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Back in 2015, the Coalition government used its budget to reveal what we now know of as the instant asset write-off (or temporary full expensing to use the technical term).
It was the second federal budget I reported on for SmartCompany and it was a genuine rabbit-out-of-a-hat moment that surprised, and delighted, many members of the small business community.
In the days that followed, we were treated to numerous photo ops with ministers standing proudly next to a small business owner who was going to invest in a new coffee machine for their cafe, or a new piece of machinery. It was, of course, the year of ‘Tony’s tradies’.
The measure, which initially allowed businesses to immediately write-off the full value of a purchase up to $20,000 rather than claim deductions over its lifetime, was well received by the sector, and while the data showed the take-up was not overwhelming in the years that followed, it helped create a sense of confidence among business owners who wanted to, and could, invest in growing their business.
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Today’s budget will be my eighth for SmartCompany and the reports are again suggesting we might see another 12-month added to the lifetime of the measure (which admittedly received a massive upgrade last in 2020).
But if this government has seen value in continuing the write-off for seven years, why not make it permanent?
Why not give the small business community the certainty of knowing that when they do recover from the pandemic, they will be able to fully deduct new purchases to get their coffee grinders going again?
Why keep giving the small business sector temporary, piecemeal changes, instead of substantial and meaningful change?
Maybe the answer is the election that is now only months away. But to my mind, that is a pretty good reason to make this budget measure (and others) permanent. To borrow one of this government’s favourite catchphrases, is now not the time to ensure the small business economy “engine” has the best shot at starting up again?
The federal government likes to say it will “always put small business first”. It should show us how.


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Greece raised 2.5 billion euros ($3.1 billion) on Wednesday after reopening a 10-year bond auction, with demand reportedly more than 10 times the received amount.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said the yield at the latest auction was close to 0.9%. The bond was first issued in late January, when it raised 3.5 billion euros on a yield close to 0.8%.
The center-right government is hoping to take advantage of low interest rates to improve the country’s long-term debt sustainability after three successive international bailouts ended in 2018.
It is the fourth time Greece has tapped the markets this year.
The pandemic pushed the country back into recession in 2020 and the national debt is expected to reach nearly 209% of annual output this year, according to the European Commission.

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cLife Groups are individual small groups made up of like minded people who are growing together as they pursuit to become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Even though each cLife Group is different in size, culture, and interests, our main mission is unity and consistency in content. Every group continues the discussion from Sunday's message through what is called the Talk It Over notes.
There are groups that...
- meet every week and every other week
- are catered to families with kids
- are catered to families whose kids who are out of the house
- are for men
- are for women
- are for couples
- are for individuals
- are for the broken, the lonely, and the forgotten
At Calvary, we believe that we have been designed for and long for community.
We believe that real life change happens in the context of relationships.
Real life change happens in cLife Group!
We are currently working on creating new cLife Groups,
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The Supreme Court v. Roe v. Wade
The case legalized a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973. Now, the conservative-leaning court is considering the legality of the Mississippi state ban on abortion 15 weeks after conception.
The case comes at the end of what has already been a tumultuous year for reproductive and abortion rights in the U.S. More than 100 lawshave already been passed this year restricting access to abortion — a record high.
So how likely is an overruling of Roe v. Wade? And what did this week’s hearings tell us about theJustices’ stances on abortion?
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When it comes to power-saving improvements, a smaller manufacturing process giveth, while an integrated USB 3.0 controller taketh away. Fortunately, because Z77 eliminates the Z68 platform's two on-board, third-party USB 3.0 controllers, it manages to achieve a 3-5 W advantage.
Both motherboards also present similar temperatures, though heat sink design has a greater influence than wattage on this chart.
Intel's Quick Sync nearly doubles our transcode performance, in turn boosting the average performance of this encoding suite by roughly 25%.
Lower power consumption gives the Z77 platform a statistically significant efficiency lead over Z68, though the difference on the power bill of a single user might not be noticeable.
- Z77 Express: USB 3.0 And Enhanced Manageability
- MVP Is Much More Than Virtu
- Test Settings And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Z77 Versus Z68 In 3D Games
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- Power, Heat, And Efficiency
- HyperFormance, Virtual Vsync, And 3DMark
- HyperFormance And Virtual Vsync In Games
- Z77 Is Only Half Of The Story


Apple has brought an entirely new level of enthusiasm to the market due to the debut of its AirPods and AirPods Pro products. It would appear that using AirPods is the optimal approach to listening to your preferred music while traveling.
AirPods may be used with any Apple product, including smartphones and tablets like the iPhone and iPad. In their capacity as Bluetooth devices, they are also capable of being connected to a Windows machine.
You can listen to music on your AirPods by connecting them to a laptop, which is also a very convenient way to do it. Although it might not look so straightforward at first glance, connecting AirPods to a laptop is actually quite simple. In this article, we will help you to Connect AirPods to Dell Laptop, with proper steps and images.
Can You Connect Airpods To Dell Laptop?
Yes. Any model of AirPods can pair with any Dell laptop as long as the latter has Bluetooth capabilities. If your Dell laptop does not have Bluetooth technology, you can use a Bluetooth adapter to enable Bluetooth connectivity in your dell laptop.
The most likely explanation for why your Dell laptop is unable to connect with your AirPods is either that your Dell laptop does not come equipped with Bluetooth or that you are not correctly pairing the two devices. Both your AirPods and your Dell laptop must have Bluetooth turned on for the two devices to be able to pair with one another.
How To Connect AirPods to Dell Laptop
The following steps must be taken to connect AirPods to a Dell laptop:
- To launch the Windows Settings menu, press the Windows key and the letter I simultaneously.
- To select it, select Device.
- Activate the Bluetooth feature.
- To add Bluetooth or other devices, click the Add button.
- Choose the Bluetooth option.
- Lift the top of the case that contains your AirPods.
- While holding down the button behind your AirPods Case, press the button.
- When the white light flashes, you can let go of the button.
- Choose your AirPods from the list of devices that have been detected.
- Just hit the Done button.
You should read this post all the way to the end if you are looking for additional information, as well as detailed instruction with pictures that walks you through how to connect AirPods to your Dell laptop.
If you follow this article all the way to the conclusion, you will not only learn how to connect different types of AirPods to your Dell laptop, but you will also find out what you should do in the event that your AirPods are unable to connect to your Dell laptop.
Why AirPods Won’t Connect To Dell Laptop? Explained
- Bluetooth is not turned on in this device.
- Bluetooth driver that has been corrupt.
- Outdated driver for the Bluetooth device
Bluetooth is not turned on in this device
If your AirPods will not connect to your Dell laptop, you will first need to ensure that the Bluetooth feature is turned on for both your AirPods and your Dell computer. Only then will the two devices be able to be linked.
If your Dell laptop is unable to locate your AirPods, this is likely due to the fact that you have not activated the Bluetooth feature on your AirPods.
Bluetooth driver that has been corrupt.
Drivers have a high risk of becoming corrupted for a number of reasons, the most important of which are the following:
Windows will automatically install updates if you add new software to your computer.
If you discover that any of the causes listed above have occurred during the past several weeks, then you will need to undo them in order to use your Bluetooth device in the correct manner.
We recommend using software like DriverEasy, that’ll automatically fix, download or update the drivers that are missing from your dell laptop.
Outdated driver for the Bluetooth device
There is a possibility that it has been some time since you updated your Dell laptop, and as a result, you must have allowed your Bluetooth drive to be in an out-of-date state for a period of time.
An out-of-date driver may not include the most recent version of a required update, which is intended to ensure that the hardware operates as it should.
The following is a rundown of how to update the Bluetooth Driver:
1. Open Windows Search and look for “device manager.” Once you find it, click on it.
2. Double-click on the Bluetooth icon to view the driver for Bluetooth.
3. To update the driver for your AirPods, right-click on the driver, and select the appropriate option.
4. Select the option to automatically seek for driver updates.
5. Continue to adhere to the provided directions until you have successfully updated all of your drivers.
6. Restart your Dell laptop.
7. Attach your AirPods to your computer using the included cable.
We’d again recommend using driver easy to update missing drivers automatically. Otherwise, keep your windows up to date.
Will AirPods work with Dell laptop?
