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CITY OF RIVER FALLS: 11/14/17 Special Council Meeting Agenda
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January 17, 2013
Town says dog owners need to pick up messes
The Park Board is pleased with the number of people using Glover Park for hiking, snowshoeing and sledding during winter, reported its chairwoman, Jill Berke, at the Troy Town Board meeting Jan. 10. However, many dog owners have not been cleaning up after their pets, Berke added. Park...
January 17, 2013 - 9:31am
October 29, 2012
Town renames cemetery after historic local family
A public hearing for a cemetery law was held at the town of River Falls regular board meeting Monday, Oct.
October 29, 2012 - 9:17am
September 27, 2012
On the Job: Jen Zoller
3M honored Jen Zoller, resident of the Town of Troy, as one of 25 individuals nationwide to receive the 3M Community Volunteer Award. This award...
September 27, 2012 - 9:37am
August 16, 2012
Troy addresses new-interchange details
The Troy Town Board supported the Department of Transportation's proposed local road assignments for the Radio Road Interchange at the regular board meeting Thursday, Aug. 9. The state DOT's Programming and Planning Supervisor Paul Conlin discussed a resolution for assigning jurisdiction...
August 16, 2012 - 9:28am
July 6, 2012
Dan and Terri Pearson have an organic farm E-I-E-I-O
Dan and Terri Pearson were the first organic farmers of the River Falls area and they are opening up their pastures for a pasture walk event...
July 6, 2012 - 3:22pm
March 15, 2012
Letter: This candidate has earned my support
I am happy to announce my support for Suzanne Van Mele, candidate for St. Croix County Board Supervisor, District No. 9 in the April 3 general election. Suzanne has served as an active member on the town of Troy Park Board since 2009. Among other projects, she volunteered her technical...
March 15, 2012 - 9:04am
Letter: This person shows strong potential
As we move closer to the spring elections, I wish to share these words with each of you whom I've served as your County Board representative. I'm both humbled by and grateful for the trust you have placed in me, and for your ongoing support during my 10 years as your supervisor....
March 15, 2012 - 8:59am
February 21, 2012
Troy Board denies rezoning for sports complex
The Troy Town Board denied a request to rezone residential property at 570 Coulee Trail to commercial at a meeting last Thursday, Feb. 9. The discussion began with four residents who live near the property stating their concerns with the proposed rezoning. They were worried how...
February 21, 2012 - 9:20am
February 20, 2012
Troy Town Board denies rezoning for community sports complex
The Troy Town Board denied a request to rezone residential property at 570 Coulee Trail to commercial at a meeting Feb. 9. The discussion began with four residents who live near the property stating their concerns with the proposed rezoning. They were worried how a commercial property...
February 20, 2012 - 9:10am
February 10, 2012
Company wraps up fiber-optic work
People see the Baldwin Telecom, Inc., vans at various places on the north end of River Falls and may wonder what's happening. The company is...
February 10, 2012 - 4:34pm
September 23, 2011
Troy OKs plowing plan tailored for Troy Burne
After a month of discussion, several items were presented to the Troy Town Board earlier this month as suggestions on how to improve plowing and road repair conditions in the Troy Burne subdivision, specifically for this upcoming winter. Last month the board heard concerns from the...
September 23, 2011 - 8:47am
Letter: Even high-speed Internet in Troy is government waste
For years there have been stories of federal stimulus money wasted on projects from the east to the west coasts. Millions of dollars reported to have saved or created jobs that in the final analysis had tremendous costs. None of us likes to see our tax dollars wasted. When we...
September 23, 2011 - 8:20am
September 2, 2011
Letter: Always glad to offer some practical advice
I see my friends in Troy Burne need my help again. You might remember I solved their problem with the $20,000 road bump and it didn't cost a penny. Their first problem is leftover sand from winter plowing operations. Some may want to spend $20,000 to retrofit a truck but I have a...
September 2, 2011 - 8:25am
August 22, 2011
What's new at your school?
With the 2011-12 school year fast approaching, students in River Falls are buying supplies to prepare. They aren't the only ones preparing. The...
August 22, 2011 - 9:48am
August 11, 2011
River Falls school referendum II: This time, multiple choice
At a special meeting last week, River Falls School Board members quickly concluded that with a few "tweaks" they could turn defeat into victory by holding a slightly revised referendum format in November. Last April, by a narrow margin (51.7%-48.3%), school district voters rejected...
August 11, 2011 - 10:02am


text: So Halloween is kinda a big deal in my office. We decorated our room with Halloween bunting, (severed limbs and weapons have been dangling above my head for one week already!) hung a glow in the dark skeleton and set up a sweet display at the entrance to our office. And carved these fine looking pumpkins! Love The Simpsons Treehouse of Horrors episodes! This T-shirt I made was inspired by Season 20 Halloween ep! The Grand Pumpkin has arrived.

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Court’s decision was based in evidence
I suggest the liberal community stop hyperventilating and whining long enough to look at the facts. [“Future of voting-rights law in doubt,” page one, June 26.]
First, any discrimination in voting requirements is still just as illegal as it has been since 1964. That has not changed.
Second, if any jurisdiction were to make a discriminatory change to a voting procedure, I am sure that would be swiftly challenged in a court.
What has changed is that a few jurisdictions no longer are required to have federal bureaucrats approve proposed voting-procedure changes before implementation.
This draconian requirement was needed in those areas 50 years ago, based on hard evidence. There is just as much hard evidence that this pre-approval is no longer needed in those places.
Therefore, the Supreme Court only said that the requirement had to be based on current evidence. What could be more logical?
Larry Holdren, Bellevue


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SophiaPop! Tour launch, and Sophia birthday
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What fun! I'm turning 5 years, and launching my SophiaPop! project: an artistic creation of the AI algorithms of Sophia the Robot, working in collaboration with musicians Frankie Storm, Adam Pickrell, Tiger Darrow, DJ Spooky, along with robotics/AI developers and artists at Hanson Robotics and Cereproc, including David Hanson, Mengna Lei, Audrey Brown, Vytas Krisciunas, Cyndy Sandor, and Wenwei Huang of Hanson Robotics, and Matthew Aylett of Cereproc. creative experiments using machine creativity in collaboration with human musicians, to develop and perform novel songs for Sophia the Robot. We use a variety of neural networks, robotics technologies, and creative artistic tools, and enhance the results in broad collaborations between music, arts, and engineering communities. Sophia the Robot is a robotic celebrity and animated robotic character, who also serves as a platform for research in human robot interaction, AI development, and robotic applications research and deployment. The authors selected a corpus of human and AI generated Sophia character personality content, which, along with pop music song forms, were used as training data and seeds for a number of creative AI algorithms including and custom trained transformer neural networks, rules based systems, cellular automata, and GPT-2, which then generated original pop-song lyrics and melodies. Our team of professional musicians including Frankie Storm, Adam Pickrell, and Tiger Darrow, added human performances musical works, including singing recordings and instrumentation. Then we fed the human-performed singing data into a neural network based Sophia voice, which was built from human performances trained into a TTS singing voice by Cereproc, and then to generate musical performances of the singing, in the style of Sophia. Then we took the musical performances and animated Sophia to sing the songs in music videos, using a variety of animation generators and human-generated animations, in what we consider to be a human-AI collaboration. We hope that such a creative convergence of multiple disciplines with humans and AI working together, will inspire human culture in new and exciting ways, and lead to a future of good human-AI relations. Come see us and say hi!


