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Experience Tanzania's extraordinary national parks and reserves. Experience the Tarangire National Park, known for its large herds of elephant and spectacular baobab trees. See the incredible Ngorongoro Crater, a Garden of Eden and the only place in East Africa where a natural population of black rhino can be found. Visit the mostimportant prehistoric sites on Earth, the Olduvai Gorge. And don't forget to explore the acacia dotted plains of the famous Serengeti National Park.
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It's cap-and-gown time for graduating seniors at high schools serving San Juan Capistrano. Here are ceremonies Wednesday:
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Rep. Matt Gaetz has found a Senate sponsor for efforts to decriminalize a single strain of marijuana for medical purposes. Sen. Rob Bradley announced he'll be sponsoring SB 1030. Gaetz's bill is HB 843.
The news was welcomed by families desparate for relief.
"We are grateful to Senators Bradley, Brandes, and Bean for filing this lifesaving bill in the Senate today,'' said Peyton Moseley, Founder of Caring 4 Florida and parent of a child with severe epilepsy. "Their compassion and understanding of the difference Charlotte's Web can make in the treatment of our daughter RayAnn and tens of thousands of other Floridians suffering with severe epilepsy gives us hope for our daughter's future."
Here's Bradley's press release:
Senator Rob Bradley (R-Fleming Island) filed SB 1030 to allow the compassionate use of medical-grade marijuana for Floridians suffering with severe neurological conditions like epilepsy. SB 1030 also eliminates the legal jeopardy that has forced Floridians to seek treatment in other states.
SB 1030 provides a framework for the production and distribution of non-smokable strains of cannabis with high concentrations of CBD, the medicinal component of cannabis, and low levels (.05%) of THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana. A hybrid strain with similar concentrations known as “Charlotte’s Web” has been reported to provide relief from serious illnesses, including for children suffering from daily seizures associated with epilepsy.
“Charlotte’s Web helps patients improve their quality of life and offers hope to parents desperate to provide relief to their children,” said Senator Bradley. “While many Floridians have significant concerns about medical marijuana being misused, SB 1030 offers a new opportunity for Floridians who have not found relief with current medications.”
The Republican led effort, co-sponsored by Senator Jeff Brandes (R-St. Petersburg) and Senator Aaron Bean (R-Fernandina Beach), creates a pathway toward legal use of Charlotte’s Web, which is processed into an oil extract and administered by placing a droplet under the tongue, avoiding the harmful side effects of smoking marijuana.
“This is completely different from what the public knows about marijuana,” said Senator Aaron Bean. “I’m excited about the possibility of ending seizures in medically challenged kids.”
The unique hybrid strain, originally referred to as “Hippie’s Disappointment,” offers the therapeutic benefits of CBD without getting patients “high.”
“As a father I would go to any length to ease the suffering of one of my children,” said Senator Jeff Brandes. “The State of Florida shouldn’t force parents to choose between leaving our state and comforting an ailing child.”
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fort Walton Beach) has filed the companion bill in the House, HB 843.
“The language filed today is the starting point of a conversation about how we should adjust our laws to reflect new advancements in treatment. The sponsors in the Senate and House share the goal of providing relief to Floridians in need. As these bills move through the legislative process we will continue to work with medical experts and patients to find the best option for Florida.” said Senator Bradley.


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GOP CONGRESS ON DRUGS? Lets give congress a drug test. The American people are not fools. They know the reason why Obama has not fulfilled his promises is because the most do nothing congress has blocked every thing he hash tried to do and they hate Obama and want him to fail more the they love Americans and want them to succeed. Matter how unhappy America is with Obama they are more unhappy with RRWE. Drug test to receive your unemployment benefits? RRWE on drugs. GOP bill will hurt Americans and the economy. Cutting unemployment benefits from 99 weeks to 59 weeks. Cutting public sector jobs and freezing public sector wages will hurt Americans and the economy and give to the rich. The 10 democrat that join the RRWE need to be taken to the wood shed and obama need to act like the boss and veto this job destroying and american destroying bill. A bi-partisan bill for Americans? Cantor and the other RRWE, the American people thank you for kicking their butts again and kiss fats cats butts. Cutting jobs and screwing with the economy again.


