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Saturday، 23 February 2019 08:05 PM
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan’s bid to change regional politics
Ahmed Quraishi
The visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Pakistan sets the stage for strategic partnership between two powerhouses of the region and the Muslim world.
The last time these two countries came together, in the 1980s, they changed the face of politics in the Muslim world and globally by leading the campaign to defeat communism in Afghanistan.
Today, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prime Minister Imran Khan want to reform the role of Muslims globally focus on regional connectivity and prosperity, and end militant groups that abuse religion.
And this could not come at a more opportune time. A younger generation and new political leaderships are ascending to power in Riyadh and Islamabad.
Officials of the two countries are casting Crown Prince’s visit as something akin to transferring the close political, military and intelligence cooperation to the next generation of Pak-Saudi leaders.
Pakistan virtually abandoned its regional role and withdrew inwards in 1991 after playing a key role with the West in decisively ending the Cold War. Islamabad appeared exhausted of spy games and wars and turned its focus to chaotic domestic politics and struggled with the aftereffects of “Afghan jihad” next door.
Now, with the change of guard in Islamabad last year, and after the most important elections in three decades, Pakistanis are ready to embrace their country’s regional and international roles again under Prime Minister Khan. Saudi officials recognize Mr. Khan’s agenda and appreciate Islamabad's strategic potential.
Riyadh shows willingness to be associated with Pakistan's regional and international vision of prosperity, regional connectivity and end to conflicts.
In return, Islamabad wants to hitch its wagon to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Vision 2030, Riyadh’s leading role in the Islamic world in combating extremism, as well as their role in encouraging younger Muslims to contribute to the global civilization and not be a passive consumer, all these ideas excite Pakistani leaders and public. Pakistan wants to join this grand vision and support it.
Pakistan has a role in the stability and security of the Arab Gulf region. This partially explains why allies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are eager to help Islamabad overcome economic and political troubles.
Stability of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf impacts the largest Pakistani diaspora in the world, the biggest foreign remittances to Pakistan, and Islamabad’s ability to get its energy supplies on easy terms when necessary. Islamabad is committed to its national interests in the Gulf region.
Here, Iran’s troubles and problems across the region represent both a challenge and a headache for Pakistan. Iranian involvement in multiple conflicts in the region, and its meddling in states that have close ties to Islamabad, complicates matters for Pakistani diplomacy and impacts Pakistani interests.
As a neighboring Muslim country, Islamabad wants good relations with Tehran but wants peaceful end to Iranian involvement in multiple regional confrontations.
Having said this, Pakistanis are not ready to accept Iranian pressure when it comes to Islamabad’s interests in Gulf and the Middle East. Pakistan has carefully cultivated relations across this vital region and will not abandon those interests under Iranian pressure.
Pakistan's relations with Saudi Arabia and GCC are de-linked and de-hyphenated from its relations with Iran. Both are not mutually exclusive and are not a zero-sum game. Regional ties, Islamabad feels, should be based on respect and non-interference in national sovereignty.
Pakistan supports the legitimate government in Yemen, opposes the rule of militants and armed groups, and the malign foreign backing to armed groups that leads to chaos. Pakistan is watching Yemen war closely because it impacts Pakistani interests in the Gulf.
Islamabad also supports the vision of Saudi Arabia and the 41-member Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC).
Saudi and Pakistani officials agree on the idea of eliminating extremist, sectarian, terrorist ideologies and groups, and support IMCTC’s goal of harmonizing Muslims across all sects through tolerance and acceptance. If successful, this could end a major underlying cause of strife in the region.
Today, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are part of a vision that pushes for regional harmony, conflict resolution, peace, tolerance, acceptance, progress and prosperity. It is an important, ambitious agenda and one that should attract wider support across the region and the world.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia defined the 20th century by supporting freedom and defeating tyranny in Afghanistan, as part of a global coalition. Today, the two return to Afghanistan to end one of the longest wars. It’s a vision for a 21st century of regional connectivity, global integration, and end to militant ideologies.
The West and the emerging economies of the world should support this project that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have launched.
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in Natural Farming, Uttarakhand
42-YO Breathes Life Into Ghost Villages With Natural Farming, Rural Tourism!
The incredible impact has led to reverse migration as nearly 25 families that had left the villages in search of better opportunities have returned!
Nestled in the lap of Garhwal Himalayas, the picturesque Nag Tibba village is now gaining prominence among the local farming community.
From horse gram, amaranth to different types of millets, the crops grown in Nag Tibba (which translates to Serpent Peak) are power packed with nutrients.
You can check out organic produce by Bakri Chap here at The Better India Shop.
The village, which is now bustling with energy and several agricultural activities, was once an abandoned and neglected area.
In 2013, dust and cobwebs smothered the village, Rupesh Rai, the Founder & Managing Director of Green People tells The Better India.
Likewise, most of the inhabitants of more than 1,800 remote villages situated in the heart of Himalayas migrated to urban areas either in search of livelihoods or due to natural disasters like the Kedarnath catastrophe in 2013.
Rupesh Rai, the Founder & Managing Director of Green People
Disturbed at this deplorable plight of villages that are rich in natural resources, Rupesh took it upon himself to help revive the livelihoods of the people who had stayed behind.
He launched his social enterprise, Green People in 2015. It comprises of a community that works toward ecologically responsible agro-tourism movement.
We wish to make the Land of the Gods the heaven it was. We work toward letting the people of the hills stay and take up occupations that are gradually becoming redundant. We desire to promote the development of the people and the ecology too, he says.
Green People works with more than 500 farmers and functions in four regions of the three districts of in Uttarakhand, Tehri, Uttarkashi & Nainital.
Few months after the Kedarnath disaster in 2013, Rupesh visited the region to help a friend in the restoration and rehabilitation work. “It was one of the biggest calamities in India in terms of scale and magnitude that affected the entire Himalayan region,” he says.
Rupesh saw the degree of devastation in the number of dead bodies, collapsed buildings and a tremendous amount of debris that had killed thousands of people.
The expedition shook him from within, and for days the memories haunted him. It made him contemplate his every action and the greed of people in their overconsumption and its impact on ecology.
It was during the same time when Rupesh met a decorated army officer (Retd) Col. Ajay Kothiyal. For nearly six months, the duo studied the Himalayan villages to identify the most cherished resources.
In 2015, he officially launched Green People with the financial support of Col Kothiyal and some of his own savings, “We decided to purchase goats and sell milk and cheese to attract the youth from the villages.”
However, the project did not work out as expected due to the undernourished goats in the region; however, this setback later translated into a unique event called Bakri Swayamvar, launched with the intent of gene pool diversification of goats.
He also started a homestay initiative called ‘Pay At Your Own Will’ to bring visibility to the lesser known Himalayan regions. The homestays are attracting hordes of new age eco-conscious responsible travellers. One lot among the tourists were a set of well-known chefs who happened to be Rupesh’s friends and acquaintances.
The chefs helped him understand that the indigenous millets, pulses, cereals and honey produced by the marginalised high altitude farmers are now considered super foods and are most sought after in the urban areas.
“However, the farmers did not get a fair price for their produce due to middlemen and the absence of the right kind of market linkage,” tells Rupesh.
And to mitigate the problem, he launched his farming project.
42-year-old Rupesh is firmly committed to increasing local productivity by engaging youth and farmers. His wife Vandana, lives in Greater Noida along with their 16-year-old daughter and looks after the financial management and distribution of Green People.
The Bakri Chap Project
As a tribute to the failed goat’s milk project, Rupesh christened the farming project as ‘Bakri Chaap’. With Green People’s guidance and training, the farmers not only enhanced their output but also started assisting the team in the packaging process.
The Project grows several pulses, grains, cereals, fruits, mono flora, wild honey, different types of millets and high yielding vegetables across 15 villages. The customer base of their naturally grown produce range from luxury hotels like Taj, JW Marriott to chefs and customers in big cities including Kolkata, Chandigarh, Rishikesh, Mumbai and Delhi.
Some of the renowned culinary experts, a few celebrity chefs and bloggers from the metropolitan cities also vouch for it [the produce]. As a support to the marginalised Himalayan farmers, some of them volunteer as brand ambassadors of Bakri Chhap, Mani Mahesh, Head of Bakri Chap tells TBI.
The mobile collection centre of Green People gives on-spot payments to the farmers for their produce. The pay is 20 per cent higher than the local mandi (market) rates.
Confirming the same to TBI, 51-year-old Surendra Bhandari who has been farming for the last 20 years, says,
I live in Pantwari village and used to send my produce to the city markets. Then I started selling in my village but it fetched minimal prices. My income has increased by 15-20 per cent after I started selling it to Green People.
Since the inception of Bakri Chhap, around 25 families, who had left the villages in search of better opportunities, have come back.
As soon as the traditional farming resumed, and revenue came back, we saw reverse migration. To keep the momentum going, we constantly engaged the farmers in skill development workshops, says Mani who quit his thriving job in Delhi a few years ago to help out the local farmers.
26-year-old Mani has also seen a massive transformation among the farmer’s community, “Earlier the farmers were very skeptical about what they produced. But now, with Bakri Chhap, they have realised that their produce is profitable.”
Echoing his words, Rupesh says, “Higher the altitude lower was the self-esteem of the farmers. But now they know that the produce of financially weak people in the higher altitude region is the medicine for the emotionally bankrupt but financially strong people.”
Reviving Rural Tourism With an Eco-Friendly Twist
Pay As You Like is another project run by the Green People. This initiative owns traditional houses in far-flung areas, and some of them are managed by the local youth who are first trained at five-star hotels.
With a zero tolerance policy towards plastic items and littering, the homestay cottages are entirely environment-friendly. Instead of electricity, they use solar power, and due to adverse road connectivity, the visitors have to leave their vehicles outside the respective villages.
It promotes farm retreats/ homestays and helps revive abandoned villages by leveraging their tourism potential.
More than 100 community-run homestays and 300 mule owners are foreclosing their loans, and getting free insurance. The homestays also provide free computer education to village kids in Jaunpur region of Tehri.
Poor mobile network often urges tourists to interact with the farmers and learn about their agricultural activities.
Running amok is just fine with us. So is a good laugh but try and maintain harmony with nature without disrupting the rhythm we are trying to preserve. With all those thoughts and promises in place, have a pleasant stay, reads the policy.
Green People hopes to develop homestays in rural India with a pro-people and pro-planet approach. They want village stays to act as a mini collection and retail outlet for the marginalised farmer’s brand, Bakri Chhap thus bringing value addition and integrated development approach in the rural ecosystems of India.
There are around 6,50,000 villages in India, with a huge amount of unutilised inventory – each having a unique untold tale to tell. The revenue coming from urban space to rural space will act as a catalyst to protect and promote more sustainable and traditional ways of green living, he signs off.
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© Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Your body is a battleground)
F-KRUG-1F89.17
photographic silkscreen on vinyl
112 x 112 in. (284.48 x 284.48 cm)
Barbara Kruger addresses media and politics in their native tongue: tabloid, sensational, authoritative, and direct. Kruger’s words and images merge the commercial and art worlds; their critical resonance eviscerates cultural hierarchies — everyone and everything is for sale. The year 1989 was marked by numerous demonstrations protesting a new wave of antiabortion laws chipping away at the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. Untitled (Your body is a battleground) was produced by Kruger for the Women’s March on Washington in support of reproductive freedom. The woman’s face, disembodied, split in positive and negative exposures, and obscured by text, marks a stark divide. This image is simultaneously art and protest. Though its origin is tied to a specific moment, the power of the work lies in the timelessness of its declaration.
Read more about Barbara Kruger
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By Barbara Kruger in the Collection
Barbara Kruger, 1989
Untitled (If you're so successful, why do you feel like a fake?)
Untitled (You are a very special person)
Untitled (Hate like us)
Roy Toy
Have Me Feed Me Hug Me Love Me Need Me
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Welcome to The Great British Mortgage Swindle
Are you ready to take the Red, White and Blue pill?
A must-see film for everybody who has a mortgage, in the UK and everywhere else.
The Great British Mortgage Swindle is a coruscating documentary about mortgage fraud and eviction by court order.
Everybody's home is their castle.
But when the police descended upon the Alberts, as they slept in their beds...
...they were there to violently enforce a miscarriage of justice, rather than prevent one.
Michael O'Deira lets the police know he does not consent to eviction.
Notts Police assist a locksmith in breaking into Michael and Remi's home.
Senior police officer takes his orders from an unidentified bankster.
Remi protests that the warrant is invalid, but it falls on deaf ears.
Copper stares into space when Michael tells him his house in being broken into.
Then hundreds of people gather to resist the eviction of the Crawford family and a grass-roots movement is born.
The Great British Mortgage Swindle returns to UK cinemas on Friday the 3rd of May 2019. Book your tickets now.
tgbms is a film about the crimes of the banksters
See the film and become a witness to the callous brutality of fraudulent mortgage possession claims by the UK banks.
In the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, the UK housing market collapsed, the reality of which was much more shocking that the public ever imagined.
Insolvent banks were lending money they didn't have; mortgage fraud had been common practice for decades; conveyancing solicitors were giving illegal advice; whilst the police were violently enforcing the selective
application of the law.
Then, when all seemed lost, a call to action rallied thousands from all over Britain, in support of the mavericks who took on the might of the banks, armed with nothing except the facts.
Nine years in the making, The Great British Mortgage Swindle is an urgently prescient, emotionally compelling and ultimately uplifting film, which lifts the lid on institutionalised mortgage fraud and the brutality of eviction by court order.
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The Great British Mortgage Swindle [2018]
Country of Origin: British Isles.
Genre: Documentary Feature Film.
Producer-Directors: The Michaels of Bernicia & Deira.
Format: DCP.
Rating: Rated 12A.
Bonus Feature - TGBMS – Next Steps
This addendum to the film will summarize the grounds under which Britain’s void mortgagors can:
Join Representative Actions in every District Registry.
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Seek indemnification for all their losses from the Chief Land Registrar.
A Call To Action For Britain's 11 Million Void Mortgagors
Book your tickets to see the film and TGBMS: Next Steps in Vue and Odeon cinemas from 03/05/2019 and learn how to cancel your illegal mortgage and claim compensation from the Land Resgistry for your losses.
Reviews of the theatrical premiere
Savoy Cinema, Nottingham, Saturday the 10th of November 2019.
Here's what people are saying about the film online
A selection of 5 star reviews of the DVD from Amazon.co.uk.
5 Star Reviews of The Great British Mortgage Swindle
“A hard-hitting account of malpractice by UK mortgage lenders and the complicity of UK courts.
It documents a remedy available to potentially millions of mortgagors across England and Wales, thanks to the tenacious and fearless work of the documentary makers and a grassroots movement seeking justice for mortgagors wronged by the financial sector.”
Anthony O’Tierney, Accounting & Finance Lecturer Leicester University
"Buy this film even if you know most of the information or not. [...] It has taken a decade of emotional, psychological, and huge financial pain to the makers of this film and many others. Just by purchasing this film you are adding to the energy that is building. The time is coming. In fact the time is now!
Well done guys…awesome job! [...] 5 stars easy. I would have given 6 if I could!”
Truth Out UK
"Wow! everyone must see this movie.
If you have a mortgage you must see this movie, If your up for real world truth then you must see this movie, if you believe in any kind of justice you must see this movie.
These guy's are hero's forging history in a world of mass corruption."
Ken Perkin UK
"A superb documentary. I personally know the people involved in this film from ten years ago. What they have exposed here has the potential to shatter the entire banking system, if only the masses are willing to listen to their message. I applaud all who take on the might of the corrupt banks and the judicial system."
Nick Cooper Llamas, Wales
"Highlights the fraudulent nature of the 'death pledge' aka 'mortgage'. The clue's in the name folks. "
Master Andrah M Lang UK
"Finally the truth of the corruption of the system against the people. A brave documentary - big thank you to all involved."
M. Duchnowski UK
"So informative this is a must for each and everyone of us with mortgages, well done to Micheal and his team.."
Simone Simon UK
"Absolutely fantastic film, clearly bringing to the forefront the crimes being committed against innocent people who have had homes taken from them needlessly it's so shocking, sad and awful. A real eye opener! It reminds me of I am Daniel Blake. Another issue that desperately needed highlighted, so well done for bringing it to my attention I'm sure many more will agree once it's viewed. This film is a must watch for sure! Anyone posting negative reviews are only helping banks to harm victims of this awful crime which is shocking in itself, but you need to ask yourself who would take the time to come here to be so mean and know so much of those involved it makes no sense? Clearly this has been made to highlight the issue and HELP people in general for the future and those already effected, which is amazing! Well done to the producers and productions companies involved! This needs to go far!"
Jackie UK
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Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum: All aboard!
Zaha Hadid's first major building in Britain is complete – a triumphant transport museum for Glasgow. Jonathan Glancey straps himself in
Jonathan Glancey
Wed 1 Jun 2011 16.30 EDT First published on Wed 1 Jun 2011 16.30 EDT
Zigzag wonder … bikes on display at the Riverside Museum. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian
George Pinkerton was a rhubarb farmer, a speedway racer and a Spitfire pilot. The vintage motorcycle the Scot drove so perilously now sits proudly in Glasgow's new Riverside Museum, Zaha Hadid's first major building in Britain. A quietly charismatic affair, this transport museum will now build anticipation for Hadid's Aquatics Centre, destined to be one of the showpieces of the 2012 Olympics.
Pinkerton's motorbike is dwarfed, however, by the well-travelled local hero that dominates Riverside's main hall: a mighty locomotive built for South African Railways that pounded across the veldt from 1945 to 1988. This steam giant was recently returned to Glasgow, where it and countless others were built, popped on low-loaders, and taken through cheering crowds to the docks. Films and photographs of these events, stored at Riverside, prove a moving reminder of those glory days.
Despite its battleship bulk, Riverside, opening later this month, has already made itself at home on the site of an old shipyard. As I stroll around the spot, to the west of the city where the Kelvin meets the Clyde, the pleated walls of this snaking, zinc-clad building seem to blur into the low clouds and lugubrious waters, especially in the fine mist of rain that's been in my face since I came out of Partick station, a 10-minute walk away.
Perhaps inevitably, this building has been dubbed Glasgow's Guggenheim. Well, it's not. This is not a building that seems to have been dropped down into an alien setting, which it then dominates; instead, Riverside blends into the climate and culture of Glasgow and its riverscape, feeling like part of its great flow of architecture and history. "My grandfather was harbour master here in the 1960s," says local man Colin Campbell. "As a wee boy, I saw two ships sliding down the ramps into the Clyde. It made your heart thump. Hardened shipbuilders had tears streaming down their cheeks."
The steel and zinc roof, with its rippling zigzag, may have the drama of a Guggenheim spiral, but it looks to me like a heartbeat on a monitor, or tightly lapping waves – compressed, perhaps, by the sort of ocean liner that used to be launched into these waters. Seen from inside, those zigzags look like the keels of ships, moored above this vast expanse of pillar-less space that's home to trams, cars, locomotives, motorbikes, a tube train, a glider, ships, skateboards, prams, shoes and, well, pretty much anything that ever helped Glaswegians to move about.
The show starts right away. You walk in and – thump – the orange, green and cream trams are there to greet you, or even pick you up. Nearby, there's a green 1930s Bentley that ended up being used as a children's plaything in a Glasgow garden. And over there sits a beautiful Caledonian Single No 123, a high-striding locomotive built in just 66 days for the 1886 Edinburgh International Exhibition.
Although the museum is woven through with interactive guides, the building is still able to display more objects than it could in its old home in Kelvin Hall, which was limited to a still formidable 1,300. Riverside has room for 3,000 – and even that's just the tip of an iceberg. The museum owns 788 model ships alone, most longer than a bath, made by the Clyde yards as marketing tools or designs for boardrooms. Many of these, and a treasure trove of other artefacts, are still stored in a warehouse on the south side.
The aim at Riverside, with its lurid, pistachio-coloured galleries (a choice I found hard to adjust to), has been to appeal to all ages. Hands-on screens let children learn how to put out a fire in a tenement, or fire up and drive a Highland Railway Glen Class 4-4-0. The results are enchanting and funny.
Bobbing in the waters to the south of the museum, and reflected gloriously in its operatic pavement-to-roof windows, is another treat: Glenlee, a three-masted tall ship built near here. This 75-metre vessel braved Cape Horn 15 times and circumnavigated the globe four times before being turned into a floating, forgotten museum in Seville in the 1980s. She has since been rescued by the Clyde Maritime Trust.
Take me doon the watter
Glenlee provides more than just a fascinating detour: she encourages visitors to step out on to the water, without which Glasgow's transport history and this swirling museum would never have existed. Although the Clyde itself is far too quiet these days (the seals and otters spotted here recently might disagree), ferries do ply past as you lean on Glenlee's rails. The occasional seaplane splashes in to land, back from the highlands; helicopters whirl overhead; and trains race cars up to Oban.
The steel structure, itself an echo of the shipbuilder's craft, is testament to Hadid's respect for the sort of large-scale, seasoned engineering behind several of her major projects around the world. Many still imagine her buildings to be gratuitous, though, all art and artifice with little substance; and yet neither BMW, for whom she has built a production plant in Leipzig, nor the city of Wolfsburg, for whom she designed a science centre, would have commissioned her if they thought she lacked an understanding of their demanding and practical worlds.
The British, however, have been cautious. Although this is her first major British building, Hadid did do a modest Maggie's Centre in Kirkcaldy and a Brixton school. While Riverside's presence on the Clyde is unmistakable, you can see that every penny of the £74m budget has been spent carefully. In that respect, for all its scale, it's as lean as a Clyde-built clipper.
Spreading out from its main gallery are three street scenes complete with rescued shop, cafe and pub interiors, a hill-climb of cars associated with or built around Glasgow (remember the Hillman Imp?), not to mention an internal viewing bridge spanning much of the collection, and vast windows offering sudden views to the city beyond.
There are plans to put Riverside on the route of the Waverley, the world's last seagoing paddle-steamer. Famed in the city for taking Glasgwegians "doon the watter", the Waverley will be offered a landing stage close by. Given that she was launched from a slipway here in 1946, there could be few more welcome homecomings.
• This article was amended on 2 June 2011. The original sited Maggie's Centre in Falkirk. This has been corrected.
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This week’s new film events
Glasgow Film Festival | Secret Cinema
Steve Rose
@steverose7
Fri 12 Feb 2016 08.00 EST Last modified on Fri 29 Dec 2017 17.29 EST
Scarlett Johanson in Hail, Caesar! Photograph: UNIVERSAL PICTURES/BERLIN / HANDOUT/EPA
Coming so early in the calendar, this festival has its pick of the exciting new titles we’ll spend the rest of the year waiting for. Films such as Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers’ star-packed Hollywood homage, which opens the event. Not to mention new Disney animation Zootropolis, Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead, and the talked-about Green Room, featuring Patrick Stewart as a neo-Nazi. On the foreign-language side, there’s Oscar-nominated Turkish teen drama Mustang, Cannes-winner Dheepan and Norwegian disaster epic The Wave. And much more besides: 174 films in total, including a mini FrightFest, Bowie material, and guests from Richard Gere to Peter Greenaway. Plus some ingenious pop-up events: a Romeo + Juliet-style masked ball, The Man Who Fell To Earth at the Planetarium, and a Con Air event where you’re put in an orange jumpsuit and transported to a secret location.