Yes, Airpods will work with dell laptop. You just need to make sure that your dell laptop has a latest version of bluetooth.
Why won’t my AirPods connect to Dell laptop?
Please check if your laptop has a Bluetooth feature or not, if it has Bluetooth and still doesn’t connect with the AirPods, update Bluetooth drivers, and update windows.


Driving Innovation in Sustainable Food Packaging
Rigid and flexible food packaging is critical to minimizing food waste, ensuring stable global food distribution and access and for ensuring food safety. Yet unless clear, effective and locally available recycling/reuse processes are available, despite the importance of polymer packaging, it can add significant environmental burden, especially to end of life challenges. Currently, most disposable food packaging materials, regardless of raw material base, are not circular, i.e reusable, recyclable, or degradable. Thus, there is a desire to provide products that meet the increased consumer, market and regulatory need for food packaging that address recycle/reuse, market and cost perspectives.
This three-part session brings together thought leaders in food packaging market need, technical solutions and regulatory requirements to identify requirements and approaches to food packaging that have significant environmental and toxicological advantages compared to existing products. In part one, we will hear about market requirements and challenges for food packaging from the use, scale, global capacity perspectives from industry. In part two, companies, academic and government labs will present potential solutions that aim to provide viable opportunities for circularity and market requirements for food safety while addressing potential climate impact and reducing waste. Finally, in part three, we shall gain insights on the key regulatory criteria for innovations to meet evolving standards for “food safe” and “food grade”, while also meeting functionality demands.
Student presenters whose abstracts are accepted in this session will automatically be considered for a Presidential Giordan Scholar Award towards conference registration and travel.
Dr. Judy Giordan, ACS President (2023)
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More than100, 000 Ford cars are being recalled because of seatbelts that could fail to work properly during a crash. According to a news report, Ford issued a safety recall for select 2015 Ford Fusion and 2015 Lincoln MKZ vehicles for an issue involving seatbelt anchor pretensioners. In the vehicles that are affected, increased temperatures generated during deployment of the driver of front-passenger seatbelt pretensioner could degrade the tensile strength of the cable below the level that is required to restrain an occupant.
Dangers of Defective Seatbelts
When seatbelts don’t properly restrain the occupant in a crash, the risk of serious injury is heightened. Ford said it is aware of one report of injury in connection with this seatbelt defect. The recall includes 103,374 vehicles in the U.S. and its territories, 4,002 in Canada and 1,023 in Mexico. When the recall begins, dealers will apply a coating to protect the cable during a pretensioner deployment.
Defective seatbelts or seat restraint systems are extremely dangerous because they can result in catastrophic injuries or fatalities. When a vehicle occupant is not properly restrained, he or she could get thrown around inside the vehicle or could potentially be fully or partially ejected from the vehicle, which could cause catastrophic or fatal injuries.
If you are involved in a car crash where you or a loved one was injured because of seatbelt failure, it is important that you contact an auto defect law firm that has significant experience handling such cases and conducting independent investigations into auto defect issues. It is important to remember that police agencies often may not have the knowledge or the resources to conduct investigations relating to defective auto parts.
Law enforcement investigators who lack the training or expertise in auto defects may hastily determine that a vehicle occupant was not wearing a seatbelt when in fact the seat restraint system may have failed and ejected the victim from the vehicle. In such cases, the body of the ejected person must be examined for evidence of seatbelt bruising and marking. The webbing needs to be microscopically examined for grabber marks, bloodstains and other signs that would indicate that the seatbelt was in use at the time of the crash. An experienced auto defect lawyer will be able to advise victims and their families regarding the best course of action in such cases.


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Manchester as a mythical city; reflections in art and locative media
Imaging the City (Book)
Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations
Edited by Steve Hawley, Edward Clift and Kevin O'Brien Series edited by Graham Cairns
GBP 32.00 | 296 pages | May 1, 2016
Introduction; city and myth
A question: why is there a statue of Carl Gustav Jung, in Matthew Street in Liverpool, given that the eminent Swiss analytical psychologist never ever visited the city?
Matthew Street was historically the centre of Liverpool’s fruit and vegetable market, but it achieved iconic fame as the home of the Cavern, the club where the Beatles played numerous times in the early 60s, drawing a line between the two halves of the twentieth century. At the same time as those early performances in 1962, Jung wrote in his memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung, 2005) of a dream he had had of Liverpool many years before. He saw ‘greyish-yellow raincoats, glistening with the wetness of the rain’, but had also a vision of unearthly beauty, as he equated the city in his dream as ‘the pool of life’- Liver-Pool. Jung’s Liverpool was both a real city, but also a powerful marker in his unconscious, stretching between two contrasting poles of grey bleakness and life enhancing energy.
Cities exist in reality and in the imagination, and sometimes there is a gulf between the two singularities. In his dream Jung was walking through Liverpool on a dark night, obscured by rain, fog and smoke, when he saw what his companions could not, a magnolia tree on an island radiant with reddish blossoms in a shaft of light. The dream had a powerful internal meaning for him at that time in his life, existing apart from the city he had never seen, but making sense of his world.
Some cities seem to have the power of myth, of inhabiting the unconscious, whereas others do not, and this is not always the product of a city’s size. Of course London, New York, Berlin, inhabit an inner space and have a numinous presence through their appearance through history or film, or literature or music. A city is always more than its buildings and streets, it is also its stories, its energies, its ideas. But some smaller cities also inhabit the space of myth.
Just what creates the myth of the city is shifting and intangible; often it is through its narrative, the interlocking stories either fictional or real that fasten together to make a picture of place. Some cities have this power and some do not. Why is Manchester mythical but Birmingham not? Detroit is but Cleveland not? This may be subjective to an extent, but often there is a remarkable consensus on the imaginary city.
Wayfaring the dystopian city
Over the last few years the author has made a number of works that use artists’ video or new media to look at the city in the collective unconscious. In 2009, Not To Scale was filmed in model towns around Britain to uncover a sinister aspect to nostalgia. Stranger Than Known (2015 with Tony Steyger) looked at Southampton, a city without identity, known more for the people who sailed from it in the Mayflower or the Titanic than those left behind. And in the iPhone app Manchester Time Machine (Manchester Metropolitan University and North West Film Archive, 2012), created with archive film from the North West Film Archive, technology and locative narrative are used to examine history and identity in Britain’s second city.
This chapter Iooks at how the city is represented and shaped by technology, and how the myth of Manchester as a dystopia has arisen, reflected in both the iPhone app but also in two novels and a feature film. All involve navigation of the city’s streets and landmarks by the viewer, or by the protagonists of the fictional representations.
The atmosphere of the city suburbs, as represented in the Babbacombe model town in Torquay, is both benign and slightly sinister. As Sam Jacob says, ‘Model villages are not just models of real places, though they are obsessively concerned with looking like a scaled-down reality. They are also models of ideas, shrunk to fit comprehension,’ (Jacob, 2006). There are no miniature Polish immigrants here (or immigrants of any kind), just Gulliver-like visitors in search of a lost England, a minutopia. This vision of the suburban as Uncanny, especially when filmed in Not to Scale with no full-scale people in the frame, but real trees in the background, hints of Jacob’s interpretation of Ruskin, that ‘dissatisfaction is the natural condition of modern man in the modern cityscape, and that the picturesque fills a vacuum we feel is forming within us as our morality shrinks: the picturesque is about loss,’ (Jacob, 2012). There is a disjunction between the overt and slightly twee perfect place that never was, and the identity of a place that as you turn a corner has hints of menace–the Village of the Damned.
Figure 2. Not to Scale 2009 still
Southampton on the other hand on Britain’s south coast, is a city struggling to find an identity. Southampton became a city 50 years ago on 7 February 1964, when it received a letter from the Home Office advising that her Majesty the Queen had been graciously pleased to raise the town to the ‘title and dignity of a city.’ The letter then asked for a cheque for £72 13s. 6d and warned that this would not confer the title of Lord Mayor ‘in view of misunderstandings which have arisen in the past,’.
The great port was now a city. It had a university, a large population, a long history of embarkation, and now a Royal Charter. But where did that leave the Southampton of the imagination? The beautiful mediaeval city had been largely erased by the terrible bombings of World War II; the romance and drama of the flying boats of Imperial Airways, not to mention the Mayflower and Titanic, were about transit, about departures and fugue, the flight from the familiar, and not the city’s people who were left behind. If the city is not just a collection of buildings and streets and people but also a myth, then what is Southampton’s myth?