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QCOSTARICA – The world industry of edible insects is in full evolution and Costa Rica has the potential to participate in a market that in 2020 was US$894 million worldwide and that is expected to grow annually, on average, 26.5% by 2027.
This was evidenced in the market study: “Mercado Internacional de Insectos Comestibles” (International Market for Edible Insects) prepared by PROCOMER – the State agency in charge of promoting Costa Rican exportations of goods – which describes the characteristics of international marketing of edible insects and determines the most favorable segments for marketing.
The general manager of PROCOMER, Pedro Beirute Prada, pointed out that the insect industry represents an inclusive business since it allows access to small producers and production chains.
“We are facing a market with the potential to revitalize our productive sector with high environmental benefits and high nutritional value. Just to cite one example, in land use efficiency, insects require 2 to 10 times less agricultural land to produce 1kg of edible insect protein compared to 1kg of pig or cattle protein,” added Beirute.
Enrique Ulloa, economic analyst in charge of the study, reiterated that taking advantage of the market is closely linked to overcoming current market barriers, including the regulatory framework and psychological and ethical aspects related to its consumption. In addition, as an incipient industry, it has risks associated with production and demand.
In the case of Costa Rica, Ulloa acknowledges that the country can opt for the development of applications for human consumption such as insect powder and protein bars, which show greater sales dynamism in the medium term. Without neglecting animal consumption products.
“We must work on the development of a culture of consumption at the national level to promote the domestic market and, without a doubt, work on the technical training of our producers, which must be accompanied by the training of professionals in the industry who can provide them with assistance,” commented the analyst.
Worldwide, 63% of the market uses its products for human consumption and the remaining 37% for animals, with crickets (42%), the black soldier fly (20%), and mealworms (15%) being the main insects. marketed.
In 2020, the main markets were Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. The United States stands out as the main destination with potential for human and animal consumption given the size of its demand and projected growth (29.3% per year for the period 2020-2027).
- About 140 countries in the world consume insects with more than 2,000 registered species
- The consumption of insects by humans is known as entomophagy and is practiced in many countries around the world, but mainly in regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Insects complement the diet of approximately 2,000 million people and it is a habit that has always been present in the eating behavior of human beings
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|In this paper, a novel subspace-based spatial and temporal mitigation method is proposed for GPS signal tracking by a multi-antenna receiver in multipath environment. Since the tracking result from the delay-lock-loop has been polluted by the multipath incidence, we only use it to follow the code phase shift but design a subspace-based estimator to distinguish different incident rays by their spatial and temporal signatures. The carrier phase is firstly extended into the signatures because of the signal BPSK modulation. A subspace rotation invariance in space and DOAM-like correlation matrices are both established by the property of the receiving array, and a forward and backward space smooth is also taken here to solve the coherent problem by multipath. The angle-of-arrivals and signatures are estimated from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors from the cross-correlation matrix, the signatures also provide the relative delay and carrier phase estimates with respect to the tracking loop. The line-of-sight ray’s estimates are picked up by its first arrival character, and a modified delay tracking output without multipath bias is finally achieved by combining tracking loop and the subspace estimator results together. Simulation results prove that compared with the existing methods, such as the narrow early-minus-late and the multipath estimating delay lock loop, the proposed method has the best multipath mitigation in the delay estimation.
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Pharmacy law veteran David Reissner says ‘the speech from the throne’ includes two pieces of legislation that will affect pharmacy practice…
The Queen’s Speech on May 11 announced two pieces of legislation that will affect pharmacy practice. A Health and Care Bill which is expected to implement the proposals in the Government’s earlier White Paper entitled Integration and Innovation, and there will be a Professional Qualifications Bill.
Integration and Innovation aims at: “joined up care for everyone in England. Instead of working independently every part of the NHS, public health and social care system should continue to seek out ways to connect, communicate and collaborate so that the health and care needs of people are met.”
The details of the Health and Care Bill have not yet been published, but below are some of the key features of the White Paper that may find their way into a Health and Care Bill:
Integrated Care Systems
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) will be made up of an ICS NHS Body and an ICS Health and Care Partnership. The Government believes ICSs will “strengthen the decision making authority of the system leadership and…embed accountability for system performance into the NHS accountability structure.”
According to the Government, this dual structure recognises two forms of integration: integration within the NHS to remove some of the “cumbersome barriers to collaboration and to make working together across the NHS an organising principle”.
The new ICS NHS body will be responsible for:
- Developing a plan to meet the health needs of the population within their defined geography
- Developing a capital plan for the NHS providers within their health geography
- Securing the provision of health services to meet the needs of the system population
- Taking on the commissioning functions of the CCGs and some of those of NHS England within its boundaries.
ICS NHS bodies will be responsible for establishing ICS Health and Care Partnerships, bringing together health, social care, public health (and potentially representatives from “the wider public space where appropriate”, such as social care providers or housing providers).
These partnerships will be responsible for developing a plan that addresses wider health, public health and social care needs, with the ICS NHS Body and Local Authorities being required to have regard to that plan when making decisions.
Duty to collaborate
There will be a new duty to promote collaboration across the healthcare, public health and social care system. NHS bodies that arrange NHS Services will be required to protect, promote and facilitate patient choice with respect to services or treatment.
Where there is no value in running a competitive procurement process, services can be arranged with the most appropriate provider.
Public Health England came under heavy criticism in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bill will create the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP). Amongst other things, NIHP will take over the functions of Public Health England.
The Government is still considering responses to a recent consultation on the reform of healthcare regulation. It is not clear whether the Government will be ready to include reforms in the Health and Care Bill, though proposals are included in the White Paper. These proposals include:
- Changing the structure of the bodies that regulate healthcare.
- Powers to reduce the number of regulatory bodies The GPhC is one of ten healthcare bodies regulated by the Professional Standards Authority. The Government believes that a reduction in the number of regulators, for example by merging some of them, would “deliver public protection in a more consistent way, while also delivering financial and efficiency savings.”
- Enhancing the powers of some regulators. The GPhC is one of the newest regulators and it already has some of the most modern powers, but changes are likely, even if they do not make it into the impending Health and Care Bill.
Following the recommendations of successive inquiries, including the Shipman Inquiry, an NHS statutory medical examiner system will scrutinise all deaths which do not involve a coroner.
There will be a new, unified system of death certification in England.
NHS bodies, rather than local authorities, will appoint Medical Examiners. Every death in England and Wales will be scrutinised, either by a coroner or a medical examiner.
The medical examiner system is intended to improve the accuracy of the cause of death and subsequently mortality statistics and will increase transparency for the bereaved and help deter criminal activity and poor practice.
The MHRA will be able to set up medicines registries to consolidate prescribing data for specific medicines with data from clinical care and other social administrative databases, and can be further developed to capture more detailed and bespoke data on the cohorts of patients receiving these medicines.
The data captured in a specific medicine registry may help support the safe use of the medicine.
Registries would be established for a medicine where the public need is clear and the benefits of a publicly held national registry that can access routinely collected data are required.
Registries may be used where a medicine is known to carry a risk of serious adverse health outcomes and consistent adherence to risk minimisation measures is critical, or where there are substantive unknowns about the safety or effectiveness of a medicine in a population and urgent evidence is required to support safe access to it.
Pharmacists who qualified in the EU and who were already registered with the GPhC by 30 December 2020 retain their registration.
Pharmacy technicians could not benefit from EU mutual recognition arrangements because not all EU states recognise the profession of pharmacy technician.
Post-Brexit arrangements for recognizing professional qualifications are needed. The Professional Qualifications Bill has already been introduced in the House of Lords. When the Bill becomes law, the GPhC and other professional bodies will have new powers to recognise professionals who qualified overseas, and this power will extend to all pharmacy professionals.
David Reissner is chair of the Pharmacy Law & Ethics Association.