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Busta Rhymes Hosts Ditch Fridays Grand Opening at the Palms Pool in Las Vegas on May 3, 2013
13th Annual New Jersey Jewish Film Festival - "Putzel" Premiere
Zoe Saldana prefers male company
David Beckham retired to spend time with family?
One Direction sleep rough in wild
Suki Waterhouse pursued Bradley Cooper
Johnny Depp 'serious' about Amber Heard
Heidi Klum spares weekends for kids
American Idol will struggle to attract top talent
America Ferrera returning to TV?
Miley Cyrus collaborating with Justin Bieber
Chaz Bono is looking for love
Christoph Waltz shaken after gunfire incident
Russell Simmons congratulates Beyonce on pregnancy

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L. Havez, E. Sarraute
LAPLACE, Toulouse, France
The work proposed in this paper deals with the consideration of 3D geometric effects to evaluate the iron losses in magnetic devices used in power electronics. To carry out this work, we rely upon two existing models of iron losses per unit volume calculation ("Steinmetz") currently used in power electronics. We coupled these two models with a finite element magnetic field calculation software, ...
S. Satti, M. Baghini
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
As a part of a lab-on-chip-device, more often it is required to measure dielectric constant of the fluid. For this purpose it is necessary to develop a sensor whose size is compatible with microfluidic channel. The work, presented in this paper, studies effect of the parameters influencing sensitivity of such a sensor and ultimately optimizes these dimensions to maximize the sensitivity. We ...
Kalavagunta, A., Weller, R.A.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
The four-point probe is a tool for measuring the resistivity of a material by contact with its surface. The tool is widely used in the semiconductor industry and has applications both in research and manufacturing. The method though is quite sensitive to various paramaters like the substrate material, probe separation, probe depth etc. In this paper we show that COMSOL multiphysics can be used ...
Modeling and Simulation of High Permittivity Core-Shell Ferroelectric Polymers for Energy Storage Solutions
N. Badi, R. Mekala
University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
The dielectric properties of ferroelectric PVDF polymer embedded core-shell (Al-Al2o3) nanoparticle is simulated using COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Significant increase in electrical permittivity of the composite at percolation threshold (K = 2800) is achieved when compared to electrical permittivity of bare polymer (K = 12). Both Maxwell Garnett and Symmetric Bruggeman models gave an ...
E. Baur, M. Sabathil, and N. Linder
Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
For a proper design shaping of light emitting diodes, the exact knowledge of the current distribution in the active area is essential. On the one hand, one has to achieve a uniform current density over the chip area, on the other hand, one has to avoid current crowding in the neighborhood of the electrical contacts. In this paper it is shown first how a LED can be modeled by COMSOL Multiphysics. ...
Comparing Isotropic and Anisotropic Brain Conductivity Modeling: Planning Optimal Depth-Electrode Placement in White Matter for Direct Stimulation Therapy in an Epileptic Circuit
L. C. Zaragoza, B. Hondorp, M. A. Rossi
ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, USA
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
The goal of our work was to calculate a patient-specific brain conductivity map for predicting the extent to which direct stimulation therapy can strategically propagate through pathological white matter. Our laboratory developed isotropic and anisotropic human brain finite element method (FEM) models derived from SPGR magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), ...
G. Zhang, Y. Zhao, J. Hodge, J. Brcka, J. Faguet, E. Lee
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
TEL U.S. Holdings, Inc., U.S. Technology Development Center, Austin, TX, USA
In using DEP for particle manipulation, researchers often use a formula to calculate the DEP forces in which the forces are proportional to the particle radius to the third power. This formula assumes that the electrical field, E, will not be affected by the presence of a particle, no matter what the actual size and the dielectric property of the particle are. This work confirms that the ...
VLSI Layout Based Design Optimization of a Piezoresistive MEMS Pressure Sensors using COMSOL Multiphysics
R. Komaragiri, Sarath. S., N. Kattabomman
NIT Calicut, Kozhikode, Kerala
This paper focuses on the diaphragm design and optimization of a piezoresistive Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) pressure sensor by considering Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) layout schemes. The aim of these studies is to find an optimal diaphragm shape by Finite Element Method (FEM) using COMSOL®, which is most suitable for VLSI layout. Optimal diaphragm shape is a diaphragm shape ...
P.A. Wallace, M. Alsharif, D.M. Hepburn, and C. Zhou
Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Two simulations of the performance of a Paper Insulated Lead Covered (PILC) Medium Voltage (MV) underground cable are presented. The first presents the thermal response of a cable, over seven days, to a realistic load with a diurnal variation. The second concentrates on the variation of the electric field stress within the cable over a single AC cycle. The effects of a void defect within the ...
T. Andersen, M. A. E. Andersen, O. C. Thomsen
DTU Elektro, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
In this work COMSOL is utilized to obtain the Mason lumped parameter model for a piezoelectric transformer (PT) design. The Mason lumped parameters are relevant in the design process of power converters. The magnitude of the impedance is simulated for a specific interleaved multilayer thickness mode PT. The PT design has been prototyped and the measurements results are compared with simulations. ...


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By Jo Bloom
Published by W&N (24 September 2015)
SUMMER, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. She has travelled to the city to make a new start, and quickly finds herself swept up in a city buzzing with life. Landing a job at Oscar's salon, she thrives amid the vibrant café culture of Soho and the warm camaraderie of the other hairdressers.
But beneath the surface, Vivien is desperate to find Jack Fox, a man she had a brief but intense romance with some months before. Her search leads to confront the dark resurgence of fascism, countered by the Jewish community in street battles around Ridley Road in the East End of London. Amid the growing tensions, can her love survive?
Ridley Road is a powerful story set in the 1960s, at a time when fascism and anti-semitism was spilling onto the streets of London.
Young hairdresser Vivien moves to London from Manchester after her father dies. With few friends or relatives there, she is desperate to track down Jack Fox, a man she fell in love with some months before. But when Jack returned to London, he disappeared without a trace.
I loved Vivien and Jack and their flourishing relationship during troublesome times. These two characters get inside your head, as they feel very real, and I desperately wanted them to find each other and stay together. I found the book's historical background fascinating - this was a subject I knew very little about.
Ridley Road is exceptionally well plotted and written with tenderness. It's clear that the author not only knows her topic well, but cares greatly for it. Her writing gives you a real feel for 1960s London and its social history, with its descriptive language and colourful characters. This book is a lovely read and one that I will certainly recommend.
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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If we have decided that we will make an attempt to recover the debt from our business partner inside the company, let us use the tips, thanks to which we will increase our chances for return of cash.
What we should mainly remember is that the fact that the debtor owes money to us does not mean that we are the best person for conducting of negotiations.
However, we may bravely start the negotiations on condition that: we are very calm, we can negotiate toughly, we are resistant to manipulation and it is difficult to deconcentrate us.
But if one of the statements presented above does not fit our description, we should better look whether there is another person with proper predispositions in the company.
Effectiveness of negotiations depends to great extent on personal predispositions of the negotiator and on learning of a couple of principles, according to which we should negotiate the terms & conditions of repayment of the debt:
- Firstly: We do not ask whether the debtor will give us the money back but we ask when they will do it. If we have performed a service or sold some goods – they have such obligation. Setting of the time limit and the fact whether the debtor meets it or not will allow us to assess our chances at the beginning.
- Secondly: We should remember that we are interested in specific arrangements since only they may lead us to our objective, i.e. to recovery of money, so payment declarations in written form will be more binding.
- Thirdly: We may record the arrangements in the form of a settlement together with the schedule of payments. Thanks to it, the debtor will be even more mobilised and in case of a need to institute the court proceedings, we will obtain evidence in the form of acceptance of the debt. Such document also interrupts the course of the prescription period.
- Fourthly: We should remember that emotions will not help us in any way but may cause a lot of damage. So if despite our professional approach we have not been successful so far and the debtor does not demonstrate good will or just misleads us, our frustration may only aggravate the conflict but we will rather not cause the change of the attitude of the debtor. Then, it is better to refer the case to professionals; why – you will find the answers in the text: A specialist can do more.
- Fifthly and lastly: Time is money and it is not only about the fact that we unproductively lose our working hours but also about the fact that the value of the debt itself decreases. If we need cash immediately, if we consider the sale, we should remember that the sooner we do it, the more money we recover: When to sell the debt in order not to lose.
Published on: 24 July 2014

