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Daredevil Canceled at Netflix
By Jeff Scott On Nov 30, 2018 11:42 AM EST
By most accounts, Daredevil Season 3 was a pretty big success for Netflix. It holds a 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and was regarded by fans as a breath of fresh air for Netflix’s Marvel slate. That, apparently, wasn’t enough though. Netflix confirmed that Daredevil has been canceled.
Deadline broke the news shortly ago regarding Netflix’s decision. The studio spoke to the site, saying “Marvel’s Daredevil will not return for a fourth season on Netflix.” They continued on in a statement confirming the news:
“We are tremendously proud of the show’s last and final season and although it’s painful for the fans, we feel it best to close this chapter on a high note. We’re thankful to our partners at Marvel, showrunner Erik Oleson, the show’s writers, stellar crew and incredible cast including Charlie Cox as Daredevil himself, and we’re grateful to the fans who have supported the show over the years.”
Curiously, Netflix also stated that this wasn’t the end for the character himself. Saying “While the series on Netflix has ended, the three existing seasons will remain on the service for years to come, while the Daredevil character will live on in future projects for Marvel.”
It’s unclear if Netflix is saying the “character will live on in future projects” means comics and the like. Or if they’re alluding to the character returning in other shows or movies. Jessica Jones and The Punisher are the only Marvel Netflix shows remaining following the cancelation of Iron Fist, Luke Cage and now Daredevil.
Perhaps Matt Murdock will reappear in one of those series should they continue on. Or there’s a chance another outlet picks up the show. Disney’s upcoming Disney+ streaming service could certainly be a candidate.
Hopefully this doesn’t spell the end for Charlie Cox’s fantastic take on Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Keep your fingers cross that the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen reemerges from the shadows once again.
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Optimism On Main Street?
Published September 10, 2013 | By Achim Neumann, President
“The overall economic outlook is unexceptional, but Main Street is more confident about the future than it has been in years” concludes a recent Wall Street Journal Article [WSJ August 29, 2013]. These findings are supported by a WSJ/Vistage survey as well as a Wells Fargo/Gallup poll, which in... [read more]
“I don’t need a valuation. I KNOW what my company is worth.” = Big Trouble
Published March 2, 2013 | By Michael Feite, Managing Director
Accountants and licensed CPA firms will be the first people to corroborate the assessment– that valuing a business is a specialized discipline that requires specific expertise. While accountants and professionals do play a key role in the gathering of necessary current financial information, they ... [read more]
Business Sellers Should Demand an Independent Valuation……Ahead Of Time
Published February 5, 2013 | By Achim Neumann, President
If a small business owner wants to sell a company now or sometime within the next five years, an independent business valuation in New York City or wherever your bussiness is based is an essential first step. If the time is now, then the appraisal serves as the basis for a potential deal structu... [read more]
Fiscal Cliff Resolved…Now What?
Published January 6, 2013 | By Achim Neumann, President
We’ve learned over the years that holidays are a time for many companies to take a step back and reflect. Many use this time to formulate new plans, budgets and human resource allocations for the upcoming year. “The same principles apply to us as an M&A and business brokerage firm,” says ... [read more]
Current Acquisitions Focus on Top Line Revenue Growth
Published October 9, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
Two recently published news reports are reflective of trends we have seen in the market, both of which highlight the focus on top line revenue growth and reduced hiring. First, a recent survey of business owners by the Wall Street Journal found that half of small business owners expect that the cou... [read more]
Learn Why NOW Could Be the Best Time to Sell
Published September 8, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
While many small business owners are biding their time waiting for the economy to spring back before selling, prime opportunities may be slipping away. At the kick off of a five-seminar fall series beginning on September 19th PEGG (Professional Economic Growth Group) Small Business Symposium – we�... [read more]
Slow But Continued Growth
Published August 1, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
The summer months have always been somewhat slow in the business brokerage industry. Buyers and sellers prefer the “cool” environment of the beach and parks over the “hot“ transfer of businesses. “We have had a significant number of business valuations performed in the second quarter an... [read more]
Offer Received…Now What?
Published June 3, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
Receiving a purchase offer on a business is very often perceived by business owners as the “finishing line,” whereas in reality, this is only the first step in transferring a business. “Too often, we can sense the business owner’s excitement and relief from finally having received an offer�... [read more]
How Much Risk Is Too Much?
Published May 7, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
In any business transfer, there is risk involved for both buyers and sellers. Unfortunately the risk cannot be completely avoided, and so, we wanted to take a closer look at the respective risk components involved on both sides. “We try to minimize the transaction risks as much as we can,” says... [read more]
Business Valuations — Not Just For Sellers Anymore
Published March 4, 2012 | By Achim Neumann, President
When interacting with small to mid-sized business owners and their advisors, there is increasing evidence that “strategic” business valuations are being employed as a vital planning tool. A recent study indicated that over 65% of the total valuations performed in 2011 were “strategic” in ... [read more]
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One of the most challenging tasks business owners face is defining the Fair Market Value of their business. Again and again, questions regarding the various methods used to determine a fair asking price are raised. And, for good reason. Defining this number is no easy task— there are many varia... [read more]
Predictions for 2012— What Now?
As a recent Wall Street Journal article noted, there had been as many incorrect projections for 2011 as there had been correct ones. Thus, we will not even venture to attempt a prediction for 2012, short of noting that the three key challenges transferred from 2011 into the new year are the same: a... [read more]
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Published December 5, 2011 | By Achim Neumann, President
PRESS RELEASE A Neumann & Associates is happy to ring in the new year with a number of new announcements including an expansion of its operations with the appointment of a new Director of Marketing, and the launch of a new website redesign. During this time of industry contraction, A Neumann &a... [read more]
Where is “the beef?”
Published November 7, 2011 | By Achim Neumann, President
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We are often asked by clients how we assess Goodwill. “It must be the most frequently raised issue in the valuating process,” says Achim Neumann, President of A Neumann & Associates, New Jersey, “and indeed from an owner’s perspective, several issues come into play, such as customer a... [read more]
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Traditionally, the summer months of July and August have been slow in the business brokerage industry. Buyers and sellers do not have their minds set on transferring businesses during the dog days of summer. “This year, however, has been quite different,” says Achim Neumann, President of A Neum... [read more]
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Death investigation underway in Fort Myers
A body was found behind the RaceTrac convenience store at Ortiz Avenue and State Road 82.
Death investigation underway in Fort Myers A body was found behind the RaceTrac convenience store at Ortiz Avenue and State Road 82. Check out this story on news-press.com: http://newspr.es/1ophOCX
Death investigation in Fort Myers
A body was found in a wooded area behind the RaceTrac on Ortiz avenue and State Road 82 Monday morning. Michael Braun / The News-Press
Fort Myers police are on the scene of a death investigation near Ortiz Avenue and State Road 82(Photo: Michael Braun/news-press.com)
The Fort Myers Police Department is conducting a death investigation after they were called to an area behind the RaceTrac convenience store at Ortiz Avenue and State Road 82.
At 8:44 a.m. Monday, police responded to a call of a dead person in the wooded area behind the RaceTrac. Upon arrival police located the remains of an unidentified person approximately 100 yards into the wooded area.
Police have cordoned off the scene. Detectives along with Crime Scene Technicians and the Medical Examiners Office are actively working the investigation to include identifying the victim.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Fort Myers Police Department at 239-321-7700, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS or text message C-R-I-M-E-S (274637) Keyword FMPD.
A body was found in a wooded area behind the RaceTrac on Ortiz avenue and State Road 82 (Photo: Michael Braun/news-press.com)
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‘Appalling horror’: Prince Charles’ emotional video message
The Prince of Wales has become visibly distressed in a deeply personal video as he spoke of the “impossible and terrifying” crisis in Australia.
Bronte Coy@brontecoy
news.com.auJanuary 8, 20208:24am
Bushfires: Prince Charles’ message for people of Australia
The Prince of Wales has encourages people to donate to Red Cross as bushfires ravage throughout Australia.
Prince Charles has shared a heartfelt message to Australia amid the ongoing bushfire crisis.Source:Twitter
Prince Charles has delivered a raw and emotional video message to the Australian public as our devastating bushfire crisis rages on.
The future King of England was sombre as he admitted it was a “hopelessly inadequate way” of sending his support Down Under but explained he and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, “are thinking of you so very much at such an incredibly difficult time and in such impossible and terrifying circumstances”.
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“But I did want to say that both of us have been in despair over the last several weeks watching this appalling horror unfolding in Australia and witnessing so much of what you’re having to go through from this distance,” the Prince of Wales said.
“Those of you who have tragically lost your properties, your houses, everything – to me it is, and to both of us, not to be believed possible. and I know how many houses have been lost.
“But above all, we wanted to say how much we’ve been thinking of all those remarkable, courageous, determined firefighters who have done so much and worked ceaselessly to exhaustion. And we feel so deeply for the families of those who have been lost and have lost their lives in the course of carrying out their remarkable duties, as only they can do.
“We also think of all the Australian wildlife that is destroyed in these appalling infernos, let alone everything else.
“I know, we both know, just how incredibly special and resilient the Australian people are, so I know at the end of the day, despite all this horror, you will find a way to face it all and win through.
“All I can say is that we are thinking of you, we are praying for you in the most determined way … I’m very proud to know you all.”
The royals, including the Queen and Prince Charles, have sent message of support to Australia. Picture: Paul Edwards – WPA Pool/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images
His speech ended with a link to the Red Cross website, urging people to donate.
Prince Charles’ heartfelt video follows messages from his parents, the Queen and Prince Philip, as well as Prince William and Kate Middleton and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Her Majesty The Queen has sent a message of condolence to the Governor General of Australia, Governor of New South Wales, Governor of Queensland, and Governor of Victoria and to all Australians. pic.twitter.com/ZNBAHW21az
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) January 4, 2020
“We send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have tragically lost their lives, and the brave firemen who continue to risk their own lives to save the lives of others”.
— The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) January 4, 2020
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EntertainmentTheater
'American Son' review: Anguished mom Kerry Washington makes us feel her pain
Kerry Washington and Steven Pasquale star as a biracial couple dealing with their son's disappearance in "American Son." Credit: Peter Cunningham
By Barbara Schuler barbara.schuler@newsday.com @schulerb Updated November 4, 2018 10:00 PM
WHAT "American Son"
WHERE Booth Theatre, 222 W. 45th St.
INFO From $59; 212-239-6200, telecharge.com
BOTTOM LINE Kerry Washington stars in a provocative look at our nation's racial division.
We hear the thunder before the curtain ever rises, a too obvious signal that darkness lurks.
But this is no Gothic melodrama. "American Son," Christopher Demos-Brown's provocative and timely play at the Booth Theatre, is a contemporary drama — a tense, realistic and extraordinarily personal examination of our nation's racial division.
In the sterile waiting room of a Miami police station shortly after 4 a.m., rain pouring from the foreshadowed storm, Kendra Connor (a raw, ready to implode Kerry Washington) is living the nightmare of every mother whose teenager hasn’t come home. Or, more specifically, the nightmare of the mother of a black son all too aware of the dangers that, despite his sheltered, privileged upbringing, might have befallen Jamal (a good boy on his way to West Point, who never so much as "tore the tag off a mattress").
Increasingly frantic, Kendra does what any mom would do — calls, texts, contacting his friends, all the while pleading for information from the clueless rookie officer (Jeremy Jordan) who insists on sticking to protocol and platitudes. “I completely understand your concern," he tells her several times, so lacking in empathy he fails to notice her unraveling.
A man with a badge on his belt arrives, presumably the liaison officer who may be able to shed more light on the missing boy. But no, this is Scott Connor (Stephen Pasquale, conflicted and intense), an FBI agent who is Jamal's father. Quickly it becomes apparent that this obviously affluent biracial couple (she's a college professor) has separated, and things get nasty, accusations flying — she’s too protective, he’s too accusatory.
The play, directed by Kenny Leon, makes no attempt to hide its agenda. As the plot unfurls and details slowly emerge about a traffic stop (Jamal's driving a silver Lexus, an 18th birthday present from his parents), there are few surprises. Demos-Brown, a Florida trial attorney, writes what he knows but breaks no new ground and offers no solutions. This probably wouldn't have made it to Broadway without the imprimatur of Washington, who has expressed in interviews that she hopes the play will force people to listen to each other in ways the characters do not.
When the liaison officer (Eugene Lee) finally does arrive with explanations that are difficult to watch, Kendra has already given us all the explanation we need, talking #BlackLivesMatter, mentioning Eric Garner and Michael Brown. "When these men get shot down," she screams to the world, "he can feel their ghosts." And ultimately, that's the play's major strength. By the time the curtain falls, so do the rest of us.
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'Period leave': Should this be offered to NZ female employees?
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This topic can make some people a little red in the face. But don't panic, it's completely natural and we are talking about menstruation -- but more specifically menstrual leave.
A company in Britain is making headlines by announcing its plans to give female employees paid leave for when they're in pain because it's that time of the month.
If women at work are in pain and suffering, they could take the leave and go home to rest.
The company believes the period policy would make for a happier, more flexible and, in turn, a more productive work environment.
So could this policy be adopted in New Zealand and what are the chances of that happening here?
Watch the video for the full Story report.
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AssociationsCompany NewsLatest News
Published on February 6th 2019 in AssociationsCompany NewsLatest News
MTA NSW ramps up support for 2019 NSW rally championship
The Motor Traders’ Association of NSW (MTA NSW) has announced their continued support of the NSW Rally Championship.
Announcing the ongoing partnership at the recent Rally NSW Awards Presentation Night, MTA NSW CEO, Stavros Yallouridis, said: “We are very excited to continue to partner the MTA NSW Rally Championship which provides an excellent platform for promoting the Motor Traders’ Association. The value we received in 2018 prompted a 30 percent increase in our support for the upcoming 2019 season”.
NSW Rally Panel Chairman, John Sparkes, said: “This is fantastic news for rallying in NSW and allows us to continue on from the work we began in 2018. We have been able to significantly increase the promotion of our premier rally series whilst also providing a great opportunity to promote the MTA NSW through our exciting sport. We are thrilled to be able to extend the MTA NSW partnership”.
The Motor Traders’ Association of NSW represent automotive businesses across the State as an employer’s Association. Founded in 1910, MTA NSW assists Members in the operations of their business, as well as lobbying governing bodies to ensure a long and viable automotive industry in NSW.
The first round of the MTA NSW Rally Championship will be the ‘Mitta Mountain Rally’ on the 2nd of March.
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Connie Lawn is First to Talk to
NZ Washington Ambassador Tim Groser
Greatest farm surplus ever is the
prime problem for the career trade negotiator
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 14 March 2016 - After a lifetime massaging trade deals as an official and then as a Minister of the Crown, Tim Groser finds himself negotiating his trickiest mercantilist tightrope to date. As his country’s freshly installed ambassador to Washington the urbane yet wily bureaucrat must bed down his country’s role in the TPPA which he last year described as “New Zealand’s biggest ever free trade deal.”
His problem? How to get value from the Trans Pacific arrangement for an agrarian nation at a time when parties to the arrangement, along with the rest of the developed world, enter the era of hyper farm surplus?
Nothing unusual in this, even though the surplus is of greater magnitude than anything that has gone before.
In the past, trans Pacific parties such as the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have shared a simple solution. This was to ship the surplus to the always hungry Soviet Union, or Russia as we would describe it now.
This is no longer possible due to the US invoked and vigorously policed embargo on sending anything to this old disposal market.
Neither does the vast North American market offer much hope. Nobody is more conscious than Mr Groser of the surgical delicacy required in persuading Canada to sign up to the TPPA in the face of the opposition from its French-speaking dairy farmers, the most protected anywhere on the globe.
Should Mr Groser turn his attention to Europe he can only contemplate still greater surpluses as more farm categories come off the restricted production quota list. Next off the rank, the EU sugar beet production limits.
And yet...and yet....markets are never static. Mr Groser would never utter it, and may even have disciplined himself never to think it. But daily the odds are increasing in favour of Britain’s exit from the EU.
From his Washington command-post, it is hard to imagine that Mr Groser does not see just one more trade deal, on top of all the other ones to which he has been a party?
As he suavely goes about his official rounds, might not Mr Groser be forgiven if his thoughts are pulled away from a Pacific contemplation to considering now the nearby Atlantic Ocean?
As someone as close to the epicentre of world trade as it is possible for anyone to reach, might he not just be contemplating from time to time, oooh, something like a new Commonwealth Preference regime?
One in which Euro-soured Britons return to the supplier that rescued them until quite recent times from what Mr Groser and his diplomatic colleagues would delicately describe as “food insecurity.”
When the dean of the White House Press Corps and holder of the National Press Club, Lifetime Achievement Award Connie Lawn (pictured with Mr Groser) was first through the embassy doors to discuss events with the the new ambassador, these and other elements of realpolitik became the background tapestry to the official politesse.
The lesson of very recent years, and to which the Russian embargo bears witness, is that not only is the United States run from Washington. But in large measure, so is Europe.
Photo: Dr Charles Sneiderman
Empire Loyalist Winston Peters MP
is Echoed in Fleet Street
New Zealand First Leader Calls for
Resumption of London-Led Trading Bloc.
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 28 February 2016 - London’s Daily Express has given full coverage to the call by Winston Peters MP (pictured) to restore the once dominant Commonwealth trading bloc.
Reported the newspaper: “Winston Peters, who leads a group of MPs in the New Zealand parliament, has urged the UK to view the possibility of exiting the EU later this year as a chance to strengthen ties with those 53 countries that were previously part of the British Empire.”
The Daily Express along with the other middle class British mass-circulation newspaper the Daily Mail is implacably against Britain’s continuing membership of the EU. Both the newspapers have long campaigned for the British exit.
Under its signature proprietor Lord Beaverbrook, the Daily Express maintained a crusade against Britain abandoning the Empire in favour of a European trading bloc alliance.
Reported the Daily Express: “New Zealand’s ex-deputy prime minister told British politicians to use ‘Brexit’ as a way of making amends for ditching Commonwealth countries in favour of joining the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973.
The newspaper quoted Mr Peters as saying that Brexit " is an opportunity for not just New Zealand businesses, products and people.
“It is an excellent opportunity to heal a rift dating back to 1973."
EU Will End This Year
Declares German Head of Oceania Think Tank
Bungling of immigrant emergency
punctures German mystique
and leaves EU rudderless
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 18 February 2016 - The European Union during 2016 will cease to exist “as we know it” predicts Oliver Hartwich, the head of the New Zealand Initiative policy group.
The immigrant crisis was one too many emergencies for the EU which he portrays as staggering from one crisis to the next. Among these were member countries with covenant-breaking debt to GDP ratios, the Brexit, and the rise of radical politics in the form of populism and nationalism.
Germany meanwhile was reeling from its handling of the immigrant crisis, which now saw the once EU powerhouse “isolated.”
In addition, the officially-driven cover-up of the Cologne refugee assimilation consequences episode had even raised questions internationally about the nature of German society’s commitment to open government and a free press.
Dr Hartwich speaking at a seminar at the headquarters in Wellington of the New Zealand Initiative sheeted the pending demise of the EU “project” to the decision by its leadership after the fall of the Berlin Wall to embark upon an expansionist phase.
This took two perilous forms, he noted, the currency union and the quest for new members. History proved that instead there should have followed a period of “consolidation.”
The revolving door subsequent crises Dr Hartwich identified as “weakening the structure,” of the EU to the point at which it could only focus on its “own survival.”
The New Zealand Initiative sprang from a number of independent enterprise policy groups, notably the Business Roundtable.
Dr Hartwich,a German-trained lawyer and economist was appointed executive director at its inception, following a tour with Sydney’s Centre for Independent Studies, and as chief economist at London’s Policy Exchange.
He noted that the focus by the EU on member financial bail-outs, was obscuring the rise of radical politics in members such as Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.
The realpolitik exposition on the EU and its future conducted by Dr Hartwich was consistent with the enterprise group’s focus on cutting through doctrines and ideologies in order to outline events at home and abroad.
The event was attended by a number of National Press Club representatives including Life Member Sir Christopher Harris, pictured (at right) with Dr Hartwich.
In response to a question from a National Press Club representative about the involvement and culpability of the United States in the current series pf EU alarms, Dr Hartwich commented that the US simply saw the EU from its start as a bulwark against Russia, and its policies were centred exclusively around this view.
Ageing and Entitled Hub Workers Paved Way
for Pagemasters to Return to New Zealand
Axing gives Fairfax Accountants tighter grip on revenue/costs
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 17 February 2016 - New Zealand’s on-off-on relationship with Pagemasters is now full circle with Fairfax taking up the slack at the Australian makeup outfit left by the departure of NZME. The old Wilson & Horton chain fired the Australian makeup outfit bringing its production subbing in house again.
A year later Fairfax is filling the gap left by NZME and in doing so brings to an end the era of the Fairfax Hub, a centralised subbing depot here which did the page work for the chain’s papers in New Zealand and Australia.
Fairfax’s decision to fill the vacuum left by NZME was no surprise. In recent times veteran subs had suspected that in addition to their page layout software, that their bosses had fitted time and motion monitor apps on their terminals in order to assess the productivity of their often ageing staffers.
Fairfax was worried too about its eventual and accumulating retirement commitments to hub staff compared to its liabilities attendant upon its much younger general editorial staff.
Employment liabilities are an endless worry for all newspaper chains as they contemplate their digital first futures, as they describe the strategy.
Demonstrating this concern is the strong indication that Fairfax will pay Pagemasters on a piecework or productivity basis. This gives Fairfax accountants a much tighter grip on costs in relation to revenue. The outsourcing eliminates the unknowns attendant upon things such as sick leave, holiday pay, and service entitlements.
UK High Commissioner
Jonathan Sinclair
Spearheads HMG Trade Restoration Drive
EU Legation and
British New Zealand Business Association also in harness
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 14 February 2016 - Britain’s diplomatic and commercial apparatus has gone onto the front foot in re-aligning New Zealand and its trade to resuming a UK focus. In this campaign it has enlisted the support of its historic auxiliary the Auckland-based British New Zealand Business Association founded 99 years ago. Also on-side is the EU legation in Wellington.
British High Commissioner Jonathan Sinclair states that the UK remains New Zealand's largest trading partner in the EU.
The UK he insists is the biggest booster of the mooted NZ/EU Free Trade Agreement.
The active engagement now of the High Commission in the trade re-positioning drive indicates a direct and high level involvement in Whitehall in re-developing and reinforcing UK/NZ mercantile threads.
It is a welcome development for a New Zealand government ardently pushing for the EU free trade agreement, reflected by a corresponding enthusiasm radiating from the EU legation to New Zealand.After Australia, Mr Sinclair reminds audiences, the UK has the largest stock of investment in New Zealand at $55bn– “far in excess of the United States” which is third with $33bn.
Adds Mr Sinclair (pictured above, at right, with BNZBA patron John Collinge.) “Our domestic policy exchange between our governments is unrivalled.”
Mr Sinclair meanwhile is to carry the trade restoration campaign to Auckland, the nation's merchant city, with speaking engagements under the auspices of the British New Zealand Business Association.
In trade, especially in the longer global cycles, what goes around comes around.
New York State Power to Allocate
US Dollar Licences
Was Unseen, Unspoken Dominant Presence at TPPA Signing.
Dollar Control of Trade Underpins Pacific Pact
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service, NAPIER, 9 February 2016 - Like a skillful ringmaster the United States kept its whip carefully hidden under the robes and other theatrical panoply of the Auckland TPPA signing. Nobody was talking, or for the most part even knew of the real hard power behind the agreement.
This is the 80 percent of world trade conducted in the USD, and the United States’ ability to decree who can and who cannot trade in it.
Dollar allocation rights stem not so much from Washington, which is why United States Presidents can claim that the USD licenses are out of their hands. They are centred in the State of New York.
This was the elephant in the room during the TPPA signing, writes the Chartered Accountants Journal long time banking columnist Peter Isaac who was on hand in Auckland.
While activists hollered in the streets outside about loss of sovereignty and those inside proclaimed their devotion to trade liberalisation only a very few understood what had brought them there.
It was the whip in the form of the United States control of the currency conduit of world trade, and the allocation of the rights to use it.
A contemplation of the plight of France, in the view of most of the French, a world power, tends to dispel any doubts about this reality of global business.
The USD9 billion fine levied on BNP Paribas for doing business with several countries which were then the subject of a United States trade embargo was one such factor.
Another was the threat on the French bank of a ban from processing US dollar payments through New York.
If there were still any more remaining reservations, well, look at France now. Awash in unsold milk and other farm products, France must slavishly adhere to the US-imposed embargo preventing the sale of the surplus to the one country that wants it – Russia.
The Atlantic lesson, if not the mechanics of it, served as the unseen writing on the Auckland wall for the Pacific pact delegations, even if was obscured in the mists of time.
The American founding fathers in seeking at one and the same time a federalist and localised balance in America’s banking structure had allocated the power to grant or revoke USD dollar licences to officials in New York State. Where it remains.
Flawed and Cringing New Zealand Foreign Policy Closes World’s Biggest Nation Russia to Vital NZ Exports Claims Napier Engineering Chief
Craven fawning United States orientated policy conflicts with frivolous and irresponsible populist stance to wreck trade
MSCNewsWire-EIN-National Press Club Service: New Zealand manufacturers in the food and food processing equipment sector in shutting the door on exports to Russia will find themselves also shutting themselves out of an immense and reliable growth market counsels the managing director of Napier Engineering & Contracting.
The company turnkey constructed a string of freezing works in Russia with all the expertise and processing equipment hardware shipped out of the Port of Napier.
The experience was both profitable for Napier Engineering and salutary. “Our staff who lived in Russia for months a time were superbly treated. In most contracts of the scope and size of this one there are major problems. But in the Russian project no problem arose that could not be solved on the spot,” recalled Ken Evans (pictured).
Mr Evans warned exporters that the US – invoked embargo that prevented EU members from selling to the Russians meant in practice that the Russians were jump-starting their own food and food processing machinery resources.
Mr Evans said that the Russians were not unaware of the inconsistency inherent in New Zealand banning US Navy vessels warships on the one hand.
Then “grovelling in meek obeisance” on the other in falling into line with a US embargo on Russia to which it was not even party to.
An export economy such as New Zealand’s simply could not eliminate the world’s biggest country, which also happened to be a growth one and an emerging one, insisted Mr Evans.
The falling into line of the EU with the United States embargo on Russia was substantially responsible for the world milk surplus.
Milk and other agri products that would have been sent to Russia continue to back up into an unmanageable world surplus, noted Mr Evans.
The severity of the problem locally was being demonstrated by farmers in regions such as Taranaki being urged to “diversify,” he said, and do so regardless of their investment in processing and handling equipment.
Mr Evans urged the government to propound a sensible and statesmanlike trade policy with the United States “at least midway between the cringing and damaging humiliation of participating unofficially in their boycott of Russia and that of the equally silly and dangerous embargo on their warships here.”
According to Mr Evans the conflicting policies in regard to the United States , the “craven” one on the export ban to Russia, and the “frivolously damaging” one of the warships ban here had the effect of “putting New Zealand and its exporters into a dim light” around the world.
" The severity of the problem locally was being demonstrated by farmers in regions such as Taranaki being urged to “diversify,” he said, and do so regardless of their investment in processing and handling equipment.
Green Parrot Discovered
in Club Memorabilia
Now Linked to The
Green Parrot Restaurant
The Green Parrot founded 90 years ago is renowned as the most enduring and famous restaurant in the South Seas. In a bizarre twist of events the National Press Club appears to be holding the original green parrot jug from which the Wellington institution derived its name.
The jug (pictured) was given in the early 1970s to a group of journalists in order that it might adorn the premises of a press club that was then under consideration. In the event the jug disappeared from sight. It has only just recently re-surfaced during the cataloguing of National Press Club memorabilia.
The circumstances of how the jug came into the possession of the club are noteworthy.
It was donated by Tony Poynton. He was a prominent commodities trader during the 1950s. This was sometime before the Green Parrot restaurant was taken up by society patrons such as those nowadays in the sphere of arts, entertainment and politics. In this 1950s era it was the eating place for those in hard edge sectors especially those in metals and vehicle trading. Mr Poynton was involved in both.
A commanding presence, Mr Poynton had seemingly intervened to calm down a threatened disturbance involving diners from two rival and competing camps of scrap metal exporters.
Grateful for such timely and effective intervention the proprietor of that era spontaneously swept the green parrot jug off its shelf and presented it to Mr Poynton (pictured below.)
Of a restless and inquiring nature Mr Poynton with the advent of the 1970s took up a new profession. It was that of newspaperman. First in the advertising department of Truth and then he went on to pioneer Contact, the Wellington region mass-distribution weekly.
Rubbing shoulders now with journalists, Mr Poynton with his managerial experience and skills saw the need for a unifying organisation with its own premises. Here, he reasoned, the considerable expenditure on conviviality in those more gregarious days could be re-invested back into the vocation instead of into the brewery balance sheets.
Mr Poynton’s death was to coincide with the founding of the National Press Club and thus he was never able to follow through on this objective. At the same time, and also from cancer, there occurred the death of his close friend the broadcasting journalist David Inglis which further diminished recollections from this time.
The jug though remained. It is stamped on its base as Made in Japan. Green parrot pitchers, as they were known, were a staple of the Japanese ceramics industry during the 1920s.
The Green Parrot restaurant was begun and named by an America sailor paid off in Wellington and who went on in 1926 to found the restaurant. The conjecture is that the pitcher was acquired by the seafaring founder in Japan and went on to have pride of place in the eponymous restaurant.
Modern Marco Polo
MSC Newswire –Napier. International financier and two-time National Press Club guest speaker Marc Holtzman has become the Chairman of Bank of Kigali, the largest Bank in Rwanda.
Mr Holtzman (pictured) spoke to the National Press Club at two joint gatherings, both of them with the British New Zealand Trade Council,( now Business Association.) One in Christchurch and the other meeting held in Parliament.
At the time Mr. Holtzman was President of the University of Denver. Previously, Mr. Holtzman served in the Cabinet of Governor Bill Owens as Colorado’s first Secretary of Technology.
As technology tsar Mr. Holtzman helped guide Colorado’s economic transformation into a fully diversified technology hub. During his tenure, Colorado was consistently ranked first among the fifty states in having the highest percentage of technology workers per thousand in the nation.
In recent times, and seeking to further apply his experience in fostering hard-edge vocationally orientated education Mr Holtzman has put his shoulder to the wheel of the New Zealand charter school movement.
He has maintained for many years in New Zealand’s Gibbston Valley, near Arrowtown, a substantial home in the form of a retro French chateau amidst its own substantial vineyard.
It was here several years ago that Mr Holtzman celebrated his 50th birthday. Celebrants included a roll call of statesmen hailing from his preferred spheres of business notably from Eastern Europe and sub-Sahelian Africa. New Zealand minister of finance Bill English was also there.
From Kazakhstan to Kigali few over the past quarter century have trod the emergent-nation beat quite so assiduously as Marc Holtzman. Even fewer have had the same operational fiscal-to-factory floor level of economic participation.
A modern Marco Polo, nobody brings to contemporary education policy formulation and implementation quite the same applied knowledge of the connection between funding, schools, and jobs as Marc Holtzman.
in Contrived News*
How serious are no-go areas in relation to their coverage by mainstream media?
They are all the more pervasive just because they have become an accepted as part of the scene. Therefore they do not stand out. They are not viewed as being unusual, or out of place.
Some examples?
The most worrying aspect of these no-go areas is that there are so many of them. Here’s one to start with. When it was officially disclosed that in New Zealand there were 40 people under surveillance by the security services, there should have been instigated by the media at the very least a debate on the nature and provenance of the individuals being watched.
You could say that the admission that in a sparsely populated nation that there were 40 people under surveillance was disturbing in itself?
It was a very candid admission and pretty much corresponds to a non-disclosed number of quite a few more. We have to assume these fall into the lesser security category of persons of interest.
This hardly constitutes a pattern of no-go areas?
If you want a very large-scale and set-piece no go area then you have to consider the Paris climate conference. It was treated with the type of hushed reverence that was once accorded royal events such as coronations. There was no disclosure of the immense and embarrassing tensions at the conference. Instead there was the old rote style of reporting in which the word “historic” was such a recurring feature. I would have liked to have known details, for example, of who was there from this country, and who was paying for them to be there?
Let’s have more examples to make still more visible this pattern?
This no-go syndrome is far too easily ascribed to the delicacies of political correctness and this is certainly an element in the toadying, conformist, correct and polite coverage of something like the Paris event. Timing is also a big part of this. For example earlier in 2015 the round of pay increases to politicians triggered immense and justified media ire. At the end of the year, when the mainstreamers were not watching, were distracted, the pay boosts went through and without a murmur.
What are these distractions?
The distractions are made up of pre-programmed and large scale events. Sport hardly surprisingly is the central one here. It is so much part of the mainstream wallpaper that news practitioners fail to notice it. For example you are watching the news on television which is mainly about sport. At the conclusion, the newsreader says “and now we have the sport” when all you have been watching has been about sport.
This is hardly something new in the news?
It has become intensified because of the mainstreamers turning themselves inside out as they seek to hug popular culture in all its manifestations and this really is the heart of the matter. Its most obvious manifestation is the embracing of entertainment and sport.
You are always going on about market-forces and such like and isn’t this what we are talking about here?
Let me narrow this down. We are talking about news which is in fact contrived in that it is a pre-programmed event such as a ball game. One side must win. The other must lose. So the outcome also is 50 percent pre- programmed. It is very much pre-packaged and it is the news equivalent of bubble-wrapped pour-on instant convenience foods.
Some might say that you will soon recommend the return of classified advertising on the front page?
In this fingering of the dominance of pre-packaged and pre-programmed news I am in good company. Paul Henry for one (pictured speaking to the National Press Club in 2011). In his autobiography he relates how when he was working for the government television news, there was this intense focus on having the news crystallised as long as possible before it was presented.. When there was spontaneous news, actual news, it threw this pre-programmed contrived format into inconvenient disarray.
*Interview with National Press Club president Peter Isaac
Vocation Plunges into
Low Paid Avocation
Warns White House
Press Corps Dean
White House Press Corps dean and National Press Club of New Zealand Lifetime Achievement laureate radio reporter Connie Lawn cautioned would-be journalistic practitioners about the accelerating free model in an interview with Irv Chapman (pictured below), late of ABC, CNN, and Bloomberg.
Her lawyer father, recalled Miss Lawn, at the outset of her career a half century ago, had advised her that journalism was more of an “avocation” than a “vocation.” Even then, she noted, the portents were there about the now so-evident hobby nature and impermanence of the calling.
The free model increasingly involving unpaid chores such as blogs and other such commentaries combined with falling remuneration for practitioners served to emphasise the increasing reality of the paternal prediction.
Bloggers and others in comment and opinion if they were required to making a living out of it had to find their own advertiser-sponsors, thus restricting what they could in fact say.
An Honorary Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her work in assisting the New Zealand cause in the United States Miss Lawn is exclusively pictured above with the man who presented it to her, the New Zealand Ambassador to the United States Mike Moore. He is pictured with Miss Lawn and Mrs Yvonne Moore (at right.) Mr Moore like Miss Lawn has addressed the National Press a number of times.
Press-friendly Presidents
On one occasion the former parliamentarian and head of the World Trade Organisation used the club as a forum to conduct soundings on constitutional issues.
Meanwhile, Miss Lawn recalled to interviewer Irv Chapman that the most press-friendly White House incumbents in her experience had been Jerry Ford, Ronald Regan, and Bill Clinton. In spite of the rough time he had received at the hands of the press corps, President Clinton never lost his amiability around them.
Miss Lawn was speaking to Irv Chapman in a narrow cast arranged by the National Press Club of Washington in order to commemorate the final iteration of her autobiography which in part chronicles her many years as correspondent for Radio New Zealand.
The new edition is entitled I Wake You Each Morning: The Final Chapter. In it she talks about the time she met Nelson Mandela and he told her he listened to her radio reports while in prison.
Returning to contemporary times Miss Lawn noted that since the presidency of the “second George Bush,” the White House had become a “passive beat” with its press conferences becoming stage managed.
The National Press Club of Washington of which Miss Lawn and Irv Chapman are stalwarts is affiliated to the Wellington club.
Clare Hollingworth
Announced Start of World War 2
Clare Hollingworth the reporter who announced the start of World War 2 has celebrated her 104th birthday. The war correspondent was brought to New Zealand in 1993 by the National Press Club to speak on the topic of continuing global conflicts.
She discovered in 1939 on the border of Germany and Poland on the German side an immense and camouflaged build up of armour being readied for the subsequent invasion that detonated World War 2. Her telephoned report of this observation to Fleet Street is considered the greatest scoop of the last century.
Her book on her reporting during World War 2 is entitled “There’s A German Right Behind Me.”
She went on to report every war up to and including the Vietnam War. A resident in her later years of Hong Kong, the Foreign Correspondents Club, of which she has long been a stalwart, convened a special commemoration to mark the birthday of its most famous member.
Pictured is Clare Hollingworth in London prior to World War 2, and in Wellington with National Press Club president Peter Isaac. Her appearance in Wellington was the National Press Club’s contribution to the International Year of Women’s Suffrage in 1993.
Clumsy Emails Crash Through News Noise Level
Interview with National Press Club president Peter Isaac
Q: We are now well into the internet age. You were a major player in the predictions industry. Looking back, where would you say you rank?
A: Let us look at my foolish prediction made in this same feature several years ago about the citizen-journalist. I forecast well-intentioned amateurs taking over. In the event what has happened? Almost the opposite. Highly organised special-interest groups such as the Taxpayers Union are making the running. They are the ones revealing the sister-city jaunts and all the other newsworthy elements of local government life that were once a staple of the press. So my prediction of lone-wolves doing the leg work was wrong. What has happened is that doctrinally driven and very organised groups have taken the lead. Not the individuals that I had predicted.
Q: There seems to be this drift to the right in the internet political spectrum?
A: I utterly failed to see this. The evidence of this imminent swing was there to be seen, perfectly clear in the wisdom of hindsight. The chorus of symmetrically similar views from the mainstream print and the broadcast media bored the socks off everyone. Even if they agree with it, people wanted some variety. This came from the right in the form of these agenda emails and blogs. The usual liberal and leftie ones are still there. But they have no pick up.
Q: How did this step-change come about?
A: It had its beginnings in elements of talk-back radio and this is pretty much where it stayed and still stays. But these outfits such as the Taxpayers Union picked up on it, detected the trend, and pursued it.
Q: The Taxpayer Union relies on clumsily designed mass emails to get its counter-message across?
A: This surprised me too. My thinking had revolved around slick web sites padded with entertainment sucrose and with the emails merely calling attention to them. In the event they went direct and the email became the message.
Q: This pick up happened quickly?
A: This surprised me. When I started receiving these emails I thought they were banging their heads on a brick wall. The reason being that the journalistic mentality usually has to be led backwards over a story, rather than have their reportorial faces slammed into it.
Q: Let us turn to the big picture now. You are an old print man. How do you see the chains?
A: The problem for the chains is that the advertising agencies are successfully persuading them to aim at those in their teens, twenties, and thirties.
Q: What is wrong with this demographic?
A: When did you last see anyone under the age of 50 read the print version of a newspaper? They are compounding this with these full front page splashes. This is all the more weird with the Dominion Post which is a broadsheet. They are forever seeking to make the pulling out of a bath plug seem like the sinking of the Wahine. Print must distinguish itself from broadcasting. John Campbell found himself on the eclipse because his bosses kept seeing numbers that indicated that frantic sensationalism was falling as a viewer demand.
Q: Is this pick up of these rightward email news-breakers a long or a short term phenomenon?
A: They are doing the old fashioned leg and tipster work and as long as they do this there will continue to be pick up. Curiously the same thing now applies on the email commentaries, however highfalutin’. The New Zealand Initiative, the rump of the old Roundtable, also now enjoys pick-up via its rather more stylish email bulletins.
Q: Is there a formula here?
A: ACT started it with their cheeky emails. You are about to delete it. Then you think to yourself – better have a look, might be something important . Someone else might see it. Pick it up. The others followed in ACT’s footsteps with these acerbic snippets. Meanwhile our friends on the left of the political spectrum relied on their web sites and their ponderous essays therein.
Brazil Envoy Emphasises
Language & Cultural Objectives
The 193rd anniversary of the independence of Brazil drew as guests National Press Club president Peter Isaac and newsmakers Bill and Donas Nathan (pictured). Sometime soldier, IT executive, state protocol official and impresario Mr Nathan’s work in the performing arts corresponds with the Brazil embassy in Wellington work in supporting Polynesian and Latin American cultural links.