This was the starting point for Stranger Than Known (with Tony Steyger, 2015), which tries to uncover the real and imagined places and stories existing through change and erasure, as buildings are torn down or blown up, leaving visual and historical traces in the urban fabric or in the memory. Sometimes it is possible to use technology to see the city anew, as the makers of the ‘city symphonies’ did in the twenties, to visualise the familiar stones and water and people in order to piece together its romance again, re-examining the familiar to render it strange and potent.
Figure 3. South Home Town 2015 still
High-definition cameras, ultra-slow motion video, and camera drones aspire to offer a vision, the myth of a city that is seen in everyday experience. There have been no psychoanalyst’s dreams of Southampton, no literary references (Jane Austen stayed there but she described it only once in her stories, and then as stinking of fish (Austen, 1790)). And no films apart from Carry on Cruising (Thomas, 1962) and the newsreels of ocean liners departing to and arriving from the most mythologised city on earth, New York.
The question arises as to how the wanderer of the city can express its uniqueness and spirit through the lens of a camera. In the 1920s with the rush of energy after the First World War that gave rise to modernism, the city-film or ‘city symphony’ was the response of filmmakers to headlong changes in architecture and identity in the contemporary metropolis. In films made between 1921 and 1929 such as Sheeler and Strand’s Manhatta (1921), Ruttman’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt/Berlin-Symphony of a Great City (1927), Vertov’s Chelovek s kinoapparatom/Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Joris Ivens’ Regen/Rain (1929), the camera takes on the the role of a flaneur, and acts as a mechanical eye. Images of people, vehicles, streets and industry were captured in fragments, producing a collage of impressions which looked at the city from faraway and from very close-up.
Sometimes the people and streets were filmed from a moving car, or a tram, invoking the speed of the modern. Often emergent filmic technologies were also use such as time-lapse, and double exposures, as in Man with a Movie Camera, which gave a picture of Odessa in the modern technological world. Depicting urban space in this new world needed new techniques and genres, hovering often between voyeuristic documentary and fiction. However the city film is still being made in different guises up to the present, as in Peter Greenaway’s 1969 Intervals shot in Venice, Bruce Baillie’s Castro Street (1966), John Smith’s The Girl Chewing Gum (1976) and Patrick Keeler’s masterly London (1994).
The eye of the flaneur is still at the forefront, but new technologies have given rise to new ways of examining the urban experience. They allow glimpses of buildings and people as if the wanderer could slow time itself, or fly to impossible places, to look backwards in time and notice with a start, the forgotten, the unremarked. Slow motion reveals the unknown surface, as the camera movement in a painterly arc shows both the banal and strange at the same time. The drone in its impossible view for the first time reveals images as in the dream of flight, landscapes so close and so far away, the smallest detail and the vast panorama. Spectacle.
But filming the city in its present, or the emphasis of the city symphonies on modernism, do not uncover the layers of history that peel away to reveal the buildings, and the people who created its past. That was the starting point for Manchester Time Machine (2012) an iPhone app created in collaboration with Marion Hewitt, the director of the North West Film Archive, and app developer Darren Dancey, which explores the narrative of Manchester over the last 100 years. This is the first app to combine archive film with GPS to enable the negotiation of historical Manchester, overlaying the present with a century of filmed history, from the Whit walks of 1911 to a student demonstration in 1971.
Manchester is Britain’s second city after London, and the world’s first industrial city. From the late eighteenth century it was known as Cottonpolis, as its fortunes were inextricably linked with the calico industry and the cotton plantations of the southern states of America. In the 1990s the industry had gone, and the city centre was in seemingly terminal decline, saddled with a threadbare 1960s shopping centre amid the handsome cotton warehouses of the nineteenth century. But in 1996 the IRA exploded a huge bomb in the city centre, which whilst causing no fatalities, destroyed much of the post-war concrete architecture and kickstarted the city’s revival.
The centre of Manchester today, post the IRA bomb and subsequent reconstruction, is a regeneration success story. The textile warehouses of Princess Street, built to resemble Florentine palazzos, burnish red on a summer’s evening, as the crowds stream between the lights of Chinatown and the night-time culture of Canal Street and the Gay Village. But the Manchester of the imagination as represented in literature and film, is a profoundly different place, a city of’ ’ruins, dust, deserted streets, blocked canals’ (Wolff, 2012), and of rain and decay. A post-industrial Hades.
This Manchester of the unconscious, is understood in reality and in its cultural depictions through traversing its streets and bus routes, through ‘wayfaring’ (in Tim Ingold’s formulation, 2011), the lymph systems that connect the parts of the city together. And both real and imagined places exist through change and erasure, as buildings are torn down or blown up, leaving visual and historical traces in photographs, or film, or in the memory- the palimpsest of layers of meaning that subtly interact to create a textured picture of the whole.
As de Certeau notes, the city can be accessed in two ways: from outside through the map or from within as a pedestrian (de Certeau, 2002). But the city can also be accessed through its myth, its resonance in the imagination, and the depiction of Manchester through Time Machine, whilst appealing to a nostalgic rewriting of the urban landscape, has echoes in three other works that have depicted the city as a blackened and faintly evil dystopia. I will examine these four linked media representations from the 1950s to the present, including the iPhone app, but also two novels, and a feature film. All involve navigation of the city’s streets and landmarks by the viewer, or by the protagonists of the fictional representations. Far from showing a real picture of Britain’s second city. These literary and filmic versions of Manchester show it to be a dark place of the imagination, and that this mythical Manchester still persists in the unconscious as a grey and depressed zone.
In Michel Butors’ 1956 novel L’ Emploi du Temps (translated as Passing Time), W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants(1992) and the British film noir Hell is a City (Guest, 1960), Manchester appears in turn as a malevolent entity, a place of terminal decline, and a metaphorical Purgatory. Even in the 1950s, this was not a recognisably accurate depiction of the city: instead it relates to a view of Manchester which goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, when Engels wrote about the condition of the working class.
Friedrich Engels had been sent to Manchester in December 1842 by his father, to work for the family firm of cotton merchant Ermen & Engels, and to rid him of his radical views. If that was the aim then it did not succeed. He met Karl Marx several times in Chetham’s Library, where the table by the window around which they sat and discussed socialism still exists. He wrote in his seminal text, The Condition of the Working Class about the squalid conditions endured by the inhabitants of Little Ireland, just south of where Oxford Road station stands today, before the slums were swept away following redevelopment – ‘The atmosphere is polluted by the stench and is darkened by the thick smoke of a dozen factory chimneys’ (Engels 1845: 73).
Manchester has a place in the collective unconscious which starts with Engels and combines the real and imagined buildings, the weather, the character of the people, its post-industrial landscape, and its history, but this is also perhaps redeemed by music in the 1980s, and its sudden transformation through what became briefly the most famous club in the world, the Haçienda. The Manchester of myth as represented in fiction is a dark place, but in order to fully experience that place, even in its darkness it must be traversed.
Thus all the works I cite here involve the negotiation of the city, walking its streets, or traversing it via its bus routes. They reflect Deleuze’s concept of the rhizomatic narrative, when narrative connections proceed not via a linear chain of events, like a single root, but more like a tuber root system, a net where any point can be connected to any other point (Murray 1997: 132). Whilst Deleuze may have meant this as a model for the conductivity of ideas, it also functions as a powerful metaphor for systems of non-linear narrative, the strategies of hypertext which computer systems eventually made possible.
It is in the cultural realm of psychogeography that walking and otherwise traversing the city becomes a kind of narrative. It is ‘a whole boxful of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities… just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolt them into a new awareness of the urban landscape,’ (Hart, 2004). To see and feel again in the streets is the aim, through the ‘derive’, movement without goal except to look anew and experience as if for the first time. Guy Debord in the “Theory of the Derive” 1958 said the subject should ‘drop their usual motives for movement in action… and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there,’ (Debord, 1958).
Manchester Time Machine allows the user of the GPS and compass-enabled app to negotiate the streets and see Manchester in the past, the choice of 100 films picturing the city’s history from multiple viewpoints. The films chosen tell a story, not a linear chronicle of the city, but instead a patchwork GPS narrative of place, that can be followed by the user on foot.