Various venues, Wed to 28 Feb
Last summer’s Secret Cinema was such a success, it singlehandedly put The Empire Strikes Back back into the UK box office top 10 for 11 weeks. More than 100,000 visitors passed through its vast Star Wars-themed world (actually a derelict factory in Southwark) replete with a Tatooine bazaar and a nightly blowing-up-the-Death Star re-enactment featuring a full-size X-wing fighter. What will their next trick be? Well it’s a secret, obviously. Half the fun at this stage is attempting to decipher Secret Cinema’s cryptic promotional clues on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere – we’re getting a noir-ish, codebreaker-y, cold war kind of vibe so far. Ticket holders might get more of an idea once they’re given costume instructions. Tickets aren’t cheap (starting at £67), but four extra dates have been added and, as usual, it’s selling out fast.
Secret location, Wed to 20 Mar
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Netflix to raise prices for UK subscribers by up to 20%
Streaming firm says increases will let it spend more on shows as it looks to see off Disney+
Mark Sweney
@marksweney
Thu 30 May 2019 07.59 EDT Last modified on Thu 30 May 2019 19.20 EDT
Netflix has 10 million UK subscribers and has already raised prices elsewhere. Photograph: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Netflix is to raise prices for UK subscribers by up to 20% as it looks to invest more in programmes ahead of the arrival of deep-pocketed rival Disney’s eagerly anticipated service later this year.
The streaming company, which has not raised prices in the UK since 2017, is increasing the cost of a standard plan by £1 to £8.99 and premium by £2 to £11.99. The price of a basic plan remains unchanged at £5.99.
The basic plan allows viewing on a single device and only in standard definition. The standard subscription, which the vast majority of Netflix subscribers take, allows the use of two devices at the same time and high-definition viewing. A premium subscription permits viewing on up to four devices at a time, with the option of ultra-high definition.
The company, which has 10 million UK subscribers, said new customers will pay the higher rates immediately, while the increases will be implemented for existing users “over the coming weeks”.
Netflix has already raised prices in the US, as well as a number of markets in Latin America and the Caribbean that also use US dollars, with increases across western Europe also expected.
The company is looking to drive revenues from its customers, which number more than 150 million globally, as the company seeks to continue to fund its $15bn (£12bn) content budget and try to keep a cap on long-term costs and debt totalling about $30bn.
The price rises come ahead of the launch of Disney+ in the US later this year. At $6.99 a month, it will be about half the price of Netflix in the US, and will offer content including Star Wars, the Marvel superhero universe, films from the animation studio Pixar and movies such as Frozen and Beauty and the Beast.
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Netflix said that despite the price rises, it remains “great value for money compared to other options on offer in the UK”. A spokesman said the increases should be seen in context of the hundreds of millions the company has spent on UK-made content in the past few years, such as The Crown.
“We change our prices from time to time to reflect the significant investments we’ve made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product,” the spokesman said.
“We have more than 50 productions planned in the UK this year, including new seasons of Black Mirror, Sex Education and After Life. Our basic membership will remain at the same price, ensuring as many people as possible can enjoy our content.”
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Canadian beauty chain Deciem abruptly closes after founder's Instagram video
Brandon Truaxe claimed ‘major criminal activity’ at beauty firm
Deciem became cult hit with The Ordinary range
Guardian staff
Wed 10 Oct 2018 15.34 EDT Last modified on Wed 10 Oct 2018 18.32 EDT
Deciem’s The Ordinary range won celebrity fans, including Kim Kardashian West. Photograph: PR Company Handout
A Canadian beauty brand that has become a cult hit with its cut-price products line The Ordinary, and garnered attention from the likes of Kim Kardashian West and other celebrities is abruptly closing all of its stores, the Toronto Star reported.
Brandon Truaxe, the founder of Toronto-based Deciem, said in an Instagram video he posted over the weekend that he is shutting down operations until further notice.
Truaxe did not give a clear reason for the closure of the stores, which are often emblazoned with “the Abnormal Beauty Company” slogan, but in a bizarre series of posts alluded to criminal charges in the video.
“Please take me seriously,” he said. “Almost everyone at Deciem has been involved in a major criminal activity, which includes financial crimes and much other. You have no idea what a soldier I have been for 13 years.”
Truaxe listed his location for the post as the White House and named and tagged dozens of high-profile brands and people, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, RBC, Donald Trump and recent Deciem investor Estee Lauder Companies Inc in the missive.
In a statement made to the Canadian Press, Estee Lauder distanced itself from the matter by calling it a “minority” investor in the brand, and noting “we do not control the company’s operations, social media or personnel decisions”.
Truaxe founded Deciem in 2013 and shot to fame with droves of loyal fans, including Kim Kardashian West, who once raved about the brand’s The Ordinary Granactive Retinoid Two per cent Emulsion Serum.
Deciem sold its products, which include the popular The Ordinary line, online, in various department stores and at about 30 shops it opened in Canada, the US, the UK, Mexico, South Korea and the Netherlands.
On Tuesday, Deciem’s website noted almost all of them were closed and the phone went unanswered when the Canadian Press tried to reach managers at several locations.
Deciem has not commented. The Vox website has called Truaxe “the world’s most controversial beauty CEO” because of his flamboyant social media presence and personal interactions with customers – though also for high-profile firings, public spats and other antics, as reported by then fashion industry website Racked.
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A figment of Imagination: Boney kapoor slams Kerala DGP for Sridevi was murdered claim
Late superstar Sridevi's husband Boney kapoor reacted to the claim that her death was not caused by accidental drowning
Citing his forensic expert friend, who is not alive, Kerala DGP Prisons Rishiraj Singh said that Sridevi might have been murdered
Sridevi died last year in Dubai as a result of accidental drowning, where she went to attend a family wedding.
Sridevi's husband and film producer Boney kapoor spoke about Rishiraj Singh's sensational claim to the death of the actress by Kerala DGP (Prisons). In a column for the Kerala Kaumudi newspaper, Singh wrote that the death of Sridevi 'might not have been due to accidental drowning.' Boney kapoor told in.com, "I don't want to react to such stupid stories.
There's no need to react because such stupid stories keep coming. Basically, this is the figment of somebody's imagination." Rishiraj Singh, in his newspaper column, wrote, "My friend and late forensic expert Dr. Umadathan had told me for a long time that the death of Sridevi might have been a murder, not an accidental death. However, these facts were analyzed ad nauseam and they are not certain.
Several conspiracy theories have existed on the way the actress died since Sridevi's untimely death in February last year. The superstar was in UAE when news of her death left the entire nation in shock to attend a family wedding. The delay in her body's expatriation from the UAE also led many to believe that the way Sridevi died was unusual.
The UAE authorities confirmed drowning as the cause of death by Sridevi's post-mortem report. While that was supposed to be the end of all speculation, Sridevi fans still find it difficult to let go of their superstar, even a year after she breathed her last.
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War Memorial Stoke Bishop
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England Bristol Stoke Bishop
This memorial commemorates the residents of Stoke Bishop who were killed or missing in World War I (62 names) and World War II (39 names).
Many of these memorials were erected after the First World War. After the Second World War, the names of those who died in that war were also added to the memorial.
Photos: Linda Bailey
Funicular Railway Clifton Rocks - Bristol
Bomb Damage St. Nicholas Church - Bristol
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War Memorial St. John Parish - Clifton
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Commonwealth War Graves Holy Trinity Churchyard - Horfield
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Why Is the World's Largest Passenger Plane Facing the Scrap Heap?
by Oliver Smith
The Airbus A380 has not received a new order in two years; similarly, the Boeing 747-800 did not receive any new orders last year and may follow suit.
Airbus Gets Year-End Boost With $60bn Order Rush
by Alan Tovey
Airbus has reached agreements with China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings, AerCap and Indigo Partners for over 500 aircraft. Here's more.
Airbus Lands Biggest-Ever Order With $49.5bn Deal for 430 Airliners
Indigo Partners, a U.S.-based private equity group, will divide the jets among its Frontier Airlines, JetSMART, Volaris and Wizz Air carriers. Find out more about the deal.
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Manufactured Housing Development Gets Green Light On Hammond Road
By Beth Milligan | May 13, 2019
Construction could begin this summer on a 165-unit manufactured housing development on Hammond Road after East Bay Township planning commissioners approved site plans for the project last week.
The development, called Alta Vista, would be on an 80-acre vacant site just east of Grand Traverse Academy stretching between Hammond and Vanderlip roads. The developer is R.C. Hermann, the owner and developer of Tamarack Lodge and Woodcreek, another Traverse City manufactured housing community located off South Airport Road. Hermann obtained township approval last fall to rezone the Hammond parcel from medium density residential to manufactured housing community, allowing him to now build Alta Vista by right so long as he obtains necessary local and state approvals.
Lot sizes for the 165 homes in Alta Vista will range from 5,000 to 12,000 square feet, with a typical home consisting of three bedrooms and two baths at 1,500 square feet. Prices for that size of home will start at $128,000, a company representative told planning commissioners, with options to add on two-car garages, covered porches, decks, and sunrooms. All units will be owned – not leased or rented – and will include access to a 5,132 square-foot community clubhouse offering a swimming pool, outdoor hot tub, pickleball court, and walking and exercise trail.
Petra Kuehnis of Mansfield Land Use Consultants, engineering consultants for the project, said the property site “is pretty much cleared and open in the middle, with a lot of wetlands and woodland along the edges, creating a natural buffer that would be maintained.” As with Woodcreek, Alta Vista will be “screened and buffered” from the main adjoining road – in this case, Hammond Road – providing a “a nice enclosed and private development,” Kuehnis said. The project would be built in two phases, with construction beginning on the southern half of the site and a connection to Vanderlip and then later expanding to the northern half of the development. Kuehnis said the second phase would likely quickly follow the first, “based on the popularity of Woodcreek and…the reception of this project for people interested.”
Planning commissioners and staff expressed enthusiasm about the Alta Vista concept, saying the location was well-suited for the development. “I like where it’s at, I like the fact that it's going to be a big development but it’s going to be very well-screened, kind of like Woodcreek,” said Planning Commissioner Ted Hentschel. “You don’t hardly even know it’s there. It’s a beautiful place to live.” Planning Commissioner Daniel Leonard agreed. “I like the development, I’m great with it,” he said. “I feel like you’ve maximized the legitimacy of the land in terms of what you’re going to use it for.”
Two significant concerns arose during planning commissioners’ review of the project, however, which ultimately prompted them to add conditions to their unanimous approval of Hermann’s site plan. The first was potential impacts to wetland areas on the property site; the second was traffic impacts on Vanderlip Road. Developers plan to leave most of the wetlands on the property untouched – protecting 30-plus acres of open natural areas – but plan to build a vehicle crossing over a small section of wetlands near the development entrance. The group will also seek to fill in approximately 850 square feet of wetlands, or 0.2 acres, in another area to accommodate a housing lot. Grand Traverse Baykeeper Heather Smith of The Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay wrote to township officials expressing concerns about wetlands impact and requesting that the bridge crossing be built in a way to accommodate the natural flow of wetlands underneath it.
Township officials noted wetlands approval will run through the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy (EGLE, formerly the Department of Environmental Quality), with the department usually imposing conditions on developers if they’re disturbing wetlands. “Typically if there's impacts to wetlands, the (EGLE) will have some kind of mitigation requirements,” said Township Planner Rick Brown. Planning commissioners included a stipulation in their approval that if any other governmental departments require changes to the project plans – such as the EGLE, Grand Traverse County’s soil and erosion department, or Michigan’s Manufactured Housing Commission – the site plans must come back to township staff for review and determination whether they require new approval from the planning commission.
Planning commissioners were most concerned about traffic impacts from Alta Vista on Vanderlip Road, as the neighborhood will have road access from both Hammond and Vanderlip. The Grand Traverse County Road Commission issued permits for the two proposed access drives and did not require developers to conduct a traffic study for the development. Planning commissioners pointed out they did not have jurisdiction to supersede those approvals or impose additional traffic or road requirements on developers. Instead, they included a condition in their site plan approval that Hermann consider their recommendation to reduce traffic impacts to Vanderlip Road wherever possible. That could include requiring all construction trucks accessing the site during the building phase to use only Hammond Road. “The biggest concern I have going through this myself is the impact to Vanderlip or the potential for those who already live on it,” said Leonard. “That road is really going to take a lot more abuse than what it’s been accustomed to.”
Even with concerns about traffic and wetlands impact, township officials said the opportunity to bring more affordable housing was a significant one for East Bay Township. “One of our goals has been trying to find ways to have more affordable housing, and this is certainly going to be more affordable than a lot of the housing we have in East Bay Township or the Traverse City area,” Brown said.
With the township’s approval, Hermann will next go forward with obtaining final approvals from other regulatory agencies. While he had hoped to break ground on Alta Vista this month, according to Kuehnis, certain approvals like wetlands permits from the EGLE can take up to 60 days. That means the soonest construction could likely start is later this summer. In the meantime, the development group has already launched a website to begin accepting home reservations for Alta Vista.
Pictured: Future site of Alta Vista (off Hammond Road, on property listed as For Sale)
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On Friday and Saturday, July 19 & 20, The Salvation Army Traverse City Corps will hold its annual Christmas in July Red Kettle Campaign at businesses across ...
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“You can all to go to hell; I will go to Texas.” – Davy Crockett
You can’t really explain Texas. Sure you’ve got your expectations. We’re all cowboys. We talk funny. We spend most of our time drilling oil and riding mechanical bulls. Some of that might be true (y’all are the ones that talk funny), but that ain’t the whole truth.
Texas is big and Texas is complicated and we’ve got more history and wisdom than most of the rest of the country combined (sorry Delaware, that’s just a fact).
Some years back a man compiled a list of sayings and stories and dubbed it the “Wit and Wisdom of Texas”. Never read the book, but I’ve read many like it. Books don’t have enough pages for all the wit and wisdom of the great state of Texas. But here’s a list for beginners, a small compilation of genuine homespun Texan wit and even some non-Texans perfectly describing the Texas “Spirit”, so without further ado:
It’s a common misconception that everything is twice as big in Texas, really, everything is 1.965 times bigger. We round up.
“Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.” Senator William Blakley
You’ve got a ten-gallon mouth.
It don’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.
Always drink upstream from the heard.
A good horse is never a bad color.
Every fish ever caught had it’s mouth open.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Nobody ever drowned in sweat.
He’s as yellow as mustard, but without the bite.
If you put his brains in a bumblebee he would fly backwards.
He has more guts than you can hang on a fence.
You Know You’re in Texas When:
-You can tell a rock from an armadillo at 300 yards.
-You have owned at least one belt buckle bigger than your fist.
-You know all four seasons: almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
“Any fellow who will cheat for you will cheat against you.” – Congressman Sam Rayburn
“I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston freeways.” – A.J.Foyt, NASCAR driver
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Toshiba preps 128 GB SSDs for Q1
by Wolfgang Gruener December 11, 2007 at 11:20 AM
Tokyo (Japan) - Toshiba is the next data storage giant announcing its entry into the increasingly popular solid state disk (SSD) storage market.
The company said it will be begin sampling solid state disk drives in February of next year with mass production expected to begin as early as March 2008 : Toshiba will be offering both SATA-2 SSD modules as well as SATA-2 drives in 1.8” and 2.5” form factors in 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB capacities. The modules are scheduled to be introduced in March, while the drives will be hitting the market in May.
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Toshiba said that the new storage devices are designed to be “primarily” used in notebook PCs.
The company’s announcement is adding fuel to speculations that SSDs could see significant price drops over today’s $500+ 32 GB versions drives. In fact, Toshiba may be the most important company to bring a new dynamic to a market that largely has been dominated by Samsung so far : According to iSuppli, Toshiba is the world’s second largest NAND flash supplier with a market share of 27.2% in Q3 of this year. Market leader Samsung, which began shipping SSDs earlier this year, is estimated to hold a share of 40.2%.
Toshiba said that its SSDs will use NAND flash produced in 56 nm technology and will integrate an original MLC controller “supporting fast read-write speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling, and achieve performance levels comparable to those of single-level NAND flash SSDs.” The use of multi-level cells was key to achieve a density of 128 GB, the firm noted.
The maximum read speed of the SSD products is rated at 100 MB/s ; the maximum write speed is 40MB/s with a SATA-2 interface. The operating life of the drives is rated at 1,000,000 hours.
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New Ransomware Targets QNAP’s Network-Attached …
by Top Cyber News / Thursday, 11 July 2019 / Published in Attacks
More than 19,000 systems in the US are potentially at risk from eCh0raix.
Researchers at Anomali have spotted a new ransomware strain that is targeting users of QNAP Systems’ network-attached storage (NAS) devices.
The operators of the malware appear to be gaining access to the devices either by brute-forcing weak credentials or by exploiting known vulnerabilities in them. However, the exact infection vector remains unclear for the moment, the security vendor said in an advisory released Wednesday.
The ransomware, dubbed eCh0raix, seems designed for targeted attacks and not just for mass distribution. Hard-coded encryption keys in some samples of the malware that Anomali analyzed appeared to have unique decryption keys associated with them, meaning the same decryptor would not work for all victims.
Taiwan-based QNAP is a relatively major player in the NAS market worldwide.
“We have seen a fully ‘offline’ version and a version that reaches out to the C2 server to fetch the bitcoin wallet and public key before it starts,” says Joakim Kennedy, threat intelligence manager at Anomali.
The online version alerts its command-and-control server when it starts and finishes encrypting files on an infected device. However, the information that is sent back to the C2 server does not contain any tracking data that would reveal the identity of the victim to the attacker.
The offline version, on the other hand, has the encryption information embedded in the malware and seems compiled for specific targets. The hard-coded public key in these samples is used to encrypt the AES key that encrypts and decrypts the files, Kennedy says.
eCh0raix is the latest example of ransomware being used in targeted attacks. Numerous security vendors have reported a substantial decline in general ransomware activity in the last few months. However, at the same time, there has been a sharp increase in attacks targeting enterprise organizations.
In its “2019 Internet Security Threat Report,” Symantec noted ransomware infections on endpoints dropping by 20% in 2018 compared with the year before — the first drop in volume since 2013. Significantly, though, 81% of all ransomware infections last year involved enterprises — a sharp reversal from a few years ago when consumers were the primary targets.
Poorly Protected Systems
With eCh0raix, the threat actor behind it is targeting QNAP NAS devices that people use for backups and file storage purposes. Such devices typically do not run antivirus or anti-malware products, which means eCH0raix is able to run on them with little risk of being detected. The samples that Anomali analyzed were detected by just two or three anti-malware tools on VirusTotal, Anomali said.
It’s unclear if the operators of eCh0raix are targeting older QNAP devices or more recent ones, but it is likely they are scanning the Internet for accessible devices. Based on Anomali’s own Internet-wide scans, there appears to be currently over 19,000 publicly facing QNAP devices in the US. It’s unclear how many of these devices are deployed in enterprise organizations, Kennedy says.
What makes the malware interesting is that it is targeting NAS devices, Kennedy notes. Besides having relatively little protection, such devices are usually used to store important files and backups especially in enterprise settings. Therefore, NAS devices present a potentially lucrative target for ransomware authors, he says.
Some victims of the malware have reported seeing a high number of failed login attempts just before being infected, suggesting a brute-force credential attack. Others have reported their systems as not being fully patched, suggesting the attackers may be exploiting vulnerabilities on QNAP NAS devices.
From a technical standpoint, eCh0raix is a fairly basic ransomware tool written in the Go programming language. Before the malware executes, it kills off several processes on the infected machine and looks for certain files to avoid, such as /boot/, /proc/, /sys/, /run/, and /dev/, Anomali said. It then looks for and encrypts all data, image, media, and memory dump-related files on the system.
The malware is another reminder for enterprises to lock down all their Internet-facing assets, Kennedy says. “Organizations should perform asset management and ensure that only necessary devices are publicly facing,” he says. “Strong login credentials should be used and systems should be kept updated with the latest patches to ensure that exploitation is less likely.”
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About one-quarter of senior households receive OTA TV programming, says study
Of the 24 percent of households of Americans 65 years old and older, only 17 percent watch OTA programming with a DTV, according to a new study from the Association of Public Television Stations.
Nearly one in four households with seniors 65 years old and older, receive TV programming over-the-air, according to a study released last month from the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS). By way of comparison, the percentage of older Americans relying on over-the-air programming is five percent higher than younger OTA households.
The study also found that of all OTA senior households, only 17 percent own a digital TV.
The new APTS study also found that 41 percent of Americans 65 and older and 55 percent of those younger than 65 have purchased a new television set in the past three years. That suggests that the older viewing population may not be as attuned to recent changes in TV appliance offerings and may not be spending as much time in retail outlets that sell TV sets, the study concluded.
Results are based on about 12,000 telephone interviews concluded in the first quarter of 2007.
For more information, visit: www.apts.org.
APTS study finds OTA households slow to transition to DTV
A new study from the Association of Public Television Stations indicates slow movement to adopt DTV sets or subscribe to pay TV in preparation for the digital transition by over-the-air TV households.
One-quarter of global Internet traffic involves piracy, new study says
A study commissioned by NBCUniversal and conducted by Envisional also found that less than 20 percent of U.S. Internet traffic involves digital theft.
CEA says 7 percent watch OTA TV only; NAB cries foul
New research from the Consumer Electronics Association finds that less than 10 percent watch only OTA television, but NAB questions the findings.
80 million OTA TVs still in use, says study
Results of a survey conducted by Consumer Reports publisher Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America also indicate 15 percent of TVs are used exclusively to receive OTA television transmissions
North American, Western European households show interest in TV Everywhere, says Parks Associates
The study found between 15 percent and 30 percent of broadband households are willing to pay additional fees to obtain this service.
62 percent of OTA households have requested converter coupons
According to acting NTIA administrator Meredith Baker, 17 million households have requested more than 33.5 million coupons
Roughly one-third of households tuning into DTV, says CEA
Recent data shows about 30 percent of U.S. households tuned into digital broadcasts as the 2006 came to a close, propelled in part by lower DTV set prices.
OTT digital video receivers grow in popularity among U.S. broadband households, says Parks Associates
A new survey from the research firm finds 31 percent of U.S. broadband households regularly watch TV programs or movies accessed via the Internet on their TVs.
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Capitulo 50 (S03E50) is the fiftieth episode of season three of "The Mutants: Paths of the Hear... More Capitulo 50 (S03E50) is the fiftieth episode of season three of "The Mutants: Paths of the Heart" released on Tue May 19, 2009. The Mutants: Paths of the Heart stars Bianca Rinaldi as Maria Beatriz, Leonardo Vieira as Marcelo Montenegro and Letícia Medina as Tatiana Montenegro.
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Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch
Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch: MicroISV on a Shoestring
The team is manifestly out of their depth with regards to web application security, and it is almost certainly impossible for them to gather the required expertise and still hit their timetable for public release in a month. You might believe in the powers of OSS to gather experts (or at least folks who have shipped a Rails app, like myself) to Diaspora’s banner and ferret out all the issues. You might also believe in magic code-fixing fairies. Personally, I’d be praying for the fairies because if Diaspora is dependent on the OSS community their users are screwed. There are, almost certainly, exploits as severe as the above ones left in the app, and there almost certainly will be zero-day attacks by hackers who would like to make the headline news. “Facebook Competitor Diaspora Launches; All Users Data Compromised Immediately” makes for a smashing headline in the New York Times, wouldn’t you say?
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The Biz School Chronicles :: On Enonomies of Scale and Invention vs Innovation
Today, a friend shared an interesting article. Titled "The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart", its essence was the story how Jim Wier, CEO of the lawn-equipment company Simplicity stopped selling Snapper branded lawn mowers via Wal-Mart.