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Polished concrete is a very inexpensive type of flooring, which will only save you and your business money! Since buildings are already built with a concrete floor base, you won’t have to spend a whole lot of more money. Polishings are pretty inexpensive too, and polished concrete comes with hardly any required maintenance! If you are looking for an economical, eco-friendly way to freshen up your floors, then polished concrete is your answer.
Polished concrete is a very tough surface that can withstand the daily use of chairs, tables, harsh cleaners, and heavy traffic. It is less prone to cracking than other forms of concrete floors, and requires very little maintenance. Because polished concrete doesn’t require any volatile organic compound use, it can increase a room’s ambient light by 30 percent, and increase the lifespan of the existing concrete, it is considered a more environmentally safe material and meets the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards. It also can be customized to be slip-resistant, which could help prevent employee or customer related injuries.
Especially in the restaurant industry, sanitation is a necessity. This is yet again another reason why polished concrete is a great choice, as it is about the most sanitary flooring option available to restaurants. When coated with a polisher or a strong industrial coating, you significantly improve the floors sanitation, and ultimately the sanitation of your whole restaurant. It is spill and stain resistant, making it very easy to clean up any mess. This will also help your restaurant and building meet flooring and sanitation standards for the FDA and USDA!
Polished concrete, unlike many other flooring options, is quite affordably customizable. You can choose a design that fits perfect with the aesthetics of your restaurant. Stained and sealed concrete are other options that can be designed, but they tend to wear out over time. Polished concrete, however, doesn’t rely on coloring or elaborate coating to keep it looking fancy. The sleek, modern surface can fit into almost any conceivable design scheme without the need for color matching. This is a reason why restaurants like Chipotle end up choosing this flooring option.
Polished concrete comes with many benefits that compliment the restaurant industry. It is very cost efficient, durable, sanitary, and can be customly designed to fit any aesthetic. This is why restaurants like Chipotle are turning to polished concrete as their flooring material.
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Knowledge sharing – user centred service design
11 December 2020
A huge thank you to everyone who joined our first knowledge sharing webinar this week. We’re keen to provide as many opportunities as possible for knowledge sharing, learning and engagement. At this first event over 30 people from across Wales came together to look at how user centred service design can support public service delivery in Wales.
To start the session the group heard from Darius Pocha, founder of Create/Change and a member of the Centre’s Advisory Panel, Jess Neely, Service Design and Research Lead at Perago and Ian Vaughan from Neath Port Talbot County Council. From the principles of service design through to communities of interest and hands on delivery, some the key points from the three speakers were:
- our starting point is that we must develop public services in collaboration with the people who use them
- in Wales we have:
- public services that need to be designed
- people with the skills to design them
- people who want to learn service design skills
- we don’t have:
- enough opportunities for skilled people
- pathways for people to enter the profession
- taking a user centred service design approach is helping us design the right thing for the customer
- without service design there is no real transformation
The discussion that followed covered skills and capability, transforming services through the pandemic and sharing challenges and good practice.
We’re now looking at other ways to bring people together and keep the conversation going. In the meantime, if you have any questions, would like to share any learning or just want to find out more, then get in touch.
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Beavertail State Park is a Rhode Island state park encompassing 153 acres (62 ha) at the southern end of Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay. Its main attraction is the active Beavertail Lighthouse, the current tower of which dates from 1856. During World War II, the park area was part of Fort Burnside, one of several coastal fortifications designed to protect Narragansett Bay. The park includes acres of grassy fields and miles of shoreline which are used for sightseeing, hiking, picnicking and saltwater fishing.
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Happy memories, like good friendships, never die – and sometimes it’s not too late to recapture the magic
It was not until I was past the shop that I registered it. I walked back a few paces. Swan’s Feather, it was called, tucked between a craft shop and a book shop just off the central drag. I stared at their display and thought of my friend, Jean. Then I went in.
“Ballet shoes!” exclaimed Lisa. “Did you used to do ballet, Gran?”
“Just for a little while.”
It would be useless to explain. Lisa had so much – and I was partly to blame. I spoiled her and my other two grandchildren. My days were taken up with looking after them, to the exclusion of most other things… including my friends.
“Put them back, sweetheart,” I murmured now.
She tossed them aside and ran out to play. I picked them up and whispered, “At long last. I have a pair of ballet shoes.”
Jean would be the only one who would truly understand why I’d bought them…
We had once shared so much – but it had been ages since I’d seen her.
I picked up the phone.
“Alex!” she exclaimed. “It’s so lovely to hear from you.”
Her pleasure made me feel guilty. I had simply never got round to returning her previous calls.
“I was wondering if you would like to come round for a drink tonight. I’ve got something to show you.”
The ballet shoes stayed in their wrapping till she visited. Then I held them behind my back with fingers crossed.
“You’ll never guess what I’ve got, Jean,” I teased.
“No, what is it?”
“Taaa-raaa,” I exclaimed, holding them up by the ribbons.
As she reached out to touch, we were once again the two kids from the wrong side of town who’d had aspirations beyond our dreams.
What we would have given to own a pair of ballet shoes
“Oh, Alex,” she exclaimed. “What we would have given to have owned a pair of ballet shoes. Can I try them on?”
“Of course you can.”
She pirouetted round the kitchen table while I opened a bottle of wine.
“We could barely afford the half a crown for the lessons,” she said. “Never mind buy the shoes.”
“Do you remember Pamela Taylor?”
“I used to so envy her,” replied Jean, pulling a face. “She was so angelic – grace personified.”
“Not all elbows and knees like us.”
“We weren’t angels but angles,” agreed my friend.
“Our scabby knees didn’t help.”
By the time we’d finished our first glass of wine it was my turn to be pirouetting round the table in the beautiful ballet shoes.
“Hey Alex, do you remember the Hornpipe dance?”
“Of course I do. We were always shoved at the back.”
We danced the night away
We giggled, reminisced and danced the evening away, taking turns with the ballet shoes. It seemed apt somehow, sharing the shoes. We had shared most things in our childhood – including the belt. We had been a couple of tearaways and forever bunking off school.
Why ballet lessons appealed to us I’ll never know. There was no chance of us ever acquiring ballet shoes.
“What got me,” confided Jean as we worked our way down the bottle, “was, that all the other girls’ hair was smooth and ballerina perfect –”
“And we looked like demented scarecrows with our hair corkscrewing all over the place.”
We had tears of laughter running down our cheeks when suddenly out of the blue, Jean sobered up.
“But asking us to leave… it was hard to have your dreams dashed like that.”
“But we kept on dancing,” I said defiantly. “Do you remember the Led Zeppelin concerts?”
“That’s true. We had a whale of a time. Talking of which, Manfred is on at the Rothes Halls on Friday. I have tickets – do you fancy going?”
Friday was my babysitting night – but for once my daughter would just have to get someone else.
“Of course I do. Brilliant! It will be like old times.”
It was later, as Jean was getting ready to leave, that I presented her with the ballet shoes.
“I bought these for you. Only fifty years too late – but all good things come to those who wait.”
She looked at them a long time and then shook her head.
“I’ve got a better idea,” she said with a twinkle. “Why don’t we share and have one each?”
We’re sharing another another short story collection from our archives every Monday and Thursday during August. Look out for some heartwarming family fiction – and remember, there’s exciting new fiction every week in My Weekly magazine, too. Sign up for a money-saving subscription here.