The opening of the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894 had triggered a boom in building cotton warehouses and civic buildings, and early filmmakers captured a place and an atmosphere of spirit and pride. The brash optimism of the Edwardian era is represented through filmed scenes of bombastic police marches, the crisp white dresses of young girls parading on Whit walks down Market Street, and the seemingly chaotic mix of transport technologies in the streets, as horse-drawn cabs jostle with steam lorries, electric trams and the early examples of the soon to dominate motor car, which narrowly avoid crowds of scurrying pedestrians. There are hints at how emerging technologies fostered that optimism. A float passes the Town Hall in 1920 advertising the Midland Cinema, and ‘films where you can see yourself on the screen.’ But the ebullient self-image of Manchester turns darker with the Second War and the destruction of the Christmas blitz of 1940, reducing much of Corporation Street and Piccadilly to rubble.
The narrative arc of Manchester, which seemed to have clawed its way out of the slums of the world’s first industrial city, turns darker as that industry is left behind. A ghostly illuminated tram passing by the Town Hall on VE day in 1945, and the destruction by fire of Paulden’s department store in 1957, seem like symbols of the city’s decline, and by the twentieth century the persistent image is of rain, smog, and inner decay. Partly this was true of most British industrial cities of the time, but whereas London was driving forwards through youth, music, fashion, and creativity to the iconic era of the swinging 60s, visitors to Manchester saw only a bleak absence of life. The most recent film clip shows a student demonstration on Oxford Road in 1971, close to where Engels had described the appalling living conditions of 130 years previously. The clashes between police and demonstrators seem to show chaos, a city out of control.
Figure 4. Manchester Time Machine still (images North West Film Archive)
Just twenty years previously, the French teacher and later novelist Michel Butor (he became linked with the nouveau roman group, which included Alain Robbe-Grillet),
travelled from France to Manchester to work as a language assistant at the University, a few hundred yards farther down the Oxford Road. Although written thirty years before hypertext, Butor’s L’Emploi du Tempsprefigures the form in a fascinating way, and although set in the fictional northern British town of Bleston, is plainly based on Manchester.
The protagonist, Jacques Revel, comes to work at the Bleston company Matthews and Sons, and seems to get trapped in the city, which reflects the grey post-war grimness of Britain as a whole, and the North in particular. His journeys criss-crossing the city by bus are represented in inordinate detail, and the web of bus routes that lie upon the city become a net which renders him unable to escape. His treasured possession is the bus map, purchased by him from the woman he would come to love, Ann Bailey (Butor 1956: 38), and the routes become a figurative rhizome which is reflected in the episodic structure of the novel.
It is ostensibly a diary of the year he spends in Bleston/Manchester, written retrospectively, but whilst there is increasing complexity, there is very little narrative resolution, and the novel does not so much end, as stop dead. Jacques hates Bleston, hates the soot-blackened buildings, the insipid food, the cold reserve of the people, but more than that he comes to feel that the city has ensnared him, and as mysterious fires erupt across Bleston, that it is somehow decaying from within.
The description of the novel’s English translation, Passing Time, on the back of the original John Calder edition gives a jauntily upbeat view of the story –‘the atmosphere of a British industrial town is perfectly captured, and this French view of England will delight British readers.’ But most readers must have been appalled by Jacques’ frozen welcome, and state of helpless entrapment in a place he had come to see as a labyrinth, with no way out. One of those readers was the acclaimed German author W.G. Sebald, who also came to Manchester to work at the University, but in the late 1960s, and whose view of the city was if anything even more damning than Butor’s. His Manchester is stagnant and on the brink of ruin, a vision of unremitting gloom, without light or hope.
Sebald, who had seemed until his untimely death in 2001 to be a possible winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, made his name with a series of novels which mix fiction and essay with what seems like documentary autobiography. He said of his works ‘the big events are true while the detail is invented to give the effect of the real’ (Jaggi, 2001). In his 1993 Novel The Emigrants, Manchester features in one of the four stories about Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany. The unnamed yet Sebald-like narrator befriends Max Ferber, a painter (based on Frank Auerbach) who works on his paint-encrusted canvases in the decaying Salford Docks, a mocking nod to the optimism of the Ship Canal opening 60 years before. Max, like Jacques Revel, is trapped in Manchester/Bleston and, but this time for ever; ‘Manchester has taken possession of me for good. I cannot leave, I do not want to leave. I must not’ (Sebald 1993: 169).
Sebald read Butor’s novel during his two stays in the city in 1966–8 and 1969–70, and wrote a long poem Bleston: a Mancunian cantical (Wolff 2012: 3) while he worked there. Obviously influenced by Butor, it prefigures The Emigrants in its bleak views of ‘”Soot covered trees”, starlings “huddled together on the sills of Lewis’s big warehouse”, and ships offshore “waiting in the fog”’ (Wolff 2012: 4). Sebald’s view is so unremittingly gloomy that his experience of Manchester (like Butor’s , from the point of view of a European immigrant) must have been blended with the inner melancholy which permeates all of his novels. Or as has been suggested (Wolff 2012: 4), his picture is a projection of post-war German guilt, felt by the survivors (Sebald was a Bavarian catholic) and exemplified through his Jewish refugee characters. When Max arrives into Ringway airport and takes a night-time taxi ride into the centre of Manchester he comments ‘One might have supposed that the city had long been deserted and was left now as a necropolis or mausoleum,’ (Sebald 1996: 151). This is not the squalor noted by Engels, but a city on the point of corruption and death.
But Sebald’s view is loosely corroborated by the 1960 Val Guest film, Hell Is A City, a late British Hammer film noir, filmed on location in and around Manchester. Here the city is seen as a changing but decrepit landscape, still scarred from the war, where what threatens to erupt is not a mysterious conflagration but simmering female sexual tension. A killer is on the loose, and the opening night-time travelling shots from a police car, over a brassy jazz score, make Piccadilly seem like the centre of Chicago or New York. But overlaying this is a working-class northern landscape of billiard halls, bookies, and illegal pitch and toss games on bleak hills surrounded by factory chimneys.
Most of the action takes place in the city centre, and as with the novels, there is a strong sense of traversing the streets and rooftops, literally in the spectacular denouement. The protagonist Inspector Martineau clambers at roof level rather improbably from Castlefield to the eaves of the Refuge Assurance building on Oxford Road (now the Palace Hotel), to overpower the armed villain Don Starling. As they grapple high above the streets, in the background Oxford Road station is clearly being rebuilt, a telling example of erasure and renewal of the city’s fabric.
Don Starling’s getaway car is American, but far from a glamorous symbol of 1950s excess, this one is a seedy pre-war Buick, fitting in well with the overall rundown atmosphere of the film. And when he drives outside Manchester to dispose of the body, the countryside is not as in most films of the era, a place of health and escape. More the windswept moors are cold and forbidding, an eerie prefiguring of the chilling events of the Moors murders which would occur within a couple of years of the film’s release, and which also contribute to the dystopian myth of Manchester.
Figure 6. Hell is a City still
Some of the locations for Hell Is A City have been swept away, but there are muffled traces which show through faintly, despite the rubbing out of the buildings. The robbery of a bookmaker’s van takes place in a fictional Higgitt’s passage, off Corporation Street in the city centre, which was in reality a narrow alley called Cromford Court. The whole area was redeveloped shortly after the film was made, to become the vast Arndale shopping centre, and then again in the 1990s after the devastation of the IRA bomb, but the name Cromford Court still survives as one of the ‘streets’ in the Arndale, a muted footprint of a lost history. And at least one Manchester landmark appears in nearly all of these cultural texts, and is unchanged to the present day: Strangeways prison, the symbol of the corruption of Manchester/Bleston, with its characteristic hexagonal shape. Butor refers to Bleston’s ‘safeguard, a six pointed star with the penitentiary in its centre, the image of which had appeared to me like a black crystal… A negative of the gleaming mark imprinted on Cain’s forehead’ (Butor 1956: 254).