Meanwhile Ambassador Eduardo Gradilone drew attention to the accelerating Brazil/New Zealand student exchange scheme – an indicator of the flourishing relationship between the two countries.
He also spoke of the value in this of New Zealanders learning Portuguese and Brazilians learning English. With over 200 million speakers worldwide Portuguese is a substantially more widely spoken language than for example French.
Brazil opened an Embassy in Wellington in 1997 taking the initiative in the New Zealand Government’s Latin American Strategy announced in August 2000. This was followed up with the establishment of the New Zealand Embassy in 2001 which reinforced a trade office opened in São Paulo in 1999.
Making his mark: Author Haas with former Wairarapa district mayor and now Member of Parliament Ron Mark and National Press Club member Denis Foot.
South Seas Public Intellectual
Tony Haas Returns to Roots
to Launch Autobiography
Being Palangi
National Press Club member Tony Haas’ 50 year career as a South Seas public intellectual was capped in the remote New Zealand valley of his childhood with the publication of his book Being Palangi-My Pacific Journey.
The autobiography begins with Haas’ paternal grandfather, a prominent Bundestag figure of the inter war era telling his son, Haas’ father, to put as much distance as possible between he and Germany.
Which is what happened with Haas Snr settling in New Zealand and then taking up a farm near Pahiatua in a region itself geographically distant, the Wairarapa Valley.
Haas charts his own Jewish raising in the secular New Zealand, and how as a student at Victoria University, Wellington, he was to identify his trademark cause of Pacific multi culturalism which he was to pursue as researcher, publisher, broadcaster, writer, traveller, family man, and all-purpose advocate.
Also chronicled is how Haas fell under the spell of fellow journalist Michael King the pre-eminent chronicler of his era of the Maori experience. He recounts how he vowed then, with King’s encouragement, to do for Oceania what King had done for New Zealand.
Pacific stars: Long time Wairarapa local politician Bob Francis attentive while launcher-in-chief broadcaster Ian Johnstone outlines Haas’ life and times, and Mandarin Rob Laking listens,
as does Haas, and United Nations Lebanon-based refugee topsider Ross Mountain.
Generating: Dynastic Wairarapa book retailer and publisher David Hedley (centre)with (left) assistant manager Steve Trotman and Bob Francis.
Remembering Thea Muldoon
An Interview with National Press Club President Peter Isaac
Dame Thea Muldoon Personified an Era.
She Gave Shortest New Zealand Speech Ever
Central Districts Journalists Enjoy 20th Field Day
The 20th annual gathering of Central Districts/ Wellington region journalists this year also served as a milestone for perpetual host New Zealand Farmer editor Jon Morgan's own half century in harness.
He signed on under the old cadet apprenticeship scheme in his teens and soon began specialising in rural and agribusiness reporting which has remained his focus ever since. In recent years he has found himself shifting from the press bench to the judges rostrum, adjudicating on exhibits at agricultural shows and field days.
The event also gives his guest-colleagues an insight into their hosts' own pastoral and horticutural skills because the venue is the Morgan's own property in the Horowhenua - Kapiti district.
Post prandial. Evening Post's Penny Harding Gary Connor
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West Deluding Itself Over Russia Claims NATO Chief
Russia will adhere to its traditions regardless of what the West wants it do, thinks it should do, or believes it should do cautioned Major General Peter Williams talking to the National Press Club at the Associated Audio Bose auditorium.
The Russian mind-set and thus approach rests on fear of iinternal fragmentation which in turn pivots on the threat of external intervention, especially full scale invasion. Such fears were justified noted General Williams recalling the British interventionism after World War 1. This was followed by the determination after World War 2 of the West to disrupt the USSR via the Cold War.
This type of damaging intervention continues to this day, he observed, and is characterised for example by the United Kingdom taking in from Russia hundreds of billions of US dollars equivalent which amounted to “dirty money,” declared General Williams.
General Williams himself was a Cold War warrior having served with BRIXMIS, the British cross-mission into Soviet held East Germany.
After the collapse of the USSR he went on to lead the NATO Mission to the new Russian Federation.
The Coldstream Guards officer identified the failure of the West to understand the Russia concept of power as central to what he described as the syndrome in which there was the belief that “because they look like us – they must also think like us.”
In the event Russians were most at home with their tradition of centralised monolithic power just because experience had taught them that such unbridled power was the best way to deal with these constant threats of invasion, foreign interventionism, internal fragmentation, and economic collapse.
There was no such thing in the Russian makeup as the notion of the steel fist in the velvet glove. There was no such concept as the Western one about the “abuse of power”.
“In Russia, if you have power. Then you must use it. If you do not use it, then the power that you possess will simply be taken away from you.”
Because of this, Russia was determined to bring back into Mother Russia, what it knew as its “near abroad,” the newly created republics.
In pursuit of this national objective Russia, under its leader Vladimir Putin, would continue to exhibit singularity of purpose by, for example, “reaching out to kill its enemies, regardless of where they are.”
Russia, emphasised General Williams, was not going to change its ways on the whims of the West. Its overarching objective remains to restore its Tsarist “former glories.”
An aspect of Russian life today that constantly bamboozled Western journalists and other observers and analysts declared General Williams was that surrounding the lifestyle of Vladimir Putin himself.
His association with gymnasts and other such contemporary figures in the sports sphere was interpreted in the West as an indication of modernism.
In the event and within Russia such behaviour was regarded as a tough-guy lifestyle, and thus to be respected – and feared.
Committee member Digby Paape with Major General Peter Williams at the National Press Club meeting at the Associated Audio Bose Auditorium in Wellington
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Lifetime Achievement Award Laureate Connie Lawn is Dean of White House Press Corps
See: Tribute to New Zealand’s Presidential Insider
Washington’s EIN Presswire & National Press Club joint venture with MSC Newswire publishes New Zealand Productive Sector News in North America.
Washington-based news agency EIN Presswire has embarked upon a joint venture with the National Press Club. The venture sends news about the New Zealand productive sector to North America and the rest of the world. The arrangement was put together by Max Farndale (pictured at side) publisher of MSC Newswire. It is the affiliate of the Washington news company.
The proprietor of EIN Presswire David Rothstein (pictured underneath) declared that the joint venture was part of his organisation’s world-wide emphasis on the productive sector and especially in manufacturing.
"New Zealand has this reputation in North America and Europe for honesty of purpose blended with an inventive sense of industry. There is now this opportunity of presenting the products of this to the world at large."
The Washington news agency turned to MSC Newswire to develop the channel for New Zealand manufacturer news into the North American market. It was then that Mr Farndale talked to the National Press Club to assist in the venture.
MSC Newswire is the only such organisation in Australasia dealing exclusively in productive sector news. All the other agencies focus on the financial news and politics spectrum.
Mr Farndale observed that New Zealand’s economy rests on its ability to produce products that people need and which are three dimensional..
Since the 1987 crash in which New Zealand lost all its banks and insurance companies along with 150 years worth of accumulated capital, it had ceased to be regarded globally as a repository of financial expertise, an impression confirmed since 2007 when almost all its finance companies had gone to the wall.
“So our focus is on manufacturing, production engineering, and processing, spheres in which New Zealand enjoys a high and sustained reputation.”
The joint venture organised by MSC Newswire has run since the start of the last quarter of 2014. According to Mr Farndale data reveals that over half the audience for the New Zealand productive sector stories is now within North America.
“It is one of those examples of an outsider, in this case Washington’s EIN Presswire, seeing an opportunity that was hiding in plain sight of the locals,” commented Mr Farndale.
MSC Newswire is based in Hawkes Bay which Mr Farndale considers one of the hearts of the productive sector. The company was formed two years ago.
The National Press Club’s role is to use its members own resources to identify products and companies of interest. The club’s newsmaker category includes industrialists, technicians, and administrators in the productive sector.
The procedure is for the New Zealand productive sector stories to enter the project via MSC Newswire and for these stories then to be vectored onto EIN Presswire’s global network.
“It is an example of the kind of leverage that can be obtained through this joint approach. In this case it means that New Zealand’s productive sector news is seen by an audience hundreds of times greater than if the same stories had been restricted to just local consumption,” added Max Farndale
“It overcomes the problem of New Zealand producers marketing back to themselves and to the people who already know all about them, and what they are doing. It has opened up an entirely new world for the productive sector here.”
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Charlie Sheen Puts House Up for $7.2M
If the walls could talk ...
By Greg Wilson • Published at 10:46 am on May 26, 2011
Charlie Sheen is selling the Beverly Hills mansion where he did some of his most epic partying.
The deposed "Two and a Half Men" star is asking $7.2 million for the 8,000-square-foot home in a gated community near Mulholland Drive. The MLS listing doesn't hint at the unbridled hedonism the walls have witnessed.
"This custom-built Mediterranean in Mulholland Estates is an entertainer's dream with spacious public rooms, most of which open to a beautifully landscaped yard featuring a professional outdoor kitchen with dining area, pool and spa," it reads. "Other features include a screening room and top-of-the-line appliances and finishes."
Sheen may be hurting forcash after being replaced on the hit show by Ashton Kutcher and seeing his lucrative but ill-conceived comedy(?) tour end.
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J Mol Biol. 1987 Nov 20;198(2):311-26.
Structure of a complex of catabolite gene activator protein and cyclic AMP refined at 2.5 A resolution.
Weber IT1, Steitz TA.
Center for Chemical Physics, National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
The structure of a dimer of the Escherichia coli catabolite gene activator protein has been refined at 2.5 A resolution to a crystallographic R-factor of 20.7% starting with coordinates fitted to the map at 2.9 A resolution. The two subunits are in different conformations and each contains one bound molecule of the allosteric activator, cyclic AMP. The amino-terminal domain is linked to the smaller carboxy-terminal domain by a nine-residue hinge region that exists in different conformations in the two subunits, giving rise to approximately a 30 degree rotation between the positions of the small domains relative to the larger domains. The amino-terminal domain contains an antiparallel beta-roll structure in which the interstrand hydrogen bonding is well-determined. The beta-roll can be described as a long antiparallel beta-ribbon that folds into a right-handed supercoil and forms part of the cyclic AMP binding site. Each cyclic AMP molecule is in an anti conformation and has ionic and hydrogen bond interactions with both subunits.
Cyclic AMP/metabolism*
Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein/metabolism*
Escherichia coli/analysis
Hydrogen Bonding
Macromolecular Substances
Models, Molecular
Protein Conformation
Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein
GM-22778/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States
crp - BioCyc
Saccharomyces Genome Database
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(Bird & Bull Press). Hopkins, Richard L. (editor).
PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. unbound signatures. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and consists of unbound signatures for the book. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time..... READ MORE about PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A...... READ MORE about PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
(Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry). Hopkins, Richard L.
POST-MORTEM TRIBUTE: GEORGE L. HARDING.
Devoted Patron and Student of the History of the Printing Craft
Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Devoted Patron and Student of the History of the Printing Craft. Limited to an edition of 200. Narrative on the life of Harding printed for family and friends. Set in Caslon 337 type and printed on white Beckett Text paper bound in Strathmore Beau Brilliant Brighton Beige wrappers. Staples removed so leaves and wrappers loose, rust stains from staples at..... READ MORE about POST-MORTEM TRIBUTE: GEORGE L. HARDING
YESTERDAY'S "SWIFT"
A Keepsake Edition of Typographic Curiosities Number 12, May, 1980 "Baltimore Curiosities"
Terra Alta, WV: Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry, 1980. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated (16 pages). A Keepsake Edition of Typographic Curiosities Number 12, May, 1980 "Baltimore Curiosities" Amusing text about contests to test the speed (or lack thereof) of composing type. From the Colophon: "This edition of Typographic Curiosities was produced in part while the author was displaying a working letterpress printshop a the Chesapeake Graphic Arts Exposition at Baltimore in May, 1980."..... READ MORE about YESTERDAY'S "SWIFT"
(Hill & Dale Press). Hopkins, Richard L.
AMERICAN TYPECASTING FELLOWSHIP COMMEMORATIVE CASTING: CONTINUING THE TRADITION.
Story Behind the Engraved Matrix
(Terra Alta): Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, 1994. miniature. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Story Behind the Engraved Matrix. Keepsake from the American Typecasting Fellowship. READ MORE about AMERICAN TYPECASTING FELLOWSHIP COMMEMORATIVE CASTING: CONTINUING THE TRADITION
IN QUEST OF TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES AT THE ARCHABBEY.
A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry, 1984. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade. Limited to 300 copies. Illustrations by Jim Willis. Typographic adventure at the St. Vincent Archabbey Press. READ MORE about IN QUEST OF TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES AT THE ARCHABBEY
Hopkins, Richard L.
THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN POINT SYSTEM FOR PRINTERS' TYPE MEASUREMENT.
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press, (1989). 8vo. leatherette, slipcase. (xiv), 100, (3) pages. Reprint of the first edition, reset from the original and containing a few corrections. A history, with bibliography, of the development of this American printing measurement system. Illustrated, including some foldout plates. Of course, with much information on Nelson C. Hawks. Presentation from the author "To Martin (Spector) Who inspired me to try harder when I was getting started. Rich Hopkins."..... READ MORE about THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN POINT SYSTEM FOR PRINTERS' TYPE MEASUREMENT
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Olympics Day 15 - Baseball
BEIJING - AUGUST 23: Lee Seungyuop (C) #25 of Korea celebrates on the medal stand amongst his teammates after they received their gold medals during the medal ceremony following their 3-2 win against Cuba in the men's gold medal baseball game held at Wukesong Baseball Field on Day 15 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 23, 2008 in Beijing, China.
Baseball,Beijing 2008,LEE, Seungyuop,Republic of Korea,Men,
Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images
3 Photos in 1 sets
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Eibar vs Getafe Preview and Line Up Prediction: Eibar to Win 1-0 at 9/2
Eibar and Getafe will play their eleventh game of the La Liga season at the Estadio Municipal de Ipurúa on Saturday, 7th November. Match Preview: The teams last played in May this year and the game ended in a 1 – 1 draw. Before that they played in January this year and Eibar won the
Celta de Vigo vs Valencia Preview and Line Up Prediction: Draw 1-1 at 11/2
Celta de Vigo and Valencia will play their eleventh game of the La Liga season at the Estadio de Balaídos on Saturday, 7th November. Match Preview: The teams last played in May this year and the game ended in a 1 – 1 draw. Before that they played in January this year and that game
Mr Green Running £2,000 Starburst Slot Tournament
This weekend Mr Green Casino is running a special Starburst slot tournament which is giving members the chance to win a share of £2,000. Just play the slot on Saturday and Sunday and you could win a fantastic cash prize if you finish in the top five places on the leaderboard. First place will take
£8.8M National Lottery Results for Wednesday November 4
The winning numbers from the National Lottery UK draw on Wednesday November 4th were 11, 13, 18, 25, 29, 47 and the bonus ball was 59. Wednesday’s draw produced a total of 1,212,534 winning players that shared prizes worth a total of £7,395,424. There were 113 that players matched five of the main numbers to
$144M Powerball Results for Wednesday November 4
The winning numbers from the Powerball draw on Wednesday November 4th were 2, 12, 17, 20, 65 and the Powerball was 17. Wednesday’s draw produced a total of 660,767 winning players that shared prizes totalling $151,013,006. One very lucky player matched all of the numbers to win the jackpot of $144 million. Another player matched
Hexbreaker 2 Slot Challenges Your Luck
Anyone who enjoyed IGT’s original Hexbreaker slot will be pleased to hear that the company has released a sequel, Hexbreaker 2. It is a 5 reel slot with variable rows and uses IGT’s Multiway Xtra payline structure which means that wins are formed as long as there are matching symbols starting from either side of
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Zeli Ismail Can Strike Fear Into League 1 Full-Backs
Manager Shaun Derry believes that Notts County’s latest signing, Wolverhampton Wanders winger Zeli Ismail, can cause Sky Bet League 1 defences plenty of problems in 2014.15.
Ismail has arrived at Meadow Lane on a six-month loan deal and adds a threat in the wide areas.
Derry was delighted to get the winger into the club and is looking forward to letting him loose in the new campaign.
“It’s great for us, he did really well at Burton last year and he’s really highly thought of at Wolves as well,” he told Magpie Player.
“He’s now took that next step into League 1 and we hope that we can help him develop as a footballer.
“More importantly, for us, we’re hoping he’ll make an improvement to a squad that’s quickly developing.
“He’s an out and out wideman and, looking at the loss of Jamal Campbell-Ryce, I enjoy the wide lads and watching them.
“I like it when they’re really on the front foot and that’s what Zeli brings.
“He brings a lot of pace and a vision where he gets the ball down, attacks his full-back and gets the ball into the box.”
Welcome the club’s latest arrival on Twitter using the hashtag #WelcomeZeli and follow @ZeliOfficial.
To sponsor Zeli, call 0115 9557 241.
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NYC International Extradition Attorney
NYC INTERNATIONAL EXTRADITION LAWYER
The New York City international extradition attorneys with Joseph Potashnik and Associates PC represent individuals in the United States and abroad who are subject to an international extradition request.
What Is International Extradition?
International extradition is the process of turning over an alleged or suspected criminal by one country to another at its request for further prosecution. In most cases, the surrender occurs according to the treaties existing between the two countries. Extradition treaties specify the crimes for which the two countries can send out alleged criminals to one another and the surrender process. In some cases however, countries reach an agreement on surrender requests through diplomatic relations, if no treaties of such kind exist between the two parties.
Exceptions to Extradition
There are a number of factors that define whether a specific case is extraditable. Here are the most common ones:
the fugitive’s current location;
criminal charges involved (political crimes);
dual citizenship;
dual jeopardy;
dual criminality;
possible punishment in the requesting country.
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Steven Paul Leiva
http://stevenpaulleivasthisnthat.blogspot.com/
Steven Paul Leiva spent many years in Hollywood as a producer and writer working with such talents as Gary Kurtz, Richard D. Zanuck, Chuck Jones, Brad Bird, and Ray Bradbury.
For the past 20 years he has been concentrating on writing novels in various genres and had a play debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
He has written a number of reviews and essays for various publications, including a series of pieces on Ray Bradbury, which have been collected into a book. In 2010 he created and organized Ray Bradbury Week in Los Angeles, a week of events that honored and celebrated the literary master on his 90th birthday.
Books by Steven Paul Leiva
Searching for Ray Bradbury: Writings about the Writer and the Man
Hollywood is an All-Volunteer Army (The Fixxer Book 2)
Blood is Pretty (A Fixxer Adventure)
Book Reviews by Steven Paul Leiva
Graphic Novels & Comics, Anthologies, Dark Horse
Bob Powell's Complete Jet Powers
There was a time when, in certain quarters, comic books were reviled. Currently, in certain quarters, comic books are revered.
Graphic Novels & Comics, Dark Horse
Frank Frazetta's Adventures of the Snowman
“Talent is always a joy to witness. But young talent like this is a very special joy.”
Translator(s):
Literary Nonfiction, Journalism
The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars
“his writing can be luxuriated in.”
Amy Stewart
Women’s Fiction, Adventure
Girl Waits with Gun
“All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us,
Bobby Nash
Illustrator(s):
Jamie Chase
Graphic Novels & Comics, Fantasy
Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core
Grand adventure stories often take place in exotic locations among exotic peoples and feature exotic creatures.
Al Feldstein
Comic-Based
Wally Wood's EC Comics Artisan Edition
"[a] fine [example] of the art of comic books . . ."
Ted Goosen
Wind/Pinball
“a telling—and pleasant—gateway into the talent of an artist well-worth knowing.”
The Nearest Thing to Life
“a pleasure to read.”
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Aussie regulator takes Google to court, alleging it misled users over location data
NZ dollar buoyed by optimism on US-China trade relations
Leaderless rebellion: How social media enables global protests
A protester with his face covered up attends a rally in Hong Kong. Photo / AP
By: Gideon Rachman , Benedict Mander, Daniel Dombey, Sue-Lin Wong and Heba Saleh
From Hong Kong to Chile activists have used technology to stay ahead of the authorities.
"A single spark can start a prairie fire," observed Mao Zedong in 1930, as he tried to convince his followers that revolution was possible in China. Almost a century later, Mao's observation comes to mind as little sparks set off mass demonstrations across the world.
In Lebanon, the trigger for protests was a tax on WhatsApp messages. In Chile it was a rise in metro fares. In France, the gilets jaunes protests that began last year were set off by a rise in petrol taxes. Elsewhere, the roots of popular revolt are more clearly political. In Hong Kong, it was an attempt to allow extradition of criminal suspects to China. In Algeria, where mass protests have been going on for most of the year, it was an announcement that Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ailing president, intended to run for a fifth term.
The mass protests that have broken out during the past year in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East share other important characteristics. They are usually leaderless rebellions, whose organisation and principles are not set out in a little red book or thrashed out in party meetings, but instead emerge on social media. These are revolts that are convened by smartphone and inspired by hashtags, rather than guided by party leaders and slogans drafted by central committees.
The rallying power of social media is a crucial enabler for leaderless movements. When the Hong Kong demonstrations broke out in June, Joshua Wong — the most high-profile democracy activist in the territory — was in jail. In Moscow, a month later, the Russian government moved swiftly to arrest Alexander Navalny, a leading opposition figure, but demonstrations continued without him. In Lebanon, France and Chile, authorities have searched in vain for ringleaders.
Across the world, demonstrators are using similar technologies to organise and spread their messages. Messaging services that offer end-to-end encryption — such as Telegram — are hard to spy on and are very popular. Facebook groups and Twitter allow amorphous protest movements to crowdsource ideas and articulate grievances.
Social media also allows a movement in one place to take inspiration from news of revolts in another. The occupation of the airport in Barcelona last week was a tactic borrowed from Hong Kong. Hong Kong demonstrators have been seen carrying the Catalan flag. The Sudanese and Algerian uprisings this year borrowed each other's imagery and slogans — in a similar fashion to the Arab Spring revolts of 2011.
The often leaderless quality of the revolts also makes them hard to either suppress or negotiate with. Different mass movements claiming to represent the "will of the people" can have contradictory demands — so the gilets jaunes' demand for lower fuel taxes contradicts the calls from another mass protest movement that has taken to the streets across the west, the climate activists of Extinction Rebellion.
Without firm leadership, there is also a risk that demonstrations will degenerate into violence between police and protesters — alienating middle ground supporters and making it easier for governments to justify a further crackdown. This was the pattern in France — and now in Hong Kong and Chile. But it is not always the case. Demonstrations in Russia and Algeria have remained largely peaceful.
The biggest risk for the leaderless revolts, however, is that they will simply fail. Of the uprisings this year, probably only the revolt in Sudan achieved a clear success — with the toppling in April of the dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir.
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As a Chilean TV reporter attempted to interview protesters heading towards a demonstration in Santiago on Wednesday, one young girl elbowed him and shouted directly into the camera: "Turn off your televisions, the media lie! Get your information from social media!"
Social media has not only enabled Chile's protesters to organise themselves better because there are no clear leaders of the demonstrations that spontaneously broke out in the country this week, but also because there is no single cause that unites them.
Anti-government demonstrators burn looted furniture in Santiago, Chile. Photo / AP
What started as a complaint about a rise in metro fares has ballooned into a multifarious protest over a host of grievances. "One protester might be banging their pots because of pensions, another because of student debt, and yet another because they just can't take it any more," says Robert Funk, a political scientist at the University of Chile. "We each have real complaints. If you target the message correctly, you can gather all those complaints into one cause or movement."
Given that the demands of the protesters are diffuse and often symbolic makes it hard for the government of President Sebastián Piñera — which has offered some concessions — to provide solutions. Worse still, it is not even clear who they need to negotiate with.
Catalonia: links to regional power
The protests in Catalonia have been in part co-ordinated by an anonymous online platform known as Tsunami Democràtic, but the role of the regional government is also highly contentious.
The pro-independence Catalan administration is furious at prison sentences handed out this month to nine separatist leaders for their part in an illegal 2017 referendum and declaration of independence. As a result, Quim Torra, the head of the regional government, has urged the demonstrators to take to the streets and has himself participated in blocking a highway.
He has declared his support for Tsunami Democràtic, which has used Twitter and Telegram to instruct activists where to protest, and the so-called Committees for the Defence of the Republic, a network of radical separatist groups also involved in the demonstrations.
Catalan pro-independence protesters shout slogans during a demonstration, as they block the entrance of the main train station in Barcelona. Photo / AP
Politicians in Madrid speculate that Tsunami Democràtic was set up to distance Catalan separatist leaders from legal responsibility for the protests. Pablo Casado, the leader of Spain's centre-right opposition, has called on prosecutors to investigate any links between Torra and both groups.
Government officials also suggest that Tsunami Democràtic may have had outside help, hinting that its sophisticated app, to which the authorities have now banned access in Spain, may have been developed with the aid of Russia.
Catalan separatists dismiss such suggestions as smear tactics. "The central government has made us separatists, by insulting us, by not treating us seriously," says Jordi, a middle-aged professional at last week's protests who did not want to give his surname.
In recent days the violence has subsided and relatively established Catalan activist organisations — principally two NGOs called Omnium and the Catalan National Assembly — have taken the lead in organising demonstrations planned for this weekend.
Hong Kong: shapeless protest
"Be formless, shapeless, like water" has been a rallying cry of almost five months of protests that have rocked Hong Kong. The slogan, originally coined by the city's most famous son and kung-fu movie star Bruce Lee, embodies the nimble and creative strategies of protesters who have no leader and mostly mobilise through social media.
Hong Kong's worst political crisis in decades, triggered by the controversial extradition bill, has evolved into a youth-led movement demanding universal suffrage. Many protesters experienced their political awakening during the pro-democracy demonstrations of 2014 now known as the Umbrella Movement — which ended in failure, with several of its leaders imprisoned.
Police officers restrain protesters during a rally in Hong Kong. Photo / AP
The protesters learnt their lesson. Now, demonstrations are largely leaderless and decentralised with activists using social media to co-ordinate and mobilise anonymously in the shadow of China's rapidly-expanding surveillance state. Once an idea gains traction online, smaller groups spin off to co-ordinate specific actions.
Posters are shared in Telegram chat groups to thousands of followers, who print them out and post them around the city. Crowdfunding campaigns have raised more than $15m to pay for medical bills, legal fees and advertisements in international papers. And in a city where the iPhone is ubiquitous, Apple's Airdrop function allows information to spread rapidly at protests, where people track police movements with regularly updated live maps. GitHub pages compile video feeds from news broadcasters for supporters watching at home.
As the movement has evolved, radical protesters also use social media to gauge public opinion, adjusting and explaining the intensity of their violence to avoid alienating moderate supporters.
Lebanon: protest over WhatsApp
The protests sweeping Lebanon were sparked by a government plan to place a tax on WhatsApp calls but quickly morphed into a revolt against the country's leaders, blamed for bringing it to the brink of economic collapse.
In towns and villages across the country, Christians, Sunnis, Shia and Druze have come out in a leaderless uprising to demand the ousting of all leaders, with no exception. "All Means All" is one of the slogans emblazoned on placards.
Twitter hashtags such as #LebanonProtests have helped mobilise protesters, spread news and share memes, videos, opinions and above all scathing sarcasm targeting politicians seen as kleptocratic, arrogant and inept. And after more than a week on the streets, there is no sign the protests are fizzling out as the Lebanese continue to demand the resignation of the power-sharing government headed by Saad al-Hariri, the Sunni Muslim prime minister.
Anti-government protesters set fire to tires to block a highway that links the capital Beirut to northern Lebanon. Photo / AP
Many are calling for the abolition of the political system intended to ensure a share of power for each of the country's religious communities, arguing that it has given militia leaders from the civil war which ended in 1990 and their clans feudal-like powers over the country.
An often-repeated demand is the replacement of the government with a cabinet of technocrats to steer the country towards elections on the basis of a new nonsectarian electoral law.
Hariri unveiled a package of economic measures which promise some reforms and do not include any new taxes. But this has been deemed inadequate by the protesters.
Written by: Gideon Rachman , Benedict Mander, Daniel Dombey, Sue-Lin Wong and Heba Saleh
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Every so often (at least twice now), Stephen creates a strange and wondrous Christmas comic book to give to friends, family, and strangers as a gift to brighten their holiday season. 2015 is one of those years. Behold, The Curious Canticle of the Christmas Buffalo. Inspired by a line in a song by Stephen's friend, John Andrade, this tale has it all, including: the Old West, livestock, rocks, stars, dragons, spaceships, sasquatches, children, adults, Santa Clause, and even a cameo by a certain boardgame character who is loaded with cash (except when he's not). If you have trouble following the story, it can always be colored and cut up into strips for use as bookmarks for your library.
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Gordon's huge night leads Chemics to win over BCC
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Updated 1:03 pm EDT, Tuesday, October 9, 2018
BAY CITY — Midland High's Christian Gordon had a monster night Friday, leading the Chemics on both sides of the ball in a 39-20 victory over host Bay City Central in Saginaw Valley League Blue football.
Offensively, Gordon ran for 228 yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries, and defensively, he tallied nine tackles with a sack and an interception. Midland improves to 4-3 overall and 4-1 in the SVL Blue.
"We ran the ball really effectively tonight. The guys up front did an outstanding job," said MHS coach Eric Methner. "Christian had a nice game, and we did a really nice job up front. ... I was very pleased (with our physicality).
"Last week, we were very disappointed," he added. "We thought Mount Pleasant was the more physical team (than us), and, obviously, we didn't like that. We really challenged the guys to play with more grit and determination, and I thought we saw that tonight."
Midland led 12-0 after one quarter, but the Wolves outscored the Chemics 13-6 in the second quarter to cut it to 18-13 at halftime. MHS outscored Central 14-7 in the third to extend to a 32-20 lead and then added a touchdown in the fourth for the final margin.
Gordon had scoring runs of 2, 25, and 77 yards, while Al Money ran 10 times for 72 yards and scored on runs of 15 and 8 yards. Money was also 10 of 15 passing for 101 yards and a 23-yard TD to Carter Grove.
Maxx Fisher kicked three extra points.
"We made a few plays in the passing game, and Al (Money) had some nice runs as well," said Methner. "Our defense gave up a couple of big plays, but they also made some big stops when they needed to."
Sam Hine paced the Chemics defensively with 13 tackles, while Kadin Jacobs had five tackles and a sack, and Eli Gordon added an interception.
Midland outgained Central 411-284 in total offense, including a 310-125 advantage in rushing.
The Chemics will host Bay City John Glenn next Friday for Senior Night. The game will also serve as a "Pink Out" event to support cancer awareness.
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Ebola—it’s a word that strikes fear. Perhaps that’s because it’s an unfamiliar virus, one that moves quickly, is contagious, and here in the US, we haven’t had much contact with it. As an outbreak claims lives in the DRC, we breakdown what Ebola is, what’s happening in the DRC, and what Oxfam is doing to help.
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An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed at least 25 since May 8th. While most reported cases have been contained to small rural areas, there is a high risk of it spreading nationally and into neighboring countries as cases are reported in urban areas.
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Ode to a remarkable tree: Fagus Sylvatica
It was the news we dreaded more than any other. Across various test planes, ‘ratio of residual to decayed wood do not satisfy the Mattheck t/R ratio1‘. Standing like a proud sentry at 30m and estimated to be 120 years old, a remarkable beech in the garden is to be felled. Heartbroken, the painful process has started to take down a majestic living monument with which we fell in love the minute we saw it. Standing beneath it, staring up at the canopy high above, we can now only pay homage to this natural wonder and attempt to find solace in the planting of the replacement. All in the sad knowledge that never again, will we enjoy such a magnificent giant in this garden.
In his book, ‘Meetings with remarkable trees’2, Thomas Pakenham writes, ‘When god made the beech, if botanists will forgive the expression, he made an architectural masterpiece, joining in one design the strongest form with the most delicate detail. Yet somehow he forgot to put in the foundations‘. Unfortunately, this is where we are today. Despite its smooth skin of seeming youth, and continued ability to produce young leaves, the base of the stem is decayed. Desiccated and exposed sapwood is much evident, as well as large cavities that can be probed to a worrying depth of 600-800 millimetres. Pakenham’s warning of a ‘ominous void in the lower trunks‘ has become the dreaded reality that must be dealt with. I just wish it didn’t have to happen on our watch.
Hidden trouble
Beech trees are well known for their beautifully smooth bark and impressively straight trunks. Ours is no different. Bark colour befitting a Farrow & Ball’s catalogue and a trunk so straight that it’d put an architect to shame. Despite their massive form, beech trees are not long lived by tree standards. Estimates indicate 150 to maximum 200 years. Their shallow roots and thereby windfall vulnerability is sadly just part of the reason. Beech trees are also prone to an array of fungal diseases that induce root rot and eventually death of the whole tree. The latter is unfortunately the case here.
Proud beech sentry
King of the light theatrics
Beech crown looking worryingly thinner
A proper crown
The future is full of blossom....
If we had the luxury of surrounding park land, we would leave well alone and await nature to do its worst. Unfortunately, as the Tree Health & Structural Integrity Report demurely states potential ‘targets‘ not only include our house, the neighbouring property as well as ‘all people‘ using the bridleway directly below the tree.
Rescue topping attempts were quickly ruled out. The extent of basal decay would require at least 10 metres off the top to be removed. That’s basically the entire crown, which apart from being a non-starter would still leave a potential decaying hazard of 22m of tree trunk.
The writing is sadly on the wall.
Quite evident are numerous scars of previous trimming high up on the tree. Difficult to say when the trimming occurred, but presumably 20+ years ago by the then ex/ex/ex house occupant. Large gaping holes reveal the tree’s inability to form adequate scar tissue because the cuts were badly made, flush with the trunk, right into the branch collar. The branch collar is responsible for forming the scar tissue. If you cut into the branch collar, the tree will have a very hard time recovering.
The end results are the rotting holes, some of which are actively seeping wounds. There is no way to prove that this led to the (further deterioration of the) basal decay in our tree, but it certainly didn’t help and, may have accelerated the process. Do take care, or seek professional advice when removing tree branches as you may inadvertently do much damage to the tree in years to come.
For a while I wasn’t certain if I could face being present for the felling. However, Storm Doris certainly blew all nostalgic cobwebs off us last week. There is nothing quite like the stress of watching a tremendously large tree with advanced basal rot, wobble around like a banana in the wind. We have no choice, onwards and downwards is the motto here.
Due to its sheer size and rather awkward location a substantial crane will be needed, along with a team of expert tree surgeons. The crane will be on hand to manoeuvre large chunks of wood directly into lorries. Plans to use some of the wood to make a keep sake, table or bench have been shelved as it’s expected that much of the stem will have extensive rot. We will keep as much wood as we can for firewood, but the remainder will be taken away.
The costs are astronomical which unfortunately means all other garden plans will be on hold. Incidentally, the costs aren’t helped by the inexcusable addition of VAT, which I just can’t fathom. Unfortunately now a ubiquitous tax, VAT was brought in as a levy on luxury goods and has absolutely no place here. Similarly frustrating is the VAT levy on the replacement tree. Some fruit trees are exempt, but there should no VAT on plants or trees. VAT exemptions on plants & trees would not only present an incredible boost to the horticultural industry, but surely the planting of trees and plants should be encouraged for the substantial environmental benefits?
Looking forward to replanting a tree is a small solace. Trying to emulate the status quo is not just futile, but somehow also discourteous to the beech. We will therefore be planting something different, which will provide a good backdrop to the orchard in which it will stand. There’s a lovely Greek proverb, ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in‘. We are indeed planting for the future, but selfishly we’d like to enjoy a teeny tiny bit of it’s shade if we can.
With a woodland backdrop, we don’t need height from the new tree. What would be useful is a broad canopy to provide a little more interest and privacy to the orchard. Along with the fruit trees in the orchard, stands a magnificent Magnolia x Soulangeana which must be 60+ years old. By definition, the magnolia is obviously superb in spring, but so too in summer with it’s lovely luscious lime green leaves and even in the darkest of winter, the gnarly branches and myriad of dormant buds provide interest. The hammer has therefore fallen on another Soulangeana. Greek proverbs aside, I’m already envisioning wandering underneath the blossoming magnolia canopy on my way to the orchard. For added depth of colour, we’re toying with the idea of planting the slightly darker version Magnolia x soulangeana rubra.
We will miss our beech tree immensely. The decision to purchase this house was certainly swayed by this tree which makes it all the harder to swallow. Despite its native credentials, the beech has always reminded me of a towering Acacia tree we had in our garden in Nairobi, Kenya so I felt immediately at home. The weather in North Oxon, isn’t quite as tropical but still… Over the years, we have liberated the beech from tedious shrubs and saplings to highlight its beauty, but so too have we planted this garden in accordance to the light and shade patterns created through it’s incredible canopy. We can only hope those areas of the garden will still thrive after the dreaded felling.
With a heavy heart and teary eyed we salute you oh majestic tree. As I wander around the neighbouring woodland, I’m delighted to see several young beech trees growing happily, some of which are now beautifully mature. Complete wishful thinking obviously, but I choose to take solace in the notion that all of these beautiful beech bambino’s are the healthy offspring of our tree. May they live happily, and keep basal rot at bay.
Mattheck, C. and Breloer, developed a formula expressing the relationship between decay and sound wood as the ratio of ‘t’ (sound shell thickness) over ‘R’ (radius of the tree). Mattheck’s Ratio: Ratio of residual wall thickness to radius of tree = t/R Mattheck’s threshold for action. A .30 to .35 t/R ratio threshold of high risk of stem failure from a central column of decay for full crown trees.
Thomas Pakenham, Meetings with remarkable trees, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2003.
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i feel for you. A loss like this and how do you replace such a tree. We had a very large walnut tree which died and had to be removed. I will be honest and say even after five years I cannot say it is perfect but we replaced it with three multi stemmed silver birch. We wanted something that would grow in our lifetime. Only time will tell but I guess gardens have to move on. good luck with whatever you decide to replace it with.
fineartfrescoes says:
I always feel a great sadness when a tree has to come down – it is a kind of bereavement .
Good luck with the felling, my daughter just had to do the same with an oak, planted before the houses were built in the area. How about an Holm Oak as a suitable replacement?
I grew up on land that had been a saw mill, when my parents gave me some land to build on and raise my daughters, I was lucky enough to get the land that was still old growth, beech trees, tulip and oak. The beech trees were the stars though. The one closest to the house had my brothers and my initials carved in it. I went back to see my first gardens and home last summer and all of the trees are doing beautifully. My former husband had always felt, from having to cut down one old dead beach, that the trees were 150 years old. That was in 1983. The only beech i have now, in my garden is a Fagus Sylvatica Apenifolia Mercedes. Very small but at least I have a beech tree. They are truly the most beautiful tree I think.
joturner57 says:
Sorry to hear of the impending loss of this old friend…Similarly, the choice of my home was influenced by two large firs in the small back garden…Certain trees have such presence, and accompany us through decades of our lives.. Hope when the right time comes, you’ll find just the perfect one to plant…As you say, a Magnolia has several charms…Stewartia pseudocamellias also quite nice, multi-seasonal, but perhaps not as large as you’d like… Also must be comforting to see possible progeny of yours growing nearby…Cycle of life… continuing : )
petrahm says:
Thank you Jo for you kind words. Much appreciated. They are indeed friends and the loss of one is tough. I hadn’t thought of Stewartia so thanks for the suggestion. I will give it some thought!
Peter van Duuren says:
Indeed a sad story, tears welling up, also because of the costs you will incurr, not sure which is the strongest motive!! But planting a new tree is also exciting, great, informative story, well done!!
The costs certainly makes your eyes water. Right from the start in fact. The tree inspection and report were certainly not cheap. The felling is astronomic and the replacement tree, has a hefty price tag. Having to pay for the felling of a tree you don’t want to lose is tough and so is the knowledge that it inhibits projects we have been itching to get on with this year. Hopefully we will be blinded by the beauty of the replacement and forget it all happened.. In the meantime, it’s bread and water for supper. For some years to come…
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pa2a.org » The Think Tank » Legislative Action » 124 Anti-gun Democrats Introduce Semi-Auto Gun and Magazine Ban in House of Represent
124 Anti-gun Democrats Introduce Semi-Auto Gun and Magazine Ban in House of Represent
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County: Bucks
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline and 123 other Democrat members of the House of Representatives introduced H.R. 4269, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2015, a bill virtually identical to S. 150, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) in the Senate in 2013.
For the moment, the ban has little chance of passing. Feinstein’s legislation was defeated in 2013, no similar legislation was even considered in the House at that time, and Feinstein’s two attempts to push the ban this year—most recently after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino—failed as well.
