law enforcement agencies. The team had the task of performing various types of maneuvers on a water section: to go through a snaking course, to make a dash, etc. To solve the tasks, a remote control system for an unmanned boat was created, and we also laid the groundwork for the future to solve problems in autonomous mode using GNSS, a magnetometer, and a machine vision system, shared one of the developers of the Barracuda, Artem Kondratyev.

Our teams were lucky to be at these competitions and test new SPbPU developments in extreme (marine) conditions. We successfully coped with the tasks set, especially enjoyed developing the ROV, this is a difficult task that we took on for the first time and successfully implemented it, – Andrey Klinovitsky said about the event.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Polytechnic University Opens Postdoc School “Digital Methods in Social and Humanitarian Knowledge”

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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –

The opening of the educational program of the Postdoc School “Digital Methods in Social and Humanitarian Knowledge” (a project of the Humanities Institute – the winner of the “Priority 2030” competition of SPbPU) took place at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The initiative to create the “Postdoc School” (postdoctoral studies) was a response to the growing competition and changing requirements for research practices under the influence of the new technological order. Digital analysis of large volumes of data, the use of neural networks and machine learning are becoming essential tools for scientists and teachers in the humanities who strive to remain at the forefront of science.

As part of the opening of the Postdoc School, a lecture by Eduard Ponarin was held. He is a well-known specialist in the field of digital data analysis methods, the founder and leading research fellow of the Ronald Franklin Inglehart Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and a full professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.

He devoted his lecture to current issues of creating and analyzing text corpora, building statistical models, working with big data, as well as popular methods of formalizing text parameters and mapping them.

The educational program of the Postdoc School is aimed at masters, postgraduate students, young candidates of science with a strong social and humanitarian education and is aimed at developing their potential in the modern world. The school is designed to become a bridge between traditional humanitarian knowledge and modern digital technologies, teaching in-depth research based on structuring and analyzing arrays of heterogeneous data. At the same time, the results of the project will be not only the development of digital competencies and the effectiveness of scientific research, but also the creation of scientific interdisciplinary and inter-institutional teams due to the cooperation of researchers from different higher schools and institutes of the social and humanitarian profile of SPbPU in research teams.

Thus, the program will have a significant impact on the development of the human resources potential of young people at SPbPU and will help in solving modern scientific problems.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Marat Khusnullin: The online Olympiad “Safe Roads” has started

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Source: Government of the Russian Federation – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.

The All-Russian Online Olympiad will be held for the fifth time from September 24 to October 27 “Safe Roads”The event is being held with the aim of testing and improving the road literacy of students in grades 1–9, said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.

“Children’s safety is one of our top priorities. In this area, under the national project “Safe High-Quality Roads”, we are carrying out comprehensive work to update routes to schools and other educational institutions across the country, and much has already been done. We also pay special attention to educational events aimed at increasing the level of knowledge about road traffic and behavior on the roads. In particular, within the framework of the national project, the All-Russian online Olympiad “Safe Roads” is held annually, where schoolchildren can consolidate their knowledge of traffic rules. Over four years, more than 15 million participants have tested their road literacy,” said Marat Khusnullin.

To prevent child road traffic injuries, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate carries out various activities aimed at raising children’s awareness of the rules of conduct on the roads.

“Legal information for children on the topic of road safety, instilling in them the skills of safe behavior on the roads is a priority area of activity of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, which is carried out in cooperation with educational authorities. Taking into account the analysis of the causes of child road traffic injuries, forms and methods of preventive work are selected. The tasks of the online Olympiad allow its participants to test their knowledge in an interactive form and gain new knowledge on the basics of traffic rules. The Olympiad provides for the opportunity to participate in an unlimited number of children, teachers and parents. The most important task of the Olympiad is to reduce child mortality as a result of road accidents,” emphasized the head of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Lieutenant General of Police Mikhail Chernikov.

The Olympiad tasks focus on safe behavior skills both at pedestrian crossings and in transport, and when using personal mobility devices – last year these topics turned out to be the most difficult for schoolchildren.

The organizers of the Olympiad are the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, the ANO “National Priorities” with the support of the Ministry of Education of Russia, the event is held within the framework of the national project “Safe High-Quality Roads”.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Rosneft held the popular science festival “Park of Science” in Novokuibyshevsk

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Source: Rosneft – Rosneft – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.

With the support of the Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company (part of the Rosneft petrochemical complex), the popular science festival “Park of Science” was held. The educational project has been implemented by the enterprise for ten years and gives children the opportunity to gain knowledge through experimental research under the guidance of young scientists.

This year, 400 schoolchildren, including those from the “First Movement”, attended the festival. Participants were asked to find answers to the question “What can be made from oil?” As part of the program, children learned how hydrocarbon deposits are explored, oil is extracted, and plastic products that surround us in everyday life are created.

Senior schoolchildren were also able to get acquainted with the devices and equipment of the laboratories of the Samara State Technical University, where they studied the properties of lubricating oils – the most important functional element of modern engines, machines and mechanisms.

In the modern petrochemical industry, breakthrough technologies are created at the intersection of different disciplines: mathematics, physics and computer science. Scientists from Samara Polytechnic University and Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company told how science helps to create efficient production and develop environmentally friendly technologies. During master classes, children got acquainted with impressive scientific achievements using 3D technologies, electronics and robotics. The festival ended with a spectacular chemical show.

