|Russian battleship Sissoi Veliky|
Postcard of Sissoi Veliky at anchor
|Operators:||Imperial Russian Navy|
|Preceded by:||Tri Sviatitelia|
|Succeeded by:||Petropavlovsk class|
|Namesake:||St. Sisoes the Great of Egypt|
|Builder:||New Admiralty Shipyard, Saint Petersburg, Russia|
|Laid down:||August 7 [O.S. July 25], 1891|
|Launched:||June 2 [O.S. May 20], 1894|
|Commissioned:||October 18 [O.S. October 5], 1896|
|Fate:||Sunk at the Battle of Tsushima, May 28 [O.S. May 15] 1905|
|Displacement:||10,400 long tons (10,567 t)|
|Length:||107.23 m (351 ft 10 in)|
|Beam:||20.73 m (68 ft 0 in)|
|Draught:||7.77 m (25 ft 6 in)|
8,500 ihp (6,300 kW)|
12 Belleville boilers
2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
|Speed:||15.7 knots (29.1 km/h; 18.1 mph)|
|Range:||2,800 nmi (5,200 km; 3,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)|
Sissoi Veliky (Russian: Сисой Великий) was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the 1890s. The ship's construction was marred by organizational, logistical and engineering problems and dragged on for more than five years. She was commissioned in October 1896 with an appalling number of design and construction faults, and only a few of them were fixed during her lifetime. Immediately after sea trials, Sissoi Veliky sailed to the Mediterranean to enforce the naval blockade of Crete during the Greco-Turkish War. On March 15 [O.S. March 3], 1897 she suffered a devastating explosion of the aft gun turret that killed 21 men. After nine months in the docks of Toulon for repairs, the ship sailed to the Far East to reinforce the Russian presence there. In the summer of 1900, Sissoi Veliky supported the international campaign against the Boxer Rebellion in China. Sailors from Sissoi Veliky and the battleship Navarin participated in the defence of the International Legations in Beijing for more than two months.
In 1902 the ship returned to Kronstadt for repairs, but very little was achieved until the early losses of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 caused the formation of the Second Pacific Squadron to relieve the Russian forces blockaded in Port Arthur. Sissoi Veliky sailed for the Far East with the rest of the Baltic battleships and participated in the Battle of Tsushima on May 27 [O.S. May 14] 1905. She survived the daytime artillery duel with Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō's ships, but was badly damaged and taking on water. During the night Japanese destroyers scored a torpedo hit on the ship that damaged her steering. The next morning the ship was unable to maintain speed because of flooding, and her crew surrendered to Japanese armed merchant cruisers. The ship capsized later that morning with the loss of 47 crewmen.
In 1881 a committee of admirals headed by General Admiral Alexei Alexandrovich drafted an ambitious program of rearming the Baltic Fleet with 16 ocean-going battleships and 13 cruisers. The man in charge of shipbuilding, Admiral Ivan Shestakov, saw little value in building uniform ship classes and regularly changed design and construction targets to match foreign novelties of the day. In 1885 the program was reduced to nine battleships; the freed funds were reallocated to torpedo boats in response to German advances with these weapons. The first ten years of the 1881 program were marked by indecision, bureaucracy and a shortage of funds, and only two battleships were actually built (Imperator Aleksandr II, Imperator Nikolai I, and one coastal defense ship Gangut). These were relatively small and slow ships, each with a single frontal barbette housing 12-inch (305 mm) guns (in case of Gangut, a single gun).[Note 1]
The fourth ship (the future Navarin) was planned as an even cheaper and smaller (6,400 long tons (6,500 t)) ship. However, the superiority of the German Brandenburg-class battleship compelled the Imperial Navy to lift cost and size constraints and build a large battleship with two main gun turrets. The Franco-Russian Works hastily proposed a draft based on the British Trafalgar class. The Navy hesitated, and awarded the contract to the private company only after a push from Tsar Alexander III. Navarin, laid down in July 1889 and launched in 1891, set the standard configuration for all Russian pre-dreadnought battleships, but in 1890, when the Navy discussed plans for the fifth battleship, the future was uncertain. The admirals were still discussing whether the Navy should concentrate on large battleships, smaller coastal defence ships or on the ocean-going cruisers.
Design and description
In September 1890 the Naval Technical Committee (MTK) rolled out a proposal for a medium-size (8,500-long-ton (8,600 t), 331-foot (100.9 m) long) battleship armed with three single 12-inch guns mounted in barbettes. Codenamed Gangut No. 2, it attempted to blend the hull of Alexander II and the armament of Navarin in a tightly budgeted, compromised design. None of the admirals who reviewed the proposal was satisfied with it, and the MTK was overwhelmed with a flurry of contradicting suggestions. The four main guns were to be mounted in two barbettes covered with 2.5-inch-thick (64 mm) armoured cupolas. The choice of secondary armament caused another round of debate. The MTK initially proposed a combination of Russian Model 1877 6-inch guns and Armstrong 4.7-inch guns. Admirals Stepan Makarov and Vladimir Verkhovsky advised against the use of weapons of two different sizes (as this caused problems with fire control and direction), and against using the obsolete 1877 guns. The MTK did just the opposite, dropping the modern Armstrong guns in favor of the 1877 model, probably as a result of not wanting to use foreign-built weaponry. In March 1891 the MTK presented a revised proposal that increased displacement to 8,880 long tons (9,020 t) and the main armament to four 12-inch guns that was accepted by Admiral Chikachev.
The ship was 332 feet 6 inches (101.3 m) long at the waterline and 345 feet (105.2 m) long overall. She had a beam of 68 feet (20.7 m) and a draught of 25 feet 6 inches (7.8 m). She displaced 10,400 long tons (10,600 t), over 1,500 long tons (1,500 t) more than her designed displacement of 8,880 long tons (9,020 t). The ship had a partial double bottom and a centreline bulkhead separated the engine and boiler rooms. Sissoi Veliky's crew initially consisted of 27 officers and 555 enlisted men, but grew to a total of 686 by 1905.
Sissoi Veliky had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one four-bladed propeller. They had a total designed output of 8,500 indicated horsepower (6,300 kW) using steam provided by 12 cylindrical fire-tube boilers. The ship's designed speed was 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph), but she reached a top speed of 15.65 knots (28.98 km/h; 18.01 mph) during her sea trials on October 17 [O.S. 5 October], despite 8,635 ihp (6,439 kW) from her engines. She carried a maximum of 1,000 long tons (1,000 t) of coal at full load that gave her a range of 4,440 nautical miles (8,220 km; 5,110 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).
Like many Russian ships before and after it, Sisoi Veliky was plagued by regular "improvements" of the original design that delayed construction for years. In the beginning of 1893, over a year after construction began, the MTK again redesigned Sisoi Veliky's artillery. The two pairs of 12-inch 40-calibre guns were changed from barbette mountings to French-style center-pivot twin turrets. These guns had a maximum elevation of +15° and the ship carried 80 rounds per gun for them. Their rate of fire was intended to be one round per 1.5 minutes, but it was one shot per 2.5–3 minutes in reality. They fired a 731.3-pound (331.7 kg) shell at a muzzle velocity of 2,598 ft/s (792 m/s) to a range of 12,010 yards (10,980 m) at an elevation of 10°.
