Electronic viewfinders without the bulk: Kopin shrinks the microdisplay
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Compact digital cameras have come an incredibly long way over the last decade or so. Long gone are the chunky, computer-in-a-box designs of the early days of digital photography. Modern cameras can be much more pocket-friendly, and many now aim to serve not only as a preserver of memories, but also as a fashion statement.
There have been victims in this rush to sleekness, though. Viewfinders, once a feature found on almost every camera, have now largely gone the way of the dodo. They were a must on even the cheapest camera in the days of film, simply because you had no other way to know what you were taking a picture of, but now almost every digital camera has an LCD display, many camera manufacturers--and photographers who've grown up shooting at arm's length--no longer see the point. For some of us, though, they're still key. Framing with a well-designed viewfinder to your eye can feel more intuitive, help steady the camera, and isn't as badly affected by harsh sunlight as many LCD displays can be. Some designs also save power versus shooting on the LCD.
Not surprisingly, microdisplay manufacturer Kopin is doing its best to reverse the trend, and wants to put their displays into more cameras. For years, the company has worked to make them ever smaller. Every millimeter honed from the display is one that can be devoted to fitting in another component, or trimmed from the camera body. Of course, the viewfinder still has to justify its place on the bill of materials, so we wouldn't expect to see electronic viewfinders become common in budget models any time soon. For premium compacts and compact system cameras, though, the presence of an EVF might help swing a customer towards your camera.
Kopin's latest CyberDisplay model is, says the company, the smallest ever made with VGA (640 x 480 pixel) resolution. With three dots per pixel and a dot size of 2.25 x 6.75µm, the new CyberDisplay has a diagonal dimension of just 0.21 inches, or approximately five millimeters. By way of comparison, the company's previous near-VGA design had 600 x 480 pixel resolution, with a 0.27-inch diagonal. Complete with a backlight and optics, the new VGA CyberDisplay has dimensions of 17.76 x 13.3 x 20.5 mm, while retaining the 24 degree field of view of the previous design.
Despite having quadrupled in resolution, the new display is actually a little smaller than the first commercialized CyberDisplay model that debuted in some of JVC's camcorders way back in mid-1999. Less than ten years ago, the smallest VGA microdisplay had a 0.44-inch diagonal.
Alongside the tiny new VGA CyberDisplay, the company is also showing off several other products at the upcoming Society for Information Display show in Boston. These include a 2,048 x 2,048 pixel microdisplay said to have the world's highest resolution, plus a 720p (1,280 x 720 pixel) high-def color display in a 0.49-inch package, a 1,280 x 1,024 pixel LCOS display in a 0.88-inch package, and more.
Kopin Showcases New Breakthrough in Shrinking Display Size
Ultra-Compact Electronic Viewfinder for Camera Systems Demonstrated at Society for Information Display 2012
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TAUNTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kopin® Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), the leader in microdisplays for consumer and military applications, today announced a breakthrough in shrinking the size of its color displays. By reducing the color dots to a mere 2.25 x 6.75 µm, Kopin has achieved a full-color VGA display (640 x 480 resolution) in a 0.21” diagonal size, which is by far the smallest VGA color-filter liquid crystal display (LCD) in the world. Kopin will showcase an ultra-compact electronic viewfinder (EVF) containing the VGA display at the SID (Society for Information Display) 2012 Exhibition, which takes place June 5 – 7 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The EVF will be shown at Kopin’s booth (#177).
“Our new VGA display with the smallest color dot in the industry is a major milestone for Kopin’s technology roadmap to provide more compact, higher resolution displays,” said Dr. Boryeu Tsaur, Kopin’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Display. “This exciting achievement is enabled by our innovative process improvements and unique pixel design. This is the third time we were able to shrink the pixel size, and our new pixel is about 20% of the size we used in our displays four years ago.”
“Our ability to shrink the EVF enables our customers to offer smaller full featured cameras,” said Dr. John C.C. Fan, Kopin’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “With our smaller VGA display, new compact backlight and redesigned optics, we are able to provide an EVF with the same field of view (~24 deg) but about half the size compared to our current VGA EVF product. With a dimension of 17.76 mm (W) x 13.3 mm (H) x 20.5 mm (D), it is the smallest VGA EVF in the world.”
Kopin Corporation’s voice-activated, wireless, hands-free Golden-i® mobile computing headsets, lightweight, power-efficient, ultra-small liquid crystal displays and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are revolutionizing the way people around the world see, hear and communicate. Kopin has shipped more than 30 million displays for a range of consumer and military applications including digital cameras, personal video eyewear, camcorders, thermal weapon sights and night vision systems. The Company's unique HBTs, which help to enhance battery life, talk time and signal clarity, have been integrated into billions of wireless handsets as well as into WiFi, VoIP and high-speed Internet data transmission systems. Kopin's proprietary display and HBT technologies are protected by more than 200 global patents and patents pending. For more information, please visit Kopin's website at www.kopin.com.
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Officials: Delta Center needs to be expanded soon to compete with other cities
The Delta Center is in danger of falling behind convention facilities in similar-sized cities in its ability to generate new business, says Franklyn Gimbel, chairman of the Wisconsin Center District.
The reason is because of the relatively small size of the Delta Center, especially in comparison with cities like Indianapolis, Louisville, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Kansas City, Gimbel said Thursday. The Delta Center has nearly 189,000 square feet of exhibit space. By comparison, the St. Louis convention center has 502,000 square feet, while Minneapolis has more than 475,000 square feet.
The space issue is not new. Gimbel has talked for several years about the need to expand the convention center to generate new convention business which, in turn, produces revenue for the area's hotels and restaurants.
But in an interview Thursday, he and Paul Upchurch, president and CEO of Visit Milwaukee, said that if nothing is done to expand the center, Milwaukee will lose business.
"We're at a point where our convention center is not large enough to accommodate the type of meet ings that occur today," Upchurch said. "Large meetings, large exhibit space. We've gone from a center that was kind of in the middle of the pack to a place that has the smallest exhibitor convention space.
"All of these other cities have invested. An expansion in Cleveland opens in July. These are cities we compete with every day."
Gimbel went further, and used a baseball analogy to describe the challenge.
"We would move from a major league city to Triple A ball," Gimbel said. "We want to compete with these other big-league cities. And I think do-nothing is a surrender to mediocrity."
Upchurch said other cities with more exhibit space and more marketing dollars "will pick off the best of Milwaukee. That is, business we already have."
This year, the Delta Center will be host to at least two large conventions: the National Governors Association Aug. 2-4; and the International Moose Convention May 24-29.
Last month, Gimbel's board published an economic impact study indicating the convention center, as well as the U.S. Cellular Arena and the Milwaukee Theatre, were significant economic generators in the community. According to the study, the combined buildings provide support for several thousand jobs in the city.