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The Park of Sciences festival has been held in Novokuibyshevsk annually since 2015. During this time, more than 5,000 children have participated in master classes and conducted almost 9,000 scientific experiments.

“Park of Sciences” became the best project in the nomination “Promotion of Future Technologies” of the regional stage of the National Award in the field of public relations development “Silver Archer -2023”.

Department of Information and Advertising of PJSC NK Rosneft September 24, 2024

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Marat Khusnullin checked the pace of socio-economic development of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions

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Working visit of Marat Khusnullin to Zaporizhia and Kherson regions

September 24, 2024

Marat Khusnullin visited the Children’s and Youth Sports School No. 1 in Melitopol

September 24, 2024

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Working visit of Marat Khusnullin to Zaporizhia and Kherson regions

During his working visit, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin inspected a number of facilities and held a meeting to discuss the activities of the program for the socio-economic development of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, taking into account their imminent integration into the new national project “Infrastructure for Life”.

“It also includes the construction and repair of roads. The Zaporizhia region has picked up a very good pace in their restoration. We will allocate additional funds so that several dozen kilometers are additionally repaired by the end of the year,” the Deputy Prime Minister noted.

In Melitopol, Marat Khusnullin drove along a renovated section of Frunze Street. It was put in order to ensure safe access to School No. 23. There is also a medical facility and a manufacturing plant along the road. Then the Deputy Prime Minister stopped by Children’s and Youth Sports School No. 1. The repairs were carried out by the “Single Customer in the Sphere of Construction”. Now young athletes can train again in comfortable and modern conditions at the Youth Sports School.

In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister discussed the regional economic development plan with the Chairman of the Zaporizhia Region Government Irina Gekht and visited the production of spare parts and units for agricultural machinery of the Melitopol Industrial Company. He noted that the enterprise has good potential for growth. In particular, it is helped in this by the status of a participant in the free economic zone, which is managed by the Territorial Development Fund.

In the Kherson region, Marat Khusnullin and the regional governor Volodymyr Saldo paid attention to the topics of housing construction and industrial development, as well as agriculture.

“The housing supply in the region is quite low. The task is to expand construction so that people can improve their living conditions. The second point is the economy. We see its good growth, some activity of local enterprises, we hope to increase our own tax base,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.

At the end of his working visit, the Deputy Prime Minister inspected the renovated main building of the Kherson Technical University, where 200 students began their studies this year.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI China: Global agriculture conference to be held in Beijing

Source: China State Council Information Office

The 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference will be held in Beijing and will feature an array of events and activities, organizers announced at a press conference on Sept. 20.

Organizers brief reporters on preparations and events for the 2024 World Agrifood Innovation Conference during a press conference held in Pinggu district, Beijing, Sept. 20, 2024. [Photo/China.org.cn]

This year’s conference, themed “Climate Change and Agrifood Systems Transformation,” is organized by China Agricultural University, the Pinggu District People’s Government of Beijing Municipality and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The conference will include an opening ceremony, forums, side events and an expo. It will take place at the Beijing Jinhai Lake International Convention & Exhibition Center in Pinggu district, Beijing, from Oct. 10 to 12.

The conference is intended to unite international experts, policymakers, industry leaders and innovators to address unprecedented challenges due to climate change, exploring strategies and solutions to make agrifood systems more resilient, sustainable and adaptive.

Since the inaugural World Agrifood Innovation Conference in 2023, the event has received high recognition from domestic and international colleagues, being considered as one of the top three agricultural events in the world. With the goal of becoming the “Davos of agriculture,” this year’s conference has been upgraded to be a premier global gathering for agricultural science and technology innovation.

According to organizers, attendees will explore topics that focus on agricultural science and technology innovation, foster cooperation between industries, universities and research institutes, as well as cultivate new drivers for agricultural development.

Over 60 leaders and representatives from nearly 30 international organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), will participate in the conference. The FAO will also organize a Scientific Advisory Committee meeting and a youth dialogue for the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, marking the first time the hub’s important meetings will be held in China.

During the conference, there will be a special event on China-Africa agricultural science and technology cooperation, as well as a parallel session on China-Brazil agricultural economic and trade cooperation and green development.

Sun Qixin, president of China Agricultural University (CAU), revealed that this year, during the conference’s World Agricultural University Presidents’ Forum, CAU will further enhance both agricultural education and agricultural science and technology collaborations between China and Africa.

“Especially, we will promote the effective model developed by China Agricultural University in Africa over the years for the application of scientific and technological research outcomes, so as to benefit more African countries,” he said.

Besides Chinese academic institutions’ involvement in the conference, leading scientists and heads of major institutions of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) will also be participating. They will discuss with top Chinese agricultural scientists and entrepreneurs the potential for hosting multiple CGIAR-funded research projects in China.

The conference will feature over 40 parallel sessions, thematic meetings and side events, fostering dialogues among scientists, educators, entrepreneurs and investors to seamlessly integrate technological innovation with industrial application. Closed-door meetings will also connect global top animal husbandry scientists with Chinese agricultural entrepreneurs to discuss technology applications within Chinese enterprises. Major announcements, including the Pinggu Declaration and key FAO and CGIAR reports on agricultural innovation, are anticipated to be released during the event.

In addition to formal dialogues and lectures, the conference will also organize the 2024 World AgriFood Technology Expo, showcasing the latest achievements, cutting-edge technologies and innovative products in the global agrifood sector.