"In 2002, Jim Wier's company, Simplicity, was buying Snapper, a complementary company with a 50-year heritage of making high-quality residential and commercial lawn equipment. Wier had studied his new acquisition enough to conclude that continuing to sell Snapper mowers through Wal-Mart stores was, as he put it, "incompatible with our strategy. And I felt I owed them a visit to tell them why we weren't going to continue to sell to them."Selling Snapper lawn mowers at Wal-Mart wasn't just incompatible with Snapper's future--Wier thought it was hazardous to Snapper's health. Snapper is known in the outdoor-equipment business not for huge volume but for quality, reliability, durability. A well-maintained Snapper lawn…
Creating Shazam in Java
"Shazam is an application which you can use to analyse/match music. When you install it on your phone, and hold the microphone to some music for about 20 to 30 seconds, it will tell you which song it is.
When I first used it it gave me a magical feeling. “How did it do that!?”. And even today, after using it a lot, it still has a bit of magical feel to it.
Wouldn’t it be great if we can program something of our own that gives that same feeling? That was my goal for the past weekend." Read the complete post here
A nice experiment. The author got into trouble for patent infringement. But that's expected I guess :)
Re-targeting Technology - "The Pants That Stalked Me on the Web"
The Pants That Stalked Me on the Web - Advertising Age - DigitalNext
"I surfed over to my favorite apparel website, Zappos, now a part of Amazon.
After a few clicks, Zappos' recommendation engine went to work and started offering me the selections that people who looked at the same shorts I did ultimately bought -- a cool idea and a feature that has been useful to me in the past.
Then, I abandoned the search and did something else. That's when the weirdness started.
In the five days since, those recommendations have been appearing just about everywhere I've been on the web, including MSNBC, Salon, CNN.com and The Guardian. The ad scrolls through my Zappos recommendations: Hurley, Converse by John Varvatos, Quicksilver, Rip Curl, Volcom. Whatever. At this point I've started to actually think I never really have to go back to Zappos to buy the shorts -- no need, they're following me."
That story might sound creepy at first. But I find the technology both fascin…
What Big Brands Are Spending on Google
What Big Brands Are Spending on Google - Advertising Age - Digital
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Among Google's biggest spenders are businesses that depend on search traffic, including those that resell AdWords or simply buy Google traffic to resell to their own advertisers, including Hungry Machine, which does business under the name Living Social, which spent $2.4 million in June, and Yellowpages.com, which spent $1.2 million.
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I've been reading iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business for a while now. Well, with work, studies and other stuff, it's hard to finish reading a book in a single sitting these days, hence the "for-a-while". I'm almost at the end of Part Two of the book and kept coming across a software called RenderMan. Render…
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The same is true in the way employees are harnessing consumer technologies social, mobile, video, and cloud. They're improving how they do their jobs and solving your customer and business problems. And it's not just a few employees; it's a critical mass of employees. In a survey of more than 4,000 U.S. information workers, we found that 37% are using do-it-yourself technologies without IT's permission. LinkedIn, Google Docs, Smartsheet.com, Facebook, iPads, YouTube, Dropbox, Flipboard the list is long and growing. Many of these scenarios are do-it-yourself pr…
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Syndicate EMEA 1 is led by Tarja Saikkonen and is responsible for providing P&I and Defence claims and advisory services to Members largely based in Northern Europe and Africa.
Duty Executive Mobile: +44 7768 143878, +44 7768 143882
Fax no: +44 20 7549 4228, +44 20 7549 4226
Team mailbox: london.ukclub@thomasmiller.com
Please use the team mailbox for all case related matters so that they are dealt with centrally. Using the team mailbox ensures that in the absence of the claims handler there is no delay in retrieving your message.
Tarja Saikkonen
Syndicate Manager
work +44 20 7204 2406
cell +44 7813 709990
tarja.saikkonen@thomasmiller.com
Tarja joined Thomas Miller in 2000. She has an MSc in Economics and Business Studies from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Tarja previously worked in the Claims Department of a liner company as Claims Adjuster.
Adam Russ
Senior Claims Director
adam.russ@thomasmiller.com
Adam is a qualified as a solicitor. After working for another P&I Club, Adam headed the legal and insurance department of a leading ship operating company for 7 years before joining Thomas Miller.
Mark Dawson
mark.dawson@thomasmiller.com
Mark is a former Merchant Navy deck officer sailing on a variety of vessel types including product tankers, container ships, general cargo, reefer, Ro-Ro and seismic survey ships. Mark worked with another International Group P&I Club for a number of years and was the Manager of the Admiralty Claims team. In 2010 Mark joined a leading London law firm as an Admiralty Manager where he was involved in attending and investigating casualties including salvage, fires, cargo explosions, collisions, property damage claims, groundings, unsafe ports, damage to submarine cables, cargo liquefaction and piracy. Mark joined Thomas Miller in 2014 and is a Senior Claims Director within Syndicate EMEA 1.
Michael Cox
Senior Claims Director - UK Defence
michael.cox@thomasmiller.com
Michael is a qualified solicitor with 25 years experience of working in maritime claims, initially with a leading law firm before joining another P&I Club. He moved to Thomas Miller in 2012 where he has overall responsibility for the management of Defence Club claims for Members serviced by Syndicate EMEA 1.
john.turner@thomasmiller.com
John worked for a ship agent, a shipowner and as Club correspondent in Ireland before joining Thomas Miller P&I in 1987. He is currently in EMEA 1 and is responsible for the team’s operational performance and service delivery. He also sits on the Senior Claims Directors’ team, a team of senior claims executives who have the task of working alongside case executives on the resolution of major claims which account for 70 per cent of the Club’s claims payments.
Throughout his career at Thomas Miller, John has worked closely with Members involved in the cruise and ferry sectors and has particular expertise in handling passenger ship casualties and cruise curtailment claims.
Francesco Tundo
Senior Claims Executive
work +44 (0) 20 7204 2587
cell 07795 497065
Francesco.tundo@thomasmiller.com
Francesco is an English qualified solicitor and has worked and trained at a leading London shipping firm for nearly nine years, where he dealt with both FD&D and P&I related claims. Francesco is fluent in both English and Italian. Francesco joined Thomas Miller in June 2016 and is a Senior Claims Executive, providing P&I and Defence claims and advisory services to Members in EMEA 1.
Helena Biggs
work 0207 204 2414
cell 07827 552 977
helena.biggs@thomasmiller.com
Helena qualified as a solicitor with a leading London maritime firm in 1999 and spent two years working as a UK qualified solicitor in Sydney, Australia before returning to private practice in London. Helena moved in-house to another IG P&I Club in 2004 where she dealt with a wide range of FD&D and P&I claims before joining Thomas Miller in 2018.
Neil Beckwith
work +44 207 204 2935
neil.beckwith@thomasmiller.com
Neil joined Thomas Miller in 1992 having completed his studies in Business and Finance. He initially worked in underwriting before transferring to the personal injury syndicate where he handled a variety of people related claims with a particular focus on Members based in Turkey. He was also responsible for the account management of a large UK based crew manager.
In 2003, Neil transferred to the IT department to manage projects associated with the Club’s award winning electronic claims management system. He then left Thomas Miller to work as an IT project manager for some of the leading London Market insurers.
Neil returned to P&I in 2011 joining the personal injury team of another London based P&I Club before re-joining Thomas Miller in November 2013 where he continues to handle a broad range of people related claims concentrating on Members based in Germany.
Ursula Whittaker
ursula.whittaker@thomasmiller.com
Ursula joined Thomas Miller in 1990, working at that time with the Far East team. Over the intervening years, Ursula has worked with the Russian, Belgian, Dutch and Italian Members, handling both P&I and FDD claims, for owners and charterers in the tanker, bulker and container markets. Ursula now supports the Club's German Membership.
Sarah Valentine
cell +44 (0) 7785 305399
sarah.valentine@thomasmiller.com
Sarah is a qualified lawyer in England and worked for a major maritime law firm in London specialising in shipping and international trade. Sarah will handle P&I and Defence claims.
Richard Offord
richard.offord@thomasmiller.com
Richard joined Thomas Miller in 1997 and has a wealth of experience in handling a wide variety of P&I and FDD claims across all sectors of the shipping industry. Richard has assisted the majority of the Members across the European region in his time with Thomas Miller, but now predominantly focuses on those based in Northern Europe.
Genevieve Holloway
genevieve.holloway@thomasmiller.com
Genevieve joined Thomas Miller in 2007 having worked as a Deck Officer in the Merchant Navy for four years where she served on cruise ships up to the rank of Second Officer. She has a BSc (Hons) degree in Merchant Ship Operations and a Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law. As a member of the dedicated people claims syndicate, Genevieve handles a variety of people related claims for a wide selection of the Club's Members, with a particular focus on our European Members. She also has particular expertise in handling all types of claims for the Club's cruise ship Members, including passenger ship casualties and cruise curtailments.
Victoria Brown (VB)
victoria.brown@thomasmiller.com
Victoria joined Thomas Miller in 2008. She is a qualified solicitor and prior to joining the company, worked for a City law firm for 10 years, where she mainly handled personal injury litigation.
As a member of the people claims team, Victoria handles a wide variety of people related claims, focusing particularly on crew and passenger claims for French and US members. She also handles occupational disease, stowaway claims and claims arising from stevedore injuries.
Alison McClure
alison.mcclure@thomasmiller.com
Alison is a qualified South African solicitor. She specialised in Maritime Law at a leading South African law firm for four years, during which time she was seconded to Thomas Miller. Alison returned to Thomas Miller in 2007, handling P&I and Defence claims. In November 2013, Alison assumed the role of Deputy Syndicate Manager and subsequently made Syndicate Manager in 2017. Alison is now a Senior Claims Executive within EMEA 1 and is responsible for the Club’s German Members.
Filip Koscielecki
Claims Executive
Filip.Koscielecki@thomasmiller.com
Filip qualified as a solicitor in 2015 at one of the leading London shipping law firms where, prior to his legal training, he was a senior Risk & Compliance officer. He joined Thomas Miller in December 2015 and is handling a variety of defence and P&I cases.
Amanda Hastings
amanda.hastings@thomasmiller.com
Amanda joined Thomas Miller as a claims handler in January 2015 from HFW, where she worked in shipping litigation. Prior to this she worked in supply chain management for an international retailer. Amanda has recently joined LS2 from the Club’s People Claims Syndicate and now deals primarily with the German membership. A fluent German speaker, Amanda read Law at Sheffield University and Trier University. She is currently studying for the postgraduate diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) and is about to complete the International Group’s P&I Qualification. Amanda is actively involved with the London Shipping community and sits on the Young Maritime Professionals Committee for the London Shipping Law Centre.
Mikaela Andersson
work + 44 (0) 20 7204 2206
cell +44 (0) 7881 210 009
mikaela.andersson@thomasmiller.com
Mikaela joined Thomas Miller in 2015 after completing her BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology. She is currently working as a Claims Executive in Syndicate EMEA 1, handling a range of P&I matters for Members. Mikaela speaks Swedish and is currently studying for her P&IQ, accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).
Navin Dhillon
Trainee Claims Executive
cell +44 752 329 4190
navin.dhillon@thomasmiller.com
Navin joined us in October 2018 as a Trainee Claims Executive. Prior to joining Thomas Miller, he completed an LLB in Law and an LLM in International Maritime Law from Swansea University. He has previously spent time gaining legal work experience at the National Assembly for Wales and has also worked for law firms in China and Malaysia.
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Programme: LLM Option: Mercantile Law (Coursework)
04250096 Faculty of Law Duration of study: 2 years Total credits: 200
Prof DJ Lotz
[email protected] +27 (0)124202877
Closing date for applications: SA applicants – 31 October; non-SA applicants – 31 August.
This programme is availabe for international students.
The duration of the programme will in general be four semesters (2 years) but may be completed within two semesters (1 year) where possible, subject to fulfilment of all the requirements for the degree and payment of the full amount prescribed for the LLM degree. Programmes may also be structured to allow for one year of study only. The one- or two-year period may only be extended by the Postgraduate Committee on recommendation of the Head of Department based on good reason shown and if it is clear that the student will be able to complete the programme in a further year of study.
Unless stated otherwise, the curriculum will generally consist of:
Three modules counting 30 credits each (at least one of these modules must be completed during the first year of registration).
A module in research methodology (RHP 801) counting 5 credits (this module must be completed during the first year of registration).
A research proposal (RHP 803) counting 5 credits. The student must submit the research proposal (RHP 803) to the supervisor not later than the end of the first semester of the second year of registration for the LLM degree, prior to commencing with the writing of the mini-dissertation. This period may be extended with the approval of the head of department.
A mini-dissertation is required. The examination copy of the mini-dissertation must be submitted to the Student Administration not later than the end of October for the Autumn Graduation Ceremony and the end of April for the Spring Graduation Ceremony and end of August for the December ceremony. After approval of the examination copy of the mini-dissertation, a final version must be submitted to Student Administration on or before 15 February for the Autumn Graduation Ceremony and 15 July for the Spring Graduation Ceremony and 15 November for the December graduation ceremony. This mini-dissertation must deal with the subject content of one of the modules or a combination of the modules registered for by the student for his/her LLM degree. Any request for an extension of the period for submission of the mini-dissertation may only be granted by the Postgraduate Committee on recommendation of the head of department.
Also consult General Regulations G.30-G.56 as well as the LLM Policy Document of the Faculty.
An LLB, BProc or equivalent qualification from a foreign university that allows the applicant entrance to the formal legal profession.
In addition to an LLB, BProc or equivalent qualification from a foreign university that allows the applicant entrance to the formal legal profession, the following requirements are set for admission of a prospective student to the LLM Coursework programme:
A minimum average mark of 65% with respect to the prescribed final-year modules of the undergraduate programme is required for admission to an LLM coursework programme.
Where an average of below 65% is achieved, the student may be admitted on recommendation of the relevant head of department after consultation with the programme coordinator and consideration of other merits (eg relevant professional experience; the applicant’s performance in undergraduate modules related to the particular LLM; the candidate’s performance in independent research essays or similar components) and/or an admission examination.
Linguistic competence, primarily in English; foreign applicants who did not complete undergraduate studies through the medium of English must show proof of competence in English at a minimum average level of 6 out of 10 for IELTS or a minimum total score of 83 in TOEFL calculated as follows: reading 21, listening 17, speaking 23 and writing 22. In any other instance where there is doubt as to the English linguistic competence of an applicant, the Dean may require the same proof as prescribed for foreign applicants.
Foreign qualifications are subject to SAQA evaluation. (Some LLM coursework programmes or modules as indicated in the yearbook may only be available to students who hold a relevant South African legal qualification.)
Even though a student may comply with the above requirements, the Dean may, on the recommendation of the head of department presenting a specific degree or module, refuse to accept a prospective student for any LLM programme if such a student's performance in the chosen modules or field of study during undergraduate study was not satisfactory. Alternatively, the Dean could set additional requirements with a view to admission
An admission examination may also be required in respect of a particular programme or module.
Particular LLM programmes have additional selection criteria and deadlines specific to those programmes.
One of a specific list of modules may be substituted with any other LLM coursework module as recommended by the programme coordinator and approved by the head of department.
Some modules are not offered to students without a South African LLB or BProc degree.
The mini-dissertation must comprise 13 000-15 000 words – including footnotes but excluding the list of contents and the bibliography.
The following are possible electives for this degree but not all of them are offered every year. Please contact the faculty to find out which of these modules will be offered.
Three of the following modules must be elected:
GSR 802 Advanced social security law (30 credits)
ITL 801 Advanced income tax law (30 credits)
TBL 802 Advanced transnational business law [prerequisite: TBR 420] (30 credits)
BNK 802 Banking law (30 credits)
KUB 802 Information and communications technology (30 credits)
IDT 802 Indirect tax (30 credits)
IIL 801 International insolvency law (30 credits)
SKC 802 Law of specific contracts (30 credits)
SCL 801 Statutory competition law (30 credits)
Examinations and pass requirements
In the event of having failed all modules during a particular year of study, a student will only be allowed to continue with his/her studies with the consent of the Postgraduate Committee. Although no supplementary examination will be granted with regard to LLM and MPhil modules, the General Regulations (Regulation G.12.3 and G.12.6) apply with regard to special and ancillary examinations.
The relevant head of department must recommend a supervisor and title for a mini-dissertation and these must be approved by the Postgraduate Committee. The mini-dissertation must be assessed and finalised as set out in the Faculty Board-approved LLM Policy Document of the Faculty. Mini-dissertations, where required, must be submitted in the format determined by the supervisor and approved by the Postgraduate Committee. The supervisor may likewise and subject to the approval of the Postgraduate Committee also determine the research topic and the scope of the proposed research.
For the degree to be awarded with distinction a student must obtain an average of at least 75% for all the coursework modules, as well as a minimum of 75% for the mini-dissertation. The modules must have been written for the first time.
The medium of instruction will be English. However, should circumstances allow it, an LLM module may be presented in Afrikaans. The Dean, in consultation with the relevant head of department, determines the language policy.
Period of registration
At the commencement of a particular module students should be registered for that module and attend the lectures. Alternatively, the permission of the programme coordinator or head of the department should be obtained before a student may be allowed to follow a specific module in a another year of study.
Limiting of modules on offer in a particular academic year and availability to foreign students
The Dean determines which modules will be presented each year, taking into consideration the availability of lecturing personnel, space and financial implications and/or other circumstances. The Dean may, on recommendation of the relevant head of department, determine the maximum number of registrations for a specific elective module in terms of the prescribed guidelines. The Dean may also, on recommendation of the relevant head of department, determine that a particular LLM module will not be offered where on the first day of lectures four or fewer students are registered for such module.
In the case of foreign students additional requirements may be set by the Dean and the modules available to such students may also be limited.
Replacement of modules
The Dean may, on recommendation of the relevant Head of Department, allow a student to replace one prescribed LLM module for a particular master's programme with another LLM module where such an exception is not otherwise permitted, on condition that good cause is shown why such an exception is required.
Credit for modules completed at another institution
The Dean may, on the recommendation of the relevant head of department, credit a student for a maximum of two modules completed at another institution on condition that it complies with the requirements of this Faculty. Where such modules do not bear the same titles as modules offered at this Faculty, modules with substantially the same content as determined by the relevant head of department may be granted credit in their place, or where, in the absence of such closely related modules, modules that are still relevant within the broad ambit of a specific LLM degree may be granted credit under special codes for the purposes of such a degree. Additional requirements may also be set before any such module will be granted credit in order to ensure compliance with the requirements of this Faculty.
Credit for non-legal components
In order to qualify for an LLM degree with non-legal components, the specific degree can at most include one non-legal module of the prescribed number of modules from a related field, and with the special permission from the Faculty Board.
Note that credit will not be given for modules which form part of another degree where the student has already complied with the requirements of such a degree. This rule is also applicable in instances where the student is currently also registered for another degree.
Re-registration for modules
A student may not register more than twice for the same module. In order to pass a module the student must obtain a final mark of 50%.
RHP 801
(a) Planning and organising a research project
(b) Drafting a research proposal: Hypotheses and research question
(c) Theory in research and methodological approaches to legal research
(d) Language
(e) Citation and ethics of citation
(f) Drafting of chapters and presentation
IDT 802
Indirect tax 802
(a) The basic working of VAT (b) Output tax (c) Input tax (d) Exempt supplies (e) Zero-rated supplies (f) Adjustments in respect of change of use (g) Objection and appeal procedure under the VAT Act
IIL 801
International insolvency law 801
The module comprises a capita selecta from contemporary issues relating to the law of international insolvency. Aspects dealt with include the following:
(a) Modern trends and developments in insolvency law
(b) Current issues in international insolvency law
(c) Cross-border insolvency law systems in South Africa as well as in selected other jurisdictions
ITL 801
Advanced income tax law 801
a) The basic principles pertaining to gross income
(b) Specific inclusions in gross income – interest, royalties, etc
(c) General principles pertaining to deductible expenses
(d) Examples of allowable and non-allowable deductions – rent, improvements, royalties, etc
(e) Tax evasion and tax avoidance under the Income Tax Act
(f) Objection and appeal procedures
SKC 802
Law of specific contracts 802
A. Sale
1. General principles
2. Capita selecta from:
(a) Historical background of the deed of sale
(b) Methods of determining the subject matter: purchase price and thing sold
(c) Formalities regulations for sale of land
(d) The Actio Empti, Actio Redhibitoria and Actio Quanti Minoris
(e) Transfer of ownership and warranty against eviction
(f) Payment of price: suspensive condition
(g) Benefit and risk
B. Lease
(a) Nature of the contract of lease
(b) Essentialia
(c) Rental Housing Act 50 of 1999: nature and powers of rental housing tribunals
(d) Obligations of the lessor and lessee
(e) Remedies of the lessor and lessee
(f) “Huur gaat voor koop”
(g) Improvements to the leased property: rights, obligations and remedies
C. Aspects of suretyship and agency
KUB 802
Information and communications and technology law 802
This module will provide students with detailed knowledge and understanding of the underlying theory and diverse provisions of applicable international and domestic legislation as well as practical guidance on the application thereof. The following aspects will be addressed within the context of information and communications technology law;
(a) General introduction to international and domestic information technology law
(b) General principles of international and domestic electronic contracting
(c) Capita selecta from electronic transacting: online gaming, auctions and the
sales of restricted goods, electronic payment methods and digital
(d) Consumer protection
(e) Privacy and data protection
(f) Free speech on the Internet
(g) Cyber crime
(h) Electronic challenges facing copyright law
(i) Domain name regulation, governance and dispute resolution
(j) Internet Service Provider (ISP) rights, duties and liabilities
Statutory competition law 801
This module will provide students with detailed knowledge and understanding of the underlying policy and diverse provisions of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 (as amended) as well as practical guidance on the application thereof. The following aspects will be dealt with within the context of international comparative competition law: (a) Introduction to competition policy, jurisdiction and the structure of competition authorities (b) Economics of competition law (c) Relevant aspects of markets and market power (d) Horizontal agreements and restrictive horizontal practices (e) Vertical agreements and restrictive vertical practices (f) Abuse of dominance (g) The Competition Act and price setting (h) Exemption applications (i) Merger assessment (j) Merger regulation: legal and procedural aspects
BNK 802
Banking law 802
An advanced study in banking law and the regulation of banks.
MND 800
Mini-dissertation 800
Credits: 100.00
(a) The student must submit a research proposal during his/her first year of registration for the LLM degree to the supervisor prior to commencing with the writing of the mini-dissertation.
(b) A mini-dissertation (MND 800) of 13 000 to 15 000 words inclusive of footnotes but excluding the list of contents and the bibliography, is required. The mini-dissertation must be submitted to the supervisor not later than August of the second year of registration for the LLM programme. The mini-dissertation must deal with the subject content of one of the modules or a combination of the modules registered for by the student for his/her LLM degree. Any request for an extension of the period for submission of the mini-dissertation may only be granted by the Dean on recommendation of the LLM Committee
Research proposal 803
Development and presentation of a research proposal. (A research proposal must be submitted to the supervisor and accepted in the first semester of the second year of study before the student will be allowed to register for the mini-dissertation.)
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Programme: BSc Physics
02133203 Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Minimum duration of study: 3 years Total credits: 428
The following persons will be considered for admission: a candidate who is in possession of a certificate that is deemed by the University to be equivalent to the required Grade 12 certificate with university endorsement; a candidate who is a graduate from another tertiary institution or has been granted the status of a graduate of such an institution; and a candidate who is a graduate of another faculty at the University of Pretoria.
Life Orientation is excluded in the calculation of the Admission Point Score (APS).
