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CBD News: The four reports, one each for Africa, Asia and the Pacific, West Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean offer a regional perspective of the Convention's 2014 publication Global Biodiversity Outlook-4 (GB0-4). Using a similar approach an




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CBD News: Montreal/Paris, 26 May 2016 - More and more people are aware of biodiversity. If credible information and reputable brands are available, consumers are ready to purchase biodiversity-friendly products and contribute to the conservation and susta




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CBD News: Montreal, 27 May 2016 - Braulio Dias, the Executive Secretary to the Convention on Biological Diversity, welcomes a new UNEP report on environment and health which links a healthy environment and healthy ecosystems as the basis for the implement




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CBD News: The Subsidiary Body on Implementation at its first meeting urged Parties that have not yet done so to submit their financial reports where feasible by 31 August 2016, in time for the preparation of documentation for the thirteenth meeting of the

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CBD News: France, Mali, the Netherlands, the Republic of Moldova and Sweden are the latest countries to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, bringing the t




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CBD News: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), today released a technical document that provides guidance




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CBD News: We, the Heads of State/Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic o




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CBD News: Statement by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on behalf of the Executive Secretary at the Preparatory Meeting for the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, New York,




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CBD News: On Friday, 19 May 2017, the Republic of Korea became the 98th country to ratify the Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization.




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CBD News: Central African Republic deposited its instrument of ratification to the Nagoya - Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety on 15 June 2017.




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CBD News: Statement by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity on behalf of the Executive Secretary at the 4th Session of the Preparatory Committee established by General Assembly resolution 69/292, New York, United States of America, 10




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CBD News: With the Democratic Republic of the Congo depositing its instrument of accession on 4 October 2017, the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety needs only one more instrument of




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CBD News: Rachel Carson, the late American biologist and conservationist, suggested "there is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds... something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn




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CBD News: Germany has published the first report on the utilization of genetic resources through the Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House by issuing a checkpoint communiqué concerning research on ants from South Africa. This was rapidly fo




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CBD News: The Republic of Egypt, as the President of the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and its concurrent meetings (COP14), and the People's Republic of China, as future host of the 15th meetin




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CBD News: Blog post prepared by the Executive Secretary for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting: We need to understand the nature and gravity of the collective crisis that now confronts human civilization if we are to answer the questions it poses.




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CBD News: The world needs transformative change if life on Earth is to be safeguarded and people are to continue to receive the services and benefits that nature provides, according to a new report from an international team of leading researchers.




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CBD News: A report launched today shows that Asian consumers have an increasing awareness of the planet's biodiversity and want to see companies protecting it.




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CBD News: Report of the co-chairs of the ninth Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway, 2-5 July 2019




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CBD News: Following a summer of dramatic heat waves and forest fires, and close on the heels of a landmark scientific report charting an unprecedented decline in nature, the global community came together from 27-30 August in Nairobi to deliberate over an




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CBD News: Over the next five days, the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) body on science will meet to lay the groundwork for negotiations to prepare the next year's UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China and achieve an ambitious and




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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NS/ET/CP/88538 (2019-109): Date extension: Thematic Consultation on Transparent Implementation, Monitoring, Reporting and Review Mechanism, 20-22 February 2020 - Kunming, China and Thematic Consultation on Capacity Building a




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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/MC/86437 (2019-111): Reminder: Sixth National Reports




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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NS/88541 (2020-002): Preparations for the trial phase of an Open-ended Forum for review of implementation to be held during the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, 27 May 2020 - Montreal, Canada




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CBD Notification SCBD/SSSF/AS/JS/TM/88584 (2020-003): Selected representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities to receive funding from the Voluntary Trust Fund for participation in the second meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post




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CBD News: Due to the ongoing situation following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus 2019, the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), in consultation with the Government of the People's Republic of China, the COP (Conference of




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CBD Notification SCBD/IMS/JMF/NP/YX/88707 (2020-021): Decision 14/23, Financial Mechanism: Assessment of Funding Needs for the Implementation of the Convention and its Protocols for the Eighth Replenishment Period (July 2022 to June 2026) of the Trust Fun




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CBD News: Governments advance in the preparation of a New UN Biodiversity Framework; Negotiations in Rome demonstrate engagement across government and society




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CBD News: Joining the global celebration of the United Nations World Wildlife Day, representatives of UN Member States, UN System organizations, international and non-governmental organizations, rural communities and youth gathered at the UN Headquarters





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Properties and distributions of values of fractal functions related to ????₂-representations of real numbers

M. V. Pratsiovytyi and S. P. Ratushniak
Theor. Probability and Math. Statist. 99 (2020), 211-228.
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Police refute media report

In response to a media report, Police today dismissed allegations that Commissioner of Police Tang Ping-keung turned a blind eye to unauthorised building works at a flat he rented.

 

The force expressed regret over the unfounded report and said that its content deviated from the facts.

      

Mr Tang rented a unit on Broadcast Drive in Kowloon Tong in 2016 and was notified by the Buildings Department in 2017 that there were unauthorised building works on the unit’s rooftop that must be removed.

 

He immediately informed the owner of the removal order and requested him to handle the matter. The owner has not complied with the order.