The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs foreshadowed significant commercialization achievements during the conference. Since 2023, the bureau has facilitated connections with 15 key laboratories under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and enabled 76 companies to launch projects in Beijing’s Pinggu district in fields like modern seed industry, smart agriculture and intelligent equipment. It was announced at the press conference that the China Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Port in Pinggu has entered the planning and construction phase, with plans to gradually introduce more national key laboratories, creating a cluster of labs focused on agricultural science and technology innovation.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Four-day free horticultural education “Let’s Go Green in Celebration of the National Day” activities to be held at Kowloon Park (with photos)

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region

Four-day free horticultural education “Let’s Go Green in Celebration of the National Day” activities to be held at Kowloon Park (with photos)
Four-day free horticultural education “Let’s Go Green in Celebration of the National Day” activities to be held at Kowloon Park (with photos)
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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and to raise public interest in planting and promote greening, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will organise horticultural activities around the theme of “Let’s Go Green in Celebration of the National Day” from September 28 to October 1 from 10am to 6pm daily at the Arcade and the Green Education and Resource Centre of Kowloon Park. The four-day event will feature National Day planting workshops, pot-planting activities, a thematic exhibition, game stalls, talks and guided tours. All are welcome and admission is free. Visitors in traditional Chinese costumes will be given a souvenir gift. Participants of the National Day planting workshops can enjoy the fun of pot planting under the guidance of horticulture instructors. There will be hands-on workshops for creating 3D paper flower cards, scented sachets, key holders featuring compressed flowers, and plant rubbing art, alongside game stalls with Chinese cultural elements to share with the public the joy of National Day. A thematic exhibition entitled “Enjoy Exploring the Rich Floral World” will be held at the Kowloon Park Arcade. Flowers not only beautify the environment and brighten daily lives, but also play a crucial role in plant growth by attracting insects and birds for pollination. Different species of flowers have their own shapes and colours, which can be relied upon to distinguish plant types. Through the exhibition, members of the public can learn more about the functions, structures, shapes, inflorescence, colours of flowers, factors affecting flowering and their uses in daily life. For instance, some flowers are edible and can be used for medicinal purposes or for making essential oil. Three talks in Cantonese, namely “Protected Plants in Hong Kong”, “Circular Urban Planting” and “The Kaleidoscopic Floral World”, will be held at the Green Education and Resource Centre in Kowloon Park on September 28, 29 and October 1 respectively. All are welcome to participate. For enquiries, please call 2723 6053 during office hours or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/green/gerc/activities/exhibitions.html.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-Evening Report: No RBA rate cut yet, but Governor Bullock is about to find the pressure overwhelming

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Who’d want to be Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock? On Tuesday she had to do the almost impossible: defend a decision not to cut interest rates at a time when they were being cut in just about every other major industrial nation.

On Thursday the US Federal Reserve joined the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and central banks in China, Sweden and the European Union in what its officials expect to be a series of cuts, kicking off with a double-header: a cut of 0.50 percentage points instead of the usual 0.25.

In her press conference after Tuesday’s board meeting Governor Bullock said disinflation was “further advanced” in those countries than it was in Australia.

Australian interest rates were “restrictive” (high enough to hurt) but were working “broadly as anticipated”.

While household spending was weaker than had been expected, it would be

some time yet before inflation is sustainably in the target range.

But the problem with what she said, both after the meeting and in her statement, is inflation is probably already within the target range.

Credibility gap

The Reserve Bank’s target is 2-3%. Inflation hasn’t been there since it surged in 2021 as much of the world came out of lockdowns.

On Wednesday, the day after Bullock’s announcement, the Bureau of Statistics will release the monthly consumer price index for August. It’s expected to be the first to show inflation back between 2% and 3%.

Westpac is expecting an annual rate of 2.7%, comfortably back within the target band. When the more-comprehensive quarterly measure is released next month, Westpac is expecting 2.9%.

If inflation is 2.7%, how can it be too high?

Bullock squares her view that inflation is not yet moving sustainably towards the target with the reality that it is probably already there by saying she expects it to “pop back up again” when the temporary effect of electricity bill rebates wears off.

The Commonwealth government announced $3.5 billion worth of rebates in the May budget. They will be applied automatically to electricity bills for each of the next four quarters, and topped by several of the states. In Queensland, they amount to $1,300 per household.

A staged rollout means the rebates hit bills in only Queensland and West Australia in July and will hit other states in August. The Bureau of Statistics says they took 6.4% off the average national power price in July and Westpac expects them to take off a further 15% in August.

A permanent 10% increase in the maximum rate of Commonwealth rent assistance delivered last week will put further downward pressure on inflation.

It’s easy to see why Bullock thinks the temporary measures should be disregarded.

The RBA says what matters is underlying inflation

Bullock is directing attention to the Reserve Bank’s preferred measure of underlying inflation, a measure that excludes sharp movements and gives a better idea of where typical prices are heading.

At 3.9% for the year to the June quarter, she says that measure is still too high. But it has been falling for each of the past six quarters and is on track to fall to 3.5% in the September quarter. By my way of thinking, that shows inflation is moving “sustainably towards the target range” in the way she says she wants.

As in the US and the UK and New Zealand and all the other countries with which we compare ourselves, inflation doesn’t need to be actually back to the target before the authorities ease off on high interest rates. If they waited that long they would overshoot and push inflation too low.

But headline inflation matters in its own right

In any event, a low headline inflation rate is important in its own right, however it is achieved. It’s the rate the Reserve Bank prints at the top of its website, the rate that’s published in the media and the rate that people experience.