However, things could change in 2016. The leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, is campaigning on the most anti-gun platform of any candidate in American presidential history. Meanwhile, though the leading candidates for the Republican Party’s nomination are far friendlier to the Second Amendment than Clinton, support has not yet galvanized behind the one who will ultimately be selected to carry the party’s banner going into Election Day.
It is important to note that H.R. 4269, like other federal “assault weapon” bills introduced over the last decade, would not “reinstate” the federal “assault weapon ban” of 1994-2004. Gun control supporters have been using the word “reinstate” to mislead the American people into thinking they are proposing to renew the ban that expired in 2004. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
The 1994 ban allowed manufacturers to produce AR-15s without flash suppressors and one or two other external attachments, and to make similar adjustments to other firearms. As a result, the number of AR-15s made and sold during the 10 years the ban was in effect was a quarter of a million greater than the number produced and sold during the preceding 10 years. Additionally, 50 million magazines capable of holding over 10 rounds were allowed to be imported while the ban was in effect. CBS 60 Minutes reported that the first year of the “ban” was “the best year for the sales of assault weapons ever.”
For these reasons, the Violence Policy Center, which in 1988 urged anti-gun activists to focus on “assault weapons” as a “new topic” to “strengthen the handgun restriction lobby,” described the 1994 ban as a “fictional ban,” “a ban in name only . . . [and a] “charade.”
The new ban proposed in H.R. 4269 is another story. It would prohibit the manufacture of most detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifles, numerous semi-automatic shotguns configured for defensive purposes, any semi-automatic rifle with a fixed magazine over 10 rounds (except for a tubular magazine .22), any semi-automatic pistol like the HK SP-89, any semi-automatic pistol with a fixed magazine over 10 rounds, revolving cylinder shotguns, various other named and described firearms, frames and receivers of banned guns, and ammunition magazines over 10 rounds, except those for tubular .22 rimfire rifles.
Two weeks ago, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that the American people oppose an “assault weapon” ban by a 53%-45% margin. Presumably, if the American people knew the vast differences between the 1994 ban and the one currently being proposed, that margin would widen considerably.
Please contact your U.S. Representative and express your opposition to H.R. 4269. You can call your U.S. Representative at 202-225-3121 or write your lawmakers here: https://www.nraila.org/take-action/write...lawmakers/
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Better start panic buying! We have a thread to legitimize!
Mr_Gixxer;171304 Wrote: Better start panic buying! We have a thread to legitimize!
Its no wonder why no one posts here anymore.
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City / State: Aliquippa, PA
County: Beaver
Hopefully, it will never make it out of committee. Looking at the committee members, I think we are ok but I've been spreading the word just in case.
Most of the bill is lists of what they want to tell us what we can and can't have.
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This wasn't directed at you. This was for a guy who blocked me after one post because I didn't conform to his ridiculous notion that guns and ammo are currently flying off the shelves. Don't worry though, he'll get his wish soon enough. Bills like this are the first step and we see it all the time. It's the same old same old until some mass shooting event happens at just the right time to add the fuel to their fire and that's when the real panic buying starts.
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EPL Weekend Breakdown: Bolton, Chelsea, West Brom, Arsenal and More
Opposing Views Staff
Hey, it's Thanksgiving week in the States ... meaning the comings-and-goings of the Premier League take a backseat to turkey and gravy, that is unless you're Frank Lampard! (See, get it, he's allegedly 'fat'.)
Wait, let's get a take two on punchline.
Unless you're ... Ronaldo?
Ronaldinho?
Eh, let's just move on.
This is an easy holiday-themed trope.
EPL TURKEYS of 2011.
* Carlos Tevez -- Yep, it's a crime to be getting paid somewhere in the range of $200,000 per week. The indignity of it all!
* Gary Cahill -- Who wouldn't want to buy the England international in January? He's only been at the heart of a defense that's allowed an EPL-high 29 goals in 12 matches.
* Alex McLeish -- Sure he won a Carling Cup, but he also saw Birmingham City get relegated AND has turned Aston Villa to one of the league's most unwatchable teams.
* Adel Taarabt -- How many goals has this allegedly star played scored this season? Zippo.
* John Terry -- ... because.
* Stoke City v. Blackburn Rovers -- (Live, 7:45 a.m., ESPN3.com) Not going to feel too bad if I rage pretty hard on Friday and sleep through it. It's not on ESPN, so I don't feel bad since I won't miss Mr. Darke. ... Stoke City 2, Blackburn Rovers 2
* Bolton v. Everton -- While neither of these two teams can exactly be considered, "good," they do have one thing going for them. Their fans have trust in Owen Coyle and David Moyes. Even if things look bad, there's at least a little hope at the top. ... Bolton 1, Everton 1
* Chelsea v. Wolves -- (Live, FSC, 10 a.m.) Didn't they already play this game? Like last weekend? Sure feels that way. Maybe it's just that I'm sick and tired of watching Chelsea, lately. Think I'm more sick of reading about the imminent demise of Andre Villas-Boas, frankly. (Ever notice the English media just loooooves to put the hangman's noose around a manager?) This is a second guess, but it's hard to say the Portuguese manager's tactics aren't going to work. When he was with Porto he was the biggest fish in a small, small pond. You could get away with a high line, because how many other teams in Portugal could stand toe-to-toe with Porto every week? At Chelsea, you can't get away with it. Plus when you factor in Chelsea's latest roster movements seem to be done by a kid playing "career mode" on FIFA 12, rather than an actual soccer field, you have the mess the Blues currently sit. ... Chelsea 3, Wolves 1
* West Brom v. Tottenham -- (Live, FSC+, 10 a.m.) Game of the weekend, or at least the day. West Brom have face-rubbed its way up to 10th place in the table, despite having a porous defense and having lost two of their last three. Spurs are as hot as a pistol and now Harry Redknapp is thinking about winning the league. Crazy as that sounds, unless the team is beset by more defensive injuries why can Spurs keep the pace? Odds Rafael van der Vaart and Emmanuel Adebayor keep it up, too? ... West Brom 1, Spurs 2
* Manchester United v. Newcastle United -- (Live, ESPN2, 10 a.m.) Sorry Manchester United fans, going to ruin something for you. Chicharito looks, or at least has the same facial expression as Kirsten Stewart from the "Twilight" movies. Believe me, you'll see it next time he's on your television set. You'd have to think, at Old Trafford, off a draw in the Champions League that United is due to kick it into gear and kick some but, however Newcastle's discipline might make this harder than it sounds. Paging Mr. Own Goal or Mr. Penalty Kick. ... Manchester United 2, Newcastle United 1
* Norwich City v. QPR -- Here's my sense with Norwich City. The club, as currently assembled, is good enough to last a year in the Premier League. There's enough players with camaraderie who are on the same page. Prpblem is, it's going to be hard to add to that core on the limited budget and means the team has. QPR has a little more cash and ambition and brought in some reinforcements from its promoted team already, therefore it'll sink or swim right away. The Canaries are 2-2-2 so far at home with 10 goals scored and nine allowed. That might need to improve, like right away. ... Norwich City 3, QPR 1
* Sunderland v. Wigan Athletic -- It's weird how Sunderland built the Stadium of Light ... and basically have zero home-field advantage. The Black Cats are routinely bad at home, which is an anomaly in world club soccer. Everyone is going to say Sunderland should be Wigan at home, but this club seems to be terrible dealing with pressure. However, all that said, I think Steve Bruce's team is due a somewhat decent performance by the law of averages. ... Sunderland 1, Wigan 0
* Arsenal v. Fulham -- (Live, FSC, 12:30 p.m.) Arsene Wenger has lost his touch. Arsene Wener has NEVER lost his touch. You have to hand it to the soccer media for being reasonable and consistent, right? The more realistic assessment, Wenger was a little misguided in the summer, waiting for the last second to replace Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri. Right now the club is stabilized and riding an all-time hot streak from Robin van Persie, who's scoring faster than (timely reference, alert.) 1971 Warren Beatty. Also, are we sure Mikel Arteta is playing for Arsenal, you almost never hear his any, despite playing most games. Fulham have stung Arsenal in the past, doubt it happens here. ... Arsenal 2, Fulham 0
* Swansea City v. Aston Villa -- (Live, FSC+, 8:30 a.m.) Given the chance, McLeish might try to field nine defenders and isolate Darren Bent up top. ... Swansea 1, Aston Villa 0
* Liverpool v. Manchester City -- (Live, FSC, 11 a.m.) Let's see what Kenny Dalglish pulls out of his managerial bag of tricks this time, home at Anfield against the league leaders. There are so many variables for both managers that it's hard to blindly guess what will happen. Liverpool did look susceptible in the second half with Chelsea when Juan Mata moved into a more central position, one where David Silva normally operates. Hard to diagnose City's struggles in the Champions League. Is the reason they might not advance to the knockout stages all because they drew two of the best clubs in the competition in Bayern Munich and Napoli? Maybe it's worth noting the scales at City have tipped more in favor of its offense than it's once very stout defense. ... Liverpool 1, City 1
Last round: 5-5
Season: 64-55
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Restaurant of the Year 2005: Andina
Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Jun 07, 2009
By The Oregonian/OregonLive
The entree stretches across the rectangular platter like -- there is no other way to put this -- a mountain range.
Everyone knows the basic restaurant entree style, arranged like a metropolitan area: a core of protein in a river of sauce, surrounded by suburbs of green and starch. Presentation, like transit policy, is making the core and suburbs somehow connect.
But now there's this dish, a double row of parallel, pungent Peruvian structures -- monkfish confit wrapped in serrano ham, stuffed piquillo peppers, a purple potato tortilla. And before a single fork is employed, the map is clear: We're going someplace we've never been.
For taking us there, and for pointing the way to a wide range of Latin culinary possibility, Andina is The Oregonian's 2005 Restaurant of the Year.
Portland's first serious Peruvian restaurant opened two years ago to great promise and a few problems. Its early menus were complicated, and service often was uncertain or abrupt. That's all changed, spectacularly. Now, while Andina is on the crest of a wave of new Latin cuisine in Portland, it's not to be confused with anyplace else.
The restaurant's style is called novoandina, a blend of Peru's contemporary cooking and older, deep-rooted Inca themes, such as quinoa and purple potatoes. The combination produces dishes like the one stretched out on the rectangular platter -- a mingling of monkfish and Machu Picchu.
"When the Spanish people came to Peru," explains executive chef Emmanuel Piqueras Villaran, "real Peruvian cuisine went to sleep." To illustrate, he puts his hands together and lays his head on them, like a rocoto pepper dropping off into historical obscurity.
Andina wakes up a lot of things.
To the 33-year-old Piqueras Villaran, Peruvian cuisine is a fusion of fusions, a cross-cultural cuisine combining Spain (and its own Moorish underpinnings) with the local peppers and Pacific seafood, plus the Chinese and Japanese input of a century of Pacific Rim immigration. There are menu sections where Cebiche settles seamlessly into sashimi.
Piqueras Villaran powers the mix with his years at the three-star restaurant Arzak in San Sebastian, Spain. The top of the menu is filled with his flashy, sophisticated stylings -- from crispy escolar with mango-shrimp ravioli and a rocoto pepper, passion fruit syrup to a Quechua Indian-inflected casserole of lamb, quail and venison. Below, the menu turns to traditional dishes such as lamb chunks stewed with cilantro and black beer, entrees laid out by Doris Platt Rodriguez -- whose family owns Andina, and whose arrival in Oregon from Peru goes back a little longer than Piqueras Villaran's.
"What you plan in life may never happen," says Platt Rodriguez, 60. "What you don't plan sometimes comes together, and that's Andina."
Platt Rodriguez came from Peru years ago, with her husband, a Peace Corps volunteer, settling in Corvallis and raising three sons. One went back to Peru with Mercy Corps and decided the way to help the country was to start a Peruvian restaurant in Portland. Back in Peru, he asked another volunteer if her boyfriend's family knew any chefs who might be interested.
It turned out they did.
Now, Platt Rodriguez and Piqueras Villaran combine on the menu, and in their explanations of it. Questions can produce a long burst of liquid Spanish from him, an answer that she then carefully re-creates in English.
It helps that they have the same vision.
"In Peru, we love bright colors," says Platt Rodriguez. "Andina is a rainbow of bright colors. What Emmanuel does is bring that to the fore."
"It is very important for me as a cook, the architecture of the dish," he explains. "I like to make a beautiful dish, so when (waiters) serve it in their hand, people say, 'That's my dish.' "
Now, the personal extends through the dining room at Andina, a combination of deep-rust coloring, rising buzz and strolling Peruvian musicians.
The restaurant's considerable overhauling since its early days has extended to new options, including the downstairs Pearl Wine Shop, which offers five-, six- and seven-course fixed menus for private dining parties.
More dramatically, Andina's bar -- called Mestizo, or "mixed" -- has been re-created as a casual hangout featuring tapas, raw seafood and hand-sliced Spanish and Peruvian hams, with a layer of live Brazilian or flamenco music. It turns out that a seafood Cebiche, a kebab and a Pisco sour can fill up an evening as vividly as a more elaborate meal in the dining room.
"We saw the bar lacking warmth," explains Platt Rodriguez. "We thought if we changed the ambience of this place, we could give people another way to come and enjoy."
From seafood Cebiches to passion fruit mousse, Andina offers lots of ways to come and enjoy. And to do it, it creates a place we've never been.
-- David Sarasohn
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Tag: Transformers
Massive Transformers Art Book is a Must for Fans [Review]
November 23, 2019 Danica Davidson
In the 35 years the franchise has been around, the Transformers have found international fandom. Starting out as toys that can be manipulated into a robot or a vehicle, they took off to become cartoons, comics, even live-action movies. Transformers: A Visual History is a …Read more »
Transformers Voice Actor Peter Cullen Presented with Lifetime Achievement Award
November 7, 2019 Joseph Luster
One of the most iconic English voices in the history of animation belongs to Peter Cullen, who has been voicing Optimus Prime since the beginning of the Transformers franchise. Now Cullen is being recognized by The Society of Voice Art and Sciences, which announced that …Read more »
Colossal Transformers Toy Has Trouble Reaching $4.6 Million Crowdfunding Goal
August 13, 2019 Joseph Luster
Last month we posted about Hasbro’s crowdfunding campaign for a Unicron figure, which would end up being the largest Transformer toy ever produced at over 27 inches tall. The HasLab platform established the campaign in hopes of getting 8,000 backers to throw down $575 each—which …Read more »
Hasbro Aims to Crowdfund Largest Transformers Figure Ever
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The Transformers line has been host to some truly tremendous toys, some of which stand at impressive heights. Figures like Fortress Maximus managed to scrape the two-foot mark, and now Hasbro is attempting to crowdfund the biggest Transformer of all time. Naturally, the character in …Read more »
Go Nagai Draws Cover for Mazinger Z vs. Transformers Manga
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Two of the world’s most famous giant robot teams, those of mega-franchises Mazinger Z and Transformers, are set to face off in an upcoming manga. Now we’ve learned the cover of that manga was drawn by none other than the legendary Go Nagai, the creator …Read more »
Check Out This Career-Spanning Interview with Shinji Aramaki
May 28, 2015 Matt Schley
Shinji Aramaki. Even if you don’t know his name, you probably know his work: he’s spent decades in the anime industry, starting out as a mecha designer on shows like Mospeada and Megazone 23 before reinventing himself as a director of CG films like Appleseed …Read more »
A World Tour of Life-size Mechs
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At this point, everyone should be well acquainted with the full-scale RX-78 Gundam statue, currently residing between a parking lot and a shopping mall on the man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay. Despite receiving a considerable amount of media attention over the past few …Read more »
Play The Transformers Game You Always Wanted
August 4, 2009 Joseph Luster
Now that's not completely fair; surely there are some fans out there of the Transformers Famicom classic, Convoy no Nazo , right? Anyone? Okay, let's face it, one of the greatest franchise no-brainers for videogame adaptations hasn't really had one that soared, critically speaking. The …Read more »
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Finally! LG 2016 OLED TV range review
Simply the best TV you can buy. And now it’s affordable too
Good Gear Guide
@NickRossTech
Best picture on the market
Resolved upscaling issues
Great sound
Best handling and navigation
Remote control labels
Slight juddering in scrolling credits
LG's 2016 OLED TVs are a notch above all the competition and get even better when paired with Dolby Video-compatible content. They sound great and are a joy to use. That you can buy one for well under four grand rounds off the best TV we've ever seen.
Would you buy this?
[Update: the 2017 range of LG OLED TVs is out now. But is it better or worse than the 2016 range? Read the LG OLED TV 2017 review, here]
LG announced this 4K TV back at CES last January and it even started selling them this year. But it hasn’t given them out to reviewers… until now. We think that's a shame as they’ve missed a trick here. We knew these TVs were good as they’ve always been good, but now we’ve given a new model a proper workout, it’s hard to fault them.
If you go to LG’s OLED website you’ll notice what a clusterfail it is. Many 4K OLED TV models reside on it and it’s hard to establish which the new range is (hint: not the ones with the big black cat). After all, these TVs are particularly-expensive to produce and LG is loathe to discount old stock to make way for the new models. Fortunately, things become simpler when you know what to look for. The way the current range works is this…
All models have the same panels and components but the key differences come in the form of cosmetic changes and sound bar inclusion.
The 2016 Range of LG OLED TVs
First there’s the B6-series which starts at just $4,199 RRP for the 55-inch model. The C6-variant is basically the same but curved. Both are available as 55 and 65-inch units. Despite representing the base level it’s anything but a watered-down cheap version. It’s unfathomably thin and, were it not for it’s siblings, it’s probably the best looking TV on the market – from all angles.
Looks gorgeous and is ridonculously thin. This is the base-level, B-Series 2016 OLED TV.
The following are all RRPs and you can already find them for several-hundred dollars less.
55-inch - OLED55B6T - $4,199
55-inch curved TV - OLED55C6T - $4,199
65-inch - OLED65B6T - $6,799 - REVIEWED
Above this is the E6-series which is the same panel and electronics with slightly different construction plus an integrated sound bar. Instead of a lightweight plastic and aluminium backing, the panel has a glass layer. Giving the TV a slightly-different appearance. The difference in picture quality is minimal – there’s a 50nit brightness difference but, side by side, we couldn’t see a significant difference and the local LG representatives themselves said they were surprised to learn of it. However, after handling the B6-series, it's worth pointing out that if you are likely to move the TV around a lot, then having the additional strength of the glass panel might well be useful - it makes the TV much more robust.
The LG OLED 2016 E-Series is mounted on glass and has a sound bar.
55-inch - OLED55E6T - $5,699
65-inches - OLED65E6T - $8,399
At the top of the list is the G6-series “Signature Edition.” Again this uses the same panel and electronics but is designed to look sublime from every angle and sound even better thanks to its built-in premium sound bar.
The LG 2016 OLED G-Series "Signature Edition" is stylish from every angle and has a great sound bar.
65-inches - OLED65G6T - $9,999
Ultimately, the same awesome TV gets blinged up the more you pay.
Our review model is the 65-inch B-series series but the performance described below is what you can expect from the whole range.
[Related: TV of the year award 2016]
[Related: Check out Samsung's latest 2017 QLED TVs, here]
We now live in a world where, largely thanks to Netflix, there is plenty of 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) content and it’s easily and cheaply accessible (so long as you have an internet connection that can stably-stream at 20-25Mb/s!) but still many people will be watching poor-quality content whether it’s on cable TV, free-to-air TV or downloaded movies. It’s in these, ‘real-world’ areas that some high-end TVs (especially past LG OLED models and most Samsung TVs) have fallen down – they look great at displaying the best-quality content (as most 4K TVs do) but ‘regular’ lower-resolution TV can look terrible. As such we test for all kinds of content – from 60fps 4K demo reels to Dora The Explorer on Nickelodeon (which can look like a blotchy mess when its low resolution is upscaled badly).
For this reason, we don’t test TVs in a lab environment, we live with them at home to find the foibles. If the wife swears at the screen you know there are issues, and four-year-old girls don’t suffer crappy representations of Dora too well. It also means a wide variety of content quality is watched.
Dolby Vision and HDR
This TV is the first we’ve seen with a Dolby Vision chip. 2016 is the year High Dynamic Range became a thing. This moved the colours on show from 8-bit to 10-bit which is a technical way of saying that more colour and detail started appearing in light and dark areas. However, when a film is pushed into digital distribution, whether on Netflix or UHD Blu-ray discs, the amount of HDR picture information is still averaged out across the whole movie – the brightest bright scenes are ignored along with the darkest dark scenes – the most extreme-lit scenes still can’t be displayed (this is an oversimplified explanation, for more info see here). However, what Dolby Vision does is provide additional information on lighting and colour for each scene – basically telling the TV where the HDR scale should begin and end. So far we’ve only seen it work in two instances neither of which are, unfortunately, The Godfather Part II. They are cinematic classics, Pan (on UHD Blu-ray) and The Do Over (on Netflix). Awesome.
The Do Over may not be a great film, but it's great looking. All scenes appear very well lit. The blown-out highlights here come from the camera, which couldn't match the TV's dynamic range!
However, what we did see makes quite a difference. When compatible content is detected, a pop-up appears saying that Dolby Vision has been detected. In Pan, a scene where people are flying around in airships suddenly looks extraordinary compared with regular HDR thanks to bluer skies and no washed out details in the clouds. You can even see the centre of the Sun. In The Revenant you can see the detail of the flames without them turning into a bright blur. Meanwhile The Do Over, for all its failings, does indeed look impressive (for technical reasons). There are many light and dark scenes but all of them were impeccably lit. More of this please!
Read more What size 4K TV should I buy?
We should note that Sony has a similar system where its TVs can read Sony metadata on its own discs to create a similar effect. You can read our review of Sony’s main 2016 TVs here (which, incidentally were tested against last year’s LG OLED TV).
UHD Blu-ray
We watched a fair amount of UHD Blu-ray on this TV. Every bit of it looks stunning – as is usual on a 4K TV but particularly so on OLED. Now, however, the brightness rating has moved from 450 nits to 700 (750 for the E and G-series) and it's noticeably better than last year’s range - we’re running out of superlatives. Colours are vibrant but not too much so. Blacks are absolutely black. We’ve said this about OLED for years. But now it’s even better. This is the benchmark for all TVs.
The Martian is a joy to watch with its vibrant colours, sharp details and true blacks.
We focused on our main test – the opening scenes of The Martian as there are true-black space scenes with bright elements. The title sequence tells us a great deal about a TV. With regular LCD TVs, light is shined through a layer of crystal whether the colour on display is bright or black. While some TVs are borderline-magical at masking light leakage (especially the amazing Hisense ULED Series 7 models) others, including Panasonic’s expensive rear-lit model, can let too much light through, creating distracting light-blooms around details. This is called the Halo effect. Because OLED only lights up areas with detail, everything else stays black because the screen is basically turned off in those areas. As such, not surprisingly, the opening title shot of The Martian looks, well, perfect.
On the left our camera once again couldn't match the detail of the Sun rising over Mars but it was there. In scenes like this, not having pure-black letterbox bars can be distracting. On the right we see all the detail in the dark cliffs AND detail in the bright areas. Again, it looks better than our camera could capture.
The panning shots of cliffs at the beginning of the movie are another tell-tale quality shot. Firstly the panning is perfectly smooth with no juddering or pixelated edges, but there’s also plenty of detail on display in the dark cliffs while the bright red background still looks vibrant and detailed too. With TVs like Sony we can achieve this to some degree by playing with the colour settings while watching the movie, but that’s a drag and even it doesn’t offer pure-black letterbox bars. Here we have bright red areas married with detail in dark areas plus jet-black letterbox bars in default mode. Perfect. It’s actually really hard to get a photograph to illustrate this as the camera’s dynamic range struggles to match what’s on show! You can even choose between three settings: HDR Standard, Bright, and Vivid, which to our minds move from great to better to best in that order.
A bright scene in a dark room at night - and you can't see the letterbox bars because there's no light leaking into them whatsoever.
Next: YouTube and Netflix 4K
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Gloucestershire Hero (ePub)
Brigadier Patsy Pagan's Great War Experiences
WWI Military Biographies 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Military
By Peter Rostron
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
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Small in physical stature Colonel, later Brigadier, Patsy Pagan was seen as a giant by the men of the Gloucestershire Regiment, whom he commanded for over three gruelling years of The Great War.
He and his Battalion endured some of the hardest fighting and grimmest conditions on the Western Front; The battles of Loos 1915, Somme 1916 and Passchendaele 1917. Wounded three times, Pagan discharged himself from hospital to rejoin his men rather than be evacuated to Blighty.
He reluctantly left his beloved Glosters when promoted to command a brigade for the closing months of the war. His brigade found itself as the last line of defence before the Channel against the Germans' 1918 offensive.
The author uncovers the contribution and character of this great fighting soldier through personal records, trench diaries and other official papers. This is a stirring and inspiring read.
'Patsy' Pagan was a fine example of a generation of regular soldiers throughout the turbulence of the Army who made a significant contribution to holding it together throughout the turbulence of the Great War. They had been bloodied in South Africa and knew the value of training, fitness, discipline and, above all, regimental comradeship which could maintain morale in the most testing of circumstances. Of all the major combatants engaged in the 1914-18 war, the British Army was the one that never broke and its officers, such as Pagan, played a central part in the final victory.
Soldiers of the Gloucestershire Museum
Prepare to be sucked straight into the maelstrom of the Western Front of 1915 by this vivid biography.
...Throughout the book the point is not so much the detail as the atmosphere that pervades the whole storyline. The Prologue, however, draws you straight into the human dimension of this war, taking place on Britain’s very doorstep: the hearty reunions tinged with apprehension, the women and children fading into the background of khaki-clad crowds, the optimistic anticipation of great deeds.
Col. (Retd) Gerald Napier
Peter Rostron tells the story through short extracts from the Battalion’s war diaries, personal letters and fills in the gaps with a narrative. He links events going on in the wider world to give context and chronology to the situation and this method widens the interest for the general reader.
About Peter Rostron
Peter Rostron is a former soldier who served with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He is an International Fellow of the United States Army War College.
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Tourists from India, Saudi Arabia and UK flocking to Dubai
Pennsylvania Sun
India once again led the pack, drawing the highest half year volumes with 997,000 visitors
Coming in strong as Dubai's second largest market, was Saudi Arabia, which delivered 755,000 visitors
Staying firmly within Dubai's top three traffic drivers, the UK delivered 586,000 travellers
DUBAI, UAE - Dubai hosted more than eight million international overnight visitors in the first six months of this year, up more than 3 percent for the same period last year, according to the latest data released by Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, Dubai Tourism.
The figures reinforce the strength of the emirate and city's tourism sector as a key driver of economic diversification and a catalyst for GDP acceleration through 2020.
Dubai has set a target of becoming the most visited global destination.
"Tourism is one of the cornerstones of Dubai's diversified economic growth, and we measure success based on our ability to aggressively advance towards our goal to be the number one most visited and most preferred city, Helal Saeed Almarri, Director General, Dubai Tourism said. "Our first half results are a particularly encouraging reflection of our progress towards this ambition and underline the effectiveness of our diversified market outreach with holistic 'awareness to booking' cycle content amplification and audience delivery, through a deeply networked ecosystem of global partners, industry stakeholders and government enablers."
India once again led the pack, drawing the highest half year volumes with 997,000 visitors despire severe air traffic and seat capacity challenges due to geopolitical volatilities. Dubai continued to drive booking interest from Indians on a mass scale largely due to high-impact delivery of segment and season-specific campaigns across the most accessible Tier-1 and Tier-2 cities, Wam news agency reported. From focused 'family' or 'couple' oriented promotions to the Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan-led global #BeMyGuest campaign, the Department's investments yielded strong returns, with the latter alone surpassing all records, logging 160 million views in a few weeks. Additionally, at an audience penetration level, travel share of Indian families with children rose by a substantial 10 percentage points from 24 to 34 percent, directly reflecting higher GDP impact due to party size and spend potential.
Coming in strong as Dubai's second largest feeder market once again, was Saudi Arabia, which delivered 755,000 visitors at two per cent year-on-year growth over six months with a notable 4.9 percent increase over the Eid break alone – signifying continued stability in Dubai's attractiveness for Saudi families and millennials.
Staying firmly within Dubai's top three traffic drivers, the UK delivered 586,000 travellers beating all odds against a significantly devalued British Pound (vs. US Dollar), amidst growing political and economic turbulences surrounding Brexit. Contrary to the general dampening in consumer sentiment, Dubai retained high demand from couples – constituting 56 per cent of share – and families accounting for 20 percent – collectively up three percentage points from H1 2018. As the two focus segments for Dubai Tourism's strategy in the UK, the results validate the success of its 'always on' approach leveraging bespoke and seasonal campaigns; advocacy-based content partnerships and localised influencer marketing; and audience-specific trade alliances. One of H1 2019's highlights included a Red Bull signature 'Only in Dubai' collaboration featuring the UK's very own BMX star Kriss Kyle in action across Dubai's iconic landmarks – garnering five million views within a week.
With over 501,000 Chinese visitors to Dubai from January to June 2019, the stellar 11 percent year-on-year growth from inarguably the world's most aggressively sought-after consumers is testament to Dubai Tourism's successful strategies to maintain high conversion appeal for China's outbound market. Building on its proven three-pronged approach, 2019 saw Dubai Tourism actively pursue enhancements across all aspects – (i) 'direct-to-consumer' platform-based awareness programmes; (ii) customised trip-planning supplemented by advocacy-driven collaborations; (iii) in-city experience and China Readiness delivery.
Very close on China's heels, the second GCC stronghold – Oman – catapulted into the top five with a massive 28 percent growth to land 499,000 visitors to Dubai, as Dubai Tourism's seasonal campaigns, tactical programmes and city activations reaped tangible dividends.
Following an exceptional resurgence in Dubai travel for 2018, thanks to the visa-on-arrival enablement, growth from Russia levelled to more sustainable levels, as H1 2019's sixth largest source market delivered 375,000 visitors to Dubai.
The United States followed in seventh spot with 329,000 visitors, marginally up from 327,000 visitors in H1 2018, supported by concerted marketing efforts and trade collaborations with five new trade partnerships developed in the first half of 2019, to raise awareness of the destination and promote holiday packages and deals.
Germany's five percent growth to deliver 316,000 visitors, and Pakistan's three percent growth to yield 253,000 visitors, brought them in at eighth and ninth positions respectively, as Philippines jumped three ranks into the top 10 finishing a strong first half with 216,000 travellers, reflecting a 29 percent increase that made it the fastest growing source market for Dubai this year.
"Designed to counter unforeseen macro-economic variables faced by the global travel ecosystem and mitigate impediments associated with over-reliance on any one market or region, we have been long-standing proponents of a globally diversified market strategy – which continues to support our resilience as a sector," Almarri said. "Our agile and customised strategic programmes also continued to deliver novel and market-centric solutions to strike a fine balance in fuelling more traffic from our traditional strongholds and unlocking the immense potential that exists in the emerging markets."
The recent nationwide implementation of a tourist visa fee waiver for children under 18 years of age, who are accompanied by their parents, has augmented Dubai's position as a leading family-friendly tourism destination.
In the first six months of 2019, the city continued to focus on providing its residents and tourists a plethora of first-class entertainment offerings and attractions, including the opening of the region's largest multipurpose indoor entertainment centre, the Coca-Cola Arena. With a capacity to hold 17,000 visitors, the arena offers a year-round programme of events including sporting tournaments, e-gaming, theatre and musical performances, conferences and gala dinners.
Designed to give diverse international audiences a holistic understanding of the city's Islamic heritage, the recently opened Quranic Park is a comprehensive and immersive cultural and educational experience unique to the region. The park spans over 60-hectares with two main attractions, The Glass House and The Cave of Miracles. Visitors have the opportunity to experience more attractions citywide across theme parks and other family entertainment centres, as Dubai continues to invest heavily in tourism infrastructure and facilities, as well as mega development and retail projects.
Dubai's hotel sector continues to be integral to the emirate's destination promise and to the overall growth of the tourism industry, delivering best-in-class quality and standards on par with top hotels in other leading world cities and an increased diversity in its portfolio, offering tourists more choices to meet the needs of their diverse traveller profiles.
Between January and June 2019, further strides were made to expand Dubai's hospitality offering to match the evolving needs of visitors, with the opening of new hotels including Waldorf Astoria Dubai International Financial Centre, W Hotel Palm Jumeirah, Studio One Hotel, Rove at the Park at Dubai Parks and Resorts, Premier Inn Hotel Al Jadaf and Vida Emirates Hills adding to the city's portfolio of facilities and amenities.
Average occupancy for the hotel sector stood at 76 percent – one of the highest hotel sector occupancies in the world – with establishments delivering a combined 15.71 million occupied room nights during the first six months of the year, a five percent increase over the same period in 2018.
Spread across a total of 714 establishments, Dubai's hotel room inventory stood at 118,345 at the end of June 2019, representing a six percent increase, which showcased continued strong investor confidence in Dubai's tourism demand and market appetite. This healthy correlation between supply and global demand also resonates with the steady rise in the number of visitors opting to stay in hotels, indicating that not only is the inventory keeping pace in volume but also in product diversity – evolving competitively across different tiers to allow for a more aligned asset mix offering custom services that can appeal to highly divergent needs of Dubai's global audience.
Luxury five-star and four-star hotels commanded 34 and 25 percent of the emirate's total inventory, respectively. Meanwhile properties in the one to three-star categories represented a share of 20 per cent. Increasing demand for diversified accommodation options was met with a combined 21 per cent of hotel apartment establishments across the deluxe/superior and standard categories.
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AgroFresh Vice President of R&D and Regulatory Joins USDA-Backed Advisory Council
AgroFresh Produce July 31, 2019
Philadelphia – Dr. Ann Beaulieu, vice president of R&D and regulatory at AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. (“AgroFresh”) (NASDAQ:AGFS), will lend her expertise to an advisory council focused on improving access to nutritious foods, reducing food waste, advancing production systems for better nutrition, and developing crops with high nutritional value.
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is a non-profit organization established by the 2014 Farm Bill to build unique partnerships that fund innovative research in food and agriculture. Beaulieu will leverage her decades of experience and extensive knowledge of agriculture, chemistry and food supply chain systems as part of FFAR’s HealthAgriculture Nexus advisory council.
“Reducing food waste is a central tenant of AgroFresh’s mission and has been a focal point of my career,” said Beaulieu. “I look forward to collaborating with other experts to seek solutions to the important challenges facing agriculture and health.”
FFAR has identified six challenge areas that seek to solve large-scale problems in the food and agriculture industry. The Health-Agriculture Nexus challenge area supports research on inefficiencies in the food system, including the development of innovative technologies, transformational approaches, food waste reduction strategies and predictive methodologies that inform the supply of and demand for individual crops. Other advisory council members include academic, non-profit, civic and corporate leaders with complementary expertise across a range of agriculture topic areas, including leaders from ReFED, Feeding America and Dairy Management, Inc.
Learn more about AgroFresh’s commitment to fighting food waste by visiting the website.
About AgroFresh
AgroFresh (Nasdaq:AGFS) is a leading global innovator and provider of science-based solutions, data-driven technologies and experience-backed services to enhance the quality and extend the shelf life of fresh produce. For more than 20 years, AgroFresh has been revolutionizing the apple industry and has launched new innovative solutions in a variety of fresh produce categories from bananas to cherries and citrus to pears. AgroFresh supports growers, packers and retailers in ensuring post-harvest solutions across the industry enhance crop values while conserving our planet’s resources and reducing global food waste. Visit agrofresh.com to learn more.
About the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization originally established by bipartisan Congressional support in the 2014 Farm Bill, builds unique partnerships to support innovative and actionable science addressing today’s food and agriculture challenges. FFAR leverages public and private resources to increase the scientific and technological research, innovation, and partnerships critical to enhancing sustainable production of nutritious food for a growing global population. The FFAR Board of Directors is chaired by Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum, Ph.D., and includes ex officio representation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Science Foundation.
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Bumper bunny, thumper price
Bhavna JagtianiNews Corp Australia
April 7, 2012 5:00PM
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HOW much is that bunny in the window?
It might take until Christmas to munch through, but this is the chocolate treat to out-do all others this Easter.
Sir Walter, at 62cm and weighing in at 3kg, comes at a thumper of a price.
Retailing at $225 at all of Fremantle Chocolate's three outlets, manager Andrew Wyers said it still represented good value.
"It's handmade, it's high-quality chocolate and it weighs a lot," he said.
While her daughters Abbie, 8, and Lucy, 7, were enamoured by Sir Walter, mum Nikki Langford wasn't quite sold on the idea of an Easter bunny that expensive.
"$225 on chocolate is a bit extravagant for me," she said.
Mr Wyers said he was often asked how someone would go about eating chocolate of such proportions.
"I had one myself one Easter," he said. "It took us three to six months to eat. You just have to find a weak point, break it and start eating."
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A termite reticulation system is a series of underground piping thats positioned around a home. its purpose is to provide an ongoing form of protection against termites. The benefits of course are that it can be replenished repeatedly with a termiticide – via specialised equipment and pumps.
There’s a wide range of reticulation systems on the market, each with their own pros and cons. One benefit is that if there’s immediate access to the perimeter of the property (direct access to the soil) they can be easily replenished without having to drill through concrete.
Termite reticulation systems can be used on a new home or one that’s undergoing renovations – such as an extension. Reticulation systems are often a requirement for homeowners wanting to build a granny flat or add an extra room to their home. Australian standard stipulate that there has to be a replenishable termite barrier between the existing homes foundation and a newly poured concrete slab. In this case, we would lay a termite reticulation line underneath the slab where the old slab meets the new, so that it’s replenishable when the chemical meets the end of its life cycle. We connect it up and re-fill the line. The termiticide goes in at a certain pressure, through the line, and disperses to form a termite treated zone.
If a homeowner has an existing intact reticulation system, it should be replenished with a non-repellent product such as Termidor.
Troubleshooting termite reticulation systems
The issues we see are when it’s time for homeowners to replenish an old barrier system. Some companies install them using bifenthrin, which is a cheap repellent chemical, designed to deter termites from the house. The termites know it’s there, so when they get to it, they go under it or around it. To solve this, when we’re called in to replenish a termite reticulation system, we use Termidor or a non-repellent so that it’s more effective in protecting the house. The product is designed to be in the ground to eliminate termites, not deter them from the area.
The problem is that 60 to 70% of these reticulation systems are failing when they are being pumped up. The termite reticulation systems that were installed ten years ago are now obsolete or have become brittle from being underground for all those years. A lot of the companies that installed them have gone out of business. We see systems that have been installed poorly or have been placed with plastic bends on the corners.
If we try and pump these with pressure, instead of pumping 400 litres of product around the house, the pipes break, and the chemical is only pumped into one corner of the house. We have trained our technicians to check every corner when they’re doing reticulation pump-ups. If we do a termite reticulation refill and we detect flooding at the corner, we can’t continue with the work. Instead, we recommend a new installation that will give the homeowner home long-term termite protection.
We were called for a termite inspection and reticulation recently, where we came across this problem. We tested the soil, and we could see the termiticide was all being pumped into one corner. If we hadn’t been really watching what we were doing, the customer wouldn’t have known any better. It would have been entirely misleading to the customer that their home was protected because their system was actually failing.
The issue with pre-build installations
In most cases, a building contractor will brief a termite protection company that specialises in pre-construction to install the system. What concerns us is that these companies don’t need a full termite license to install the line. This means they could have done a short course on how to install the line and could be using inferior products.
The builders are also unaware of how the systems work, and play a role in them failing. We’ve come across sites where the pipes have been covered with rubble or rocks, so the chemical can’t disperse. Another issue can come in with broken lines. The hose has an L-shaped bend, which is used when it needs to curve around a house. They are secured with black clips. If the clips break, the lines pop off. To avoid this, we’ve seen cases where installers have used hose clamps instead. The problem is when the pipes become brittle, the clamps cause them to bend and break underground.
Replenishing termite systems effectively
Reticulation systems aren’t commonly being installed anymore, but we regularly get called to replenish them. One of the new systems we use now is Termex. There’s no need to use the plastic bends anymore because the lengths are in 10 metres, and have a junction box on every end of the line. There’s no risk of busting a corner or an end because when we pump up a line, both ends of the line are visible through the junction boxes.
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Mackanin gets his wish as Phils add second veteran hitter in Saunders
By Ryan Lawrence
After veteran free agent outfielder Michael Saunders passed his physical and made his contract with the Phillies official on Thursday, manager Pete Mackanin appears to have received what he wished for four months ago: the addition of two veteran hitters to a lineup in need of an upgrade.