Grade 11 results are used for the provisional admission of prospective students. Final admission is based on the Grade 12 results.
Achievement level
Afrikaans or English
NSC/IEB
HIGCSE
AS-Level
Candidates who do not comply with the minimum admission requirements for BSc (Physics), may be considered for admission to the BSc – Extended programme for the Physical Sciences. The BSc – Extended programme takes place over a period of four years instead of the normal three years.
BSc - Extended programme for the Physical Sciences:
BSc - Extended programme for the Physical Sciences
A student must pass all the minimum prescribed and elective module credits as set out at the end of each year within a programme as well as the total required credits to comply with the particular degree programme. Please refer to the curricula of the respective programmes. At least 144 credits must be obtained at 300-/400-level, or otherwise as indicated by curriculum. The minimum module credits needed to comply with degree requirements is set out at the end of each study programme. Subject to the programmes as indicated a maximum of 150 credits will be recognised at 100-level. A student may, in consultation with the Head of Department and subject to the permission by the Dean, select or replace prescribed module credits not indicated in BSc three-year study programmes to the equivalent of a maximum of 36 module credits.
It is important that the total number of prescribed module credits is completed during the course of the study programme. The Dean may, on the recommendation of the Head of Department, approve deviations in this regard. Subject to the programmes as indicated in the respective curricula, a student may not register for more than 75 module credits per semester at first-year level subject to permission by the Dean. A student may be permitted to register for up to 80 module credits in a the first semester during the first year provided that he or she obtained a final mark of no less than 70% for grade 12 Mathematics and achieved an APS of 34 or more in the NSC.
Students who are already in possession of a bachelor’s degree, will not receive credit for modules of which the content overlap with modules from the degree that was already conferred. Credits will not be considered for more than half the credits passed previously for an uncompleted degree. No credits at the final-year or 300- and 400-level will be granted.
The Dean may, on the recommendation of the programme manager, approve deviations with regard to the composition of the study programme.
Please note: Where elective modules are not specified, these may be chosen from any modules appearing in the list of modules.
It remains the student’s responsibility to acertain, prior to registration, whether they comply with the prerequisites of the modules they want to register for.
The prerequisites are listed in the Alphabetical list of modules.
Promotion to next study year
A student will be promoted to the following year of study if he or she passed 100 credits of the prescribed credits for a year of study, unless the Dean on the recommendation of the head of department decides otherwise. A student who does not comply with the requirements for promotion to the following year of study, retains the credit for the modules already passed and may be admitted by the Dean, on recommendation of the head of department, to modules of the following year of study to a maximum of 48 credits, provided that it will fit in with both the lecture and examination timetable.
General promotion requirements in the faculty
All students whose academic progress is not acceptable can be suspended from further studies.
A student who is excluded from further studies in terms of the stipulations of the abovementioned regulations, will be notified in writing by the Dean or Admissions Committee at the end of the relevant semester.
A student who has been excluded from further studies may apply in writing to the Admissions Committee of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for re-admission.
Should the student be re-admitted by the Admissions Committee, strict conditions will be set which the student must comply with in order to proceed with his/her studies.
Should the student not be re-admitted to further studies by the Admissions Committee, he/she will be informed in writing.
Students who are not re-admitted by the Admissions Committee have the right to appeal to the Senior Appeals Committee.
Any decision taken by the Senior Appeals Committee is final.
A student obtains his or her degree with distinction if all prescribed modules at 300-level (or higher) are passed in one academic year with a weighted average of at least 75%, and obtain at least a subminimum of 65% in each of the relevant modules.
Minimum credits:
Fundamental = 12
Core = 64
Electives = 64
Students who do not qualify for AIM 102 must register for AIM 111 and AIM 121.
Second majors that may be combined with physics are: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry, Geology and Meteorology. These will all allow students to postgraduate studies in the second major. Physics can also be combined with Astronomy and Computer Science, but these options do not offer the option of postgraduate studies outside of Physics.
Students must select elective modules with a total number of at least 64 credits according to the following streams. (Deviations allowed with permission from the head of department):
Mathematics as second major: Due to the modules prescribed for the BSc (Physics) module, taking mathematics as a second major in 3rd year is possible for all options. Please select one of the options below.
Second major in applied mathematics or mathematical statistics: WTW 115, WTW 152, WTW 162, WTW 123, WST 111, WST 121 (64 credits)
Second major in chemistry or applied mathematics: CMY 117, CMY 127, WTW 162, WTW 123, WTW 115, WTW 152 (64 credits)
Second major in chemistry or mathematical statistics: CMY 117, CMY 127, WST 111, WST 121 (64 credits)
Second major in chemistry or geology: CMY 117, CMY 127, GLY 155, GLY 163 (64 credits)
Second major in chemistry or meteorology: CMY 117, CMY 127, WKD 155, WTW 123, WTW 162 (64 credits).
Second major in chemistry with interest in biophysics: CMY 117, CMY 127, MLB 111, GTS 161, BOT 161 (64 credits)
Second major in chemistry with interest in astronomy: CMY 117, CMY 127, WTW 162, WTW 123, SCI 154 (64 credits)
Second major in applied mathematics with an interest in astronomy: WTW 115, WTW 152, WTW 162, WTW 123, SCI 154, COS 132 (64 credits) note: semesters unbalanced – Year credits: S1:80, S2: 48
Computational physics: WTW 123, COS 132, COS 110, COS 122, COS 151 (64 credits note: semesters unbalanced – Year credits: S1:56, S2: 72)
AIM 102
Academic information management 102
Find, evaluate, process, manage and present information resources for academic purposes using appropriate technology. Apply effective search strategies in different technological environments. Demonstrate the ethical and fair use of information resources. Integrate 21st-century communications into the management of academic information.
Find, evaluate, process, manage and present information resources for academic purposes using appropriate technology.
Apply effective search strategies in different technological environments. Demonstrate the ethical and fair use of information resources. Integrate 21st-century communications into the management of academic information.
LST 110
Language and study skills 110
The module aims to equip students with the ability to cope with the reading and writing demands of scientific disciplines.
UPO 102
Academic orientation 102
PHY 114
First course in physics 114
SI-units. Significant figures. Waves: intensity, superposition, interference, standing waves, resonance, beats, Doppler. Geometrical optics: Reflection, refraction, mirrors, thin lenses, instruments. Physical optics: Young-interference, coherence, diffraction, polarisation. Hydrostatics and dynamics: density, pressure, Archimedes’ principle, continuity, Bernoulli. Heat: temperature, specific heat, expansion, heat transfer. Vectors. Kinematics of a point: Relative, projectile, and circular motion. Dynamics: Newton’s laws, friction. Work: point masses, gasses (ideal gas law), gravitation, spring, power. Kinetic energy: Conservative forces, gravitation, spring. Conservation of energy. Conservation of momentum. Impulse and collisions. System of particles: Centre of mass, Newton’s laws. Rotation: torque, conservation of angular momentum, equilibrium, centre of gravity.
Simple harmonic motion and pendulums. Coulomb’s law. Electric field: dipoles, Gauss’ law.Electric potential. Capacitance. Electric currents: resistance, resistivity, Ohm’s law, energy, power, emf, RC-circuits. Magnetic Field: Hall-effect, Bio-Savart. Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws. Oscillations: LR-circuits. Alternating current: RLC-circuits, power, transformers. Introductory concepts to modern physics. Nuclear physics: Radioactivity.
WTW 114
Calculus 114
*This module serves as preparation for students majoring in Mathematics (including all students who intend to enrol for WTW 218 and WTW 220). Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree: WTW 114, WTW 158, WTW 134, WTW 165.
Functions, limits and continuity. Differential calculus of single variable functions, rate of change, graph sketching, applications. The mean value theorem, the rule of L'Hospital. Definite and indefinite integrals, evaluating definite integrals using anti-derivatives, the substitution rule.
Mathematics 124
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree:
WTW 124, WTW 146, WTW 148 and WTW 164. This module serves as preparation for students majoring in Mathematics (including all students who intend to enrol for WTW 218, WTW 211 and WTW 220).
The vector space Rn, vector algebra with applications to lines and planes, matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, determinants. Complex numbers and factorisation of polynomials. Integration techniques and applications of integration. The formal definition of a limit. The fundamental theorem of Calculus and applications. Vector functions, polar curves and quadratic curves.
CMY 117
General chemistry 117
General introduction to inorganic, analytical and physical chemistry. Atomic structure and periodicity. Molecular structure and chemical bonding using the VSEOR model. Nomenclature of inorganic ions and compounds. Classification of reactions: precipitation, acid-base, redox reactions and gas-forming reactions. Mole concept and stoichiometric calculations concerning chemical formulas and chemical reactions. Principles of reactivity: energy and chemical reactions. Physical behaviour gases, liquids, solids and solutions and the role of intermolecular forces. Rate of reactions: Introduction to chemical kinetics.
Theory: General physical-analytical chemistry: Chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, buffers, solubility equilibrium, entropy and free energy, electrochemistry. Organic chemistry: Structure (bonding), nomenclature, isomerism, introductory stereochemistry, introduction to chemical reactions and chemical properties of organic compounds and biological compounds, i.e. carbohydrates and aminoacids. Practical: Molecular structure (model building), synthesis and properties of simple organic compounds.
Exploring the universe 154
Students from all faculties are welcome to join us in our exploration of the universe from an earth-bound perspective. We reflect on the whole universe from the sub microscopic to the vast macroscopic and mankind’s modest position therein. To what degree is our happiness determined by stars? Echoes from ancient firmaments - the astronomy of old civilisations. The universe is born with a bang. Stars, milky ways and planets are formed. Life is breathed into the landscape on earth, but is there life elsewhere? The architecture of the universe – distance measurements, structure of our solar system and systems of stars. How does it look like on neighbouring planets? Comets and meteorites. Life cycles of stars. Spectacular exploding stars! Exotica like pulsars and black holes.
Discrete structures 115
Propositional logic: truth tables, logical equivalence, implication, arguments. Mathematical induction and well-ordering principle. Introduction to set theory. Counting techniques: elementary probability, multiplication and addition rules, permutations and combinations, binomial theorem, inclusion-exclusion rule.
Numerical analysis 123
Non-linear equations, numerical integration, initial value problems for differential equations, systems of linear equations. Algorithms for elementary numerical techniques are derived and implemented in computer programmes. Error estimates and convergence results are treated.
Mathematical modelling 152
Introduction to the modelling of dynamical processes using difference equations. Curve fitting. Introduction to linear programming. Matlab programming. Applications to real-life situations in, among others, finance, economics and ecology.
Dynamical processes 162
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the following modules for their degree: WTW 162 and WTW 264.
Introduction to the modelling of dynamical processes using elementary differential equations. Solution methods for first order differential equations and analysis of properties of solutions (graphs). Applications to real life situations.
Elective = 48
Students must select elective modules with a total number of at least 48 credits according to the following streams (deviations allowed with permission from the head of department):
Mathematics as second major: Due to the modules prescribed for the BSc (Physics) module, taking mathematics as a second major in 3rd year is possible for all options.
Second major applied mathematics: WTW 285, WTW 286, WTW 221 (36 credits – an additional 12 credits will have to be taken in 2nd or 3rd year. PHY 353, PHY 363 or additional 3rd year mathematics module recommended).
Second major statistics: WST 211, WST 221 (48 credits)
Second major in chemistry: CMY 282, CMY 283, CMY 284, CMY 285 (48 credits).
Second major in geology: GLY 253, GLY 255, GLY 261, GLY 262 (48 credits).
Second major in meteorology: WKD 261, WKD 263, WKD 254 (TDH Required), WTW 286 (48 credits). (Q: GMA 220 instead of WKD 254)
Interest in astronomy: PHY 210, WTW 221, WTW 286 (48 credits Unbalanced: Year credits S1: 60, S2: 84)
Interest in computational physics: COS 210, COS 212, COS 226, COS 284 (56 credits) 24 + 32 = 56 credits = excess of 8 credits in second semester.
Waves, thermodynamics and modern physics 255
Vibrating systems and waves (14 lectures)
Simple harmonic motion (SHM). Superposition (different frequencies, equal frequencies). Perpendicular vibrations (Lissajous figures). Damped SHM. Forced oscillations. Resonance. Q-value. Transverse wave motion. Plane wave solution using method of separation of variables. Reflection and transmission at a boundary. Normal and eigenmodes. Wave packets. Group velocity.
Modern physics (30 lectures)
Special relativity: Galilean and Lorentz transformations. Postulates. Momentum and energy. 4 vectors and tensors. General relativity. Quantum physics. Failure of classical physics. Bohr model. Particle-wave duality. Schrödinger equation. Piece-wise constant potentials. Tunneling. X-rays. Laser. Nuclear physics: Fission. Fusion. Radioactivity.
Heat and thermodynamics (12 lectures)
Heat. First Law. Kinetic theory of gases. Mean free path. Ideal, Clausius, Van der Waals and virial gases. Entropy. Second Law. Engines and refrigerators. Third Law. Thermodynamic potentials: Enthalpy Helmholtz and Gibbs free energies, Chemical potential. Legendre transformations (Maxwell relations). Phase equilibrium. Gibbs phase rule.
Modelling and simulation (7 practical sessions)
Introduction to programming in a high level system: Concept of an algorithm and the basic logic of a computer programme. Symbolic manipulations, graphics, numerical computations. Applications: Selected illustrative examples.
Error Analysis (7 practical sessions)
Experimental uncertainties. Propagation of uncertainties. Statistical analysis of random uncertainties. Normal distribution. Rejection of data. Least-squares fitting. Covariance and correlation.
General physics 263
Classical mechanics (28 lectures)
Fundamental concepts, energy and angular momentum, calculus of variations and Lagrangian mechanics, conservative central forces and two body problems, scattering, mechanics in rotating reference frames, many body systems.
Physical Optics (14 lectures)
Maxwell’s equations, wave equation and plane wave solution, coherence, interference,
diffraction, polarisation.
Physics of Materials (14 lectures)
Classification of materials. Atomic bonding. Crystallography. Defects. Material strength.
Phase diagram's, Ceramics. Polymers. Composites. Fracture. Electrical and
magnetic properties. Semiconductors. Smart materials Nanotechnology.
Experiments (14 sessions)
Linear algebra 211
This is an introduction to linear algebra on Rn. Matrices and linear equations, linear combinations and spans, linear independence, subspaces, basis and dimension, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, similarity and diagonalisation of matrices, linear transformations.
Calculus of multivariable functions, directional derivatives. Extrema and Lagrange multipliers. Multiple integrals, polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
Analysis 220
Properties of real numbers. Analysis of sequences and series of real numbers. Power series and theorems of convergence. The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem. The intermediate value theorem and analysis of real-valued functions on an interval. The Riemann integral: Existence and properties of the interval.
Vector analysis 248
Vectors and geometry. Calculus of vector functions with applications to differential geometry, kinematics and dynamics. Vector analysis, including vector fields, line integrals of scalar and vector fields, conservative vector fields, surfaces and surface integrals, the Theorems of Green, Gauss and Stokes with applications.
Physical chemistry 282
Theory: Classical chemical thermodynamics, gases, first and second law and applications, physical changes of pure materials and simple compounds. Phase rule: Chemical reactions, chemical kinetics, rates of reactions.
Analytical chemistry 283
Theory: Statistical evaluation of data, gravimetric analysis, aqueous solution chemistry, chemical equilibrium, precipitation-, neutralisation- and complex formation titrations, redox titrations, potentiometric methods, introduction to electrochemistry.
Organic chemistry 284
Theory: Resonance, conjugation and aromaticity. Acidity and basicity. Introduction to 13C NMR spectroscopy. Electrophilic addition: alkenes. Nucleophilic substitution, elimination, addition: alkyl halides, alcohols, ethers, epoxides, carbonyl compounds: ketones, aldehydes, carboxylic acids and their derivatives.
Inorganic chemistry 285
Theory: Atomic structure, structure of solids (ionic model). Coordination chemistry of transition metals: Oxidation states of transition metals, ligands, stereochemistry, crystal field theory, consequences of d-orbital splitting, chemistry of the main group elements, electrochemical properties of transition metals in aqueous solution, industrial applications of transition metals.Fundamentals of spectroscopy and introduction to IR spectroscopy.
GGY 252
Process geomorphology 252
Physical processes that influence the earth’s surface and management. Specific processes and their interaction in themes such as weathering; soil erosion; slope, mass movement and fluvial processes. Practical laboratory exercises are based on the themes covered in the module theory component.
Geomorphology of the built environment 265
*This module is for Architecture and Landscape Architecture students only.
The theory component covers geomorphological aspects of the built environment including landscape identification; weathering or deterioration of natural stone and application to design and preservation of buildings and monuments; slope hydrology and stability conditions; soil erosion processes and construction impacts; drainage modification in urban areas; wetland identification, human impacts and rehabilitation; recreational impacts and management. In addition to the theory a field-based project is undertaken.
City structure, environment and society 266
An urbanising world. Urban structure and land use. Urban processes. The urban environment. Social structure and change in cities. Living in the city. Economy, society and politics in the city. Third-world cities and South African cities. Urban futures.
GIS 220
Geographic data analysis 220
The nature of geographical data and measurement.Application of statistics in the geographical domain. Probability, probability distributions and densities, expected values and variances, Central Limit theorem. Sampling techniques. Exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis and regression analysis.
WKD 261
Physical meteorology 261
Conservative forces and conservation laws. Basic thermodynamic laws for dry and humid air. The equation of state. Adiabatic processes and temperature lapse rates. The Clausuis-Claperon equation. Calculation of the wet adiabat.
Introduction to dynamic meteorology 263
Vector algebra, curl of a vector, total and partial derivatives, second law of motion. Spherical coordinates Acceleration in rotating co-ordinates, fundamental forces, momentum equation. Three dimensional flow balance, conservation of mass, heat equation, thermodynamic energy equation. Introduction to finite difference methods. Numerical estimation of the geostrophic wind, vorticity and divergence. Advection of temperature. Development of a two-dimensional temperature advection model.
Abstract vector spaces, change of basis, matrix representation of linear transformations, orthogonality, diagonalisability of symmetric matrices, some applications.
Differential equations 256
Theory and solution methods for linear differential equations as well as for systems of linear differential equations. Theory and solution methods for first order non-linear differential equations. The Laplace transform with application to differential equations. Application of differential equations to modelling problems.
Setting up and solving recurrence relations. Equivalence and partial order relations. Graphs: paths, cycles, trees, isomorphism. Graph algorithms: Kruskal, Prim, Fleury. Finite state automata.
*Students will not be credited for more than one of the modules for their degree: WTW 264, WTW 286
Theory and solution methods for ordinary differential equations and initial value problems: separable and linear first-order equations, linear equations of higher order, systems of linear equations. Application to mathematical models. Numerical methods applied to nonlinear systems.Qualitative analysis of linear systems.
Students must select elective modules with a total number of at least 72 credits from the following streams (deviations allowed with permission from the head of department):
Mathematics as second major: WTW 310, WTW 320, WTW 381 and WTW 389 (72 credits).
Applied Mathematics as second major: WTW 310, WTW 382, WTW 383 and WTW 386 and WTW 387 (90 credits)*.
Mathematical statistics as second major: WST 311, WST 312, WST 321, STK 353 (79 credits) Unbalanced: 36 + 43
Chemistry as second major: CMY 382, CMY 383, CMY 384, CMY 385 (72 credits).
Geology as second major: GLY 365, GLY 366 and GLY 367 (72 credits)
Meteorology as second major: WKD 352, WKD 361, WKD 366 (72 credits) Unbalanced S1: 0, S2: 72
Astronomy, astrophysics and high energy physics: PHY 300, PHY 310, WTW 383 (72 credits)
Interest in computational physics: COS 314, COS 344, COS 333, COS 330 (72 credits).
* All 5 modules are required if a student wishes to continue with BScHons Applied Mathematics, otherwise a selection of modules with a total numer of 72 credits may be made.
Electronics, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics 356
Electronics (14 lectures)
Thévenin and Norton equivalent circuits, superposition principle, RC, LC and LRC circuits. Semiconductor diode. Bipolar transistor. Operational amplifiers. Computer controlled instrumentation.
Electromagnetism (21 lectures)
Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, divergence and curl of E, Gauss’ law, Laplace’s equation, image charge problems, multipole expansion.
Magnetostatics: Lorenz force, Biot-Savart law, divergence and curl of magnetic field strength, Ampère’s law, magnetic vector potential, multipole expansion, boundary conditions.
Electrodynamics: Electromotive force, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell’s equations, wave equation.
Electric and magnetic fields in matter: Polarisation, electric displacement and Gauss’s law in dielectrics, linear dielectrics. Magnetisation (diamagnets, paramagnets, ferromagnets), auxiliary field H and Ampère’s law in magnetised materials, linear and nonlinear media.
Quantum mechanics (28 lectures)
The Schrödinger equation, the statistical interpretation of the wave function, momentum, the uncertainty principle, the time-independent Schrödinger equation, stationary states, the infinite square well potential, the harmonic oscillator, the free particle, the Delta-Function potential, the finite square well potential, Hilbert spaces, observables, eigen functions of a Hermitian operator, Dirac notation, the Schrödinger equation in spherical coordinates, the hydrogen atom, angular momentum spin.
Statistical mechanics, solid state physics and modelling 364
Statistical mechanics (28 lectures)
Isolated systems in thermodynamical equilibrium. Systems in equilibrium with a heat bath: the canonical ensemble, Gibbs' entropic formula, classical statistical mechanics, energy equipartition theorem, thermodynamic potentials, paramagnetism.
The classical limit of perfect gases: non-distinguishable character of quantum particles, the equation of state of the classical ideal gas. Quantum perfect gases: Black body radiation, the grand canonical ensemble, Fermi-Dirac distribution, the free electron gas in metals, the Bose-Einstein distribution, Bose-Einstein condensation.
Solid state physics (28 lectures)
Crystal structures, the reciprocal lattice, x-ray diffraction, lattice vibration, the Debye model, characteristics of solids, the free electron model, Pauli paramagnetism, electronic heat capacity, the relaxation time, electrical conduction, the classical Hall effect, thermal conduction in metals, failures of the free electron model, the independent electron model, band theory of solids.
Computational Physics and modelling. Assessment will be done through a portfolio of project reports. The topics for the projects will be selected from various sub-disciplines of Physics.
Theory: Molecular quantum mechanics. Introduction: Shortcomings of classical physics, dynamics of microscopic systems, quantum mechanical principles, translational, vibrational and rotational movement. Atomic structure and spectra: Atomic hydrogen, multiple electron systems, spectra of complex atoms, molecular structure, the hydrogen molecule ion, diatomic and polyatomic molecules, structure and properties of molecules. Molecules in motion: Viscosity, diffusion, mobility. Surface chemistry: Physisorption and chemisorption, adsorption isotherms, surface tension, heterogeneous catalytic rate reactions, capillarity.
Theory: Separation methods: Extraction, multiple extraction, chromatographic systems. Spectroscopy: Construction of instruments, atomic absorption and atomic emission spectrometry, surface analysis techniques. Mass spectrometry. Instrumental electrochemistry.
Theory: NMR spectroscopy: applications. Aromatic chemistry, Synthetic methodology in organic chemistry. Carbon-carbon bond formation: alkylation at nucleophilic carbon sites, aldol and related condensations, Wittig and related reactions, acylation of carbanions (Claisen condensation).