Sebald’s narrator goes to the one-time Jewish quarter around the ‘star-shaped complex of Strangeways prison,’ (Sebald 1996: 157) on his increasingly long walks on Sundays, overcome by ‘aimlessness and futility’ (Sebald 1996: 156). He roams the city and is always amazed how anthracite-coloured Manchester ‘displayed the clearly chronic process of its impoverishment and degradation to anyone who cared to see’ (Sebald 1996: 156). And at the end of Hell Is A City, we see the forbidding exterior of the prison, as a knot of bystanders stands outside, and a Manchester Guardian placard proclaims ‘Starling To Hang’.
There are numerous echoes in these sources of the internalised image of Manchester. In The Emigrants, Max Ferber lodges at 104 Palatine Road, the same house that the austere and often tortured philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein stayed in when he came to study aeronautics at the University in 1908 (Sebald 1996: 166). The fires that consume Bleston from within are paralleled by the 1957 destruction of Paulden’s department store off the Oxford Road by fire, which is one of the film scenes in Manchester Time Machine.
Always the overwhelming connotation of the city’s traverse is less the freedom of discovery of the ‘derive’, or the pleasure of navigation of the story, but rather the pacing of the floor of the trapped prisoner, in a condemned cell, unable or unwilling to escape. Jacques Revel feels he cannot break free of Bleston, and refers to the parallel of Theseus in the Minotaur’s Labyrinth (Butor 1956: 299). Sebald’s narrator returns from visiting Max Ferber in hospital, walking through the Hulme estates regenerated in the Seventies, but already decayed again (Sebald 1996: 231) past derelict warehouses to the Midland hotel, which the owners would be surprised to know was ‘on the brink of ruin’ (Sebald 1996: 233). And yet there are premonitions of the new myth of Manchester that would arise in the 1980s.
Don Starling is cornered by Inspector Martineau in a two-storey Castlefield building, just around the corner from the fictional Hotel also where Sebald’s narrator comes to lodge, eight years later. In the background through the railway bridge, can be glimpsed the yacht-building showroom that would become what Newsweek called in the 1990s the most famous club in the world. The Hacienda was born from the profits of the Manchester band New Order, who in their earlier incarnation as Joy Division, prior to the suicide of their singer Ian Curtis, had brought gloom and grey raincoats to the exuberance of punk. The ecstasy fuelled reincarnation of both the music and the spirit of the city in the yacht showroom was the start of the re-mythologising of Manchester.
Manchester today has largely assimilated its Victorian past; the world’s first industrial city has co-opted its cotton warehouses into attractive apartment blocks, or restaurants and bars. Lewis’s department store, where Inspector Martineau meets a streetwalker at the end of Hell is a City, is now a branch of Primark. Where Sebald’s Max Ferber found Manchester deserted, this would be unrecognisable to the tens of thousands of revellers who swell the night-time economy and the pubs and cafes every weekend (many of them students living in the city centre, some in converted Victorian mills).
Conclusion: the frozen image
Manchester Time Machine, like the other texts quoted here, maps the city through its past, but also points to another, internalised Manchester. There is a direct path that leads from Engels and the misery of Little Ireland, through the despair of Butor and Sebald, to the pessimism of Joy Division and Morrissey. The famous Anton Corbijn photograph of Joy Division in the Hulme estates (the same ones that Sebald’s narrator trudges through) freezes an image, a myth of Manchester that paradoxically resonates as truthful, even as it is at odds with the bright lights and swarming crowds of the literal city.
Technology can mediate the city, both in its present in its past: the city symphonies and the inner world of the novelist are two facets of the construction of the city in the mind’s eye. It is interesting to note how the camera drone with its birds-eye view creates a new mediation of the urban experience, not from ground level via the negotiation and navigation of a warren of streets, but as a vast model of a city scene from an Alice in Wonderland like viewpoint. The camera drone gives us the impression that we are striding above a model town, a controllable and spectacular experience, just as the tilt/shift photograph can render real cities to look like models.
The four literary and filmic sources quoted all show that the frozen internalised image persists as a disconnect between the everyday Mancunian experience and the city’s place in the imagination, perhaps to a greater extent than in other cities. Jung could dream of Liverpool, and despite never being there his vision became form, permanently fixed in bronze on Matthew Street. The myth of Manchester mixes the real buildings of today with layers of real and imagined history, a film of soot from two centuries of industrial chimneys, that may have been removed in reality, but persists in the unconscious.
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Circa 1920's, this lovely Art Deco platinum carved antique diamond wedding ring is hand crafted in a classic straightline diamond design with an engraved wheat pattern on the 2 outward facing edges of the ring, with light scattering milgrain edging as a finishing touch.
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Radiology plays a crucial role in modern medicine, aiding healthcare providers in making accurate diagnoses and guiding appropriate treatment plans. However, when errors occur in the field of radiology, the consequences can be severe and life-altering for patients. Radiology malpractice involves negligence or mistakes made by radiologists or other medical professionals involved in interpreting and utilizing diagnostic imaging.
What is Radiology?
Radiology is a medical specialty that involves the use of medical imaging techniques to diagnose and treat diseases and medical conditions. It utilizes various imaging technologies to produce visual representations of the internal structures and functions of the human body. Radiologists are medical doctors who specialize in interpreting these images and providing diagnostic insights to other healthcare professionals.
There are several types of medical imaging techniques used in radiology, including:
- X-ray Imaging: X-rays use electromagnetic radiation to create images of bones and certain soft tissues. They are commonly used to diagnose fractures, lung infections, and dental problems.
- Computed Tomography (CT) Scan: CT scans, also known as CAT scans, use X-rays to produce detailed cross-sectional images of the body. This imaging technique is particularly useful for examining organs, blood vessels, and detecting abnormalities.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): MRI uses powerful magnets and radio waves to create detailed images of organs and tissues. It is especially valuable in assessing soft tissues, the brain, spinal cord, and joints.
- Ultrasound Imaging: Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to generate real-time images of internal structures. It is commonly used to examine the abdomen, pelvis, and to monitor fetal development during pregnancy.
- Nuclear Medicine: Nuclear medicine involves the use of small amounts of radioactive materials (radiotracers) to diagnose and treat diseases. It uses special cameras to capture the distribution of the radiotracer within the body.
- Fluoroscopy: Fluoroscopy is a real-time imaging technique that uses X-rays to visualize moving body structures, such as the digestive system or joints, during procedures.
Radiology plays a crucial role in modern medicine, aiding in the early detection and accurate diagnosis of a wide range of medical conditions. It allows healthcare providers to make informed decisions about treatment plans, monitor disease progression, and assess the effectiveness of interventions.
Radiologists work closely with other medical specialists, such as oncologists, neurologists, and surgeons, to provide essential information that guides patient care. Their expertise in interpreting medical images is vital for ensuring patients receive the appropriate and timely medical attention they need.
Understanding Radiology Malpractice
The accurate and timely interpretation of images is crucial for providing patients with appropriate medical care. However, radiology malpractice occurs when a radiologist fails to uphold the expected standard of care, leading to diagnostic errors and compromised patient outcomes.
Common Errors in Radiology Malpractice
Misdiagnosis or Delayed Diagnosis: One of the most serious consequences of radiology malpractice is misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis. Failing to identify signs of a disease, injury, or medical condition can lead to delayed treatment, progression of the illness, and missed opportunities for early intervention.
Failure to Recognize Abnormalities: Radiologists must carefully analyze medical images to identify abnormalities or potential areas of concern. Overlooking or misinterpreting these critical findings can result in the omission of necessary medical attention and proper care.
Incorrect Interpretation of Images: Inaccurate interpretation of diagnostic images can lead to incorrect diagnoses and subsequent inappropriate treatments. This can have dire consequences for patients, including unnecessary medical procedures and potentially harmful medications.
Technical Errors: Radiology malpractice can also stem from technical errors during the imaging process. Inadequate positioning of patients, poor image quality, or errors in image retrieval and storage can all contribute to diagnostic inaccuracies.
Victims of radiology malpractice and their families may face significant physical, emotional, and financial burdens. It is crucial to understand that patients have the right to seek legal recourse when medical negligence occurs. Experienced medical malpractice attorneys can help affected individuals navigate the complexities of these cases, gather essential evidence, and advocate for fair compensation.
Merson Law’s expert medical malpractice attorneys can help you seek compensation for injuries that resulted from radiology malpractice. Get in touch with our team by calling our office or filling out the contact form on this page.