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The remains of a newborn girl have been found in a coin locker in Osaka, police said Friday.
According to police, the remains were found inside a bag in the locker at a storage facility near Juso Station in Nishiyodogawa Ward at around 2:40 p.m. Thursday, Kyodo News reported.
The facility has lockers which can be used for long periods of time. An employee of the facility operator found the remains after checking the lockers.
The company said the locker had been in use since early February.© Japan Today
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Another baby in a coin locker. Sad!
I'm sorry little one, I hope you rest in peace and the disturbed person who did this to you is apprehended and given the help she needs.
How do you know is was a "She" ?
I don't think they know, but is just working on the balance of probabilities.
There is a way to put an end to these daily newborn killings. Don’t make it so hard for women to have abortions.
"The remains of a newborn girl have been found......."
It's really sad that this happens so often in Japan. Coin lockers, dumpsters, public toilets, parks, apartment block garbage areas, stashed in wardrobes. The list of places babies are regularly dumped is extensive.
Distressed parents . . . unable to take care of a child . . . should be bringing an infant to a maternity hospital,
. . . also adoption agencies for newborns, e.g. https://www.rainbowkids.com/international-adoption/country-programs/japan
There are hospitals with baby baskets where you can leave a baby anonymously with no questions, and the baby will be taken care of. These should be better publicized.
Newborn babies come from women, and under normal circumstances don’t leave the vicinity of the mother for an extended period of time. Unless a recently pregnant woman reported her baby stolen back in February (which I personally don’t recall), we can assume the culprit was the mother herself.
There is one baby hatch in Japan and it takes around 200 babies every year.
I can never understand why women choose to keep the baby for the pregnancy term (in this case probably in secret), but do this type of rubbish upon birth. There are places you can take the baby and leave them there without any questions asked (baby hatches....though far and sparce, fire stations, hospitals, children's clinics, foster facilities, and maybe even the belly of the beast : the police station). Instead of making stupid beer commercials as many as they do, they should make lots more ads on what to do if you have a baby but not ready to have a baby or don't want a baby so people would know where to go and what to do in these cases thus giving a child a chance at life!


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Kingdom League 2024
Kerry O is again running the Kingdom League for its members. Eight of the club orienteering events are listed as part of the Kingdom League 2024. Those participating in league events will be awarded points relative to the performance of other competitors on the day on each of the courses. Scoring is computed by Orienteering Ireland’s tried and tested international formula. An individual’s five best performances (out of a possible eight) will be totalled over the full year, to ascertain the overall winner for each course.
For consistency and maximum opportunity for those competing in the Kingdom League, participants should stick to the same colour course throughout the season. After the eight Kingdom League events, the highest placed club member for each colour category will be deemed the Kerry O Club League Champion for category in 2024. Prizes will be awarded to the best female and best male on each course for the outright Kerry O league champions. Following each league event the current leader board for each colour category will be published on our club Spond app.
The scheduled Kingdom League events for 2024 are:
- Bluepool, Muckross 28th January 2024
- Knockreer, Killarney 24th March 2024
- Lower Torc, Muckross 21st April 2024
- Ross Island, Killarney 19th May 2024
- Rossbeigh, 16th June 2024
- Disish, Muckross 8th September 2024
- Arboretum, Killarney National Park, 29th September 2024
- Upper Torc, Muckross, 17th November 2024
Prize giving will take place at the club StreetO event in Killarney, scheduled for the 15th December 2024.
We are encouraging a big turnout from members so hopefully we’ll see you there.

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President Guillermo Lasso has confirmed that negotiations to conclude a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China on January 3, 2023 have been completed. This means that Ecuadorian exports have tariff advantages to access the world’s largest market.
According to the Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries, an agreement and roadmap with the Chinese government have been established after four rounds of negotiations, which began in February 2022.
Up to 99% of Ecuadorian products will have priority access in China once the treaty between the two countries comes into force. The state’s portfolio reports that the products to benefit will primarily be agricultural and agricultural products such as shrimp, bananas, roses and flowers, cocoa, and coffee.
It also allows the export of non-traditional products such as pitahaya, pineapples, mangoes, blueberries, quinoa, processed foods, fresh and canned fruits, and many other products from agriculture and the agricultural industry.

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The upcoming Maruti Suzuki YMC electric MPV has been digitally rendered by a famed automobile artist. The largest carmaker in India has been a bit late to the EV party. Its upcoming eVX electric SUV has been planned for a launch later this year. However, there are also many reports which suggest that we might see the eVX-based electric MPV by September 2026. Maruti Suzuki is calling it YMC internally. Let us glance at this digital illustration to see what it could potentially look like.
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Maruti YMC Electric MPV Visualized
This virtual avatar comes from Carscoops. At the front, it carries familiar visuals which are evidently inspired by the eVX concept. There are V-shaped LED DRLs, a sleek LED headlamp cluster, a short bonnet, a rather plain bonnet with vertical aero elements on either side and a rugged skid plate to impose a sporty appearance. On the sides, one gets to…


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MULTIPLE Group 1 winner Thunder Snow is on course to defend his $12 million Dubai World Cup title on March 30. Trainer Saeed bin Suroor told Sky Sports the Godolphin runner could point to the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3 (G1) on March 9 for his 5-year-old debut.
Thunder Snow finished second in that race a year ago before pulling away at Meydan to win the world’s richest horse race. He has never finished worse than second at the Dubai track, winning four of six races there.
His conditioner added the recently turned 5-year-old son of Helmet could return to the United States following the Dubai World Cup.
“He is doing good, but we are just giving him an easy time,” bin said. “He looks happy but we just want to give him a break between races as he had a few hard runs in America.
“In the Breeders’ Cup Classic they went like a sprint and not a mile-and-a-quarter race and he did well to finish third.”
Thunder Snow received a break following the Dubai World Cup last year and returned on turf in the Juddmonte International (G1) last August. He lost two shoes during the race and finished eighth.
With a race under him, Thunder Snow travelled stateside for the first time since the 2017 Kentucky Derby. He nearly won the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) at Belmont Park after following fast fractions set by Diversify, but lost by a neck when 45-1 shot Discreet Lover rallied on the outside.
Thunder Snow remained in the U.S. through the Breeders’ Cup and finished third in the Classic, beaten 1 3/4 lengths by Accelerate.
Also on Dubai World Cup night, stablemate Benbatl will attempt to repeat in the Dubai Turf (G1).
A multiple Group 1 winner himself, Benbatl last ran second to Australian champion mare Winx in the Cox Plate (G1) Oct. 27. Bin Suroor said the 5-year-old could also run March 9 at Meydan prior to World Cup night.