The secondary armament was replaced by six quick-firing six-inch (152 mm), 45-calibre, Canet guns that were mounted in casemates on the main deck. Each gun was provided with 200 rounds of ammunition. Alterations of the shell hoists to accommodate the larger rounds for the Canet guns began only in December 1895. They fired shells that weighed 91.27 lb (41.40 kg) with a muzzle velocity of 2,600 ft/s (790 m/s). The guns had a maximum range of 12,600 yards (11,500 m) when fired at maximum elevation.
The ship's anti-torpedo boat armament was changed more than once and, in the end, consisted of twelve 47-millimetre (1.9 in) and ten 37-millimetre (1.5 in) Hotchkiss guns. The 47 mm guns were mounted on the top of the superstructure and on the upper deck above the six-inch casemates. They fired a 3.3-pound (1.5 kg) shell at a muzzle velocity of 1,476 ft/s (450 m/s) at a rate of 20 rounds per minute to a range of 2,020 yards (1,850 m). The ten 37 mm guns were mounted in the fighting top. They fired a 1.1-pound (0.50 kg) shell at a muzzle velocity of 1,450 ft/s (440 m/s) at a rate of 20 rounds per minute to a range of 3,038 yards (2,778 m). Sissoi Veliky carried six above-water 15-inch (381 mm) torpedo tubes, one each in the bow and stern and two on each broadside. The ship also could carry 50 mines.
The ship's armour scheme was based on that of Navarin although it used nickel steel rather than the compound armour of the older ship. The maximum thickness of the waterline armour belt was 16 inches (406 mm) over the machinery spaces which reduced to 12 inches abreast the magazines. It covered 227 feet (69.2 m) of the ship's length and was 7 feet 2 inches (2.2 m) high. It tapered to a thickness of 6–8 inches (152–203 mm) at the bottom edge. The upper 3 feet 2 inches (1.0 m) of the belt was intended to be above the waterline, but the ship was significantly overweight and the entire belt was submerged at normal load. The belt terminated in a 9-inch (229 mm) and 8-inch (203 mm) transverse bulkheads, fore and aft, respectively.
The casemate was above the belt, 5 inches (127 mm) thick on all sides, 152 feet (46.3 m) long and 7 feet 6 inches (2.3 m) high, and protected the six-inch guns. The sides of the turrets were 10 inches (254 mm) thick and their roofs were 2.5 inches (64 mm) thick. Above the casemate, the bases of the turrets were protected by 10 inches of armour; inside the casemate, only five inches of armour protected them. The conning tower's sides were nine inches thick. The armour deck connected to the top of the waterline belt and was 2.5 inches thick above the belt, but fore and aft of the belt it was 3 inches (76 mm) thick.
The MTK rushed Gangut No. 2 into production and, contrary to established practice, ordered structural steel and armour before the project was properly authorized. Construction began on August 7 [O.S. July 25], 1891 in the wooden shed of the Franco-Russian Works in Saint Petersburg. On January 3 1892 [O.S. December 21, 1891] she was officially named Sissoi Veliky to commemorate the victory in the Battle of Hogland which coincided with the day of St. Sisoes the Great of Egypt in the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar. The ship was formally laid down on May 7 [O.S. May 19], 1892.
The management of the construction was flawed from the start: the stem and sternposts, rudder frame, and propeller shaft brackets were not ordered in time, and the late discovery of this omission substantially delayed progress. Verkhovsky, having no time to place orders with reliable foreign suppliers, contracted the job to local plants already known for poor discipline and quality that were already loaded down with other Navy jobs.[Note 2] The industrial capacity of the Saint Petersburg area could not sustain even the modest rate of naval rearmament that the government was willing to finance. In April 1893 minor grievances evolved in a full-scale conflict between Verkhovsky and the board of the Alexandrovsky Steel Works, a ridiculous charge of 25 roubles nearly brought the work to a full stop. The savvy admiral always blamed the suppliers but did not even attempt to fix the disarray in his own office.
Nevertheless, in April 1894 the completed hull passed static pressure tests. It was launched June 2 [O.S. May 20], 1894 during a fleet review attended by Tsar Nicholas II. The commissioning of Sissoi Veliky was scheduled for September 1896, but an examination in August revealed that the steering gear, water pumps, ventilation system and one of the turrets were still missing or defective. The builders hastily equipped the ship with rudder controls built for Poltava and delivered the ship for her sea trials on October 6 [O.S. September 23], 1896. The Navy desperately needed Sissoi Veliky in the Mediterranean and she was commissioned regardless of her known faults.
Immediately after the trials Sissoi Veliky was ordered to join the Mediterranean Squadron which was engaged in the naval blockade of Crete in the wake of the 1896 Cretan riots and the Hamidian massacres. Her maiden voyage revealed more problems; the lack of ventilation in the steering compartment was so appalling that during the first port call the captain purchased electric fans with his own money and the electrical systems failed one by one before reaching Gibraltar. The copper rings for sealing the portholes were left in Kronstadt and were not found until February 1897.
On December 27 [O.S. December 14], 1896 the leaking Sissoi Veliky reached Algiers. The captain planned to stay there for at least 20 days to complete the most urgent repairs, but five days later a telegram from Saint Petersburg forced him to leave for Piraeus. There the crew managed to seal the seams between the armour plates and repair the electrical systems. In February 1897 Sissoi Veliky steamed for Crete and she had her first gunnery exercise ten miles off the shore of Souda Bay, Crete at the end of the month. The second exercise, held on March 15 [O.S. March 3], ended in disaster when the rear turret exploded after an hour of target practice. The explosion blew the roof of the turret over the mainmast so that it struck the base of the foremast, crushing one 37 mm gun and a steam cutter. The explosion killed 16 men and wounded another 15; 6 of these later died of their wounds. The badly damaged Sissoi Veliky headed to Toulon for repairs.
Investigation revealed both mechanical and organizational causes of the accident. The chain of events, as it was reconstructed in Toulon, started with a failure of the hydraulic breech-locking mechanism of the left-hand gun. The turret crew then disabled the hydraulics and resorted to manual operation. The gunner responsible for closing and locking the breech failed to do so and the concussion of the right-hand gun firing unlocked it. The turret commander, ultimately responsible for checking the breech before firing, was too busy with calculating the firing solution and training the gun to be concerned with this matter. He delegated the checkup routine to an enlisted man, but this gunner had to attend his own station and was physically unable to look after the breech lock and attend to his own duties. The panel eventually dropped the charges against the captain and recommended introduction of mechanical fail-safe interlocks to prevent firing until the breech was properly locked.
Sissoi Veliky was repaired by Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée. The French engineers openly ridiculed the quality of Russian workmanship manifested in a 1.5-inch-wide (38 mm) open seam between the belt armour and the ship's hull. This could have completely negated the battleship's protection if a shell had struck it. The Russian investigators reported a horrifying number of less obvious faults and deemed the ship unfit for sailing. The internal decks of the secondary armament casemates were particularly dangerous since the 152 mm shells easily fell through the cracks and holes in the deck. The Saint Petersburg admirals dismissed these concerns, arguing that the gap between armour plates was an inevitable feature of the design, and that the decks and other faults could be fixed by the crew "in their spare time".