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5G arrives at the MCG, just in time for the AFL Grand Final
This Saturday Richmond and Greater Western Sydney will play in the AFL Grand Final.
These two teams will bring a bumper crowd and we’re giving fans an early present by turning on our new 5G coverage at the MCG – it’s 5G at the G.
The Tiger Army will be in full force as will Giants fans too, and the added network capacity that 5G offers is hugely beneficial at big events like this.
A crowd of up to 100,000 people is expected to pack the MCG.
Last year we saw a massive 3.8 terabytes of data sent over our mobile network from the MCG alone, up 22% from the previous year. That’s equivalent to 1200 hours of video content or 27 billion SMS messages.
We’ve been on a mission to connect the MCG to the networks of the future since 2015 when we partnered with the Melbourne Cricket Club, who run the venue, to bolster capacity with an innovative 3G/4G coverage solution.
The arrival of 5G at the ‘G marks yet another milestone in our relationship with the historic venue.
That system has performed incredibly well over the last four years, and now, in partnership with Ericsson, we are once against enhancing our coverage at the ground, both with the latest 4G technology as well as introducing 5G coverage for the first time.
I toured the MCG installation with Ericsson’s Australian CEO, Emilio Romeo on the weekend. Emilio told me that this collaboration with Telstra and MCC is another example of industry working together to drive 5G advancement, and responding to growing demand for increased data and enhanced experiences. And I agree, this ensures Australia remains at the forefront of telecommunications technology.
The executive team at the MCC, led by CEO Stuart Fox, has also told us that they’re pleased to be the first stadium in Australia to provide patrons with access to 5G. 5G at the ‘G puts the MCC into an elite category to cater to international broadcasters, media and fans.
While 5G is ready for the opening bounce, we’re not done perfecting the best connectivity experience at the ground. Our engineers in concert with Ericsson will continue to evaluate the deployment and design, making improvements each week to optimise 4G and 5G coverage at the home of footy.


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Kajal Agarwal is one of the senior star heroines in the industry. The actress has already shared the screen space with most of the star heroes in Tollywood. After romancing Megastar Chiranjeevi in ‘Khaidi number 150’, Kajal now got a chance to become the leading lady of another top hero.
Recently, rumours came out that Kajal is going to play the female lead in Shankar and Ulaganayagan Kamal Hassan’s upcoming magnum opus ‘Indian 2’ (Bhaarateeyudu 2). When everyone was surprised to hear this news Kajal herself has declared that it is true and gave a shock. Talking with media, Kajal Agarwal accepted that she is going to work with Shankar and Kamal Haasan soon and she is excited about it. This is definitely a great opportunity for Kajal which boosts up her career. Currently, Shankar is busy in the post-production works of ‘2.O’. So, the shooting of ‘Bharateeyudu 2’ is much likely to go on sets from next month.
Lyca productions which bankrolled ‘2.O’ with a massive budget is going to produce this movie as well. The movie is going to hit the screens in 2020 and Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan is expected to play a vital role in the film.
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Books as protection against existential fears. «If you’re reading this, you are a Worm. We’re all Worms, and in the end, we’re going to be eaten by them»
The opening of Clem Macleod’s Worms magazine confronts us with the option that we may all be worms. She begins, «If you’re reading this, you are a Worm. We’re all Worms, and in the end, we’re going to be eaten by them. As a (book)Worm, you will fertilize your mind with glorious words». Taking us through a spiraling wormhole filled with writers that were selected when she began the magazine as part of her final project at Central Saint Martins.
The pages then unfold, revealing emerging and experimental female writers, as Clem Macleod wanted to create a community for young writers that needed a platform and place to discover each other. The bi-annual publication was inspired by Kathy Acker, Chris Kraus, Cookie Mueller, Ariana Reines, Natasha Stagg, Eileen Myles, Dodie Bellamy, «the magazine centers on the themes these writers focus on — style, art, philosophy/theory, gender, politics/capitalism, contemporary culture, and social commentary», she explains.
«I’ve always been quite protective of books, or a bit of a hoarder». Her collection includes things that are up to ten years old and when she moved from Australia to London in 2014, with a scarce amount of books on her, the collection in London is only a result of six years of living in the UK. With most of her books occupying an entire room in the writers’ east London home, organization has not been in her favor.
Like for most writers, a thematic organization can be difficult when working on a story: «I’ve tried to organize them thematically, but things cross over and if I’m working on a piece I’ll pile up the ones I need for research and when I’m done put them back on the shelf altogether. There are loads of books on my desk, on shelves, on the floor. I have a system in my head and I know where everything is but it would look like mayhem to anyone else». Her hundreds of books tend to get dusty despite Clem making the effort to look after them. She annotates all her reading books with pen, pencil, and highlighter, anything available. She admits, «I’ve definitely tried to mark a page by running a painted fingernail across it before…».
«I suffered from anxiety from the age of seven, and when I discovered reading I found out it helped me escape from any existential fears I had. It allowed me to escape my mind, and it still does. I remember choosing not to go out with my friends one night when I was about fifteen, because my dad had taken me to the bookshop that day and I just wanted to sit in my room and read. I think my friends thought it was uncool of me, but I felt smug rejecting their offer of an evening together for a book».
When Clem first moved to London, she lived near the Notting Hill Book and Comic Exchange, which is filled with secondhand books. She would buy cheap fashion books there, before realizing that she had no interest in them, so sold them on eBay and Depop. It quickly became a habit to sell books that weren’t of use to her.
«I would then use the money I made from the sale to buy things I enjoyed more. Then, last year — she adds — a friend’s boss wanted to offload his library onto someone because he had accumulated so many books that it had become a hindrance. I took those off his hands, and I’ve been selling them and using the money to pay for the magazine’s printing. It all came about organically. Now I just sell stuff when I get sick of it or want to buy something new».
Sourcing most of her books abroad, Clem MacLeod has spent the last few years debunking the myth that print is dying. She explains how much of her collection includes books and magazines found in Japan and around the world. «My boyfriend and I spent two months in Japan in 2018 and went to about fifty bookshops trying to source cheap books that we love. We found so many, they have amazing bookshops there — they’re so precise about bookmaking and the prices are reasonable. There’s a whole district in Tokyo, Jimbocho, which is dedicated to book publishing and secondhand bookselling. There are bookshelves and piles and piles of books being loaded into trucks and being unpacked on the streets, it’s kind of a spectacle». One favorite includes Yoko Ono: Half and Wind Show, but she states, «I’ll probably change my mind by the time this is published».
Naming Chris Kraus, the poet/ performance artist and writer, who like Ariana Reines comments on the accessibility of the female voice via the internet. In the first issue of Worms, Chris Kraus acts a center figure for Clem MacLeod’s voice exploring the obsession driven text that both these women have experienced through relationships with men and ultimately, sex through their writing, which she discusses in her article entitled, Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines on the liberating form of online writing. When Clem interviewed her for the first issue of Worms, she explained that Kraus was insightful and helpful and a «total feminist icon». «Then when I sent her the magazine she emailed me saying it was ‘like heaven’».
The classics weren’t of big interest. She’d rather, Joan Didion’s, who gave her the initial love for reading and writing. Still there seems to be a difference between a hoarder and a collector. Whilst hoarders will hold onto various items found throughout ones life — often involving very different objects, items, clothes with sentimental value; collectors whether book, fashion or furniture will primarily source and seek particular missing items from a collection.
A collector will be known to acquire a single particular thing rather than hundreds of different items. Solely interested in collecting books, Clem suggests, «Maybe people think that books aren’t valuable? Or perhaps that people don’t care enough about them?». For her, they bring back memories, they are an escape, they at times can focus on a craft or focus on a specific design but for the most part featuring in Worms, they explored female writers.
Caliban and the Witch by Sylvia Federici, «about the role that the post-feudal witch-hunts played in the formation of capitalism”. And Oval by Elvia Wilk, which is a climate fiction (cli-fi) book about a Berlin eco-village set on a mountain, that fails miserably when the compost piles up and the houses begin to expand and contract with the sweat they’re producing from the toxic food-waste fumes.