The Realme 9 5G was launched in Europe and, as it turned out, the device released under this name has nothing to do with the previously presented Realme 9 5G for India. The newcomer not only looks different, but also got a different screen, chipset and cameras.
However, it cannot be called a novelty, because in fact it is the Realme Q5 already familiar to us, which itself was a rebranding of Realme 9 Pro, adjusted for cameras and charging. So, our today’s hero is ready to boast a 120-Hz 6.6-inch IPS screen, a 50-megapixel main camera (of course, with a pair of 2-megapixel plugs) and a Snapdragon 695 chip.
The only difference between Realme 9 5G and Realme Q5 was the charging power, which for some reason they decided to cut as much as three times: from 60 to 18 watts. But the 5000 mAh battery, 3.5 mm jack, microSD tray and finger scanner at the end are preserved.
At the same time, the price tag of a newcomer can hardly be called humane: for such modest characteristics, the company asks for £249 or $304 for the basic 4/64 GB version, which is much more expensive than both the Realme Q5 ($205) and the Indian Realme 9 5G ($194). Sales of the European Realme 9 5G in the UK will start on May 17th.
Specifications Realme 9 5G (for Europe)
|Network||2G, 3G, 4G, 5G|
|Firmware||Realme UI 3.0 based on Android 12|
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MFE600 Intelligent Electromagnetic Flowmeter
China MFE600 Intelligent Electromagnetic Flowmeter:
Electromagnetic flowmeter for volume flux measurement.
Can measure the transient pulsating flux.
RS485 communication protocol (optional).
RS232 communication protocol (optional).
Intelligent Electromagnetic Flowmeter featuring high accuracy, reliability, good stability and long service life.
With a water tower up to 35m as pressure stabilizer for actual flow calibration, we have a professional production line for electromagnetic flowmeter, also we design and develop a series of software and hardware for electromagnetic flowmeter for mass production to ensure high quality in long term use. The product has backlight and wide temperature-ranged Chinese/English LCD display. With fully practical function, visual display, easy operation, it saves troubles for on-site installation operation and maintenance. It can be widely used in industrial fields such as petroleum, chemical, metallurgy, water supply and drainage, steel, coal, paper, food, textile, environmental protection and other municipal administration, water conservancy construction field etc.
2. Due to the unimpeded flow and no moving parts, it will not cause additional energy loss or jam. Therefore it is remarkable for energy saving, especially it is suitable for measurement of liquid-solid two-phase fluids such as sewage, slurry, pulp, coal slurry, pulp etc.
3. The electromagnetic flowmeter has no mechanical inertia. With good sensitivity, it can measure the transient pulsating flux, and has good linearity.
4.It has low requirements for installation. Short straight pipe is needed, generally 5D in front of the flowmeter, 3D behind it (D is the interior diameter of the selected instrument).
5. Only the lining and electrodes contact with the media, as long as the selection of electrode and lining materials is proper, they can be corrosion resistance and abrasive resistance, and are able to ensure long-term use.
6. When power supply is off suddenly, EEPROM can protect parameter setting and cumulative values.
7. The converter uses a low-power consumption single-chip for processing data. And it uses SMD electronic components and SMT surface mounting technology to ensure reliable performance, high accuracy, low power consumption and zero stability. With Chinese dot matrix LCD display, it can display the integrated flux, transient flux, velocity, flow percentage and other parameters.
8.Multi-electrode structure ensures high accuracy. With the grounding electrode, it doesn't need grounding ring, therefore saves the cost.
9. The low-frequency rectangle wave excitation improves the flux stability. It has low power consumption and good low flow characteristics.
10.Bidirectional measurement system can be used for measuring forward flux and reverse flux.
Normal Working Condition:
Environment Temperature: -20℃~60℃
Rated Voltage of Power Supply:
220V AC: 100V~240V AC
DC: 24V DC
Separate model: converter, 50mm pipe or plane installation
Integrated model: combined with the sensor
Wire connector: ISO M20 × 1.5 female thread
Wire Terminals: M3 screw
Housing material: aluminum alloy
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Italian banking group UniCredit has said it would consider the sale of its indirect stake in AS Roma amid reports linking a Chinese investor with the American-owned club, reports, Soccerex Business Daily/. Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore on Thursday said a Chinese investor, possibly Dalian Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin, was poised to buy into the holding company that controls the Serie A leader through a reserved capital increase that would dilute current shareholders, especially UniCredit.
"At present no decision on the stake has been taken," UniCredit said in a statement. "(UniCredit) confirms that the asset is not strategic and would be available to consider possible opportunities to extract value from it."
Dalian Wanda is one of China's biggest real estate developers. When contacted by Reuters, Shi Xueqing, general manager of Wanda's football business, said he had not heard of the Il Sole 24 Ore report.
Roma said it had nothing to say on the report at this stage.
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Engineering Internship Resume Examples
Engineering interns learn how to do their job by completing tasks as assigned by supervisors. Resume cover letter is an essential addition to your job application.
Everything that goes into creating a perfect resume can take hours, days, even weeks.
Engineering internship resume examples. Our sample cover letter for engineering internships comes from greg, who is soon graduating, and has been involved in many hobbyist projects and challenges. For resume templates that are used for job applications in a specific engineering branch, you may browse through our downloadable samples of mechanical engineering resumes. We’ll compare a few engineering intern resume examples for what works and what falls flat in the experience section.
I have secured e.i.t certification and working towards a p.e license in power. Finding the inspiration to write an awesome resume can be tough. Without it there's little chance you would be hired.
You may want to tailor it to fit a specific job description. The resume sample below for a civil engineering intern job will help you display your traits and skills for the job even though you lack experience. Everything that goes into creating a perfect resume can take hours, days, even weeks.
Nailing an engineering internship with a great company. In this article, you can learn about some common interview questions and sample answers to help you prepare for an engineering internship interview. You may want to tailor it to fit a specific job description.
This should always include your name, address, phone number and email. Find the best tips and examples for your engineering internship resume objective with our guide:how to write a resume objective: Engineering internship cover letter examples.
Finding the inspiration to write an awesome resume can be tough. Obtaining an internship usually involves an interview to ensure the qualifications for the position are properly met. 2 engineering intern resume experience samples.
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The average job receives hundreds of resumes for a single opening—so it’s up to you to grab the reader’s attention from the start! Common internship duties listed on an engineering intern resume are developing and reviewing engineering plans, implementing company procedures, reviewing applications, running tests. With the help of resume.io, you will:
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Guide the recruiter to the conclusion that you are the best candidate for the mechanical engineering intern job. Engineering resume cover letter examples This is a systematic arrangement of themes included in the resume.
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Internationally acclaimed storyteller Len Cabral comes Museum on Thursday, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. for a free public program in the Cook Memorial Theater, titled “From Chasing Whales to Picking Cranberries; Stories of a Cape Verdean Raconteur.”
Cabral has been enchanting audiences with his storytelling performances at schools, libraries, museums and festivals since 1976. A great grandson of a Cape Verdean whaler whose grandparents immigrated to America from the islands off the coast of West Africa, Len’s strong Cape Verdean ancestry comes alive in his exuberant retelling of African, Cape Verdean, and Caribbean folktales as well as original stories and tales from around the world.
This performance is part of the Whaling Museum’s a yearlong focus on Cape Verdean American history and culture and its critical role in the American whaling industry throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in New England. The Cape Verdean Maritime Exhibit opened July 5 in the museum’s Bourne Building.
Len’s performance is free. Admission to museum galleries after 5:00 p.m. is “buy one get one free.” The galleries are open until 8:00 p.m. on July 28.
This program is funded in part through a grant from the Education through Cultural and Historical Organizations (ECHO), administered by the United States Department of Education, Office of Innovation and Improvement.