If inflation is actually low, however that is brought about, shoppers become less tolerant of price rises (something the Reserve Bank says is happening) and less keen to demand high wage rises (something that is also happening).

They also become less keen to rush out and buy things before their price goes up, something that can perpetuate high inflation.

Right now we are doing everything but rushing out to push up prices.

A briefing note prepared by the Australian Council of Social Service ahead of Tuesday’s Reserve Bank board meeting says real household disposable income per capita has fallen by almost 8% since inflation and interest rates began climbing, far more than in the US, the UK, Germany and Canada.

Bullock is about to get more chances to cut

There’s a chance the tax cuts that began in July will give spending a bit of a boost but much of whatever extra spending there is will be on imports, and the steadily climbing Australian dollar is making them cheaper by the day.

The Australian dollar hit a new high for the year of 68.5 US cents on Tuesday on the back of a widening differential between US and Australian interest rates as the US cuts rates.

Governor Bullock gets two more opportunities to cut rates this year, at the board meeting on Melbourne Cup Tuesday November 5 shortly after news of very low inflation in the September quarter, and on December 9 shortly after news of economic growth likely to show income per person going further backwards.

There’s a fair chance she will take one of them.

Peter Martin is Economics Editor of The Conversation.

– ref. No RBA rate cut yet, but Governor Bullock is about to find the pressure overwhelming – https://theconversation.com/no-rba-rate-cut-yet-but-governor-bullock-is-about-to-find-the-pressure-overwhelming-239603

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Training for armed forces recruits continues to improve but new pilots face delays
Source: United Kingdom – Executive Government & Departments

Ofsted has today published its 16th annual report on the effectiveness of care and welfare arrangements for recruits, trainees and officer cadets (OCdts).
Training has continued to improve this year with no establishments found to be inadequate. 11 of the establishments visited were graded good or outstanding and one was found to require improvement.

Read the full report: Welfare and duty of care in Armed Forces initial training 2023 to 2024

In all but one establishment, recruits, trainees and OCdts benefited from excellent or good quality training and very effective care and welfare arrangements. This means that trainees are very well prepared for their next phase of training or to start their first military job.

However, inspectors did find that trainees are spending too much time in holdover, which is where one training course has finished and another has yet to start. This is especially true for trainee pilots and aircrew – in the worst cases, trainee pilots are waiting several years to start their flying training. Trainees report that this delay affects not just their careers but their motivation and personal lives.

Where trainees must wait to start their next phase of training, all services need to ensure that trainees are engaged in meaningful activities that maintains their morale while continuing to develop their military and specialist skills.

As in previous years, inspectors continued to find problems with infrastructure and facilities. While improvements have been made the standard of trainee accommodation continues to be poor in some establishments.

Ofsted has issued several recommendations for the MoD, including:

Urgently improve the infrastructure of the training estate, especially any accommodation where trainees are living in unacceptable and/or deteriorating conditions.

Minimise the time that trainees spend in holdover, especially trainee pilots and aircrew from all 3 services in flying training, so that they can complete their training as quickly and efficiently as possible and start their first military jobs.

Engage trainees in holdover in meaningful activities that maintain their morale and continue to develop their military and specialist skills and knowledge.

Give all new recruits uniform and equipment that fit them properly, including military backpacks and body armour, so that they can participate fully in training.

Ofsted’s Chief Inspector, Sir Martyn Oliver said:

“I am delighted to present my first MoD welfare report as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector, and I am impressed with the hard work and diligence that my inspectors have seen over the last year.

“I congratulate commanding officers, and their staff. Military and civilian staff work hard to train and care for recruits, trainees and OCdts, sometimes despite poor infrastructure and resources.

“I urge senior personnel in the Ministry of Defence and in government to respond swiftly and decisively to the recommendations we have made.”

Notes

Inspectors visited 11 initial training establishments, 5 University Officers’ Training Corps (UOTC) units (in a combined inspection) and the UOTC headquarters at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Working while studying increases your salary and chances of success

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –

Source: State University Higher School of Economics – State University Higher School of Economics –

Working while studying increases the likelihood of employment after graduation by 19%, and salary by 14%. Every second student worked at least a month during their full-time studies. The greatest return comes from working in the last years of study, when students have the opportunity to start working in their specialty. These are the results reached by a team of authors with Faculty of Economic Sciences HSE.

Combining work and study has become a mass phenomenon among students: more than 50% of students worked at least one month during their studies. They rightly believe that thanks to work experience they can become more competitive in the labor market and find a higher-paying position after graduation. If in the first year no more than 18% combined employment with study, then by the final year their share increased to 40%.

Based on the total data of the Graduate Employment Monitoring of more than 200,000 full-time bachelor’s and specialist’s degree graduates in 2021, the authors drew conclusions about the trends in combining study and work in Russia and its effects on subsequent employment. It turned out that among those who graduated with honors, the share of part-time workers is slightly higher. Students from more prestigious and highly ranked universities also work more often: 59% versus 50% in less selective universities. Students whose specialty is related to mathematics, information technology, and natural sciences start working more often than others during their studies, while humanities students, on the contrary, are less likely to do so: 58% versus 47%.

The probability of finding a job within a year after graduation was 19% higher for those who combined work and study. Moreover, the longer a student worked, the higher the chances: each additional month of experience increases the probability of employment by 1%. The salary of such graduates is also higher – by 14%, and each additional month of work experience increases it by 0.7%.