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Miley Cyrus at BBC Radio One Studios in London. (July 18, 2013) -Photo: Fame/Flynet, INFdaily, Pacific Coast News, WENN
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How can you pay a check without a bank account in IN?
For great deals of individuals, it might be challenging to imagine living without a checking account. It’s the truth for the roughly 8% of Americans that are living “unbanked,” indicating they have no savings account whatsoever. In addition, a total of 28.3% of Americans are either unbanked or underbanked, which indicates they depend upon alternatives to banks for financial services like check paying.
Other Than for Funding One, which has no check-cashing charge, rather a lot every financial institution expenses a cost of anywhere from $4 to $10 to pay their look for a non-account owner. These charges remain in a location to cover the cost of refining the check– and you could field a deal to open an account to avoid the cost.
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Can you cash a check at an ATM around Newtown 47969?
In our electronic world of straight down payments and cash transfers by means of smart device applications, old-fashioned paper checks (or checks) are still offered a choice of aspects. Whether it’s a birthday celebration check from your granny or a company or government-issued check, even among the most tech-savvy individuals have to cash checks often.
Possible fees aside, if a recipient probably to the banks provided on the check, it is more than likely that the entire quantity can be immediately available. This is because the financial institution has a direct link to the account where the cash is withdrawn. If the bank charges a cost, it may try to obtain the recipient to open an account there to bypass the charge. When receivers go to their banks, they might just have prompt access to part of the funds along with may need to wait various days for the rest.
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Often, military or institution I.D.s may be accepted.
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– Call the financial institution branch with any questions concerning their I.D. requirements. You won’t be needed to show an image I.D. if you pay the check at an ATM or using your mobile phone.
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– If the depend on which the check is attracted chooses not to pay your banks– to puts it simply, the check “leaps”– your banks will certainly repay itself from your savings account. Banks will definitely furthermore typically costs a cost for the problem of taking care of a returned check.
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Since instance, one of the people to whom the check is composed might cash it with only his signature. There is a two-party check composed to both celebrations collectively. For this type, both people must sign the check to pay it.
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The dreamland is either the monetary institution of the recipient or the monetary institution of the individual that created the check (the monetary organization where the money originates from). There will more than most likely be no charges billed if check receivers go to their really own banks.

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The struggle to recruit skilled workers is a recurring concern for manufacturing businesses across the world. An EEF report recently revealed that three-quarters of manufacturers have struggled to recruit skilled workers in the last three years.
This industry analysis suggests that manufacturers are dealing with a lack of both quantity and quality when it comes to applicants, with not enough people applying for roles and job-seekers lacking the technical skills required to fill available vacancies. The report cautions that manufacturers’ plans to drive productivity improvements and to capitalise on Industry 4.0 could be derailed and with demand for skills set to rocket, the situation is about to spiral further.
Yet, with new generations entering the workforce perhaps there’s light at the end of the tunnel. These younger generations bring with them a fresh outlook and a desire for personal growth that, if harnessed properly, could be the injection that businesses need to succeed. However, attracting this new talent is not always easy.
Younger generations are entering the workforce at a time of technological change and economic disruption. These forces are shaping the choices they make and the experiences they seek when applying for jobs. What’s more, the career choices this generation makes now, will in turn eventually shape the global economy.
Organisations face a unique set of challenges when it comes to integrating new generations into the workforce, and balancing their needs and expectations, along with those of existing workers. For example, the so-called Baby Boomer generation, which comprises of workers born before the sixties, has very different ways of working compared to Generation X, currently aged 36-55.
Studies, such as those by The Gerontologist and The Open University have characterised Baby Boomers as motivated by position, perks and prestige, making them believe that Generation X and younger generations should, like them, conform to a culture of overwork.
Some members of these generations may be soon to retire, but they will nonetheless need to work alongside much younger generations first—including Millennials, who are currently under the age of 30 and members of Generation Z, who were born in the late nineties. These groups, in contrast to their older colleagues, grew up in an environment where diversity and the need to balance multiple tasks at once was the norm. Thus, they seek flexibility, team work, and the acceptance of their ideas.
What’s more, as these younger generations come up through the ranks, they are rapidly becoming the most dominant population in today’s workplace, bringing with them innovative ways of working, fresh ideas and challenges for their older colleagues.
Indeed, a clash in attitudes and priorities has resulted in many commentators giving younger generations a bad rap. Only recently, the CBI published a report which showed a third of companies are concerned about young people’s attitude to work, believing that many graduates and school leavers lack the mindset and skills required to thrive in the current workplace.
But are we giving young people a hard time when we should perhaps be looking at the assets they bring to a company instead?
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As part of its global growth survey, Epicor set about trying to better understand how attitudes to business growth vary amongst different generations. Millennials and Generation Z, referred to as Gen ZY in the research, want to know that work is a place of growth and development, where they can find their purpose and be passionate about what they do.
The survey found that these generations are more ‘excited’ about the growth experienced in their company than Baby Boomers (29 per cent versus 27 per cent), and that they are also a lot more optimistic about growth trends. Three quarters (72 per cent) believed their business’s growth prospects had improved in the last 12 months, whereas just 50 per cent of Baby Boomers felt the same.
This optimism of youth can be harnessed by organisations looking to drive growth. For example, we are seeing the proliferation of creative office design, short term office leases and co-working spaces across regions around the world, as well as increases in flexibility in work schedules, work attire and human resource policies at both large and small companies.
The use of technology is also a factor, as having access to the latest tech goes a long way towards attracting the best talent, boosting morale and driving operational efficiencies. Many of these ideas and trends are refreshing and useful to growing innovative companies.
New generational challenges
Generation ZY is likely to have to confront obstacles to prosperity that their parents didn’t face. They are better educated than previous generations—but in today’s world, many, if not most, will be forced to retool and switch careers several times during their working life.
IT advancement is in many ways a double-edged sword for young people. The digital economy has enabled the creation of millions of new jobs, but artificial intelligence and robotics may soon displace many traditional manufacturing roles.
However, the good news is that many younger people are aware of these challenges and often look to the application of the latest technologies to overcome their problems. The Epicor survey found that younger generations are more likely to embrace new innovative technologies. More than half (52 per cent) see better technology as a solution to current stresses and challenges, compared to 45 per cent of Gen X, and 38 per cent Baby Boomers.
But beware of the ‘one size fits all’ mindset, because not every employee will fit the description of their generation. Mark Zuckerberg for example, who was born in 1984, is arguably too old to be classed as a Millennial but is nonetheless renowned for his capacity for being on the cutting edge of social technologies. Many Gen X and Baby Boomer employees too, are also technologically forward-thinking and willing to adapt to today’s digital world.
As the generation of digital natives makes waves in the work environment, organisations that play to these young people’s strengths will ultimately gain thriving and motivated workers, allowing them to grow in the long term.
This involves engaging with young workers on new, social and truly interactive platforms, such as using social enterprise resource planning (ERP) tools to collaborate on projects, or by using gamification methods to motivate teams and drive results. Also important is the need to utilise the latest technology for training, for efficiency, and for automating manual tasks that might otherwise leave younger generations bored. This is the future workplace. Is your business ready?
Sabby Gill is executive vice president international of Epicor Software

