 transdisciplinary approach that aims to optimise health outcomes for communities arising from factors operating, for example, at the intersections between people, animals and their shared environment,” Professor Kark said.
“It’s an approach that can help holistically address outbreaks before they happen, working closely with the community and engaging people in preventative ecosystem and human health.
“Here in Australia, the emphasis should be on developing close, long-term collaboration and engagement with First Nations communities and other partners to address these risks.
“And, internationally, Australia has so many valuable ties, which can be strengthened through working together with other nations to address the drivers of zoonotic disease emergence. In this paper, for example, the team closely collaborated with a group based in Nepal working in the area.
“It’s vital we invest in protecting biodiversity and ecosystem health and address the drivers of zoonotic disease.
The report dives into and examones the multiple drivers of pandemics, including land-use change, intensive livestock production, wildlife trade, and anthropogenic climate change.
Anthropogenic climate change affects the incidence of zoonotic disease emergence in humans, as shifting climatic conditions drive alterations in both host and vector spatial distributions, population densities, pathogen load in individuals, and the prevalence of pathogens in potential animal reservoirs. Climate change can also affect the interactions between reservoir hosts, intermediate hosts, vectors, and pathogens, and drive the evolution of pathogens, and, where relevant, their hosts and vectors. All of these factors can, individually or combined, affect the transmission dynamics between pathogen hosts and can influence the likelihood of the emergence of a zoonotic disease in human populations. The effects of climate change are especially relevant for vector-borne zoonotic diseases, including many already established in the human population, such as mosquito-borne Rift Valley fever and West Nile fever.
The researchers warn that pandemic response and recovery policies if not carefully crafted, could "further promote the drivers of zoonotic spillover, hence, reinforcing a feedback loop further contributing to the rising trend of disease emergence."
Taking a One Health approach that integrates knowledge from different fields and acknowledges the tight relationship to the health of our planet and general human health.
Without immediate and sufficient reform of our response to zoonotic disease emergence and high-impact events, such as the COVID-19 crisis—including efforts to return to business as usual—biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health will continue to suffer. As the links and feedback loops between biodiversity and ecosystem health, COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases are becoming clearer, conservation actions and a One Health approach are urgently needed to manage zoonotic risk and avoid further feedback loops that can negatively impact human health, biodiversity and ecosystem health.
Many of the conclusions echo the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) workshop conducted in July 2020 which produced a report titled: Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics.
It articulated that COVID-19 is at least the sixth global health pandemic since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, and "although it has its origins in microbes carried by animals, like all pandemics its emergence has been entirely driven by human activities. The report estimated that another 1.7 million currently ‘undiscovered’ viruses exist in mammals and birds – of which up to 827,000 could have the ability to infect people.
measures that reduce unsustainable exploitation of high biodiversity regions. This will reduce wildlife-livestock-human contact and help prevent the spillover of new diseases.
John Oliver gives a pretty good argument in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) in February 2021 of the risks of the next pandemic.
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Panera Brands on Tuesday said it will return to the public markets in a transaction that will bring in as a cornerstone investor a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, led by New York restaurateur Danny Meyer.
The group that is Panera Brands includes the fast-casual chain Panera Bread, along with Caribou Coffee and Einstein Bros. Bagels, with a total of about 4,000 units across 10 countries. Under the deal, Panera Brands will hold an initial public offering and then merge with USHG Acquisition Corp., the SPAC known as “HUGS,” as a cornerstone partner. The IPO price or number of shares were not disclosed.
In addition, Meyer will invest personally in Panera Brands and become lead independent director of the public company’s board.
Europe-based JAB Holding Co., which bought a controlling stake in Panera Bread in 2017 in a $7.5 billion deal and brought in the coffee brands earlier this year to create the Panera Brands platform, has agreed to make a dollar-for-dollar investment in shares of Panera common stock in an amount equal to the amount of any redemptions of HUGS shares.
Meyer, who is chair of HUGS and founder of New York City-based Union Square Hospitality Group, said in a statement that Panera Brands embodies the “Enlightened Hospitality” values for which his companies are known. Union Square Hospitality Group restaurants include Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern, The Modern and Daily Provisions, and Meyer also founded the chain Shake Shack, which is publicly traded.
Chaudhary in a statement echoed Meyer’s commitment to values and capitalizing on growth opportunities.
David Bell, senior partner at JAB, said the deal unites two of the world’s leading hospitality organizations.
“We are excited to have Danny Meyer and HUGS as key partners with Panera Brands, and for Danny to join Niren and the team as active participants in its long-term success alongside Panera Brands shareholders,” Bell said in a statement.
In July, the then-JAB-owned Krispy Kreme also went public with an IPO, though JAB retained a large stake in the doughnut company. It was one of a number of restaurant company IPOs this year, including Portillo’s, Sweetgreen, First Watch and Dutch Bros.
With Panera Brands IPO coming, 2021 will likely match the busiest restaurant IPO year, 2014, when five restaurant companies went public.
J.P. Morgan served as financial advisor to Panera Brands. Skadden, Arps, State, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as legal advisor. McDermott, Will & Emory LLP provided tax advice to Panera Brands. Piper Sandler & Co. acted as financial advisor to HUGS and Latham & Watkins LLP is acting as legal advisor.
Source: 2021 Nation's Restaurant News.Yup that's a good start, maybe that's why I can't find links to the Mlily and eGrid partnerships (still waiting on the promised Gui'an one by the government btw, that would be big). 

But still, a handful of the links in the current partnerships sidebar is still VeChain's medium posts; I mean I don't expect the media to pick up the story but my question is: when are the partners who haven't done so going to be announcing that they are partnered with VeChain? and if there is already one, why aren't the press releases easily available for "proof" for pesky commenters like me?Top notch episode as usual. I feel like this season has really umped the animation and it s a lot more exaggerated (it s nice but i felt like it went a little overboard but not by much) and also i am a bit disappointed that they changed one of the lines in the trial scene. In the manga, the line was "i will admit that i find myself with an insatiable crave for his-" while in the anime it's " i admit an instinctive attraction to his looks", changing from a blunt innuendo from the side you wouldn't expect to see to a more normal "i am attracted to him". Maybe the manga has multiple ways to translate that line. But those are nitpicks mostly. Overall, i really like the quality of this season, from the animation to the voice actors.Q: Visualizing a 3D NumPy array with PyOpenGL I want to create a PyOpenGL/QtOpenGL widget that will allow me to visualize an arbitrary NumPy 3D matrix, not unlike the following Hinton diagram envisioned as a "cube of cubes" instead of a "square of squares":

I'm having a bit of a rough time with OpenGL though. Here is my code thus far:
from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLUT import *
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtOpenGL
import numpy as np

action_keymap = {
  # 'a': lambda: glTranslate(-1, 0, 0),
  # 'd': lambda: glTranslate( 1, 0, 0),
  # 'w': lambda: glTranslate( 0, 1, 0),
  #'s': lambda: glTranslate( 0,-1, 0),

  'a': lambda: glRotate(-5, 0, 1, 0),
  'd': lambda: glRotate( 5, 0, 1, 0),
  # 'W