After nine months in the dock at Toulon, the repaired Sissoi Veliky was assigned to Admiral Fyodor Dubasov's Far Eastern Squadron (Navarin, Sissoi Veliky, and the armoured cruisers Rossia and Vladimir Monomakh) and sailed for the Far East. The British, alerted by the sudden movement of Russian battleships, dispatched the battleship HMS Victorious to shadow the Russian ship. Sissoi Veliky, assisted by a flotilla of tugs, barely passed the shallow entrance to the Suez Canal, but Victorious ran aground near Port Said and abandoned pursuit. Aside from this incident, the east-bound voyage was uneventful, and the ship safely reached Port Arthur on March 16 [O.S. March 4], 1898.
In the summer of 1898 Sissoi Veliky sailed to Nagasaki for repairs and returned to her new base in Vladivostok where she stayed for the rest of 1898 and 1899. In April 1900 the fleet sailed to Port Arthur for a massive landing exercise intended to intimidate the Boxers. The warning was not heeded, and the Boxer Rebellion intensified, compelling the Russian government to intervene. On May 28 [O.S. May 15], 1900 the Viceroy of the Russian Far East, Admiral Yevgeni Alekseyev, dispatched the Far Eastern Squadron from Port Arthur to the Taku Forts. Sissoi Veliky, the battleship Petropavlovsk, the armoured cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi and a host of other European ships blockaded the mouth of the Hai River and the smaller gunboats moved up the river to protect amphibious landings which began on May 29 [O.S. May 16]. The incursion provoked the Boxer siege of Beijing; the Russians responded by sending a company of sailors from Sissoi Veliky and Navarin to defend the embassy in Beijing.
The company reached the city without meeting any opposition and at first it seemed that the European troops in Beijing could easily defend the Embassy Row from the disorganized mob. On June 3 [O.S. May 21] the rebels received reinforcements from the regular Chinese Army and, on the afternoon of June 19 [O.S. June 6], they began a massive assault on the diplomatic missions. One month later the Chinese managed to burn down the Austrian, Dutch and Italian legations. The sailors stood their ground with American and French Marines until the arrival of reinforcements on August 5 [O.S. July 23]. During the seven weeks of the siege, three men from Sissoi Veliky were killed in action, one died of disease, and twelve were wounded.
Sissoi Veliky remained in the Far East for another year; in December 1901 an accumulation of mechanical troubles that could not be fixed in Far Eastern docks compelled the fleet commander to send her back to the Baltic. She returned to Libau via Nagasaki, Hong Kong and Suez in April 1902.
The last voyage
In May 1902 Sissoi Veliky attended a fleet review honouring the state visit of President of France, Émile Loubet. In June she was moved into a drydock in Kronstadt. All available financing was diverted to the completion of the Borodino-class battleship and the new cruisers, so the repairs of Sissoi Veliky proceeded at a slow pace. She had her artillery, boilers and ventilation system completely replaced, but once again it turned out that the repairs were not up to scratch and needed a thorough rework.
The Russo-Japanese War broke out in the Pacific on February 10 [O.S. January 27] 1904. In March the navy assigned Sissoi Veliky to the Second Pacific Squadron bound for the Pacific with Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky in command. Despite the urgency, calls to speed up repairs of Sissoi Veliky and completion of the new ships were stonewalled by the Ministry of the Navy until the shocking loss of Petropavlovsk on April 13 [O.S. March 31]. Admiral Aleksei Birilev, the new Governor of Kronstadt, hastened the repairs by striking out "unnecessary" jobs. Sissoi Veliky went into action with new rangefinders, searchlights and small-calibre guns, but her damaged internal decks were never mended. Manuil Ozerov, the captain of Sissoi Veliky, expressed concern about her stability, but on at least three occasions Birilev suppressed his reports, arguing that past experience is sufficient proof of the ship's seaworthiness.
On August 25 [O.S. August 13] the Second Pacific Squadron sailed from Saint Peterburg to Reval where it wasted nearly a whole month in preparation for a fleet review. Tsar Nicholas II personally visited each battleship and harangued the crews in anticipation of a victory over Japan. On October 14 [O.S. October 2] the squadron departed Libau, and sailed to Tangier. Here, Rozhestvensky split his forces. The newer battleships continued their way past the Cape of Good Hope and Rear Admiral Dmitry von Fölkersam's squadron of cruisers and transports were ordered to rendezvous with Black Sea Fleet ships in Souda Bay and then take the short route via the Suez Canal. Rozhestvensky initially planned to keep Sissoi Veliky and Navarin with his main force, but assigned them to von Fölkersam instead. The ship rejoined Rozhestvesky's fleet at Nosy Be, Madagascar on January 9, 1905 [O.S. December 27, 1904] where they stayed for two months, training while Rozhestvensky finalized coaling arrangements for the next leg of the journey. Despite regular exercise, the gunners of the new Borodino-class ships could not match the level of Sissoi Veliky and other old ships. The squadron sailed for Camranh Bay, French Indochina, on March 16 [O.S. March 3] and reached it almost a month later to await the obsolete ships of the 3rd Pacific Squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov. The latter ships reached Camranh Bay on May 9 [O.S. April 26] and the combined force sailed for Vladivostok five days later. The voyage from Madagascar to Camranh Bay took 28 days at an average speed of 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph), and again Sissoi Veliky's mechanical problems evidenced themselves, slowing down the squadron. In less than a month she suffered twelve failures of her boiler tubes and heat exchangers. The steering gear alone failed no less than four times.
May 14 [O.S. May 1], 1905 the squadron began the last leg of its journey to Tsushima. Sissoi Veliky was sailing in the left column of the Russian order of battle, second in line after Oslyabya. At 13:15 May 27 [O.S. May 14] the Russians sighted the Japanese fleet. Twenty-four minutes later Sissoi Veliky opened fire simultaneously with the flagship Knyaz Suvorov. Sissoi Veliky started firing at the armoured cruisers Kasuga and Nisshin and later engaged the armoured cruiser Iwate, hitting her with a single 12-inch shell.
At 14:40 a heavy shell exploded next to Sissoi Veliky's bow, damaging the bow torpedo tube. Shortly afterward a 12-inch and a 6-inch shell hit the belt armour near the water line, causing flooding in the forward compartments. In the following hour the ship was hit by one 12-inch, three 8-inch and three 6-inch shells, which disabled her forward turret hydraulics, set the casemates afire and simultaneously severed the firefighting water supply. At 15:40 Ozerov steered the burning Sissoi Veliky away from the line of fire and joined the unengaged Russian cruiser formation. By 17:00 the crew had extinguished the fires and the ship returned to action with a heavy list to port. She took her place in line behind Navarin at the moment when the Japanese battleships ceased fire and the Russians hoped to leave the battlefield without further casualties. One hour later Admiral Kamimura re-established contact and engaged the fleeing Russians. Sissoi Veliky survived this phase of the battle unharmed. After sunset she joined the group of survivors assembled by Nebogatov, but was unable to keep pace with Nebogatov's flagship Imperator Nikolai I. Sissoi Veliky and Navarin fell back, supporting Admiral Ushakov with gunfire. At 19:30 the ship sighted Japanese destroyers fanning out for an attack.