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How often do you hear a record from a band with a message that’s more important than the music? You wonder if they chose the right vocation to broadcast their ideology. Of course, this is never an issue with the NME and The Guardian, and one needs little imagination to predict how supportive the BBC will be a of a queercore trio who “fight the good fight” and aim to take down the patriarchy with the alacrity of a Manson family acolyte planning a home invasion. Yet you can toss your cynicism to one side and appreciate many aspects of the debut album from London punks, Shooting Daggers. Clearly, the trio enjoy deconstructing and writing music as much as they delight in calling for a violent overthrow of the male-dominated status quo.
Love & Rage is punk, but it’s the messy hardcore punk of Spitboy. In other words, people with heavier tastes can enjoy it more than the anarcho-punks that have little time for music other than as an agitprop tool. Opener, ‘Dare’, is a turbo-charged riot with a mid-tempo thump and shades of Turnstile at its core. Shooting Daggers are not afraid to rock out, yet any hardcore festival would be proud to have them on their bill. Righteous anger is a powerful energy. The Donnas once showed this type of promise but never delivered. ‘Not My Rival’ shows how it should be done. Here, the band sway their hips, but will rip your nose off if you’re unfortunate enough to be a straight white male that might objectify them. A fuzzy bass guitar adds an extra layer of noise to underline the message of “Give violence a chance.” Three-chord punk can still draw a tap of the foot and a snarl of the face on the evidence of this number.
It would be easy to dismiss Shooting Daggers as all mouth and no musical talent if they didn’t have an exceptional ability to dip into the luscious textures of shoegaze when you’re ready to question their competence. ‘Smug’ displays the first sign of a rough grunge melody in the opening guitar riff before they lean into a bounce riff. Luscious vocal harmonies follow the vitriolic hurling in the bridge section like rays of sun melting snow. Admittedly, it’s like jumping into a time machine to cherry-pick the best of 1993, but it works. The same thing illuminates ‘A Guilty Conscience Needs an Accuser’. The serene dream pop musing of this song sparkles like a pattern of sequins. Listening to the release of anguish in the chorus as the emotions sail into the ether like an evaporation of happy tears.
“No more cute revolution/ No more – hear us out/ Disorder, no discussion / We take control and step on you,” roar the band in ‘Bad Seeds’. Shooting Daggers see no need to force-feed you the irony of being cute playthings, and why should they? Their music can stand up to scrutiny as much as their lyrics. Cowbell accents, chugging basslines, and luscious backing harmonies compete with a seething rage in ‘Tunnel Vision’. ‘Wipeout’ is clever enough to be ambivalent: “Out of sight, out of mind / They can’t provoke us, we’re untouchable.” Are they attacking a patriarchal attitude and recycling it for their own purpose?
Is twenty-five minutes enough for a debut album to leave its mark in the long term? It shouldn’t be too difficult to better this effort on later records, but Shooting Daggers master the balance here between aggressive fantasising and daydreaming. True, the feedback-drenched shoegaze of the title-track could be any American alt-rock band of the early 1990s with its shiny melodies and despondent down-strumming of the guitar chords. Yet it dares to step outside the comfort zone of hardcore when the mood demands it, just like the spellbinding fragility of the brooding piano piece of ‘Caves/Outro’ that ends the album on a sorrowful note. Originality is nigh impossible in punk, but at least the trio care about song writing.
We’ll be hearing a lot more from this band in our age of identity politics and moral relativism, yet their music deserves as much attention as their message. How often can we say that about a punk artist?
Release Date: 16/02/2024
Record Label: New Heavy Sounds
Standout tracks: Not My Rival; A Guilty Conscience Needs an Accuser; Tunnel Vision
Suggested Further Listening: Spitboy – The Spitboy CD (1994), Turnstile – Glow On (2021), Thirdface – Doing It with a Smile (2021)