Theory: Structure and bonding in inorganic chemistry. Molecular orbital approach, diatomic and polyatomic molecules, three-centre bonds, metal-metal bonds, transition metal complexes, magnetic properties, electronic spectra, reactivity and reaction mechanisms, reaction types, acid-base concepts, non-aqueous solvents, special topics.
Human environmental interactions 301
The module focuses on contemporary environmental issues in southern Africa. Recent and future impacts of human pressures on natural resources, the state of the environment in South Africa, management of critical resources, population trends, biodiversity loss, pollution, water scarcity, desertification, climate change, waste accumulation and management, environmental management tools, environmental education and environmental management legislation.
Sustainable development 356
The module conceptually integrates environmental, economic, and social components of sustainable development. Other topics covered include changing perceptions on development and environment, development paradigms, challenges of sustainable development, actors and actions in sustainable development, rural and urban livelihoods, and a Third World assessment of sustainable development in the developing world.
Development frameworks 366
Classic development frameworks. Spatial development history and legacy in South Africa. Overview of contemporary environmental legislation in South Africa. Rural development strategy. Rural and agricultural reconstruction. Land reform. Urban development and strategy. Urban spatial reconstruction. National spatial development frameworks.
Observational astronomy 300
Structure of the universe, navigation of the sky, spherical geometry, optical, radio and high energy physics and sources, instruments, practical observational skills, data recording, analysis, interpretation (signal and image processing, noise, calibration, error analysis). Project: A selected project in either optical or radio astronomy, resulting in a formal report and a presentation.
Particle and astroparticle physics 310
Relativistic kinematics, fundamentals of elementary particle physics, the four forces of nature and the Standard Model, beyond the Standard Model, early universe cosmology (inflation, baryogenesis), the Cosmic Microwave Background, high-energy astronomy (cosmic rays, gamma rays and neutrinos), gravitational waves, dark matter (evidence, candidates, detection), dark energy and the Standard Cosmological Model.
Physics project 353
*Cannot be used as substitute for other Physics 300 modules to obtain admission to the BSc(Hons) in Physics.
A student is required to complete a project under guidance of the lecturer. The nature of the project is determined jointly by the student, lecturer and the head of department.
*Cannot be used as substitute for other Physics 300 modules to obtain admission to the BSc(Hons) in Physics
Atmospheric vorticity and divergence 352
Scale analyses and simplification of the basic equations. The geostrophic, thermal and gradient wind. The vorticity equation and divergence.
Quasi-geostrophic analysis 361
Tendency and Omega equations. Model of a boroclinic system. Introduction to numerical models. Application in meteorological display and analysis software.
Fundamentals of weather forecasting 366
Meterological observations data codes. Weather applications software and computing environments of meteorological analysis and weather forecasting techniques. Applications of remote sensing in weather forecasting. Aaerological diagrams. Applications of numerical weather prediction, and types of weather forecasts. Integration of information to describe the current state of the atmosphere and to predict a future state of the atmosphere.
Topology of finite dimensional spaces: Open and closed sets, compactness, connectedness and completeness. Theorems of Bolzano-Weierstrass and Heine-Borel. Properties of continuous functions and applications. Integration theory for functions of one real variable. Sequences of functions.
Complex analysis 320
Series of functions, power series and Taylor series. Complex functions, Cauchy- Riemann equations, Cauchy's theorem and integral formulas. Laurent series, residue theorem and calculation of real integrals using residues.
Dynamical systems 382
Matrix exponential function: homogeneous and non-homogeneous linear systems of differential equations. Qualitative analysis of systems: phase portraits, stability, linearisation, energy method and Liapunov's method. Introduction to chaotic systems. Application to real life problems.
Direct methods for the numerical solution of systems of linear equations, pivoting strategies. Iterative methods for solving systems of linear equations and eigenvalue problems. Iterative methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. Introduction to optimization. Algorithms for the considered numerical methods are derived and implemented in computer programmes. Complexity of computation is investigated. Error estimates and convergence results are proved.
Partial differential equations 386
Conservation laws and modelling. Fourier analysis. Heat equation, wave equation and Laplace's equation. Solution methods including Fourier series. Energy and other qualitative methods.
Continuum mechanics 387
Kinematics of a continuum: Configurations, spatial and material description of motion. Conservation laws. Analysis of stress, strain and rate of deformation. Linear constitutive equations. Applications: Vibration of beams, equilibrium problems in elasticity and special cases of fluid motion.
Geometry 389
Axiomatic development of neutral, Euclidean and hyperbolic geometry. Using models of geometries to show that the parallel postulate is independent of the other postulates of Euclid.
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The 2019 Stapleford Lecture
Disability, Art and Activism
Presented by Dr. Nancy Hansen (Professor of Disability Studies | University of Manitoba)
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 7:00 pm
Reseach and Innovation Centre, RI 119
The University of Regina
View this lecture on YouTube.
Disability is largely absent or invisible from the cultural artistic landscape. When disability is present, disabled people often find themselves caught amongst narratives focusing on the ‘therapeutic’ benefits of artistic engagement and/or the ‘inspirational’ nature of their artistry – neither of which may be appropriate. Yet this type of discourse is endemic of the corrective condescension prominent in the traditional, medicalized, and ableist doctrine dominating our social-cultural understandings of disability. Yet these are interesting and exciting times for disabled people, as scholars, allies and constituents alike find themselves in the midst of an ongoing cultural recovery project – discovering, uncovering creating and reshaping the artistic landscape in a very different way.
All are welcome and parking is free. Refreshments will be served. For more information please call 306-585-4226.
About Nancy Hansen
Nancy Hansen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Disability Studies at the University of Manitoba. Nancy obtained a PhD (Human Geography) from the University of Glasgow. Her research interests in disability studies are varied including; disability in spaces of culture education, literacy social policy, employment healthcare access and experiences of disabled and LGBTQ communities in post-conflict areas. Nancy is a former member of the Member CAUT Working Group Academics with Disabilities and Equity Committee, former President of the Canadian Disability Studies Association. Nancy received an Einstein research fellowship examining Disability Studies and the Legacy of Nazi Eugenics. Nancy received the ICUF Sprott Asset Management Scholarship examining disability history. She has recently received a Rotary Paul Harris Fellowship. She is co-editor of the Routledge History of Disability Untold Stories: A Canadian Disability History Reader. In addition, Nancy has written numerous book chapters and contributed to various international academic journals.
About the Stapleford Lecture
Each winter, the Faculty of Arts is pleased to present the annual Stapleford Lecture, a free lecture funded through the generosity of the Ernest William Stapleford and Maude Bunting Stapleford Lecture Fund. This endowed trust was provided to the University of Regina by Dr Elsie Stapleford, as a memorial to her parents. The endowment allows the Faculty of Arts to bring a distinguished guest lecturer to the University to speak in the area of human justice, the status of women, the education and care of children, the rights of disadvantaged groups, and/or the history and art of Saskatchewan.
Rev. Ernest Stapleford (1874-1959) was the president of Regina College from 1915-1934. He guided the college through the crisis of World War I and the economic depression of the 1930s. He was one of the formative presidents of this institution. His wife, Mrs. Maude Stapleford (1884-1962) was very active and engaged in the community, and took a particular interest in the arts, and in the advancement of women's and children's rights. Daughter Dr Elsie Stapleford helped create and implement the Ontario Day Nurseries Actof 1946, which provided provincial government funding for day care centres, and implemented licensing and inspection measures. As Director of the Day Nurseries Branch, Dr. Stapleford made the Ontario program a model, and helped to transform the way child care is thought of and delivered in this country. Elsie Stapleford passed away in 2004.
Past Stapleford Lectures
Past Stapleford Lecturers have included Zarqa Nawaz, creator of the hit CBC show Little Mosque on the Prairie; Nettie Weibe, noted thinker and social activist; and playwright/author Maria Campbell.
2018: Are Prisons Canada's New Residential Schools?
by Nancy Macdonald, National Reporter, The Globe and Mail
View lecture on YouTube
2017: The Gender of Homesteading: Women and the Contest for Land on the Canadian Prairies
by Dr. Sarah Carter, Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of History and Classics and the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta
2016: Ronald Bloore & The Art of Provocation
by Timothy Long, head curator, Mackenzie Art Gallery
View the 2016 Stapleford Lecture on YouTube.
2015: The Fierce Urgency of Now: Global Education as a Gateway to Creating Critically Informed, Motivated and Globally Competent Citizens
by Dr. Michael O'Sullivan, grandson of Rev. Stapleford and Associate Professor at Brock University
View the 2015 Stapleford lecture on Youtube. See the 2015 Stapleford poster (230 KB)
2014: Senate Reform: is it necessary and can it be done?
by Dr. Gordon Barnhart, historian and former Lt. Gov. of Saskatchewan
View 2014 poster (230 KB)
Listen to this year's lecture.
2013: Librarians Unplugged: How and why librarians are speaking out about crucial social issues
by Toni Samek, School of Library and Information studies, University of Alberta.
View 2013 Stapleford Lecture poster (566 KB)
View a video recording of the 2013 Stapleford Lecture (opens a new browser window)
2012: One Law for All: Understanding Canada's indigenous constitution
by Dr. John Borrows, Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society, University of Minnesota Law School
View 2012 lecture poster (984 KB)
2011: Islam, Gender and the Future of Multicultural Citizenship
by Mohammad Fadel, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto
Download transcript of ' Islam, Gender and the Future of Multicultural Citizenship' (93.18 KB)
2010: Quality Care for Patients, Above All
by Anne Doig, President of the Canadian Medical Association
2009: Implementing Self Determination: A leader's vision
by Perry Bellegarde, former Grand Chief of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations
2008: Citizenship, Governance and Duty
by Lynda Haverstock, former Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
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The USWNT hoist the hard-earned World Cup trophy (Photo courtesy of Anne-Marie Sorvin - USA Today Sports)
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup: Tactical Analysis Of United States' World Cup Victory over Japan
The United States beat Japan handily in the World Cup finals on Sunday, but how much of a role did tactics play in this victory?
The United States Women’s National Team claimed their elusive third star in Sunday’s rout of Japan, 5-2, with great team play all around. However, there were a few tactical changes and plays that led to this convincing victory.
Carli Lloyd and Lauren Holiday playing in their correct position
Carli Lloyd’s performance in the Finals on Sunday can only be described using one word: wow. Jill Ellis opted for a faux 4-4-2, where Lloyd would be a withdrawn striker. The ability to leave Lloyd in this position left Lloyd with free roam in the offensive half. It is not secret Lloyd, up until the last few games, struggled mightily as a central midfielder. The credit for Lloyd’s turnaround in play belongs to Ellis for switching the formation, which allowed Lloyd to be unleashed. When Lloyd was held in the midfield, she was unable to join the attack as much. When Lloyd was able to actually play in the ten role, she torched Japan for her hat trick with her creative playmaking skills.
With Morgan Brian in the holding midfield role, Lauren Holiday was also allowed to be more involved in the offense, where she knocked home a howling volley for the 3-0 lead in the 14th minute. In previous games, when she was playing in the holding midfielder role, Holiday would have been in too much of a defensive role to get to that ball in the box and score. Brian’s stellar play behind the backline allowed both Lloyd and Holiday to be released from their midfield roles as well as their subpar performances and back to the form most USWNT fans know them for.
The USWNT controlled the flanks
The flank play on Sunday by the USWNT was absolutely fantastic. Tobin Heath as well as Megan Rapinoe in the midfield played their distributor roles perfectly. To add on, Heath’s speed and skill caused problems for Japan’s defense, who were forced to foul Heath in dangerous territory a few times. Rapinoe, also, played her usual role of distributor. Furthermore, Rapinoe’s ability to cut into the box during the attack led to another dangerous body in the box for the United States. Heath’s distribution into the area in the 14th minute made Japan scramble for clearance, which led to a mistake and Holiday’s clinical volleyed goal.
Wingbacks Ali Krieger and Meghan Klingenberg controlled the majority of the wing play in the defensive half and also contributed to the service into the attack. Both of them played highly up the field on attack, which gave the attackers another outlet for a pass and to keep possession of the ball. There was some overlapping of the wingbacks and wingers. The overlapping allows for the flank midfielders to be able to join in the attack in the box while the wingback serves in the cross.
USWNT capitalized on its set pieces
The USWNT scored three of its five goals off of set pieces, in which the USWNT capitalized on the second ball left in the box for Lloyd’s second goal and Heath’s goal as well. The ability to find the rebound by the USWNT players cannot be dismissed or discounted. Without the Brian or Julie Johnston, there is no second opportunity on goal for Heath or Lloyd respectively. Rapinoe played the first set piece, which was scored by Lloyd, beautifully by hitting a low driven ball to the penalty spot where Lloyd made an outstanding run to slam it home for the 1-0 lead. Japan did not mark well on set pieces and, as described above, could not make any sort of clearance on the ball.
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New partner for Dentons’ Toronto office
Wednesday, December 06, 2017 @ 3:21 PM | By Carolyn Gruske
Nicole Woodward has joined Dentons Canada LLP as a partner in the tax group and as a member of the firm’s trusts, estates and wealth preservation group.
Nicole Woodward, Dentons Canada LLP
Woodward specializes in trusts, estates and succession planning, and taxation in relation to those areas. She advises clients about domestic and complex cross-border estate and trust matters, including planning for high net worth estates, and estate and trust administration. Woodward has expertise in areas of cross-border issues such as tax planning for foreign spouses, U.S. beneficiaries of Canadian estates and Canadians with U.S. situs assets.
“Nicole’s knowledge and experience with U.S. matters will be of great benefit to our clients and will help us to further augment our cross-border capabilities in estates and trusts,” said Blair McCreadie, managing partner of Dentons’ Toronto office. “We are very fortunate to have her join us in Toronto.”
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Choice v. Freedom?
The abortion rights cause has suffered by being cut off from the larger story of reproductive and sexual life, which is much more complex than can be captured by either "choice" or “freedom.”
By Katha PollittTwitter
Did supporters of abortion rights make a rhetorical mistake when they adopted "choice” as their mantra? In an op-ed piece for the LA Times, “Nuance Matters in the Abortion Debate, “ Nancy L. Cohen argues that the abortion-rights movement needs a verbal (and conceptual) makeover. While recent polls suggesting increasing numbers of Americans identify themselves as pro-life rather than pro-choice have been hyped and misreported, Cohen thinks the ‘choice” label is too weak to contend against mighty “life”:
" ‘Pro-choice’ has turned into a tone-deaf rallying cry, inadequate to our actual policy preferences and to the philosophical values Americans hold on the subject of abortion. It essentially cedes the moral high ground to the antiabortion movement. It doesn’t do enough to communicate the very American ideals at the foundation of the abortion rights movement — the belief that, in a free and democratic nation, the decision to have a child should rest with the individual woman and those with whom she freely consults.
“Perhaps ‘pro-choice’ was once good enough shorthand for liberty, human dignity, individualism, pluralism, self-government and women’s equality. But anyone who thinks it is still sufficient, as we enter our fifth decade of the culture wars, hasn’t been paying attention.”
Cohen suggests replacing “choice” with “freedom” : “Are you pro-freedom or pro-life? Now those are values worthy of debate.”
Freedom is definitely a stronger, bolder word than choice, which, as many have noticed, sounds namby-pamby and euphemistic, as if even the supporters of legal and accessible abortion don’t want to refer too openly to what, exactly, is being chosen. Choice also has unfortunate consumerist, trivializing overtones, as if the decision to terminate a pregnancy was like deciding what sweater to buy or what burger to order. Where’s the sense of need–the urgency, the desperation? Choice has always had that unfortunate focus-grouped ring to it, which is not surprising since it was intended to defang the opposition. “Choice” says we can agree to disagree about abortion as long as it stays legal:
To each her own. But would calling for “reproductive freedom” change the debate? Freedom is a great and noble word, but its fits the same libertarian framework as “choice.” The Hyde amendment and other bans on government funding would do fine under the “freedom” banner, because in America freedom means you can have what you pay for: freedom isn’t free. “Freedom” thus cuts both ways in just the same way as ‘choice”: if you are free to get a legal abortion, shouldn’t I be free not to support it with my taxes?
It is hard to get from “freedom” to fairness, equality, and social support. We don’t talk about unemployment insurance as income freedom, or national health insurance as healthcare freedom. Racial freedom is not how we describe civil rights—and in fact, as the discomfort of Rand Paul and other Republicans with desegregation law shows, it’s not obvious to some even today why “freedom” shouldn’t mean the right to refuse to rent a motel room to black people. If you believe a fertilized egg/embryo/fetus is a person, then why shouldn’t its freedom to be born trump the pregnant woman’s freedom not to give birth?
Freedom is an emotionally more stirring word than choice, while remaining vulnerable to the same objections and limitations. I think “reproductive justice,” a term some activists prefer, makes a better case for abortion rights in the area where they are most threatened, which is access, funding and respect for women. It also links abortion to other reproductive issues in a broad way: is it justice if a woman aborts a wanted child because of poverty? If landlords won’t rent to families with children? If mothers are discriminated against in hiring? If health insurance won’t pay for fertility treatments? If a woman is legally compelled to have a Caesarean?
I’m a bit skeptical about the ability of framing to alter a discussion that has been going on now for most of my lifetime. But no question the cause of abortion rights has suffered by being cut off from the larger story of reproductive and sexual life, which is much more complex than can be captured by either "choice’ or “freedom.”
Katha PollittTwitterKatha Pollitt is a columnist for The Nation.
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Dallas Baptist sweeps ULM
The Dallas Baptist Patriots take the first two games of the series with the Warhawks.
Dallas Baptist sweeps ULM The Dallas Baptist Patriots take the first two games of the series with the Warhawks. Check out this story on thenewsstar.com: http://tnsne.ws/1pBHCPw
University News Service Published 11:00 p.m. CT March 19, 2016 | Updated 11:01 p.m. CT March 19, 2016
Antony Herrera scored a run and drove in a run during Saturday's doubleheader.(Photo: Randy Bergeron, SLU Public Information)
DALLAS -- The ULM baseball team was swept by No. 26 Dallas Baptist on Saturday, falling 6-1 and 7-3 in a series-opening doubleheader.
It marked back-to-back weekends that the squad had to move a home series to the Lone Star State due to weather conditions in Monroe. The Warhawks (7-11) faced off with Texas State from March 12-13.
First game: No. 26 Dallas Baptist 6, ULM 1
ULM threatened in the top half of the first inning as Anthony Herrera singled and later moved to third when Jacob Stockton reached on an error. The Warhawks were unable to push any runs across as a strikeout ended the frame.
The two clubs traded zeros until the bottom of the third when Dallas Baptist broke through with a single run. With two outs, the Patriots got a single from Justin Wall and then after back-to-back errors, Austin Listi drove in the game’s first run.
Two innings later, Dallas Baptist extended its lead to 3-0. The Patriots scored one on a sacrifice fly with the other coming on a bases loaded hit by pitch. Between the sixth and seventh innings Dallas Baptist scored three runs to increase its lead to 6-0.
The Warhawks scored their lone run of the contest in the top of the ninth inning. Herrera drew a leadoff walk and moved to second on a single through the right side by Spencer Hemphill. With two outs, Herrera was able to race home when Nathan Pugh reached on an error by first baseman Tim Millard.
ULM starter Chris Hunt (1-2) was tagged with the loss after allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits and three walks with three strikeouts in 4 2-3 innings.
Patriot starter Darick Hall (3-1) earned the win after allowing zero runs on three hits and one walk in eight innings of work.
Secong game: No. 26 Dallas Baptist 7, ULM 3
The Warhawks scored first in the top of the second. Jacob Stockton doubled to the left center gap and went to third on Danny Springer's single. Nathan Pugh took a hit by pitch to load the bases with nobody out. Two batters later, Brian Barefoot grounded out to the mound and drove in Stockton as well.
The Patriots (13-5) came back with a run in the bottom half of the frame and then had a leadoff double and single in the third. A squeeze bunt by Connor Hall and sacrifice fly by Justin Wall upped their advantage to 4-1.
Jameson Hannah's two-run double began the Patriots' three-run seventh inning that ultimately gave them a 7-1 lead.
Colin Poche (2-0) pitched seven innings for DBU and gave up three hits. Brayden Bouchey (2-1) took the loss for the Warhawks after giving up three earned runs and four hits in 5 1/3 innings.
ULM plated two runs in the top of the eighth to get within 7-3. Barefoot singled on the first pitch of the stanza and Josh Faciane produced a full-count walk. Anthony Herrera then singled to shortstop before an error on the play put two Warhawks in scoring position for Spencer Hemphill, whose groundout scored the second run of the inning.
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In Interviews, Magazine by pg-admin 28th June 2019 Comments
PINERO|SERENE is an alternative/dreamscape duo based in London. They have recently released their debut single ‘Take My Soul’ and today share the follow-up ‘Dead Flowers’ which was premiered on TMRW Magazine.
Neeq Serene and Cheryl Pinero are the creative force behind the band, creating a potent mix of bass-infused, grungy dream-pop. Their EP Dark Matter is slated for release on July 12th, and promises to stand headstrong as a release not to be missed.
We caught up with the duo for some insight into their creative process.
NEEQ: I just wanted my feelings to breathe, somewhere safe, without judgement and I found solace in writing from a young age. It gave me and continues to give me better insight into myself and my experience here. Life is heavy, as it is beautiful. It’s easy to get taken by the tide. Art, in its many forms, allows us to escape momentarily, or at least share the experience of being taken under.
CHERYL: When I started playing bass at 13, I instantly felt deeply connected with the instrument. It helped me to express myself emotionally (writing) and physically (performing). I didn’t realise it at first, but as I got older and started playing in bands, writing songs and performing live, I knew that this a way of channelling my inner self, in a fearless and honest way and it helped me to find my own voice. It quickly became a very fulfilling and also empowering experience for me. By the time I was 19, I just knew that I wanted to keep creating and performing music to share these experiences with other people and thereby find connection.
When we wrote the EP, we did so led by a dream-like visual representation of the elements; earth, wind, fire and air. The songs were written in a particular sequence and each one possesses a correlating energy, which we characterised in mood. Dark Matter is the consequence of the balance and interconnection of the four.
For the first EP, we didn’t have any song-writing collaborations but this is something we’d be really excited to do in the future. Working together has been so grounding and inspiring and we wanted to focus on nurturing the connection we have, to develop our sound.
NEEQ: My “current” playlist consists of The Verve, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Doves, Portishead, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Atoms for Peace and Anoushka Shankar
CHERYL: Currently listening to a mix between Zola Blood, RY X, Fink, Banks, Sevdaliza and Men I Trust
We’ve not performed as a band yet but it’s something we’re both really looking forward to. We have a vision of how things “should” be and want to create an audio-visual experience that people can get lost in.
What techniques do you experiment with to get your original sound?
One of the major components of our sound is that it is bass driven. The combination and balance of effects used, create quite a unique mood that features throughout the EP. The blueprint of the songs are always written on bass first, then vocals are added and we lose ourselves in a loop until we find that moment that the two tell the same story. Our thought processes are very often echoed in one another and there’s almost an unspoken understanding before we even begin, of where we should end up.
Take us through a day in the recording studio.
We usually start early in the morning and record the bass takes first, to have the foundation for each song. Then we move on to layering other instrumentation before recording vocals and BVs. We’re pretty focused when we record music, but make sure to get our coffee breaks in and the days are always filled with laughter and all manner of emotions!
NEEQ: I can’t pinpoint a moment in time specifically. I have always felt comfort in words and music and every time I read Rumi’s poetry or listened to a beautiful soundtrack or a band as open and abstract as Radiohead, I felt part of something. I just knew that I wanted to continue feeling that way and grow confident enough to share my thoughts the way they had.