The destroyers attacked at close range (under 600 yards (550 m)) in uncoordinated groups. Sissoi Veliky beat off the first (19:45) and the second (22:30) attacks, but the third one, by the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla under command of Kantarō Suzuki, which had already sunk Navarin and Knyaz Suvorov., scored a torpedo hit 45 minutes later that damaged her rudder and propellers. The ship could still be steered by using her engines at varying speeds, but the flooding intensified and by 03:15 the next morning the bow was submerged to the point where forward movement was no longer possible. Ozerov realized that Sissoi Veliky could not make it to Vladivostok; he ordered "all astern", reversed the engines and headed crabwise to Tsushima Island, hoping to beach his crippled ship with the intent of using her as a fixed gun emplacement.
By 06:00 flooding forced Ozerov to telegraph "all stop", shutting down the vessel's engines. The crippled Vladimir Monomakh passed by Sissoi Veliky, unable to offer any assistance. At 07:20 the Japanese armed merchant cruisers Shinano Maru and Dainan Maru converged on the stationary ship. When they came within 6,600 yards (6,000 m) from Sissoi Veliky, Ozerov signalled: "I am sinking, request assistance." The Japanese responded with a straightforward question, "Do you surrender?" Ozerov hoisted the white flag in response. At 08:15 the Japanese boarding party of one officer and 31 enlisted men boarded the battleship and raised the Japanese flag, but failed to pull down the Russian flag. The Japanese attempted to tow their prize to safety, but soon realized the effort was futile. They moved the Russian prisoners onto their ships and retrieved their flag. At 10:05 Sissoi Veliky capsized and sank, still flying the Russian flag. Sissoi Veliky lost 47 men killed during the battle; 613 of her crew were rescued.
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Final Fantasy XIV has seen record numbers of active users in recent months, and Square Enix is only expecting those numbers to rise when Endwalker releases on December 7. To prepare for launch day, Square Enix has outlined all that it is doing to ensure a stable launch for its MMORPG, saying it has increased server capacity and improved server hardware and infrastructure. But that might not be enough given the game's recent rise in popularity.
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Square Enix goes on to outline what players can expect on launch day, as well as some workarounds for a few potential issues. Players are likely to experience a login queue. When that happens, the game will prioritize players who own the full version of the game over trial version players. There is a chance that login queues won't actually appear to be counting down, but Square Enix says that the process is still functioning and that players will be admitted in the order in which they were queued. As such, players should not cancel the queue, as that will move players to the back of the line.
Players may also encounter Error 2002, which Square Enix says is a measure to prevent the servers from crashing due to "extreme traffic overloads." There is no workaround for the error, other than waiting a while before trying once again to login.
For those who don't want to wait in line on crowded servers, there is an option to visit another world in the same data center as a guest. Players can still complete main scenario quests while using the world visit system, and the system will automatically choose less-crowded worlds. Square Enix warns that during peak times there may still be login queues for this feature as well, but it should provide players with another option when it comes to being able to play.
Other steps Square Enix is taking to reduce congestion include automatic logouts for players who are inactive for 30 minutes, multiple instances per server of heavily trafficked new main scenario areas, and more.
Endwalker was originally set to release in November before being delayed two weeks. The expansion increases the Final Fantasy XIV's max level cap and adds two new jobs, new cities, new dungeons, a new playable race, and more. Square Enix recently made changes to the game's terms of service and party finder to crack down on players and bots offering goods and services for real money in-game.
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Jenny Dawn is the chef and owner of Humble Pie Catering, and is the owner of The Rumble Seat Inn Bed & Breakfast. She has studied abroad at numerous international locations in France, Russia and Italy, and more specially, at Le Cordon Bleu French Cooking Schools in Ottawa, Canada and London England. Now, each year in the spring and fall, she conducts cooking classes in England and Ireland for a week's stay in a castle and sightseeing tours, teaching each night a different country's cuisine.
In the states, she has worked for Tyler Perry Studios with preparing the food scenes in several of his movies. In addition, she has cooked for Turner Studios in Atlanta, and just last year, she worked for HGTV and National Geographic. She recently returned from living abroad in Ireland for a year while working on a cookbook. Jenny says she is happy to be living back in the South where the Southern hospitality is like nowhere else in the world and the food is worth coming home to.

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A compact and noncontact sensor using the self-mixing interference inside a semiconductor laser is designed to classify moving surfaces. An artificial neural network is employed for the data processing. The results indicate more than 92% correct classification for eight different surfaces of different materials, different manufacturing methods and different surface roughnesses. The accuracy of the system is restricted by the localized irregularities on the surface and the mechanical instabilities of the carrying stage over which the surfaces are placed.
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The latest runs of the GFS and ECMWF appear to be in reasonable
agreement with respect to synoptic-scale features through Day 4 and
into the first half of the Day 5 period. After this, differences in
the evolution of the large trough progged to crossing the Plains
states Day 4 and then the Mississippi Day 5 begin to become fairly
substantial. As such, confidence in the predictability of the
pattern beyond day 5 is quite limited.
In the mean time, some potential for the evolution of scattered to
isolated severe storms remains apparent over the eastern Oklahoma
and Arklatex region and surrounding areas Day 4 (Sunday 10-20), as a
deepening surface low shifts out of the central and northern High
Plains and eventually reaches the Minnesota vicinity.
Correspondingly, a trailing cold front is shown crossing eastern
Kansas/Oklahoma/western Texas during the afternoon, as warm-sector
destabilization becomes diurnally maximized. As favorably strong
flow aloft overspreads the region in tandem with the advancing
surface front, at least isolated cells -- developing as residual
capping is locally breached -- will evolve within a sheared
environment likely supportive of rotating updrafts.
Storms may diminish somewhat in intensity overnight, but it appears
that reintensification of convection -- and regeneration of
accompanying severe risk -- should occur across portions of the
central Gulf Coast region, as the front continues its eastward
advance through an amply moist/destabilizing low-level airmass.
Again, potential for supercells, and all severe hazards, appears
By Day 6, model differences -- including with location of the
surface frontal position -- have become substantial enough to
preclude continuation of severe risk into the eastern Gulf
Coast/southern Atlantic Coast states.

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The effects of smoking cessation on the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations.
Au DH, Bryson CL, Chien JW, Sun H, Udris EM, Evans LE, Bradley KA. The effects of smoking cessation on the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations. Journal of general internal medicine. 2009 Apr 1; 24(4):457-63.