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LOCAL Australian Football rivals the Bomaderry Tigers and Albatross Demons clashed on Saturday in what was one sided but entertaining match. The Demons should be congratulated for never giving up
LOCAL athletes went medal mad at the recent Athletics NSW’s State Cross Championship at Willandra last Saturday. Local runners won a heap of medals and produced some outstanding results. Well done to all the runners and the Nowra Athletics Club members who organised a great day.
WITH cross country season in full swing and lots of football being played our local junior sportspeople are pretty busy. The smiles on their faces show they are all having fun.
The Ulladulla surfing community has been rocked by the death of former Boardriders Club president Mark Galton on a jobsite near Narrabri on Wednesday.

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I had the distinct pleasure of being invited to sculpt in a sculpting class at St Germain Des Arts studio with the French sculptor and instructor Edith Lafay. (Image below of her work, visit her site to see more:
The studio is located in the heart of St Germain, we were able to walk there within 15 minutes. This is very rare in Paris, as the majority of the art studios are close to the outskirts due in part to the expense and lack of available space close to the centre.
We worked on 3 quick poses from a male model, 2 seated and one reclining.
I used a beautiful black clay which felt like chocolate mud, I had to stop myself from attempting to taste it!
My study of the reclining pose
Simon's clay study
It was very interesting to experience the environment of a sculpture class here in the heart of Paris, a setting steeped in art history and with such a strong lineage of figurative sculpture.
Perhaps I will return to Canada with a suitcase full of clay!
(Photos of the session courtesy of Simon DesRochers Photographer)

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Lira-based Uganda Premier League side Blacks Power have unveiled Hussein Mbalangu as their Head coach.
The former Arua Hill and Mbarara City Head Coach comes in place of Peter Onen who was sacked after two games.
Mbalangu steered Arua Hill to the FUFA Big League title and their first ever Uganda Premier League promotion two years ago.
And he joins Blacks Power having been relieved of his duties by Somalia based Mogadishu City.
Since their debut in the top flight, Mbalangu will be the third coach to take charge of Blacks Power after Anthony Ssekitto was appointed as the interim coach following the sacking of Peter Onen.
The new comers have had a difficult start to the season and are winless in the opening three matches with two defeats to BUL and Busoga United and a one all draw with Bright Stars.
Mbalangu finds Blacks Power bottom of the log with one point after 3 matches.
His first game will be away to Wakiso Giants on Friday 21st at the Kabaka Kyabaggu Stadium.


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The largest COVID-19 vaccination center in Pakistan has been set up in Karachi’s Expo Centre. It has a capacity to inoculate 30,000 on a daily basis. Meanwhile, the National Command Operation Center (NCOC) on Saturday made an announcement regarding the closure of education institutes.
The Sindh government established a mega vaccination center at Karachi’s Expo Centre in order to expedite the COVID-19 vaccination process. It will be made functional from May 9 (Sunday) where 30,000 people could get COVID-19 jabs in a single day.
This was also disclosed by law and environment adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab, who also acts as the spokesman for the Sindh government.
While talking to media persons on Friday, he said the new mass vaccination center would be able to vaccinate 20,000 to 25,000 people in a day. Moreover, that it would start working from tomorrow and provide free inoculation services.
He said the center would be highly beneficial and protect the health of the citizens against the deadly viral disease. The law adviser said the government would provide free coronavirus testing service for citizens who had developed symptoms of the infectious disease.
The vaccination center will reportedly function under the direct supervision of Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah. Additionally, the vaccination process will be continued 24 hours a day. Earlier in the day, the provincial government notified that private hospital staffers will be on duty while the vaccination centers shall too remain open excluding three eid days as the country fends off the global pandemic woes propping up in the third wave.
Academic Institutes to remain closed till May 23, 2021
Taking to Twitter, the NCOC made an announcement. “In Today’s NCOC session, it is decided that in view of ongoing disease trends, education institutes earlier closed till 17th May will continue to remain closed till 23rd May 21. Review will be carried out on 18th May 21,” the tweet read.
The Sindh government on Friday announced a new set of restrictions as part of the national “Stay Home – Stay Safe” drive to curb coronavirus during the Eid holidays. In a notification issued by the Sindh Home Department, the provincial government stated that the new restrictions will remain in place from May 9 to 16.
Officials have said health care facilities are at risk of being overwhelmed. Pakistan has very limited health resources, with ventilators and oxygen in short supply. Critical COVID-19 patients have increased in the country and a vaccination center was much needed. Last year, the Pak army pitched in with 10,000 bedded hospital at Expo Center Karachi.
What do you think of this story? Let us know in the comments section below.


Most industry leaders would argue the biggest factor affecting engineering quality is the lack of experience of many technical staff. The industry must cope with a large expansion in activity with a limited increase in skilled resources; senior-level engineers, although highly experienced, can’t handle the workload. The industry has tried to fill this gap with tools. These have reduced users’ knowledge of engineering fundamentals and robbed them of valuable experience. Moreover, this approach has resulted in a lack of awareness of what quality looks like and what it consists of as far as deliverables. Too many inexperienced engineers believe: “If the system spits it out, it must be good!”
In addition, despite the implementation of more and more electronic systems and tools, engineering hours for projects haven’t dropped. This is a misguided metric, though, because engineering typically accounts for only around 12–15% of the total cost of a large-scale capital project; procurement and construction activities represent a majority of the total project cost. So, spending a little extra in engineering effort to get the other areas more efficient is a cheap price to pay. Owners should appreciate that ensuring we make prudent purchases (of equipment and materials) and build projects flawlessly in today’s less-experienced-project-team environment is more critical than reducing engineering hours.