CHERYL: Even before I started playing bass, I just knew. I never considered music as a hobby. It always meant more to me. Listening, writing and playing can be healing.
What do you keep close by while you’re playing a set?
NEEQ: We haven’t played live together YET. I’m not sure personally. What would I keep close by? Maybe a crystal! Cheryl?
CHERYL: When we play together we tend to keep things minimal but ambient and immersive. I wouldn’t have anything next to me but you (Neeq), my bass set up and a bottle of water!
NEEQ: Aw that’s my answer too! Cheryl! And a crystal.
NEEQ: Art School Girlfriend. Cheryl introduced me to her music recently and I love her vocal tone and the overall production on the tracks. Esya also blew my mind last month at Omeara (London). She sounded like the lovechild of Bjork and Atoms for Peace!
CHERYL: A friend of ours recently introduced me to Hejira. I’ve been listening to their album “Thread of Gold” on repeat for weeks. Their music takes you on a journey from start to finish, it’s absolutely beautiful.
NEEQ: I tend to write the most when I feel set apart from the world. I have a “low” day and everything pours out of me. And when travelling. I can be on the tube, a train, a plane; my mind wanders and my imagination leads me to write.
Also, Cheryl’s ability to tell such heartfelt tales on her bass is hugely inspiring to me. She’ll play me something and within seconds I am writing words and experimenting with melodies.
CHERYL: I am always inspired by what we create together and it drives me to want to write more. Travelling also inspires me a lot. Especially if I spend time in nature. Getting grounded and an open mind and open heart helps me to get those creative energies flowing.
Take us through your collection of gear, tech or software that accompanies your creative expression.
NEEQ: When I’m recording at home, I love to use my Rode NT1A. It’s a simple and effective condenser and coupled with the user-friendliness of a Focusrite audio interface, I am seldom let down. I also like experimenting with the TC Helicon Voicelive 2. You can do so much with it. But at the moment, with the style of music we’re doing, I really appreciate minimal effects with the focus being on tone.
CHERYL: I play a Fender Mustang or a hollow-body Coronado bass, depending on which sound suits the song better. Apart from this I mainly use Boss effects for Chorus, Delay, Bass Drive and a Holy Grail Reverb by Electro Harmonix. Bass strings also make quite a difference to me, as I also play harmonics and chords. I use DR Hi-Beam strings as they cut through perfectly on both the low and high-end frequencies.
NEEQ: I am currently working on a series of dark electronic/trip-hop tracks which when finished, I would like to have friends and like-minded musicians feature on. I’ve always loved the idea of having an open, creative collective.
CHERYL: I will be playing Festival shows with Friedberg this summer and I’m also planning to do some travelling and remote collaborative writing later this year.
NEEQ: For me, accepting the beauty of difference, has been the key to refining my song-writing. I allow myself the freedom to be experimental and care less about what people think of me and more about what they think of themselves and the surrounding world. Words have always been my way out and it’s a natural instinct to want to sing them with conviction, so I challenge myself with new techniques and tones to nurture that relationship.
CHERYL: I’ve simplified my songwriting approach over the years and I focus much more on the energy, flow and mood of the melody or rhythm rather than following any particular or standard structure or pattern. Neeq and I let the melody go or remain where it sits right and layer and build each song from there. It just happens organically and is never forcefully implemented.
This year, in essence, is our debut. We want to share what we’ve been doing and communicate our identity as artists. We’re already working on our second EP and our focus will be maintaining consistency with our releases and creating an immersive experience, that we hope people will want to be part of.
Famous Last Words?
CHERYL: Dive in. Dive deep.
NEEQ: You know nothin’ Jon Snow.
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President Joe Biden: The spoiler candidate to end all spoiler candidates
Richard AndersonRebel Blogger
In the incipient quest by Democrats to find an alternative to Hillary, the once unthinkable is now being seriously discussed:
Mr. Biden has not yet announced whether he will join the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, but reports over the weekend that the 72-year-old former Delaware senator was seriously exploring a bid reignited discussion among Mrs. Clinton’s advisers about what his potential candidacy would mean for the contest ahead.
Back in 2008 when Biden was announced as Barack Obama's running mate there were countless tongue-in-cheek theories about his selection. My favourite was that Joe Biden as Vice President would make Barack Obama assassination proof. Even the most deranged of Islamists would shrink from the thought of a Joe Biden presidency.
Apparently it isn't a joke anymore.
Hillary fatigue is beginning to kick-in fifteen months before the general. This is not a good sign. While the Republicans are preparing for an epic battle to select their nominee, one that will likely provide great drama and good headlines, the Democrats are stuck singing the same tune. There is nothing so dull in political life as a coronation. Matched with Hillary's impervious tone and robotic personality the DNC is looking at a very hard and very long sell.
Admittedly at this stage reports of a Biden candidacy are driven by a certain media desperation. With little else to talk about but Hillary - and a few Sandereques sidebars - the poor Beltway reporter must find fodder where he or she can. Talking about a President Biden, however unlikely, at least fills the hours until Donald Trump's next piece of insightful commentary. Leaving aside the exigencies of a 24 hour news cycle is the idea even plausible?
Joe Biden is famous for being America's somewhat embarrassing crazy uncle. His poor turns of phrase and legendary wandering hands have been Twitter staples for years. We all know people like Joe Biden in our personal lives. This makes him eminently relatable. You can imagine meeting Joe and perhaps, if you were in a really good mood, kind of liking him. Though few of us would be quite as enthusiastic as Leslie Knope.
In contrast few of us know a Hillary Clinton. Some of us may have worked for someone like Hilary Clinton; though none would look back upon that time with any fondness. Beyond whatever we may think of her ideas there is the woman herself: The mechanical lust for power, the rictus grin and the ability to make brazenly contradictory statements with shining smoothness. If a brilliant satirist were to emerge from the ether, intent on discrediting the modern political process, he would invent Hilary Clinton and hope to be believed.
This means that even when we are talking about Joe we are really talking about Hillary. I don't think we are in too much danger of a Biden presidency. His usefulness is as a kind of stalking horse. If candidate Biden could break into the double digits, rather better than he did in 2008 when he barely cracked the 1% barrier, it would prove beyond doubt that Hillary is vulnerable.
A strong Biden showing would quickly become a powerful incentive to Big Footed Democrats to jump into the race. Andrew Cuomo, one of the few plausible Democratic Governors remaining, comes to mind. Perhaps if the stars align Elizabeth Warren, the George McGovern of the modern era, might deign to take a run.
Enjoy the Biden moment while it lasts, the best comic relief you can get at taxpayers' expense. We can even start talking about "Joementum" and sorting through a list of possible running mates. I'm looking at you Al Franken. It's going to be a long election so have fun with it. We all know Joe Biden will.
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The best films on demand
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The Sunday Times, March 24 2019, 12:01am
The director Vera Chytilova, a participant in Czech cinema’s New Wave in the 1960s, is newly represented on the BFI’s subscription site by a handful of her films, including this comedy about two young women (Ivana Karbanova and Jitka Cerhova) performing surreal pranks. Its energy has endured while its wackiness has become quaint. (1966)
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The sequel to the 2012 cartoon Wreck-It Ralph sends its digital hero, a bruiser from an old arcade game, into the dizzying world of the web, visualised as a tangible realm. Here the film uploads a cheerful, hit-and-miss array of comic ideas, one highlight being a gathering of Disney’s many princesses. Co-dirs: Phil Johnston, Rich Moore (2018)
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Buy For Less to bring autonomous delivery vehicles to OKC in 2019
By Staff Reports / Member News / September 14, 2018
LOCAL INDEPENDENT GROCERY CHAIN SIGNS DEAL TO BRING DRIVERLESS DELIVERY VEHICLES TO OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY – Esperanza Real Estate Investments, LLC and its affiliate entity Narnia Road, LLC announced today it has signed a landmark deal with leading autonomous delivery vans (ADV) company Udelv. This new technology launch will supply Oklahoma City’s (OKC) largest local chain of independent grocery stores with self-driving delivery vans. The Buy For Less (BFL) Family of brands, and its progressive team are the first grocery chain in the world to make such a large scale investment in the autonomous delivery industry.
The agreement with Udelv will supply supermarkets Uptown Grocery Co., Buy for Less, Buy For Less Super Mercado and Smart Saver with an initial 10 customized cargo vans to service online deliveries and specialties in the OKC metro area and is the largest ADV investment to date.
“This agreement and subsequent advent of ADV technology in Oklahoma City is a technological win for Oklahoma,” explained Susan Binkowski, CEO of Esperanza and Co-owner of the BFL Grocery Company with husband and founder, Hank Binkowski. “We believe we exist to elevate communities and relationships, always striving to be innovative and forward thinking with decisions on how to serve our community. As a leading provider of grocery in Oklahoma, we are thrilled to add this new technology that enhances our ability to deliver food with excellence, service, and convenience to Oklahoma families. And, we are proud to be working with a visionary company committed to helping us pioneer the future of delivery technology.”
The first vehicle is expected to be delivered to Oklahoma City in first quarter 2019 with the full fleet operational throughout 2019. The custom-made cargo vans, the world’s first ADVs for public road driving, will operate with safety drivers until mapping data has been stored and policies and procedures have been approved by the two companies, state and local agencies and departments, and the state legislature for safe driverless operation.
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Udelv CEO, Daniel Laury said the deal is Udelv’s largest since launching its ADV in January 2018 and represents a massive technological implementation for Oklahomans. The vehicles (designated
SAE L42 ADVs) will eventually cover thousands of miles of residential roads in Oklahoma, which will be one of the largest autonomous driving deployments in the world.
Over the next several months, Udelv will work through Esperanza, Buy for Less, Oklahoma municipal and state authorities, regulators and others to ensure the transition to ADVs is held to the highest standards. “Teamwork will assist in mastering the miles of roads in the Oklahoma City metro area to ensure our vehicles can provide safe, convenient and affordable delivery services to local communities,” stated Laury. “With a vast amount of deliveries on public roads with a safety driver already completed in the San Francisco Bay Area on behalf of other clients, Udelv has demonstrated its capability to safely pioneer this technology and proven the benefits to local retail companies and their customers. But this new milestone partnership puts Oklahoma City at the forefront of technology and partnership to move further faster.”
According to Mike Patterson, Secretary of Transportation and Oklahoma Department of Transportation Executive Director Oklahoma already has a group in place that has been working toward integration of ADV technology.
“Oklahoma is actively developing a strategy to integrate the technology of automation through the work of the Driving Oklahoma Working Group. It is exciting to set the basis to support innovations like this and work with companies such as the Buy For Less family of brands at the forefront of its industry,” explained Patterson.
In addition to the fleet of vehicles for grocery delivery, Esperanza and Narnia Road also acquired an exclusive Udelv dealership agreement for the State of Oklahoma to supply additional fleet vans to service other local merchants and residents in underserved markets.
To accompany the commission of driverless vehicles, Udelv and Esperanza Real Estate Investments will establish operations in Oklahoma City and create a state-of-the-art tele-operations center for the remote control and visibility for monitoring of the fleet.
The Binkowski family believes investing in ADVs is part of the company’s growth strategy for their home, business and individual delivery channel.
Our investment marks the beginning of work to develop new avenues of our business for our chain of supermarkets, made possible by the advent of this technology. We are constantly striving to serve our guests as their desires constantly change and evolve. In four of our stores across two banners we have successfully rolled out our own online platform developed within our company. We have additionally launched a relationship that has allowed us to deliver groceries through the same four stores. This will be expanded to all of our stores across all four banners in November of this year. With Udelv, we will now be able to add driverless deliveries to our other options of the in-store experience, free curbside pick-up and driver deliveries, stated Hank Binkowski, Founder and CEO of the Buy For Less Grocery Company.
ADD TWO … ADV VEHICLES
The Binkowskis are equally as passionate about the ministry of changing the lives of families in need through this innovative delivery method. “As unabashed Christ–followers, bringing this technology to our state aligns with the mission and vision of our companies to use the opportunities God has provided to minister to those who may have need. This decision will have a far-reaching impact on families that goes beyond grocery delivery. That makes this endeavor a very worthy investment,” stated Susan Binkowski.
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Home » Press Releases » Dare County MedFlight first North American customer to upgrade to new H145
Dare County MedFlight first North American customer to upgrade to new H145
Posted on March 7, 2019 ; Airbus Press Release
North Carolina air medical operator Dare County MedFlight will be the first customer in North America to retrofit its helicopter to the new 5-bladed version, announced today at the Heli-Expo tradeshow at the Georgia World Congress Center. The new version of Airbus Helicopters’ best-selling H145 light twin-engine helicopter brings a new, innovative five-bladed rotor to the multi-mission H145, increasing the useful load of the helicopter by 150 kilogram while delivering new levels of comfort, simplicity and connectivity.
The new version of Airbus Helicopters’ best-selling H145 light twin-engine helicopter brings a new, innovative five-bladed rotor to the multi-mission H145, increasing the useful load of the helicopter by 150 kilogram. Airbus Photo
“We are excited about the opportunity to include this new product enhancement in our aircraft, where increased performance and a smoother ride for patient and care providers are critical components to our mission success,” said Chad Jones, director of operations and chief pilot at Dare County MedFlight. “We were the launch customer in North America for the H145 in 2012 and are pleased to have the opportunity to incorporate this latest innovation.”
The H145’s new five-bladed rotor brings a significant increase in overall performance and the simplicity of the new bearingless main rotor design will also ease maintenance operations. The reduced rotor diameter will allow the H145 to operate in more confined areas and the integration of the wireless Airborne Communication System (wACS) will allow seamless and secure transmission of data generated by the helicopter in real-time, including in-flight.
“Airbus continues to implement enhancements on its product lines as our customers’ missions and everyday operating environments grow and evolve,” said Chris Emerson, Airbus Helicopters Inc. president and head of North America Region. “Dare County is yet again launching innovations on the H145 and we are proud to work with them on the first implementation in the North American market of the newest H145 evolution.”
Dare County’s aircraft will be equipped with the 5-bladed rotor system following certification, planned for early 2020. Based in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina, Dare County has been an Airbus customer for more than 30 years and began flying Airbus products with the BK117 for air medical missions.
The H145 is the class-leader among light twin-engine helicopters, incorporating Airbus Helicopters’ advanced cockpit design and innovative Helionix avionics suite. Its versatility, spacious cabin, and rear-loading clamshell doors have made it the leading choice for air medical programs in the United States and worldwide.
Airbus Helicopters is the leading provider of helicopters to the air medical transport industry. Approximately 55 percent of the 2,500 helicopters EMS helicopters flying in the world today are Airbus helicopters. In the U.S. alone, more than half of all new air medical helicopters sold in the last decade were produced by Airbus.
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STDs Are Socially Stigmatized
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By Elizabeth Boskey, PhD
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Many STDs are said to be socially stigmatized. In other words, people are judged or condemned for being infected with STDs. Other types of disease may also carry some level of social stigma. However, the STD stigma is often particularly strong.
Why is STD infection associated with such strongly negative responses? In part, it is because people are often so incredibly judgmental about sex. When someone is diagnosed with an STD and lets people know about it, there is often a very negative reaction. They may find that people think of them as dirty or slutty. They may lose partners or experience intimate partner violence.
STD stigma isn't always directed. Sometimes it's more general, like when people make jokes or play songs that equate herpes to being dirty. But even undirected stigma can be very painful and have a negative side effect. Stigma is a problem no matter how it's enacted.
The truth is, there's no logical reason to stigmatize STDs. This type of judgment is not only irrational. It's actually extremely counterproductive. Why?
STDs are just infections. They have no inherent moral or immoral component. They infect people regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation.
Most STDs are asymptomatic. That means that the only way to know if you have one is to be tested regularly. The profound degree of social stigma associated with a positive diagnosis is a huge problem. It makes many people decide they'd rather not know their status. Therefore people often spend years spreading diseases before they experience any serious personal consequences. They think that if they don't know, then they don't have to lie about it or risk rejection.
It only takes one sexual partner to end up with an STD. Sometimes, it doesn't take any. Having an STD says nothing about your sexual history except that you, probably, didn't reliably practice safer sex.
STDs are incredibly common. Some, like HPV, infect more than half the sexually active population. Many of the people shaming people with STD stigma probably have an STD themselves. This has the potential to contribute to self-hatred and depression after diagnosis. For example, herpes stigma can be bad enough to leave people feeling suicidal after a new diagnosis.
In my opinion, the only real cure for STD stigma is better sex education. People need to learn how common these diseases are. They need to learn how easily they're treated. Then, maybe, we can start working on making screening more common. After all, one of the worst parts of STD stigma is that doctors can suffer from it too. Sometimes that makes it hard to get tested, even if you don't suffer from STD stigma yourself.
Note: Two STDs that are associated with particularly high levels of social stigma are HIV and herpes.
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Young SD, Nussbaum AD, Monin B. Potential Moral stigma and Reactions to Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Evidence for a Disjunction Fallacy. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2007 Jun;33(6):789-99
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PETA relives the film "Bona" onstage (August 24 - September 23, 2012)
Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) relives the original film Bona as the group opens its 45th theater season this August in retrospect of a film classic that once captivated the hearts of Filipino audiences. From Lino Brocka's film masterpiece, this modern stage adaptation is directed by theater stalwart Soxie Topacio.
Originally directed by National Artist for Film and one of PETA’s founding members Lino Brocka, the film Bona is about a young schoolgirl played by Nora Aunor who became a die-hard fan of Gardo, a wannabe actor essayed by Philip Salvador.
Set in contemporary Manila, PETA’s stage adaptation evolves around Eugene Domingo in the title role, a spinster call center agent who becomes a fan of Gino Sanchez, essayed by Edgar Allan Guzman as a contestant in the talent search Star of Tomorrow. Blinded by her obsession on Gino, Bona turns her back on everything she values and gives up nearly everything she has. Caught in a quicksand of worship and pity, Bona proves how obsession may overpower love and even lead to a person’s demise.
Poster #1 courtesy of Super Starstruck;
Poster #2 courtesy of Super Star Nora Aunor
THE FILM, BONA
Aunor’s portrayal of Bona won her the Best Actress Award in the 1980 Gawad Urian Awards. The film written by Cenen Ramones was also an official entry in the 1981 Cannes International Film Festival Director’s Fortnight and was cited as one of the “100 Best Films of the World” by The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
The role Bona was originally performed on screen by Nora Aunor with Philip Salvador as Gardo, who both also starred in some of PETA’s theater productions: Aunor in Rody Vera’s Minsa'y Isang Gamu-Gamo (1991), Ricky Lee’s DH:Domestic Helper (1993) and Salvador in Nick Joaquin’s Larawan, Tony Perez’ Cat in a Hot Tin Roof (1980), Orlando Nadres’ Flores Para Los Muertos: A Streetcar Named Desire (1980) among others.
Photo courtesy of Super Starstruck
In line with its 45th season theme of understanding and interrogating film through live theater performances, PETA’s Bona gives a rare insight into the world of film, especially the devotion of diehard fanatics.
EUGENE & EDGAR'S THEATER BACKGROUND
Eugene Domingo and Edgar Allan Guzman are no rookies when it comes to performing on a live stage. Before their high profile show business careers, both had rich theater backgrounds. Coming together in one theater production was a bit of coincidence. In the 7th Cinemalaya Film Festival held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in July 2011, Eugene bagged the Best Actress award for his performance in Ang Babae sa Septic Tank, while Edgar clinched the Best Actor award for his performance in Ligo Na U, Lapit Na Me.
Before becoming a box office queen and one of the most sought-after actresses in the Philippine movie and television industry, Domingo graduated from the University of the Philippines' Theater Arts program and has been an active member of Dulaang UP and The UP Repertory Company. She has done a variety of plays, from classical, contemporary and a number of musicals as well as straight plays.
Guzman is also no theater newbie. Before he became “The New Prince of Indie Cinema,” the young actor started as member of the theater group Villa Teatro which performed in schools and malls.
A scene from PETA's Bona
ON ADAPTATION
Layeta Bucoy, who wrote the stage adaptation, shares her insight about the difference of the new Bona to the film. “Eugene’s Bona is more empowered; she is financially independent and even supports her family. As a fan, she lays claim to empowerment, as she believes that the inclusion of fan votes in a talent search on TV affords her to choose tomorrow’s next big star. Since her admiration is also stamped with pity, blinded with altruism, she gives the aspiring star her all,” shares Bucoy.
Bucoy also expressed her excitement over Domingo’s portrayal of Bona, “I believe she has the stamina, range, and imagination for a physically and emotionally taxing role.”
Eugene Domingo & Edgar Allan Guzman during BONA's Presscon
Eugene Domingo as Bona
Edgar Allan Guzman as Gino Sanchez
Phil Noble / Joey Paras as Baldy
Raffy Tejada / Jef Henson-Dee as Ronald
She Maala / Olive Nieto as Binky
Jason Barcial / Junevir Tabor as Chiqui
Dudz Teraña as Nini
Juliene Mendoza as Bert
BJ Forbes as Bingo
Gabs Santos as Raf
Anna Luna as Katrina
Directed by Soxie Topacio
Adapted for Stage by Layeta Bucoy
Additional Scenes by Phil Noble
Set Design by Boni Juan
Lighting Design by Jon Jon Villareal
Costume by Carlo Pagunaling
Music by Teresa Barrozo
BONA's Presscon
Bona will run from August 24 to September 23, 2012 (Fridays to Sundays) at The PETA Theater Center. Fridays at 8pm; Saturdays at 3pm & 8pm; Sundays at 3pm & 8pm.
Tickets are now on sale through www.ticketworld.com.ph or www.petatheater.com. For more information, contact (632) 725-6244, +63.917.5765400, +63.916.3090707, petatheater@gmail.com.
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Voyageurs National Park Announces New Chief Ranger
"We are excited to announce Ben Welch as our new Chief Ranger at Voyageurs National Park. Ben brings a long list of experience, and the right characteristics to help the park and our communities continue to work towards successes,” says Superintendent Mike Ward.
Starting in 2002 as a Student Conservation Association (SCA) intern at Arches National Park, Ben has worked at Capitol Reef, Theodore Roosevelt and Everglades National Parks as an interpretive ranger. As a Visitor and Resource Protection Ranger, Ben has worked at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, Redwood, and Yellowstone National Parks. Most recently, Ben served as the East District Ranger in Big Bend National Park.
Ben is looking forward to the opportunity to serve the visitors and other park stakeholders of Voyageurs National Park and to serve the community of International Falls and other communities of northern Minnesota. Although Ben thoroughly enjoys his work with the National Park Service, he is happiest when spending time with his beautiful wife Nancy and their two year old daughter, Marin, and one month old daughter, Sheridan. “We look forward to welcoming Ben and his family to Voyageurs and our surrounding communities,” says Superintendent Mike Ward.
Welch replaces Chuck Remus who faced mandatory law enforcement retirement in late October. Remus will stay on in the new position of Recreation Fee Specialist at the park. “Remus served in the ranger division for over 22-years at Voyageurs National Park and while we will miss him in that position we are very happy to keep his expertise and his great relationships working for the park.”
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Arusha tourist meeting postponed
Tanzania's decision to postpone a top level meeting of Kenyan and Tanzania's tourist industry ministers and operators, which was set for the first week in February, has caused an immediate tough reaction in Kenya.
Tourist operators using Tanzanian licensed vehicles will no longer be allowed to work in Kenya. Above all this means that they will not be permitted to pick up passengers at Nairobi's Kenyatta international airport, where about 40 per cent of tourists destined for Tanzania touch down each year.