BACKGROUND: Smoking cessation has been demonstrated to reduce the rate of loss of lung function and mortality among patients with mild to moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). There is a paucity of evidence about the effects of smoking cessation on the risk of COPD exacerbations. OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine whether smoking status and the duration of abstinence from tobacco smoke is associated with a decreased risk of COPD exacerbations. DESIGN: We assessed current smoking status and duration of smoking abstinence by self-report. Our primary outcome was either an inpatient or outpatient COPD exacerbation. We used Cox regression to estimate the risk of COPD exacerbation associated with smoking status and duration of smoking cessation. PARTICIPANTS: We performed a cohort study of 23,971 veterans who were current and past smokers and had been seen in one of seven Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) primary care clinics throughout the US. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: In comparison to current smokers, ex-smokers had a significantly reduced risk of COPD exacerbation after adjusting for age, comorbidity, markers of COPD severity and socio-economic status (adjusted HR 0.78, 95% CI 0.75-0.87). The magnitude of the reduced risk was dependent on the duration of smoking abstinence (adjusted HR: quit < 1 year, 1.04; 95% CI 0.87-1.26; 1-5 years 0.93, 95% CI 0.79-1.08; 5-10 years 0.84, 95% CI 0.70-1.00; > or = 10 years 0.65, 95% CI 0.58-0.74; linear trend < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Smoking cessation is associated with a reduced risk of COPD exacerbations, and the described reduction is dependent upon the duration of abstinence.

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110 Centre At Riverchase, Birmingham, AL | Directions 3521633.388602 -86.807031
Great Persian food and hospitality – I love Persian food so I jumped at the chance to eat at a Persian restaurant since I eat at one in Atlanta all the time.
The "koobideh" (ground beef kabob) with basmati rice was so delicious. Their flat bread came out of the oven PIPING HOT (caution was given and it was hard to wait for it to cool before ripping into it!)
The waitress, Rebekah, was personable and answered questions patiently. She took "no" for an answer on the desser patientlyt, but then wisely mentioned their pistachio ice cream with rosewater in it ("akbar mashti".) I love this ice cream so I went for it and was not disappointed.
I went on a Wednesday night (no bellydancing and many are in church that evening) so it was not busy and I was able to relax and look around.
I recommend giving this quaint little establishment a try. You will feel like you are transported to a Persian grandmother's home!
New Ownership – Ali Baba has been a long time favorite of my family. Apparently, the restaurant is under new ownership. They would not honor our $80 gift certificate, since it was purchased from the previous owner (although it was not expired). The owner was extremely rude and told us that since he did not remember seeing us there before he did not care if we were satisfied. He was so disrespectful to my family that I will never be back.
Delicious!!! – I've been there serveral times and it has been delicious every time--definitely worth the price. The staff is always very helpful even when they are obviously slammed. The tiramisu was not up to the quality of the other dishes my family and I have tasted, but the Turkish coffee was incredible. I have never had a coffee that was anywhere near as good as that cup was--and I know many fancy coffees.
Hmmmm – Well, the food was different. I think that you will need to know what to order when you eat here. I got the kabab and it was very tasty but my wife didn't quite enjoy the marinade or flavoring. Overall it was an ok. experience.
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Warner Bros. and DC have a Supergirl film in development. Not much is known about the film yet but Oren Uziel will be writing the script.
Supergirl is another citizen of Krypton who fled the planet at the same time as the Superman did when he was a baby. And since the rumors of a possible new direction for Superman are swirling, some see this as a way to start all over again with his films.
The CW has aired a Supergirl TV series starring Melissa Benoist since 2015 and Superman has been portrayed by Henry Cavill in the last set of the franchise's films. It's not known whether or not he will appear, or Superman at all for that matter, in this film.
Oren Uziel has worked on Mortal Kombat, 22 Jump Street, and The Cloverfield Paradox. He is also working with John Krasinski in an upcoming untitled project.


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Kid Ink-YUSO Ft. Lil Wayne and Saweetie from the “Missed Calls” EP
I am making this post because west coast music does not get a lot of of publicity here in the midwest and there are some great artist, with strong influence in the music industry, that I would like to see get more exposure.
Late in 2018 Kid Ink Released an EP, “Missed Calls”, and it happens to have a feature from one of my favorite artist Lil Wayne on the track “YUSO”. Also on the song with lil wayne is a new artist to me Saweetie. Please do me a favor, check the song out below, and leave some feedback. I would like to know what you think about this song and project. Thanks.
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10.Deep F/15 DELIVERY TWO IS NOW AVAILABLE
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Vintage Pair Of Sorrento Musical Sewing Boxes. Large sizes both have beautiful finish to them music works on both measurements are 37 cm x 27 cm x 6 cm high clean finish inside is space for storage also a panel covering the musical mechanism the inlays are outstanding quality.
This item is in the category "Collectables\Decorative Collectables\Music Boxes". The seller is "antiqueboxman" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom.

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Barbara Slavin / Al Jazeera America – 2013-10-17 01:19:09
(October 15, 2013) — As Iran and international powers returned to the nuclear negotiating table in Geneva Tuesday, opponents of compromise with the Islamic Republic are once again likening it to the “appeasement” of Nazi Germany by Britain’s Conservative government in the 1930s. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., went so far as to warn British Prime Minister David Cameron that he faces a choice between “two Conservative legacies — that of Winston Churchill, or that of Neville Chamberlain” — the leader who signed a deal with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938.
That analogy — also a favorite of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — doesn’t stand up to the test of historical scrutiny. It also misses the strategic logic behind Iran’s nuclear activity.
When Chamberlain flew to Munich in 1938, desperate to avoid a war, Nazi Germany had rearmed and possessed the world’s most powerful military. It had reoccupied the Rhineland, was about to swallow part of Czechoslovakia and as much of Europe as it could seize.
Iran, in contrast, has a comparatively weak conventional military and spends only $12 billion to $14 billion a year on defense — less than the United Arab Emirates and no more than one third of Saudi military spending, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
And while Iran has been invaded and occupied repeatedly since the collapse of the Persian Empire, the only territory it has taken in modern times has been three small islands in the Persian Gulf — the Greater and Lesser Tunbs and Abu Musa — in 1971, when Iran was still ruled by the U.S.-backed Shah.
Iran’s nuclear program also dates to the regime of the Shah. The Eisenhower administration signed the first U.S. nuclear agreement with Iran in 1957 and the Johnson administration gave Iran its first reactor a decade later — a 5-megawatt facility that Iran still uses to produce medical isotopes. The Shah allegedly wanted nuclear power to generate electricity, but the program would eventually have given him a weapons option had he not been overthrown in 1979.
Since its initial forays into nuclear technology, Iran has made fitful progress even as the nuclear weapons club grew to include China, Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea. Iran stopped the program after 1979 and restarted it in the mid-late 1980s because Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, and Iran feared Iraq was building nuclear weapons as well.
With the demise of Saddam, Iran’s motivation to acquire nuclear weapons diminished. Sanctions have also been a factor in Iran’s decision not to build nuclear weapons, but so — according to Iranian officials — is their own strategic calculation that Iran would be worse off now with such arms than with a threshold capability.
Countries with a threshold or “breakout” capacity have assembled the civilian nuclear infrastructure that would allow them to relatively quickly build a bomb should they quit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and expel inspectors.
Japan is often cited as an example of a threshold power, being the proverbial “screwdriver’s turn” away from having nuclear weapons. It is not clear if Iran feels it needs to go this far, and a deal could keep Iran several years away from this capacity even if it chose to quit the NPT and expel inspectors.
Beyond religious edicts against the production and use of nuclear weapons, President Hassan Rouhani reiterated at the recent U.N. General Assembly summit that “nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran’s security and defense doctrine.”
Iranian officials know that developing a nuclear arsenal would trigger an arms race with wealthier neighbors such as Saudi Arabia that Iran would lose, and that quasi-allies such as Russia and China would likely join Western nations in imposing even harsher sanctions should the Islamic Republic choose to actually build weapons.