Shaw Cross Sharks have released the following statement regarding their player Ryan Glynn, who suffered a severe spinal injury at last weekend’s game against Elland.
A spokesman for the club said: “Ryan is currently at the spinal unit at Sheffield. I am told this is one of the best facilities in the country.
“Ryan has a small artery in his neck which is slighlty blocked caused by the trauma of injury and the eight hour operation. He is on medication to combat this and at this time has to remain lying down at all times.
“There will be many ups and downs along the way and despite this setback he is in good spirits and takes great comfort from the visitors / messages etc.
“Let’s crank the momentum up everyone - get on twitter #ForGynny
“We are currently in the process of organising a massive fundraising event - a boxing and auction night. Further details to follow.
“We are still inundated with calls and messages and items are arriving every day for our auction.”


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What is the Biodiversity Reference Group?
The biodiversity Reference Group is a skills based group that oversees investment to build community capacity in community landcare and NRM across the south coast region. The group’s aspiration is that natural ecosystems, habitats and landscapes are valued, resilient, effectively linked and managed to provide increased viability for native species and communities.
The committee membership consists of representatives from around the region from Denmark in the west to Jerramungup in the East. Membership is by invitation based on the skills and knowledge required by the group.
Specifically, the reference group:
- acts as a “think tank” and a problem-solving vehicle for new and existing projects including review and adoption of innovation;
- provides a critical link to community by identifying local community issues, concerns and activities related to Biodiversity care and natural resource management;
- develops activities for funding by the NRM Investment Plan that are compliant with the South Coast NRM Regional Strategy.
What types of projects does the group currently oversee?
The Reference Group currently oversees the following projects:
- A community partnership project aimed at protection of EPBC species and ecosystems
- Increasing community capability to strategically manage Phytophthora Dieback in WA
- Support to community groups managing projects to protect and conserve the environment, and to build capacity in regional communities.

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Electric Vehicle (EV) and Infrastructure Grants – Portland General Electric (PGE)
PGE offers grants of up to $750,000 for the purchase of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty EVs and EV charging stations through the Drive Change Fund. Education outreach programs and projects that accelerate the adoption and awareness of transportation electrification may also receive funding. Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations, businesses, or government entities. For more information, including how to apply, see the PGE Drive Change Fund website.


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The mobilisation in response to Storm Desmond included everything from the largest ever single deployment of generators to maintain supplies, to the provision of over 30, hot meals for those directly affected by the floods. Although these estimates are based on management’s best knowledge of the amount, event or actions, actual results ultimately may differ from these estimates. During the period, the Committee undertook the recruitment process for both a Non-Executive Director and for a Chief Executive Officer. During the year ended 31 March a reduction was seen in the customer satisfaction results measured through the Ofgem survey. Revenue is largely fixed across a price review period, it is set at a level that meets our efficient operating costs and expenses, as well as funding efficient investment, interest on necessary loan funding, taxes so it allows for a return to shareholders at a level that regulates the return and encourages future investment.
The measure that is most closely aligned to this result is cash flow before financing activites see page Demand Side Response aims to save customers money by agreeing with particular customers to reduce demand in certain conditions for example during faults thereby saving all customers the significant cost of network reinforcement. The assumptions are disclosed in note 20 of the financial statements. The safety of the Company’s people and customers is a fundamental cornerstone of the business. Finance charges, including premiums payable on settlement or redemption and direct issue costs, are accounted for on an amortised cost basis to the Income Statement using the effective interest method and are added to the carrying amount of the instrument to the extent that they are not settled in the year in which they arise. To assess the effectiveness of the previous year’s external audit the Committee reviewed the audit approach and strategy and received a report of Deloitte LLP’s performance from both members of the Board and Executives.
During the period, the Committee undertook the recruitment process for both a Non-Executive Director and for a Chief Executive Officer. Where turnover received or receivable in the year exceeds the maximum amount permitted by regulatory agreement adjustments will be made to future prices to reflect this over-recovery; no liability is recognised as such an adjustment to future prices relates to the provision of future services.
Initially the focus has been on the development of women within the business and a second group commences our development programme commenced in the spring of Included in this was the successful delivery of awareness sessions by the mental health charity MIND. The audit includes the review and testing of the data contained in the financial statements to the extent necessary for expressing an audit opinion on the truth and fairness of the financial statements.
The Committee reviews and approves the overall remuneration levels of employees below senior management level, but does not set remuneration for these individuals. This ambitious project, which is supported by the Department for Energy and Climate Change ‘DECC’ and Ofgem, will be delivered in the summer of and Electricity North West is fully playing its part in supporting the development, implementation and operation of this new customer service.
The Group is therefore subject to volatility in the Income Statement due to changes in the fair values of the derivative financial instruments.
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Busiiness aims to meet the future needs of customers and stakeholders in an increasingly uncertain energy future by maximising the opportunities provided by:. The net gain or loss recognised in the Income Statement incorporates any interest paid on the financial liabilities and is included in the interest charge. The forecast has been subject to sensitivity analysis driven by the principal risks and the potential impact has been considered by sensitising a number of key assumptions, including Retail Price Index RPIinterest rates and incentive revenue performance.
Each analysis considered the Company’s ability to meet its operational and financial obligations throughout the period, including debt covenant compliance. We have also commenced the development of an improved website which will continue into the year to March The Company is a electriciyy employer in the North West of England and employs over 1, people in the region.
This confirmation is given and should be interpreted within the provisions of s of the Companies Act Further liquidity is provided by cash and short-term deposit balances.
The Directors’ biographies are on pages At the current time, this interpretation does not affect the Group. The innovation strategy forms an integral part of the business plan and sets out why innovation is important for customers and how value is delivered through a series of innovative projects, including the rollout of smart grids and smart metering.
The aim of Electricity North West is to put customers at the heart of everything the Company does.
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The difference between the two amounts is recognised as a surplus or obligation in the Statement of Financial Position.
He retains the fees from the appointment.
Electricity North West has set itself an overarching Company Goal to improve its Customer Satisfaction performance score to be the best in the electricity distribution sector. This is a significant asset base which must be managed so that services to 2.
I am pleased to introduce the Group’s results for the year ended 31 March and confirm that the Group started this first year of the eight-year regulatory price control with some er1 achievements, notably in the handling of Storm Desmond.
Control is achieved where the Company has the power to govern the financial and operating policies, generally accompanied by a shareholding of more than one half of the voting rights, of an invested entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities. It is powered daily by the determination of our colleagues to deliver the very highest levels of service to our customers at a price they can afford. The acquiree’s identifiable assets, liabilities and contingent liabilities that meet the conditions for recognition under IFRS 3 are recognised at e1d fair value at the acquisition date.
Our customers continue to benefit from year on year improvements in the reliability of our network evidenced by a fall in the number of interruptions and a fall in the length of time they are without supply. Trade receivables are stated at nominal value with any allowances made for any estimated irrecoverable amounts. He is holds a B. There are two types of hedge accounting strategies that the Group considers; a fair value hedge and a cash flow hedge.
Electricity North West Limited Annual Financial Report – ADVFN
The role of the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer is separate and each has a clear role description set out in writing and agreed by the Board. In line with the plans for each of wwst areas, during the year ended 31 Marchhealth and safety was integrated into the organisation’s leadership programmes and the Company provided specific training for inclusion in the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health ‘Managing Safely’ and National Construction Certificate qualifications.
However, because not all future events or conditions can be predicted, this statement is not a guarantee as to the group’s ability to continue as a going concern.