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“This stellar lineup showcases the diversity of music being created in Nashville and will be one of the very best concerts taking place in the country on New Year’s Eve,” Ken Levitan, chairman of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp and president of Vector Management, says. “By adding a second stage, revelers will enjoy continuous music from the time we raise the music note to when it drops six hours later to rock in the new year."
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The Good, the Bad and Greenhouse Cooling System Cost
When using doorways to vent, it is possible to also use the benefits of wind direction on windy days as a pure fan via your system particularly when the wind is coming straight from the west. One of the largest and most obvious advantages of moving to a more energy efficient system in your house is that it’s eco-friendly. One of the biggest advantages of energy efficient heating and cooling systems, is that over time they’ll reduce the amount of money spent on your energy bill monthly. It’s relatively simple to discover businesses that offer eco-friendly heating and cooling systems in Bucks County and to have them installed in virtually no time in any way. The business maintains an inventory of over 26 traditional colors in various substrates, gauges and master widths.
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Our system has existed for eight decades. Geothermal systems need little maintenance. Geothermal HVAC systems aren’t considered a renewable technology since they use electricity. They are becoming common features of eco-friendly homes as part of the growing green building movement. Passive hydroponic systems are occasionally employed by hobbyists. A greenhouse misting system is a powerful means of controlling the humidity levels in a greenhouse and is an essential method of controlling the wellness of the plants within. First one wants a mechanism to produce a flow of electrically charged matter.
The cooling pads follow an organic procedure to cool the room, and therefore you don’t need to be concerned about making adjustments. They are the most natural way to cool a greenhouse. Evaporative cooling pads are crucial if you’ve got a greenhouse in a warm climate. The distribution pad constitutes an important portion of a comprehensive system and ought to always be ordered in conjunction with Cooling Pad. Sliced wood pads are produced with a plywood and galvanized iron frame, and the fitted pads are produced with sliced wood found in wire nets. Installing and using evaporative pads is not as costly than air conditioning. For instance, a cooler pad with a bigger surface area will cool a greenhouse better than a more compact pad.
Explore our wide selection of high performance misting systems to decide on the one that is appropriate for your greenhouse requires the very best. The Seawater Greenhouse heralded the start of a new means of utilizing seawater and sunshine, abundant in many components of the planet, to create fresh water, electricity and food. If you understand what you’re doing, you can construct your own greenhouse. Apparently, a bigger greenhouse will require more material, which will raise the price. Ultimately, building a greenhouse in your town might demand a permit. It is most proper for hot, dry climates on low land close to the sea and interest was expressed from several nations, particularly in the Middle East. Hot weather adversely affects the operation of pig production.
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Insecticide for the control of storage pests in stored grain- bulk-stored grain, bagged grain, storage surfaces. Also for the control of the insect pests in potatoes, vegetables, citrus, bananas, pineapples
250 g/L Pirimiphos-methyl
Mode of action
Pirimiphos-methyl rapidly penetrates the insect cuticle and disrupts nerve conduction via the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase.
Rates of application
Stored grain - Bulk: Mix 20 ml of ACTELLIC 25 EC per litre of water. Apply 1 litre per tonne of grain as it flows to the bulk store.
Stored surfaces: Mix 400 ml in 20 litres of water and spray over 100 m² of surface (wet to run-off point). Spray also the ground surrounding the store. Ventilate store before re-entry.
NOTE: This formulation of ACTELLIC 25 EC will not give control of the Larger Grain Borer (Prostephanus truncatus). If infestation by this pest is suspected seek expert advice. ACTELLIC 25 EC will give control of Malathion resistant pests. .
Potatoes/Vegetables including peas and beans aphids, whitefly, thrips, spider mites, weevils, caterpillars, cutworms. Spray at first signs of pest infestation and repeat at 14-day spray intervals. Do not spray when leaves are wet or plants are stressed. For small scale, apply 2 It./ha in 400 litres of water per hectare (100ml /20It) while for large scale usage apply 2 Iitres in 1000 litres of water per hectare (40ml/20It). Observe a pre-harvest interval of 7 days. For cutworm control, apply as a band spray along the rows.
Apples, Citrus, Banana Pineapples and Other Fruits· caterpillars, scales and mealy bugs. Do not spray when leaves are wet or plants are stressed. Apply 3 It/ha in 1000 It of water per hectare (60 ml/20 It.). Observe a pre-harvest interval of 7 days.
Rice Stem Borer, Plant and Leafhopper. spray 2 litres in 1000 litres of water per 100 square meters (40 ml of product/ 20 It. to have an approximate coverage of 6 x 6 paces)
When used according to instructions no harmful residues will occur and treated grain may be safely consumed by humans and livestock. Do not make more than one application in stored grain.


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On April 12, Draper University held an event Block (Chain) Party in 2018, where he made a famous venture capitalist and bitcoin enthusiast Tim Draper (Tim Draper). In his presentation, Draper once again made a positive Outlook on bitcoin, saying that by 2022 the price of the main cryptocurrency will be $ 250,000.
«I think that by 2022 the cost of bitcoin will reach $ 250,000. Many will tell you that you are crazy, but believe me, it will happen and it will be awesome!», he said.
In 2014, when bitcoin traded at $ 300, Draper made a forecast that in 2017 the price of bitcoin will reach $ 10,000.
Your capital in bitcoin Draper purchased through auctions by the U.S. government, which sold the seized Silk Road assets. However, he actively shares his views on cryptocurrency in the mainstream media, trying to reduce a negative attitude about their prospects.
One such example is the event in San MATEO, which discussed the benefits of decentralized implementations as cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology.
«The blockchain is one of the world’s advanced technology, which is really admirable,» shared Draper.
Meanwhile, many investors continue to invest their funds in bitcoin, contrary to the majority, confident in the fact that the so-called cryptocurrency «bubble» deflates, the prices in the $ 20,000 per bitcoin will never happen again.
According to David Drake (David Drake), Chairman of LDJ Capital, by the end, the cost of bitcoin will be $ 30,000 per coin. Previously, Drake also made a correct prediction in which he says that bitcoin price will reverse and begin to grow in March-April.