Sanctions already imposed — in part because of pressure exerted by leaders such as Netanyahu and Kirk — have exacted a heavy toll on the Iranian economy. Its GDP growth last year was negative — minus 5.4 percent — and this year, at best, will be flat according to Iranian officials. Tehran’s only hope for reviving the economy is through sanctions relief, which can only come if it puts significant and verifiable curbs on its nuclear program.
Under the outlines of the proposal Iran presented Tuesday in Geneva, Iran would retain a uranium enrichment program but under strict limits and tighter international scrutiny. Easing nuclear concerns would also create conditions for improved relations between Iran and the US.
A rapprochement in which the US and other Western powers find a modus vivendi with Iran as a regional power would not be welcomed by Netanyahu, the Saudis and other Iranian foes. For the Israeli leader, it would remove the issue that dominates his international speeches, obliging him to focus more on the conflict with the Palestinians and domestic problems.
While Western leaders are mindful of the need to keep in place major sanctions until Iran implements verifiable curbs on its nuclear activities, they’re being urged by Netanyahu to actually escalate sanctions even as they negotiate — an option that would make Tehran more likely to walk away from the table, and could unravel the international consensus on Iran and weaken existing sanctions.
The Islamic Republic is evolving, as Rouhani’s election victory this summer — and the endorsement of his diplomatic outreach by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — have made clear. Even if they achieve a nuclear deal, the US and its allies will face the challenge of pressuring Iran on human rights and regional security.
But judging by the conversation that resumed in Geneva Tuesday, those invoking alarmist historical analogies may risk becoming isolated from the thinking of the major powers. Iran is not Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union or North Korea. It is unique, and Western powers are dealing with it as such.
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Steve Sweeney served 12 years as president of the state Senate. An ironworker by trade, Sweeney, in the eyes of many political observers, has never forgotten his working-class roots and has a well-deserved reputation for reaching across the aisle and getting things done—often, important things that have impacted people’s lives.
When the state’s longest-serving Senate president spoke in November after losing his seat in a stunning upset to Republican Trump loyalist Edward Durr Jr., a South Jersey truck driver who had never held elected office, Sweeney promised he would “be just as loud and just as forceful a voice for change.”
I recently talked with Sweeney in an in-depth interview for public television, and he made it clear that he is “not done,” as he plans to continue his work to make the state more affordable. Says Sweeney, “There is a lot to be done.”
During Sweeney’s tenure, he worked with other legislators in negotiating significant health care changes for New Jersey public school teachers in cooperation with the New Jersey Education Association—an organization Sweeney had a stormy history with in the past. He also worked on the restructuring of higher education, significantly increased minimum wage, and expanded paid family leave. Despite these efforts, Sweeney made it clear during our conversation that New Jersey continues to be too expensive.
After Sweeney’s upset loss to Durr, and Governor Phil Murphy’s unexpectedly close race against Republican Jack Ciattarelli, I asked Sweeney what the number one message from the 2021 election was. “We saved the nuclear plants, we captured offshore wind, we created jobs, we reduced retirement income taxes,” he says. “So the message is, ‘We want you to focus on making New Jersey more affordable. Stop with all these other plans. Let’s focus on what matters to people, and that is being able to live in their homes.’”
Part of the affordability issue in New Jersey is the increasing cost of quality, accessible childcare. Sweeney says, “We put $100 million into childcare in last year’s budget, and obviously we need a lot more. Parents can’t go to work if they have to stay home with their children.” (Visit Reimagine Child Care’s website to learn more about our childcare crisis.)
Sweeney also says New Jersey citizens are exhausted from Covid-19: “We have to learn to live with it. People are fed up, so we have to find a way to protect everyone and move forward.”
Regarding the increasing political polarization and the precarious state of our democracy, I asked Sweeney if the fact that his own Democratic party is constantly infighting is part of the problem. Says Sweeney: “Eighty percent of both parties are in the middle, but the far left and the far right are just very loud, and what happens is, there is a dirty word that I believe in, which is compromise. They don’t, and it’s winner takes all.” Simply put, Sweeney prefers getting things done to being a hardcore ideologue.
What’s next for Sweeney? “You get dealt setbacks in life, and this (loss) is just a setback. I am moving forward and have plans for the future.”
Count me as one of many political observers who believe that future involves a run for governor in 2025. Stay tuned…

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Coming Soon to PlayStation Plus: God of War Ascension Beta
Later this year, PlayStation Plus users will be given the opportunity to test out the newest entry in the God of War series, God of War Ascension. Yesterday, Sony announced that while some will be able to find other means of acquiring a copy of the God of War Ascension Multiplayer Beta, it will be readily available to those with a PlayStation Plus membership on hand.
Plus users will be given first access to this exclusive Beta, so if you want to get in on it when it drops, I suggest signing up for PlayStation Plus.
Whilst you’re waiting for that beta, take a look at the new multiplayer gameplay footage below!
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Local lawyer Alex Schmitt plans to make a run for the Vanderburgh County Commissioner seat in District 3.
Schmitt served on the Evansville-Vanderburgh School Corporation board of directors in 2015, Vanderburgh County Humane Society board of directors and the “Wish Upon a Star” board of directors.
Schmitt is the son of local lawyer Reed Schmitt.
He will likely take on republican candidate Cheryl Musgrave in the May primary, but other candidates could still throw their hat in the ring.
The District 3 seat is currently held by Vanderburgh County democrat Stephen Melcher.

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Dr Owain Williams, from the University of Leeds, is an expert on the political economy of health policy. He spoke about key aspects of the COVID-19 response, including measures in China where almost half the population was restricted from travelling. He outlined the tension that arose between the government and its people and the emergence of conspiracy theories and mistrust. Regarding the early global response, Dr Williams described the fear-driven and chaotic reaction of Japan and the United States, and the limited ability of the World Health Organisation to do much political or financially. The start of the outbreak revealed weaknesses in the global supply chain and in the market. Pharmaceutical companies seemed unwilling to enter into vaccine production for the virus. He warned that this outbreak will also reveal the chronic under investment in health systems in developing countries.
Historian Xiaoping Fan from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore spoke about the origin of China’s systems for public health emergency responses. They began with the country’s cholera epidemic in 1961-1965. During this time, the premise for quarantine and isolation emerged, and the most affected province of Wenzhou was partitioned into concentric circles with observation stations set up along railway lines. The entire population in the province was inoculated. Record-keeping, data collection, and coordination of local officers was poor at first but evolved into strong systems for epidemic surveillance.
Katherine Mason, a medical anthropologist at Brown University, reviewed the 2003 SARS epidemic. She explained that SARS had an enormous impact on public health in China, which prior to the early 2000s had not invested in its old epidemic infrastructure. With SARS, the government began recruiting thousands of health experts and investing in surveillance systems, creating a biomedical and technology-based discipline. With SARS, the Chinese government learnt that draconian actions were necessary, despite the doubts of other countries. The United States, for example, did not ban travel when the H1N1 outbreak began in North America—a response that demoralised health workers in China, Professor Mason said. Since COVID-19, the main change has been in social media, which is showing that ordinary citizens are increasingly willing to voice discontent.