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Created 04-17-2018 06:57 AM
Background: first time installing hadoop on a cluster single-handedly. AWS 3 instances, Ubuntu 16, 1 XL node 2 L nodes, all with 40 Gb storage each. Latest version of HDP 2.6.4. Installed successfully, started ambari successfully, logged into web admin portal ... Followed all the steps in the documentation.
Problem: most services failed to start ("heartbeat lost"), 39 alerts. Tried starting services manually via the web portal, tried restarting the ambari server, did not help. Below are some of the alerts:
HDFS NameNode Web UI:
Connection failed to http://ec2-18-217-xxxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:50070 (<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>)
Yarn App Timeline Web UI:
Connection failed to http://ec2-18-218-xxxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8188/ws/v1/timeline (<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>) CRIT
MapReduce2 History Server Process
Connection failed: [Errno 111] Connection refused to ec2-18-218-xxxx.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:19888
... and many more
Created 04-17-2018 12:03 PM
See this link should help you with the HDP AWS connectivity
Hope that helps
Created 04-17-2018 04:54 PM
Created 04-18-2018 03:26 AM
@Geoffrey Shelton Okot Reviewed the link. Thank you for taking a look at this.
Best answer in the link just provides a link to general AWS documentation on Elastic IP and VPC DNS. I did not find reasons nor solutions for the issue I detailed here.
I've assigned elastic IPs to my cluster prior to the installation of the Ambari. Installation completed with no issues. Services are not starting due to failed connections, some of which are detailed in my original post. Same elastic IPs have been assigned to the cluster since its launch.
Is there a way to trouble-shoot these connections? Why the setup did not configure these connections automatically?
Is there a way/steps to verify that everything is properly configured on the cluster for the above connections to work?
Created 04-18-2018 09:12 AM
I am interested to know what's the contents of your /etc/hosts?
Did you configure the passwordless connect between your Ambari-server and all the hosts in the cluster?
Created 04-18-2018 04:59 PM
@Geoffrey Shelton Okot thanks for responding and giving the pointers.
I did configure and test the passwordless connect between the hosts in the cluster. I can ssh to any host, from any host on the cluster without entering the password.
I did folllow the procedure from the installation guide for setting up /etc/hosts, but I will post the contents of /etc/hosts later today.
Created 04-18-2018 07:52 PM
Just to eliminate again some doubts did you install the ambari-agents using ambari or manually if the later can you check that the ambari-agent.ini has the correct entry for the ambari-server (FQDN)?
In your /etc/hosts are you using the private of public IP's can the ip's/hostnames be resolved by DNS ?
Created 04-19-2018 12:23 AM
I've installed everything (assuming agents as well) using ambari. I have not done any manual setup, to my knowledge. Below are the contents the /etc/hosts and /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini
Contents of /etc/hosts (I've masked last two numbers here with x for security):
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
Contents of /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini (host name below is set to the aws private IP that the 1st elastic IP in /etc/hosts above is pointing to, 18.217.xxx.xx, I have not set it anywhere myself, so this must have been determined by ambari setup process automatically. What do you recommend? Should I manually change it to the elastic IP from /etc/hosts, on each node? Any other files to check?):
; this option apply only for Agent communication
; 0 - unlimited
Created 04-20-2018 03:37 AM
Changed ambari-agent.ini on all the nodes, replaced the private IP of the master node with elastic IP of the master node. Stopped and started the ambari server. This did not help, same issue continues. Issue is not resolved.
Any other checks/trouble-shooting options?


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Rising fuel prices, and competition to offer better fuel economy without turning all automobiles into golf carts, make the automatic shutter in the grille something worth developing.
[Ford vehicle engineering chief Don] Ufford said the shutters notion had been studied for years but was not practical until breakthroughs in engine computers.Under constraints that previously didn't bind, or that didn't have a high shadow price to violate, such improvements probably weren't cost-effective.
Now the shutters could be opened or closed based not just on engine temperature, but outside air temperature, vehicle speed, air-conditioning demand and other factors.
The goal with the Cruze Eco was to create a car with the gas mileage of a gas-electric hybrid, but without the higher price tag that comes with the hybrid's expensive batteries and electric motors.Simple, however, is determined relative to a cost-benefit calculation.
Using shutters allowed GM engineers to come up with a car that can handle the worst-case scenario for engine overheating — pulling a trailer up a Death Valley mountainside on a summer day — yet pick up the benefits of less wind drag by shutting the louvers when days or nights are mild.
Makes sense, says Robert Sawyer, a professor emeritus in engineering at the University of California-Berkeley. He says that in order to meet the tougher government gas-mileage regulations, automakers "will need everything they've got" to pick up an extra mpg or two. "Anything that is simple," is sure to be part of the formula.


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