Living in a self-claimed ‘eco-chamber of book freaks’, Worms platform has also served as a book club. Initially on Instagram, she would choose a book for her fellow worms at the beginning of every month. Everyone would read the chosen book in their own time, posting pictures of extracts or comments about the book as they would go, and at the end of every month, she would share a mini book review. «Now», she said, «I’ve amped it up and I’m doing reading groups, which is really fun and a nice way to meet book people who are similarly obsessed with reading».
Within her circle, more and more people have been joining book clubs and Instagram currently appears to be bringing these various clubs to light, each catered to specific genres, taste, and preference in writing. Book clubs still remain somewhat rare but social media seems to be knocking down the social ties to having to meet in a cafe or at someone’s house. Social media allows the freedom of and sense of community all at once whilst discovering new writers and readers alike.
When looking at the fundamentals of being a good writer today, countless elements come into question. Is one able to truly be objective in the way news is reported or is it dependent on the voice that is telling the story? «Personal experience will go into what people write. Reading anything that doesn’t have some kind of opinion or angle would just be boring». Still she assures, «we should always question what you read, who wrote it and what their motivations might have been».
Today, print media has come up against the digital world that we live in. Perhaps news and the way in which news is spoken about have increased the challenging parameters of this question. With the world increasingly moving online, people often question print because everything is so accessible without it. «Print publications encourage opinion-sharing because they are often coming from a particular point of view. Things get lost online». Today hundreds of independent magazines are appearing all the time. In fact, the fashion journalism course at Central Saint Martin produces an array of publications from students every year.
Worms magazine stockists include Eckhaus Latta [Los Angeles], Tate Modern [TURBINE SHOP], MagCulture [London EC1], Metropolis Bookshop [Melbourne 3000], Rare Mags, and more.

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14 Mar 2019 - A new set of publicly-available guidelines for monitoring plastic in the oceans is expected to help harmonize how the scale of the issue is assessed.
The guidelines have been published by the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP), a body that advises the United Nations system on the scientific aspects of marine environmental protection. They cover what to sample, how to sample it and how to record and assess plastics in the oceans and on the shoreline, including establishing baseline surveys.
They also include common definitions for categories of marine litter and plastics and provide examples of size and shape.
Sections cover citizen science programs and there are detailed chapters on monitoring sea surface floating plastic and plastic on the seafloor.
The guidelines are a response to the hitherto lack of an internationally agreed methodology to report on the distribution and abundance of marine plastic litter and microplastics and directly contribute to the U.N. SDG Goal 14 on the oceans. Specifically, the guidelines are a response to target 14.1: By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including plastic debris and nutrient pollution.
On March 3, the United Nations led celebrations for the U.N. World Wildlife Day with a theme this year of: Life below water: for people and planet. Over three billion people depend on these resources for their livelihoods globally. The market value of marine and coastal resources and related industries is estimated at $3 trillion per year, about five percent of global GDP.
CONTINUE READING ONLINE HERE: https://maritime-executive.com/article/imo-issues-guidelines-on-how-to-monitor-ocean-plastic
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February 18, 2013
PS4 Prototype Controller Revealed
Next-Gen rumors are spreading like a bad case of Bieber Fever.
In the latest news of the gaming world, a prototype of the PS4’s controller has surfaced. Amid the first few days of rumor spreading, I decided to keep quiet and wait for an official word on the reveal. This new report from a trusted source of IGN has Playstation fans going rabid with excitement as the populace awaits the February 20th reveal of whatever Sony has cooked up.
Of course the rush of news and reports we’ve received in the past few months raise an eyebrow as to whether this is all some big coincidence or if Sony truly has a next generation console up their sleeves.
This controller is comparatively bigger than the current PS3 controller and has a few features that are worthy of some pondering. Firstly, the most noticeable feature of this controller is the highlighted strip along the front that resembles the same color and design of the Playstation Move, a new innovation by Sony that was implemented for the Playstation 3 years ago to combat Microsoft’s Kinect technology. This indicates that the PS4 controller will harbor built in Move technology for the convenience of not having to spend more money on separate hardware.
Secondly, the controller has a large touch screen pad built on its top that points to the possibility of a touching interface that could be integrated into the operating system or for gaming. This seems very awkward since the controller itself is already providing us an input for control. What would be the use of a touch screen when we already have directional buttons and thumb sticks? I suppose the touch screen might be more of a gimmick for visual pleasure than an innovation for physical control.
Other noticeable innovations of this new controller show a headphone jack at the back, as well as larger triggers for more heavy handed gamers. What’s more of a negative on this photo is that it’s wired, and Playstation hasn’t showcased wired controllers for their newest consoles since the days of Playstation 2.
Of course, this reveal is just a prototype, and hasn’t been confirmed by Sony itself. Instead, they’ve said that they can’t comment on speculation and rumors, blah, blah, blah. We’ve heard these comments before by Rockstar. What we can be sure of, however, is that they haven’t exactly said that its fake, and likely someone at Sony will be losing their job very soon.
This reveal is the first physical implication of proof that we’ve heard regarding the possibilities of a next generation console.
As most of you know, this console generation is in its eighth year, the longest of any, and is long overdue for a reboot.
The rumor wagon is only going to get more intense from here until Sony finally opens their mouths on the 20th. Until then, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the rumored prototype of Sony’s PS4 controller.
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Super Eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo
Super Eagles Captain, Joseph Yobo, will equal a six Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals appearance record held by Nwankwo Kanu if he makes the list of 23 players Nigeria is submitting to CAF Wednesday. The list is expected to be unveiled Tuesday.
Yobo has already eclipsed Kanu’s record as the most capped Nigeria star with 89 caps and he could add to this tally Wednesday against fellow 2013 Nations Cup finalists Cape Verde in an AFCON warm-up game.
"I have been blessed. Words cannot quantify God's blessings on me. Attending my sixth Nations Cup will be great and we will give it our best shot," Yobo told MTNFootball.com Tuesday.
The 32-year-old Fenerbache star defender has featured at the 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010 Nations Cups, same number of appearances as the legendary Muda Lawal now of blessed memory.
He managed a third-place medal at four of these appearances and now said he wants to go for the top prize in possibly his last tournament.
"It’s not going to be easy (to win the trophy). But we will give it our best shot. We therefore urge Nigerians to keep praying for us and believe in this team," he said.


Police are seeking information regarding the whereabouts of missing 13 year old boy, Che Rickard, who was last seen at approximately 7pm on Sunday 19 February 2017.
Che was last seen on the Scarborough beach foreshore with his Father and a friend.
Family, friends and police hold concerns for his safety and welfare.
Che is described as fair skinned, 150-155cm tall, of slim...
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Spokane hopes Great Gorge Trail leads to more river usage
There has been quite a bit of change in Spokane over the past five years.
one of the biggest is how the city uses the Spokane River in downtown.
The city hopes a new walking-biking trail will draw even more people to the center of town–the Great Gorge Loop Trail.
Now, it may not seem easy to find at first, but that’s because it’s so big.
As you can see on this map, the trail is made up of the red and green lines as well as part of the blue which is stretch from Post Street to Sandifur Bridge.
The trail is about three miles long, and some say it’s the perfect distance for a walk or jog during your lunch break.
But, the purpose of this is to use one of the best parts of Spokane–the river.
Really our sense is the more people interact with the river, the more they see the river, the more they’re going to take care of it for future generations,” City Spokeswoman Marlene Feist said.
The city has started on the first half of the Gorge Trail already.
The second half will start in 2020, and you can expect to see construction on the Post Street Bridge in the spring.
It will take about two years to finish.
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Hot stone massage is several centuries old and was independently developed in different parts of the Earth. Today there are several different types of massage. This type of massage is now offered as a wellness procedure. This massage strengthens the tissues and blood vessels, with the support of blood circulation it relaxes the muscles, stimulates the metabolism, but also acts purifying. It is working with cyclic basalt blocks of different sizes that are heated in hot water to the temperature to 60 ° C. The massage oil is used, too. During the massage the stones penetrate a pleasant heat to the whole body. At this stage the surface tension has been released. The skin smoothest and softens. Hot stimuli leads to better blood circulation, metabolism, the improvement of the blood circulation. The muscles deeply relaxes when stress and pain in the body occurs.