Much more important was the combination of study and work in the 4th and 5th years. Part-time jobs at the beginning of studies have almost no effect on the probability of employment, and internships during the final year increase it by 26%. Students in the field of mathematics and computer science benefit most from such a combination. Their chances of finding a job are higher by another 10%, and for economists – by 4%. The university also has an effect: if a student of any specialty studies at a university that is in the highest positions in the ratings, then the probability of employment will be 21% higher.

Authors of the article, Junior Researcher Labor Market Research Laboratories Ksenia Rozhkova, Head of the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the Higher School of Economics, Sergey Roshchin, Head of the Laboratory, and Pavel Travkin, Senior Research Fellow, note that there is currently a restructuring of views on education. More and more students are moving from combining study with work to combining work with study. Gaining work experience is becoming their main goal, while academic performance is relegated to the background.

“In our opinion, students are increasingly combining work with study because they care not only about income, but also about the experience and competencies they acquire. Such work allows them to enter a professional field. In contrast, universities often offer formal introductory practice, which does not involve the acquisition of any applied skills,” comments Ksenia Rozhkova. Since universities are interested in their graduates successfully finding employment, it would be useful to reconsider the approach to educational processes, strive to provide more practice-oriented skills, and collaborate with potential employers.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Additive technologies and new materials: prospects for the fuel and energy complex

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –

Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –

The technical session “Additive technologies and new materials in the fuel and energy complex of the Russian Federation” was held in the research building of Technopolis Polytech. The organizers were the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport of SPbPU together with PAO Gazprom.

The event participants were greeted by the rector of the Polytechnic University Andrey Rudskoy and the head of the department of PJSC Gazprom Viktor Sharokhin.

We are very grateful to Gazprom for the fact that Polytech became the venue for the first strategic session dedicated to the development of the additive technology industry. Round tables and discussions will take place today, which, I am sure, will open up new prospects for the use of additive technologies at enterprises of the fuel and energy complex. Without a doubt, this will make a significant contribution to ensuring the technological sovereignty of our country, – Andrey Ivanovich noted.

It is already obvious that additive technologies can find wide application in the gas industry. However, before that, solutions to a number of issues of both technical and innovative nature must be found. One of the goals of today’s event is to establish a dialogue between the corporate sector, the scientific community and business to remove barriers to additive manufacturing, Viktor Yuryevich emphasized.

The Semenov Conference Hall hosted a plenary session on Additive Technologies and New Materials, attended by representatives of universities, industry associations, engineering and manufacturing companies. Director of IMMiT and session moderator Anatoly Popovich outlined the topic of the meeting and invited experts to participate in the discussion.

This year, for the first time, we organized a technical session dedicated to additive technologies and new materials. This is extremely important, since the role of advanced production methods in our industry opens up new horizons for cooperation between science and industry, Anatoly Anatolyevich is confident.

The session participants discussed modern achievements in the development of additive technology methods and considered the areas of their application in the fuel and energy complex.

The exhibition display in the lobby of the Technopolis Polytech research building, where employees of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport of SPbPU presented their developments, aroused great interest.

The session also included two round tables: “Practical aspects of the application of additive technologies” and “Scientific and technical aspects of the application of additive technologies”.

At the IMMiT production center, research staff presented guests with production capacities and equipment in the field of additive manufacturing.

The event ended with a tour of the research laboratory “Laser and Additive Technologies”. Its head Mikhail Kuznetsov showed the session participants the production facilities of the division.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Dinosaur Trail to roar into city centre

Source: Scotland – City of Aberdeen

Aberdeen’s city centre is to transform into a brick-filled dinosaur adventure this October.

Iconic Bricks Dinosaur Trail will be a two-week event from 12th to 27th October that will see an exciting new free family-fun trail located throughout the city centre with free parking available in two city centre car parks.

Aberdeen City Council Co-Leader Councillor Christian Allard said: “This is a fantastic event to look forward to during the school holidays and will be a great family day out.

“I would encourage everyone to take part in this fun new trail, and also to take the time to visit all the local businesses across the city centre.”

Education and Children’s Services Convener Councillor Martin Greig said: “The dinosaur activity is a great opportunity for children to have fun together and to find out more about the natural world.

“Dinosaurs are favourite animals for many young people and the trail will be an enjoyable and thought-provoking experience.”

Visitors and locals will be able to discover 18 brick dinosaur models located in various city centre businesses , including a Stegosaurus, Triceratops and adorable baby dinosaurs.

Participants will be able to get an insight into how each the model is made and learn more about each creation, including how many bricks were used to build the model and information on each dinosaur.

Also available will be the Hidden Lego Minifigurine Competition, where small Lego figurines have been hidden in ten shop windows around the Upperkirkgate and Belmont Street area for people of all ages to find in a treasure-hunt style challenge.

Once each minifigure is found, there is an opportunity to enter a prize draw to win an Aberdeen Gift Card worth £20.

Additional activities will be available throughout the October Holidays that will offer fun activities in various locations across the city that all ages can get involved with, including LEGO sessions, bookbug and animation.

The Iconic Bricks Dinosaur Trail has received £30,000 from the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

Free weekend parking in the Denburn and Frederick Street car parks will be available throughout the October holidays and the first weekend in November. Parking for £1 will be available after 5pm at Virigina Street, the Gallowgate, Frederick Street, Summer Street, Chapel Street, West North Street and the Denburn. Normal charging rates will resume from 8am.