In Gimbel's view, the convention center is an underappreciated asset for the city. This year, he said, he anticipated his board will back a new study that will try to determine how Milwaukee would gain economically if the convention center was expanded. He said he hoped the center board would move on the new study by the fall.
"Let's assume that we double the size of our meeting space?" Gimbel said. "What if any impact would it have on our ability to attract business and would it justify the investment required to expand the convention center?"
Gimbel said it was too early to say how such an expansion would be funded, other than to say some form of public financing would be needed. The district currently collects four taxes. Within Milwaukee County, the district collects a 2.5% tax on rooms, 3% on car rentals, and 0.5% on food and beverage sales. In the city of Milwaukee, it receives a 7% hotel room tax.
The district receives no proceeds from property taxes and does not get a federal, state and local subsidy.
Gimbel's remarks came the same week as members of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce held a board meeting in which Roy Williams, president and CEO of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, explained how that city improved its infrastructure beginning in 1993. Voters there approved a 1% sales tax boost to cover hundreds of millions of dollars in civic improvements, including a new basketball arena. Voters have since approved additional extensions to fund new improvements.
Gimbel said he was not advocating replicating the Oklahoma City model as a means of paying for expansion of not only the convention center, but other civic projects, including a potential new, multipurpose arena.
"I think the Wisconsin Center District needs to have a collaborative alliance with other public assets. I think we have to get together and do a capital needs assessment, and explore ways to finance," Gimbel said.
Some of the community's assets are able to raise money from wealthy donors, Gimbel said. "We can't do that, and neither can you do that with an athletic facility. You have to have some form of public financing. The politicians won't lead the way. It will have to be the public."
Timothy Sheehy, MMAC's president, agreed that a discussion is needed about all of the community's assets.
"We need more brainstorming. We need to be long on information gathering and clear on transparency," Sheehy said. "It's not a process accomplished by a small group of people. That's not our intention. The solution will rise or fall based on public input."
As for government involvement, Sheehy was emphatic. "This is not something I would approach the governor and the Legislature on until Milwaukee has its act together."


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They’ve been called “the new oil”, but semi-conductors, the brains in all our electronics from cars to electric toothbrushes, are in critically short supply due to the disruption caused by the pandemic and the surge in demand that’s been driven by accelerated digital transformation.
The continued global chip shortage tops the list of this year’s biggest technology, media and telecom (TMT) predictions but there are other interesting developments that will shape the sector in 2022 including: Wi-Fi 6 taking 5G’s throne in enterprise connectivity, wearable tech going mainstream, and gains made in closing the gender gap in the tech sector.
Global chip shortage to continue into 2023
On the waiting list for an electric car? Got your eye on the latest cellphone model or a smart watch? You might have to wait a while longer than expected says Deloitte Global who predicts that many types of chips will still be in short supply throughout 2022 – although the crunch will be less severe than the previous two years – with some component lead times pushing into 2023. The delay comes at a huge cost…
In monetary terms, the chip shortage has already caused probably half a trillion dollars’ worth of disruption. And that's based on demand, which can't be satisfied. The caveat to that is, you are never going to actually know the real extent of the missed opportunities.
In the US, the White House estimates that in 2021, the shortage shaved a full percentage point off GDP. With an estimated loss in revenue of $210 billion in 2021 and lost production of 7.7 million vehicles , the global auto industry is the poster child of the shortage, but the production of everyday electronics and high-tech devices also hangs in the balance.
The demand for chips in numbers
Source: Deloitte TMT Predictions 2022
“This year we're expecting 1.4 billion smartphones to be sold and there isn't anything coming out at the moment; there is a massive problem there,” says Lee. He explains that the mass migration to cloud computing is also driving up demand for chips with the purchase of cloud computing data centre chips up by 30% in early 2021. For individuals, the shortage impacts all areas of our lives, even our doorbells…
“So the doorbell which used to be a very simple mechanism has been upgraded to a camera with connectivity. And if you look at lots of other devices, appliances, they're becoming connected. So when it comes down to semiconductors, it's partly down to supply but a lot of it's down to demand. Demand has gone up a lot,” says Lee.
Wi-Fi 6 overtaking 5G?
In 2020, Deloitte predicted that 5G would be the future of enterprise connectivity. They were not wrong, but an “unsung, underexposed” technology is catching up fast. Wi-Fi 6 is now expected to play a pivotal role alongside 5G as organisations innovate with wireless networks.
Wi-Fi 6 growth in numbers:
Source: Deloitte TMT Predictions 2022
What is the difference? Wi-Fi 6 is a WLAN solution (Wireless Local-Area Network) while 5G is a mobile-led technology. This simply means, Wi-Fi based technology is best used for indoor coverage and can be used for specific Internet of Things (IoT) connections. 5G is best used for less dense outdoor locations, such as autonomous cars and smart cities. However, both offer lower latency, faster speeds and increased network capacity.
When it comes to enterprise connectivity, it won’t be a case of one technology OR the other, but rather a combination of the two. Deloitte Global’s survey of executives across nine countries revealed that companies are experimenting with both technologies. “The likelihood is that we will get a blend of 5G and Wi-Fi 6. And then the question will be what's the balance? Because if you've got more Wi-Fi 6 devices, then the cost of the modem will probably be lower because you've got greater volumes,” says Lee.
In Africa 5G adoption remains a challenge, says Louise Pillay, Equity Analyst: SA & Africa telecoms, Investec.
5G device costs remain high. The price of 5G spectrum auctions has been at elevated levels, network configuration and migration is complex, and related initial capex costs are high while regulatory and municipal approvals have taken longer.
Does this mean in Africa WiFi 6 may be popular? “It is still too early to say, but African operators have started to adopt both technologies. Cost benefits and improved network quality are key areas companies consider and both technologies promote these specific benefits,” says Pillay.
More women in tech, but there’s long road ahead
There seems to be some progress in closing the gender gap in the tech industry. According to Deloitte Global’s report, women will make up 33% of large global tech firms in 2022, up slightly more than 2 percentage points from 2019.
The slow progress, Lee says, is due to a lack of supply: “This is something that takes decades to fix, there aren't enough women available to fill all the tech roles which are available,” says Lee.
Chief Information Officer at Investec Bank SA, Shabhana Thaver adds that there are also wider societal challenges at play.
There are systematic elements impeding on the attraction of women to tech and limiting the number of women taking up STEM [science, technology, engineering, and math] subjects. These include home culture, social influence or norms, gender bias and stereotypes. Some perceptions are pre-built into women which causes this leak in the pipeline.
While the tech sector has realised that a diverse workforce is good for business and has been very deliberate in recruiting women, creating a conducive work environment for female employees is vital.
“Organisations must also focus their energy on promoting and fostering an inclusive workplace culture. It can easily feel intimidating in an underrepresented environment, so it’s about ensuring safety in the system where it feels easy for women to be themselves and that they belong,” says Thaver.