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With four weeks and one day until the team’s first full-squad workout in Clearwater, Fla., the Phils added Saunders (expected to be the team’s everyday right fielder) to complement their November trade for Howie Kendrick (expected to be the everyday left fielder) to supplement a lineup of 20-somethings still trying to establish themselves in the major leagues. It was something Mackanin talked about repeatedly in September through the press, and also privately, with general manager Matt Klentak, as the offseason neared.
“(Klentak) and I had talked all along and we’d like to promote from within,” Mackanin said. “We’d love for some of these young guys to take those spots. In the meantime it’s important to have at least one guy, I think, at least have one guy with a professional approach to show the young guys like the (Maikel) Francos and (Freddy) Galvises, even Cameron Rupp, all the younger guys, how to approach situations in games.
“You know, during the course of the season to talk to the guys, ‘What do you like to do in this situation?’ (or) ‘What are you looking for off of this guy?’ I think that can rub off a lot. We talk so much about having veteran starters to help the rotation. Likewise, it’s nice to have a veteran hitter who can share his thoughts, who’s had success, just to maybe put something in somebody’s ear.”
The Phillies first agreed to terms with the 30-year-old Saunders on Monday. Although Mackanin spoke publicly about the veteran all week, the deal did not become official until Thursday afternoon.
Saunders, who made $2.9 million with the Toronto Blue Jays last season, is guaranteed to take home $9 million from the Phillies.
According to foxsports.com, the one-year deal with the Phillies includes a $11 million club option for 2018, an option the can reach $14 million if Saunders reaches certain incentives. The contract includes a $1 million buyout if the Phillies do not exercise the ’18 club option.
A first-time All-Star in 2016, Saunders hit .253 with a .338 OBP and 24 home runs in 140 games with Toronto. Saunders’ .815 OPS was higher than any of the Phillies’ regulars last season.
Saunders’ numbers would have been even better if it weren’t for a horrid final month of the season: he hit .149 with one home run and a .230 OBP in 24 games from Sept. 2 to Oct. 2. Even with that September swoon, Saunders’ .815 OPS ranked 10th best among American League outfielders, better than the likes of Adam Jones, Adam Eaton, and Jacoby Ellsbury, among others.
In adding the left-handed hitting Saunders and the right-handed hitting Kendrick, Mackanin not only has two proven veteran hitters in 2017, but also some lineup versatility, too. He could theoretically run out a regular lineup (among the eight position players) without back-to-back left-handed or right-handed hitters.
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Howie Kendrick, LF
Odubel Herrera, CF
Maikel Franco, 3B
Michael Saunders, RF
Tommy Joseph, 1B
Freddy Galvis, SS
Cameron Rupp, C
“I'm starting to play around with it," Mackanin said. "Where am I going to hit Saunders? Where am I going to hit Franco? Do I hit (Saunders) behind to protect Franco or do I hit Kendrick behind to protect Franco? Do I protect Franco? Who do I protect? It'll all depend on the rest of the team, the guys on the bench. Their makeup will determine how I'll determine where to hit a guy in the lineup. Of course, looking at seven and eight -- do I hit Freddy eighth or Rupp eighth? That's going to be a tough one.”
But tough choices are better than not having the ability to make those choices, of course. Last season, Phillies left fielders (.615 OPS) and right fielders (.634) both ranked 30th out of 30 big league teams in OPS.
“I think it gives is a little more balance in the lineup,” Mackanin said. “(But) a good bat is a good bat, so I’m pretty pleased with that.”
To make room on the 40-man roster for Saunders, the Phillies designated right-hander Severino Gonzalez for assignment.
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President of the country, Hashim Thaçi, at the opening of the proceedings of the Sofia Summit, which discusses the subject of “Strengthening of all dimensions of interconnectivity (socio-economic, physical, digital and human)”, said that this Summit taking place at an important moment for European Union and western Balkans.
“This Summit, between European Union and Western Balkans, is an extraordinary joint success, and particularly one of our hosts, Bulgarian presidency. The success of this summit is based on the retention of the engagement with the Western Balkan states, through an all-encompassing and equal approach and which is based upon an important principle, that which states that the whole of Western Balkans enjoys an European perspective.”, said President Thaçi.
The head of state also said that this includes the EU’s February strategy for Western Balkans, and our engagements for various initiatives, such as Berlin Process, Connectivity agenda, and the Long Term plan for the Regional Economic Area, and many other forums which aim to bring the Western Balkan states closer to each other and to the European Union.
“I have the pleasure to also personally confirm Kosovo’s support for the contents of the declaration of this summit and Sofia’s priority agenda. We support fully all crucial principles of the streng5thened cooperation, good neighbourly relations and the need for finding sustainable and obligatory solutions to bilateral disagreements”, said President Thaçi.
In front of European and Balkan leaders, President Thaçi said that Kosovo is and will remain fully dedicated to these goals, including the EU facilitated dialogue on normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
“Kosovo is ready to enter the final stage of the dialogue with Serbia on the achievement of a legally binding agreement on normalization of relations and reconciliation. Please allow me to stress the need for equal rules of the game, especially now when we are moving towards implementation of subjects being discussed at this Summit, and in the case of Kosovo, this includes the quick conclusion of the visa liberalisation process, on which Kosovo has fulfilled all 95 required criteria.
President Thaçi also added that if we really want a viable influence in bringing the region closer, this must also include the removal of the various barriers which are actually present.
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"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." ― Richard Feynman
NCHRH Draft Bill Gets Clearance From PMO's Office.
Saturday 27 August 2011 - 22:33:18
Indian Prime Minister's Office (PMO) reportedly has given the green signal for the draft bill on National Council for Human Resource in Health (NCHRH) which was drafted in 2009. The draft bill, which was finalised by the union health ministry, for the establishment of the NCHRH as an overarching regulatory body for health and allied sectors, will now be put up before the Union Cabinet and later be introduced in Parliament for its final nod.
The NCHRH is proposed to be established by the health ministry as to reform the current regulatory framework in medical education and enhance the supply of skilled personnel to the healthcare sector in the country. Once in place, the NCHRH will be the sole regulatory body for all the premier medical educational institutions and autonomous regulatory bodies like Medical Council of India (MCI), Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), Nursing Council of India (NCI), Dental Council of India (DCI) and the proposed Central Councils for Paramedical and Allied Medical Sciences Education.
The news is sure to impact the Physio community adversely since majority had been demanding an independent Council for the profession and did not want to be clubbed with the term ‘rehabilitation’. The community is coming to terms that more than an independent Council, it is the need for ‘independent practice’ that is of utmost importance.
The draft bill addresses few other things the community had been vouching for such as maintaining proper educational standards and quality education by making sure that only those who are board certified or having postgraduate education can practice in academic institutions. Accreditation for educational institutions will be done by approved independent bodies and will no longer have to rely on approvals or recognition by associations.
It now will have to be seen how the profession is represented and defined as there is still no consensus on it the last time a Parliamentary standing committee gave report on it. If the Parliament goes by the report, the profession might get independent status but might not get the right to represent or address oneself as a ‘Doctor’. It also needs to be seen whether the profession maybe upgraded in the payscale by the Labour ministry.
As per the draft bill, the administration of the Council will consist of a Secretariat headed by a Secretary-General who will be appointed by the Council for a fixed term of three years. Under this secretariat, seven departments, each for separate categories like Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry, Rehabilitation & Physiotherapy, Public Health & Hospital Management and Allied Health Sciences, will be established and headed by a director for regulatory purposes. It will prescribe standards with a view to have proper planning and co-coordinated development of medical and allied health education throughout the country and maintain national live electronic register of medical and allied health professionals.
In every state, there will be separate bodies constituted by the Council for each administrative department which will be known as Registration and Ethics Board with name of the state in front and the department's name in the end. These bodies will replace the existing State Councils. These boards have to maintain a live electronic register of professionals in the state of the respective Department to be known as 'State Register of (name of the Department) and which will be linked to the National Register of Human Resources in Health maintained by the Council.
One another good point is that each Board which will comprise of a president, a vice-president and not less than 10 members, will have three women candidates at the minimum out of the ten. There will be a nominee of the state government also.
Ramesh Shankar, August 26, 2011, [link]
Samarth Suryavamshi.,
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US agri industry letter on antibiotics
A coalition of 20 organisations related to animal agriculture including the NPPC have sent a letter regarding the on-farm use of low-level antibiotics in livestock and poultry to Melody Barnes, assistant to President Obama for domestic policy.
Ms. Melody Barnes
Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy
Dear Ms. Barnes:
The undersigned organizations represent American food producers and the industries which serve them. As the first line of defense against food-borne illness and key to this nation's priority on domestic and global food security, we write to convey the significant political and scientific complexity of the use of antibiotics on farms to prevent, treat and control disease in food producing animals. We also wish to make you aware of the actions taken by our groups, both individually and collectively, to ensure these important, safe, effective Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-approved products are used judiciously, minimizing risk to human health.
Most of our organizations participated in a June 18, 2009, FDA outreach session hosted by Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg and Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein. This meeting focused on the use of antibiotics on farms. We subsequently formally asked Commissioner Hamburg for a continuing dialogue to discuss the specifics of this issue and explore what science-based, practical options are open to industry and the agency. We have formally requested FDA convene a Washington, DC, meeting of U.S. risk assessment experts to discuss the current body of science on this issue and we're awaiting FDA's response. Further, as part of our interest in educating FDA's leadership, Deputy Commissioner Sharfstein visited a modern hog farm in Illinois on August 5, and we hope Commissioner Hamburg's schedule will allow her to visit a cow/calf operation and feedyard in the near future. We also intend to invite Drs. Hamburg and Sharfstein to visit an FDA-regulated feed mill, as well as modern poultry operations.
The bottom line for on-farm antibiotic use is this: Farmers and ranchers strive daily to provide best possible management of their animals through superior genetics, nutrition, veterinary care, housing and handling. Optimal animal health and welfare leads to production of safe, affordable and abundant food, critical to U.S. food security. Maintaining the health of U.S. herds and flocks requires farmers and ranchers to have all approved safe and effective technologies, including animal health products, available to us.
However, despite the unsubstantiated allegations surrounding these uses, no conclusive scientific studies have been offered demonstrating the use of antibiotics on farms contributes significantly to an increase in human resistance. In fact, a growing body of evidence shows just the opposite, namely the responsible, professional use of these products reduces pathogens in and on foods, enhancing animal welfare while not contributing to resistance. [1]
A 2008 Iowa State University study by Dr. Scott Hurd, et al, former U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) deputy under secretary for food safety, demonstrated that when pigs have been sick at some point during their lives, those animals have a greater presence of pathogens than do animals who were prevented from becoming ill.[2] An Ohio State University study by Dr. Wondwossen Gebreyes, et al, published in 2008, examined modern housing systems, often the target of anti-technology activism. Gebreyes found levels of three food-borne illness pathogens were higher in animals raised in outdoor systems without the use of antibiotics.[3]
The White House must be aware removing antibiotics from on-farm use may jeopardize or seriously complicate President Obama's food safety priorities. On July 1, 2009, the President's Food Safety Working Group released its report to the President, detailing its priorities. Primary among these priorities is prevention of food-borne illness, and one of the chief strategies to achieve this goal is the further reduction of pathogens on meat, poultry and eggs from already low levels. To remove the judicious on-farm uses of antibiotics from the array of tools proven to be effective in reducing pathogens in meat and poultry works against this priority, and may make the goal unattainable.
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) released a June, 2006 Expert Report – “Antimicrobial Resistance: Implications for the Food System” – which concluded: ”There is evidence there are significant human health benefits from subtherapeutic antibiotic use to prevent subclinical disease in food animals and reduce levels of Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination of poultry carcasses.” IFT recommended policymakers focus on interventions to reduce food-borne pathogens rather than focusing on resistant pathogens.[4] The report also stated: “Eliminating antibiotic drugs from food production may have little positive effect on resistant bacteria that threaten human health; in fact, such actions abroad have resulted in more antibiotic use and more resistant bacteria in some cases.”
Action to ban some uses of certain antimicrobial products and restrict the use of others failed in Europe. As a result of banning the use of antibiotics for growth promotion, several European countries are documenting a significant increase in animal diseases – many not seen in Europe for 20 years – and an increase in the use of antibiotics by veterinarians to treat those diseases.
In fact, recently published literature shows resistance patterns in humans rarely decline as a result of such action. Data from The Netherlands shows penicillin and tetracycline resistance in Salmonella typhimurium have increased in humans since the ban, while these same resistances declined in the U.S. over the same period.[5] Europe, following the same precautionary strategy espoused by U.S. critics of on-farm antibiotic use, has jeopardized animal health and welfare, food safety and security and demonstrated no improvement in human health.
The U.S. must learn from the European experience to avoid the same mistakes.
Current Government, Industry Safeguards
There is no incentive for farmers and ranchers to misuse or overuse antibiotics. These animal health products are expensive, but nonetheless are vital tools in maintaining the health and welfare of the animals in our care. The basis of any policy discussion must begin with an understanding of and appreciation for the current regulatory status of these products. The following realities must be considered:
A stringent FDA approval process was made more vigorous with the addition of significant FDA risk assessment requirements in 2003. Some of the compounds affected by proposed legislation supported by critics are undergoing review under these new requirements.
Strict federal residue monitoring of all meat and poultry routinely demonstrates remarkable cooperation among animal health companies, feed companies, producers and regulatory agencies in ensuring antimicrobial products are used appropriately.
Post-approval product risk assessments allow policymakers to measure the risks and benefits of a proposed policy, and these have been conducted and published by FDA, sponsors and researchers. Some additional compounds have been examined by these risk assessments, showing extremely low (sometimes zero) levels of risk.
Food safety monitoring and surveillance programs have been established by government agencies and sponsors to track the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
FDA-required reporting by drug sponsors provides annual reports to the agency detailing any adverse impact of approved products.
Pathogen reduction programs have led to documented reductions in pathogens on meat, contributing to decreased food-borne illness.
Responsible use programs have been developed specific to feed, livestock and poultry organizations to give feed companies and producers specific guidelines and assistance on the safe and proper use of antibiotics in health management systems. These programs are similar to voluntary advisory programs in place by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Such programs, their “start date” and where they may be viewed on the web, are listed below:
Poultry Industry -- American Association of Avian Pathologists (AAAP) “Statement on Use of Antibiotic Feed Additives by the Poultry Industry” with references (2008) www.aaap.info “Guidelines to Judicious Therapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Poultry” (2000) www.avma.org/issues/policy/jtua_poultry.asp
Pork Industry -- National Pork Board (NPB) and National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) “Take Care – Use Antibiotics Responsibility” (2005) www.pork.org Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA Plus) (1989, revised 2007) www.pork.org/Producers/PQA/PQAPlusEdBook.pdf
National Cattlemen's Beef Assn. (NCBA) Beef Quality Assurance Program (BQA, 1987); Producers Guide for Judicious Use of Antibiotics www.beef.org
American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program (2004) www.afia.org
National Grain & Feed Association (NGFA) Model Feed Quality Assurance Program (1994) www.ngfa.org
Our organizations were actively involved in the development of the American Veterinary Medical Association's (AVMA) Judicious Therapeutic Use of Antimicrobials Guidelines for antibiotic use in animals. On July 28, 2009, AVMA – which coordinated the development of the original judicious use guidelines in cooperation with various species' veterinary organizations, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and FDA -- notified stakeholders it has established an Antimicrobial Use Task Force.
This task force will include not only AVMA veterinary experts, but experts from the American Association of Avian Pathologists, the American Association of Bovine Practitioners, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the American Animal Hospital Association, the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, the Aquatic Veterinary Medicine Committee, the Council on Public Health & Regulatory Veterinary Medicine, the Council on Biologic & Therapeutic Agents (epidemiology), the Food Safety Advisory Committee and the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners.
AVMA also invited representatives of all major livestock and poultry producer groups, as well as the animal health and feed industries, to provide non-voting representatives to the task force's two planned meetings. Further, FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), the CDC and the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians have been invited to participate.
Critics Offer No New Data or Evidence
We are aware of the July 24, 2009 letter sent to you by Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW), Union of Concerned Scientists, the Pew Commission on Industrial Food Production, the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), et al, praising what they perceive to be the Administration's formal position on the use of low-level antibiotics in agriculture. However, our reading of Dr. Sharfstein's testimony before the July 13, 2009 Rules Committee hearing reveals a very carefully worded statement referencing interest in the “idea” of limiting certain uses of the antibiotics on farm, but stopping far short of endorsing any legislation or espousing a formal administration position.
However, just as in their Rules Committee testimony, these groups – which have long waged political campaigns against on-farm antibiotic use and other technologies used by farmers and ranchers, as well as veterinarians, to protect the food supply – offer no new information or data to make their case, but rather echo inaccurate messages. At the same time, we find it curious these organizations make no mention of the continuing challenge of overprescription of antibiotics in human medicine or of increasing data which suggests prior direct human exposure to antibiotics is the greatest factor for acquiring infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.[6]
Further, these arguments belie a significant lack of understanding of modern food production. To suggest “minor” adjustments in U.S. animal husbandry practices or a shift to European-style animal production will obviate the need for animal health intervention is naïve. The natural behavior of flock birds and herd animals means these animals will be exposed to disease no matter what production system is used and no matter what underlying philosophy guides production. As to following so-called “European production practices,” this recommendation ignores significant differences in cultures, economies of scale, breeds and varieties of animals raised, marketing differences, differences in the ability of veterinarians to prescribe products and government intervention in on-farm production practices.
When all is said and done, U.S. farmers and ranchers – and most consumers – are more confident knowing animal health care, assistance and advice are provided by veterinarians and animal scientists, not by PhD issue advocates or animal rights activists.
FDA has always been an agency which makes regulatory decisions based on science and over time has done an exemplary job of standing apart from political battles. Since his inauguration, President Obama's repeated pledge to base his Administration's regulatory decisions on “the best available science” and “the rule of law” gives us confidence the Administration will not embrace an ill-advised, politically motivated call to curb on-farm uses of antibiotics.
A 2007 study by Dr. Alan G. Mathew, et al, University of Tennessee, makes this point as well when Mathew writes: “As livestock producers, animal health experts, the medical community and government agencies consider effective strategies for control, it is critical that science-based information provide the basis for such considerations, and that the risks, benefits and feasibility of such strategies are fully considered so that human and animal health can be maintained while at the same limiting the risks from antibiotic-resistant bacteria.” [7]
It is also encouraging to note the Bipartisan Policy Council's Science for Policy Project[8] has recommended to the Administration strategies to assist it in preventing the politicization of science. Says the report: “(The conflict between science and politics has) left the U.S. with a system plagued by charges that science is being 'politicized' and that regulation lacks a solid scientific basis. As a result, needed regulation may be stymied, dubious regulations adopted, issues can drag on without conclusion and policy debate is degraded.” [9]
As American food producers, we are hopeful we will be permitted to continue our discussions on this complex issue with the leadership of FDA. Contrary to our critics' characterization of our position on this issue, we have not “dug in.” Rather, we welcome honest discussion of science-based, pragmatic options allowing producers to farm in the best interests of their animals and customers while providing consumers assurance our use of these vital, safe and effective production tools is professional, judicious and does not jeopardize these products' effectiveness in human medicine.
Thank you for consideration of our views. Please feel free to contact any of the organizations listed below if you require additional information.
American Association of Avian Pathologists
Dr. Dennis Wages
dennis_wages@ncsu.edu
American Association of Bovine Practitioners
Dr. Gatz Riddell
mgriddell@aabp.org
American Association of Swine Veterinarians
Dr. Harry Snelson
Snelson@aasv.org
American Broiler Production Veterinarians
Dr. Phil Stayer
phil.stayer@sandersonfarms.com
Kelli Ludlum
kelli@fb.org
American Feed Industry Association
Richard Sellers
rsellers@afia.org
Steve Kopperud
skopperud@poldir.com
American Meat Institute
jhodges@meatami.org
American Sheep Industry Association
Peter Orwick
porwick@sheepusa.org
Dr. Christine Hoang
choang@avma.org
Animal Health Institute
Ron Phillips
rphillips@ahi.org
Association of Veterinarians in Turkey Production
Dr. David Pyle
dapyle@charter.net
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
Dr. Elizabeth Parker
eparker@beef.org
Mary Colville
mcolville@chickenusa.org
Steve Pretanik
spretanik@chickenusa.org
National Grain & Feed Association
Randy Gordon
rgordon@ngfa.org
National Meat Association
Jeremy Russell
jeremy@nmaonline.org
National Milk Producers Federation
Dana Brooks
dbrooks@nmpf.org
Dr. Jamie Jonker
jjonker@nmpf.org
National Pork Producers Council
Dr. Jennifer L. Greiner
greinerj@nppc.org
National Turkey Federation
Dr. Hilary Thesmar
hthesmar@turkeyfed.org
United Egg Producers
Howard Magwire
hmagwire@mwmlaw.com
U.S. Cattlemen's Association
Jess Peterson
jess@westernskiesstrategies.com
cc: Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
Secretary of Health & Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
Sen. Tom Harkin, chair, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
Rep. Collin Peterson, chair, House Agriculture Committee
Sen. Saxby Chambliss, ranking member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
Rep. Frank Lucas, ranking member, House Agriculture Committee
FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg
FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein
[1] A 2004 study done by scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in which the potential risks associated with increased levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat were compared with the potential benefits associated with decreased risk of food-borne illness found potential benefits to human health associated with the use of antibiotics in chicken far exceeded the relatively low increased human health risks associated with antibiotic resistance.
[2] Hurd H.S., Brudvig J., Dickson J, et al. 2008. Swine health impact on carcass contamination and human foodborne risk. Public Health Reports: (123) pp 343-351.
[3] Gebreyes W., Bahnson P., Funk J., at al. 2008. Seroprevalence of Trichinella, Toxoplasma and Salmonella in antimicrobial-free and conventional swine production systems. Foodborne Pathogens & Disease: (5) pp 199-203.
[4] The Institute of Food Technologists expert report can be found at http://members.ift.org/IFT/Research/IFTExpertReports/antimicrobial_report.htm
[5] MARAN-2007; Monitoring of Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Useage in Animals in The Netherlands in 2006/2007.
[6] Dr. Michael P. Doyle, microbiologist/food safety expert and chair, IFT expert panel, in the June 26, 2006 press release accompanying the release of the IFT Expert Report – “Eliminating Antibiotics from Food Animals is Unwise.”
[7] Mathew, Alan G.; Cissell, Robin, Liamthong, S; 2007. “Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Associated with Food Animals: A United State Perspective of Livestock Production,” Foodborne Pathogens & Disease, November 2, 2007: (4) pp 115-133
[8] The Bipartisan Policy Center was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker (R, TN), Tom Daschle (D, SD), Bob Dole (R, KS) and George Mitchell (D, ME). The Science for Policy Project is chaired by former House Science Committee Chair Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R, NY) and former FDA Commissioner Dr. Donald Kennedy, retired editor of Science magazine.
[9] Ibid; “Expert Panel Offers Advice on Separating Science, Politics”; Robin Bravender, New York Times, August 5, 2009.
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Many local councils are actually exceeding the standards set by the government.
Yesterday morning (8 October, 2019) the UK-based Solar Trade Association (STA) published new research on local authority building standards, revealing which of them have made efforts to go above national standards. In January this year the STA issued Freedom of Information requests to every local authority in the UK. Analysis of the responses reveals that just over half (51 per cent) of all local authorities have implemented standards that go above national requirements with more than one in every six of these (17 per cent) setting policies which the STA considers to be ‘leading’.
STA Chief Executive Chris Hewett said: “Good local new building policies have played a vital role in pushing housing developers to build greener homes. Our members are installing more solar roofs in those parts of the country where local authorities are taking climate change more seriously. The regulation of building standards is a particularly important area in which local administrations have powers to determine higher, more stringent requirements than those set out at the national level and can act to improve said standards without financial constraint. We applaud the local authorities that have established higher standards and the vital contribution they are making in the drive towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
Standards as floor rather than ceiling
The built environment contributes to approximately 40 per cent of the UK’s share of emissions, with energy use in homes alone accounting for about 14 per cent. The government last week published a consultation on the Future Homes Standard, which puts forward proposals that would lead to over 30 per cent reductions in carbon emissions for dwellings by utilising low-carbon energy technologies such as solar. Some concern has been raised regarding whether these proposals will limit the ability for local authorities to set higher standards in the future.
UK100 Director Polly Billington said: “The government is proposing to limit the ability of local authorities to help the UK meet its net zero target by setting national standards as a ceiling when they should be a floor. Many of our members, including Milton Keynes, Bristol and East Dunbartonshire, have set building regulations and planning guidance to drive higher standards for new homes, making homes more affordable to run as well as reducing the contribution to climate change. The fact that more than 50 per cent of local authorities already exceed national standards demonstrates the ambition of local leaders, which should be supported by national government.”
Milton Keynes is most progressive
Milton Keynes is identified as having one of the most progressive policies among local authorities. Their local plan, which was adopted in March 2019, sets out four key requirements:
1. Implement the Energy Hierarchy within the design of new buildings by prioritising fabric first, passive design and landscaping measures to minimise energy demand for heating, lighting and cooling.
2. Review the opportunities to provide energy storage and demand management so as to tie in with local and national energy security priorities.
3. The design of buildings and the wider built environment is resilient to the ongoing and predicted impacts of climate change.
4. Development proposals for 11 or more dwellings and non-residential development with a floor space of 1000 square metres or more will be required to submit an Energy and Climate Statement
London has strong track record
The Energy and Climate Statement requires developers to set out how their proposals will achieve a 19 per cent carbon reduction improvement as required under national planning policy, and provide on-site renewable energy generation, or connection to a renewable or low carbon community energy scheme, that contributes to a further 20 per cent reduction in the residual carbon emissions.
The Greater London Authority’s unique powers have enabled the city to drive leading policy in the form of the London Plan, which sets the strategic framework for planning policy across the Capital. A statement from the Office of the Mayor of London notes: “London has a strong track record in climate leadership and taking ambitious actions to reduce our carbon impacts, a key part of this has been our continued commitment to reducing the carbon associated with development through the London Plan. These policies set a clear pathway to zero which is why we introduced the zero carbon homes standard in October 2016 despite there not being an equivalent policy at the national level. Strong support from stakeholders has been a vital part of the policy’s adoption.”
Scotland outperforms England
Scottish local authorities continue to edge their English counterparts owing to higher national standards established by the Scottish Government. These higher standards have not affected housebuilding levels in Scotland, with steady development of more than 15,000 homes a year for the last four years running. Anecdotal evidence provided by STA Scotland members indicates that more that 80 per cent of new dwellings in Scotland are now built with solar. You can read the full STA report here.
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2020 English Social Solutions Competition Information
Topic: Find a Solution to Drug Abuse in Taiwan
First Round: February 13, 2020
All documents submitted to "Club email: rotary.taipei@msa.hinet.net" by Feb. 12, 2020, 18:00 PM**
Semi-final and Final Round: March 7, 2020
The location will be announced at a later date. Please check back to the website for the latest information.
~~First Prize will be 50,000 TWD and internship at CTBC Anti Drug Foundation!~~
Entering the Contest as a team
We encourage our contestants to work with individuals with different backgrounds and skillsets to come up with creative and unique solutions to the current situation. The team may consist of a maximum, 3 people.
If you decide to enter as a team, then all members of each team must be present at the presentation. Any absentee from each team may constitute disqualification unless having prior written approval from RCT.
The event will take place in three rounds:
First Round (Documents) – Submitted by February 13th
The Concept PowerPoint and Executive Summary written in English.
The Executive Summary should be no more than five pages including appendices.
The set of documents should include the following:
Concept PowerPoint (5 slides)
Executive Summary (1 page)
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Individual or Team Resume
Business Model Canvas (if applicable)
Semi-final and Final Round Presentations
Winners of the First Round will compete on March 7th, 2020 in two rounds. Semi-final Round will happen in small rooms. Final Round will happen in the main auditorium in front of judging panel and a larger audience.
No limit on PowerPoint slides for the semi and final round presentations.
Each individual, or team, will have 10 minutes of presentation without interruption from the judges.
Points will be deducted if you go over 10 minutes and under 7 minutes.
Location: College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University
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At the Final Round, immediately following each presentation, judges will engage team members in a 5 minute question/answer session.
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Demystifying MISB FMV (Full Motion Video)
December 5, 2018 by Remote Geo Team
There are many related terms describing the technology that embeds geospatial data within video, including MISB, FMV, STANAG, and KLV. Today we will go over the meaning of each, reasons to be interested in the technology, and what to look for if you are interested in implementing these technologies.
MISB stands for the Motion Imagery Standards Board. MISB is the organization that develops standards for Motion Imagery (MI) assets. The MISB standard commonly used for Air Systems is MISB ST 0601.
STANAG stands for a NATO-state STANdardization AGreement, and in the context of geospatial data contained in video, commonly refers to the specific agreement STANAG 4609. This agreement essentially says to use MISB ST 0601 for UAS (Unmanned Air Systems).
FMV stands for Full Motion Video – popularized by Esri’s ArcGIS Full Motion Video Add-on. Several features, including Camera Footprint, Target Location, and Camera Overlays, are commonly associated with FMV.
Augmented Reality System (ARS) – Drawing data into video – for example, football games commonly have the Line of Scrimmage marked in live video – this is a simple form of augmented reality.
KLV stands for Key-Length-Value, an efficient way of storing binary data within a stream – such as GPS coordinates, Fields of View (FOVs), and other important data that can be used to calculate certain geospatial properties. KLV is used in other areas of computer science too.
Target Location – The location on a map where the camera is pointed. If implemented, Target Location will show up on a map as the point where the center of the camera meets the ground. Target location may also be referred to as Center Location and Camera Center.
Camera Footprint – The area on a map that corresponds to the camera’s viewfinder. This box (usually a trapezoid due to perspective) is the four corners of a camera view mapped out to an area.
Camera Overlay – Similar to Camera Footprint, except the camera video itself is overlaid onto the footprint.
These features have applications in aerial inspections, search and rescue, law enforcement, broadcast and many more. Today MISB Data is commonly found with high-end gimbals and military equipment, and is now making its way toward the rest of the GIS market.
KLV (Key, Length, Value)
Key Length Value is not only used for MISB encoding, but in many other areas of computer science.
KLV stands for Key, Length, Value, and is a compact method of storing binary data.
Key = The data identifier. Identifies what type of data is stored that is used with the lookup table.
Length = Length of the value. Identifies the length of the data in bytes.
Value = Value of the data. The value may have its own algorithm to generate it’s storage.
For example, KLV can be (HEX):
This described the key with hex value 21
A length of 08 (8 characters or bytes)
And a Hex value of 64
Due to the length of the value being defined, multiple KLVs can be concatenated together. For example:
The keys would then be defined in the spec itself:
(Note, these values are made up to demonstrate how it works)
Key 19 = Altitude
Key 20 = Slant Angle
Key 21 = Longitude
This hex string contains 3 Key->Value pairs, with indexes 19 of length 8, 20 of length 4, and 21 of length 8. The total byte size is 32 bytes, giving up human readability found in a format like XML, but compacting data into a very small size suitable for a low-bitrate stream. Dozens of geospatial KLV pairs can be added with minimal increase of the total bitrate of the video stream.
There are other details to how KLV works with MISB (such as packet KLV, timestamps and checksums) however this is the basic idea behind it.
KLV data can be stored in many multimedia containers, one of the most popular being .TS (MPEG2 Transport Stream). The container used may depend on the desired video or audio codecs, streaming capability, and compatibility.
A container is simply a file object that contains one or more streams. For example, .AVI, .MP4, .TS, .MOV and .MKV are all examples of various video containers. One of the most popular for MISB data is .TS.
Inside a typical .TS container are one or more streams – most commonly, an Audio and a Video. They can also contain a KLV Data stream:
.TS Container
{ Video Stream (H.264)
{ Audio Stream (AAC)
{ Data Stream (KLV)
As the Transport Stream is read, all three streams are decompressed to be interpreted and displayed as Full Motion Video with KLV Metadata. With MISB 0609, this KLV data contains important geospatial data that can be used to calculate how to draw advanced features such as GPS coordinates, target location, camera footprint, etc.
In order to record MISB-enabled video, you must have hardware that can provide the desired parameters. For example, your hardware might need to provide a combination of a laser rangefinder, slant range, or altitude in order to determine target location. Some hardware may provide target location as GPS coordinates directly, others may give you the data and it is up to you to do the math.
How the hardware makes the data available may also vary. Some may give you a KLV stream within the container, others may hide the data in the raw video bitstream.
In order to play back the video and use features such as Target Location or Camera Footprint, the software you use must support playback and interpretation of KLV data. Our product line supports both the recording (geoDVR) and playback (Video GeoTagger PRO, VideoGeoEditor and LineVision Desktop) of MISB/KLV data, with new features and support continually being added with new releases.
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Furious Fowzie wants to take Hiru to court
SLFP stalwart is angry that Hiru reported him saying that Gotabaya should be killed. Deshapriya waiting for a complaint to act.
By Arjuna Ranawana | October 25, 2019
A H M Fowzi addresses the Media from Sajith Premadasa’s office/Facebook.com
Former Minister and UPFA MP A H M Fowzie says he will take legal action against the Hiru Television network which erroneously reported him saying that to “protect the SLFP Gotabaya Rajapaksa should be killed.”
Addressing a press conference in Colombo this morning Oct 25, Fowzie said that what he said was to protect the SLFP Gotabaya Rajapaksa must be defeated.
The news item which was the lead story on the 6:55 PM Hiru News Bulletin was repeated in a corrected form on the 10:00 PM newscast.
On-line the 6:55 newscast is available with the offending studio introduction that reported that Fowzie wants Gotabaya killed edited out. Other online clips were also removed last night.
It is not known whether Hiru has apologized to Fowzie.
The clip was available until this morning on a number of websites supporting Gotabaya’s candidacy.
The same speech was telecast on Rupavahini and other channels and in it Fowzie says that after Mahinda Rajapaksa formed the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna many SLFPers have joined him. He follows that with the remark to save the SLFP Gotabaya should be defeated.
Chief Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya told RepublicNext that he has seen the video clip on Facebook. He said that he could speak to Facebook and have them “stop them sharing this video.” As Hiru is a privately owned Media organisation he has no powers to take action suo moto, he added.
He said as this was an item of fake news the Commission will discuss what action can be taken when a written complaint is received. He said the Commission is empowered to take legal action against State Media.
The item, however, clearly violates the Media Guidelines issued by the Commission to the Media during an election period.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has written to the Commission pointing out the reporting by Hiru.
“It is apparent that Hiru has created this partisan, false news with the intent of creating communal disharmony as well,” Samaraweera wrote.
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Hogan Keeps an Eye on Noise
A conversation with the new president of the Society of Broadcast Engineers
Randy J. Stine ⋅ Dec 5, 2011
TEMPE, Ariz. — Ralph Hogan has been around the broadcast engineering field long enough to have installed public radio’s first touchscreen master control facility at KSLU(FM) at Southeastern Louisiana University in 1984.
Hogan always has been quick to embrace new technologies. In fact, he’s been doing that at every stop throughout his 40-plus years in the industry.
New SBE President Ralph Hogan is shown in the terminal ops room KBAQ(FM) and KJZZ(FM) with a display of the Harris HDE-200 exporter. Photo by Annette Flores, KBAQ, KJZZ/Sun Sounds of Arizona
“My strength as an engineer is designing and building facilities and working with new technologies in doing so. I’ve worked on a number of technologies through my career. Some real leading-edge stuff,” Hogan said.
That background should serve him well in his role as new president of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He hopes to pass that passion for adaptation and lifelong learning along to its membership through the release of at least one new certification level and other training opportunities in 2012.
Hogan, 63, succeeds Vincent Lopez as president of the organization; he began a one-year term at the SBE National Meeting in September. SBE is the professional organization of radio and television engineers and those in related fields; it has approximately 5,100 members and more than 100 chapters.
Hogan, CPBE, CBNT, DRB, is associate general manager for Tempe stations KJZZ(FM), KBAQ(FM) and Sun Sounds of Arizona. He has been active in many professional societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He was a founding member of the Association of Public Radio Engineers and recently stepped down as its president.
He sees his role as SBE president as carrying out the initiatives of the board and providing direction for the society for betterment of the membership.
“The board is elected by the membership and there to represent them and work with the executive leadership to run the organization. Our focus is on member benefit in everything we do.”
The priorities of the current SBE board include the completion of a new strategic plan for the organization, the first update since 2006, said Hogan. He wrote about that in a commentary in the Nov. 16 Radio World.
“We’ve accomplished many of our goals and have just started piecing together some new points to focus on. Continued education and training for members will be a part of it,” he says.
To help formulate the next strategic plan, Hogan said SBE will invite its chapter chairs to attend a planning meeting next year.
Online courses and on-demand webinars will continue to be a focus of SBE University, the society’s online instruction tool, he said.
A new certification is expected to be introduced formally in 2012, according to Hogan. SBE hopes the Certified Broadcast Network Engineer (CBNE) will be available prior to the NAB Show next April, once a training module and proficiency exam are completed.
CBNE will be the equivalent to a five-year certification level, such as Certified Broadcast Radio Engineer or Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer, Hogan said.
“CBNE is a whole new certification that will delve deeper into networking and IT issues such as firewalls, routing tables, cloud computing and other topics permeating the broadcast technical environment.”
Knowledge of IT will continue to be a crucial as broadcast engineers are asked to manage computer networks, software and firmware. “Seems like every broadcast system and hardware has some sort of IT component. Whether it’s connected to a network or firmware, it’s become a necessity. Everything is software-supported now. The technology element is so critical because of its quick turnover rate.”
SBE’s legislative goals for 2012 include passage of a bill that would add a broadcast engineer to the staff of each FCC commissioner. Efforts fell short last year when the congressional session ended before any action was taken; the bills have been reintroduced in the current session as the FCC Technical Expertise Capacity Heightening Act, or the “FCC TECH Act” for short, S. 611 and H.R. 2102.
“We are getting bipartisan support. It’s moving through the system and we hope for passage in this Congress,” according to Hogan.
One reason to boost the “technical competence of policymaking” is the explosion of new technologies directly affecting the broadcast industry, Hogan says, which brings with it additional FM noise.
“Noise in all the bands is a serious issue. And as we add the technology that demands connectivity the noise floor will continue to grow,” Hogan said.
Technological breakthroughs have been good for most broadcast engineers in that engineers no longer are tied to their facilities, he feels.
“However, for all of us engineers it is getting more difficult to have time to ourselves. Unfortunately, in a way, technology has helped make our jobs 24/7, with even more responsibilities. Balancing work and personal time for (SBE) membership is more challenging than ever.”
Next-gen engineers
That time crunch also has meant fewer opportunities for mentoring of young broadcast engineers.
“As our headcounts have dwindled, we have lost very valuable years in mentorship within our industry. At one point there was an experienced technical operator who would mentor the more inexperienced staff at each station. That doesn’t happen anymore,” Hogan said. “We hope to work on the local level with our chapters to see more apprenticeship programs initiated.”
Hogan’s career began with a Bachelor of Science in engineering science from Louisiana State University in New Orleans. The Louisiana native made stops at several video production companies in that city before moving on to become chief communications engineer for KSLU(FM) at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he installed one of the first touchscreen master control facilities.
“It was 1986 and MediaTouch had just come out with a touchscreen automation system. It was one of the first on the market. I installed the third system they had sold.”
Hogan moved in 1990 to the Boise State University Radio Network as director of engineering and operations and was responsible for designing, installing and maintaining broadcast facilities, including transmission, microwave, uplink downlink and studios.
In 1998 he moved further west to Washington State University as assistant general manager of engineering services for the school, which included managing a total of some 40 radio and television sites in Washington, Idaho and Oregon.
While at Washington State, Hogan was one of four principal engineering investigators for the Advanced Digital Distribution Entity, a project funded by the Future Fund of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
“The project represented the public broadcast stations’ interests in developing a joint master control and digital distribution facility for the Northwest with possible implications for the next generation distribution system for PBS.
“The ADDE would capture centrally programming from PBS and other program providers. The ADDE would then aggregate customized program feeds.”
At Northwest Public Radio Hogan helped move many of the automation functions to Denver and used store and forward technology to deliver on-air underwriting messages to specific transmitter sites within the NWPR network.