For more information on the event and travelling into the city centre, visit our website.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI United Kingdom: Proposed City Centre West Regeneration Masterplan Unveiled
Source: City of Wolverhampton

As well as delivering up to 1,000 new homes, including affordable homes, the masterplan will showcase options for phase one of the scheme – an enhanced Market Square with green spaces.

During the course of the masterplan, opportunities for new shops, cafes, and restaurants will also be included, with potential for outdoor seating.

The Council and ECF have entered into a Development Agreement to bring forward proposals for City Centre West, which features prominently in the Wolverhampton Investment Prospectus and the City Centre Local Area Action Plan.

The release of the masterplan follows an initial period of engagement in July, which helped finalise the vision. The sessions, where residents will be able to view the masterplan in detail and ask questions of the team, have also been arranged:
- Saturday 28 September – 1pm to 4pm, The Way Youth Centre, School Street
- Wednesday 2 October – 12 to 7pm, Urban Room, 18 Queen Square
Councillor Chris Burden, Cabinet Member for City Development, Jobs, and Skills, at City of Wolverhampton Council, said: “The proposed masterplan is the result of significant collaboration between ECF and the Council, but also residents who have offered their perspectives on the opportunities ahead.

“City Centre West is an opportunity to put people at the heart of the city with new homes, shops, cafes or restaurants.

“The vision and masterplan could be truly transformational for Wolverhampton, so I encourage people to continue to engage and share their views.”

Basit Ali, Development Director – Midlands at Muse, development partner in ECF, added: “Our initial engagement sessions in July were extremely helpful as we finalised our masterplan and vision.

“We heard very clearly that people wanted something which attracts people into the city centre and creates a vibrant and exciting place to spend time. That feedback has helped steer and guide our approach.

“By delivering new homes at a transformational scale, and curating a new city centre neighbourhood, we can boost the economy and create real opportunity for established and new communities.”

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Translation: ASIA/INDONESIA – Appointment of the new director of the Pontifical Mission Societies

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Italy –

Source: The Holy See in Italian

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for the first evangelization and the new particular Churches), on 5 September 2024, appointed Rev. Fr. Alfonsus Widhiwiryawan SX, director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of Indonesia for five years. The new director of the Indonesian PMS was born in 1979 and carried out his novitiate and first religious vows with the Xaverian missionaries in Jakarta. He was ordained a priest in 2009 and studied philosophy and theology, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in theology and a license in spirituality. He studied Italian language and culture in Parma, Spanish language in Madrid and English language in Glasgow. He was vice rector of the pre-novitiate of the Xaverian missionaries in Jakarta (2011-2023), assistant parish priest in the parish of St. Matius Penginjil in Bintaro (Jakarta) where he also served as a religion teacher in a state institute (2013-2015); a theology teacher at the STF Driyarkara in Jakarta, he was a member of the formation commission of the Xaverian missionaries of Indonesia (2012-2016). A teacher in biblical institutions in Indonesia and vice rector of the philosophy studentate at the Xaverian missionaries in Jakarta (2015-2016), he was director of animation and missionary vocation of the Xaverian missionaries in Yogyakarta (2016-2021). In 2021 he held the role of rector of the Domus San Francesco Saverio in Padang (Central Sumatra). From 2022 to 2024 he was responsible for the commission for the youth of the diocese of Padang and diocesan director of the PMS of the same diocese; he was also vice parish priest of the parish of San Francesco d’Assisi in Padangbaru (Central Sumatra) and formator of the Minor Seminary “Maria Nirmala” in Padang. (EG) (Agenzia Fides 24/09/2024) Share:

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Russia: Consortium led by GUU to create agricultural analogue of State Services

MIL OSI Translation. Region: Russian Federation –

Source: State University of Management – Official website of the State –

The State University of Management is developing a digital village – a high-tech system for managing agricultural enterprises. The project is being implemented jointly with the Omsk Agrarian Scientific Center (Omsk ASC) and the Udmurt State University (UdSU).

The solution being created will allow even non-professionals to manage agricultural processes. The result will resemble the most modern enterprises, where one person can manage the entire workshop, and all mechanical work is done by robots. A similar model will be implemented in the field.

“In the conditions of record low unemployment, we are not making a system that excludes people from the process. It helps non-professionals get started. The platform with a management decision support system offers the user a choice: if you go to the right, you will reap the harvest, if you go to the left, you will lose your horse. In the most literal sense of the word,” said Denis Serdechny, associate professor of the Department of Innovation Management at the State University of Management, head of the Laboratory of Convergent Expertise and Assessment of Technology Maturity, and candidate of technical sciences.

A technological stack will be assembled at the request of state or private farms, which in addition to unmanned combines, seeders, drones, automatic irrigation systems and other devices will include products of modern agricultural technologies. The management system takes into account the possibility of integrating several farms to create a corporate effect. Reporting will be generated and sent to the Ministry of Agriculture automatically, thus creating a database of objective data and not burdening farmers with unnecessary work. The digital village will operate based on the principles of precision farming, when, for example, drones scan apples on trees, assess their condition and collect only ripe fruits, leaving the rest to ripen. This will significantly increase the efficiency and productivity of each individual farm, and in the future, at the national level, it will potentially give a significant multiplier effect.

However, the task set by the SUM scientists is much larger. The digital village is the first level. The global idea is to create a huge digital platform for the entire agriculture of the country.