Kenya had relaxed some of the terms of the 1985 bilateral tourist agreement between the two countries, such as access to Kenyatta airport, and it was hoping that Tanzania would do the same.
The Arusha meeting was designed to iron out the continuing difficulties and necessary concessions but now that the meeting has been postponed Kenya has announced that it will return to a policy of strict enforcement. The cancellation of the February meeting (no date has yet been set for a new meeting) appears to have taken some tourist operators in Arusha by surprise.
They fear that the talks may have been hijacked by interests wanting to penalise the flourishing northern safari circuits in favour of tourist resorts more easily accessible via Dar es Salaam international airport. These include Dar es Salaam, the Tanga region, Zanzibar and the Selous game reserve.
With general elections set for October this year local political tensions in Tanzania are already surfacing. But rivalry between Kenya and Tanzania has also increased recently as the threat of terrorism is affecting tourist numbers on both sides of the border.
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Cruise ship bound for NOLA diverted to Mobile
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Carnival Cruise Lines diverted a ship to Mobile, Alabama on Thursday that was bound for New Orleans. The cruise ship changed ports after Louisiana was placed under a hurricane watch. The company is planning to bus passengers from Mobile to New Orleans. Passenger Kim Darnell said the trip was smooth and she is now focusing her attention on getting home. "We didn't hit any real stormy weather out there or anything. The captain did exactly what he thought was safe and best for his passengers."The National Weather Service is forecasting the storm to hit the Gulf with heavy rain, wind and storm surge over the next several days.
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Carnival Cruise Lines diverted a ship to Mobile, Alabama on Thursday that was bound for New Orleans.
The cruise ship changed ports after Louisiana was placed under a hurricane watch.
The company is planning to bus passengers from Mobile to New Orleans.
Passenger Kim Darnell said the trip was smooth and she is now focusing her attention on getting home.
"We didn't hit any real stormy weather out there or anything. The captain did exactly what he thought was safe and best for his passengers."
The National Weather Service is forecasting the storm to hit the Gulf with heavy rain, wind and storm surge over the next several days.
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Replete, Twelfth Labour Roll to Back-to-Back Wins for Stewart / Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Replete and Twelfth Labour capped off the Churchill Downs meet with open-length victories on June 27 and 28 for trainer Dallas Stewart and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.
Replete turned his seventh career start into a procession on June 27 when he kicked away to a 4 3/4-length maiden victory at Churchill Downs.
The handsome 3-year-old gelding had undergone a myectomy after displacing his soft palate when he faded late in a fifth-place finish there on May 24.
This time, Replete tracked in third place and switched outside with a big move in the far turn and showed heels to 11 rivals in the stretch of the 6-furlong event.
“We had tried all sorts of distances with him and then we did some minor throat surgery and I think that helped him a lot,” Stewart said. “He is a horse that should get better with age: he is very healthy, we know he can run and I think he has a shot to turn the tables and be a nice horse.“
Twelfth Labour has followed that kind of arc since April when he began to reward the patience of his connections, finishing a bombs-away second at Keeneland and following with two convincing wins at Churchill.
The 3-year-old colt tried route races and the grass before settling into a nice groove going 7 furlongs and a mile around a single turn on the dirt. In blossoming this season, he has banked more than $122,000.
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Incorrect or Negligent FOI Answers
Calum McLean made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Work and Pensions
Calum McLean
Calum McLean 6 January 2012
Dear Department for Work and Pensions,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000
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On or about 30th March 2011 in answer to a legally binding Freedom of Information Act (FOI) request....
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You advised.... "In answer to your questions I
can advise that the Department does not hold any statistics
relating to your enquiries".
The enquiror, a Mr Taylor specifically asked.... "I actual requested ALL RECORDED INFORMATION that you and/or your
contractors have relating to the number of Incapacity benefit claimants or people claiming employment and support allowance (ESA) that have committed suicide, or attempted to commit suicide, following notification of the requirement for them to attend an Atos Medical Examination and/or a work capability assessment (WCA)."
On or about 14 June 2011, in writing, you persisted in the statement that you do not hold any information in this respect.
On 5th January 2012, The Herald newspaper published a written reply by your Minister of State, Mr Grayling, that COMPLETELY CONTRADICTS the original answer which you provided under a STATUTORY REQUEST...
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1. Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide me with ALL documents relating to the enquiry by Mr Tom Greatrex (appropriately redacted to avoid disclosing Data Protection Act exempt information), along with the replies and ALL documents relating to this whether letters, emails, minutes of meetings and contemporaneous notes of telephone calls from Mr Chris Grayling as the Government Minister at the DWP.
2. In terms of the Civil Service Code...
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/content/...
Please can you report yourselves and the above lie or negligence in giving false of inaccurate information out when so require by the Freedom of Information Act so that the cabinet Office may fully audit the evident discrepencies between your FOI answer and the contradictory written statement by your Minister of State?
DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request, Department for Work and Pensions 6 January 2012
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been received at the DWP Central FoI Team.
We will forward your request to the relevant information owner within the
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P. Wilkinson left an annotation ( 7 January 2012 )
I will send a FOI on this as I would like to know in what capacity are HCPs to be deployed into jobcentres as it seems to me they are trying to influence the decision maker to reduce the appeals expense.
Quote from the Herald
"Following a report designed to reduce the number of incorrect assessments, Atos was told to put staff in job centres, where the final decisions are made. But Mr Grayling also admitted a shortage of resources meant that recommendation had yet to be implemented."
Calum McLean 4 February 2012
To: DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request,
Please can you reply to my request which is past the lawful date by which you are legally obliged to respond?
Please can you also advise why you have broken the law in this regard?
4th February 2012.
DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request, Department for Work and Pensions 4 February 2012
P. Wilkinson left an annotation ( 5 February 2012 )
There seems to be a growing number of FOI requests which are not answered within the legal time limit.
Calum McLean left an annotation ( 6 February 2012 )
Hello P. Wilkinson,
Thank you. You are right. The DWP are breaking the Freedom of Information Acts with increasing frequency.
How ironic that the questionably "noble" Lord Freud wishes to fine disabled people £50 for filling in a form incorrectly ...
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa...
I would suggest that each time Mr Freud or his DWP colleagues miss a STATUTORY deadline on FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, then whoever is asking the question reciprocates Mr Freud's intolerance of the disabled and seeks a "civil penalty' against him and his DWP colleagues.
That is the law. The disabled are entitled to use it as well as Mr Freud.
It isn't as if Mr Freud cannot afford it. He creams off some £300 a day to get free luxury accommodation, free heat and subsidsed food at the House of Lords whilst mere cripples die a painful death ...
http://calumslist.org/
... to save Mr Freud and his friends money to subsidise massive tax breaks for his civil service and establishment colleagues who rip us all off with impunity....
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/a...
J Newman left an annotation ( 6 February 2012 )
I can feel an FoI request coming on about the performance of the DWP FoI depatment. I suspect part of the reason for the increase in +20 days is that progressively we get better at asking more pointed questions that have to be referred upward to answer more carefully.
They clearly barely follow the letter of the law and most certainly not its spirit. What they don't twig is that the suspicion and mistrust they create makes for more questions not less. Having just about run out of patience, I now have 3 with the ICO - all small issues but similar principle that needs to be addressed.
Hi J Newman,
I just love this WhatDoTheyKnow website. Well done to the late Chris Lightfoot and WDTK team.
If I may, I would like to put a clear link to your FOI questions ....
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/j_new...
.... for your FOI questions and the answers are all part of the new 'education' that we are all progressing as far as the DWP and the misdemeanours allegedly perpetrated by the Secretary of State.
Calum.
www.calumslist.org
Great points guys, and you are right Calum, the WDTK site is brilliant, not least of all because if the DWP evade the questions we ask, then there are many observers who step in with the answers and links to more valuable information, as you show.
The DWP may like to keep their answers close to their chest but the truth will be ousted eventually.
Like you said John, they just create mistrust resulting in more questions being asked!
The site is excellent. It was a nightmare keeping track without it and with no way of "sharing". Now it's not so easy to divide and conquer. All part of transparency, public accountability etc. apart from that bit about the Atos IT . . . but that is another story and not over yet!
I just wish there was a classification "will not answer with no reason"
Feel free to use my email to discuss away from this forum if more appropriate.
FoI 53 08.02.12.pdf
Dear Mr McLean
Please see attached response to your FoI request.
DWP Central FoI Team
I, Calum McLean, am in receipt of an UNSIGNED and UNATTRIBUTED missive from the DWP making allegations against me.
I REQUIRE the NAME of the DWP author of the following statement published on the WhatDoTheyKnow website by the DWP:-
"There is an amount of correspondence on various websites that accuse Atos Healthcare and
DWP of wrongdoing which are not backed up by any factual evidence, where the
correspondence has not been taken through appropriate channels, and simply seeks to
condemn DWP through inference. In this case the information provided in the parliamentary
response and the press article are being used to infer that DWP and/or its staff have broken
Your accusations against DWP and staff are unfounded and are not based on factual
evidence; these allegations of wrongdoing against Civil Servants are unacceptable, therefore
the Department finds that this request is vexatious in nature and is under no obligation to
respond. "
Dear Anonymous DWP Civil Servant,
I CITE, for example, the case of Mr Richard Sanderson ....
http://calumslist.org/detailed-accounts/
Whoever you are at the DWP that has written this unattributed missive, you are wrong, and downright out of order. Mr Sanderson left EVIDENCE. This evidence is now safely in the hands of the authorities.
This is not VEXATIOUS, but FACT. Many others who have committed suicide, allegedly because of fatal welfare reform flaws have left FACT BASED EVIDENCE TOO.
Therefore this matter will be referred to the Information Commissioner to adjudicate the Freedom of Information (FOI) aspect.
As for the allegations that there may be criminality involved in dozens of welfare reform deaths; it is not up to you to stonewall or rebut these with false allegations in an effort to deflect guilt, or protect yourself from the results of the actions of your organisation.
It IS up to a court of law to forensically examine the evidence.
I am well aware of the difference between an FOI request and the evidence gathering process along with the police and CPS protocols.
Are you ?
Your stonewalling with a "vexatious" excuse will not work here. Not with so MANY deaths and so MUCH evidence held by so MANY of HM Coroners and so MANY police forces.
You have had ample time to rectify this mess within your department. Even as I write this there has been yet another death where culpability has been directed against the DWP. Not by me, but by another bereft family and another separate media organisation.
Or are you REALLY suggesting that it is all nice and proper at the DWP and some 20 suicides are a figment of many peoples' imagination?
I would respectfully refer you to the MP Expenses Scandal and the Phone Hacking Scandal. Nobody died.
Yet many MPs and a number of Lords were prosecuted. Several were jailed.
The Welfare Reform Death Scandal has not been dealt with humanely, nor STOPPED. Your organisation are carrying on with the assumption of impunity.
Not for much longer.
DWP Adelphi Freedom-of-Information-Request, Department for Work and Pensions 5 March 2012
FOI2867 IR58 Response 05.03.12.pdf
Dear Calum McLean,
Please see attached response to your Internal Review.
FoI 1015 07.03.12.pdf
Calum McLean left an annotation ( 7 March 2012 )
A thank you to the WhatDoTheyKnow website.
It is evident that the DWP publish details of those enquiring under FOI, but are happy to hide behind the legislation when one of their ilk have an unprofessional rant, and decline to SIGN their reply.
Whoever it was at the DWP who wrote the excuses above, this matter has now exhausted the FOI process.
They at the DWP, and those standing idly by whilst so many people kill themselves because of the fatally flawed welfare reform systems within the DWP WILL be referred to the appropriate authorities.
These are not random allegations. They are being distilled from various sources, including HM Coroner reports, and now subject to "Rule 43 Inquiry" under the Coronial legislation.
Open, public and fully transparent detail at ....
Mr Gary Kay left an annotation ( 16 July 2012 )
Calum
Have you got any further with this subject,I am about to embark on a journey into the Disaster of ESA and atos.
DWP Death Toll Risk Analysis Report - £20 Billion
Legal challenges to DWP / ATOS
Atos HCP qualifications
The RECording of aTOS Medical ExamINATIONS
Atos FFW recommendations overturned by DWP 10/08 – 02/11
DWP Policy vs Atos IT Secrecy
Audio recording of work capability assessments
WCA Forecasts & MSTs
Atos Costs - 04/11 to 03/12
Recording of medicals by Atos
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Six Nations: England v Ireland
Airs at 2:25pm on Saturday 17 March 2018
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File photo dated 11-02-2017 of England's Elliot Daly.
England face an epic clash with Ireland on the final day of the Championship
England face an epic clash with Ireland on the final day of the Championship.
The final (and most important) match in England’s Six Nations tournament sees them play the Irish at Twickenham (k-o 2.45pm).
At the time of writing, England’s game against France hasn’t been played, so whether they achieved a bonus point in that game could have enormous implications here.
Either way, beating Ireland is going to be a big ask, although a newly fit Elliot Daly is always going to be a great option, challenging Jonny May in the back three.
Earlier, Italy play Scotland (k-o 12.30pm) in Rome, while the later 5.00pm kick-off on BBC1 sees Wales take on France in Cardiff.
Could it be Ireland’s tournament this year, and on St Patrick’s Day, too?
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Is a Jonas Brothers and BLACKPINK Collaboration on the Horizon?
By Kathlene Masilongan
After a successful collaboration with Dua Lipa, it’s no wonder why Blackpink has been getting the attention of Western artists. The latest of said artists is American pop rock band, the Jonas Brothers, who recently made their comeback with ‘Sucker’, and have been promoting themselves non-stop ever since.
At a recent TV appearance, the JoBros played a game of ‘Would You Rather’, where they were given two options and they basically had to choose which of the two they would prefer. Their answer to one particular question really caught the attention of K-pop fans.
The question was: “Who would you want to team up next for a song?” Joe immediately answered Blackpink, and Nick and Kevin nodded in agreement. This excited both the boys’ fans and Blackpink’s Blinks. Both groups are on the top of their game right now and seeing them collaborate would be a dream.
If ever this powerhouse collab does happen, it wouldn’t be the first K-pop collaboration the JoBros have ever done. Back in 2009, the brothers toured with now K-pop legends the Wonder Girls after asking the ladies to be their opening act.
Meanwhile, Blackpink recently performed at Coachella where they made a huge buzz for being the first K-pop girl group to perform at the music festival. They were recently in Manila for a meet-and-greet and are currently wrapping up the Australian leg of their world tour.
[ALSO READ: The Jonas Brothers are Ready to Tell All in Their Upcoming Book Memoir]
Would you want to see the JoBros collaborate with Blackpink?
Kathlene Masilongan
Kat is a pop-culture and travel enthusiast. When she's not daydreaming (or, you know, working), she's busy reading comics and watching movies. She also lives on the internet. Twitter/Instagram: @bykatmasi.
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Super Steed Pulls Off Massive Upset in Oaklawn's Southwest Stakes
by Oaklawn Park Press Release
Michael Pressley and Steed Jackson’s Super Steed overcame two disappointing starts in his last two outs to pull one of the biggest upsets in Oaklawn stakes history by winning Monday’s $500,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) at odds of 62-1.
Ridden by Terry Thompson, Super Steed had to steady early and raced in ninth as Jersey Agenda and Gray Attempt battled through an opening quarter in :23 2/5. Gray Attempt, the Smarty Jones winner, held a one length advantage after a half mile in :47 3/5, but it was short lived. The winner came five wide into the stretch and rolled past all of his rivals to win by three-quarters of a length over Sueno. Long Range Toddy had to steady at the quarter pole, but made a gutsy move to be third.
Six Shooter, Bankit, Boldor, 2-1 favorite Cutting Humor, Jersey Agenda, Ninth Street, Olympic Runner and Gray Attempt completed the order of finish.
Super Steed, a son of 2010 Arkansas Derby runner-up and Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver trained by Larry Jones, won for the second time in five starts and has now earned $364,500. He returned a very generous $126.60, $39.80 and $19.80.
The top four finishers of the Southwest all earned points toward Kentucky Derby eligibility. Super Steed earned 10 for winning and is now tied with seven other horses among the top 20. Sueno now has eight points and is just outside the top 20, while Long Range Toddy, who won the Springboard Mile for 10 points and got four for finishing second in the Smarty Jones, now has 16 and is ranked seventh.
Live racing resumes Thursday at Oaklawn with a 1:30 p.m. first post.
Southwest Stakes Quotes:
Winning trainer Larry Jones – “He’s a nice horse. He got sick going into the Fair Grounds race (Sugar Bowl). It wasn’t serious, but you could tell he didn’t feel well. And, in the Smarty Jones (When seventh) they ran a Merry Go Round race. Terry did a good job. He had him in a good spot. This is very good. It’s been a while since Terry and I have been in this position. This is wonderful.”
Winning jockey Terry Thompson – “He ran just a beautiful race. He wasn’t as aggressive. The other day (in the Smarty Jones), he got shuffled back, but he was aggressive. Today everything was in flow. It worked out perfect. Larry said wherever we were, make sure he gets the lead heading into stretch. He has a big heart.”
Trainer Keith Desormeaux, second with Sueno – “Great race. It would have nice to get through earlier. This horse is as legit as they come. We are very thankful to have him in our stable.”
Trainer Jinks Fires (Gray Attempt, 11th) – “Very unsportsmanlike what they did. I don't mind them outrunning us, making us keep running. But don't come in and wipe me out.”
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HomeExclusive!TRACK PREMIERE: Scottish folk-rocker JAMIE SUTHERLAND explores vulnerability and sincerity with ‘Be Careful Don’t Break My Heart’
TRACK PREMIERE: Scottish folk-rocker JAMIE SUTHERLAND explores vulnerability and sincerity with ‘Be Careful Don’t Break My Heart’
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Renowned for being the charismatic frontman of 4AD-signed Broken Records, Jamie Sutherland has broken out on his own to produce his debut solo album Bruise, set for release later this year.
As the third single from the record, ‘Be Careful Don’t Break My Heart’ explores the perspective that previous relationships bring to the current. Jamie tells us that it “looks at previous loves, the idea that things used to be simpler in a rose-tinted past, but with one eye squarely on the present and the real love that’s sitting in front of you.”
Listen to the Exclusive XS Noize premiere of ‘Be Careful Don’t Break My Heart’ – BELOW:
Recorded in the Happiness Hotel, Edinburgh, the track blends the rhythmic momentum of acoustic guitars with a lyrical sentiment that defies cliché and saccharine tropes. Subtle touches of electric guitar add affective detail, without being lost underneath the invigorating bed of percussion. Whilst luscious organs elevate the track to match the euphoric feeling at the centre of the song, Sutherland’s earthy vocal keeps the song grounded with sincerity.
Jamie has toured with the likes of The National, Black Keys, Editors, Plan B and Frightened Rabbit. When he’s not playing music himself he runs the Nothing Ever Happens Here night in Edinburgh. Named after a reference to a 1980s American Hardcore documentary in which it’s scrawled on a toilet door, the night is a key part of Edinburgh’s music scene.
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Home Business & Industry Building Products Arvind and Polser to jointly manufacture composite building materials
Arvind and Polser to jointly manufacture composite building materials
Arvind Limited has confirmed that it has inked a joint venture (JV) agreement with Turkey’s Polser AS, a leading provider of laminated composite panels.
The JV would be involved in the production of corrugated and plain fiberglass sheet panels to cater to the construction industry in India as well as overseas, sources familiar with the matter stated.
Combining the world-class technological expertise of Polser with manufacturing capabilities of the Advanced Materials Division (AMD) of Arvind, the JV, under the new entity Arvind Polser Reinforced Composite Panels Limited would have a 60:40 share of equity from Arvind Limited and Polser AS, respectively. The JV’s manufacturing facility will be established at Ahmedabad in Gujarat, the sources informed.
Arvind has mentioned in a recent statement that AMD, its division based on material science and focused on providing solutions, has a potential to reach revenues of nearly ?5,000 crore over the next 5 to 10 years. Currently, AMD brings in about ?700 crore revenue for Arvind. The JV is aimed at providing next generation materials to the construction industry to replace wood, asphalt shingles and traditional metals like steel.
According to the sources, Arvind Polser Reinforced Composite Panels would be greatly beneficial for pharmaceutical, medical and food preparation settings which require highly cleanable and sanitary walls. The panels will supposedly cost around half of ceramic tiles, besides being easier to clean. These could also be deployed as construction material in cooling towers, hygiene, hospitality, agriculture and livestock and automotive industry.
Ashish Kumar, chief executive for Arvind AMD and Envisol, Arvind Limited, stated that the JV forms part of a long-term strategy of the company’s advanced material business. The partnership with Polser is aligned with Arvind’s commitment towards growing its expertise across distinct technologies in composites for offering world-class solutions to customers, he added.
Polser AS managing director, Ahmet Cinar said partnering with Arvind would reinforce the company’s global position and enable it to better serve its customers.
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Mother claims she was evicted for inviting black family to Ga. home for playdate
GORDON COUNTY, Ga. (WSB/CNN) - A Georgia couple denies evicting their tenant because she had a black family visit her home, as the woman claims they did in a lawsuit against her former landlords.
Tenant Victoria Sutton says the ordeal caused her to scramble for housing and rush to find school accommodations for one of her children, who has special needs. (Source: WSB/Cox/CNN)
Former tenant Victoria Sutton filed a housing discrimination claim Wednesday against landlords Allen and Patricia McCoy, alleging Sutton was evicted from her Bartow County, Ga., home after she invited a black co-worker and their family for a playdate.
Sutton claims Allen McCoy called her an “n-word lover” shortly after the co-worker left the rental home last fall. There is a recording of Patricia McCoy allegedly saying, “I don’t put up with ‘n-words’ in my house, and I don’t want them on my property.”
The McCoys deny Sutton’s claims, both of them saying some of their best friends are black. They say the tenant had to be evicted due to alleged property damage.
"Tore up the bathrooms and window sills. Had burnt carpet, had to put new carpet in and everything,” Patricia McCoy said.
Sutton refutes the property damage claim in her lawsuit. She is being represented in the case by the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia.
"Part of me wasn’t shocked at all because racism is alive and well today,” said Sean Young, legal director of the ACLU of Georgia. “Racial discrimination is wrong, and whether it manifests in the form of this kind of blatant commentary or whether it happens more insidiously behind the scenes, it is wrong in every instance.”
The lawsuit also accuses the McCoys of not giving the tenant, her three young children and their father a court-ordered 60 days to move out of the home.
Sutton says the ordeal caused her to scramble for housing and rush to find school accommodations for one of her children, who has special needs.
The McCoys deny removing any belongings from the home until the 60 days ended.
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When things get tough, try starting a second business
When Simon decided to start his own farming business, he went all out and started two. At the same time. In a bad market.
Learn how he survived and came out the other side.
Finding a better way
Simon Washer had just bought a 340 cow dairy farm in Hawera, Taranaki, when the market tanked. Dairy prices dropped more than 50 per cent in the first year of business.
It was a brutal introduction for the 27-year-old, who had spent five years paying his dues as a sharemilker and farm manager.
If that wasn’t enough to contend with, Simon also had a second startup in its infancy.
Launching two businesses in a stressed rural economy might not sound like a pathway to inner peace, but Simon says it was therapeutic. The constant cut and thrust made a welcome distraction during the downtimes.
Simon’s business journey started in Ashburton, south of Christchurch, where he worked as an assistant farm manager in 2011. After running out of feed, he ordered silage from a contractor 15 kilometres away.
“The day it was delivered, I noticed the neighbour was mowing half his farm for sale feed,” Simon explains. “So I asked him what price he'd sold it for and, after doing the maths, I realised I’d have saved $10K if I’d bought from him.