KJZZ/KBAQ, licensed to Rio Salado College in Tempe, Ariz., has been Hogan’s workplace since 2008. There, he supervises a five-person engineering department and is responsible for operations and maintenance, facilities planning and systems integration for a radio system consisting of two radio transmitters, eight translators, five studios in three locations, a cable channel and a multichannel-capable digital satellite uplink.
Sun Sounds of Arizona is the school’s radio reading and information service; it airs on the 67 kHz subcarrier of KJZZ and on KBAQ HD3.
“The biggest challenge to radio reading services has been HD Radio,” Hogan said. “We made the decision to place our service on an HD channel, but there have been a lot of radio reading services eliminated as stations go HD and do multiple programming to utilize the full 200 kHz of spectrum.”
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Remittance growth picks up in July
More Filipinos are deployed for jobs overseas
Published 7:53 PM, September 16, 2013
Updated 7:53 PM, September 16, 2013
MANILA, Philippines – Money sent home by Filipinos working and living overseas reached $2.1 billion in July, up 7.4% from a year ago, the central bank reported Monday, September 16.
This was the 4th consecutive month that remittances hit the $2-billion mark.
Growth in July picked up from the 5.7% climb registered in June.
Remittances in the January-July period amounted to $13.9 billion, up 6.4% year on year.
"The steady deployment of OF workers remained the key driver of the growth in remittance flows," Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas governor Amando Tetangco Jr. said.
The major sources of remittances were the US, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Canada and Japan.
Remittances are a key driver of domestic consumption, accounting for over 10% of the Philippines' gross domestic product.
Many families depend on money from relatives abroad for their needs at home like food, education and medical care. – Rappler.com
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Republican Governors Unanimously Urge Congress To Pass USMCA
June 20, 2019 | General, RGA News
WASHINGTON, D.C. – All member governors of the Republican Governors Association (RGA), representing 27 states and one United States territory, issued a letter to Congressional leaders today urging expedient action to pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), touting it as “a comprehensive, 21st Century trade agreement that protects workers across the nation, establishes a level playing field among the United States and our partners, and encourages free and fair trade.”
“Republican governors stand united in our support for swift passage of this landmark agreement that will grow jobs in our states and expand opportunity for our citizens,” said RGA Chairman Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts and Republican Governors Public Policy Committee (RGPPC) Chairman Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb. “To usher in a new era of cooperation and mutual benefit with our nation’s largest trading partners, we urge Congress to take expedient action to pass the USMCA.”
The signatories represent unanimous agreement among Republican chief executives that ratification of the USMCA will promote economic growth in their states and the nation.
View the signed letter here. The full text of the letter can also be viewed below:
“As governors, we support smart and strategic trade agreements that promote economic growth in our states and expand opportunities for our workers, farmers, and manufacturers. Nearly 25 years after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is time to update our trade policies with two of our most critical trading partners. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a comprehensive, 21st Century trade agreement that protects workers across the nation, establishes a level playing field among the United States and our partners, and encourages free and fair trade.
Completion of the trade agreement is critical to our states as we seek to boost economic development and encourage new investment that leads to job creation. The USMCA modernizes our trade agreement with Canada and Mexico to account for stronger protections for trade secrets, intellectual property, anticorruption, and digital trade. The USMCA also expands access to markets for our farmers and ranchers and reduces barriers for agricultural markets. Beyond that, the USMCA strengthens prohibitions on the importation of goods produced by forced labor and ensures stronger protections for migrant workers.
As chief executives of our states, we urge Congress to pass USMCA quickly so American workers can begin reaping the benefits of improved trade with our North American neighbors. Passing the agreement quickly will give our small and large businesses the stability and predictability they need to expand, invest, and create more jobs.
We are committed to working with you as well as the President to ensure that the USMCA is ratified this Congress. We look forward to expanding the opportunities for our states to engage and prosper in international trade while continuing our longstanding partnerships with Canada and Mexico.”
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Israeli Teen Managed Cyber-Terror Supermarket
April 25, 2017 by Richard Silverstein 2 Comments
Delaware state senator, Ernesto Lopez, extorted by Michael Kaydar
Yesterday, Ynet reported on the massive business enterprise Michael Kaydar created, selling his services to buyers around the world who sought out cyber-terror attacks. They ranged from phoning bomb threats against Delta airlines to threats to explode the heads of children at a Jewish day school. Once he claimed there was a suicide bomber in the air. Another time that he was an ISIS fighter with a bomb on a plane. He threatened a plane carrying the Boston Celtics. A threat against an El Al flight traveling from Los Angeles to Ben Gurion caused French and Swiss air force planes to scramble and intercept the Israeli passenger jet. He personally threatened a former Pentagon official that he would kidnap and murder his children. He attempted to extort a Delaware state senator who had disparaged his terror campaign, demanding bitcoin payment. When none was forthcoming, he sent drugs to the man’s home and threatened to call the police to inform them that the senator was a drug-dealer. There were 162 threats to bomb airplanes and 2,000 bomb threats overall. In addition, he sent another 31 mail threats.
Former Pentagon official, George Little, whose children were threatened by Kaydar
He didn’t do this out of personal animus or mental infirmity (though his family claims otherwise). He did it out of a good, old-fashioned motive: greed. Kaydar operated a cyber terror supermarket. He plied his wares on dark web sites like Alpha Bay, advertising them akin to the restaurant or hair salon which lists its services and their prices for client to choose.
Kaydar had a laundry list of “services” which he offered and the prices for each type of exploit. A threatening call to a private home would set a buyer back $40. A call threatening a massacre at a school cost $80. A letter threat against a school called for a discount and cost only $30. A call to threaten to bomb an airliner cost $500. He informed potential clients that they could devise their own threats and he would execute them for a special price. If one of his threats didn’t lead to the evacuation of the targeted institution and summoning of police, he would return the fee to the client, considering it a failed operation. Buyers paid in bitcoin because it was untraceable. By the time of his arrest, he’d amassed a hefty fortune of $500,000.
Hand it to Kaydar, he mass-produced cyber-mayhem. And all by himself. Quite the entrepreneurial spirit of the Israeli Start-Up Nation!
Israeli media have been prohibited from naming the 18 year-old Kaydar or featuring his picture because he began his spree when he was a minor. In fact, he likely will be tried in a juvenile court for at least some of his alleged crimes. This could drastically reduce the amount of jail time he might expect if he’s convicted.
Lest you think Kaydar is a lone wolf cyber terrorist, think again. There is a thriving network of hackers plying their wares on the dark web. Including many in Israel as well.
The IDF boasts of the cyber skills of its largest single military grouping, Unit 8200. It also runs a network of technical high schools from which it recruits to fill its ranks. Many of its veterans go on to lucrative careers founding high-tech startups in the Big Data/cyber-security field. But inevitably, there are aberrant souls who learn the skills but don’t make the grade. They’re shunted to the side. Some of them take those skills to the dark side as Kaydar did.
There is a thriving network of Israeli hackers-for-hire who engage in such anti-social cyber-sabotage. A company called vDOS, consisted of two Israeli hackers who would organize DDOS attacks on commercial websites for a fee. Their clients were competitors or angry customers who sought revenge. vDOS, like Kaydar, had a price list offering different levels of attack against its victims. It earned over $600,000 over a two-year period.
Kaydar went wrong only in the scale of his ambition. The grander the ambition the more likely you will be caught. He targeted Americans because that was where the money was. But he didn’t bargain for the fact that he would make a mistake, make a single phone call without using a proxy server, and so reveal his physical location and be caught by the FBI. Plus, the close Israel- U.S. relationship meant the U.S. could exert pressure on Israeli authorities to end his rampage and bring him to justice.
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vDOS is definitely cyber. Not sure I’d classify Kaydar as cyber – what I’ve seen discussed is really “old style” telephone threats – made via VoIP (through proxies etc., all from his aptmt but with the use of a long-range wifi connection (specialized antenna) as an additional layer of masking) + masking software to disguise his identity (as opposed to using a burner cellphone or a random public telephone booth). He collected proceeds in bitcoin and advertised his “services” – but so do drug dealers today.
Do terrorists/criminals still phone in advance to warn before striking? (they used to – the IRA used to do this, the Basque, I think some of the Palestinian factions too). Perhaps institutions should think twice about evacuation policy after a threat.
Classification aside – this doesn’t make this any better or worse.
His family is claiming he is autistic + with a brain tumor… However he was able to run quite a “successful” criminal enterprise…. So I’m dubious this will get much traction.
The Juvenile aspect probably just protects his name at present. It sounds like he’ll be tried as an adult for many-many incidents. He probably will push to be tried in Israel, as in most cases Israeli judicial practice is to sentence -concurrent- sentences for “related” crimes – he’ll probably get close to the max on whatever he is charged with (10 years? 5?) – but he won’t get a sentence of 100*10 – which is possible in some American jurisdictions.
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The Watercolor Artist Whose Paintings Help Save Rainforests
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Earlier this year, Peru established Yaguas National Park, a 2 million acre Amazonian preserve that’s both a biodiversity hotspot and a spiritual nexus for local indigenous people. Its protection was the culmination of a battle hard-fought by indigenous groups and their many supporters—including a watercolor painter at Chicago’s Field Museum.
As the resident artist at the natural history Museum, Peggy Macnamara wears many hats, including helping to make the case for national parks through her vibrant paintings. But why add art to a scientific argument for conservation? As Corine Vriesendorp, a senior scientist with the Keller Science Action Center, the museum’s conservation arm, put it to Earther, “Once you see the paintings, you’d never ask.”
Macnamara’s studio at the Field Museum is what you’d expect from an artist obsessed with wildlife: Stuffed birds in glass domes, eggs nesting in display cases, and a kaleidoscope of stacked watercolor paintings of animals seem poised to suddenly animate into a jazz rendition of Fantasia. The colorful chaos would drown out the painter were Macnamara not so animated herself. She skips enthusiastically from topic to topic as she tells me how she came to find herself painting a case for the Yaguas Park.
Long before Macnamara painted her first animal, the Chicago resident came to the Museum constantly to paint the ancient statues, pottery, and other exhibits in the Chinese artifacts section. After ten years, she’d worked her way through every one.
One day, she stopped by the Field Museum’s Hall of Birds, and found herself a new subject. As she walked the spacious hall softly lit by long glass cases of (mostly American) birds, something about the shapes and colors seemed, to her, similar to the Chinese artifacts. She wasn’t fascinated with the birds as creatures of sinew and feathers, but as a menagerie locked in a hall of mirrors. (An early painting of a shorebird, for instance, makes it clear the animal is part of a display, by showing the creature from behind and capturing its reflection in the glass.)
“I always included the case. I didn’t pretend that it was in habitat,” Macnamara said.
Cranes in watercolor.
Image: Peggy Macnamara / Field Museum, photo by Paul Lane
Macnamara’s style diversified with time. Occasionally, she would move from bird-as-exhibits to depicting the creatures with the “suggestion of habitat”—flocking through natural settings or even flying through the museum itself. Then, about 15 years ago, she was approached by Debbie Moskovits, one of the founders of the Museum’s conservation arm.
“She just came up behind me and watched me work, said Macnamara. “She knew me because I was here every day.”
Moskowitz eventually recruited Macnamara to work for the museum, and later, for the Action Center’s conservation initiatives. Since its formation 23 years ago, the Action Center has provided scientific support for 18 protected areas spanning 26 million acres.
It was an odd move. Macnamara’s style was nothing like traditional naturalist’s meticulously labeled and anatomically precise sketches one might expect to find in a scientific document on conservation. She used watercolors like an oil painter.
Alligator in watercolor.
Since her first conservation assignment, Macnamara’s work has become an integral part of the Action Center’s conservation efforts. She’s painted everything from birds to mammals to alligators, and worked on several educational books with the museum, including one on native Illinois insects. Several new protected areas in Peru and Ecuador that the Action Center has supported have also had Macnamara paintings of their wildlife.
The Action Center’s work on Yaguas began in the early 2000s, when it took up the cause of an indigenous peoples’ group, the Instituto del Bien Común (IBC), which had been crusading for the formation of network of parks to protect the region. A biodiversity hotspot boasting two-thirds of Peru’s freshwater fish species, the area is sacred to native peoples who fled to its outskirts to escape the horrors of the 20th-century rubber boom. They call it the “sachamama,” a Quechua word indicating its status as an incubator of the surrounding forests’ fecundity.
Action Center scientists went to Yaguas to do a series of inventories of its wildlife. They dropped biologists into priority areas for a month to assess plant and animal diversity, in addition to sending social scientists into local communities to learn about their needs and priorities.
An arapaima, a large freshwater fish native to the Amazon, in watercolor.
“[A]nd then we bring that information together to try to protect these places in a way that make sense for those local people,” Vriesendorp said.
According to Vriesendorp, the effort faced challenges at every turn, including blowback from illegal logging and mining groups. Eventually, however, Field Museum scientists along with the IBC and others convinced Peruvian officials. By the time the museum crew brought down an original Macnamara for a November 2017 meeting, former president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had already expressed commitment to making Yaguas a park.
The pieces, Macnamara tells me as she slides out two of the Yaguas paintings, were part a new chapter of muses for her: fish. The first painting shows three stingrays, the second, seven fish, including a predatory arawana with its characteristic upturned mouth and icecicle-esque body, a peacock bass, a catfish, and other Yaguas natives I can’t place.
Compared to the grandeur of the life-size, rainbow-colored painting of a massive arapaima Macnamara did for Guyana’s president, these seem unassuming. But Vriesendorp is right. To see them is to know there’s no need to question the value her art. Rather, one can simply smile at the thought that with every new conservation initiative the museum takes on, scientists will be confronting lawmakers with stunning beauty.
Fishes of Yaguas National Park in watercolor.
November 27, 2018 at 12:27PM
The Stick Vac That Killed Dyson's Corded Vacuums Is Still On Its Cyber Monday Sale
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It’s 2018, and your vacuum shouldn’t have a cord anymore. Dyson’s cordless V-series stick vacs have long been go-to cordless options, but the powerful new V10 is arguably the first that can truly, completely replace a corded vacuum, at least for smaller homes.
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We haven’t really seen any discounts on the V10 since its release in March, but Amazon’s now offering the powerful Animal configuration for an all-time low $379, down from the original $600 selling price, and the best price ever by $70. This model doesn’t include the soft cleaning head of the Absolute model, but it has a larger bin and more accessories than the entry level Motorhead, which is only a few bucks cheaper right now. All of the V10s include the same 60 minute (!!) battery, and the same powerful motor.
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Former Facebook manager says the company is failing black people
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Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users.
At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic partner manager for global influencers focused on underrepresented voices for a little over one year. During his time there, Luckie said he “heard far too many stories from black employees of a colleague or manager calling them ‘hostile’ or ‘aggressive’ for simply sharing their thoughts in a manner not dissimilar from their non-black team members.”
Luckie went on to describe how some black employees said their managers dissuaded them from participating in the employee resource group for black employees. On top of that, “too many black employees can recount stories of being aggressively accosted by campus security beyond what was necessary.”
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Regarding human resources, Luckie said the department too often protects managers rather than the people actually filing the complaints.
On the user side, Luckie describes less-than-positive experiences from black people who find “that their attempts to create ‘safe spaces’ on Facebook for conversation among themselves are being derailed by the platform itself.”
Luckie has never been one to stay silent around issues of discrimination, racism and exclusion. In 2015, Luckie wrote extensively about what it’s like to be a black employee at a tech company. At the time, he had recently left his job at Twitter, where he spent three years as a manager of journalism and news at the company.
Moving forward, Luckie has some recommendations for Facebook. A couple of those are:
Creating an internal system for employees to report microaggressions
Increasing cultural competency training for operations teams
For context, Facebook is 3.5 percent black, compared to just 2 percent in 2014, and 4.9 percent Latinx compared to 4 percent in 2014, according to the company’s most recent diversity report. White people, unsurprisingly, still makes up the single largest population of employees (46.4 percent today versus 57 percent in 2014).
Luckie’s entire memo is worth reading, so be sure to check it out in full over on Facebook. I’ve reached out to Facebook and will update this story if I hear back.
Happy holidays! Fortnite now lets you buy your friends gifts
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Happy holidays! ‘Fortnite’ now lets you buy your friends gifts
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Thanksgiving has come and gone, which means the jingle bells are jingling, the latkes are sizzling, and everyone is frantically searching for gifts to give to their friends and family this holiday season. If your loved ones are fans of Fortnite, however, you can now give them the gift of a silly skin or dance.
Announced by Epic Games on November 27, Fortnite gifting will be available on all platforms except for iOS, due to Apple’s policy restrictions. Once update 6.31 rolls around, you’ll have a one-week trial period to purchase items for your friends from the shop. Alongside the standard “Purchase Items” prompt will be one labeled “Buy As A Gift,” and you can then choose someone on your friends list to receive the new goodies. As it is a gift, you can also add a note alongside it, and we’re guessing some players’ messages will be a little different from what they’d write on an actual gift card.
There are a few stipulations, which Epic listed out in the post. You can’t get your money refunded for a gift, so make sure it’s something your friend is really going to love, unless you’re a jerk. You also have to be friends with someone for at least two days before sending a gift and you can only send three gifts per day. If you prefer, you can also disable receiving gifts in your Fortnite account settings, though we’re not entirely sure why you’d do that.
Update 6.31 includes other additions, as well, including the Team Rumble limited-time mode, which tasks each team with eliminating 100 other players. New Epic and Legendary versions of the Pump Shotgun are also available with the update, for those of you who like to get up close and personal in combat, and crashing and controller input issues have been addressed, as well.
Fortnite: Battle Royale is still free-to-play with cross-play across Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android, but we expect parents will be spending plenty of cash on DLC and memorabilia for their kids this holiday season. Perhaps you can buy them a container of floss, too.
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Luminar lidar sensor aims to detect if youre sipping a latte or crossing a road
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The Volvo 360c concept unveiled in September 2018 previews the autonomous future of commuting. The Swedish automaker reaffirmed its commitment to building a fully autonomous car — one without pedals or a steering wheel — after 2021, and it has teamed up with sensor expert Luminar Technologies to reach its goal quickly, safely, and reliably.
“For the 360c to go from vision to reality, technology needs to be developed, legislation will need to evolve, and consumers need to be able to trust autonomy with proven safety,” Luminar Technologies explained. The company believes it has made a major a breakthrough in sensor technology that allows an autonomous car to see and identify objects located over 250 yards away.
Developed as a new technology from the ground up, Luminar’s lidar boasts a range that’s 10 times greater than the units currently in production. This gives an autonomous car like the 360c (pictured) the ability to identify objects at freeway speeds and react in a timely manner. For example, if a broken-down car is blocking a lane, a car equipped with Luminar’s latest lidar has the ability to see it, reduce its speed, and move over to the next lane in order to drive around it — just like a human driver would. The sooner a car analyzes a situation, the better it will handle it.
Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russel noted his firm’s lidar can also detect human shapes and actions, and it’s able to identify body parts like arms and legs. That means it can, in theory, tell whether a pedestrian is sitting down on a bench enjoying a latte or waiting to cross a busy road. Armed with this information, the car can decide whether to slow down and let the pedestrian cross or whether to keep going.
The breakthrough in sensor technology helps solve the first part of the autonomous car equation: technology. Ultimately, when autonomous cars will merge into the mainstream depends on when they’re legally allowed to carry passengers and when motorists feel comfortable giving up driving. Volvo wants to start an industry-wide conversation to solve these problems in a timely manner.
Henrik Green, Volvo’s vice president of research and development, told Digital Trends the firm aims to build a fully autonomous car on the as-of-yet-unveiled SPA2 platform after 2021. Volvo and Luminar both declined to provide a more specific time frame, but they stressed advancements like the new lidar speed up the development process. “Regardless of the ultimate timeline, Luminar will be able to accelerate the industry by at least five years and have fully autonomous vehicle platforms that work in city environments,” the company promised.
Volvo and Luminar will showcase their new sensor technology during the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. While Volvo isn’t bringing a single car to the event, it will have plenty to talk about.
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Patent suggests type cover on Surface Pro could get lighter and thinner
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Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 6 doesn’t look very different from previous models, but there is now reason to believe future versions of the premium 2-in-1 just might be a bit thinner and lighter. A recent patent uncovered by the Dutch blog Windows United suggests that Microsoft is considering making the Surface slimmer by pulling off some weight changes to its Type Cover accessory.
A diagram from Microsoft’s patent (via WIPO Patentscope)
Originally filed on June 28, 2018, the patent describes a method for “cutting or etching” a circuit board directly into the touchpad of a keyboard. According to Windows United, this can reduce the height of the Surface Type Cover.
Microsoft’s patent obviously does not refer to that purpose directly, but the overview points to methods for addressing common problems and making a device that is both slimmer and lighter. It also points to ways for conserving space, and “not requiring additional space and additional components within a device chassis for a separate touch input device.”
“For instance, a touch interaction region of the input device is formed by cutting and/or etching a portion of the circuit board such that the touch interaction region is movable with respect to adjacent portions of the circuit board. According to one or more embodiments, an input device includes a switch such that movement of the touch interaction region actuates the switch to generate a click input event,” explains Microsoft in the patent.
If this patent holds up, this would not be the first time that Microsoft has made changes to the Type Cover. Over the past few Surface Pro generations, the optional accessory has gotten slightly larger and picked up a bigger trackpad. Microsoft also recently started using a new Alcantara material to create a more premium feel and finish for end users.
Of course, not all patents make their its way to a final product, but Microsoft has definitely been considering new technologies for the Surface. We previously saw a patent for a reflective touch display, as well as a new Surface Pen in recent months.
There is also still some hope that a much different Surface device could be coming soon. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, a well-known Microsoft watcher, believes that a heavily redesigned Surface Pro, with USB C ports, might arrive toward the middle of next year.
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Everything you need to know about Just Cause 4
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Just Cause 4 has remained under the radar this holiday season, overshadowed by other big releases like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Fallout 76. In the month of December, however, Just Cause 4 is the biggest launch on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The fourth entry in the over-the-top open world series from Avalanche Studios lands on December 4. Based on the footage and details revealed so far, Rico Rodriguez’s latest adventure is shaping up to be his most bombastic yet. Here’s everything you need to know about Just Cause 4 ahead of its launch.
A new location called Solis
Just Cause 4 sends Rico to a new fictional South American country called Solis. Solis was inspired by Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. The open world map is the largest in series history and features many unique set pieces, from rainforests to commercial cities to caves to temples to deserts to dense pockets of wilderness.
Although Rico squares off against the familiar Black Hand mercenary group, he will meet the army’s leader, Gabriella Morales. For those who remember, the Black Hand serviced the main bad guys in Just Cause and Just Cause 3.
We should learn more about the history of the Black Hand in Just Cause 4, as Solis is the group’s homeland. At the beginning of the game, Rico learns that his father worked for Black Hand, compelling him to visit Solis to investigate.
Game-altering weather events
One of Just Cause 4‘s coolest features is its weather system. In Solis, you’re likely to get caught up in a wide array of game-altering weather events. From tornadoes to blizzards to sandstorms to terrifying lightning storms, all of Just Cause 4‘s weather events are large spectacles that will threaten Rico’s livelihood and the way you play.
You can also use weather events to your advantage. For instance, Rico can actually drive a vehicle straight into a tornado in order to vault into the air. If that sounds crazy and unrealistic, it is, but the Just Cause series has always been over the top. Just Cause 4 ups the ante.
Each weather system is tied to a certain biome, so you won’t endure a tornado and blizzard at the same time.
Travel options aplenty
Since Solis is so large, you won’t want to travel on foot very often. Luckily, the world is populated with many travel options, including sports cars, construction vehicles, planes, micro-jets, hovercrafts, Rico’s signature parachute, grappling hook, and wingsuit. There’s also a jetpack, which is particularly cool. It really just looks like he has a rocket tied to his back, but you can use this to travel quickly through the air.
Non-linear gameplay
Your overall goal in Just Cause 4 is to amass an army capable of taking down the Black Hand. This plays out non-linearly. Players can choose the order they want to complete objectives, and the world around you will react accordingly. It’s unclear how this freedom will affect the story, but in a game that’s hell-bent on letting players create chaos at every turn, it makes sense.
Customizable weapons and items
For the first time in the series, weapons and key items can be customized. Rico’s well-known grappling hook can be modded to add tethers and air lifters. Basically, you can send balloons into the air and then grapple onto those balloons. This means you can create a grappling opportunity at almost any time. You can also hook a tank up to a set of balloons and fly it into an enemy base.
Each weapon in the game has a secondary set of ammunition that focuses on destruction. Based on the trailers we’ve seen so far, you’d be lucky to go a couple of minutes without blowing something up. There’s even a huge bomb that can float into an enemy’s base and blow it to smithereens.
The customization options are seemingly endless and are tailor-made to give players the freedom to create as much pandemonium as they want. Look for Just Cause 4 to have much more depth and versatility in terms of mechanics thanks to the customization features.
The Frontline is where you test your skills
Just Cause 4 has a new feature called “Frontline.” In these optional areas, the battle is already raging on when you arrive between Solis rebels and the Black Hand. Frontline war zones have been described as more difficult challenges, so they sound like good opportunities to see how you stack up in a full-scale battle.
Will there be DLC?
Just Cause 4 has an expansion pass for $30 that includes three DLC packs. The first, called Daredevils, is expected to launch in early 2019. Daredevils seems to have a racing focus. Judging by the name, we can probably expect lots of wild stunts. While Avalanche Studios hasn’t revealed anything concrete about the DLC packs, the teaser trailer hints that the weather will be even more chaotic in at least one of them. The second piece of DLC, Demons, could possibly bring literal demons to Solis. As shown in the trailer, the animals are running away from something and traffic has stopped dead. The plot of the third and final expansion, Danger, is harder to peg.
If you purchase the season pass, you’ll get seven days early access to each piece of DLC.
No multiplayer
Avalanche Studios was hiring in 2017 for a multiplayer team, according to studio founder Christofer Sundberg. The studio even hired the lead developer behind the Just Cause 2 fan-made multiplayer mod. Despite these moves that hinted at multiplayer in Just Cause 4, the game is single player only.
Special editions and release date
Along with the standard edition ($60), Just Cause 4 will have a Digital Deluxe version and Gold edition. The Digital Deluxe version, available on Steam, PSN, and the Xbox store, is $70 and comes with 24-hour early access, a Black Hand-themed wingsuit, special micro-jet, and the Deathstalker Scorpion pack (muscle car, assault buggy, explosive rifle).
The Gold Edition ($90), also available on Steam, PSN, and the Xbox store, comes bundled with the expansion pass, all of the Digital Deluxe bonuses, and the Golden Gear Pack, which includes special weapons like the Golden Gear Shotgun. The Golden Gear Shotgun’s secondary ammunition locks onto enemies and can even bounce off of walls.
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British Cops Are Building an AI That Flags People for Crimes That Haven't Happened Yet
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Police in the UK are piloting a project that uses artificial intelligence to determine how likely someone is to commit or be a victim of a serious crime. These include crimes involving a gun or knife, as well as modern slavery, New Scientist reported on Monday. The hope is to use this information to detect potential criminals or victims and intervene with counselors or social services before crimes take place.
Dubbed the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS), the system pulls data from local and national police databases. Ian Donnelly, the police lead on the project, told New Scientist that they have collected over a terabyte of data from these systems already, including logs of committed crimes and about 5 million identifiable people.
The system has 1,400 indicators from this data that can help flag someone who may commit a crime, such as how many times someone has committed a crime with assistance as well as how many people in their network have committed crimes. People in the database who are flagged by the system’s algorithm as being prone to violent acts will get a “risk score,” New Scientist reported, which signals their chances of committing a serious crime in the future.
The West Midlands Police department is heading the trial project through the end of March 2019, and they expected to have a prototype by that time. There are eight other police departments reportedly involved as well, and the hope is to eventually expand its use to all police departments in the UK.
Donnelly told the New Scientist that they don’t plan to arrest anyone before they’ve committed a crime, but that they want to provide counseling to those who the system indicates might need it. He also noted that there have been cuts to police funding recently, so something like NDAS could help streamline and prioritize the process of determining who in their databases most needs intervention.
Even if the intentions here are well-meaning, it’s easy to imagine how such a system could have dangerous implications. For starters, there’s a serious invasion of privacy when it comes to intervening with individuals before something traumatizing has even happened. This system effectively is sending mental health professionals to people’s homes because an algorithm suggested that, in the future, there’s a chance they may commit or fall victim to a crime. To enact that type of intervention across an entire country paints a picture of an eerily intrusive future.
Aside from the unsettling possibility of Minority Report-like knocks on your door that this system may lead to, there are still a litany of glaring issues with AI-based detection systems. They are not free from bias, and as Andrew Ferguson at the University of the District of Columbia told the New Scientist, number of arrests don’t inherently signal a hot spot for crime, but rather where police officers are sent, and this disproportionately impacts people of color and poor neighborhoods. This also means that the criminal databases the system is pulling from aren’t representative of society as a whole, which in turn means individuals living in heavily policed areas are most at risk of being flagged.
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November 27, 2018 at 11:51AM
CDC Says Some Romaine Lettuce Is Now Safe to Eatbut Don't Break Out the Salad Tongs Yet
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Just as Americans prepared to gorge on their Thanksgiving meals last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blasted out an ominous warning: Throw out and definitely do not eat any romaine lettuce, since it might contain potentially deadly E. coli bacteria. But this Monday, following further investigation, the CDC downgraded its warning. Romaine lettuce should be safe to sell and eat, unless it originally came from central or northern California.
Unfortunately, most romaine lettuce is not clearly labeled with its source—so unless you can confirm where it was grown, you should still avoid it.
According to the CDC, at least 43 people in 12 states have been sickened so far with the same outbreak strain of E. coli tied to lettuce, with 11 cases having been reported since last week. Canada has had to deal with the outbreak too, with at least 22 confirmed cases as of November 23. In the U.S., 16 people have been hospitalized as a result, and one person developed kidney failure. Fortunately, as of yet, no one in either country has died from their infection.
The CDC, in conjunction with the Public Health Agency of Canada, has determined that the most likely source of the outbreak is romaine lettuce harvested from Central Coastal growing regions of northern and central California. But no common grower, supplier, or brand of tainted lettuce has been spotted so far, according to the agency.
The type of E. coli behind the outbreak is known as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7. This particular germ tends to be nastier than other strains of disease-causing E. coli, thanks largely to the Shiga toxin. It can cause severe, bloody diarrhea, stomach cramps, and a slight fever, though some infected people experience no symptoms. Most sick people do recover without treatment within five to seven days, but about 5 to 10 percent can develop a specific type of kidney failure known as hemolytic uremic syndrome.
The strain of O157:H7 identified in the current outbreak bears a close resemblance to the strain behind a 2017 outbreak caused by tainted leafy greens in the U.S. and by romaine lettuce in Canada. But it isn’t related to the outbreak of O157:H7 traced to romaine lettuce that happened earlier this spring. That outbreak caused more than 200 illnesses and at least five deaths, and was likely spread by a tainted water source close to farming regions in Yuma, Arizona.
Though the CDC has narrowed down where this tainted lettuce is coming from, it’ll still take some time for the danger to pass. The tainted lettuce came from summer harvests of the vegetable; for the upcoming winter harvest, major growers have agreed to place labels on their stock so customers, retailers, and public health officials can clearly identify where it was grown and harvested. But for now, many people will still be in the dark about their lettuce’s origins.
Anyone who doesn’t know where their lettuce is from, the CDC continues to warn, should still just throw it out.
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Urban Massage exposed a huge customer database including sensitive comments on its creepy clients
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Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing “wellness that comes to you,” has leaked its entire customer database.
The London, U.K.-based startup — now known as just Urban — left its Google-hosted ElasticSearch database online without a password, allowing anyone to read hundreds of thousands of customer and staff records. Anyone who knew where to look could access, edit or delete the database.
Security researcher Oliver Hough found the database through Shodan, a search engine for exposed devices and databases, and told TechCrunch of the exposure.
It’s not known how long the database was exposed or if anyone else had accessed or obtained the database before it was pulled. It’s believed that the database was exposed for at least a few weeks.
Urban pulled the database offline after TechCrunch reached out.
Chief executive Jack Tang said in a statement: “Urban is looking into this as a matter of utmost urgency. We have informed the ICO and will take all other appropriate action, including in relation to data and communications.”
At the time of securing the database, the company had exposed more than 309,000 user records, including names, email addresses and phone numbers. Each record also had a unique referral code, allowing friends to get discounted treatments.
We verified the data by contacting several users at random. One user, who did not want to be named, said the data exposure was a “huge violation” of her privacy.
The database also contained over 351,000 booking records, and more than 2,000 records on Urban massage therapists, including their names, email addresses and phone numbers.
That roughly amounts to similar figures reported by the company earlier this month.
Among the records included thousands of complaints from workers about their clients. The records included specific complaints — from account blocks for fraudulent behavior, abuse of the referral system and persistent cancelers. But, many records also included allegations of sexual misconduct by clients — such as asking for “massage in genital area” and requesting “sexual services from therapist.” Others were marked as “dangerous,” while others were blocked due to “police enquiries.” Each complaint included a customer’s personally identifiable information — including their name, address and postcode and phone number.
But from a cursory review of the data, the database didn’t contain financial information — such as credit cards or individual account passwords.
How the data came to be exposed remains a mystery, but the severity of the data is serious — and the repercussions could be significant. Because the company falls under the new European-wide GDPR rules, Urban may face steep financial penalties of up to four percent of its global annual revenue.
For a company that’s centered around bringing relaxation to the masses, this breach will likely cause unnecessary stress for a lot of people.
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FanDuel Picks for Daily Fantasy Football Week 3: DFS Lineup Advice and Sleepers
4 years ago by Justin Bales
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The NFL continues to surprise each week. Players like Jeremy Hill barely score, while Matt Jones popped off for 123 yards and 2 touchdowns. There were also a few more injuries that may set up some backups for success.
In this article, my FanDuel DFS lineup targets, I will be headlining a few of my top plays on FanDuel for Week 3 of the daily fantasy football season.
These DFS lineup picks can range from the elite tier of players, to a few guys that I feel are a bit overpriced on FanDuel. Let's get to it!
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FanDuel DFS Quarterbacks for Week 3
Ben Roethlisberger - QB, PIT (at STL, $8,500)
The Steelers are playing at an extremely fast pace, which gives Roethlisberger a great floor and ceiling combination. Last week, he recorded 369 yards and three touchdowns on only 27 attempts. He’ll be playing a much tougher defense this week, but that means this game will likely stay competitive, allowing Big Ben to throw the ball as much as he pleases. He’ll also have a full arsenal of weapons, as Le’Veon Bell is set to return from his suspension. Roethlisberger is one of the more consistent quarterbacks in fantasy, but he could also be the highest scorer of the week.
Tyrod Taylor - QB, BUF (at MIA, $7,000)
Taylor is coming off a great 29-pt game against the Patriots, and he flashed great upside when the Bills really allowed him to throw the ball. That may be the case again this week, as the Dolphins are -2.5 point favorites against Buffalo. Miami recently allowed 273 yards and two touchdowns to Blake Bortles, and Taylor seems to be a bit more disciplined of a quarterback than Bortles. He can also add fantasy points on the ground, as he has rushed 14 times for 84 yards and a touchdown in two games this season. Taylor is a high upside GPP play this week.
FanDuel DFS Running Backs for Week 3
Jamaal Charles - RB, KC (at GB, $8,700)
Andy Reid has made it evident this season that the Chiefs will give Charles the ball early and often in their games. He has a combined 46 touches on the ground and in the air through the first two games. Green Bay bottled up Marshawn Lynch last week, but they were much less successful against Matt Forte, who is a receiving back like Jamaal Charles. At $8,700, Charles may even end up a bit contrarian, as people will likely pay the extra $100 for Le’Veon Bell. Charles is one of the highest-upside players in the NFL because of his ability to contribute through running and receiving, which makes him one of the best plays this week.
Joseph Randle - RB, DAL (vs ATL, $6,500)
I recommended Randle last week, and he didn’t pay off his price tag. He’s slightly cheaper this week, and I’m going back to him once more. He recorded 19 total touches for the second week in a row last week. Tony Romo suffered a broken collarbone, and the Cowboys will likely run a bit more of a ground-and-pound offense with Brandon Weeden at quarterback. Randle is the most talented Cowboys running back, and he’ll benefit from playing behind one of the best offensive lines in the NFL. Atlanta has struggled against the run at times this season, and Randle makes a great play in all leagues for his price.
FanDuel DFS Wide Receivers for Week 3
Antonio Brown - WR, PIT (at STL, $9,300)
Brown is the most expensive wide receiver on the slate, but that’s because he is the most consistent receiver, as well. In two games this season, he has caught 18 passes for 328 yards and two touchdowns. He gets a matchup against the Rams, who have struggled as a defense this season. Antonio Brown is the best floor/ceiling fantasy player in the NFL and it’s really that simple. He’s a great option in any lineup you can fit him in.
Allen Robinson - WR, JAC (at NE, $6,600)
Robinson was held in check Week 1, recording only one catch for 27 yards. He then popped off for six receptions, 155 yards, and two touchdowns against the Dolphins in Week 2. He’ll get another great matchup this week against the Patriots, who have really struggled to contain wide receivers this season. The Jaguars are also +14 underdogs according to Vegas, which means they will likely be throwing the ball from the start of the game until the clock runs out. Robinson’s Week 1 performance is a bit worrying, but he’s cheap and has displayed great upside.
FanDuel DFS Tight Ends for Week 3
Rob Gronkowski - TE, NE (va JAC, 8,400)
It feels like recommending Gronk is a bit too easy, but he needs to be in fantasy lineups. On the season, he has 12 receptions for 207 yards and four touchdowns. He’s the clear red zone option for the Patriots, and Brady looks like he’s out to make a statement this season. Gronk is the most consistent tight end in the NFL, and he also has as much upside as anyone. Sure, this pick seems a bit obvious, but I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to use Gronk in your cash games.
Gavin Escobar - TE, DAL (vs ATL, $4,500) – Escobar’s value will be determined by the availability of Jason Witten. If Witten suits up this week, Escobar because a much riskier play, while he’ll be one of the safer options on the slate if Witten sits out. Escobar is a touchdown machine, and the Cowboys are often looking to him in the red zone with Dez Bryant out. Inexperienced quarterbacks, like Weeden, also tend to use the tight end as their safety blanket, which will give Escobar a high floor if Witten happens to miss this game.
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Marcell Ozuna Unlikely To Land With Diamondbacks
1 month agoThe Arizona Diamondbacks have checked in on outfielder Marcell Ozuna, but they aren't considered among the players for Ozuna's services, according to sources. Arizona could be a viable landing spot for Ozuna if he's still available later in the offseason. Landing in Arizona would be a nice fit for the 29-year-old Dominican, but it remains to be seen if that's a reality. Ozuna hit .241/.328/.472 with 29 home runs, 80 runs, 89 RBI and 12 stolen bases in 485 at-bats for the Red Birds last season. He can be very frustrating to own in fantasy because of his streakiness, but when Ozuna is on, he's one of the best all-around talents in baseball.--Keith Hernandez - RotoBaller
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Pentair Plc Updates FY18 Guidance To Reflect Separation Of Electrical Business
By RTTNews Staff Writer ✉ | Published: 10/23/2018 7:22 AM ET
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Fujifilm FUJINON XF 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Black
The XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens is designed for FUJIFILM X-series mirrorless cameras and provides a 152-609mm equivalent focal length range. Further benefitting its use outdoors, this 100-400mm lens also sports a weather-sealed construction and fluorine-coated front element to guard against dust and moisture from affecting the lens' performance. Additionally, a nine-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality when working with selective focus techniques. Five extra-low dispersion elements and one Super ED element are used to greatly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations in order to produce high clarity and color fidelity throughout the zoom range. Twin linear motors deliver quick, quiet, and smooth autofocus performance that is especially beneficial when working with fast-moving subjects. The lens body incorporates 13 distinct weather seals in 12 locations to protect against dust and moisture, and to enable worry-free use in inclement conditions and freezing temperatures as low as 14°F. Additionally, a fluorine coating has been applied to the front lens element to guard against smudging, moisture, and dust.
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The XF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens is designed for FUJIFILM X-series mirrorless cameras and provides a 152-609mm equivalent focal length range. Further benefitting its use outdoors, this 100-400mm lens also sports a weather-sealed construction and fluorine-coated front element to guard against dust and moisture from affecting the lens’ performance. Additionally, a nine-blade diaphragm contributes to a pleasing bokeh quality when working with selective focus techniques. Five extra-low dispersion elements and one Super ED element are used to greatly reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations in order to produce high clarity and color fidelity throughout the zoom range. Twin linear motors deliver quick, quiet, and smooth autofocus performance that is especially beneficial when working with fast-moving subjects. The lens body incorporates 13 distinct weather seals in 12 locations to protect against dust and moisture, and to enable worry-free use in inclement conditions and freezing temperatures as low as 14°F. Additionally, a fluorine coating has been applied to the front lens element to guard against smudging, moisture, and dust.