 

Mr Tang moved out of the unit in June 2019, Police added.




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Reply to I have a question....

petrapetruta posted a reply:

Corrado Carlini:

It's not a like/dislike thing.It's all about colors.Just take a look at the pool.
We want specific kind of photos.Otherwise this group won't be named Catchy Colors.





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petrapetruta posted a reply:

jacquesjacobs:


Hello there and welcome!We hope to see some catchy contribution from you too! :-)




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Red




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Rémi de Valenciennes posted a reply:

Hello,
I'm Rémi from Lille (North of France). I think we need color nowadays !




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paul_appleyard posted a reply:

Green




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petrapetruta posted a reply:

Rémi de Valenciennes:


I absolutely agree with you!
And welcome! :-)




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Cigaleto posted a reply:

Hello, je suis Agnès de France. J habite en Provence, le pays des cigales et de la lavande. Un région pleine de couleurs.




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Q is for Queerlesque




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Alex Borbely posted a reply:

Alex Borbely from the north shore of Lake Ontario, Canada! I have been doing mostly nature photography for just over a decade. Self taught and focus mainly on freezing movement! Be well and safe!
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Exam centres well prepared

Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung said all the examination centres for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) Examination are well prepared to provide a very safe environment for candidates to take the exams.

 

Mr Yeung made the statement when asked by reporters this morning about the arrangements schools have made to prepare for the DSE to be held on April 24.

 

He said: “In terms of the distance between the seats, in terms of all the procedures for cleansing, and also the detailed arrangements including the toilet arrangement and other things, all the schools, all the examination centres, are well prepared to provide a very safe environment for our candidates to take the examinations.”

 

Regarding school resumption, Mr Yeung said the Government has not made any firm decision nor set any deadline for schools to resume classes.




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Minimum wage report due Oct

The Minimum Wage Commission will submit to the Chief Executive in Council its recommendation report on the statutory minimum wage rate by the end of October at the latest.

 

In accordance with the Minimum Wage Ordinance, the Chief Executive has required the commission to submit its recommendation report on or before October 31.

 

Pursuant to the ordinance, the commission must maintain an appropriate balance between the objectives of forestalling excessively low wages and minimising the loss of low-paid jobs as well as the need to sustain the city's economic growth and competitiveness.

 

The commission is conducting a public consultation on the statutory minimum wage rate review.

 

Views can be sent by email before June 16.

 

Click here for the consultation details.




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Preparing to Prescribe Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes Prevention and Treatment

Caroline Trapp
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ID card replacement to resume

The Immigration Department announced today that the operation of all nine Smart Identity Card Replacement Centres will be fully resumed on May 11 in light of the more stabilised epidemic situation.

 

The department earlier suspended the replacement of Hong Kong identity cards at the centres to avoid the increased risk of spreading COVID-19.

 

To arrange for people affected by the service suspension to replace their identity cards in an orderly manner, the Secretary for Security has made an amendment order to revise the replacement period for people born in 1957 to 1963 and 1970 to 1976 and the arrangement for members of the sixth term of District Councils.

 

Click here for the arrangements.

 

If the replacement of identity cards needs to be suspended again in the future to cope with a sudden turn of the epidemic situation, the amendment order also provides that if all the centres are not in service for a period of 21 working days or more from May 11 to July 27 for public health reasons, the specified period for the above people will be further extended or amended.

 

The amendment order will be tabled at the Legislative Council on May 13 for negative vetting.

 

To reduce crowd gatherings, applicants who have not made appointments previously should do so via the Internet, the department’s mobile application or the 24-hour hotline at 2121 1234.

 

The department also appealed to applicants to pre-fill the application form when making appointments through the Internet or mobile application.

 

For details click here or call 2824 6111.




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Advances in Representation Theory of Algebras

David J. Benson, University of Aberdeen, Henning Krause, University of Bielefeld, and Andrzej Skowronski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Editors - A publication of the European Mathematical Society, 2013, 378 pp., Hardcover, ISBN-13: 978-3-03719-125-5, List: US$98, Institutional Member: US$78.40, All Individuals: US$78.40, EMSSCR/9

This volume presents a collection of articles devoted to representations of algebras and related topics. Dististinguished experts in this field...




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Lectures on Representations of Surface Groups

Francois Labourie, Universite Paris Sud - A publication of the European Mathematical Society, 2013, 146 pp., Softcover, ISBN-13: 978-3-03719-127-9, List: US$38, All AMS Members: US$30.40, EMSZLEC/17

The subject of these notes is the character variety of representations of a surface group in a Lie group. The author emphasizes the various points of...




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Hodge Theory, Complex Geometry, and Representation Theory

Robert S. Doran, Greg Friedman, and Scott Nollet, Texas Christian University, Editors - AMS, 2014, approx. 318 pp., Softcover, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-9415-6, List: US$113, All AMS Members: US$90.40, CONM/608

This volume contains the proceedings of an NSF/Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) regional conference on Hodge theory, complex...




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Perspectives in Representation Theory

Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University, and Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa, Editors - AMS, 2014, 370 pp., Softcover, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-9170-4, List: US$126, All AMS Members: US$100.80, CONM/610

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Perspectives in Representation Theory, held from May 12-17, 2012, at Yale University, in honor...