She believes more must be done to develop future talent and attract young women to the sector to create a sustainable pipeline.
“We have much wider reach and scale through mediums such as online collaboration tools and need to be aggressive in rolling out education models, to build tech competencies, to women at their homes. These mediums will lessen the inferiority, social influence and gender bias feelings of women,” says Thaver.
Health tech, better and bigger
Smartwatches and wearable medical devices shot up in popularity during the pandemic and Deloitte Global predicts that demand for health tech in 2022 will reach 320 million devices worldwide, rising to 440 million units by 2024. With medical-grade wearables – typically called “smart patches” – going mainstream, smartwatches are becoming “personalised health clinics” that help people manage chronic conditions and detect symptoms of serious disease, says Deloitte.
The evolution in digital healthcare is also expanding to mental health apps with Deloitte Global estimating growth to reach around US$500 million in 2022. And it seems medical professionals are warming up to the idea of working with the smart health devices. Equity Analyst in healthcare at Investec UK, Dr Jimmy Muchechetere, says smart technologies have been around for some time but the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption curves for both patients and healthcare professionals.
The ability to monitor patients remotely and have objective data on which to manage patients is very appealing. Smart devices will provide data over a timeline rather than just at a point in time. This not only makes sense but it has a sound scientific basis.
However, how safe is the data being collected? “It's having the right balance of keeping the data secure but also making it useful, which is very difficult to achieve. There are ways of sharing data, which enable it to become anonymised, as opposed to being personally identifiable. But certainly, worries about data leakage will never go away, and they will often be a constraint on progress,” says Lee
Muchechetere says learnings from wearable tech are feeding into diagnostics. “Diagnostics are set to benefit from wearables. By using optical sensing technology and building that into catheters, there can be improvements in the early detection of disease. Epidemiological data can be significantly improved with more data across multiple modalities which may inform the design of better Access to Medicines programs such as malaria campaigns or malnutrition initiatives.
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text: Match Report Gutless. Spineless. Witless. Hapless. Choose your adjective. Everton’s long-suffering fans have witnessed some pathetic performances at Anfield in recent years but this one, against a Liverpool team featuring nine changes and stuffed with inexperienced kids, takes the biscuit.Everton turned in a second-half display so bereft of fight, quality, spirit and urgency that it left you wishing half the players could all be thrown out the club tomorrow. Sadly, as the imminent financial accounts will show, the club is counting the significant cost of almost four years of horrendously expensive and just plain horrendous recruitment that will no doubt ensure that Carlo Ancelotti will need all of the four-and-a-half years of his contract to fix it.The second 45 minutes in particular was indescribably bad from a group of players who, you felt, couldn't get much worse than some of the dross they have served up already this season but whether through fatigue or a simple sense of the futility that has embodied this fixture for Everton for two decades, they appeared to just give up.No doubt due to the knock the veteran picked up against at Manchester City on New Year’s Day, Fabian Delph was only named among the substitutes but in his stead, Ancelotti might as well not have fielded a midfield at all given the black hole that existed there for much of this contest.Against such youthful opposition, Gylfi Sigurdsson — has a player ever suffered such a precipitous drop-off in production and form from one season to the next? — and Morgan Schneiderlin should have bossed this game from start to finish; instead, they turned in two of their worst performances in an Everton jersey which, based on everything that has gone on already this season, is quite something. Both are on massive six-figures-per-week salaries but neither are deserving of another minute in an Everton jersey. Sadly, though, unless there will be incoming personnel this month, the manager will have little option.They were deployed in the most important area of the pitch but they weren’t alone in their ineptitude, their lack of strength, passion and effectiveness. Djibril Sidibé, first as a wing back and then as full-back after the equally terrible Seamus Coleman had been withdrawn, was shocking for 90 minutes. His compatriot on the other flank, Lucas Digne, a pale shadow of the player who was deservedly named player of the season last year, wasn’t much better.The remainder of a jittery defence that looked scared of its own shadow in front of Jordan Pickford and his awful distribution embarrassed itself trying to play through Klopp’s high press and was frequently forced to whack it aimlessly long or give possession away by giving to the duo in midfield who either weren’t showing for the ball or who proved similarly incapable of consistently finding a blue shirt with a pass.For so much of this increasingly dejecting match, the team full of kids was the one playing with all the composure while the one with four players 30 or older and stuffed with internationals was struggling just to do the basics. And it was a reliance on the basic, later abandoned, that had served them so well in the first half hour of the game, one which they looked capable of winning, either through a moment of superior quality or simply attrition.One of Sigurdsson’s only meaningful contributions, a sublime ball into the box for Theo Walcott, set up Everton’s first chance, a low drive from around the penalty spot from Dominic Calvert-Lewin that was perhaps too accurate in that he put it down the middle and Adrian was able to save with his feet.Then, after Calvert-Lewin had been fouled in a dangerous area, Holgate latched onto a whipped free-kick from Sigurdsson but he planted a free header straight at the goalkeeper.Everton’s strategy of going direct and bypassing midfield was proving productive at times and they picked Walcott out down the right flank in the 27th minute where the winger was able to the ball back from the byline for Richarlison but he, too, was denied by Adrian’s foot.Four minutes after that, Walcott came within an inch or so of connecting with Calvert-Lewin but his cross was just too far ahead for the striker’s diving header to connect and steer goal-wards.Apart from Yerry Mina’s glancing header off a corner and a Calvert-Lewin effort from the edge of the area that he dragged wide with Sidibé calling for it in space to his right, the Blues didn’t really threaten for the remainder of the first half. But with Liverpool failing to unduly trouble Pickford, it felt as though it was only a matter of time before Ancelotti’s men made the breakthrough.The very early stages of the second period followed the pattern of the first and Sidibé’s neat chested layoff from a corner to Schneiderlin gave the French midfielder an opportunity to find the target but he swept his shot disappointingly over the crossbar. Then the tide started turning and Everton gradually disappeared from the contest. Neco Williams tested Pickford with a powerful drive and Pickford was forced to push a bouncing, speculative effort from Divock Origi before Curtis Jones produced the moment of magic that the match had been sorely missing, particularly from those in blue jerseys.The 18-year-old collected Origi’s pass after good hold-up play by the Belgian and he sized up a shot from the edge of the area that he curled over Pickford’s despairing fingertips and in off the underside of the bar.The effect on Everton, with all the experience in its ranks playing in front 8,000 expectant supporters, was utterly