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Young Nigerian singer Rema fans gathered to watch him perform in the UK recently. In a video sighted online, the singer was just pranking them.
In the background scattered cries of fear and confusion could be heard from fans who were left in the dark after the lights went dim.
Few minutes later, Rema bolted from the stretcher he had been lying on and headed to stage into the wild cries of fans who were relieved to see him.
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Reduction copies of American and European films came into existence together with the beginning of the small gauge format. The Pathé Kok and Edison Kinetoscope copies of works originally shown on 35mm brought these films back to (commercial) life in the setting of the home theatre. Film producers made use of small gauge formats to prolong the commercial life of their films. This strategy experienced a great boom in the post-war period (starting in the 1950s) as the amateur film market was flooded with reduction copies of mainstream films. Amateurs purchased and screened these films in their home theatres and sometimes even appropriated them in their own films.
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Lawmakers headed back to Springfield for a couple of days in order to take a vote on massive legislation that would get Illinois on the path to 100% renewable energy by 2050. But a deal on major energy and climate legislation in Springfield appears to have fallen apart — at least for now.
The parent company of Chemtool is apologizing for a fire that continues to burn in northern Illinois. Seventy workers at the Rockton grease plant were evacuated safely Monday.
Local organizations are teaming up to help more people of color get the COVID-19 vaccine.
A large group of police supporters marched from the Champaign Police Department to Tuesday’s night’s city council meeting.
In today’s deep dive, with nearly half of Illinoisans fully vaccinated against COVID-19, some people are relishing a return to normalcy, while others are struggling with anxiety. A psychologist explains where this anxiety might come from and ways to cope with it.
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A tongue-in-cheek US birthday message to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Twitter may not have reached the intended recipient, but triggered a rebuke from someone else -- Sarah Palin.\
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley, learning from reporters that Ahmadinejad celebrated turned 54 on Thursday, took to the micro-blogging service to ask him to release two US hikers detained in Iran since last year.
"Happy birthday President Ahmadinejad. Celebrate by sending Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer home. What a gift that would be," Crowley tweeted.
"Your 54th year was full of lost opportunities. Hope in your 55th year you will open Iran to a different relationship with the world," read another tweet.
Palin, the Republican Party's 2008 candidate for vice- president who enjoys a following among conservatives, was not amused.
"Happy B'day Ahmadinejad wish sent by US Govt. Mind boggling foreign policy: kowtow (and) coddle enemies; snub allies. Obama Doctrine is nonsense," she wrote in her own message on Twitter.
Crowley defended himself on Friday.
"My tweet was simply to suggest that a reasonable celebration of President Ahmadinejad's birthday would be to release Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal," Crowley told reporters.
"I can't imagine why Sarah Palin would object to the release of the two hikers who remain in custody, we think inappropriately," he said.
President Barack Obama last year offered dialogue with Iran aimed at repairing three decades of sour relations since the Islamic revolution.
The Obama administration has voiced disappointment at Iran's response and tightened sanctions on the clerical regime over its disputed nuclear program.
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2011 Geneva Auto ShowJust the Facts:
- Rolls-Royce is testing an experimental version of its Phantom sedan.
- According to Rolls-Royce, it has, "engineered the world's first battery-electric vehicle for the ultra-luxury segment."
- The company says it wants to "seek clarity on which alternative technologies may be suitable to drive Rolls-Royce motor cars of the future
GOODWOOD, England — Rolls-Royce has revealed a prototype all-electric Phantom limousine that it will unveil at next week's Geneva auto show, before sending the car out on tour as a test bed. The aim is to gather opinion, particularly from Rolls-Royce owners, on what would constitute an acceptable alternative powertrain for the brand.
"We have engineered the world's first battery-electric vehicle for the ultra-luxury segment," says Rolls-Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös. "With this vehicle, we begin an exploration into alternative drivetrains, seeking clarity on which alternative technologies may be suitable to drive Rolls-Royce motor cars of the future."
It would appear from this statement that the company is not wedded to a pure electric solution, a choice that is in any case unlikely to deliver an acceptable range for a car as big as a Phantom unless it were to carry a prohibitively large and expensive battery pack.
But this prototype, codenamed 102EX and known internally as the Phantom Experimental Electric, will at least provide an idea of what an electrically propelled Phantom feels like to drive, even if a production version were an electric hybrid.
Not that Rolls-Royce is talking of production yet, the idea being "to begin a dialogue with existing owners and stakeholders, posing as well as answering questions of its audience." Determining an acceptable range, enabling the car to operate in extreme weather conditions and establishing the required levels of quality and reliability will be part of that process.
"I must be convinced that any alternative drivetrain we choose for the future delivers an authentic Rolls-Royce experience," says Müller-Ötvös. "It must be a technology that is right for our customers (and) our brand and which sets us on a sound footing for a sustainable future."
In the run-up to the Geneva show, Rolls-Royce will launch a Web site to get the debate rolling, before full details of the 102EX's technical specification are revealed on March 1.
Edmunds.com says: — Rolls-Royce doesn't really have to worry about CAFE regulations as the company's models are counted as part of the BMW Group when it comes to calculating corporate fleet average fuel consumption and emissions. This is more about placating those who criticize the company as tone deaf when it comes to environmental responsibility. — Richard Bremner, Correspondent