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Factorable programming techniques have been in the past in order to form convex relaxations of general global optimization problems [1, 2, 3]. Often, convex relaxations are further relaxed with polyhedral relaxations, thus facilitating outer approximation through efficient and reliable linear programming (LP) techniques [4, 5, 6]. In addition to LP relaxations, a non-linear programming (NLP) relaxation can be used for bounding. The use of hybrid LP and NLP relaxations was found beneficial for global optimization, especially in cases for which a problem becomes convex after branching at any given node of a branch-and-bound tree search .
In recent work, we incorporated mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) in the portfolio of relaxations of the BARON software . MILP relaxations often result in much better lower bounds and feasible integer solutions, thus significantly reducing the number of nodes of the search tree for MINLPs. In this paper, we further extend BARON’s portfolio of relaxations to include piecewise approximations of NLPs and MINLPs. Nonconvex functions can be approximated with piecewise linear outer-estimators, a process that leads to MILP relaxations even for purely continuous NLPs . The main challenge in this context is how to balance complexity and tightness of a relaxation. On the one hand, MILP and NLP relaxations are tighter than their LP counterparts. However, this increased tightness comes with increased, often prohibitively expensive relaxation times. We present techniques for the automatic incorporation of piecewise linear relaxations as part of the portfolio of relaxations in BARON [4, 5, 6]. Key in our approach is the incorporation of learning mechanisms that balance accuracy and costs of relaxations. This process is dynamic, thus resulting in different types of relaxations being used for different problems, with the corresponding decision taking place during run time. We find that this approach is advantageous for NLPs and MINLPs with difficult continuous nonconvex components. We report extensive computational results with these new portfolios of relaxations in BARON on problems from a collection of publicly available test sets.
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- H. S. Ryoo and N. V. Sahinidis. Global optimization of nonconvex NLPs and MINLPs with applications in process design. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 19:551-566, 1995.
- E. M. B. Smith and C. C. Pantelides. A symbolic reformulation/spatial branch-and-bound algorithm for the global optimisation of nonconvex MINLPs. Computers and Chemical Engineering, 23:457-478, 1999.
- M. Tawarmalani and N. V. Sahinidis. Convexification and Global Optimization in Continuous and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming: Theory, Algorithms, Software, and Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston MA, 2002.
- M. Tawarmalani and N. V. Sahinidis. Global optimization of mixed integer nonlinear programs: A theoretical and computational study. Mathematical Programming, 99:563-591, 2004.
- M. Tawarmalani and N. V. Sahinidis. A polyhedral branch-and-cut approach to global optimization. Mathematical Programming, 103:225-249, 2005.
- A. Khajavirad and N. V. Sahinidis. A hybrid LP/NLP paradigm for global optimization relaxations. Mathematical Programming Computation. Under revision.
- M. Kilinc and N. V. Sahinidis. Global Optimization of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization Problems. AIChE meeting, 2014.
- M. L. Bergamini, P. Aguirre, and I. E. Grossmann. Logic-based outer approximation for globally optimal synthesis of process networks. Computers & chemical engineering, 29(9):1914-1933, 2005.


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Suzuki has launched the 2019 Suzuki GSX250R in Japan at JPY 5,27,040 (INR 3.34 lakh). The new model costs JPY 5,38,920 (INR 3.42 lakh) in the MotoGP Replica colour option. The MY2019 update hasn't led to a price hike.
The 2019 Suzuki GSX250R comes in new Crystal Blue Metallic-Pearl Nevlar Black and Pearl Gresher White-Pearl Nevlar Black colour options. The MotoGP Replica colour (Triton Blue Metallic) gets a change in graphics while the solid Pearl Nevlar Black colour option has been retained.
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Deliveries of Suzuki GSX250R in Crystal Blue Metallic-Pearl Nevlar Black, Pearl Gresher White-Pearl Nevlar Black colour options will begin on 18 July. Also, the new MotoGP replica edition will be available from 26 July 2019. Suzuki has not confirmed the GSX250R for the Indian market. The company recently launched a single-cylinder Suzuki Gixxer SF 250 for a price of INR 1.70 lakh.


100 Thursdays in the Making
Thursday, June 11, was a date to celebrate at the Dive Bar. One hundred Thursdays ago, Drummer Duncan Arsenault went on a mission to bring together a wide assortment of Worcester musicians for live music performances on Thursday nights. The tradition has been going strong ever since. Usually, on a Thursday, the Dive Bar will have a good number of people in attendance, but on Thursday there was a line of people that snaked all around the outside sidewalk.
An eight-piece group made up of local musicians from diverse bands shared the stage performing funk and groove music from Al Green and James Brown, to Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder. Playing two electric keyboards with a permanent smile on his face was Brooks Milgate. Craig Rawding sang his heart out on vocals and blew his lungs out on the Harmonica. Steve Lefabvre and Brian Thomas gave the music an extra funk-feel with the Trumpet and Trombone. Brian Kearsley provided the right kind of jazz with his Saxophone. Al Vaudreuil and Jeremy Curtis kept a steady groove with the Guitar and Bass, while Arsenault was the backbone of it all.
You can call the musicians superstars or masters of their craft. In between songs, members would form a huddle and start explaining the chords progression for the next song, as if they never had a rehearsal. “It’s a basic E-minor and D-flat progression. You remember to give a pause when he screams at the bridge.” During the performance, Arsenault would keep a beat with his feet and one hand while the other hand was fixing the levels on the PA system set up behind him.
The joint was so jam-packed with people it was close to impossible to move, though the outside patio provided for a nice breath of fresh air. The few table-umbrellas setup guarded the smokers and shoppers from the torrential downpour. There were shoppers because there was another celebration going on outside, Punky’s grand opening of her mobile vintage boutique (Punky is a bartender at the Lucky Dog Music Hall and vintage cloths entrepreneur,Punkystyle.com). She transformed a very small mobile home into a thrift store that was parked for business in the patio area.
The entertainment went on right until the bar closed at 1 a.m. with very few intermissions. The crowd that night was an unbelievable mix of the generations; women and men in their 60s drank and danced right alongside women and men in their 20s. Some sat at the bar and never left their stool, while others did their best to move through the crowd and mingle. Others preferred to be stationed under the umbrellas outside in the patio area with their drinks and smokes in their hands. There was no perfect spot to experience the night. No matter where you were positioned, good people, good music and good beer were in close vicinity.


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A decision for or against tent village comes before the City Council on Oct. 27. Tent village is the fruit of many individual decisions to imitate Jesus in his compassion for rejected outcasts and to take on the burden of caring for some of our most vulnerable citizens at no cost to the city. Under the leadership of Link Ministries, the residents have come together to govern and help each other.
Tent village residents are some of the most difficult individuals to help. They are the homeless who can’t or won’t abide by the requirements of the Salvation Army or Family Promise.
In spite of allegations of increased crime in the area, examination of the police report for March through September 2010, shows 120 crimes reported, compared to 88 for the same period in 2011 — the period in which the tent village operated.
Important progress has been made: 32 of the 99 individuals who have sought refuge in tent village have found accommodations. Only four remain from the original group.
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Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks with the media in Atlanta on Apr. 18 as he runs against Republican Karen Handel to replace Tom Price, who is now the secretary of Health and Human Services.
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George Rincon and Yolanda Reyes stand with a portrait of their son Diego Rincon. The family immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia in 1989. Diego served in the Army and was killed in Iraq in 2003.
Yasunori Kagoike (center) head of an ultra-nationalistic Japanese school operator, walks through the hallway after testifying before an upper house panel at the parliament in Tokyo on March 23.


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A while ago, the president of the federal republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari has on Saturday expressed grief over the murder of 43 farmers in Jere Local government area of Borno state by Boko Haram insurgents.
The Nigerian president, Buhari who condemned the gruesome murder in a statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu said that the government has given all the needed support to the armed forces to take all necessary steps to protect the country’s population and its territory.
Further describing the attack as insane Buhari said the entire country was hurt by the senseless killings.
“I condemn the killing of our hardworking farmers by terrorists in Borno State. The entire country is hurt by these senseless killings. My thoughts are with their families in this time of grief. May their souls Rest In Peace,” Buhari said.
Earlier on Saturday, a report by Human Angle revealed that the Boko Haram insurgents beheaded 43 farmers at Zabarmari, less than 20 km from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.
President Buhari said the government had given all the needed support to the armed forces “to take all necessary steps to protect the country’s population and its territory.”
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