demoralising because Ancelotti’s men appeared to lose all belief and any remaining ability to string together a series of passes.Bernard came on for Walcott, whose promising first-half display had been ruined by a truly abysmal second, and offered a couple of flourishes, Moise Kean, introduced for Coleman in the 63rd minute, ran around like a headless chicken for the last half hour before despatching a sliced stoppage-time volley into the Kop, and Delph was thrown on in a vain attempt to add some nous in the middle but none of the manager’s substitutions made much of an impact.Instead, it was a Klopp change, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who forced the last save of the game in the 74th minute, shooting low towards Pickford’s near post but the England international was equal to it.Ultimately, Everton’s failure to put a single effort on target in the final hour of the match was a damning indictment of the performance and the players who plumbed new depths of awfulness in a season that will almost certainly be defined by it if things don’t change markedly over the remainder of another lost season.Just four games into a tenure he may already be regretting, Ancelotti will have had his eyes opened to the problems that exist in this squad and the amount of work that will be required to turn it around. So early in his reign, this one wasn’t on the manager; this was squarely on a group of players who have largely escaped the worst of the criticism and allowed Marco Silva to carry the can but now have nowhere left to hide. They were handed a route into the fourth round and they bottled it. Put frankly, they were a disgrace to the shirt and the badge. Lyndon Lloyd top Matchday Updates A month after going down to the defeat that proved to be the final nail in the proverbial coffin of Marco Silva's tenure, Everton are back at Anfield in the FA Cup. The Blues were carved open by an under-strength reds side on 4th December and beaten 5-2, a result that was the catalyst for change that ushered in the Carlo Ancelotti era and the Italian has the task of becoming the first manager to beat Liverpool on their own turf this season. Ancelotti goes for Sidibe, Sigurdsson and Schneiderlin in midfield, dropping Davies. Meanwhile, NINE changes for Liverpool... but of course that man Origi plays. Elliot only 16 years of age. Liverpool kicked off, with Everton playing in odd-looking blue socksDigne fired in a ferocious centre from his own throw-in but Sidibe failed to attack the ball and could not control it. Tremendous ball over the Liverpool Defence, Walcott and Calvert-Lewin both fired straight at Adria when it looked easier to score. Milner went down and needed a lot of treatment before being taken off for Everton needed to defend, the game developing into a lively tussle, Calvert-Lewin getting taken out by Phillips. But Sigurdsson put it perfectly onto Holgate's head, perfect position, and he heads it straight at Adrian, the ball then all the way up the other end for an Liverpool corner that needed resolute defending. Calvert-Lewin did brilliantly to bring down Pickford's long clearance bu Sifebe let the second ball roll out of play behind. Everton were playing the long ball frequently, but not with the required finish. Lllalana was given space to shot but wildly over. Richarlison collapsed after being tackled from behind, then Sigurdsson was also fouled from behind but Jon Moss was letting the game play, as they say. Elliot won a corner for Liverpool, that was headed away by Mina. Everton put themselves under pressure, repeatedly giving the ball back to the red shirts as Liverpool pressed with more continuity and determination, winning yet another corner, played deep and driven wide by Williams. Yet again fine play with Walcott setting up Richarlison for him to surely score but no, he firs it yet again at Adrian. What is wrong with the Everton strikers? The ball comes back across for him but this time he's too far behind the all. Llalana once again is invited to shoot at the top corner but it sailed away to the left. Richarlison dawdled on the ball and was easily dispossessed but Evertppn got it back and Walcott launched a fine cross for a Calvert-Lewin diving header but he was two inc=hes too far behind the ball! Holgate had to be very strong with Jones behind him, and another shot from Jones this time dragged wide of the Everton goal. Then a wicked cross from Origi, just far enough away from Minamiono with Elliot hanging on the far post. An Adrian clearance was stolen and Walcot put in a great ball that Lallana headed behind just outside his post. The corner was glance behind by a defender, the second corner from the other side likewise glancing this time of Mina, who got up to an incredible height. Calvert-LewinGets another glorious chance but fires wide. Origi danced and jinked, firing a frightening shot that Pickford saves brilliantly, and Everton almost break from the corner, but the ball was drawn like a magnet to Gomez and not Walcott running beyond him. More Liverpool corners, both defended, Everton reasonably convincing in rearguard action so far, but the script of their astounding profligacy upfront usually has only one plot-line. Into added time, and Everton looked to win a corner, but it was ruled behind off a blue shirt. Walcot and Richarlison got close but contrived to lose the ball back in was glanced away from Calvert-Lewin. Everton restarted with a hopeless hoof into touch. Not auspicious. BBut they got possession amongst a swarm of red defenders and won an early corner, Sigurdsson ball falling to Schneiderlin who lashes it over the bar. A poor foul by Digne gave away a dangerous set-piece but nothing came of it. Liverpool were gegen-pressing, pinning Everton in their own half, Williams lashing a swerving shot at Pickford. Lallana agoes down under pressure from Richarlison, and a dangerous set-piece, but it bounces out for a corner off Calvert-Lewin. Mina almost got Everton in trouble, playing it from the back<. But they worked it up to win a corner that Mina again made contact with but to no effect, and Everton were again under pressure from a series of set-pieces at the other end, all defended away. Delph and Kean were readied for the fray, Sigurdsson and Coleman but not before Liverpool had won yet another corner and extended period of pressure, Ancelotti responding by overloading the attack in time-honoured fashion of one Marco Siva. Walcott got behind and showed just how useless he can be with an absolutely criminal ball beyond three blue shirts in the middle. Digne tries=d from the other side but ran the ball out. A pot shot from Origi form 35 yards almost fooled Pickford, parried for a corner. Then, some classy play from Liverpool Origi setting up Jones for a fantastic curler that beat Pickford all hands down and bounced down off the bottom of the bar to crush all Everton hearts. It just had to happen. OC was next to skip through and almost score at the near post but Pickford scrambled it away. It needed a massive response from Everton but instead, it was Liverpool who continued to press the Blues back until Everton won an increasingly rare corner, dropped-kicked by Schneiderlin high over the bar for a drop goal in rugby. Just a shocking lack of technique. Liverpool were happily toying with Everton now, the Blues reduced to ball-watching as the Reds literally ran rings around them. On TV, the cameras panned away to an empty vacant Goodison Park, bizarrely bathed in light but nobody home. Meanwhile, back at Anfield, Liverpool continued to pile forward and take potshots at Pickford's goal. Everton clearly had nothing left at this point, playing the ball back to Pickford rather than forward toward the Liverpool goal. And when they did, Richarlison was offside. Bernard's poor pass to Digne goes harmlessly out of play. Sidibe at least get a decent cross but Kean tried to volley it acrobatically far too high, well over the ball. The game played itself out with Everton offering absolutely nothing in the second half. Scorer: Jones (71') Liverpool: Adrian; Milner (9' Larouci), Gomez, Phillips, Williams; Lallana, Chirivella, Jones (79' Brewster), Elliott; Minamino (70' Oxlade-Chamberlain), Origi. Subs not Used: Kelleher, Mane, Henderson, Hoever. Everton: Pickford; Mina, Holgate, Coleman (63' Kean), Digne [Y:58']; Sigurdsson (63' Delph), Schneiderlin, Sidibe, Walcott (78' Bernard); Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin. Subs not Used: Stekelenberg, Baines, Keane, Davies. Referee: Jon Moss Michael Kenrick top Match Preview A month after going down to the defeat that proved to be the final nail in the proverbial coffin of Marco Silva's tenure, Everton are back at Anfield in the FA Cup. The Blues were carved open by an under-strength reds side on 4th December and beaten 5-2, a result that was the catalyst for change that ushered in the Carlo Ancelotti era and the Italian has the task of becoming the first manager to beat Liverpool on their own turf this season. Ancelotti has already masterminded one victory over Jürgen Klopp's side, a 2-0 win as Napoli boss in the Champions League in September, and he is also the only manager to have stopped the reds from winning at home so far this season. He says that Everton have to rise to the occasion to beat the league leaders and is hopeful his team can put on a “perfect” display. "Everyone knows how Liverpool play,” Ancelotti said in his pre-match press conference. “It's fantastic [on the] counter-attack, in transition, recovering the ball. You have to [have] a perfect game to beat them. You cannot defend for 90 minutes. We have to play our football.” Asked how to beat Jürgen Klopp's juggernaut, Ancelotti said: “Just score more goals. Jurgen is my friend. I had the luck to beat him last season (with Napoli), also. We were able to do a great performance. That is what you have to do. Normal is not enough.” Everton will have Morgan Schneiderlin available after the Frenchman recovered from a calf strain. He was believed to have been passed fit for the trip to Manchester City on New Year's Day but didn't make the squad but could be included this time. Bernard will be assessed after picking up a heavy knock prior to kick-off at the Etihad Stadium in a collision with Yerry Mina while Fabian Delph is a doubt after picking up a knee problem in the defeat to City. A scan on the midfielder's knee revealed no significant damage, however, and it is hoped he can play. Klopp, meanwhile, will be without midfielder Naby Keita who picked up a groin problem on New Year's Day but the German could field Takumi Minamino in a line-up that may again feature a number of changes as a result of the reds' hectic fixture calendar. While Everton's league record against Liverpool has been a source of frustration for Blues fans over the past couple of decades, they also have a mixed record in the FA Cup that dates back to two painful defeats at Wembley in the 1980s and a 2-1 reverse in the 2012 semi-final. The defeat they suffered under Sam Allardyce two years ago was their first in the cup at Anfield, however, and they were also victorious in dramatic circumstances in the replay following that famous 4-4 draw in 1991 and Dan Gosling's extra-time winner in 2009. The drama and uniqueness of a one-off cup derby should hopefully provide the impetus for Everton to go out and give Liverpool a game under the tutelage of their new boss, even with the injuries and fatigue that are currently blighting the squad. Kick-off: 4.01pm, Sunday 5 January, 2019Referee: Jon MossLast Time: Liverpool 2 - 1 Everton Predicted Line-up: Pickford, Coleman, Mina, Holgate, Digne, Delph, Schneiderlin, Bernard, Richarlison, Walcott, Calvert-Lewin Lyndon Lloyd top * Unfortunately, we cannot control other sites' content policies and therefore cannot guarantee that links to external reports will remain active.

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Mr Eazi has fast become the hottest independent artist in the Afrobeats music scene. From collaborating with the likes of Diplo, French Montana and Giggs to two worldwide tours - there is no stopping the Happy Boy! The BET 2017, MOBO and African Pride awards nominee has numerous accolades under his hat including; The Headies Award for Next Rated in 2016, Top Naija Music Award for Artist of the Year, Apple Music’s Up Next artist and Best of Africa.
Mr Eazi gained international success with hits such as “Skintight,” “Dance for Me,” “Leg Over,” “Pour Me Water” and, most recently, “Property.” In the past year, the Nigerian native has been cementing his status as a global superstar with UK charting hits and providing mesmerizing guest appearances on songs like RAYE - “Decline,” ” M:O - “Bad Vibe,” and Crazy Cousinz - “No Way”. These songs have gone on to garner over Top 20 U.K charting (“Decline“ &“Bad Vibe”).
Hitting well over the 250 million mark in streaming and a rising profile in the global landscape, Mr Eazi returns to level out and one-up the playing field with a meaty collection of Bankufied magic on Life is Eazi Vol. 2 - Lagos to London.
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Crapo Statement on Emergency Lending Facilities
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, issued the following statement agreeing with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin on the status of the 13)3 facilities that have utilized funding provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
“I agree with Secretary Mnuchin’s analysis of the success of the 13(3) facilities and the termination language of the CARES Act. Returning the unused $455 billion to the Treasury allows those funds to be re-appropriated for other uses, such as reducing our national debt, or providing additional targeted relief to sectors of the economy most in need. Since the announcement of the backstop facilities, markets have stabilized, liquidity has improved and credit has flowed more freely. More than $1 trillion in new nonfinancial corporate bonds and more than $250 billion in municipal debt has been issued, almost entirely by the private sector.”
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Dolcefino is Back With Questions for Tony Villarreal
SAN ANGELO, TX — Veteran Emmy Award-winning journalist Wayne Dolcefino questioned San Angelo mayoral candidate Tony Villarreal’s ties to Republic Services, the winner of the controversial trash contract in San Angelo in 2014, in a video released today.
On the day Republic was chosen as the winner of the contract, Villarreal, a busy, fulltime local businessman took time out of his busy schedule to praise the council for their trash request for proposals (RFP) process and urged the San Angelo City Council to select Republic.
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He said, “The committee has come up with a recommendation, and I agree with that recommendation, as a customer, as a citizen, and also as a public servant serving in these different capacities.” Villarreal listed his experience as a two-term mayor of Fort Stockton in the 2000s, and previous to that, his service on the Pecos County Commissioners’ Court as the Precinct 2 commissioner in the 1990s.
At Villarreal’s announcement for mayor in January, we were deep into the investigation of the promised audit of Republic’s overcharges of San Angelo commercial customers that was never completed by San Angelo City Manager Daniel Valenzuela. We asked Villarreal then what he was going to do about the trash contract. He brushed it off as old news and said we need to put the past behind us and move on.
Subsequently, we found Matt McDaniel’s three-year-old news report of the day Republic Services was chosen as the winner of the request for proposals on April 1, 2014. Villarreal was the only person to stand up from the audience in support of choosing Republic. Dolcefino commented that he thought Villarreal’s comments were so outrageously complimentary, it was a “little creepy.” “Who loves a garbage company that much?” he asked.
That led Dolcefino to ask the question, “Was Tony Villarreal paid to speak that day?”
At the April 12 San Angelo Home Builders candidate forum, Villarreal dropped another bomb. He called for the renegotiation of the Republic contract. Given his previous praise of Republic and the City’s trash contract selection process, it made Dolcefino even more curious.