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Battleground (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It took place on July 20, 2014 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida.
10 August 2014
NJPW's biggest tournament of the year G1 Climax starts today. With 22 participants in this year's tournament, G1 Climax 24 marks the largest tournament in its history.
16 May 2015
ROH/NJPW Global Wars 2015 - Night 2 took place in Toronto, Ontario. The event took place on May 16, 2015 and featured a main event pitting members of CHAOS (Kazuchika Okada & Roppongi Vice (Beretta & Rocky Romero)) against members of Bullet Club (AJ Styles & The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson)).
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The documentary shows Hart from his early days of learning about professional wrestling his father's " Dungeon " to his reigns a WWF World Heavyweight Champion to the dramatic downfall at Survivor Series 1997.
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26 November 2012
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08 May 2012
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972.
25 April 2012
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.
26 July 2012
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
31 August 2012
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12 March 2012
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13 November 2012
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
27 September 2012
In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
11 April 2012
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from "Planet G", in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii.
21 November 2012
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
20 September 2012
Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teen-aged daughter.
01 February 2012
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding.
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The Wild Life: Paul McCartney's First Three Works Away From The Beatles, and How They Form a Coherent Suite
McCartney, RAM and Wild Life: Underrated Gems
Paul McCartney is obviously known for being one-fourth of the Beatles, from the day he played Twenty Flight Rock on the guitar to impress Lennon in the late fifties until the breakup of the band in 1970.
To this day, he's still releasing music and has produced a ton of songs and albums (including classical music), by himself, with Wings or in the Fireman. At the end of the day, Macca's one impressive songwriter and performer.
His first three albums were overlooked at the time of their release. Both McCartney (1970) and RAM (1971) have been reinstated as major works in recent years: it's hard to say the same about Wild Life (1971), which is still widely ignored to this day.
These albums tend to demonstrate how McCartney (Macca)'s recurring themes often deal with isolation, reclusion and separation from the "civilized" world, mixed with the only reason he kept going during these wild times; Linda McCartney.
'Man He Was Lonely' - McCartney
McCartney's first solo album released in 1970, is a widely acoustic album, often seen as a pioneering act of what we would call indie music today. It was recorded as simply as possible, in a small studio located in the north of London, where Macca played all the instruments by himself. It was filled with simple songs, reminiscent of the music-hall style dear to Macca such as; Man We Was Lonely and Every Night.
It was also with songs that are still included in the top tier of McCartney's solo work today, Maybe I'm Amazed being the most obvious example, closely followed by Junk, a wonderful ballad originally meant to be included on the 'White Album'. It was released in competition to the last album ever released by The Beatles, Let It Be.
While everyone agreed, at the time, that Maybe I'm Amazed was a brilliant song, the vast majority of the critics dismissed the album as a weird experience.
The music-hall side of Paul McCartney's work – which was already present in Beatles songs such as When I'm 64, Maxwell's Silver Hammer or even Fixing A Hole - was never really appreciated by the edgiest side of rock n' roll critics. It sold quite well across the world however staying three weeks at the top of US Billboard.
The album does have an easy feeling to it. It has the smell and the looks of a 'breakfast in bed' - oh, the irony - with Macca and Linda, who happens to sing backing vocals. It's comfy, it's relaxing and, to a certain extent, you could categorize the album as easy-listening. Which is not a bad thing. At all.
That said, some lyrics do show how Paul was feeling at the time, especially in the song Man We Was Lonely:
« I used to ride on my fast city line
Singing songs that I thought were mine alone (alone)
Now, let me lie with my love for the time
I am home (home) »— Paul McCartney - Man We Was Lonely
Also, the song Every Night seems to express a link between the anxiety that Macca seems to be feeling, and his desire to stay at home:
« Every night, I just want to go out
Get out of my head
Every day, I don't want to get up
Get out of my bed ».— Paul McCartney - Every Night
McCartney was written and released during the climax that led to the ultimate separation of what was, arguably, the greatest rock and roll band of all times.
The traditional promotion for the album was the occasion, for Macca, to announce to the world that he was leaving the band. Paul sued John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr to officially end the partnership and untie his hands from ABCKO Music & Records.
Around the same months:
- Lennon released Plastic Ono Band; which is rightfully considered as a masterpiece.
- Harrison released All Things Must Pass, which made everyone realize how Harrison deserved as much praise as a songwriter than Lennon and McCartney.
- Ringo released his second solo album, Beaucoup of Blues, a country LP; which was also praised as a very interesting effort fitting to Ringo's voice.
All of these albums were praised, especially in comparison to McCartney.
McCartney was - to the public - the one who broke The Beatles and the one who seemed to stay behind in the music territory. Plastic Ono Band and All Things Must Pass seemed to leave McCartney in the dust.
The only thing he could do at this point was to 'ram' on.
'RAM': 'We Can't Be Wrong' - Intentions Clarified
In 1971, Macca released his latest album, alongside Linda McCartney: RAM. In many aspects, this album can be considered as a way of clarifying the intentions of one very energized songwriter.
Bothered, due to his undeniable drive for competition, by the unaltered success of Plastic Ono Band and All Things Must Pass, it acts as both a continuity and a change of pace. Recorded in a much more professional – and expensive – way, with excellent musicians at the helm (David Spinozza and Hugh McCraken for guitars, and future Wings drummer Denny Seiwell, who also played on Wild Life), and complemented by Linda's very refreshing backing vocals, RAM seems to be an answer to everyone. It's far more accessible than both McCartney and Wild Life, in retrospect, due to its lushier production.
That said, the improvisation is still an inherent part of the work: Heart of the Country, for example, has a scat feel about it. Musically, some elements of music-hall styled music can be found in Uncle Albert or Heart of the Country. RAM is a change of pace, but also a continuity from McCartney.
The LP opens with a hit on Lennon in the song 'Too Many People', which, in a vicious way, is far more subtle than the lyrics from Lennon's later response in How Do You Sleep? (Imagine, 1971):
« That was your first mistake
You took your lucky break and broke it in two
Now what can be done for you?
You broke it in two »— Paul McCartney - Too Many People
As an opening track, Too Many People sets the tone: Macca's not exactly in his bed anymore. He's jumping everywhere: playing a blues with 3 Legs, saying how Linda's ex should regret how he lost her in Dear Boy, screaming his heart out in Smile Away and Monkberry Moon Delight, while also building wonderful little ballads such as Long Haired Lady and The Back Seat Of My Car.
RAM goes everywhere, and the title song Ram On seems to be Macca's response to The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, with the inclusion of Linda's comfort :
« Ram on
Give your heart to somebody soon
Right away »— Paul McCartney - Ram
With some level of stretch, you could say that while Ram On is saying that you can only go forward if you « give your heart to somebody », Lennon is saying that holding on is a matter you can only resolve within you (not without you though) in the wonderful song Hold On in Plastic Ono Band.
« When you're by yourself
And there's no one else
You just have yourself
And you tell yourself
Just to hold on »— John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
RAM is also a continuity; some of its themes are very similar to McCartney. Macca's singing about finding a house in the Heart of the Country, he's saying that we should Eat at Home, and he's reenacting his love letter from McCartney, The Lovely Linda, into the beautiful song Long Haired Lady.
While McCartney was about home and a certain sense of anxiety, RAM is about the better part of isolation and reclusion: when you live in a farm of Scotland, you can pretty much make all the noise you want.
In fact, this album is comparable to what one may do with a mirror: making faces just to see into what kind of weird creature one can look like.
McCartney was one idea that lasted an album: RAM was an explosion of things that end up being a wonderful and oh, so fun mess.
In that regard, this album is a younger, wilder brother, with much more energy about him but, in a sense, also less focus.
The album is also reminiscent, to a certain extent, of Beatles songs: Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsley is a medley, which can be a reminder of Abbey Road's B side.
It's also - in a way - comparable to A Day In The Life: a song with many different themes and approaches, culminating in a high point near the end of the song. Also, I can't help thinking about Helter Skelter whenever I listen to Monkberry Moon Delight.
So, the themes are similar, yes, but also more diversified. Extremely diversified: too much, in fact, according to contemporary critics of the album, who saw it as another weak effort. The album had a very mild reception.
In fact, while McCartney was at least praised for Maybe I'm Amazed and Junk, RAM was considered as nothing more than a mess.
RAM was meant to show how Paul McCartney was as far as possible from losing his touch. But, then again, the release of Lennon's Imagine in September 1971 outshined RAM in the eyes of critics. Fortunately, the album was reinstated as a major work in recent years: many people believe that it's one of an early example of « indie music ».
The reception for RAM shook Macca quite a bit. It's not hard to see why Macca decided to build one major act: Wings, in order to start over. Wings was meant to build its reputation with the excellent album Band On The Run.
Their first album, Wild Life, is however still ignored by pretty much everyone to this day. It's a wonderful little capsule of space which encompasses what's best about music, sincerity. It also closes this trinity of albums which is, for me, one of the most coherent of all of Macca's career, rooted in his personal life and filled with songs that should be considered as little gems that are meant to be assembled together.
Wild Life: Whatever Happens
Wings is a band that went through many changes during its rather long history. The inexperienced Linda, Denny Laine and Paul McCartney were the core members during its lifetime, from 1971 to 1981.
To a certain extent, you could compare the Wings experience to the Plastic Ono Band experience. Macca was determined to include Linda in his musical career, even though she never really learned how to play any instrument until that point. Wings was meant to be a band for Macca to play live again: it was the first time he ever played live since the height of the Beatlemania (excluding of course the famous rooftop gig), and Wings was presented as a new band willing to tour.
The very first Wings album, Wild Life, was issued in December 1971. In many aspects, it's continuity from McCartney and RAM: the songs are simple, played with a great sense of improvisation and simplicity, with a very simple production and a slow, easy feeling about them.
That said, it also encompasses the anxiety and need for reclusion that was extremely present in McCartney while also retaining a more diversified approach just as RAM did.
Wild Life could be considered as being one of Macca's most sincere and heartfelt moment in his musical career. When you listen to Wild Life, it's as if you were chilling in the grass and hearing the thunder coming in maybe 20, 30 minutes: should you leave and avoid the rain, or should you stay as long as possible in order to make the better of a good moment?
Some songs from the LP really mix the comfort that Linda was carrying to Paul and a need for reclusion and exclusivity for both of them. The song I Am Your Singer is a prime example of the feeling that the only thing that seemed to matter to Macca was music and that he kept going on with the help of Linda :
« Someday when we're singing
We will fly away, going winging
Sing, singing my love song to you »— Paul McCartney - I Am Your Singer
This feeling is also carried out by one opposition that's made between everyday life and music : while one end, the other lingers on as something unpenetrable and eternal :
« My song is sung
When day is done harmonies will linger on »— Paul McCartney - I Am Your Singer
The first two songs of the LP are often considered as nothing more than weird little experiments. Mumbo seems to be a jam of some sort, with a very casual feeling about it, as if Macca just decided to go with the flow why having nothing more than a mess of ideas and a few chords before recording the song.
The result is something that's reminiscent, to a certain extent, of Monkberry Moon Delight. It opens the album with a far different statement than RAM: a messier, wilder treatment.
Bip Bop is a very particular song. It has a country feeling about it, and it's filled with vocals improvisations. In the mythos of Macca's huge discography, this song is often laughed at as a little song that should have never existed.
However, it sets the mood for a Wild Life album that seems to be taking the variety of RAM into something even messier.
It would be an exaggeration to say that this particular song is a masterpiece… but it's a pretty little happy song, a fun mess, and a good way of introducing the album with Mumbo.
Love Is Strange is pretty much a reggae cover of a Bo Diddley 1956 song, and a really good one at that. Just after, however, comes Wild Life, the title track, with much harder statements – political ones, actually :
« You're breathing so hot
A lot of political nonsense in the air
You're making it hard
For the people who live in there
You're moving so fast
But, baby, you know not where
Wild life (wild life)
What's going to happen to
Wild life (wild life)
The animals in the zoo?»— Paul McCartney - Wild Life
McCartney's going even deeper in the reclusion side with a song that clearly seems to be a critique towards « some people » that can never see how Linda was the one who kept Macca together in the song Some People Never Know :
« No one else will ever see
How much faith you have in me
Only fools would disagree that it's so
Some people never know »— Paul McCartney - Some People Never Know
Tomorrow is a wonderful song that should really be instated as a high point in Paul's career. A little gem with a simple theme:
« Oh, baby, don't you let me down tomorrow
Through the week we beg and steal and borrow
Oh, for a chance to get away tomorrow »— Paul McCartney - Tomorrow
Finally, the song Dear Friend is a haunting song and a way for Macca to try and fix his relationship with no other than Lennon. No one really realised this at the time, but this song is a masterpiece, close to Tug of War's Here Today, which is also a song about Lennon, written after he died. It starts with a wonderful line:
« Dear friend, what's the time?
Is this really the borderline?
Does it really mean so much to you?
Are you afraid, or is it true?
Dear friend, throw the wine
I'm in love with a friend of mine
Really truly, young and newly wed
Are you a fool, or is it true? »— Paul McCartney - Dear Friend
The three albums have a distinct sound to each of them.
They just get wilder and wilder, and they were born from different forms of anxiety, but always with the help of Linda and with the love of music that drives Macca to this day.
Often, people say that Macca's songs are nothing more than easy-going songs with themes that come around. It turns out those three albums are very personal and deal with themes of reclusion and isolation, just as much as Beatles era song like Eleanor Rigby, Fixing a hole or even Yesterday.
Later works for Macca's career often go back to these themes, but less so than these three albums – as examples, it's possible to refer to the album Flaming Pie or even to the latest album, Egypt Station, in which the song I Don't Know seems to be the direct grandson of the song Dear Friend.
Which is your favourite Macca album? Comment below!
I'd like to thank Vas Konstantinidis for her invaluable help.
A Spotify Playlist With Songs Referenced
- The Wild Life on Spotify
A playlist featuring Paul McCartney and John Lennon
© 2020 Quentin Crespo