Fujifilm FUJINON XC 50-230mm f/4.5-6.7 OIS II (Silver)
The XC 50-230mm f/4.5-6.7 OIS II from Fujifilm is a 76-350mm-equivalent zoom suitable for working with a range of distance subjects, from portraits to sports. Its optical design includes one aspherical element and one extra-low dispersion element, which helps to reduce a variety of aberrations in order to produce a high degree of sharpness, clarity, and color accuracy. A Super EBC coating has also been applied to individual elements to control flare and ghosting for increased contrast when working in strong lighting conditions. Complementing the optical design is a 3.5 stop-effective image stabilization system, which minimizes the appearance of camera shake to benefit shooting handheld.
Fujifilm Fujinon MK 18-55mm T2.9 Cine Lens (Sony E-mount)
The Fujinon MK18-55mm T2.9 Lens in E Mount is a lightweight cine-style zoom lens for E-mount cameras with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. The focus ring features approximately 200° of rotation, which provides room or precise focus pulls, and the iris is clickless, enabling smooth iris pulls. The lens is color-matched to other Fujinon lenses such as the HK, ZK, and XK series, which enables smooth intercutting between lenses. It is designed for cameras with a Sony E mount, so it has a short flange focal distance, but the lens allows for flange focal distance adjustment so you can fine-tune it to the camera you are using the lens on. The gear rings positions for focus, zoom, and iris are located at the same position on both lenses in the MK series, making switching between the two zooms quick as you don't have to adjust the position of lens accessories shims are required to adjust the flange focal distance as this lens has a built-in adjustment mechanism
The Fujinon MK18-55mm T2.9 Lens in E Mount is a lightweight cine-style zoom lens for E-mount cameras with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. The focus ring features approximately 200° of rotation, which provides room or precise focus pulls, and the iris is clickless, enabling smooth iris pulls. The lens is color-matched to other Fujinon lenses such as the HK, ZK, and XK series, which enables smooth intercutting between lenses. It is designed for cameras with a Sony E mount, so it has a short flange focal distance, but the lens allows for flange focal distance adjustment so you can fine-tune it to the camera you are using the lens on. The gear rings positions for focus, zoom, and iris are located at the same position on both lenses in the MK series, making switching between the two zooms quick as you don’t have to adjust the position of lens accessories shims are required to adjust the flange focal distance as this lens has a built-in adjustment mechanism
Fujifilm FUJINON XF56mm F1.2 R APD Black
The FUJIFILM XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD features a unique optical design, the flattering portrait-length field of view, and an especially fast f/1.2 maximum aperture. Differentiating itself from FUJIFILM's other XF 56mm f/1.2 lens, this APD version incorporates an apodization filter to produce an aesthetically-pleasing out-of-focus quality to suit selective focus applications. Additionally, this lens also features an internal focusing mechanism for quick focusing performance along with a rounded seven-blade diaphragm to further contribute to a pleasing bokeh quality. Especially bright f/1.2 maximum aperture excels in low-light conditions and also offers notable control over depth of field for using selective focus techniques. The standard white set of numbers indicates the actual f/stop number, and the difference between these two sets of numbers indicates the effectiveness of the filter. Two extra-low dispersion elements reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations in order to provide greater clarity and color accuracy. The internal focusing design affords fast and quiet autofocus performance that benefits both stills and video applications.
The FUJIFILM XF 56mm f/1.2 R APD features a unique optical design, the flattering portrait-length field of view, and an especially fast f/1.2 maximum aperture. Differentiating itself from FUJIFILM’s other XF 56mm f/1.2 lens, this APD version incorporates an apodization filter to produce an aesthetically-pleasing out-of-focus quality to suit selective focus applications. Additionally, this lens also features an internal focusing mechanism for quick focusing performance along with a rounded seven-blade diaphragm to further contribute to a pleasing bokeh quality. Especially bright f/1.2 maximum aperture excels in low-light conditions and also offers notable control over depth of field for using selective focus techniques. The standard white set of numbers indicates the actual f/stop number, and the difference between these two sets of numbers indicates the effectiveness of the filter. Two extra-low dispersion elements reduce color fringing and chromatic aberrations in order to provide greater clarity and color accuracy. The internal focusing design affords fast and quiet autofocus performance that benefits both stills and video applications.
Fujifilm XF 50mm f/2 R WR Lens Black
The black XF 50mm f/2 R WR offers a 76mm equivalent focal length to suit a variety of applications, including portraiture and still lifes. The lightweight design and bright f/2 maximum aperture benefit working in low-light conditions and also afford a high degree of control over depth of field for selective focus techniques. Complementing the optics is a stepping motor, along with an internal focusing design, which provides quick and especially quiet focusing performance. Bright f/2 maximum aperture benefits working in difficult lighting conditions and also offers greater control over depth of field. Super EBC coating has been applied to individual elements to reduce lens flare and ghosting for improved contrast and color fidelity when working in strong lighting conditions.
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Fujifilm XF 16mm F2.8 R WR Silver
The silver XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR is a 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens, well-suited to landscape, nature, and architectural shooting. Its f/2.8 maximum aperture balances size and speed and is suitable for working in available lighting conditions while also limiting the overall size and weight of the lens for everyday use. Complementing the optics is a stepping motor, along with an internal focusing design, which provides quick and especially quiet focusing performance. Additionally, the lens is weather-sealed to suit working in inclement conditions. Moderately bright f/2.8 maximum aperture suits working in available light conditions and also helps to maintain a compact form factor. Super EBC coating has been applied to individual elements to reduce lens flare and ghosting for improved contrast and color fidelity when working in strong lighting conditions.
Fujifilm Fujinon GF 1.4X TC WR Teleconverter
The GF 1.4x TC WR Teleconverter from FUJIFILM. The G-mount converter magnifies the image by 1.4x and retains full communication between the lens and body, enabling metering, autofocus, and image stabilization as well as the transmission of Exif data. Additionally, the teleconverter is designed to maintain the weather resistance of the entire FUJIFILM system with a sealed construction that reduces the chances of dust, water, or even the cold from affecting performance.
Fujifilm XF 16mm F/2.8 R WR Black
The black XF 16mm f/2.8 R WR is a 24mm-equivalent wide-angle lens, well-suited to landscape, nature, and architectural shooting. Its f/2.8 maximum aperture balances size and speed, and is suitable for working in available lighting conditions while also limiting the overall size and weight of the lens for everyday use. The optical design features two aspherical elements to reduce distortion and spherical aberrations in order to produce greater sharpness and accurate rendering.
Fujifilm XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WR Lens
The XF 8-16mm f/2.8 R LM WRfrom FUJIFILM is a 12-24mm-equivalent lens featuring a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture for consistent performance throughout the zoom range. The optical layout comprises six extra-low dispersion elements, including three Super ED elements, which help to virtually eliminate chromatic aberrations and color fringing for greater clarity and color accuracy. Four aspherical elements are also used to suppress distortion, curvature of field, and spherical aberrations for improved sharpness. Also, a Nano-GI coating helps to control ghosting and flare for enhanced contrast and color fidelity when working in strong lighting conditions.
Camera Lenses, Deal Zone
Fujifilm FUJINON XC 50-230mm f/4.5-6.7 OIS II (Black)
the black XC 50-230mm f/4.5-6.7 OIS II from FUJIFILMis a 76-350mm-equivalent zoom suitable for working with a range of distance subjects, from portraits to sports. Its optical design includes one aspherical element and one extra-low dispersion element, which help to reduce a variety of aberrations in order to produce a high degree of sharpness, clarity, and color accuracy. A Super EBC coating has also been applied to individual elements to control flare and ghosting for increased contrast when working in strong lighting conditions. Complementing the optical design is a 3.5 stop-effective image stabilization system, which minimizes the appearance of camera shake to benefit shooting handheld.
Fujifilm GF 32-64mm f/4 R LM WR Lens
Designed for the FUJIFILM G-mount GFX camera system, this GF 32-64mm f/4 R LM WR Lens is a wide-angle zoom offering a 25-51mm equivalent focal length range. Covering wide-angle to normal-length perspectives, this zoom is well-suited to everyday shooting applications, and the constant f/4 maximum aperture maintains consistent performance throughout the zoom range. A sophisticated optical design pairs a trio of aspherical elements with one super ED element and one ED element to control both spherical and chromatic aberrations for improved sharpness, clarity, and color accuracy.
Fujifilm GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR Lens
The GF 250mm f/4 R LM OIS WR from FUJIFILM is a 197.5mm-equivalent lens for the G-mount GFX camera system. Offering a mixture of long reach and a relatively bright f/4 maximum aperture, this lens is well-suited to isolating subject matter and working with shallow depth of field techniques. Complementing the visual compression of the telephoto focal length is an advanced optical layout, which uses one Super ED element and two extra-low dispersion elements to control color fringing and chromatic aberrations for a high degree of clarity and color accuracy.
Fujifilm Fujinon MK 18-55mm T2.9 Cine Lens (X-mount)
The Fujinon MKX18-55mm T2.9 Lens in X-Mount is a lightweight cine-style zoom lens for X-mount cameras with a Super 35mm-sized sensor. The electrical contacts within the lens mounts allows communication with X-series cameras. It features a mechanical design with three independent lens control rings: focus, iris, and zoom. Each ring incorporates a cine-style gear with a 0.8 MOD for interfacing with standard cine -style lens accessories. The focus ring features approximately 200° of rotation, which provides room for precise focus pulls, and the iris is clickless, enabling smooth iris pulls. The lens also incorporates a macro mode for close focusing capabilities.
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Use only reputable suppliers and contractors registered with parent associations - CSIR
South Africans have been urged to become more energy efficient by changing their usage behaviour and using complementary energy sources.
"The CSIR advised South Africans to use only reputable suppliers and contractors registered with parent associations."
While the usage of alternative energy strategies can minimise the impact of load shedding or grid outages, they can also assist households to save money, energy experts from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said on Thursday.
They were briefing the media in Pretoria on how South Africans can alleviate the impact of load shedding.
Principal researcher Jarrad Wright said shifting electricity demand by using electricity at different times of the day and week can also help to save significantly on electricity use and monthly household electricity bills.
“Moving the use of electricity around to different times of the day or week can help the power system significantly.
“At the same time, we need to continue to install energy-efficient LED lighting, as well as energy efficient and smart appliances, such as fridges, washing machines, tumble dryers and dishwashers, while thinking of improving electric water geyser efficiency with geyser blankets and piping insulation,” said Wright.
Wright said households can also shift to alternative power sources such as clean-burning cookstoves, increased household braai and replacing electric geysers with a solar water heater.
The CSIR advised South Africans to use only reputable suppliers and contractors registered with parent associations. – SAnews.gov.za
SAAEA is now a Global entity.
Established in 2008, SAAEA has become the largest and most influential renewable energy association on the African Continent, and South Africa is now a formidable force in the worldwide renewable energy industry.
The Southern African Alternative Energy Association has therefore taken the decision to become a global organisation; which will exponentially increase the field of information sharing among the renewable energy community and will provide opportunities to make connections internationally.
The Global Renewable Energy Alliance (G-REAL) is being incorporated into SAAEA.
This development will afford our current members worldwide access and exposure, and we encourage new members from all over the world to join our global community.
Alwyn Smith, chairman of SAAEA says: "Our existing members will have full access to the G-Real platform with full membership benefits; both logos are available for promotional purposes. We hope that this will create lots of new opportunities for the renewable energy community as a whole".
No quick fix to South African power crisis
Speaking ahead of the POWER-GEN Africa and DistribuTECH Africa power generation and distribution conferences to be held in Cape Town later this year, Alwyn Smith, spokesman for the South African Alternative Energy Association (SAAEA), says any fix will take years.
“We have left it too late. There are few, if any, solutions that could be put in place to turn the situation around in the short term. To be fair, this is not just the fault of Eskom. Eskom has been warning for years that this would happen unless more budget was allocated for maintenance,” says Smith.
SAAEA on SABC3 Newsroom
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Hapag-Lloyd is building the software and user interfaces for a central control tower that will help
Hapag-Lloyd to launch 'control tower' that will boost on-time shipments
04 Feb 2019by Rebecca Moore
Hapag-Lloyd is establishing a central control tower to manage the schedules of its fleet of ships
Hapag-Lloyd is establishing a central control tower to manage the schedules of its fleet of ships.
Previously, there was nobody responsible overall to decide if ships should sail faster or slower, skip a port or ‘cut and run’ (leave port on time, without late arriving cargo). The instructions came from the nearest area to the individual ship.
Hapag-Lloyd senior director of corporate development Pyers Tucker says “Local decision makers do not have access to all of the downstream consequences on a roundtrip. Therefore, we are putting in place a control tower where people can access all the relevant information quickly and make the right decisions for the whole organisation, rather than just locally optimised ones.”
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He emphasises that “digitalisation is absolutely key” to establishing the control tower. “The way forward is to connect lots of different data streams in different formats from different sources, combine them in an automated way and present the information to the control tower team so they can quickly make good decisions.”
Hapag-Lloyd has piloted how to achieve this for nine months and is building the software and user interfaces. It is estimated that it will take two to three years to roll out.
Highlighting the benefits that Hapag-Lloyd and its customers will reap, Mr Tucker says, “It will help significantly with on-time shipments, as it means that if things go wrong, we can identify this earlier and make better decisions much more quickly about what to do about it and keep customers informed appropriately.”
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UK yard to modify and ‘upcycle’ crew transfer vessel
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ICYMI: Portman's Super Saturday Success
This weekend, the Portman campaign's "Super Saturday" push resulted in over 41,000 voter contacts through its door-to-door and phone programs with the help of over 800 volunteers in a single day. On Saturday, Rob traveled the state making stops in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus, Akron, and Cleveland, and his wife Jane made additional stops in Delaware and Zanesville. On Sunday, the campaign visited Toledo to open its fifth field office, and it now has offices open in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo.
The campaign is prepared for a tough election next year, and the Republican Party showed this weekend that it is united around Rob. The entire GOP congressional delegation, all Republican statewide elected officials, and ORP Chairman Matt Borges helped the campaign throughout Saturday. Since May 1st, the Portman campaign has contacted over 700,000 voters through its door-to-door and phone programs. The campaign also recently launched its African American Leadership Council, Veterans Leadership Council, and Students for Portman coalition; more coalitions will launch in the coming weeks.
Click here to watch a recap of the day.
Photos from the events:
NBC 24: "Sen. Portman opens campaign office in Toledo"
Senator Rob Portman opened a new campaign office in Toledo on Sunday. It comes one day after what his campaign called "Super Saturday," a grassroots organizing day throughout the state. ... In all, more than 41,000 contacts were made with potential voters.
"Toledo is going to be a core part of the state for us. It's an area where there are a lot of undecided voters and a lot of independent voters. We want to be sure people know about the good work we've done on things like algal blooms, human trafficking and drug addiction. But also what our hopeful plans are for the future."
WDTN: "Senator Portman makes stop in Dayton"
Hundreds of volunteers spent the day reaching out to more than 25,000 Ohio voters.
“We’re here with a lot of students from University of Dayton, Wilmington College, and other schools,” said Senator Rob Portman, (R) Ohio. “Just a lot of great volunteers who believe that this election is so important, they want to get out and spread the word.”
In addition to his Dayton stop, Senator Portman also visited offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Akron, and Cleveland.
Columbus Dispatch: "Portman-palooza planned for Saturday"
Get ready for the Rob Portman blitz.
Portman, who is running for re-election to the U.S. Senate, is planning a Saturday campaign event that will boast more than 700 volunteers across the state knocking on doors and making calls. The goal is to make 25,000 voter contacts on one day.
Portman himself will be meeting with volunteers in his campaign offices in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland.
AP: "GOP’s Portman makes early Senate re-election push in Ohio"
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman is making a grassroots push across Ohio more than a year before he faces re-election in one of the nation’s most closely watched races.
The Cincinnati Republican planned to mobilize volunteers in Cincinnati, Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland during the daylong Super Saturday push. The event’s goal is to make 25,000 phone and personal contacts with voters.
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The Ohana Fest 2019: Eddie Vedder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Strokes, Incubus and More
The Ohana Festival is the three-day music festival curated by Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder, and the 2019 edition was unveiled on Monday. https://twitter.com/TheOhanaFest/status/1102584565548244994 Set…
By Rock Cellar Magazine Staff January 30, 2017
The Offspring, Sum 41, Lit to Highlight Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival at Doheny State Beach 4/8
On Saturday, April 8, Southern California’s Doheny State Beach will be the place to be for live music/craft beer/taco enthusiasts at the 2017 Sabroso Craft Beer,…
Bonnaroo 2017 Lineup: U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Weeknd, Chance the Rapper Headlining
The lineup and details for this year’s Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival were announced on Wednesday, and it’s a big ‘win’ for fans of iconic rock…
By Rock Cellar Magazine Staff January 4, 2017
Governors Ball NYC 2017: Tool, Phoenix, Chance the Rapper to Headline June Festival
The lineup and details for the 2017 Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall’s Island Park in New York City were announced on Wednesday. Headlining the three-day fest,…
Coachella 2017 Lineup: Radiohead, Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar Headlining (Full Details)
The official lineup and details for the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival have been announced for April 2017. Headlining the mega-fest this year will be…
BottleRock Napa 2017: Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, Maroon 5 Headlining
The lineup and details for the 2017 BottleRock Napa Valley music festival were announced on Tuesday, and it’s quite an impressive group of musicians. The following…
By Adian Garro September 23, 2016
KAABOO 2016: The Ultimate 'MIX-perience' (Festival Review/Photos)
KAABOO is not like the others. It is by design that this festival feels a little bit different. It could be the imported beaches, cabanas and…
By Adian Garro August 8, 2016
Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Covered the Beatles, the Band and More in First-Ever Live Set at Outside Lands (Watch)
This past weekend, the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival took place at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Rock Cellar Magazine wasn’t on-hand for this…
By Adian Garro July 21, 2016
Outside Lands Music Festival Announces Daily Lineup, Livestream Details
The 2016 Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival is coming up fast. It’ll take place at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco from August 5 through…
By Adian Garro June 27, 2016
Bonnaroo 2016: Reflections
A few weekends back, Rock Cellar Magazine had a correspondent in Tennessee at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Here are some of his reflections from…
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Rockland Ford Presents a New Lineup of Ford Models
Rockland Ford has a wide variety of new and pre-owned Ford models for sale at our New England Ford dealership in Thomaston, ME. Visit our lot, and we'll put you in a brand-new 2020 Ford Explorer, 2019 Ford Escape, Ford Ranger, Ford Edge, EcoSport, SUV, Mustang, F-150, or any other of our reputable Ford models in stock. Once we find you a new car that has the style and quality you're looking for, we'll have you take your new or used vehicle out for a spin! If you're looking for something specific, we suggest you call before visiting our New England Ford dealership, so we can provide you with an updated list of the new cars we have in stock.
New Inventory at Rockland Ford in Knox County
If you're looking for a new car, truck, or SUV, why not buy a Ford? Our lot is stocked with the finest selection of Ford models, and we can't wait to get you behind the wheel of your dream car. When you visit Thomaston's Rockland Ford, our enthusiastic sales team will work with you to help meet all of your car-buying needs. We are well-versed on all different types of makes and models and are eager to show you our available options.
If you're in the market for something rough and tough, we may recommend taking a look at our fine selection of Ford F-150s. With class-leading capabilities, this F-Series has been the best-selling truck for 41 years running. The line features six different engine options and has set the standard for towing and payload capabilities. We would be happy to tell you all about our XL, XLT, STX, Lariat, or Raptor 2019 F-150 models.
We also offer Ford models for customers looking for something more compact, like a 2019 Ford Fusion, or EcoSport. These options come fully-equipped with the latest infotainment system, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality, and other tech-friendly innovations. These smaller options offer more cargo and storage space than previous models, making them perfect for any family.
Want something a little flashier? No problem! Our 2019 Ford Mustangs are the epitome of style, sport, and class. With excellent gas mileage compared to other sports cars, you can really have it all with this Ford model.
If that wasn't enough, we even carry the 2019 and 2020 Ford Explorer. Just when we thought the model couldn't get any more elite, Ford introduced the new 2020 Ford Explorer. Keep reading to learn all about this new souped-up SUV.
Don't Miss the Ford Explorer's Revamped Interior Design
Rockland Ford is proud to announce that the brand-new 2020 Ford Explorer has just pulled onto the lot! As the SUV that started it all, this model has been completely redesigned from the inside-out. Did we mention the revamp that has taken place under the hood? The Explorer totes an athletic look that's complemented by an unrivaled 400-horsepower engine, 415 lb.-ft. of torque and an average top speed of 143 mph. In addition, it now has the largest-ever twin-panel moonroof, an available 10.1-inch capacitive portrait touchscreen for hands-free driving, a 12.3-inch digital instrument customizable panel cluster, the B&O 14-speaker available sound system, maximum seating/cargo space, and more! This model is also fully equipped with confidence-driving technology called Co-Pilot360™, creating a safer drive for everyone. This feature comes standard with:
Auto High-Beam Headlamps
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Lane-Keeping System
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To match the redesign under the hood and to the interior, the 2020 Ford Explorer offers all-new trims. With a more athletic design, this new car comes with rear-wheel drive, advanced towing and trailer sway control, and an intelligent 4WD with a Terrain Management System with up to seven selectable drive modes. Driving in style won't be an issue with the 2020 Explorer, as the exterior now comes in 10 available colors.
Buy Your New Ford Cars near Rockland, ME
If you're interested in the 2020 Ford Explorer or any of our other new Ford cars, trucks, or SUVs, reach out to Rockland Ford in Thomaston, ME for more information. We'll let you know what Ford cars we currently have available, and even get you to our lot for a test drive. We highly encourage our customers to get in and take their dream car for a spin. This way, you can get a good feel for the vehicle, especially after window shopping online. We'll ensure that you and your new car are perfect for each other and will happily answer any questions or concerns regarding the maintenance, financing, or performance of your vehicle. Rockford Ford always has new cars for sale, and our dedicated team will work to get you the best car for the best deal! Call today to schedule a test drive!
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Car Wars: EA Announces Need For Speed Rivals
24th May 2013 / 2:00PM
The psychology of being inside a car is kind of fascinating – in a twisted, human-limits-revealing sort of way. We tend to stop viewing our fellow road-hogging compatriots as people, preferring instead to focus on the galloping four-wheeled colossi in front of us. Other drivers become objects, impediments, enemies. Have you ever had one of those moments where you’re honking and raging, and then you finally pass the person ahead of you and briefly see their face? “Oh god,” I often think. “They look so upset. Did I do that? To another person? That’s fucked!” But I keep doing it anyway, because I’m in a soulless metal shell, and so are they. That, I figure, is why street racing games are never about anything other than competition, rivalry, and sticking it to the po-lice. It’s so easy to hate a car, run it off the road, and laugh. Need For Speed Rivals‘ title, then, strikes me as weirdly redundant, in its own way.
(I am not, by the way, damning that thematic element of these games. Also, I don’t claim to understand actual street racing. It could be full of marvelous sportsmanship and terrifically polite people.)
Need For Speed Rivals isn’t a direct sequel to Need For Speed: Most Wanted, but it shares a lot of thematic elements with Criterion’s metal-twisting opus. Case in point:
“In Need for Speed Rivals, gamers play as either a cop or racer, where each side of the law has its own set of high stakes challenges, rewards and consequences. As a racer, the goal is to become infamous for taking risks behind the wheel and capturing your most intense escapes on video for the world to see. The more cops players evade, the more Speed Points they collect, enabling them to unlock new cars and items. Keep raising the stakes race after race to become an ever-more valuable target to the cops – but risk losing it all if busted. As a cop, players work together as part of a team in pursuit of racers, earning prominence and rising in the ranks of the Police Force with every bust. Achieving higher ranks unlocks new police only cars and more powerful pursuit tech.”
EA hasn’t explicitly stated whether or not Rivals is another open-world to-do, but NFS is at least receiving a couple major shake-ups. For one, Criterion isn’t leading the development charge on this one. Instead, Rivals’ new team of grease monkeys goes by the name of Ghost Games, and they’re apparently working “in partnership” with Criterion. Also, the wind beneath Rivals’ car wings comes from Frostbite 3, so it should have that “next-gen” sheen no one can shut up about.
Now for the potentially bad news. As ever with recent EA games, it sounds like single-player here is only an illusion. A feature called “AllDrive” will apparently let friends crash through the walls of your solitude whenever they please. “Players will have to keep one eye on their rearview mirror as friends will be able to enter and exit races on-the-fly, creating a world where no two events will ever be the same,” read EA’s announcement.
Sounds dynamic and unpredictable, for those who want it. Hopefully it’s optional, but I’ve sent EA an email asking for confirmation one way or the other. They, um, haven’t been the best on responding lately, but here’s hoping.
Need For Speed Rivals will be out on November 19th.
Tagged with Criterion Games, Electronic Arts, Ghost Games, Need For Speed Rivals.
Have You Played... Lego Island?
Lego Nightmares
A strangling spree in Saint Denis - more adventures in Red Dead Redemption 2
This city is a tar pit and I’m drowning in it
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Delay to loan charge review leaves thousands in limbo
A report into the controversial loan charge may not be published until after a deadline for settlements with HMRC has passed.
Up to 50,000 people whose employers had paid them through loans from offshore trusts dating back to 1999 were warned earlier this year they could face huge tax bills.
They were issued with a 5 April 2019 deadline to either settle or declare their tax bills, or face a 45% charge on all loans advanced through the schemes.
The next deadline for all settlements is on 31 January 2020, while the report was expected to be published by mid-November.
Chancellor Sajid Javid had announced the independent review to assess whether the loan charge was a suitable way to deal with disguised remuneration schemes.
Jesse Norman, financial secretary to the Treasury, wrote to Sir Amyas Morse asking the leader of the review to delay publishing his findings.
Those affected had hoped the report would spare them from the settlement deadline, but it will not be published until a new government is formed.
In his letter, Norman said:
"Ministers agree it would be most appropriate for your report to be submitted to the new Government."
With the General Election on 12 December 2019, and winter recess pencilled in for 20 December to 6 January, it's probable that around three weeks will be left to publish the report before the scheduled deadline for settlements.
We can liaise with HMRC on your behalf.
National living wage to rise by 6.2% for 2020/21
Retailers suffer ‘worst year on record’
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SDBJ INSIDER: Homeless Advocate Ups Commitment; SDSU Owes Thanks
By Nels Jensen
Nels Jensen
Longtime homeless advocate Michael McConnell announced that he has transferred his share of ownership in San Diego Coin & Bullion to co-owner Chad Martin in order to devote more time to his civic passion and quest to develop permanent housing solutions.
McConnell is far more than a typical advocate. The East Village resident has been vice chairman of the Regional Task Force on the Homeless and in 2017 reportedly paid $30,000 to a professional polling company to gauge the public’s position on a possible tax exclusively to fund relief for the homeless vs. what would become the mayor’s ill-fated proposal to tie homeless relief in with convention center expansion and infrastructure maintenance.
McConnell recently was given the Diogenes Award from the local chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for his remarkable candor when dealing with the public and news media. It’s not often someone other than a PR professional, public official or company executive wins the award. It’s well deserved.
As distasteful as it may seem given the low-brow tactics of the campaign to redevelop the Mission Valley stadium site, the Friends of SDSU owe a big thank you to FS Investors. Without the fast-track SoccerCity proposal setting the pace, one can only guess how little progress would have been made on the site given the city’s inability to execute visionary projects and San Diego State University’s previous failure to provide a plan. To use a football analogy, SDSU now has the ball in scoring territory.
I had a chance to play the Links at Petco Park, and it was a blast hitting golf balls from the various places around the ballpark onto the “greens” on the field. The weather hole with the power fan and water at the tee box was a nice touch from the Padres and Callaway Golf.
Walking around you could see a ton of work being done on the stadium itself. What a novel concept, a San Diego pro sports franchise actually maintaining and improving its facility.
Editor-in-Chief Nels Jensen can be reached via njensen@sdbj.com
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SDBJ INSIDER - Ballot Box Woes: Convention Center Not Only Issue
SDBJ Names Nels Jensen as Editor-In-Chief
SDBJ Appoints Nels Jensen as Editor-In-Chief
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S&P 500 Weekly Market Outlook: Headwinds Remain
Willie Delwiche
Stocks slid yesterday and the rally may face additional headwinds going forward.
Here’s our latest look at key technical indicators and market trends for the trading week ending April 20, 2018.
Key Takeaways: A pessimism-fueled bounce has led to some near-term breadth improvements. Lack of a breadth thrust and more challenging tone from longer-term breadth trends suggest continued caution remains warranted. Near-term path for stocks could get rockier as optimism returns and with bond yields and commodities moving to new highs.
Stocks Bounce but Breadth Inconclusive as Near-Term Headwinds Build
Fueled by a build-up in short-term pessimism, the S&P 500 has been in rally mode since the recent test of its 200-day moving average. This rally has carried the index above its 50-day moving average and a test of the down-tend that has formed off of the January and March peaks. This rally has seen an expansion in the percentage of stocks trading above their 50-day average (at 61%, it is at its highest since February) and has included a new high in the S&P 500 advance-decline line. While the improvement in the near-term breadth backdrop is encouraging, we would caution against making too much of it.
Both the January and March pullbacks in the S&P 500 coincided with new highs in the advance-decline line (i.e., breadth did not lead the index), index level momentum is shy of its March peak (after making a lower low earlier this month), and the longer-term breadth backdrop argues for caution.
While selling pressure has perhaps ebbed, we are still lacking evidence that broad market momentum has turned more constructive. Since the January market peak, we have seen (by our count) six trading days where downside volume outpace upside volume by more than nine-to-one. We have yet to record even a single day when upside volume has outpaced downside volume by a similar margin. We are also watching for evidence of historically meaningful breadth thrusts. These could be a surge in the 10-day advance/decline ratio and, as shown here, a significant expansion in the percentage of stocks trading above their 10-day averages. These would be signals from the broad market that upside momentum is buliding.
We also have a close eye on our indicator that provides a gauge of industry group strength. This indicator has shown steady deterioration in 2018, and currently has just 48% of the industry groups in the S&P 1500 in up-trends. This is below the November 2016 trough and continued readings below 50% would be consistent with a more drawn out cyclical correction. Given the index-level rally over the past two weeks, it will be important to see this indicator move off its recent lows to prevent sending a bearish divergence message.
The near-term path for stocks could get rockier. Neither broad-market nor index-level momentum is providing fuel for the rally. Stocks are no-longer oversold on a short-term basis, and there is evidence that near-term investor pessimism is dissipating (the AAII survey shows the most bulls since February and the NAAIM Exposure index has risen from 49% to 78% over the past three weeks). The NDR trading sentiment composite has moved out of the excessive pessimism zone and is climbing toward optimism.
In addition to that, commodities are breaking out to the upside and bond yields are testing their early-year peak. This could move yields, relative to their trend, back into a zone where stocks have historically struggled. The moves in bonds and commodities come with supportive momentum trends and could be indications that inflation pressures are building and the Fed may have to accelerate its path of interest rate hikes.
The Bottom Line is that the S&P 500 has rallied toward resistance, but we see little evidence that this is the first leg in a meaningful move higher for stocks.
Twitter: @WillieDelwiche
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A little labeling goes a long way: Semi-supervised learning in infancy
Alexander LaTourrette*, Sandra R. Waxman
There is considerable evidence that labeling supports infants' object categorization. Yet in daily life, most of the category exemplars that infants encounter will remain unlabeled. Inspired by recent evidence from machine learning, we propose that infants successfully exploit this sparsely labeled input through “semi-supervised learning.” Providing only a few labeled exemplars leads infants to initiate the process of categorization, after which they can integrate all subsequent exemplars, labeled or unlabeled, into their evolving category representations. Using a classic novelty preference task, we introduced 2-year-old infants (n = 96) to a novel object category, varying whether and when its exemplars were labeled. Infants were equally successful whether all exemplars were labeled (fully supervised condition) or only the first two exemplars were labeled (semi-supervised condition), but they failed when no exemplars were labeled (unsupervised condition). Furthermore, the timing of the labeling mattered: when the labeled exemplars were provided at the end, rather than the beginning, of familiarization (reversed semi-supervised condition), infants failed to learn the category. This provides the first evidence of semi-supervised learning in infancy, revealing that infants excel at learning from exactly the kind of input that they typically receive in acquiring real-world categories and their names.
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category learning
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LaTourrette, A., & Waxman, S. R. (2019). A little labeling goes a long way: Semi-supervised learning in infancy. Developmental Science, 22(1), [e12736]. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12736
LaTourrette, Alexander ; Waxman, Sandra R. / A little labeling goes a long way : Semi-supervised learning in infancy. In: Developmental Science. 2019 ; Vol. 22, No. 1.
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XR - IPCC Are Not Ignoring The Arctic Albedo Effect - Clouds Making World More Reflective In The Tropics More Than Compensate
By Robert Walker | November 29th 2019 02:57 PM | Print | E-mail
You’ll often hear about the “Ice albedo effect” as a supposed tipping point that the IPCC is ignoring. The idea is that as the Arctic ice melts, it absorbs more heat from the sun, and so warms the planet. What they ignore is that as the planet warms there are also more clouds, especially in tropical regions. This did seem a possibility in the 1980s, and Margaret Thatcher mentions it in her speech to the UN. However, you need to look at the planet as a whole, and we now know that because a warmer world has more clouds in the tropics, the overall global albedo effect is actually a cooling rather than a warming effect, helping to offset some of the global warming.
The social scientist Jem Bendell and Rupert Read, frequently the spokesperson for the Extinction Rebellion make this as one of their two main points when they argue that the climate will change much more rapidly than the IPCC’s study found in its review of the climate change literature. Here is how Jem Bendell puts it in the Extinction Rebellion handbook, currently on sale by Penguin Books as "this is not a drill"
I am a social scientist, not a climatologist. So who am I to spread panic and fear …
[mentions that in the 2007 the IPCC under estimated how quickly all the ice in the Arctic could melt]
Once I realized that the IPCC couldn’t be taken as climate gospel, I looked more closely at some key issues. The Arctic looms large. It acts as the planet’s refrigerator, by reflecting sunlight back into space and by absorbing energy when the ice melts from solid to liquid. Once the Arctic ice has gone and the dark ocean starts absorbing sunlight, the additional global warming blows the global two-degree warming target out of the window.
He is so convinced by his own ideas that he continues:
"We should be seeding and brightening the clouds above the Arctic immediately as a global emergency reseponse."
Chapter 11 Doom and Bloom, Adapting to Collapse, by Jem Bendell in Extinction Rebellion. This Is Not A Drill (An Extinction Rebellion Handbook) (p. 76). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
The sunlight is very low in the Arctic and of course it's constant darkness in winter. It is absolutely the worst place to try to cool the planet down with reflective clouds, you would do it in the tropics, but we don't need to resort to such things.
Part of this is from:
Short debunk of Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation and Rupert Read's blog post
This is another article I'm writing to support people we help in the Facebook Doomsday Debunked group, that find us because they get scared, sometimes to the point of feeling suicidal about it, by such stories.
Do share this with your friends if you find it useful, as they may be panicking too
Yes it is true that the ice there is melting. But what he is missing is what is happening in the rest of the world.
This map shows the change in total solar energy input from 2000 to 2012 where red and orange means it got more solar energy input, and blue and green means it got less:
“Change in total solar energy input from 2000 to 2012 as measured by the CERES dataset” Units: watts per square meter per decade
Arctic albedo changes are small compared with changes in cloud cover in the tropics
There you can see that the Arctic did have a big increase in solar flux. But at the same time some areas, especially in the Pacific had major decreases in solar flux shown in blue. The tropics become more cloudy in the warming world.
Averaged over the whole world the changing albedo since then has lead to a reduction in the global flux by 0.14 watts per square meter. Most of that reduction is in the southern hemisphere (reduction of 0.26 watts per square meter average). However even the northern hemisphere has had a net reduction in the solar flux (reduction of 0.03 watts per square meter). The increasing cloudiness elsewhere has more than compensated for the Arctic albedo effect.
So, it is not a valid way to argue, to say that an increase in solar flux over a small region in the Arctic should be averaged out as a global increase. This is an example of a scientist who ignores this global averaging process.
Why An Ice Free Summer Arctic Will NOT Have The Same Effect As 25 Years Of CO2 Emissions
I’ve just done this as a tweet here:
Jem Bendell is also wrong, not worst case, about the Arctic albedo. Earth is getting more reflective. This is not a reason for extinction or civilization collapse. See IPCC 2018.
Science is evidence based. Aims for consensus eventually. https://t.co/eXiYj6fqN3 pic.twitter.com/Oak6cL31AH
— Robert Walker - science blogger and fact checker (@DoomsdayDebunks) November 23, 2019
The article Zeke Hausfather commented on in his tweet is an example of the hysteria and alarmism and junk science that is confusing the public and obscuring the level headed careful analysis by the IPCC which is quite bad enough as it is. This article has many serious mistakes in it. I have annotated some of the worst mistakes here
The climate models do not find any tipping point. It's neither irreversible nor does it take us into a new state of the climate, instead if temperatures overshoot and then come back down the ice will return to its previous extent
The IPCC say in chapter 3 (in the 2018 report on the difference between a 2 C and 1.5 C rise):
"Sea ice is often cited as a tipping point in the climate system. Detailed modelling of sea ice, however, suggests that summer sea ice can return within a few years after its artificial removal for climates in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Further studies modelled the removal of sea ice by raising CO2 concentrations and studied subsequent regrowth by lowering CO2. These studies suggest that changes in Arctic sea ice are neither irreversible nor exhibit bifurcation behaviour. It is therefore plausible that the extent of Arctic sea ice may quickly re-equilibrate to the end-of-century climate under an overshoot scenario. "
3.6.3.1 Sea Ice
Some will tell you that the reason the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world is because the ice is melting and the melting ice means it is less reflective, and so absorbs more heat (the ice albedo effect).
The “ice albedo” effect does have an effect but it is relatively minor - after all most of the time the sun is either below the horizon (in winter) or low above the horizon and the melting happens mainly in mid summer. Even if all the Arctic melts in mid summer in the second half of this century, that doesn’t warm it up that much. It helps melt more ice in the Arctic sea in summer and warms the sea up slightly, but as soon as it goes to winter, it freezes, indeed freezes faster than it would if it already had an insulating layer of ice.
After all, northern Europe is warming up twice as fast as the tropics and that’s clearly not an ice albedo effect.
The main reason the Arctic is warming up is because of “polar amplification”. You get these in climate models of worlds with no ice or snow. Even a pure “aquaplanet” which is covered only in sea will have increased warming at the poles.
It’s because of a natural movement of heat from the tropics to the poles in a warming planet. As it gets warmer, the convection effects increase and even out the temperature more between the tropics and the poles.
This shows the latitude dependent effect of a doubling of CO2 on an aquaplanet with no land or ice with a general circulation model
"Polar amplification of surface warming on an aquaplanet in "ghost forcing" experiments without sea ice feedbacks"
ANTARCTICA RESISTS POLAR AMPLIFICATION WITH THE WESTERLIES CIRCLING THE POLE
However, Antarctica has resisted this effect, and it has cooled up only slightly, with some parts even cooling slightly in the last half century:
From: NASA GISS Surface Temperature Analysis
The negative greenhouse effect over Antarctica is a factor here.
Techy details: Temperature inversion aren’t that unusual, the temperature increasing with height in the atmosphere. However, normally the increase only happens for a short way into the atmosphere. For instance in Arctic the surface is often much colder than the air above it. However it’s also often covered in deep layers of water vapour and clouds and the temperature of the radiating layer at the top of that is still less than the surface temperature.
There is a temperature inversion in the stratosphere (from 20 to 50 km), where some of the water vapour and all the CO2 greenhouse effect happens - but even if it got warmer than the surface, the water vapour would overwhelm the carbon dioxide effect.
During the colder conditions of the ice ages, the Arctic also had potential for a negative greenhouse effect over the coldest places such as Greenland But this can’t happen there now. If the world warmed up a lot, then Antarctica could start to have a postive greenhouse effect.