"But it was 2011, and farmers found feed by looking in the newspapers or calling contractors. It was incredibly manual and disconnected. That way of doing business had just cost me a lot of money and I thought to myself, we should be doing this online.”
After looking at Trade Me, Simon decided their feed marketplace wasn’t the answer either. None of the products were graded for dry matter, crude protein, or metabolisable energy – so buyers didn’t know what they were getting.
By 2013, Simon had set up Farmfeed, a website that aimed to connect feed traders and make it easy to do business.
Simon divides his time between his dairy farm and Farmfeed
“Farmers are just too busy to stuff around getting their feed graded, or set up fiddly listings where they have to pay for extra photos and so on. We took all that away,” he says.
“When sellers create a listing with us, we send them sample containers that they can fill with feed and pop back in the mail. Within five days, their feed is formally graded by a lab and the results are posted with their listing.”
Within months, one of New Zealand’s biggest contractors started using Farmfeed and deals were being done. But it wasn’t exactly a well-oiled machine.
Simon’s singular focus on solving a customer problem meant he hadn’t yet thought how to make money from the venture. And the first version of the site, built by a student developer for $1500, was clunky and difficult to use.
We’ve thrown a lot of money, time and energy at Farmfeed, but I’m glad. I’d hate to watch someone else do it and think ‘Bugger, I had that idea’. — Simon Washer, Farmfeed
Finding that competitive streak
“I asked our early users what they thought of the site and they pointed out some of the limitations,” Simon recalls. “Pictures didn’t load properly and it wasn’t a smooth experience, so I went out and got a quote to build the site professionally.”
Estimates ranged up to $18,000, which forced a serious rethink. He quickly had to decide if Farmfeed was a hobby or a business. If it was a business, then it would need to make some money, which seemed like a long shot.
“I told my customers I was thinking of letting Farmfeed go and they all warned me not to. They asked how I’d feel if someone else picked up the idea and made a success of it. I guess that’s where my competitive streak kicked in. I couldn’t live with that.”
Those early experiments with Farmfeed had also taught Simon the business wouldn’t be as hands-off as he’d hoped. His vision had been for buyers and sellers to connect on the site then look after themselves, but it wasn’t happening that way.
“A lot of customers would ring up and say ‘I want to sell some feed but could you list it for me?’ Or ‘I want to buy some feed but could you organise transport for me?’ So it was actually developing into quite a big, time-intensive service to deliver.
“We were more involved in the deals than we’d planned. And we were effectively branching into logistics.”
Simon runs both of his businesses from his farm in Taranaki
Simon bought a 340-cow dairy farm just before dairy prices crashed
At precisely the same time as he launched the new-and-improved Farmfeed, Simon was also finishing up a business plan for his own dairy farm. It was 2013 and milk solids were fetching around $8/kg.
He budgeted for a relatively conservative $6/kgMS payout and took the plunge. He’d spend 2014 getting the farm into peak working order, which was a fine plan except it didn’t really fit with Farmfeed.
“It was tough in those early days of Farmfeed,” Simon admits. “I’d come in from a full day on the farm, have tea, then go and spend three hours working on a business that didn’t exist yet. And now I was going to buy my own dairy farm on top of that.”
It was around this time that Simon met Marilyn Davies, a director at Busing Russell chartered accountants and chair of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand’s Regional Advisory Group.
“I told her I’m in the shit because I’ve got two businesses and I can’t run them both,” Simon remembers. “Yet here I am, four years later, still running both businesses. A lot of that credit goes to Marilyn.”
She started by helping Simon accept the reality in front of him – he couldn’t make both businesses a success on his own. So he stepped back from Farmfeed and recruited Rachelle Hopkinson to manage the business.
Even though she had a lot of rural business experience, Simon says it was a stressful experience.
“I knew a lot about farming but not ecommerce or logistics, so how was I going to manage an employee? In the end, I just told Rachelle that I wanted Farmfeed to earn enough to pay her salary. I didn’t want to have to top it up out of the farm.”
She pulled it off and, by year’s end, Farmfeed was self-sustaining. Simon had also worked hard through 2014, priming the dairy farm for a big 2015 – except milk payouts had plummeted below $4/kgMS.
Xero saved us 12 hours a week. That means an awful lot to a small business with just a couple of employees.
— Simon Washer, Farmfeed
Fateful meeting
With one business just breaking even and another facing tough times, Simon went to see his bank manager. It wasn’t a meeting he relished, but it ended up changing the trajectory of both businesses – and ultimately Simon’s headspace.
“The bank manager could see I’d done everything I could for the farm so he suggested I focus on Farmfeed,” he says.
“I talked about that with Marilyn and she stepped up her involvement on the farm business, so I could switch attention back to Farmfeed.”
With Simon putting in extra time, he and Rachelle drove revenue up 400%. Just a year after worrying that the farm would need to top up the feed business, it was the other way around.
Besides providing financial relief, Farmfeed had also been a source of psychological relief.
Spending time outdoors on the beautiful west coast is an important part of the job
“Every time the dairy price went down, I’d jump on the calculator and see what the damage was to the farm business but I didn’t have to dwell on it. I’d just ask myself how we could make that money back through Farmfeed. Mentally, I never had a bad day when payments went down.”
Farmfeed’s success did have a downside, though. As it grew, so did the paperwork. And with things so tight on the farm, Simon didn’t want to spend money on a new hire. As a result, he and Rachelle spent hours hunched over spreadsheets, trying to stay on top of finances.
“All that admin was a real handbrake. We wanted to be out there growing the business and trying things, not working on the books.
“When we shared that frustration with Marilyn, she switched us onto Xero. We were among the first clients she put on the software and told us we’d be guinea pigs but we didn’t care. We had to try something.”
Simon and Monica run Farmfeed together
Simon now runs Farmfeed with his partner, Monica. It’s still small and lean and incredibly busy but automation means none of that hard work is wasted on bookkeeping. Every ounce of effort is focused on improving the business. Rebounding milk prices mean prospects have lifted for the farm too.
It’s been seven years since Simon first dreamed up Farmfeed. One financial crisis and two businesses later, he’s learned a lot. But he wouldn’t change anything.
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Now, M970D-W8 is available with Windows 8 , providing a touch optimized user interface as well as full access to all Windows software. The new metro interface of Windows 8 fit perfectly with M970D-W8 multi touch. Our 9.7" rugged tablet PC is an elegant and attractive looking gadget that combines matte silver and black, glossy glass covers almost the entire front side profile. The right side of the tablet shows the power button and SIM Card slot. Top side features four buttons for speakers, volume-up, volume-down, accessing a programmable function and bringing up on screen menus for brightness, volume, battery status and one-click access to turning the wireless radios as well as the camera. The bottom side has the power jack, and audio in/out jack, an edge connector that supports either HDMI or LAN via cable. All the mount connectors have hinged protective rubber doors to protect it from harsh environment. Below is the tablet from different viewing point positions
Model name: M970D-W8
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With millions of iPads sold, there's no denying that Apple nailed it in terms of size, screen size, interface, battery life and just about everything else. With the M970D-W8 tablet, Winmate clearly acknowledges that. The screen measures the same 9.7 inches as the iPad, and has the same 1024 x 768 XGA resolution as the original iPad and the iPad 2. There's the black bezel and the glass surface. Overall, this tablet seems just what a good number of customers have been waiting for: an iPad size tablet, but tougher and running Windows. But did we cover all the bases?
Capacitive touch has changed everything
Until the iPhone, almost every smartphone and tablet used either a resistive touch screen or one with some sort of active stylus. Apple changed all that with projected capacitive multi-touch technology that allowed effortless tapping, swiping, pinching and zooming. This poses a problem for devices running Windows (which wasn't designed for capacitive touch) and for anyone wanting to use their device with gloves on or in the rain (capacitive touch can't handle that). There are hybrid solutions that use both capacitive touch and a pen, but Winmate decided to go all the way and offer a pure capacitive touch screen, like the iPad's.
Size, shape and weight matter
In the new world of iPad-class media tablets, size and weight matter. The iPad's 9.7 inch screen size, conventional 4:3 aspect ratio, and roughly pound-and-a-half weight have remained the gold standard. Our Winmate tablet has an iPad size screen, and despite its somewhat larger footprint it mostly feels like a toughened-up iPad. At 1kg it weighs almost a pound more, but somehow it seems to weigh less than that and lighter than other rugged tablet available in the market.
The ruggedness issue
iPads are sleek and light, but they also break quite easily. People have posted plenty of broken iPad videos on YouTube, and here, all of our iPads have protective cases. But a wimpy portfolio case is not always enough. In the real world, tablets do get dropped, and they get rained on. So the ability to withstand a 4-foot drop and survive a downpour should be expected, and that's what Winmate offers here something rugged with IP54
Principal design element
One of the principal design elements of the M970D-W8 are the four black bumpers that protect the corners of the tablet. In some tablets, such bumpers are either optional or look like an afterthought, but that's not the case in this tablet. Winmate fully integrated the bumpers into the design while making sure they can easily be replaced. Each bumper consists of two layers, a very tough piece of plastic and then a black rubber layer molded onto it. These bumpers definitely provide good edge protection. They also extend a bit out front, and that adds some protection if the tablet falls on its face.
Superb Display
A tablet's display can make or break the product. We expect a bright, vibrant screen these days, one that is rock-solid, displays every detail, and shows deep, rich color. The days where a bit of flickering or color-banding was acceptable are long gone, and color-shifts as you look at the screen from different angles are a definite no-no. To realize just how important displays have become, look no farther than the iPhone and iPad where Apple redefined the rules once again with their "retina" displays. For now, no one has a display like the latest iPad with its incredible 2048 x 1536 quadruple XGA resolution, and you wouldn't expect a rugged tablet to come anywhere close to that latest iPad.
Yet, amazingly, Winmate accepted the challenge and came up with a screen that is far, far better than it has any right to be. In fact and everyday use, in most applications it looks every bit as good as the vaunted new iPad that has quadrupled resolution. If that sounds unbelievable, well, take a look at the pictures below. Test pictures from angles to check for reflections or deterioration of display view ability. In this case, M970D-W8 (left side) and iPad (right side) display surfaces reflected, but the picture stayed bright and clear, without any color shifts or aberrations.
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1. Insights on Canadian Society
Journals and periodicals: 75-006-X
Geography: Canada
This publication brings together and analyzes a wide range of data sources in order to provide information on various aspects of Canadian society, including labour, income, education, social, and demographic issues, that affect the lives of Canadians.
2. Aboriginal Peoples Survey
The Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) is a national survey on the social and economic conditions of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit. The objectives of the APS are to identify the needs of these Aboriginal groups and to inform policy and programs aimed at improving the well-being of Aboriginal peoples. The APS aims to provide current and relevant data for a variety of stakeholders, including Aboriginal organizations, communities, service providers, researchers, governments, and the general public.
The 2012 APS represents the fourth cycle of the survey and focuses on issues of education, employment and health of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 6 years and over.
The 2017 APS represents the fifth cycle of the survey and focuses on participation in the Canadian economy, transferable skills, practical training, use of information technology and Aboriginal language attainment of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 15 years and over.
3. Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report, Census of Population, 2016
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-307-X
The 2016 Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report deals with: (1) Aboriginal ancestry, (2) Aboriginal identity, (3) Registered Indian status and (4) First Nation/Indian band membership.
4. Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2017: Concepts and Methods Guide
Articles and reports: 89-653-X2018001
This Concepts and Methods Guide is intended to provide a detailed review of the 2017 APS with respect to its subject matter and methodological approaches. It is designed to assist APS data users by serving as a guide to the concepts and measures of the survey as well as the technical details of the survey's design, field work and data processing. This guide is meant to provide users with helpful information on how to use and interpret survey results. The discussion on data quality also allows users to review the strengths and limitations of the data for their particular needs.
Chapter 1 of this guide provides an overview of the 2017 APS by introducing the survey's background and objectives. Chapter 2 outlines the survey's themes and explains the key concepts and definitions used for the survey. Chapters 3 to 6 cover important aspects of the APS survey methodology, sampling design, data collection and processing. Chapters 7 and 8 review issues of data quality and caution users about comparing 2017 APS data with data from other sources. Chapter 9 outlines the survey products available to the public, including data tables, analytical articles and reference material. The Appendices provide a comprehensive list of survey indicators, extra coding categories and standard classifications used on the APS. Lastly, a glossary of survey terms is also provided.
5. Yukon: Beautiful, complex and changing
Stats in brief: 11-631-X2018006
This “Talking stats” presentation paints a picture of Yukon, its strengths, challenges and how it is evolving along a number of demographic, social, and economic dimensions. The presentation also highlights a number of facts about Yukon’s Indigenous peoples, who face specific economic and social challenges. While the presentation showcases many results from the Census, other, lesser-known sources of data can also be used to get a better picture of the social and economic issues faced by the people of Yukon.
6. First Nations, Métis and Inuit Statistics: The Way Forward
This presentation will highlight available statistical information for First Nations, Métis and Inuit in a wide variety of fields, including education, labour, health, and justice. It will also discuss some of the unique challenges and opportunities in the field of Aboriginal statistics, and how Statistics Canada is working to better represent the lives and conditions of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit.
7. Census Profile - Age, Sex, Type of Dwelling, Families, Households, Marital Status, Language, Income, Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Housing, Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Labour, Journey to Work, Mobility and Migration, and Language of Work for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Health Regions, 2016 Census
Table: 98-401-X2016058
This profile presents information from the 2016 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Using the search or browse options below, users can search for an area of interest by typing its place name, postal code or geographic code or by browsing a list. Data will be available according to the 2016 Census Program release schedule.
8. Census Profile - Age, Sex, Type of Dwelling, Families, Households, Marital Status, Language, Income, Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Housing, Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Labour, Journey to Work, Mobility and Migration, and Language of Work for Dissolved Census Subdivisions, 2016 Census
9. Focus on Geography Series
Data Visualization: 98-404-X
Focusing on a selected geographic area, this product presents data highlights for each of the major releases of the 2016 Census. These data highlights are presented through text, tables and figures. A map image of the geographic area is also included in the product. The geographic levels presented in this product include Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations, census divisions and census subdivisions.
Data highlights are presented according to the major 2016 Census release dates: February 8, 2017 – Population and dwelling counts; May 3, 2017 – Age and sex, Type of dwelling; August 2, 2017 – Families, households and marital status, Language; September 13, 2017 – Income; October 25, 2017 – Immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Housing, Aboriginal peoples; November 29, 2017 – Education, Labour, Journey to work, Language of work, Mobility and migration.
10. Census Profile, 2016
Profile of a community or region: 98-316-X2016001
This profile presents information from the 2016 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. Data are from the 2016 Census of Population and are available according to their release. February 8, 2017 – Population and dwelling counts; May 3, 2017 – Age and sex, Type of dwelling; August 2, 2017 – Families, households and marital status, Language; September 13, 2017 – Income; October 25, 2017 – Immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Housing, Aboriginal peoples; November 29, 2017 – Education, Labour, Journey to work, Language of work, Mobility and migration.
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4. Census Profile, 2016
5. Census Profile - Age, Sex, Type of Dwelling, Families, Households, Marital Status, Language, Income, Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Housing, Aboriginal Peoples, Education, Labour, Journey to Work, Mobility and Migration, and Language of Work for Designated Places, 2016 Census
Starting with the Census of Population release on age and sex, and on subsequent release dates, profile-component data will be available at the Canada, province and territory, economic region, census division and census subdivision levels, at the census metropolitan area, census agglomeration, population centre and census tract levels, at the designated place level, at the federal electoral district (based on the 2013 Representation Order) level, and at the dissemination area and aggregate dissemination area levels.
Profile component data for all other standard geographic areas, including dissolved census subdivisions and forward sortation areas, will be available after the Census of Population release dates.
6. Aboriginal peoples Highlight Tables, 2016 Census
These tables provide 2016 Census highlights on aboriginal peoples. Percentage distribution and percentage change from the previous census are available for various tables and levels of geography for example Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions with a 5,000-plus population.
7. Aboriginal peoples survey, reasons for harvesting, by age group and sex, Inuit population aged 15 years and over, Canada and Inuit Nunangat
Table: 41-10-0029-01
(formerly: CANSIM 576-0008)
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Occasional
This table contains 5376 series, with data for years 2012 - 2012 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (7 items: Canada; Inuit Nunangat; Nunatsiavut; Nunavik; ...) Age group (4 items: Total, 15 years and over; 15 to 24 years; 25 to 54 years; 55 years and over) Sex (3 items: Both sexes; Male; Female) Harvesting activities (16 items: Total, hunted, fished or trapped in the last year; Hunted, fished or trapped in the last year; Hunted, fished or trapped in the last year for pleasure or leisure; Hunted, fished or trapped in the last year for own or family's use or to supplement income; ...) Statistics (4 items: Number of persons; Percent; Low 95% confidence interval; High 95% confidence interval).
8. Profile - Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Aboriginal Peoples, Education and Labour, Mobility and Migration, and Income and Housing for Canada, Provinces, Territories and Health Regions (December 2013), National Household Survey, 2011 Archived
Using 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data, this profile provides a statistical overview of variables describing immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education, labour, mobility and migration, income and earnings, and housing and shelter costs.
In the National Household Survey product line, groups of related variables are referred to as 'release components of profiles.' These are made available with the major releases of variables of the NHS cycle, starting with the Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, and Aboriginal Peoples releases. Together, they will form a complete NHS Profile of all the variables for each level of geography. Profile-component data are available at the Canada, province and territory, census division and census subdivision levels, at the census metropolitan area and census agglomeration levels, census tract level, and at the federal electoral district (based on the 2003 Representation Order) level.
9. Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2012: Public Use Microdata File Archived
Public use microdata: 89-653-X2015005
The Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) is a national survey on the social and economic conditions of Aboriginal Peoples (First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit) aged 6 years and over. The 2012 APS represents the fourth cycle of the survey and focuses on issues of education, employment and health. The 2012 APS public use microdata file (PUMF) package has been designed to enable users to access and manipulate survey microdata at the national level. The package includes a microdata file; SAS, SPSS and Stata syntax; and a users’ guide. The users’ guide provides general information on the survey as well as guidelines for releasing estimates calculated using the PUMF.
10. Profile - Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity, Aboriginal Peoples, Labour and Education, and Mobility and Migration for Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, National Household Survey, 2011
Using 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) data, this profile provides a statistical overview of variables describing immigration and ethnocultural diversity, Aboriginal peoples, education, labour, mobility and migration.
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6. Study: Women in Canada: Women and the Criminal Justice System Archived
Stats in brief: 11-001-X201715715805
Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
7. Aboriginal people and the labour market Archived
Stats in brief: 11-001-X20170754689
8. Study: Literacy and numeracy among off-reserve First Nations people and Métis 2012 Archived
9. Aboriginal peoples: Fact sheets Archived
10. Study: Women in Canada: First Nations, Métis and Inuit women Archived
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2. Aboriginal Peoples Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2016
Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 98-500-X2016009
This guide focuses on the following topic: aboriginal peoples. This reference guide provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2016 Census. This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, classifications, data quality and comparability to other sources. Additional information is included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the Census.
3. 2016 Census of Population: Aboriginal peoples
The Aboriginal peoples Release and concepts overview provides an overview of the concepts, definitions and key measures used in the 2016 Census of Population Aboriginal peoples release, as well as the products which will be available on release day and later.
4. Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report, National Household Survey, 2011 Archived
The 2011 NHS Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report deals with: (1) Aboriginal ancestry, (2) Aboriginal identity, (3) Registered Indian status and (4) First Nation/Indian band membership.
The report contains explanations of concepts, data quality, historical comparability and comparability to other sources, as well as information on data collection, processing and dissemination.
5. Aboriginal Peoples Survey, 2012: Concepts and Methods Guide Archived
The Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS) is a national survey on the social and economic conditions of First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 6 years and over. The 2012 APS represents the fourth cycle of the survey and focuses on issues of education, employment and health.
The 2012 APS Concepts and Methods Guide is designed to assist data users by providing relevant information on survey content and concepts, sampling design, collection methods, data processing, data quality and product availability. Chapter 1 introduces the survey's background and objectives; Chapter 2 gives important definitions and describes the survey's themes; Chapters 3 through 5 explain the APS design and outline the data collection and processing steps; Chapter 6 describes the weighting method used; Chapters 7 and 8 review data quality and address comparability of the 2012 APS data with data from other sources; Chapter 9 lists survey products including analytical articles, data tables and reference material; Appendices provide additional definitions and links to other relevant documentation.
6. National Household Survey Dictionary, 2011 Archived
The National Household Survey (NHS) Dictionary is a reference document which contains detailed definitions of concepts, universes, variables, and geographic terms used in the NHS. By referring to the NHS Dictionary, both beginner and intermediate data users will gain a better understanding of the data.
7. Aboriginal Peoples Reference Guide, National Household Survey, 2011 Archived
This reference guide provides information that enables users to effectively use, apply and interpret data from the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). This guide contains definitions and explanations of concepts, classifications, data quality and comparability to other sources. Additional information is included for specific variables to help general users better understand the concepts and questions used in the NHS.
8. Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report, 2006 Census, Second Edition Archived
The 2006 Census Technical Report on Aboriginal Peoples deals with: (i) Aboriginal ancestry, (ii) Aboriginal identity, (iii) registered Indian status, and (iv) First Nation or Band membership. The report aims to inform users about the complexity of the data and any difficulties that could affect their use. It explains the conceptual framework and definitions used to gather the data, and it discusses factors that could affect data quality. The historical comparability of the data is also discussed.
The second edition includes the same content as the first, and new text has been added on data processing (Chapter 3). As well, modified content about data quality and 'on reserve' communities has been incorporated into the original sections.
9. Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report, 2006 Census Archived
10. Aboriginal Peoples Technical Report, 2006 Census Archived
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One-way traffic restored on Jammu-Srinagar Highwway
The highway was opened for light motor vehicles from Jammu to Srinagar on Sunday.
Jan 28, 2019, 16:07 PM IST
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Jammu: One-way traffic was restored on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway Monday as authorities allowed stranded Kashmir-bound trucks carrying essential commodities along with passenger vehicles from here, officials said.
The highway was opened for light motor vehicles from Jammu to Srinagar on Sunday after six-day closure following heavy snowfall and incessant rains which had triggered multiple landslides and shooting of stones at various places along the arterial road.
"Stranded trucks and passenger vehicles were allowed to move towards Srinagar Monday morning after agencies concerned cleared the road of the debris especially at Anokhi fall in Ramban district, an official of the traffic department said.
He said traffic is moving smoothly from Jammu to Srinagar, while no vehicle was allowed from Srinagar side in view of one-way restrictions which are in force for the past many months.Meanwhile, residents of Jammu Monday woke up to a cold morning as the minimum temperature plummeted once again across the region with snow-bound Bhaderwah town in Doda district emerging as the coldest recorded place with a low of minus 5.4 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Jammu fell to 3.5 degrees Celsius compared to the previous night's 4.1 degrees Celsius, a spokesman of the MET department said, adding the night temperature in the city is 5.2 degrees below normal during this part of the season.
However, the early morning sun provided relief to the people in the city from cold conditions.
Banihal town along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway also reeled under sub-zero temperature with a low of minus 0.9 degrees Celsius, while the nearby Batote town recorded a minimum of minus 2.6 degrees Celsius, the spokesman said.
He said Katra, the base camp for pilgrims visiting the Vaishno Devi Shrine in Reasi district, recorded a night temperature of 3.6 degrees Celsius.
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