Who was Tony Villarreal? And since Villarreal claimed his experience with Republic was when he was a public official in Fort Stockton, Dolcefino was on the way there to investigate. Then tragedy struck. On Tuesday, April 25 at 10:40 a.m., on the way to Fort Stockton via San Angelo, a Lexus passing a line of trucks on U.S. 87 near Melvin got trapped in Dolcefino’s oncoming lane resulting in a head-on collision.
We thought the investigation was over.
Then, recovering in a San Antonio hospital, Dolcefino called us and asked if we would go to Fort Stockton to help him finish his investigation.
In Fort Stockton
Above: The Pecos County Courthouse. (LIVE! Photo/Joe Hyde)
On our trip to Fort Stockton this week, we interviewed dozens of politicians and businessmen about Villarreal’s tenure there.
None of them could exactly pinpoint what Republic Services, or its predecessor Duncan Disposal, did for the City of Fort Stockton when Villarreal was mayor. The City of Fort Stockton manages its own landfill. The City picks up all of the garbage in town, not Republic. The only possible connection between Republic and Villarreal’s time there as a politician in office were possible outlying garbage pickup places in the rural countryside. Everywhere else, including county offices inside the city limits, has City of Fort Stockton dumpsters.
In an interview with LIVE last week, Villarreal was adamant that he dealt with Duncan Disposal as the precinct 2 Pecos County commissioner. But there were no municipal or county trash contracts like the San Angelo deal, as Villarreal seemed to suggest in his April 1, 2014 comments to the San Angelo City Council.
What is more, former Pecos County Judge and oilman Delmon Hodges didn’t have good things to say about Villarreal.
“He was more in business for himself than he was for the county, I felt like. And most of my friends felt the same way. They felt like he was taking better care of himself than he was for his precinct,” the former Pecos County Judge said. Hodges was the Pecos County Judge when Villarreal was serving as precinct 2 commissioner in the mid- to late-1990s.
Hodges served one term as Pecos County Judge from 1997 to 2001.
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Dolcefino is still hospitalized, recuperating with multiple broken bones from the April 25 crash. Since Villarreal is running for mayor, and Election Day is Saturday, he felt the information from his investigation was important for the citizens of San Angelo to consider right away. In pain, he tracked the soundtrack for the video from his hospital bed yesterday.
The videos detailing Dolcefino’s research of the 2014 Republic Services trash contract with the City of San Angelo have been watched by over 35,000 people, according to viewing statistics on Facebook and YouTube.com. He has become somewhat of a local San Angelo news celebrity.


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It’s such a cliche phrase, but it’s been a recurring theme in my life for the past 10 years. I struggle with being content. With thriving where I’ve been placed. Not just on a philosophical level, but on a real, physical, tangible level. In other words, I’ve struggled with this brown, dry, drab place that I’ve been given as a home, especially as a creative who craves beauty and life and visual inspiration.
But not being content where I am? That’s me, throwing what God has given me back into His face.
I’ve said over the years that I love California, but I hate the desert. My poor husband has heard me say that more than once, and babe, I’m honestly so sorry. I’ve spent a long time, preaching this lesson to myself, learning to come to terms with the drab color, the dry hot heat. I’ve cried, prayed, asked to be shown why it is that I’ve been placed here. I’ve been more and more okay with it as time has gone by, but then a change did happen pretty quickly and pretty recently for me. It’s going to sound totally silly and completely unrelated to being a creative, living where you don’t naturally draw inspiration, but hear me out.
It got cold.
I’ve been the first one complaining about the overabundance of 100+ degree days. The one begging for winter to come back. The one laughing at the native Californians in Uggs as soon as the temperature goes below 70. But this winter, it got colder than I ever remember it being here. I bought my own pair of Uggs. I bundled up in sweatshirts in the middle of the day, and using multiple blankets at night. Who knew all it would take is me longing for the mild California winters, for it to be warm enough to go to the beach, to completely change my attitude about this place? Why that? Honestly, I don’t know, other than it was God showing me I’ve been blessed beyond measure.
I’m blessed by the (usually) warm winters, that let you go to the beach whenever. And while it has been cold here in the desert, I’m only about 3 hours from literally my favorite place on planet earth, the San Diego area, and year-round 60ish degree weather. We typically don’t have to run much heat in the winter. And in the sweltering days of summer, you can stay in the shade and there’s almost always a breeze blowing, and since it’s so dry here, we can use swamp coolers, which chill the air so efficiently we grab our sweatshirts.
I’m here for a reason.
I’ve been placed here for a reason. My kids are supposed to grow up here for a reason. I’m supposed to use my talents here and grow my businesses here, and live here, for a reason. I used to think I could never be inspired here. Or that I could never grow a business (yet alone two) here because I know so few people. But people have built businesses from every remote corner of the world. I see people living in what I’d consider a paradise, wishing they lived somewhere else more inspiring to them. My paradise is someone else’s dry desert.
The other thing that helped transform my mindset is from an art perspective. The greatest artists use whatever materials they have in whatever situation they are in to make great art. Matisse was losing mobility so he started cutting up paper and pinning it to walls instead of painting. He didn’t say “oh well, I can’t paint anymore so I guess that’s it then.” No, he carried on. I don’t need to go anywhere to make art. I can be inspired from here in the brown desert. And while that means I’ll google a lot of pictures of the ocean when I’m craving inspiration, I don’t need to up and leave where I am.
Hard is good.
Hard things are good for us. When we fall into a routine and life of easy, I think it’s actually a detriment to our creativity. You need push and challenge yourself, both physically and mentally. When it’s hard to create, that’s the best time to push yourself to create. Think about why you have been given a drive to create, why God put that spark in you, and why you can’t just ignore it. Look for inspiration in unexpected places. You can praise God when you find it, and cling to Him when it’s lacking.
It’s absurd to think you can’t create where you are. That you can’t use the talents God has also given you in the place He has positioned you. If you truly believe you were made by God to create, then that’s it! You were, and you must!


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Queensland MP Bob Katter gave a bizarre address in parliament last night, plugging his book and touching on topics from crossdressing to AIDS.
While largely avoiding the subject of the marriage equality bill in his rambling speech, Katter did seem to express concern that same-sex marriage would become compulsory.
“But you don’t live in that world. You don’t live in that world where real people live. You live down here, where you listen to this incredible concoction of drivel.”
Katter then took an opportunity to promote his book—“only $29 at all best-selling bookshops”.
He suggested that the LGBTI community is a new phenomenon and that people are “genetically programmed” to be heterosexual.
“The people advocating this proposition tonight, the LGBTIs, have maybe 60 years on their side. I have 3.5 million years of genetic programming on my side,” he said.
He went on to claim that multiple parents have complained to him that their sons were forced to wear dresses at school under the LGBTI agenda.