To find out more about this, the paper is here:
Unmasking the negative greenhouse effect over the Antarctic Plateau
However another factor in the southern ocean is that the westerly winds around Antarctica - these have strengthened and circle the continent more tightly which block the convection of warmth from the tropics to Antactica. This also traps cold air over Antarctica and the hole in the ozone layer is also a factor because the ozone layer traps heat and so the upper atmosphere will be colder due to the ozone hole.
This doesn’t happen in the Arctic beecause of the mountainous regions around the Arctic which block the westerlies.
Why Antarctica is not getting any warmer
NEGATIVE GREENHOUSE EFFECT IN ANTARCTICA FOR NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR DUE TO CO2
Actually the same greenhouse gases that warm up Earth nearly everywhere actually act to cool down Antarctica for nine months of the year. That’s because Antarctica is the only place where the surface temperatures on average are LOWER than they are in the radiating layer in the stratosphere where the greenhouse gases absorb and re-emit the infrared radiation.
Greenhouse gases are warming the world—but chilling Antarctica. Here’s why
In Antarctica you have clear dry air, no clouds or moisture, and a very cold surface for nine months of the year, and the air gradually getting warmer with height for some distance. Those are ideal conditions for a negative greenhouse effect.
The radiating layer then is warmer than the ground, so that the effect of the heat radiating from the radiating layer instead of the ground is to make the planet cooler than it would be if the ground was exposed directly to the vacuum of space.
WHAT ABOUT DURING THE ICE AGES WHEN THERE WAS A LOT MORE SEA ICE?
There were rapid changes in the ice ages locally in the Arctic, increase in temperature by 10 C in decades then slow cooling over centuries. Only possible because large areas of the ocean were covered by sea ice. This is NOT POSSIBLE in our present day world. It is only a local warming in the Arctic - by a well known see-saw effect during the ice ages there is a compensating cooling in the southern hemisphere and Antarctica, and vice versa as the Arctic cools Antarctica warms.
Locally the albedo is involved but not as a global thing. Globally, the Antarctic warms when the Arctic cools and vice versa, a well known see-saw effect during the ice ages. So you got these sudden abrupt warmings of the Arctic by 10 C, but Antarctica and the southern hemisphere would cool to compensate/
Also locally, even with vast amounts of sea ice in the ice age, the sea ice by itself is not enough, it has to be ice, atmosphere and ocean together - the transport of heat in the ocean and in the atmosphere has to be disrupted too.
The problem is that if the sea ice melts, the sea then freezes much faster than it would if there was ice covering it, because it is exposed to the atmosphere directly. Early models that didn't take account of that were able to duplicate rapid changes using just melting of the ice as it got slightly warmer, but once they took account of that it became impossible to model without also changing the way the ocean and the atmosphere transfer heat to the poles when the ice melts - it stops the gulf stream and that's an important factor and that is what leads to the see-saw effect.
These are the Dansgaard–Oeschger Events . At some point the vast ice sheets would melt, the trigger is not well understood, possibly small variations in solar output but the way the sun varies slightly doesn't fit the timescale of these events which happen at semi-regular intervals. We can't yet model them properly in our climate models. It might just be a quasi-regular oscillation in the climate system when you have these large ice sheets similar to the multi-decadal oscillations in temperature in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Or on a shorter timescale similar to the El Nino / La Nina oscillation.
They can't happen in the present day world because we don't have enough sea ice to trigger them.
When the ice melts, then the gulf stream stops completely. That then leads to the Arctic cooling, and to huge ice sheets forming again, then that leads to the gulf stream starting up again, then the ice all melts and this went on over and over at the end of the ice age. Its very dramatic, abrupt warming by ten degrees in a couple of decades.
It's a rapid warming and slow cooling of the Arctic, but a cooling and slow warming in Antarctica because of the blocking of heat transport northwards from the equator. I don't think the global average temperature was much affected. The Arctic cooled when the ice sheets melted, because of the effect on the gulf stream.
Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger Events
Dansgaard–Oeschger event - Wikipedia
This is a recent 2019 paper about them. It puts forward the hypothesis that they are these quasi-regular oscillations over a longer timescale of centuries.
Consider a simplified setup where meridional transports of heat are invariable, and the Arctic Ocean becomes a thermal reservoir in radiative equilibrium. Since the radiation balance strongly depends on albedo and thus on the presence of ice, early studies found that such a system rapidly transitions from an ice-covered state (high albedo, light surface, more radiation reflected away leading to more cooling) to an ice-free state (low albedo, dark surface, more radiation absorbed leading to more warming) under gradual warming, with intermediate states being unstable (North, 1984; Thorndike, 1992).
However, the ice-albedo feedback becomes much less potent once real-world considerations are introduced. One such consideration is that thin ice grows more quickly than thick ice, an effect that counteracts the ice-albedo feedback and stabilizes the ice cover against runaway change (Bitz and Roe, 2004; Eisenman and Wettlaufer, 2009; Notz, 2009). The reason for this is that to create new ice, heat must be lost from the ocean to the atmosphere (see “Heat Fluxes” in Fig. 3). This heat loss happens more readily through thin ice than through thick ice; hence, freezing – which occurs at the base of the ice – accelerates when ice thins, and slows down when ice thickens. (Melt rates do not depend on ice thickness, because melting primarily happens from the top, at the ice-atmosphere interface.) Another consideration is the response of the atmosphere itself to ice perturbations, which also stabilizes the ice cover. For example, the excess heat absorbed by an ice-free surface ocean during summer is returned to the atmosphere in early winter, and removed from the Arctic via enhanced outgoing longwave radiation and reduced atmospheric heat transport from midlatitudes (Winton, 2013; Tietsche et al., 2011).
Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events
Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Ice Age (Nature knowledge project, 2011)
BIOMASS CURRENTLY IS INCREASING IN THE ARCTIC REGION
There has been a large increase in biomass in the Arctic regions. It is a mix of large areas of greening and smaller areas of browning. It suggests there are processes delaying green up. See this chart:
Epstein et al (2012) found an average circumpolar increase in aboveground tundra biomass of 19.8% between 1982 and 2010.This increase was accentuated in the mid- to southern tundra subzones (20–26% increase), yet it was substantially less in the more northern tundra (2–7%).
Decline in greenness has recently been detected especially during the last 3–4 years
Changes in timing of spring snow melt, permafrost degradation, killing frosts due to mid-winter or early-spring snow melt, or vegetation shift from graminoids to deciduous shrubs are all possible reasons for arctic tundra browning.
For the boreal forest, remote sensing studies continue to support the “browning” of forest vegetation (1982–2008) with increasing drought stress as the most probable driver. However, this reduction in photosynthesizing vegetation appears to be related to the fractions of evergreen trees and deciduous trees on the landscape – with greater declines in evergreen-dominated areas (Miles and Esau, 2016). Changes towards greening or browning appear here as well highly variable, both in time and space.
The changing colors of the Arctic: from greening to browning
EFFECTS ON WILDLIFE
2018 Arctic Report Card: Reindeer and caribou populations continue to decline The numbers of caribou fluctuate widely from year to year. However this year's decline is likely due in part to climate change. Only one of the herds is near their historic high. For reindeer, the population in Norway has been stable since 2002.
Only the two populations outlined in gold have no decline. The total poulation has declined by 56% and some of the herds have no recovery in sight at present.
About 54% of the variability is due to climate indicators. The main ones are the indicators of plant growth in October (warming growing degree days) and June (plant growing degree days).
These are often beneficial to caribou, but when you have multiple warm summers then you get increased drought, flies, parasites and perhaps increased susceptibility to pathogens from heat stress.
In Canada barren ground caribou became nationally recognized as "threatened" and two herds of Eastern migratory Caribou are "Endangered" and in Russia, which have many wild reindeer sub-species, then the declines are espcially for island, forest and mountain reindeer.
Migratory Tundra Caribou and Wild Reindeer
On polar bears, then they are vulnerable but they are okay for now as a general population though sub populations are in trouble. The ones in colder aeras of the Arctic actually can benefit from the warming because there are more seals. They run into problems when the ice free summer lasts for too long over five months as a transition point. IUCN red list best on that.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
They are not expected to go below 50% of current numbers in 35 years (three generations).
On the plus side, scientists think the risk of polar bear numbers dropping by more than half in the next 35 years is low (7%), while the risk of an 80% collapse is negligible. This keeps polar bears shy of the IUCN’s more serious “endangered” category.
Carbon brief have a good article on them.
Polar bears and climate change: What does the science say? | Carbon Brief.
IUCN on polar bears from 2014, the threshold is 5 months ice free in summer.
Polar bears in colder parts can actually benefit from a warming Arctic but most do not and the areas with more than 5 months ice free are expected to increase.
The PBSG concluded that one subpopulation (M’Clintock Channel) has increased, six were stable (Davis Strait, Foxe Basin, Gulf of Boothia, Northern Beaufort Sea, Southern Hudson Bay, and Western Hudson Bay), three were considered to have declined (Baffin Bay, Kane Basin, and Southern Beaufort Sea) and, for the remaining nine (Arctic Basin, Barents Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Greenland, Kara Sea, Lancaster Sound, Laptev Sea, Norwegian Bay, and Viscount Melville Sound) there were insufficient data to provide an assessment of current trend.
There is a very controversial polar bear scientist who claims they will manage just fine. She says they will benefit from thinner winter ice and can survive the few months of summer without food by fasting through them.
Susan J. Crockford - Wikipedia
Experts’ vision of an ice-free summer is already wrong & benefitting polar bears
It is very expensive to try to estimate polar bear numbers because as is typical of predators, the population is so small spread over vast areas in inhospitable areas of the world.
Polar bears are not at risk of extinction - they do face challenges in a warming world
For other mistakes you often see about the Arctic, such as the idea of mercury poisoning, or viruses that can harm us melting out of the Arctic see my:
Annotated mistakes and exaggerations in ‘The poisons released by melting Arctic ice’ - BBC Futures
Debunked: Blue ocean event - Earth will not suddenly warm up and go ice free year round if Arctic goes ice free for a month in summer
How the greenhouse effect really works - and why there is a negative greenhouse effect over Antarctica
Here are a couple of videos with me reviewing the Extinction Rebellion book.
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Seven tips for dealing with doomsday fears
If you are scared: Seven tips for dealing with doomsday fears which also talks about health professionals and how they can help.
If in the middle of a panic attack, see
Breathe in and out slowly and deeply to calm a panic attack by Robert Walker
on Debunking Doomsday
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Facebook group Doomsday Debunked has been set up to help anyone who is scared by these fake doomsdays.
Do message me on Quora or PM me on Facebook if you need help.
There are many others in the group who are available to support scared people via PM and who can also debunk fake Doomsday “news” for you if you get scared of a story and are not sure if it is true. See our debunkers list
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Surf Air Europe Launches This Autumn
Private Jets and Business Aircraft
Written by Fiona Young-Brown
Aviation membership club Surf Air is expanding, and they hope that their success in California will be mirrored in their new market – Europe.
Since Surf Air launched in 2013, the company has offered Californian travelers a comfortable and efficiently-priced alternative to other private aviation programs. For a monthly membership fee, members can enjoy unlimited flights on the Surf Air fleet between 13 destinations. Skipping the delays, lines and hassle of the commercial airport experience, members can be at their destination in half the time of a regular flight, and can manage their bookings via smartphone, with no penalties for changing or cancelling a flight.
Now European members will be able to enjoy the same convenience and high quality service. Simon Talling-Smith, European CEO of Surf Air, says that the expansion was the next logical step. "We have proven in California that our service is a valuable - even an essential - part of life for regular travelers. It was clear that the same model would work in many places globally. Europe has a number of major cities all within 45 mins to a few hours of each other, with heavily congested airports, and a large number of air travelers. So it makes sense to launch there." Indeed, the continent offers many big air travel markets all within a relatively small space.
Initial European Destinations
The first flights will take to the skies on November 7, and although the current fleet consists of "two or three" Cessna CJ4s and Learjet 75 models, Talling-Smith says that the fleet is expected to expand very quickly within the next year. The list of destinations is also expected to grow. At the time of launch, Surf Air Europe will operate between six key European cities – London, Zurich, Geneva, Paris, Cannes, and Dublin – with additional weekend links to Ibiza and Mallorca. Another five cities are expected to be added soon: Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Berlin, Milan, and Barcelona.
Financial Markets Focus
"We decided to start in cities within the finance vertical," Talling-Smith explains. "There is a high degree of movement between financial markets and so we knew that there was an opportunity for strong interest." One of the biggest challenges in preparing for the launch was explaining how Surf Air works, as a membership club and not as a fractional option: "Many had the misconception that we provide private jets for the uber-rich, but then they see how affordable we are." Continued Talling-Smith.
He notes that their membership is actually very varied: people in the financial sector, small businesses, those in the entertainment industry, and weekly commuters. Rising commuter numbers may also be a potential upside of this year's Brexit vote, as offices relocate to other European capitals. Talling-Smith suspects that many employees will choose to remain in their homes but commute to the new locations, and this is where Surf Air can provide convenience on demand.
The flights operate on a regular schedule, and members share use of the aircraft with other members, but depart from private aviation terminals avoiding the lines at commercial terminals. Surf Air Europe memberships start at a monthly fee of £2,500 plus a £1,000 initiation fee, or €3,250 per month and a €1,300 initiation fee. Members also have the "hangar option", whereby they can allow their membership to go dormant, for a fee of £300 per month. Talling-Smith sees this as an attractive option for those seasonal travelers who might spend a lot of time traveling during the ski season or when visiting their summer homes, but who might not otherwise be frequent flyers.
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Three More Awesome Eclipse Movie Stills
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Here’s three beautiful new movie stills from the film “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” aka Eclipse stars Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy) and Xavier Samuel (Road Train, The Loved Ones).
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Synopsis: In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob – knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
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Sen. Stamas holding office hours in Standish on January 12
Posted on January 7, 2016 by misenategopsyndicator
Sen. Jim Stamas
LANSING, Mich. — Sen. Jim Stamas has announced that he will conduct office hours in Standish on Tuesday, Jan. 12. The office hours are open to residents to express their opinions or concerns about state government or to request assistance with a state issue.
The office hours will be held from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. at the Standish City Hall, Council Chambers, 399 E. Beaver St., Standish.
“I encourage anyone who needs help or wants to express a viewpoint to stop by,” said Stamas, R-Midland. “My aim is to provide the best service possible for the hardworking people of the 36th District. My staff and I are excited about continuing a regular series of office hours throughout the district and hearing directly from constituents about state and pocketbook issues.”
Stamas represents the 36th Senate District, which includes Alcona, Alpena, Arenac, Gladwin, Iosco, Midland, Montmorency, Oscoda, Otsego and Presque Isle counties.
For more information, please contact Stamas’ office toll-free at 1-855-347-8036 or via email at SenJStamas@senate.michigan.gov. Residents unable to attend office hours may write Stamas at Senator Jim Stamas, P. O. Box 30036, Lansing, MI 48909.
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Indonesia intensifies color coded wristbandssearch for air crash victims, identification of bodies underway
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Officials carry a body bag off an ambulance to be identified by Indonesian Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) officer at Bhayangkara R. Said Sukanto hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 30, 2018. Photo/Agencies
JAKARTA, Oct. 30 -- Indonesian rescuers will extend the area of search operation for the victims and the main wreckage of the fatal air crash on Monday with all 189 people on board likely killed, while a forensic team is striving to identify the bodies of victims.
The national search and rescue office deputy chief Nugroho Budi Wiryanto disclosed on Tuesday evening that the search operation will be extended to 15 nautical miles on Wednesday from 10 nautical miles on Tuesday, aiming at maximizing the search mission to find the main wreckage of the almost new Lion Air Boeing 737 max 8 jet plane and the victims.
"Tomorrow we will widen the area of search, the ships that we use will be maximize, (and) diving will be also intensified," he said.
The search will include ships equipped with technology of echo-sounder and sonar to detect the position of the main wreckage of the aircraft, said Wiryanto.
Search for the wreckage of the aircraft, which went down in the water of Tanjung Karawang shortly after taking off from Soekarno-Hatta airport in Banten province, was in the radius of five nautical miles from the spot believed to be the crash site, according to rescue office.
Separately at the police hospital in Jakarta, a forensic team is striving to identify the bodies of victims on Tuesday.
Head of Health and Medical Department of Indonesian National Police Brigadier General Arthur Tampi said the forensic team has received body parts retrieved among the debris floating on the waters.
"We have conducted forensic examination, doctors have done it," he said.
Arthur Latief, head of media communication of the national search and rescue office told Xinhua by phone that a total of 10 body bags have been sent to the police hospital.
Tampi said that the forensic team has collected a total of 185 ante-mortem data, and as many as 147 of them have been taken DNA data.
However, none of the victims could be identified on Tuesday as many of the ante-mortem data have similarities, so the team has to wait for the DNA data to come out in four to eight days.
According to the national search and rescue agency, two foreign nationals are among the victims, an Indian pilot and an Italian national.
Edward Sirait, president and CEO of the Lion Air Group said that the Boeing 737 max 8 was purchased by the company this year, and started operating in August.
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Izuna site live, tons of concept art now online
By Siliconera Staff February 2, 2007
Atlus has the official site for Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja online and it’s like a set of online DVD extras. There are five pages of concept art with sketches of Izuna, Shino-sis and the other characters of the game. In the download section there are a bunch of wallpapers, but the real highlight is the online comic. There are two episodes online now, one introduces Izuna as a character and the other makes fun of the game’s title. The "alternate" titles are Izuna Encounter, Red Comet LeIzuna and my favorite Wanderers from Izuna. Anyone catch the references Atlus made?
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
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Building for the End Times
By Bradley Garrett
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An informative, chilling, and bizarrely entertaining inside look at the thousands of “prepper” communities around the world that are building bunkers against the coming apocalypse.
A National Geographic survey reveals that 62% of Americans think the world will experience a major catastrophe in twenty years, and 40% of Americans believe stocking up on supplies and building a bomb shelter is a wiser investment than retirement accounts. While many of us have imagined the possibility that our time on Earth as humans might end, there are those around the world who are preparing for what they see as the inevitable calamity. With a backdrop that consists of everything from electromagnetic pulses created by solar flares, to an inadvertently triggered nuclear war, to an abiding sense most people have that they’re under constant surveillance, cultural geographer Bradley Garrett traces how the “prepping” movement has spread, and the many forms it’s now taking.
Currently, 3.7 million Americans are preppers. Garrett argues this is a rational response to global, social, and political systems that are failing to produce credible narratives about the stability of the present or the hopefulness of our collective future. Left with a sense of foreboding arising from accelerating climate change, increasing government dysfunctionality, looming threats to critical infrastructure, and the ramping up of invasive monitoring, people all over the world are doing what they’ve always done in times of crisis: hunkering down.
Garrett travels across four continents to meet those who are preparing go-bags, constructing panic rooms, building underground backyard survival chambers, hiding inflatable rafts, rigging mobile “bugout” vehicles, and burrowing deep into the Earth. A captivating mix of intriguing people and places, Bunker is a fascinating, inside look at a growing global phenomenon.
Bradley Garrett is a cultural geographer and expert on cities, infrastructure, and social issues. His work, which often has him entering lost, forgotten, or off-limits places, has been featured on the History Channel, the UK’s BBC and Channel 4, and in The Atlantic and GQ. He also writes a column about public space for Guardian Cities. In addition to Bunker, he is the author of the critically acclaimed Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City as well as three other books on urban exploration, Subterranean London, London Rising, and Global Undergrounds.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio (August 4, 2020)
Runtime: 9 hours and 30 minutes
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Book Cover Image (jpg): Bunker
Unabridged Audio Download 9781797110622
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[Image] Here’s the Premier League team of the week for matchday 12 featuring Man City and Liverpool stars
by Sebastian Jacob November 13, 2018, 3:00 am
Premier League team of the week matchday 12 featuring Man City and Liverpool stars
Manchester City returned to the summit of the Premier League after picking up yet another resounding 3-1 victory against Manchester United at the Etihad Stadium. The Champions look unstoppable at this point with Liverpool duly keeping pace with them after beating Fulham at home.
Arsenal and Chelsea stumbled as both were only able to pick up a point this weekend. Tottenham Hotspur did dispatch Crystal Palace, which saw them go one point behind Chelsea, who they face next when the Premier League returns after the break.
Here’s our Premier League team of the week for Matchday 12:
Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur)
Lloris made a number of important saves against The Eagles in order to ensure Spurs picked up all three points. The French World Cup winner has come under intense scrutiny over the last few weeks due to his inconsistent performances but he definitely played his part during the weekend.
Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
After enduring a horrific outing against Red Star Belgrade, Alexander-Arnold picked out Mohamed Salah who turned in the opening goal against Fulham at Anfield. The youngster was solid defensively and whipped in a number of delicious crosses into the box.
Sol Bamba (Cardiff City)
Scored the winner in the dying minutes to hand the Bluebirds all three points. He defended fruitfully on the night and worked hard for the team.
Lewis Dunk (Brighton and Hove Albion)
For the second week in a row, Lewis Dunk got on the scoresheet with a towering header. They did lose the game to a Sol Bamba goal in stoppage time but Dunk was stoic throughout the game and gave his all for Brighton on the night.
Andrew Robertson (Liverpool)
Robertson and Alexander-Arnold both make the cut for the team of the week. Robertson picked out Xherdan Shaqiri with a sublime crossfield ball that saw the Swiss international slot home from close range. The Scottish full-back was also on point with his defending.
Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Its a wonder how Chelsea didn’t find the back of the net especially after Hazard started the game. The Belgian came close on a number of occasions and made everything happen for Chelsea as he has done so well this season. Sarri will definitely be frustrated with the result.
David Silva (Manchester City)
Opened the scoring for Pep Guardiola’s men in the Manchester derby. David Silva is always popping up in the right places and has proven to be a hard man to mark in the box. The midfielder has stepped up well and dictated play in Kevin De Bruyne’s absence.
Felipe Anderson (West Ham United)
The Brazilian got on the scoresheet once again but his efforts were in vain as the Hammers were only able to pick up a draw against Huddersfield Town. The midfielder has proven to be the driving force in this team and has done brilliantly so far.
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
Salah really looked lively against the Cottagers. He ran riot around their defenders and took his chance to score. Scoring at Anfield seems almost inevitable for him right now.
Salomon Rondon (Newcastle United)
Rondon scored both the goals as Rafa Benitez’s men took all three points against an impressive Bournemouth side. The striker has failed to make an impact over the last few weeks, but he was very influential against the Cherries.
Read more: 12 starts in 12 games – Newcastle are absolutely right in offering a new contract to this key figure
Sergio Aguero (Manchester City)
Aguero powered home the second with his new foxy look as the Cityzens romped to a 3-1 victory. The Argentine had failed to score against the Red Devils in the last few games but took his chance well and looked dangerous on the night.
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Iraina Mancini is a Singer/Songwriter DJ and Radio Host from London.
Iraina brings her love of Northern Soul, Ska, Funk, Rhythm & Blues and Garage Rock to audiences all over London and internationally. Playing at exclusive clubs such as Groucho Club, Soho House, 5 Hertford St and Scotch of St James as well as music festivals (Glastonbury, The Secret Garden Party, Red Rooster and Wilderness) and fashion, film and corporate events (Pretty Green, NME, Swarovski, Samsung, GQ and The Toronto Film Festival).
She presents her radio show every other Tuesday where she plays a taste of her DJ sets and interviews her favourite bands. Previous guests include legendary producer Mike Chapman (blondie, the knack), Lee Fields, Babyshamble’s, Ida Mae and Garret Shider (Parliament, Funkadelic).
Iraina is also a singer/songwriter currently gigging and recording her own new music to be released later this year.
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On the Samsung Galaxy S7 you now have the option to test features which may be implemented in future firmware releases. Samsung has integrated in the new Samsung Galaxy S7 the "Galaxy Labs" option.
In this field of instrumentation you can test and then evaluate the new features for your S7. However, it is not said that this feature will appear in a new firmware. The Galaxy-Labs section on your Samsung Galaxy S7 is a bit hidden, so here are the instructions on how to find and use the Galaxy Labs.
1. Open from the home screen the menu and then the Settings
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Sonovate partners with Brand Union
Fast-growth fintech company Sonovate appoints WPP’s global brand strategy agency Brand Union to help develop the brand for future expansion
Following £9m funding round Sonovate’s mission is to continue to engineer better ways for recruitment agencies to do business.
Sonovate, the recruitment finance and back office provider, has appointed WPP’s global brand strategy and design agency, Brand Union, to build a fintech brand for the future.
The fast-growth fintech company, founded in 2012, has emerged as a significant challenger to traditional banks, providing a revolutionary tech platform to solve a major admin and cash flow challenge faced by recruitment companies when placing contractors.
Following a series of successful multi-million pound funding rounds, Sonovate is looking to drive further penetration in the market, bringing Brand Union on board as a strategic partner to develop a brand architecture and build a future-proofed brand, helping it meet its significant growth targets.
Brand Union has the belief that organisations should engage emotionally with their audience and they do this through brand experience. Brand Union will be developing the brand strategy and identity that will enable Sonovate to deliver its ambitious growth strategy.
Richard Prime, Co-CEO at Sonovate, commented:
“The recruitment market deserves better and we’re delivering that. As we build market share and venture into new territory, we required a visionary partner that understands our needs and shares our challenge outlook. Brand Union’s track record makes them the perfect partner to define Sonovate and build the brand architecture to future proof our product roadmap.”
James Breeds, Client Director at Brand Union added:
“Sonovate is a future-thinking fintech brand that is completely disrupting the status quo and offering a competitive advantage and enhanced performance to businesses in the recruitment sector. We’re proud to be partnering with Sonovate to help them build a brand that epitomises their innovation and will in turn help them drive further market share. The company is entering fresh ground and we’re excited to play a vital role in helping it achieve its growth ambitions.”
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News: Blues staff visit Brockfield House hospital
Phil Brown and a selection of players pay a visit to the hospital.
Southend United manager Phil Brown and a selection of the Blues players paid a visit to Brockfield House hospital in Wickford yesterday.
The boss and the boys engaged with the patients in activities and Brown called the experience an ‘eye opener’.
“A couple of supporters said their daughter was in there and they asked if the players could come down and speak to them, which we were delighted to do for them,” Phil said.
“It was a real eye opener for me. Dan Bentley, Michael Timlin, David Worrall, Adam Thompson, John White and Jerome Binnom-Williams went down there joining in with the actitivities.
“It is a high security hospital and we had a five-a-side session, and other activities with them.”
And Chief Executive of the Southend United Community and Educational Trust, Dale Spiby, paid thanks to the boss and the players for taking the time to go and see the youngsters.
“It’s great to see the manager and players engaging with young fans at Brockfield House,” he said.
“Visits such as this can really help engage young people and give them a sense of self-worth and increase self-esteem.
“We’re a community-focussed Club and visits such as this are extremely worthwhile and important. A big thank you to Phil and the players for their time.”
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INJURY REPORT | The latest team news from Boots & Laces
Oxley, Ferdinand and Inniss update
Phil Brown has revealed Ryan Inniss, Mark Oxley and Anton Ferdinand could all be available for selection this weekend.
Inniss and Oxley have had lingering issues and Ferdinand limped out of the warm-up against Fleetwood last weekend.
But Brown could welcome all three back into his squad against Scunthorpe.
On Inniss, Brown said: “The fact he’s with Crystal Palace, they’ve got to decide on the medical side of things because he’s under contract with them.
“We had to wait for clearance from their medical staff and when we got it on the 31st [January], it was like signing a new player.
“We got him in the August transfer window and haven’t had the full benefit. Hopefully that’s behind us and we’ll get the benefit of a fit Ryan Inniss for the next 18 games.”
Oxley may well come into contention as well, with Brown saying: “He’s got one last little hurdle to get over, which might be little for me but massive for him, and that’s more psychological.
“It’s the confidence in his own arm. As an outfield player it’s always in your ankles and knees which is the final hurdle he has to get over and if that happens today then he’ll be available for Saturday.”
There was also good news where Anton Ferdinand is concerned, who should also be fit to play.
“Anton trained yesterday and he will train today and tomorrow with a view to playing on Saturday.”
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Swinging in the Rain with the Ben Martin Quartet - Jazz in the Cellar Bar
Sun 8 Mar, The Cellar Bar stamford cellar bar, music
Music from the film, arranged and performed by the Ben Martin Quartet. Singing In The Rain was Ben’s ‘gateway drug’ into jazz and The Great American Songbook. The brilliant songs of Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown and Betty Comden and Adolph Green are known the world over, none more so than the title song and Gene Kelly’s renowned tap dance routine. Rather than just play the songs as they are Ben has rearranged them and imagined them in the styles of jazz legends such as Charles Mingus, Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington and more contemporary musicians like Joshua Redman and the Marsalis family.
If you’re a fan of the film then it’ll be a treat. If not you’ll want to watch it as soon as you get home.
"A soloist of immaculate lyricism & taste" - John Fordham (The Guardian)
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High-res OEM thermal camera cores enable new applications, products
December 11, 2019 //By Rich Pell
Infrared thermal imaging company Seek Thermal (Santa Barbara, CA) has introduced a new range of OEM thermal cameras that can be integrated into products and services across several industries.
The Micro Core and Mosaic Core series, says the company, deliver optimal performance in applications such as test & measurement, security surveillance, public safety, outdoor recreation, IoT and beyond.
"We're excited to bring the experience we've developed by manufacturing hundreds of thousands of thermal cameras, including OEM cores used by leading companies in a variety of industries, to this new family of products," says Mike Muench, President & CEO, Seek Thermal. "Now, companies of any size can integrate high-end, high-resolution thermal imaging at competitive price points. This opens doors for the development of many new - and potentially revolutionary - applications and products."
The 8 x 11 x 8-mm Micro Core is designed for small-form-factor, low-power and lightweight applications such as mobile devices, drones, wearables, and IoT. Its high-resolution (200 x 150) and shutterless design allow for uninterrupted, accurate and reliable thermal imaging.
Designed for performance and versatility, the Mosaic Core series is customizable for specific application and project needs, including different options for resolution (200 x 150 or 320 x 240), field of view, frame rate and more.
Key features of the new offerings include the following:
High-Resolution Thermal Sensors – Choose a thermal camera with 30,000 or 76,800 temperature pixels for excellent image clarity and sensitivity
Low Power & Lightweight – Engineered to optimize performance with low power consumption, packaged in a small, lightweight design
Dual-Gain Smart Pixels – Each pixel automatically adjusts gain states to maximize resolution contrast when viewing hot and cold objects in the same scene
12 Micron Pixels – More resolution and temperature data packed into a physically tiny array enables small form factor applications and lower cost
Visible Light Camera Add-On – Software available for integrating a visible light camera to fuse thermal and visible images together for additional context
Development Starter Kits are available, which can be connected for simple, plug-and-play thermal imaging. Customers also receive access to a Developer Portal with
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NRL announce three-day league festival in Bega to aid bushfire relief
NRL chief executive Todd Greenberg has announced a three-day festival of footy to assist with the bushfire relief effort, with the trial game between Penrith and Parramatta moving to Bega.
The festival, which will be held across Bega Valley and southern NSW, will also see the NSWRL move the Andrew Johns and Laurie Daley Cup matches from Wollongong to Bega in an effort to showcase young, regional players also affected by the bushfires.
Panthers prop James Tamou aided in efforts to save homes near the NSW town of Braidwood. Credit:NRL Photos
It will be the second time Penrith star James Tamou will be rolling up his sleeves to assist those devastated by bushfire, after finding himself on the front line throughout December.
Tamou's in-laws' house in Braidwood, less than an hour drive from Batemans Bay, was threatened by bushfires over Christmas, with the Panthers prop heading out with the hose to help battle the blaze that was threatening multiple homes in the area.
"We were prepared when it hit. So we all thought, let's jump in the truck and go see if anyone else needs some help, they were happy to see us because they needed all the help they could get. They were pretty thin on numbers there, which was pretty sad to see," he said. "I don't think I saw someone under the age of 40 ... we are talking some retirees, they just kept putting in the effort, that's why we've been very active since coming back."
"The people that were there, the early hours of the morning till night time ... their hard work that they put in was quite inspiring and I was able to draw strength off them and that's what sort of made me want to be out there and help."
Tamou said the fact the NRL and his club are attempting to assist those hit by the bushfires is such "a good feeling" and said the creation of the festival is "good to see".
Greenberg said the announcement formed part of rugby league’s coordinated whole of game response to the bushfire crisis, which will also include an expansion of the Road to Regions regional campaign. The effort adds to a dedicated Bushfire Appeal Round in the first week of the 2020 season.
"This is more than a game - this will be an event to lift the community spirit, say thank you to
the many volunteers and selfless workers who gave so much during the recent disaster and
bring dollars back into the local economy," Greenberg said. "Nothing brings communities together quite like rugby league, our game is part of the social fabric of these towns."
State Member for Bega Andrew Constance said the match would help boost the morale of the town.
"This will bring the community a bit of much-needed cheer and it will also continue to bring out the best in people," he said.
Bega Mayor Kristy McBain encouraged people to stay overnight to assist the area recover from the devastation.
"Our economy has taken a significant hit across a number of industries," she said. "It’s critical we keep taking action to bring some security to local jobs and the families they support."
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Industry revenue of »manufacture of motor vehicles« in Belgium 2011-2023
Published by Philipp Huhn, Mar 28, 2019
This statistic shows the revenue of the industry »manufacture of motor vehicles« in Belgium from 2011 to 2017, with a forecast to 2023. It is projected that the revenue of manufacture of motor vehicles in Belgium will amount to approximately 8,4 billion U.S. Dollars by 2023.
This statistic was automatically created using the well-proven Statista forecast algorithm based on similarity parameters to existing analyst forecasts. The basis for the original forecasts is a combination of time series forecasts, driver forecasts (GDP, population etc.) from sources such as World Bank or the International Monetary Fund and business surveys.
Industry revenue of »manufacture of motor vehicles« in Belgium from 2011 to 2023 (in billion U.S. Dollars)
Revenue in billion U.S. Dollars
* Estimate - This also applies for past years as data provided by statistical institutions often is not available for more recent years.
Currency conversion factor: (EUR -> USD) = 1.186
The industry classification is based on the NACE Rev.2 - system in Belgium. The industry “manufacture of motor vehicles“ has the code “C291“.
Details on the methodology can be found here.
Please visit here for more information on Statista market forecasts.
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Storms in Amethir Series
Home My Writing
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I write mostly fiction, and mostly long fiction. My favorite genre to write in is epic fantasy, though I also enjoy reading and writing urban fantasy, or as I describe my stuff, “modern faerie stories”. I also do a lot of writing as part of my day job, and that writing is nonfiction, mostly about history.
Epic Fantasy Writing
My current epic fantasy series is the Storms in Amethir series. The series begins with Stormsinger, which is an awkward 8,500 words long, making it either a long short story or a novelette. It’s available for free if you sign up for my email newsletter, which I send out only when I have news about upcoming events or book releases.
The second in the series is Stormshadow, which is a 50,000-word novella. The third in the series is Stormseer, which is just over 140,000 words long in draft form. I am currently editing Stormseer and hope to publish it later in the summer of 2015.
The Loyalty Factor is my unpublished epic fantasy novel, currently in its sixth or seventh draft (at some point I quit keeping track), and with my critique partners as I prepare it for querying. My goal is to see it published before the novel is 30 years old…because right now I’ve been working on it since 1990!
When I post about my “epic epic-fantasy novel rewrite,” this is the novel I’m talking about. I occasionally post about the revision process.
Baronet Brandon Shrike is in serious trouble. King Justin Capet has been poisoned and is near death. Tasked with finding the perpetrator, Brandon, the king’s trusted bodyguard, has instead gotten himself exiled. He knows he’s been set up by ambitious General Kalt, but Justin is too ill to listen, and Brandon needs proof.
In the north, Lady Bria Perregal’s mother has been murdered, and if her suspicions are correct, it was her father who committed the crime. Earl Rostis Perregal seems poised to seize power if the king dies, but Bria has no proof, only fear and doubt. With her twin brother hundreds of miles away in the royal city, Bria realizes she must act alone in order to avoid becoming a pawn in their father’s power games.
Major Michael LeVay has been ordered to arrest Bria on sight–to his great consternation, as he has been secretly in love with her for five years. If he is loyal to the cavalry, he must obey his orders. If he is loyal to his heart, he must defy them. On top of that, he must make his choice while facing down his old mentor–and his old nemesis–General Kalt.
Pursued by both human soldiers and monsters that look like men but aren’t, Bria flees south. Brandon, risking capture and torture, defies exile to stop General Kalt from destroying both king and kingdom. Michael struggles to stay true to himself while serving the king. Renegade baronet, rebellious noblewoman, and conflicted soldier are on a collision course as they attempt to thwart not only Kalt’s plans, but those of someone even more sinister…
The Dark King.
Urban Fantasy Writing
I have completed three novels in an urban fantasy series set in Illinois, and a fourth is in progress. The series began with my first attempt at NaNoWriMo. The first in the series, Maze of Moments, was written in 2003 and has seen extensive revision since then. The others are largely unpolished from subsequent NaNoWriMo years.
I’ve also written the first draft of a related urban fantasy novel. Set in Indianapolis, it ties into the Illinois series, but can easily stand on its own.
Commision of two of my main urban fantasy characters.
Maze of Moments Synopsis
Potter and Illinois native Zeva Couran is really tired of the starving artist shtick. She still enjoys the art side of it; it’s the starving she has a problem with. So when she’s attacked in the street and finds herself swept off to her rescuer’s castle, it feels a lot like a fairytale.
Trouble is, fairy tales always have a villain.
The Far Dorocha is a nightmare creature who serves the Unseelie Queen. He has focused on Zeva as the answer to a problem the Fae have had since the French settled in Illinois: they want out of the pact they made with the family who owns the castle.
Apparently Zeva is a Shaper, someone who can touch fate and alter it according to her will. Emphasis on the apparently, because she has no idea how to use her powers.
As the castle residents attempt to protect her and teach her about the Fae, Zeva has to explore her powers and her confusing feelings for both the kind-hearted Boone and the mysterious Edmund.
And she’d better find a way to pay the bills while she’s at it.
Other Fiction Writing
Three years ago during NaNoWriMo I wrote a paranormal crime novel, and two years ago I made a return to the epic fantasy genre with a novel about dwarves. In 2012 I decided that, for now at least, I’ve learned all I can from NaNoWriMo, so I didn’t participate. In 2014 I changed my mind and write another urban fantasy novel for NaNoWriMo.
I have also written several short stories, but to be honest, I’ve never been very good at short stories. In college I was always the girl who made people in critique group groan when I handed out my 20-page stories. I have been working on this off and on for the past several years, but brevity is still a challenge for me. I’m hoping to spend 2015 working on some short fiction.
I do most of the writing for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum blog. Lew Wallace was a Civil War Union general from Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was instrumental in the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson and the second day of the Battle of Shiloh. He saved Washington, D.C., from Confederate invasion at the Battle of Monocacy. After the war he served as Territorial Governor of New Mexico and published the best-selling novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, wrote other books, painted, and patented inventions.
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Cricket: Australia crush Sri Lanka, clinch ODI series
Australian wicketkeeper Mathew Wade (second right) celebrates with teammates after dismissing Angelo Perera.PHOTO: AFP
Sep 1, 2016, 1:08 am SGT
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DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - John Hastings claimed six wickets before Aaron Finch and George Bailey's attacking half-centuries powered Australia to a series clinching six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international in Dambulla on Wednesday (Aug 31).
Australia rode on Finch's 19-ball 55 and an unbeaten 90 from Bailey to chase down 213 in 31 overs and take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
Earlier Hastings' career-best bowling figures of 6-45 helped bowl out Sri Lanka for 212 after electing to bat first despite Dhananjaya de Silva's fighting 76.
In reply, Finch's opening blitz gave Australia a rocket start against a Sri Lankan attack that missed skipper Angelo Mathews' medium pace after the all-rounder hurt his calf while batting.
Finch, who equalled the record for the fastest fifty - in 18 balls - by an Australian, struck eight fours and three sixes as he carted the Sri Lankan spinners to all parts of the ground.
Left-arm spinner Sachith Pathirana's triple strike in the space of five deliveries checked the visitors' surge but only for a brief while.
Pathirana got the wickets of danger man Finch and Usman Khawaja for nought in his opening over of the innings. He then bowled skipper David Warner for 19 on the first ball of his next over.
Bailey, who registered his 21st ODI fifty, carried the momentum forward as he anchored Australia's chase with his 85-ball knock, laced with 11 fours and a six.
"Tough to muscle your way out of a form slump. Couldn't be happier for George (Bailey), has had to play out of his skin. He's been innovative, he's been our backbone and rock in the middle," said Warner.