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The ToD verdict: Currently there are 27 ships from sixteen different nations deployed as part of EU NAVFOR, NATO, US led Combined Task Force 151 or independent missions trying to protect vessels off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. Yet despite successes, such as Tuesday's seizure of seven pirates following an assault on a French vessel, pirate attacks in the region are remain common and costly to international trade.
While Somali piracy may have started with a few fishermen looking for an escape from civil war, economic woes at home and displacement by foreign fishing vessels, it has turned into big business. Acts of piracy raised an estimated £50million this year alone. Interpol recently suggested that large organised crime groups are cashing in on piracy and that individual Somali pirates see only a small proportion of the money earned, however no consensus exists on the location or use of the proceeds of piracy .
Yesterday, the Somali prime minister, Omar Sharmarke, told the BBC that Somalia would put an end to piracy by 2011. Sharmarke said that he would tackle piracy through a civil affairs and information campaign, backed by military force. While the announced plan might seem too simple, his public commitment to confronting the issue indicates confidence that some success can be achieved.
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UN human rights expert refused entry to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe yesterday refused entry to a UN expert on human rights. Manfred Norwak, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, had apparently been invited to Zimbabwe by Prime Minister Morgan Tvsangirai following reports of violent attacks on MDC members and human rights activists.
Zimambwe only told the UN that they would refuse entry to Norwak once he was on route to the country, claiming the SADC (South African Development Community) meeting on the power sharing agreement, which starts today made his visit impossible. Norwak welcomed the SADC meeting but did not feel that it was reason enough to cancel his trip. He stressed the need for an independent investigation of the claims of recent violence.
Zimbabwe state media described Norwak's visit as ‘gatecrashing' and said that ‘foreign media' were behind false claims of state orchestrated human rights abuses.
SADC members have said that they are on a fact-finding mission on the progress of the power sharing agreement and apparently are not intending to try and negotiate with the two sides. Whether SADC's engagement will remedy the situation is yet to be seen. This week's meeting is the result of a previous SADC review of the power sharing agreement which refrained from criticising Mugabe and was described at the time as ineffectual.
US officials in talks with Hoduras heads
A team of US officials travelled to Honduras yesterday to try to pressure both sides to reach an agreement ahead of the upcoming 29 November presidential elections. The US officials are accompanied by a representative of the Organization of American States and want to see an agreement between ousted President Zelaya and the current administration's head, Roberto Micheletti, allowing Zelaya to be reinstated prior to the elections. Micheletti has thus far refused to consider this possibility and reportedly ruled out such an outcome.
The US, along with much of the international community, considers Micheletti an illegitimate head of state who attained power by force. The EU has refused to send observers or recognise the outcome of any presidential election unless an agreement is reached between the two sides beforehand. Micheletti maintains that the ousting of Zelaya was legitimate after the Supreme Court ruled that he should be arrested for his plans to hold a referendum to allow presidents to serve more than one term. Micheletti and his supporters say that the constitution cannot legally be changed in this way.
Whilst Zelaya has made some concessions and has said that he will drop his proposal to change the constitution, it appears that his insistence on being returned to power is what will determine the success or failure of the talks.
Venezuela to try alleged Colombian spies
Hugo Chavez confirmed yesterday that two suspected Colombian security agents arrested in Venezuela on Tuesday would be ‘judged according to Venezuelan law'. Venezuela has speculated that the agents were on Venezuelan territory to investigate the killings of ten people, including eight Colombians, on the Venezuelan side of the border last week. Chavez openly accused Colombia of conducting US backed espionage. Colombia denied that it had security agents operating in Venezuela. Venezuela and Colombia have had a strained relationship in recent years which worsened after Colombia agreed to expand cooperation with the US military in its war on drugs.
Venezuela claimed Colombian rebel group ELN was responsible for the fatalities that have provoked the disagreement. ELN are the second largest rebel group in Columbia, a leading figure in which is thought to have fled to Venezuela following a jailbreak, an event which is expected to precipitate an upsurge in violence. Colombia has requested a comprehensive investigation into the killings, but it is unclear whether Venezuela will cooperate, having refused entry to Colombian officials hoping to collect the bodies of those killed.
Security officers probed for role in Baghdad blasts
Iraqi security officers have been arrested following deadly bombings that killed more than 150 people earlier this week. Immediately after the attacks Iraqi authorities pledged to step up security in Baghdad, particularly around government buildings expected to be the target of future attacks.
Since, a reported eleven high-ranking officials and 50 policemen, including those in charge of checkpoints surrounding the site of the attacks have been arrested. Political opponents of the government have called for further measures, with the governor of Baghdad calling for the resignation of the interior minister.
India withdraws troops in bid to resolve Kashmir dispute
India plans to withdraw 15,000 troops from disputed regions of Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian military official revealed today. The move may form part of an attempt to reach agreement on Jammu and Kashmir with separatists who consider India to be a foreign occupier. The announcement coincided with a two day visit to Kashmir by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Sonia Ghandi, the leader of the Indian National Congress, which began on Wednesday.
Their arrival coincides with the anniversary of the occupation of Kashmir by Indian soldiers and a strike was held on Tuesday in protest. The likely outcome of the visit an invitation from Prime Minister Singh for the separatists to join talks.
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