“We are developing a concept for such a platform, where all participants in agricultural processes will find their place. In essence, such agricultural State Services,” says Denis Serdechny. “The user goes there, chooses his role: farmer, investor, producer, monitor on the part of the state, who will be able to evaluate the efficiency of spending budget funds. The farmer controls the work processes through the platform. And the investor can see in which region what crop is needed, what level of investment is required for this, what equipment is needed, in what quantity, what seeds. That is, it is also an intelligent decision support system, akin to a computer game in the genre of economic strategy – the user chooses the necessary parameters and his agricultural business is assembled on a turnkey basis. To do this, you do not have to be an expert in the field of agriculture.”

The system is not being built from scratch; the necessary competencies are acquired from specialists who will train the system’s artificial intelligence. The platform will be loaded with existing databases on meteorological observations, aerial reconnaissance, soil science, and other necessary information. The system will also offer, for example, leasing companies, so that the investor does not necessarily have to purchase equipment. Service providers will also be able to use the system to track the operation of their fleet.

A grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for the implementation of a major scientific project “Ensuring food security of the country based on the creation of software and hardware complexes and intelligent platform digital solutions in the field of development of agro-industrial technologies of the full life cycle” was won by the State University of Management in the spring of 2024. This project is designed until 2026 and is currently in the active stage of development.

A group of almost three dozen specialists from the State University of Management is developing an economic model of a new generation agricultural enterprise and a complex of its technological support. The SUM develops management, economic and digital models.

To create digital twins of agricultural enterprises and subsequent processing of data from the fields, artificial intelligence tools and supercomputer power will be used. The equipment has already been purchased and is located on the territory of the State University of Management.

Udmurt State University will provide technologies for recycling and closing the production cycle of agricultural enterprises. Waste from factories and plants, as well as expired products from stores, will be returned to the fields as fertilizers, rather than being disposed of, which will have a positive effect on the environment and will allow saving some budget funds.

The Omsk AMC will become a test site for testing this technology. It is engaged in the entire cycle of work: field preparation, sowing, monitoring, harvesting. Including tracking weather changes, for which it recently purchased a weather station. Several special areas have already been allocated there for the digital village project.

The system will be launched in test mode this year. The project is designed to last until 2026, but Denis Serdechny believes that this is only the first step towards implementing a federal-scale project. Interaction with global market players has already begun. Some of the largest Russian banks are interested in the results of the project, ready to provide their data centers for data processing, buy and distribute the finished digital product.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Translation: AMERICA/PERU – Protecting the right to learning of indigenous populations: lack of bilingual teachers and adequate infrastructure

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Source: The Holy See in Italian

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Iquitos (Agenzia Fides) – “We need authorities who are committed to defending the rights of girls, boys and adolescents of indigenous peoples, because they cannot continue to be set aside”. It is the voice of Mariluz Canaquiri, leader in Peru of the indigenous Amazonian Kukama Kukamiria, who speaks of the decline in education of indigenous peoples. “The authorities do not care about the education of indigenous children, there is no adequate infrastructure and there are no full-time bilingual teachers to teach them in our language,” emphasizes Canaquiri, who is also president of the Federation of Indigenous Women Kukama Kukamiria. Bilingual intercultural education (IBE) is a current educational policy in this South American country of 33 million inhabitants, with 55 recognized indigenous peoples, four Andean and 51 Amazonian. According to the results of the latest National Evaluation of Learning Outcomes (ENLA), published by the Ministry of Education, only 5.6% of fourth-grade primary school students (10 and 11 years old) of IBE institutions of the Amazonian population have achieved the expected results. “There is no bilingual intercultural education here,” said President Canaquiri. “How could they learn if our identity, our culture, our way of seeing the world are not valued in the school curriculum in any way, and in logistical conditions where the school building is an area covered with branches and trunks of trees with unbearable heat,” the leader stressed in a statement to an international non-governmental organization. Although the first policy in favor of the student population of indigenous peoples arose in 1972, more than half a century ago, it has always received little interest from the State, despite the IBE being part of their individual and collective human rights. “They hire teachers because they speak Quechua, Shipibo, Asháninka or the corresponding language, but when they go to school they do not apply the IBE. Sometimes they teach only in Spanish, other times they speak the children’s native language, but all the rest they read and write in Spanish,” an analyst reported. There are 24,000 schools throughout the country that follow the IBE, where most reinforce the students’ native language and teach them Spanish. The educational policy seeks to ensure that the indigenous school population is bilingual with oral and written skills, but according to studies carried out by local researchers, the country is going backwards. However, despite these precariousness, a small school in the peasant community of Accollya stands out positively, located in the municipality of Soccos, almost 3,400 meters above sea level, in the province of Huamanga, one of the 11 that make up Ayacucho. This is an Andean department that was hit hard by an internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 2000. Supported by an NGO, the school boasts a single teacher with 33 years of experience who has always been committed to bilingual intercultural education, following training and in-depth courses. “I work from Monday to Thursday in Spanish and on Fridays in Quechua, using the notebooks that the ministry sends us for each topic,” said the woman who is the only teacher of 10 pupils in first, second and third grade, aged between six and eleven. “The children’s response is very good, from first grade they acquire reading and writing skills, now it’s September and the youngest are already reading. It’s the advantage of teaching different classes because they motivate each other,” the teacher stressed. Furthermore, we must not forget the important contribution of the Catholic Church in the Amazon in the field of education and healthcare where it has often been a substitute for the State, arriving where it is not, even today. Hundreds of missionaries throughout history have been true promoters of respect for human dignity. Religious and lay people from dozens of countries have given their lives in the most remote places with the aim of making the Amazon a place of coexistence and respect for the dignity and rights of all, especially the most vulnerable, largely indigenous peoples. Among other initiatives in favor of learning and the formation of school libraries in these areas, it is worth highlighting the participation of the ‘yachac’, the wise men of the community, who hold intergenerational meetings encouraging the practice of reading among students and their families. The indigenous school population at the national level is estimated at 1.2 million, the vast majority are Quechua (700,000) and Aymara (300,000) from the Andean areas of the country, and the rest from Amazonian languages such as Asháninka, Shipibo Konibo, Awajún, among others. The Kukama Kukamiria people live mainly in the department of Loreto, the largest of the Peruvian Amazon. According to data from the Ministry of Culture, the population of the Kukama Kukamiria communities is estimated at 37,053 people. Among these, 1,185 declared that they speak the Kukama Kukamiria language, which corresponds to 0.02% of the total native languages at the national level. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 24/9/2024) Share:

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI Translation: A few months before the Women’s Euro, more than 2,500 students at the Stadium to support Servette FC Chênois against AS Roma

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Source: Switzerland – Canton Government of Geneva in French

More than 2,500 primary and secondary school students will have the opportunity to attend the Servette FC Chênois femmes-AS Roma match on Thursday, September 26, counting towards the UEFA Women’s Champions League qualifiers. With 9 months to go until the start of the Women’s Euro football championship in Switzerland, this event highlights women’s football and celebrates the practice of sport by all.

On September 26, the Stade de Genève will welcome more than 2,500 students from Geneva schools, invited with their teachers to attend the Women’s Champions League match between Servette FC Chênois femmes and AS Roma.

This meeting between the Servette FC Chênois women’s team, winners of the championship and the Swiss Cup last season, and the players of AS Roma, double Italian champions, is an opportunity for many students to discover an important sports infrastructure, while familiarizing themselves with the codes of the supporter, combining encouragement, fair play and sharing emotions. This is one of the many initiatives related to the promotion of women’s sport that will be offered to students in the canton during the 2024-2025 school year. The State Councilor responsible for the DIP Anne Hiltpold said on this subject: “Practicing a sport is good not only for the body, but also for the mind. The DIP is committed every day to the students of our schools to celebrate the benefits of sport, as evidenced by this invitation to which so many teachers responded. I am delighted and happy to be able to promote the values of football in this very special year for women’s sport.”

This international Women’s Champions League match also takes on a special dimension given that the Stade de Genève will host five Women’s Euro matches next July. “Geneva will experience a unique celebration with Euro 2025, and allowing hundreds of children to attend a high-level women’s football match thanks to Servette Chênois femmes aims to ensure that as many people as possible are excited next summer and take full advantage of this major sporting event,” rejoices Thierry Apothéloz, State Councillor responsible for social cohesion.

“We are delighted to welcome 2,500 children from the public education department for this exceptional match against AS Roma. It is a unique opportunity for them to live an inspiring sporting experience and to discover high-level women’s football. We hope that this day will remain etched in their memory and that it will contribute to strengthening their interest in sport and the values it conveys,” concludes Yoann Brigante, president of Servette FC Chênois femmes.

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September 29, 2024
MIL-OSI China: US-proposed ban on Chinese software in vehicles prompts strong backlash

Source: China State Council Information Office

The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday proposed a ban on Chinese-developed software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles, provoking a strong backlash from economists and observers.

According to the measure, “malicious access” to the Vehicle Connectivity System and the Automated Driving System could allow “adversaries” to access and collect the most sensitive data and remotely manipulate cars on American roads. Adversaries, in this context, are China and Russia.

The Biden administration acknowledged that few Chinese or Russian vehicles are currently on U.S. roads but noted that it wanted to take “proactive” measures, highlighting national security concerns.

“I think that the U.S. government may be projecting the kind of malware itself plans to install in some connected systems,” Jeffrey Sachs, an economics professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, told Xinhua. “There is absolutely no evidence that China is doing so.”

Sachs also noted that another aim is protectionism, “to damage Chinese EV exports to the U.S. and Europe.”

Gary Clyde Hufbauer, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, told Xinhua that the proposed rule represents a giant step towards decoupling. “The United States is not yet at war with China, but it is well along the decoupling path,” he said.

Hufbauer, a former official at the U.S. Treasury Department, noted that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan previously promised that U.S. restrictions on direct commerce with China would be confined to limiting the flow of advanced technologies with “a small yard and a high fence”. “The small yard has since grown into a large pasture with no discernable fence,” said Hufbauer.

Earlier bans on Chinese tech giant Huawei and current efforts to force TikTok either to be sold to a U.S. firm or face a ban follow the same logic.

Hufbauer added that if the latest proposed rule charts the future path of U.S. import bans, with no consideration of the cost to the U.S. economy, then it is only a matter of time before de-risking becomes decoupling.

The New York Times viewed combating real and perceived Chinese threats as one of the few issues that have won both Democratic and Republican support, though “many experts on China believe that the fear of Beijing has gone too far — and that it is also hurting American consumers.”

U.S. automakers “risk falling behind” if they do not have access to the latest technology, said the American daily, depicting China as the world’s largest car market that dominates the production of electric car batteries.

“Rather than banning China’s technology, the United States and China should take cooperative and diplomatic steps to ensure that neither party nor other countries behave in this manner,” said Sachs.

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September 29, 2024

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