Bailey got the perfect partner in Travis Head, who scored 40, as the duo put on 100 runs for the fourth wicket.
Head was trapped lbw off Dilruwan Perera but Matthew Wade, who remained unbeaten on eight, joined Bailey at the crease to hit the winning six.
The victory comes as a welcome relief for the visiting side after they suffered their first series whitewash against Sri Lanka in the three Test matches.
"Very very pleasing. Thrilled to win the series, hard-fought effort. Conditions here are quite challenging," said Warner, who was appointed captain after the second ODI to give Steve Smith some rest.
Sri Lanka suffered from a lack of partnerships as their innings ran out of steam as they folded on the last ball of the 50th over.
Australia's pace spearhead Mitchell Starc struck in the very first over to have debutant batsman Avishka Fernando trapped lbw for nought.
Man of the match Hastings soon got Kusal Mendis caught behind for one. The on-field umpire gave the batsman not out before Australia successfully reviewed the decision.
Scott Boland, who replaced Josh Hazlewood in the Australian starting XI, joined the pace charge to dismiss previous match centurion Dinesh Chandimal - caught behind to leave Sri Lanka reeling on 31 for three.
De Silva and Mathews then started a rebuilding act, mixing caution and aggression against a persistent Australian attack.
Mathews, who was badly shaken after being hit on the back of his helmet off a Boland bouncer, made a gritty 28 before retiring hurt with a calf injury that hampered his footwork and running between the wickets.
De Silva, whose maiden ODI half-century included nine boundaries, looked a little edgy after Mathews' departure and soon departed after spooning a catch to mid-wicket off Hastings.
Australia's spinners then got in on the act as Adam Zampa and Head took two more wickets to land Sri Lanka in deeper trouble.
Pathirana chipped in with a crucial 24-run cameo to help Sri Lanka pass the 200-run mark from a precarious 165 for seven.
Hastings' double strike in the 48th over brought him his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs.
A limping Mathews, who scored a gutsy 40, returned to bat in that same over to add some useful runs to the Sri Lankan total, which in the end proved insufficient for the rampaging visitors.
"Really disappointed with the way we played, didn't click as a batting unit through the series. We didn't do well," said Chandimal, who led the the side in Mathews' absence in the Australian innings.
The fifth and final match of the series is scheduled on Sept 4 in Pallekele.
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The Suffolk Experience
My Suffolk Story
Launch Point: Boston Home
Taxation + Immigration
Helping international students file their taxes… and keep their visas
Two of the most discussed issues of the last 13 months—taxes and immigration—showed up together in the same room at Suffolk this winter. Again and again.
Starting in January 2018, 35 graduate and undergraduate student volunteers from the Sawyer Business School worked every Wednesday and most Saturdays to help more than 400 people file around 1,000 tax returns at the Suffolk Free Tax Prep Clinic. Now in its fourth year, the clinic serves current and recent Suffolk students, lower income neighbors of the University, and, more significantly this year, international students, teachers, and research fellows.
“Whether or not they earn income, people holding an F, J, M, or Q visa need to file tax forms every year,” said Professor of Taxation Michaele Morrow, site coordinator for the center. “A lot of people don’t know that, which isn’t totally surprising. If you think about coming over here from another country, maybe learning another language, getting used to living in a new city, the last thing on your mind is anything related to the US tax system, which can be pretty irksome.”
F, J, Q, or M:
What’s your visa?
The US Government’s list of non-immigrant visas is an alphabet soup of international bureaucracy. Here are some that the Tax Prep Clinic sees most often:
F: All international students attending colleges, high school, seminaries, conservatories, and other institutions
J: Professors, research scholars, au pairs, camp counselors, and teachers
Q: Participants in international cultural exchange programs
M: Participants in a vocational or other recognized nonacademic institution other than a language training program
In fact, the US government could use failure to file as a reason not to renew an expiring visa. This is why Morrow and her volunteers push to get the word out to students and researchers, not just at Suffolk but at colleges and universities across the Boston area, including Harvard, Northeastern, MIT, and Tufts.
“Sometimes we’ll have someone at the clinic who’s working on a ground-breaking cancer treatment but is scared about how to file their taxes,” Morrow said. “So we tell them: ‘This is one thing we can do for you. You don’t have to worry about learning the entire US tax system.’ They can come to the clinic while they’re in the country working on their research, and we can take that tax-filing burden off their minds.”
Prepping the preppers
With such a complicated issue, one would assume the student preparers need to be experts. Actually, when the clinic starts, most of them have never filled out a tax return for anyone—let alone an international student holding a complicated visa.
“They usually look completely shell-shocked,” says Morrow with a laugh, describing the students on the first day of training. “They’re scared of the technical capability they think they’re going to need. They’re scared of making a mistake. They’re scared of saying the wrong thing to the taxpayer. They’re scared that they’re going to work too slowly, miss something, and let everyone down.”
But Morrow and her assistant site coordinators, Sharon Huang and Jeremy Moreau, both of whom are graduate students in the Master of Science in Taxation program, explain what to expect, the kinds of questions to ask clients, what to look for on the returns, where the mistakes might come. One piece of advice Morrow gives her students? Count on your fingers. It’s a familiar and calming way to determine how many years an international student has been here.
Things ramp up fast. The students take three prep classes on resident and nonresident taxation and then must pass three required certification exams. After that, clients start coming in the door.
“I was scared,” confessed Hana Abdelkhalek, MSA ’18, who took the class to get more experience with taxes and tax forms before starting a job this spring at a local accounting firm. “But I ask for assistance whenever I’m hesitating. And it helps that Professor Morrow or one of the assistant site coordinators reviews every return.”
The students get the hang of it very quickly. By the second or third clinic, they’re working assuredly and efficiently, a trend that continues up to the final day.
“The students have to think on their feet,” Morrow said. “They have to deal with problems that they might never have seen before, both technical tax issues and personal issues with the taxpayers. So by the end of the tax season, they really do feel like, ‘OK, I encountered some things I didn’t think I could handle, But, you know? I can handle it.’”
Going through that process firsthand with real people who are actual clients—a typical Suffolk experience—adds value far beyond just being able to fill out a Form 1040NR without making a mistake.
“In a way, completing the tax return almost becomes a byproduct,” said Morrow. “The real takeaway is about developing confidence and self-reliance and the feeling that they can do this. You really do see that evolution over the course of just a few months.”
“When we first started the three weeks of training,” said Abdelkhalek, “I thought, ‘This is not going to happen.’ But after the first client, everything changed. The second time was even easier. I feel that I’m getting more confident and learning a lot with each client. Now I want to do my own tax return and have the class review it for me.”
What’s it like to be an accountant these days?
Suffolk University Professor Jim Angelini shares his thoughts on the new tax laws with the Boston Globe.
Professor Morrow talks about the tax bills of America’s multinationals on “Marketplace.”
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“Death” Celebrates the American Establishment
“Fredo, you’re my older brother, and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again. Ever.” – Michael Corleone, The Godfather (Fredo ended up supine beneath the fishes in the 1500 foot depths of Lake Tahoe.)
A Legacy of Thuggery
From time to time I give in to my addiction for the Washington D.C. melodrama, now featuring DJT, Fred’s boy from Queens, who arrived at Little League games in Daddy’s Limo. Later, thanks to Dad’s money and the tutelage of McCarthy’s fixer and Black List agent, Roy Cohn (right), the Donald grew into a Reality TV star even as he modelled “marketing” and created his own crime family. Now he serves as the Black Sheep chair of America’s first families but his betters aren’t pleased by his behavior: they have sent the Deep State FBI agent and former U.S. Marine, Bob Mueller on the final errand.
DJT represents a Jungian shadow of America’s Presidents, the sullen child routinely suffers the slings and arrows of progressive media because of his bad manners (despite his contributions to the industry’s bottom line). Never have the MSNBC bunch seemed so smug as they recall the wonders of H.W.’s conciliatory notes, cross aisle dialogue while mentioning less about the wonders of Willie Horton racism and the prior bully’s adventurism in Grenada and Panama. Nor do they say much about H.W.’s Desert Storm progeny, the shock and awe birthed by W that destabilized Iraq and led to endless war in Afghanistan and genocide in Yemen.
Today Senator Graham (a closeted Roy Cohn knock-off) gets his knickers in a knot about the unfortunate butchery of “Khashoggi” in Turkey but nobody mentions the Bush, Bush, Obama Inc. deaths of Houthi men, women, and children in the Saudi-American Yemen genocide. We all remember how Bushmen James Baker and Dick Cheney’s relationship with Saudi fixer, “Prince Bandar,” and how the Saudis were given special dispensation as the “Bin Laden” family, the day after 9/11, so the perp’s primos could exit on the family jet, while not another civilian aircraft was permitted the freedom to fly the American skies.
The supporters of Grandpa H.W. Bush, W, Obama and Michelle, Hill and Bill, Jimmy represent the alleged civility of the American political class but seem more reminiscent of the Five Families. Though Don Corleone (Brando) distraught over Sunny’s death in “The Godfather” tried to call off the war, the savage younger generation, Michael Corleone, had other plans.
At the baptism of his child and in one of the greatest closing scenes in cinema, one sees the dagger aimed at the heart of America, the dagger that stimulates endless conflict. Between Catholic benedictions hit men, like special forces, retaliate against the objects of revenge. Like Israel’s attempt to wipe out Palestinians, the results backfire and the intifada is permanently instituted (abroad, in Congress, in the heartland).
Al Pacino-Corleone stoically consolidates his grip on the future id of Freudian America while celebrating wishful family values embodied by the carnival in Las Vegas just as the model “thugs” above at the funeral represent their deathlike grip on the miasma of murder…but they have such good manners as they politely snub the Donald and his imported Slavic eye candy.
El Caudillo
So Bush 1’s Operation Desert Storm, which led to Bush II’s Shock and Awe in Iraq, continued under Obama I despite his lovely phrase about “hope and change.” (Who’s the con artist?) Now comes the crass and grotesque progeny from Rosemary’s Baby, one DJT who makes hash out of the “covering up” the establishment’s suave “politesse”: see no evil, hear no evil, say no evil.
Comes now Mr. Mueller and the Marines, his FBI team of prosecutors and jail house snitches to undo the man who aspires to be El Don. DJT may find himself, impaled, like Richie Cusack (William Hurt) on his own revenge plot in David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence,” another American epic. For Joey (Viggo Mortensen on right) like Michael, washes away the blood and righteous murder of the bad guys in transubstantiated holy water at the end of the film and the family who “kills people” is reunited.
Villalobos: Day of the Dead
Lest you think the above are Freudian-Jungian-Christian fantasies from the dream factory, remember this quote from Phillip Caputo’s nonfiction account about Vietnam in “A Rumor of War.” The old sarge, a Korean era vet, tells the narrator, “One of the most brutal things in the world is your average 19-year-old American boy.” Trump, the bully, never found that 19-year old boy (due to bunions). But H.W. and Bob Mueller volunteered for duty and lived to embody it. Like Joey some folks are natural born killers. If thy eye offends thee, pluck it out. Trump’s in trouble. (And so are we.)
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SoBro luxury hotel tweaked to boost street activity
The Pizzuti Cos. to seek final design approval for The Joseph Nashville at Fourth and Korean Veterans Boulevard
SoBro luxury hotel tweaked to boost street activity The Pizzuti Cos. to seek final design approval for The Joseph Nashville at Fourth and Korean Veterans Boulevard Check out this story on Tennessean.com: http://tnne.ws/2bWTrZX
Getahn Ward, gward@tennessean.com Published 7:43 p.m. CT Sept. 2, 2016 | Updated 11:27 p.m. CT Sept. 2, 2016
The Joseph Nashville
A rendering of The Joseph Nashville hotel, which Ohio-based developer The Pizzuti Cos. plans for three-quarters of an acre in the area south of Broadway. Arquitectonica
A view of the eighth-floor terrace of The Joseph Nashville hotel. Arquitectonica
A view of the interior lobby of The Joseph Nashville hotel. Arquitectonica
A view of The Joseph Nashville hotel's drop-off from Korean Veterans Boulevard. Arquitectonica
A view of the 20th floor pool deck looking south at The Joseph Nashville hotel. Arquitectonica
A rendering of The Joseph Nashville hotel, which Ohio-based developer The Pizzuti Cos. plans for three-quarters of an acre in the area south of Broadway.(Photo: Arquitectonica)
The Ohio developer planning a $140 million, 21-story luxury hotel downtown has tweaked the design to improve pedestrian experience along Korean Veterans Boulevard and Fourth Avenue South.
The Pizzuti Cos. will go before the Metro Development and Housing Agency's design review committee Tuesday seeking final approval for its 297-room The Joseph Nashville Luxury Collection hotel.
Acting on a previous request from that committee, the developer has added new entries or entry ways into the building from Korean Veterans Boulevard and Fourth Avenue South to create more activity along both streets.
Pizzuti also plans to install in the drop-off area fronting Korean Veterans Boulevard a large LED screen, which will display video art. Under the revised design, the ground-level bar is in a different spot where activities going on inside will now be visible from the corner of Korean Veterans Boulevard and Fourth Avenue.
Joel Pizzuti (Photo: Submitted)
Construction of The Joseph Hotel is expected to start in the first quarter of 2017 on a 0.75-acre site across from the Omni Nashville Hotel which Nashville Symphony employees use for parking. Completion of the hotel is anticipated around mid-year 2019.
"Our goal is to develop the premiere luxury hotel in Nashville," The Pizzuti Cos.' President Joel S. Pizzuti said, referring to The Joseph Nashville as a full-service, five-star hotel. "It will be a great addition to the hotel offerings in Nashville."
Amenities on the rooftop of the hotel will include a spa, bar, fitness center and pool. A restaurant is planned for the ground floor with its main entrance along Fourth Avenue South.
The hotel, with its main entrance on Korean Veterans Boulevard, will also feature work of Tennessee artists and have 381 parking spaces. Those include 180 spaces for employees of the Nashville Symphony, which plans to sell the project site at 401 Fourth Ave. S. to Pizzuti.
The revised design that Pizzuti plans to present to the MDHA committee Tuesday includes bike parking.
Minnesota-based Wischermann Partners will manage The Joseph Nashville hotel for Pizzuti.
Nationwide, Pizzuti said Starwood's Luxury Collection brand includes 19 hotels.
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Many people assume that they perceive the world as it actually is—as if eyes and ears were windows that allow us to access an objective reality. But perception is not an accurate reflection of an externally existing world.
“In fact,” the neuroscientist Anil Seth says, “perception and hallucination have a lot in common. You could say that we’re all hallucinating all of the time, and when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.”
In an animated video produced by Carolyn Merriman of the Future of StoryTelling and animated by Steve West of Lazy Chief, Seth explains how the brain operates on implicit beliefs accumulated over thousands of years of human evolution. These, he explains, are what “turn the raw material of sensory data into our projected perceptual realities.”
Most of the time, we can all agree on these perceptions. But sometimes this consensus breaks down, such as in the case of the Internet phenomena of the white-and-gold versus black-and-blue dress or the “laurel” versus “yanny” audio clip. These are stark reminders of what Seth describes as the “neurological guesswork that happens behind the scenes.” In these moments, the curtain is lifted on the theater—not the window—of our reality.
“Our brain is doing its best to make sense of ambiguous sensory input,” Merriman told The Atlantic. “In some ways, our perception of the world is just the story our brains are telling us based on the sum of our senses.”
The mind’s ability to create this congruous narrative of reality continues to awe Seth. “I am inspired by how such a small biological machine inside my head—inside the head of everyone—can create such a rich inner universe for each of us from the raw material of sensory signals,” he told The Atlantic. “This is a monumental achievement, one that is far outside the scope of any artificial machine or computer we’ve ever constructed.”
He recited his favorite lines of poetry, from Emily Dickinson’s 1924 poem “Part One: Life”:
The brain is wider than the sky / For, put them side by side, / The one the other will include, / With ease, and you beside.
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All issues Volume 5 (2015) J. Space Weather Space Clim., 5 (2015) A6 Full HTML
2. Method
Atmospheric effect corrections of MuSTAnG data
Mary Zazyan1,2*, Marina Ganeva1,3, Marina Berkova4, Victor Yanke4 and Rainer Hippler1
1 Institute of Physics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
2 Yerevan Physics Institute, Alikhanian Brothers Str. 2, 0036 Yerevan, Armenia
3 Present address: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Outstation at MLZ, Lichtenbergstrasse 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
4 Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Kalushskoe ave. 4, 142190 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
* Corresponding author: mary@yerphi.am
The atmospheric effect correction of the muon flux measured by ground level telescopes is of special importance for further study of cosmic ray variations. The Duperier method is used to correct atmospheric effects on the muon intensity observed by the MuSTAnG telescope. Linear multiple correlation and regression analysis are applied to the data registered during the year 2009. The aerological data are obtained from daily radiosonde balloon flights of Deutscher Wetterdienst. The regression coefficients and total correlation coefficients are calculated for all directional channels. The seasonal variations are eliminated from the MuSTAnG telescope data. The results are compared with theoretical elimination of temperature variations.
Key words: Space weather / muon telescope / atmospheric effect
© M. Zazyan et al., Published by EDP Sciences 2015
The Muon Space Weather Telescope for Anisotropies (MuSTAnG) (Jansen et al. 2001; Hippler et al. 2008) is presently operating at Greifswald University in Germany to study variations in cosmic rays muon flux. The count rate variation in such instruments is used to study a variety of solar and heliospheric phenomena. However, the wide use of muon detectors for the research of cosmic rays variations is restrained by the presence of atmospheric effects inherent to the muon component of CR.
The investigation of atmospheric effects is of special importance for the further study of cosmic ray variations, since only after the correction for such effects can the measured data provide information on the variations due to causes beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The two main causes of variations in the cosmic ray flux originating from the Earth’s atmosphere are the barometric effect and the temperature effect (Dorman 1974). The barometric effect is determined by only a single parameter, namely the pressure at the detection level. Pressure correction procedures are well established for surface detectors world-wide (Dorman 2004). However, muon observations require additional corrections for the positive and negative temperature effect. Atmospheric temperature effect corrections are correspondingly more complicated. The temperature effect is generally determined by the overall profile of the atmosphere from the level of origin to the detection level, and hence is more difficult to interpret. To exclude the temperature effect, aerologic sounding data near the detector location are necessary. More often such data are missing and it is impossible to restore them in retrospective, or the soundings aren’t carried out regularly. Fortunately, there is a weather station in Greifswald (Deutscher Wetterdienst) which routinely takes upper air observations by releasing sounding balloons twice a day at 12:00 and at 24:00 (CEST). These aerological data obtained from the daily radiosonde balloon flights can be used to correct the muon flux measured by the MuSTAnG telescope.
Usually, the temperature correction procedure is applied after elimination of the pressure effect. There exist different methods (empirical and theoretical) to correct cosmic ray data for atmospheric temperature effects: the method of effective level of generation (Duperier 1949), the integral method (Olbert 1953; Maeda & Wada 1954; Dorman 1964), the method of effective temperature (Barrett et al. 1952), the method of mass-average temperature (Dvornikov et al. 1976). All these methods depend on the observation of temperature at different altitudes. But we also can get the temperature profile data from global meteorological models, for example the GFS (Global Forecast System, http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/) model developed by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction – NCEP (USA). The GFS model’s data were used in the temperature effect analysis for the MuSTAnG telescope in previous work (Ganeva et al. 2013). The use of this data allows us to calculate the temperature effect in real time (Berkova et al. 2012).
In this work we will consider corrections according to the Duperier method. It should be noticed that the method used in our work allows exclusion of pressure and temperature effect simultaneously, combining pressure, positive temperature and height effects on the muon intensity. Our results will be compared with the results of Ganeva et al. (2013) based on meteorological models.
The Duperier method or the method of effective level of generation is based on the assumption that muons are generated around the isobaric level 100 mb. The height of this pressure level in the atmosphere varies, particularly seasonally. The transit time through the atmosphere of muons will be longer when this pressure level is located at a higher altitude and more muons will decay before reaching a detector. The increase in height of this level arises from an expansion of the atmosphere when it is warmer and so this effect is known as the negative temperature effect. When the temperature near the pion production level is higher the air density is lower and the likelihood of the pion interacting before it decays into a muon is reduced resulting in higher count rates. This is known as the positive temperature effect (Duldig 2000). At the energies recorded by the ground level detectors (tens of GeV) the negative temperature effect dominates, and at underground registration (>100 GeV) the positive temperature effect prevails.
The method of effective level of generation is the simplest methodology of temperature correction and is still useful for properly correcting the temperature effect on a yearly perspective.
Duperier has presented a linear regression equation for the intensity registered on ground during the quiet sun (1)
The equation for relative variations is then (2)
Here, α is the partial pressure coefficient (%/hPa), β is the height coefficient (%/km) and γ is the positive temperature coefficient (%/C). P is the ground pressure and H and T are the height and the temperature of the reference layer (the level of maximum muon production). ∆P is the deviation of the pressure, ∆H and ∆T are the deviations of the height and the temperature of the reference layer, and ∆I is the deviation of the muon count rate from their annual averages, respectively.
Generally the temperature effect of the cosmic ray intensity is characterized by one or two terms in Eq. (2) (Braga et al. 2013; Okazaki et al. 2008; Sagisaka 1986): (3)
The full formula is used to simultaneously eliminate pressure, positive temperature and height effects on the muon intensity (Baker et al. 1993).
Having determined a set of corrections coefficients the intensity corrected for atmospheric effects becomes (as function of time): (4)
Here, P0, H0 and T0 are the annual averages of the ground pressure, the height and the temperature of the reference layer, respectively.
We have applied a linear multiple correlation and regression analysis to the data registered by the MuSTAnG telescope during 2009. The year 2009 was chosen due to the minimum of solar activity. The aerological data were obtained from daily radiosonde balloon flights (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Weather station Greifswald). As a reference layer the pressure level of 100 hPa was used.
Figure 1 shows the variations of the air temperature at the 100 hPa level (a), height of the 100 hPa level (b), ground pressure (c) and muon relative intensity detected by the vertical channel of the MuSTAnG telescope (d). One can see a clear anti-correlation between the variations in muon rates and the height of the 100 hPa level (negative temperature effect), which predominates typically at ground-based detectors.
Variations of the temperature at the 100 hPa level (a); the height of the 100 hPa level (b); the ground pressure (c); muon relative intensity (d) during 2009.
We have computed the correlation matrix which represents the correlation between all pairs of variables. The correlation matrix for the vertical direction is presented in Table 1. This table clearly demonstrates that there is a strong anti-correlation between the variations in muon rates and the height of the 100 hPa level and no significant correlation with the temperature of the 100 hPa level. As can be seen from Table 1, muon rates also show strong anti-correlation with pressure.
Correlation coefficients between all pairs of variables for the vertical direction of the MuSTAnG telescope.
The regression coefficients and the total correlation coefficient R calculated for all directional channels are presented in Table 2. One can see that the variation in the pressure coefficients between channels is not significant while the variations in the temperature/height effects seem significant. Since the muon energy does not vary significantly over channels (Hippler & Zazyan 2012), changes in β and γ are not related to the muon energy. Determination of the coefficients strongly depends on the accuracy of the data. The ground level pressure is measured quite accurately, while height and temperature of the 100 hPa level may bear large measurement errors. Apparently, the errors in the measured parameters lead to the observed variations of β and γ.
The regression coefficients (α, β and γ) and the total correlation coefficient (R) calculated for all directional channels of the MuSTAnG telescope.
After applying the atmospheric corrections by using the calculated coefficients, the seasonal variation can be eliminated. The results for the vertical direction are shown in Figure 2. The muon intensity I in counts per hour during 2009 is plotted. Comparing the pressure corrected data with the pressure and temperature corrected data, one can see that only the latter one allows us to eliminate seasonal variations.
The muon intensity detected by the vertical channel of the MuSTAnG telescope.
In Figure 3 we compare our results for the year 2009 (vertical direction) with that of Ganeva et al. (2013), where the effective temperature method is used.
The muon intensity detected by the vertical channel of the MuSTAnG telescope corrected using the Duperier method with sounding data and the effective temperature method with the GFS model for the temperature calculation.
According to this method correlation between temperature and muon intensity can be described by the effective temperature Teff, in which the contributions of all atmosphere levels are accounted for with the proper weights. The relationship between atmospheric temperature fluctuations and muon intensity variations is ∆Ι/I0 = αT ∆Teff/Teff. Details can be found in Barrett et al. (1952). In Ganeva et al. (2013) vertical temperature atmospheric profiles obtained from NCEP’s Global Forecast System (GFS) temperature model were used.
To compare results obtained by both of the methods, the experimental temperature measured at the weather station in Greifswald was interpolated by a cubic spline function to obtain hourly data.
Figure 3 shows that both methods result in nearly the same residual fluctuation of the corrected muon rates. Size of the time bin is always one hour. The time of atmospheric measurement is always the start of the muon bin.
In this work the Duperier method was used to correct for atmospheric effects on the muon intensity observed by the MuSTAnG telescope. The correction coefficients were determined for the base period of the year 2009. The correction of muon intensities was carried out for all directional channels of the MuSTAnG telescope. Corrected muon rates were compared to the results for the elimination of temperature variations obtained by the effective temperature method. It is shown that the Duperier method with three atmospheric variables leads to essentially the same atmospheric corrections of the MuSTAnG telescope intensity as the more complicated effective temperature method applied in Ganeva et al. (2013).
Construction of MuSTAnG was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR).
M. Zazyan thanks The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for providing the opportunity for a research stay at the University of Greifswald.
The editor thanks T. Catanach and an anonymous referee for their assistance in evaluating this paper.
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'Safe and sound': 83 dogs rescued from a flooded Bahamas shelter arrive in Sebastian
All of the dogs were stranded as Hurricane Dorian brought a wall of storm surge into the Humane Society of Grand Bahama
'Safe and sound': 83 dogs rescued from a flooded Bahamas shelter arrive in Sebastian All of the dogs were stranded as Hurricane Dorian brought a wall of storm surge into the Humane Society of Grand Bahama Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2019/09/12/83-dogs-rescued-flooded-bahamas-shelter-arrive-united-states/2285775001/
Max Chesnes, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 6:00 a.m. ET Sept. 12, 2019 | Updated 9:06 a.m. ET Sept. 17, 2019
A volunteer walks "Beans" on Wednesday, September 11, 2019. Beans is a male rescue dog who tragically lost both of his owners to Hurricane Dorian. (Photo: MAX CHESNES / TCPALM)
SEBASTIAN — There was Pedro, Plato, Tasha, and Hunter. And there was Maria, Ariel, Jack and Jill.
And of course there was Beans, the brown and white male pit-bull mix, who tragically lost both of his owners just over a week ago to the strongest known hurricane ever to make landfall in the northwestern Bahamas.
These dogs are survivors, all 83 of them, and Wednesday they arrived in the United States to a loving group of volunteers at H.A.L.O. No-Kill Rescue animal shelter.
All of the dogs delivered to Florida were left stranded last week as Hurricane Dorian brought a wall of storm surge into their shelter at the Humane Society of Grand Bahama in Freeport.
Over 120 animals perished in the flooding, according to H.A.L.O. Director of Development Allyson Bootes.
Of the 83 that miraculously survived, some had saltwater burns on their legs from standing in seawater for days, while others were shocked and exhausted from their journey to a new country and home.
Volunteers eagerly helped each dog, one by one, after they arrived at the no-kill shelter Wednesday, September 11, 2019. (Photo: MAX CHESNES / TCPALM)
The dogs arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the morning and were driven the 143 miles north in two separate vans. At least 15 volunteers awaited their arrival with contagious smiles and open arms.
"This is the first time we've ever pulled 83 dogs at the same time," Bootes said. "It's the most fulfilling thing I've ever done in my entire life."
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The "potcakes" — a colloquial term often used in the Caribbean to refer to the dogs, historically fed with the congealed rice cakes — arrived at the shelter at 710 Jackson St. just after 6:30 p.m., and a crew of volunteers were eager to begin their work.
As the back of the trucks were opened, a volunteer would take each dog out of their crate, one by one, and patiently walk them around the shelter's fenced field: their first walk in a new world.
Every volunteer paid meticulous attention to the dogs, providing medical examinations and a caring pat on the back.
"Here they are, safe and sound," Bootes said, fighting back tears. "Our team is the most amazing group of people and human beings."
Beans, a male rescue dog, tragically lost both of his owners to Hurricane Dorian as it bore down on the Bahamas. (Photo: MAX CHESNES / TCPALM)
With the help of GreaterGood.org, a national non-profit "benefiting people, pets and the planet"; the planning of Elizabeth "Tip" Burrows, the executive director of the Humane Society of Grand Bahama; and transportation by Loving Friends Animal Transport, the mission to bring the animals to safety was a success.
All dogs that suffered illnesses or injuries during the storm will first be brought back to health, Bootes said.
Volunteers will then wear gloves and gowns for the next two weeks as the dogs are placed under a quarantine to ensure they are not carrying any diseases.
More: What does flooding from Hurricane Dorian mean for the spread of mosquito-borne diseases? Experts weigh in
Lynda Carlson, 59, of Palm Beach Gardens, has volunteered with the Humane Society of Grand Bahama for 14 years, she said. Carlson has four potcakes of her own.
"We've moved a lot of dogs in the past, not typically so many at one time," Carlson said as she walked Ariel, a cheery, black mix-bred dog. "We're just very grateful for getting them out."
The shelter's capacity nearly doubled with the arrival of the rescued dogs, Bootes said.
To make arrangements for the 160 animals now in the shelter, the organization received emergency grants for medical supplies and additional food.
H.A.L.O. also waived its adoption fees through Saturday, to hopefully expedite adoptions and make additional room for the new arrivals, Bootes said.
The shelter is also accepting donations for bedding, and will need lots of it for the animals, she added.
Max Chesnes is a TCPalm breaking news reporter for Indian River County. You can keep up with Max on Twitter @MaxChesnes and give him a call at 772-978-2224.
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Richards admits regret that Rashford has Man Utd midfield behind him
Date published: Wednesday 8th January 2020 10:18
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has said that he feels Marcus Rashford would fare much better playing in front of his former side’s midfield than Manchester United’s.
Rashford has been in fine form this season, scoring 17 goals in 29 appearances in all competitions, including four in three Carabao Cup outings.
The England international scored the fourth of those goals in the second half of Tuesday’s 3-1 defeat to City in the first leg of the semi-final, after Pep Guardiola’s side outclassed their derby rivals with their first-half showing.
United struggled to cope for the first 45 minutes but the introduction of Nemanja Matic provided more stability, with Rashford’s goal one of only few positives from the performance.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, however, Richards admitted that Rashford’s opportunities in his side’s midfield will be limited compared to the chances he would get at City.
“At City he’s scoring 30-40 goals,” the pundit said. “With [Anthony] Martial and [Daniel] James, United look good on the counter.
“But sometimes the counter isn’t on. You need to be able to pick holes in teams and United can’t do that.
“You look at City’s midfield compared to United’s and that’s no disrespect to them. [Kevin] De Bruyne’s first thought is ‘let’s play a forward pass.”
Former United midfielder Darren Fletcher also spoke about how United struggled to keep tabs on City in the first half.
“Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] spoke before the game about their youthful energy the team had, but they were a bit naive and lightweight,” he said.
“The centre-halves were marking nobody so the midfield was overloaded. You would like somebody to take initiative, can somebody go in and engage.
“Sometimes you have to take responsibility. I’m sure Solskjaer would give his players responsibility.
“He has two experienced centre halves who have to realise they are marking nobody. They can see the young midfielders getting outnumbered all over the place.”
Elsewhere, Red Devils boss Solskjaer insisted that his side’s showing against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last season – when they went through after a magnificent comeback – means they are not out of the tie.
He said: “PSG is the latest example and we have to believe that we can put on a performance.
“Even though it’s a steep mountain to climb, we can still climb it.”
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Bald eagle caught in hunting trap freed by brothers in heartwarming video
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28 November 2015 • 9:45am
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A video showing two Canadian men rescuing a bald eagle from a trap inOntario, Canada, has gone viral in recent days, receiving thousands of views since it was posted on November 24.
Brothers Michael and Neil Fletcher were hunting near the town of Dowling, when they came across an eagle caught in a trap.
According to the brothers, the eagle had caught one of its talons in a claw trap used by fur trappers.
The Bald Eagle is one of the largest birds of prey in North America Credit: Michael Fletcher
"It was attached to a stake and the eagle was trying to fly up, but it only had a foot of slack in the chain," Michael said.
Speaking to cba.ca Neil said, “It was relieving to see that it was still alive. I knew we had to do something right away.”
Neil Fletcher with the bird Credit: Michael Fletcher
“At first the eagle was a bit nervous to have my brother and myself there… as soon as he realised we were trying to help he kind of calmed down a little bit. His head would kind of move back and forth to look at us, but that was the most he’d do,” he said.
Once the eagle was freed from the trap, the pair posed for a quick selfie before sending the bird of prey on his way.
Bald eagle we set free from a trap. Quick selfie before it flew away
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When asked what local local authorities had to say about posing for a selfie with the protected bird, Michael told local reporters they were just thankful that the brothers freed the bird.
"They just said thanks for letting it go, and that they would be contacting the trapper to see if he could set the trap differently."
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Favorite Music-Related Games
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Have Fun Making Music with Friends and Family
By Erik Arneson
Music is a universal language and it can also make for a fun game. Whether playing with the whole family or a group of friends, warm up your vocal chords and be ready to belt out the songs. The following are fun music-related board games that are great for a wide variety of ages (and musical knowledge). The fun part about these games is that little to no musical talent is needed—just play and enjoy!
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A team chooses a card that has five words on it. Teams then take turns singing at least eight words from any song that includes one of the five words listed on the card. If your team succeeds and beats the sand timer, your opponents must try to do the same. Play goes back and forth until one team comes up empty. Some special spaces (e.g., "Team vs. Single Player") add variety. A nice feature in this musical board game is that you don't need to know any particular style of music and it's good for a variety of ages (and musical knowledge)—any song is legal. For ages 8 years old and up.
Songburst
Two or three music-loving teams compete in this game. Players must come up with lyrics to popular songs after being given the artist, the year, the song title, and the first two or three words of the song. Songburst comes in various editions—the '50s and '60s, the '70s and '80s, and a country music edition. Best for players 18 years old and older.
Humm...ble
Humming, whistling, using charades—these are your tools to get your team to guess song titles. Can you do it before time expires? For each song your team gets right, you advance on the board. The team that knows its music will get to the final square and win. The categories in this musical game are user-friendly for various ages and musical preferences (Broadway musicals, television, movies, oldies, contemporary, folk, and family favorites). Recommended for players 18 years old and older.
This musical board game comes with popular singers represented by discs the size of 45 rpm records. A dial in the center of each 45 record shows the performer's value, from 5 to 12—and this value can go up or down when the next person takes control of that artist. The goal is to acquire your singer at a high value and put on the best concert with the most popular artists. Each player puts on three concerts and a final gala, which they must perform in. Recommended for players 12 years old and up.
Schrille Stille
As the head of a music company, your main job is to help your performers sell more records. In Schrille Stille, players are awarded points based on how high their musical acts rise on the charts. Will your band be a one-hit wonder or have staying power as No. 1 on the music charts? Recommended for players 10 years old and up. NOTE: Some of the creative (and funny) band names contain adult language.
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#DoSomethingKind
Ugo Ehiogu showed his kindness in touching last tweet, giving homeless woman money before his tragic, sudden death
Former England international was an imposing figure at 6ft 2ins, but should always be remembered as a gentle soul
Updated: 21 Apr 2017, 10:54
UGO EHIOGU will be remembered by all who knew him as a kind and generous man.
The former footballer tragically passed away aged just 44-years-old in the early hours of Friday morning.
Ugo Ehiogu showed his kind, generous nature in touching final tweetCredit: Getty Images
Ehiogu - a former Aston Villa and England defender - suffered a cardiac arrest at Tottenham's training ground on Thursday afternoon.
Keep up to date with ALL the football news, gossip, transfers and goals on our page plus fixtures, results and live match commentary.
And you don't have to look too far to see just what kind of a man Ehiogu was.
Take a look at his Twitter feed and his last tweet reveals all about the man loved by fans all over the globe.
Ugo Ehiogu was just starting to show why he was developing into one of England's leading coachesCredit: Getty Images
On March 29, 2017, Ehiogu wrote about how he helped out a girl living on the streets out of the kindess in his heart.
He tweeted: "Gave a homeless girl £10 last night in Dalston.
"She didn't ask or beg. Random impulsive act from me. Not gona lie. Felt good.
Ugo Ehiogu celebrates scoring for England against Spain in 1996
Gave a homeless girl £10 last night in Dalston.She didn't ask or beg.Random impulsive act from me. Not gona lie. Felt good. #dosomethingkind
— Ugo Ehiogu (@UgoEhiogu) March 29, 2017
"#dosomethingkind"
While Ehiogu will always be remembered as a tremendous footballer - even earning four international caps, scoring one goal - perhaps this is how he should be remembered.
As a towering, giant-like figure at an imposing 6ft 2ins, but a kind, gentle soul.
If there's even one tiny speck of good to come out of the heart-breaking loss of Ehiogu, it should be this... "Do something kind."
Ugo Ehiogu spent nine years at Aston Villa playing over 300 matchesCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
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Southport Is Getting Its Very Own Rooftop Bar!
By Brooke Darling
This is not a drill! Northern Gold Coast dwellers, we know a lot of hospo fairy dust has been sprinkled on the southern end lately, but now, it’s your turn!
You’d better sit down for this news, ‘cause it’s going to make your long weekend. Or most certainly your winter, when this newbie swings open its doors in a few months’ time.
Southport is getting its very own rooftop bar—and that’s only the beginning, folks.
Too. Much. Excitement. Where do we start?
Those who live or work in the CBD may have noticed some recent action around the long abandoned Maternal Child Welfare Centre building on Nerang Street. If you haven’t, let’s paint the picture.
This non-descript orange brick building, that was built in 1967 and served as a hospice for mothers in need, has been purchased by the savvy founders of CoSpaces at The Station, located in the neighbouring historic ambulance station.
If you’ve seen what they’ve achieved pouring love into The Station and, two doors down, at The Exchange, you’ll agree another piece of the city’s history is in very good hands.
Launched in 2012, CoSpaces was one of the Coast’s original co-working spaces and is easily one of the best. These guys have got big plans for their latest project, to take the bare bones of this neglected space to create something Southport will be justly proud to call their own.
Ben Howe of CoSpaces is teaming up with friend, architect and hospo veteran Arran Woolams—their original purpose for the mega renovation was to expand their co-working space offering. But these guys could see so much potential in this blank canvas, so they aren’t stopping there. The team has big plans to develop something epic, current, and cool-as-hell to breathe fresh energy into the CBD. Inspired by the gourmet sandwich delis of Philadelphia, a funky deli will occupy the street level posi, with an opening out to a side laneway, smattered with seating for Monday to Friday lunch hangs over delish made-to-order gourmet sangas and craft beer on tap.
But what about the rooftop bar, we hear you scream. We’re getting there, folks. Cool your jets!
What is currently a physical flat rooftop, will be extended out across the second-story area with a 100-metre-squared hospo venue (hello, private functions), kitchen out back, indoor-outdoor bar, and a two-part retractable roof to let the sunshine in on those balmy spring afternoons. While the rooftop bar is expected to open three or four nights a week, all the nitty gritty details like interior styling are still being worked out, though cocktails, tasty eats, good vibes, and city skyline views are promised. Who’s in?
Co-partner in the project, Arran Woollams is also a hospitality design architect and his business, Space Cubed, has had a hand in stellar local fit-outs like The Loose Moose, Mamasan, and BSKT. And while they don’t intend to go super extravagant here, we’re confident it’ll be well thought out, functional, and most importantly, somewhere you’ll definitely wanna linger with an espresso martini in hand as the sun sets on another working week.
Live a little further north or south? Southport’s new deli and rooftop bar will have a tram stop right out front, so you can save money on an Uber and spend it on #allofthecocktails.
While there’s no name chosen just yet, we’re told it’ll be a respectful nod to the site’s history as a maternal care facility or, going even further back, to when the postmaster’s home—occupied by Philip Palmer Agnew—stood on the same location (1909-1967). You should see the old photos; this guy looks like a legend!
We can’t wait to see what they make of this forgotten building on Nerang Street, so expect us back around late winter or early spring to share exclusive first pictures—no doubt it’ll be worth the wait.
Where: 43 Nerang Street, Southport
Photo Credit: Hayley Williamson
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