The Centre for Global Health Histories would like to thank the Wellcome Trust and the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission for their support, as well as our collaborators at the World Health Organisation, and of course our speakers for making the event possible.
Event report by Alexandra Bradbury. MA, Medical History, University of York.


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The 2018 Fort William World Cup marks the 10th anniversary of the Mojo Suspension racing team's PVC-coated Lycra skinsuits and the uproar that followed. Say what you want about them, but the only fact that is down in the history books is that riders Chris Hutchens
, and Ben Cathro
, donned the controversial catsuits for qualifying and race runs and had the best results of their careers to date: 17th and 8th place respectively.
The PVC coated Lycra skinsuit that prompted the rule. Ben Cathro at Fort William, 2008. Career-best. Photo: Phunkt
A few months later, the UCI introduced a rule which banned skinsuits and 'tight-fitting clothing' plus another that enforced the use of visors on helmets. The wording of the skinsuit rule is looser than the moto-clothing Palmer used to wear. Now, I am not saying I want to see all riders wearing a silly Lycra suit onesie, but the rule was weird from day one as there were no stated measurements, I have never heard of anybody being checked at the finish line to see if their clothes are officially baggy enough. Nowadays, every rider worth their salt at the podium has stylish, tightly cut or tailored clothing, with specific fabrics that identify them as downhill mountain bike racers – not some MX wannabees in some old-fashioned moto kit.
The rule states 'Lycra elastane based' clothing as its enemy, but nowadays there is an array of materials and stretchy compositions that give a tight fit without breaking the rules. In a recent press release
from Atherton Racing, they announced that they will be working in conjunction with Endura to develop race kits that will help with aerodynamics. At the end of the day, riders are racing downhill, with gravity and against the air, there are advantages to be had and surely rulings should reflect this in a way that is fair, equal, and measurable, for all competitors.
For those of you thinking, "What the hell is Aston talking about?"
here is a brief history of MTB clothing: Clunker riders used to wear jeans and tee shirts or whatever they wore in day to day '70s life for a bike ride. Then people wore tight Lycra-type clothing when road racing for aerodynamics and comfort, which was adopted by XC racers, who moved onto downhill racing in the early days. Shaun 'Napalm' Palmer rocked up in the mid '90's in full motocross kit and everybody loved him (Palmer lost the World Championships in Cairns 1996 by 0.15 seconds with a peak and baggies to Nicolas Vouilloz). Then, the cool kids all wore baggy clothes and helmet peaks for years, bar the occasional World Championship where governing bodies usually provided Lycra skinsuits.
Did Sam Hill blow out that last corner on that fateful Val Di Sole day in 2008 because he wasn't used to the extra speed of the skinsuit? Photo: Itster
Occasionally riders stepped out of line and lost their peak and found a skinsuit just in time for race runs, a finger was often pointed at 'the French,' but back then it was a guessing game as who was going to turn up to the start line in what. A gentleman's agreement was formed and signed in the interests of "the image of the sport," – basically the riders teamed up and decided that it would be better in the long-term to look cool instead of going fastest, and, if everybody wore the same clothes, they would all have the same disadvantage. In 2008 Mojo et al. broke the agreement to prove a point. Late 2008 the UCI made an official rule that has stood for ten years. Ten years on technology has improved massively, mountain bike kit is now cool in its own right, and everyone is wearing skin-tight clothing and helmets shaped in wind tunnels.
Today's top downhill racers are wearing outfits that are tailored and close-fitting as they search for any possible time savings.
We asked a few a few of the key players in this discussion, including Craig “Stikman” Glaspell from Troy Lee Designs, a brand who are behind much of the MTB image we have today, Chris Porter, the Mojo man who made his riders skinsuit-up ten years ago, Gee Atherton, the last man to win a World Championship in Lycra, and Ben Cathro who finished in 7th place with the best result of his career in Fort William
Craig “Stikman” Glaspell – Global Category Director - Bike, Troy Lee Designs
Craig ''Stikman'' Glaspell's career has seen him go from working as a shop mechanic in Redondo Beach, California, to wrenching on the National and World Cup circuits for some of the quickest racers in the around. He's keeping things a bit more local these days, although he's still working with some of the fastest racers out there as the Global Bicycle Category Director at Troy Lee Designs.
Chris Porter – CEO/Owner, Geometron Bikes and MojoRising
Heretic. When Chris Porter showed his first Geometron to the world he was outcast as a crazy guy from the UK. Less than three years later, arguably, his influence is widespread. Every bike that comes out is accompanied by marketing spiel that echoes Chris' words: longer reach, slacker head angle, steeper seat angle, shorter stems and less fork offset. More importantly, for this article, it was probably his 'fault' that the UCI introduced the rule – in 2008 at the Fort William WC, his Mojo team riders donned a freaky PVC-coated Lycra suit and rode to the best results of their career: Ben Cathro finished 8th, and Chris Hutchens bested his 37th place career high by 20 places finished in 17th.
Gee Atherton – Trek Factory Racing
Gee Atherton was the last man to win a downhill World Championship wearing Lycra back in 2008, the fateful day Sam Hill blew out the last corner at Val Di Sole. Maybe Sam crashed because of the extra speed he carried through the air on the huge jump out of the trees? His Australian Lycra onesie taking him by surprise and missing his braking point?
Ben Cathro – Sick Skills MTB Coaching
Ben Cathro has his career best result back in 2008 in the fabled PVC-suit. The giraffe-like rider nicknamed 'Hightower' by his friends, admits that it wasn't the ideal thing for a man of his stature to wear, but did give him an advantage on the day where he made a few mistakes when it counted. Nowadays, the racing has taken a back seat for Ben as he focuses on his Sick Skills Coaching
, but that doesn't stop him from turning up to the occasional DH or Enduro race in Scotland and taking the win against full-time racers.
Now I'm not saying I want to see the return of Lycra skinsuits to downhill racing, I'm simply saying the rule isn't really a 'rule' and has been out of date for ten years. Is it time for a change?


24 Sep 2020
BONN, Germany (21 September 2020) – The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is calling for nominations for its annual Landscape Heroes competition, which highlights and honors valuable local efforts to protect landscapes and biodiversity.
19 Aug 2020
Youth can have a catalytic role in charting a new course for forests and climate action under the Paris Agreement. Yet, they are often overlooked. The theme of the International Youth Day 2020, “Youth Engagement for Global Action” seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young people at the local, national and global levels is enriching national and multilateral institutions and processes. Providing youth with the necessary forestry skills, education, and access to technology, can play a key role in enabling and accelerating inputs from youth – which is desperately needed for forest and climate action.
1 Jul 2020
This autumn a report will be launched on how forests and tree-based landscapes can affect poverty and the wellbeing of the poor!
19 Jun 2020
The Lower Mekong basin is of global significance, boasting an incredibly high diversity of forest habitats.
19 Jun 2020
Forests underpin life on Earth. Globally, around 2.4 billion people or one third of the entire human population depend directly on forests for wood for cooking their daily meals.