“I listened in horror to the story of the two young mothers. The first one started off by saying, ‘My son told me that he had to go to school tomorrow in a dress, and I said my boys will never, ever go in public in a dress. I rang up the headmaster of the school, and he more or less told me, “It’s the orders of the education department, and you’ll send your kid to school in a dress,’” Katter said.
“Then the second lady got up and she said, ‘My son was told not only that he had to go to school in a dress’—that’s messing with young people’s heads on a major scale here—’but also that in his head he had to become a woman for the day.’”
Katter went on to cover a number of tangentially related topics, speaking at one point about AIDS and blaming gay people for transmissions to “poor little children” through historical blood donations.
Finally, he turned his attention to the “vanishing race” of Australians, claiming that the national population would be reduced to just 7,000 people in the next hundred years.
At that point, Liberal MP Christopher Pyne interjected, “Bobby, this is rubbish.”
Social media users were baffled and angered by the speech.
Director of the Sydney Mardi Gras, Jesse Matheson, called it “the most foul speech I’ve ever heard.”
Liberal National MP Warren Entsch this morning condemned Katter’s rant as “offensive, embarrassing and cringeworthy”.
Debate in the House of Representatives over the marriage equality bill is continuing.

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Killing Season sees two acting veterans coming together to play a pair of ex-soldiers. Even if the film turns out to have nothing else going for it, it does have John Travolta with a Russian accent trying to kill Robert DeNiro.
This movie has Robert DeNiro playing a Bosnian war veteran who has withdrawn from his family and the rest of society to live in the mountains. John Travolta plays a tourist whom DeNiro takes in, until the tourist's real intentions become clear.
Travolta is apparently a Serbian soldier plotting vengeance for something that happened during the war. Once they go hunting, DeNiro realizes he is Travolta's prey and the battle is on. Killing Season arrives in theaters on July 12.


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text: Well - I have been painting a good part of yesterday and today. It is just the georgous sunshine keeps calling me to go outside! And on the East Coast - you have to grab the sun when it shines. I am getting excited to finish this one though - have so many more to start working on. It's almost funny - I started to draw our pansies and set it aside, all the same colours. May need to paint hmmm.... reds?


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PLUMAS COUNTY, CA (January 19, 2021) – Galen Wallace was seriously injured after a crash along Highway 70 in the Feather River Canyon.
The California Highway Patrol said the 23-year-old Oroville man ended up hospitalized following the wreck on Monday afternoon.
The incident happened when Galen Wallace was driving a 2020 white Ford Transit 350 van, contracted by FedEx, west on Highway 70. At the same time, a 2007 black Ford F-150 truck was going east.
The two vehicles were approaching each other in a sharp curve when for an unknown reason the pickup crossed over the centerline. In the process, the truck entered the westbound lane.
Tanya Blust, 43, Also Hurt in Collision Near Rush Creek Road
CHP determined that its driver, 43-year-old Quincy resident Tanya Blust, slammed into the van in a head-on manner. The accident occurred on January 18 west of Rush Creek Road.
Firefighters along with the paramedics responded to the scene and found Wallace unconscious and trapped inside the van. They soon extricated him from the wreckage.
According to the article published by the Plumas News, medical personnel rushed Wallace to Enloe Medical Center with major injuries.
Meanwhile, Blust sustained minor injuries as a result of the collision. CHP added that she was traveling at a stated speed of 50 mph when the crash took place.
Authorities are still investigating the cause of the incident.
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We expected our visit to Halkyn to be brief and unsuccessful, but it turned out that we spent well over an hour wandering around this fascinating and haunting location.
Halkyn Old Churchyard lies about 100 yards from the new St Mary’s Church in Halkyn, new in this case meaning that it was built in around 1880. Unusually the new church was built at a different location to the existing village church. The earlier church, built in 1745, was small, the village grew rapidly during the 19th century following the development of an important lead mining industry in the area. It maybe that the footprint of the old church was too small to hold a new church of sufficient size for the increasing population and thus it was necessary to build the new church away from the original site.
What remains at the old churchyard is a roughly rectangular mound in the centre where the church would have stood, and the graveyard attached to the church, frozen in time with the last burials made there in the 1870s.
It is a large site, and many of the graves are remarkably well preserved, with many inscriptions legible from the mid eighteenth century. Clearly it isn’t completely untended, as it is possible to walk through it, but it was severly over grown, with graves and memorials half hidden in an undergrowth of long grass, ferns and brambles. A number of yew trees remain which would have been there at the time of the original church.
St Mary’s Well – Ffynnon Fair was recorded by Lhuyd in 1699 as “a circular stone basin“. The Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments visited the site in September 1910 and reported that “It is now covered with cemented flags, and its water supplied the neighbouring houses.”
We searched in the southern corner of the churchyard for these cemented flags, which have also been described as “possibly old gravestones”. What we did find was a significant hollow in the ground in an area devoid of gravestones. At this location a small spring bubbles up, on the outside of the churchyard wall, into the grounds of neighbouring Halkyn Castle.
In a heavily landscaped area of the castle grounds this spring forms a small stream which runs for about 10 to 20 yards before falling into a pond.
The sides of the stream are flagged with large stones, at least one of which appears to be a reused grave stone.
Is this just a coincidence, or has Ffynnon Fair been relieved of its duties of supplying neighbouring houses and is it once again flowing freely through the grounds of Halkyn Castle ?
We should certainly like to think so.
That was very interesting thank you. Very sad when you think someone may have reused a grave stone for their own needs.
I’m going to check out this burial area, August 2020. A few of my early 19th century ancestors had connections with old St Mary’s, Halkyn. Shame they’ve got such a common surname – Hughes !
Are there any foundations left of the church?
Hi – no there are no significant remains of the church, you can make out where it was from the rectangular platform in the centre of the graveyard, but the building has gone. It is a fascinatingly atmospheric graveyard though – well worth visiting for its own sake so I hope you find it and if you have ancestors there then I hope you find them – though as you say there may be many Hugheses there
It’s a pity you didn’t research further. The new church was built and paid for by The Duke of Westminster, as he did not want the old church so close to his castle, and wanted to improve his view from the castle.
Yes, I read that, J. Baker. However, the occupants of the castle must’ve been visiting the old church. If you look at old maps you’ll see the castle had its own path leading directly to it. When I visited the site I attempted to find the break in the perimeter wall where this path came into the churchyard. I searched thoroughly but it must’ve been filled in very well because I couldn’t find it.
Thanks for the information J Baker- I agree that I could have done a lot more research on this one – it was one of my first posts, there are a lot of questions unanswered and I have been meaning to revise it for a while. Hopefully soon we will be able to travel more freely and i will get back there and take another look
Rebecca – glad you got a chance to visit – hope you found a few Hughes graves there.