9 Jun 2020
On 3-5 June, Dr. Jane Goodall, Indian Yogi Sadhguru and more than 300 other speakers reimagined the future of food amid recovery plans from the COVID-19 pandemic in a global first: the largest-ever Global Landscapes Forum digital conference with 5,000 people from 185 countries. The event’s outcomes were twofold: tackling the transformation of global food systems and laying the foundation for global climate change conferences by bringing people together in a carbon-saving, interactive digital space.
5 Jun 2020
Jane Goodall, the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, will address at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Digital Conference, which runs online from 3-5 June. In her address, she expands on widely-reported comments she made Tuesday, sounding the alarm for the urgency of food security, drawing from decades of working and living with local communities in Africa.
The Global Crop Diversity Trust joins forces with the Global Landscapes Forum for a food and nutrition secure future
4 Jun 2020
The Global Crop Diversity Trust (Crop Trust) has announced today the organisation will sign the Global Landscapes Forum charter, becoming its 29th member.
2 Jun 2020
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Digital Conference, which will run online from 3-5 June, will kickstart a global conversation on how to ‘build back better’ and transform food systems to protect human well-being and planetary health in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
29 May 2020
At the GLF Bonn Digital Conference 2020, great minds from across the globe will gather online around the challenge of feeding a growing population without over-exploiting the planet. As the COVID-19 pandemic puts systems on pause right now across the Earth, it’s the perfect moment to explore how to ‘build back better’: to transform our food systems and plot a future with long-term planetary health and human well-being at the fore.


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Authorities say a 47-year-old man living near Portland has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing or exploiting children in the Philippines and in Oregon.
The US Justice Department said Steven Rockett was sentenced Thursday for producing child pornography outside the United States, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, producing and attempting to produce child pornography and possession of child pornography.
A federal jury in Portland convicted him of the charges after a May trial.
Prosecutors say Rockett sexually abused children, solicited children to take and send him sexually explicit photos of themselves and also secretly recorded children undressing and showering at his residences in Forest Grove and Aloha and in Philippine hotel rooms.
Rockett is currently appealing a 52-year state prison sentence for sexually abusing five children.


President of the Global Services Association of Jamaica (GSAJ) Gloria Henry’s lobby for the Government of Jamaica to extend Customs waivers for work-at-home (WAH) for the business process outsourcing (BPO) companies across the island does not appear to be gaining traction.
The president of the organisation has advocated for the development of new supporting policies to include WAH BPO employees in Special Economic Zones designation, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response Eric Deans, chief executive officer of the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Economic Authority (JSEZA), told Caribbean Business Report that the requests of the GSAJ had implications for other sectors in the Jamaican economy which must be considered.
“The services sector, of which BPOs are a small part, makes up 70 per cent of the local economy. Therefore, the impact on the entire services sector has to be taken into account,” he reasoned.
In March 2020, as part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a waiver was granted by the Government allowing BPO firms to remove computers out of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to facilitate working from home until year end 2020. The Government has since extended the waiver.
Companies designated as special economic zones operators fall under a preferential tax agreement which provides fiscal incentives that help profitability. BPOs using WAH have had to move equipment offsite, creating the challenge of losing tax benefits if there are no waivers.
The GSAJ has, therefore, continued lobbying for an extension of the waiver for BPOs since the start of 2021.
Earlier this year Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced new and extended measures under the Disaster Risk Managements Act to help contain the continued spread of COVID-19, as the country battled an upsurge in cases.
Among the orders was a new strict work-from-home order for public sector employees, starting on Thursday, March 4. At the time he encouraged private sector businesses to evaluate their operations and, where feasible, allow their employees to work from home.
“SEZs are specific geographical areas that enjoy tax and duty benefits. Activities outside this area are beyond the jurisdiction of the SEZ Act and the authority. Therefore, WAH falls within Customs — not the SEZ — jurisdiction”— Eric Deans, president, Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority
Based on Caribbean Business Report enquiries, several BPO companies that had retained some workers in office until earlier this year, while sending home others, decided in May 2021 to send all staff to work from home.
Henry, as part of her lobby for the extension of waivers, highlighted that work from home has resulted in “increased productivity, which will play a key role in maintaining competitiveness during this pandemic”.
Still, Deans is sceptical. “The concept of work at home is fully supported by the SEZ authority. However, the context must be taken into consideration.”
Firstly, he said, the local legislative context must be borne in mind.
“SEZs are specific geographical areas that enjoy tax and duty benefits. Activities outside this area are beyond the jurisdiction of the SEZ Act and the authority. Therefore, WAH falls within Customs — not the SEZ — jurisdiction.”
Secondly, requests from BPOs had implications for others within the economy who were similarly affected. The JSEZA head noted that 50 per cent of the BPO’s do not operate in the SEZ [and yet] they have been found to be profitable.
Deans continued, “There is no duty on computer equipment needed for WAH, only GCT. Paying GCT on computer equipment will not make any BPO unprofitable.
“The recommendation from the Government, therefore, is for GCT to be paid on the equipment being used for WAH. Additionally the higher end BPO activities are not significantly impacted by the payment of GCT.”
He noted, meanwhile, that many BPO companies are now enjoying other waivers due to the pandemic, which might be affecting property owners.
Deans observed that various SEZ developers have been asked to reduce the rent charged to BPOs as only server room staff, in some cases, currently work within the SEZ defined space.
“The implication of this on the viability of the developers investment should be obvious,” he stated.
Deans noted as well that some developments within the SEZ have either not commenced or have been discontinued because of the introduction of WAH.
He further observed that the new paradigm allows for BPO’s to make profits outside of the SEZ and this has an implication for Corporate Income Tax (CIT).
“Based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidelines, this may be considered a harmful tax practice,” he said.
Finally, focusing on WAH, he stated, “GCT waiver on computer equipment used by BPO’s for WAH will have implications for other such items for which there is the requirement to pay GCT.
“If a BPO worker is allowed to work from home, then the next step is for him to become an independent contractor. This again may be considered a harmful tax practice.”
The JSEZA head concluded that any incentive considered for WAH should be outside of the SEZ regime.


Letter: City sidewalks not done correctly
To the editor:
Practice, practice, practice — that's all the city crews need to do to get city sidewalks and curb and gutter right. This is what I was told by the mayor and some council members.
I invite the mayor, council members and others to bring their children, grandkids and others to play with sidewalk chalk on city-installed walks.
By the time they moved five feet, there would be a trail of blood from their hands and knees. The finish is that wrong.
This is why there are laws set by the state of Minnesota for public sidewalks, curb and gutter, etc.


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We were excited as we arrived in Bushy Park for our annual Tree Trail! It was a beautiful Autumn morning. We spotted so many amazing trees of all shapes and sizes, some with bare branches, others with colourful leaves ready to fall in the gentle breeze. The Giant Redwood is always a favourite as is the infamous haunted tree! We took bark rubbings and collected leaves, acorns and helicopters from the forest floor. Squirrels were busy collecting nuts in preparation for their Winter sleep. Insects were scurrying about under the leaves and rocks. As we walked around the lake, we couldn’t miss the stunning Willow tree. We spied a heron, a swan preening itself and some very cute little ducklings as well! Having excellent photographers in our classes, we took some fantastic photos! We had so much fun and are already looking forward to our Spring Tree Trail in March!