Visited this graveyard on 22nd September 2021 with a friend to photograph the area. Very interesting graves and the further you go into the graveyard the older the graves are but unfortunately also the undergrowth takes over. It fascinated me how some of the stones had been what appeared to be slid sideways possible grave robbers? I was led to believe that this graveyard contains the grave of a pirate with possible skull and crossbones on the grave I failed to find it if it ever existed? Does anyone one know of the possibility of this grave? We got some interesting photos on our explore.
Many thanks Richard
Hi – I think I found the “pirate grave” here you can see my picture in this post https://gothicheroine.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/one-place-i-wont-be-visiting-this-halloween/ There are a number of others in the area, I wrote a more general post on “pirate graves” here https://gothicheroine.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/pirate-graves/ . The skull and crossbones symbol is really a memento mori – a reminder to the observer that one day soon they too will follow the occupant of the grave, but I find the pirate explanation much more exciting – I certainly always look out for them on my regular graveyard expeditions. Hope you get back there soon and find it – thanks for visiting.


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Fresh food retail volume includes uncooked and unprocessed foods sold in various channels (Euromonitor International, 2018), and is an indicator that can be used to understand trends in shifting dietary patterns and changing dietary quality. Low- and middle-income countries have rapidly been undergoing a nutrition transition characterized by increased consumption of processed foods coupled with decreased consumption of fresh food (Baket et al., 2020). These changes come with serious health implications, as processed and ultra-processed foods tend to be less nutrient dense and have been linked with poorer diet quality (Imamura et al., 2015), as well as increased diet-related illness (Micha et al., 2012). The fresh food retail volume is a national-level indicator that quantifies the volume of fresh foods sold at markets (including supermarkets, wet markets, convenience stores, and online purchases), reported in kilograms per capita. It provides information on the quantity of healthier foods in the food supply and can provide a fuller picture of dietary transition when used in conjunction with the indicator for packaged food retail volume (Global Nutrition Report, 2015).
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The total amount of fresh foods sold in various retail outlets of interest (e.g. supermarkets, wet markets, convenience stores) should be converted into kilograms and summed. This figure is divided by the total population of interest to determine the amount of fresh food retail volume (kg/capita). Currently, data for this indicator are collected for a subset of countries (none of which are low-income countries) and are available for purchase from Euromonitor. If one has access to Euromonitor, data can be easily downloaded as national per capita values (Euromonitor International, 2022). If calculating this indicator from other market data (i.e. not using Euromonitor), it is necessary to clearly define what is meant by fresh foods and what is meant by markets. For example, the NOVA Food Classification system could be used to group foods into unprocessed/minimally processed, processed, and ultra-processed categories (Monteiro et al., 2010). Government ministries may also collect data related to market-level retail sales and/or volume.
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A total of 37 hospitals were involved in the mass casualty simulation. The scenario involved a terrorist attack on a San Antonio hospital using the bioagent anthrax. All of the hospital's patients had to be decontaminated and transferred to other facilities, according to KVUE.
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text: The subject vehicles (SV) are all automatic transmission, front wheel drive vehicles with hand actuated mechanical park brakes. The investigation focused on allegations that the service jack failed and caused the vehicles to fall. The subject scissors-type jack appears to fail at the slotted hinge joints where the jack screw is located (bends at mid-point). The failures occur while the jack is in use, and vehicle movement (forward or backward) is typically reported coincident with the failure. Ford reported that most MY 2003 Windstar and all MY 2006-2007 Freestar/Monterey also use the subject jack, an additional 223,246 vehicles.NHTSA has received six consumer complaints (VOQs) involving three injury incidents and a fatality.Ford reported 26 complaints for the SVs involving an additional 4 injuries. In the fatal incident, the van fell on a person working on the engine under the otherwise unsupported vehicle; ODI was unable to determine whether the vehicle was adequately chocked or the park brake was properly set. Reported injuries include a broken arm, head and hand injuries, arm and rib bruises, and muscle strains. NHTSA has received just one new report since opening this investigation. The complaint trend in ODI and Ford data is flat if not declining.Ford provides instructions and warnings in the owner's manual, on a placard placed with the jack, and on the jack itself. These instruct consumers to put the vehicle gear selector in Park, properly set the parking brake, chock the opposite wheel, use the jack only for changing a tire, loosen the lug nuts prior to jacking, and to not get under a vehicle supported by the jack only (NHTSA also recommends that jacks only be used for tire changing).In the VOQs, roughly half the consumers were using the jack for something other than tire changing, half had not chocked a wheel, and half had not properly set the parking brake. ODI notes that since the front wheels are drive wheels (with an open center differential) the Park gear cannot provide vehicle stability (longitudinally) when a front wheel is raised. All NHTSA complaints and most of the complaints to Ford involved failures while a front wheel was raised.In response to ODI's inquiry, Ford conducted testing on a 2004 Freestar. Ford's tests showed that when a front tire was raised the service jack held without failing under various scenarios except when a rocking force was applied and the parking brake was not properly set. Based on its testing and its analysis of field data, Ford concluded that the type of jack failure evidenced in this investigation (bending at mid-point) was likely caused by vehicle movement due to an improperly secured vehicle, or other misuse of the jack. Ford notes that rates in this investigation were similar to those in another investigation (EA91-049) which ODI closed. ODI also analyzed jack data for MY 2003 and newer vehicles to compare to the SV population. To assist with this analysis, ODI requested data from the jack manufacturer (actually its successor company) who provided limited data but did identify other models using the same design jack. ODI was unable to identify a significant difference in the incidence of jack failures (including those involving bending failures) between the SVs, other vehicles which used the same jack, or other vehicles where the jack type was unknown or different.A safety-related defect has not been identified at this time and further use of agency resources does not appear to be warranted.Accordingly, investigation PE11-033 is closed. The closing of this investigation does not constitute a finding by NHTSA that a safety-related defect does not exist and ODI reserves the right to take further action if warranted by the circumstances.The ODI reports cited above can be reviewed at www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners/SearchNHTSAID under the following identification (ODI) numbers:10247506, 10330290, 10389720, 10398164, 10423688 and 10437970.

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Computer security researchers have created a clone of the Apple AirTag tracker to spy on other people, bypassing the software protection of the Find My service. At the same time, the day before, Apple released a patch that was supposed to close the “hole” in the gadget’s vulnerability – but this did not prevent the spy device from performing its main function.
The AirTag clone has been upgraded so that it can track the owner of the iPhone for more than five days. At the same time, no notifications were displayed on the smartphone, and the gadget itself did not emit sound signals. Despite Apple’s statement about checking the AirTag serial number, the spy tracker was not even tied to an Apple ID account, but it was successfully integrated into the service.
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The gadget is based on a microcontroller with an ESP32 Bluetooth module. The main vulnerability of FindMy, the researchers called not the Apple beacons themselves, but the imperfection of the software. Representatives of the brand did not comment on the publication about the vulnerability of the service.