Cost savings in Biomass unloading
Traditional truck unloading
A truck can usually unload itself in 15 - 20 minutes. Traditionally, trucks unload to intermediate storages. This is to avoid trucks having to wait. Furthermore, some chippers need near-singulated log flow, which might lead to the use of intermediate storages.
The traditional truck unloading has some downsides: firstly, the intermediate storages are expensive, and secondly, the log decks work with logs only. The third downside is that the log deck takes a lot of space and complicates traffic near the biomass processing station. In addition, log deck is not good at avoiding waiting as rarely two trucks can unload to it simultaneously. If chipping capacity is higher than truck unloading capacity, a log deck mostly acts as an expensive conveyor only.
Saalasti unloading system
It has been shown that almost without an exception, the fuel of a biomass firing power plant changes over time. This fact indicates that it would be beneficial if the feeding system could feed all kinds of materials to the chipper, and this is also Saalasti system's first advantage. Compared to a log deck that can handle only logs, Saalasti's special biomass feeder feeds logs, thinning wood, loose biomass, bundles and even stumps easily to the chipper or crusher.
Another major advantage of the Saalasti system is that there is always two parking spots for trucks, which means that two trucks can conveniently unload simultaneously. The feeder can be loaded with a crane or a front end loader. The feeder is also reversible in case of metal detection and ejection, and it is equipped with a cleaning screen zone.
Probably the greatest advantage of Saalasti system is that the feeder feeds the chipper or crusher with so high volumetric and tonnage rate that no intermediate storage is required before the feeder, and there is still always free space where to load more material. Depending on the chipper size, 3 - 6 trucks can be unloaded per hour.
Finally, for a system with a Saalasti-type feeder, Saalasti can give a very high availability guarantee. The guarantee is clearly higher than log deck or vibratory feeder availability guarantees.
Main advantages of Saalasti unloading system
1. No need for an intermediate storage before the feeder
2. Suitable for all wood based raw material
3. Two trucks may unload simultaneously
4. Higher availability guarantee
5. Low total costs


Building up to the Aero Club of South Africa’s 100th anniversary in 2020, the Aero Club hosted its first annual “Airweek” in great style with a wonderful weekend of aviation fun at the Parys Airfield.
Kevin Storie and his dedicated team went all out to make this event one for the record books, with informative talks and impressive displays. The event really picked up momentum on Friday, being a holiday many aviators flocked to the small town of Parys situated in the Northern Free State.
After a hearty breakfast at the Montgolfier Restaurant the proceedings were formally kicked off by Karl Jensen program director for the event. First up was RAASA (Recreation Aviation Administration of South Africa) who hosted a network session, followed by a technical forum by the EAA.
Charlie Marais gave a very informative talk on attitude management in air shows in South Africa, many of the points raised here can be used in general aviation. “Your ego and aviation” was the theme for a talk by Prof Andre Coetzee.
Project Cuba an imitative to get Capt Arthur Piercy to Cuba to meet with the Pilot that shot him down in the 80's was next up, Arthur was badly injured in a crash landing after sustaining serious damage to the tail of his Mirage F1CZ.
With the growing number of Rotax users in South Africa, Comet Aviations talk on the proper maintenance procedures and documentation on Rotax Aircraft Engines was most welcome. Test Pilot and former fighter pilot General Des Barker gave a very informative talk on the new threat to aviation; Automation Addiction followed by a talk on Safety Focus by Chris Briers the owner of Wonderboom based Air Team. Dr Mike Brown a leading aviation doctor explained the role of medicine in aviation and was on hand to answer any medical related quires. Athol Franz the editor of African Pilot presented a video on international Airshows to close the formalities for the day.
All the while there was lots of flying to keep everyone that did not attend the talks entertained.
Saturday morning saw many arrivals all greeted by slightly chilli Free State morning but absolutely excellent flying conditions, pilots arrived from as far afield as Virginia in Durban.
The spot landing competition slotted in between the arrivals and departures competition was held and continued most of the day. Arrivals and departures, were excellently managed by a team form ATNS who as always did a sterling job of keeping everything safe . Unfortunately only eight pilots took part in the spot landing competition but nevertheless made for some very entertaining flying.
Ron Strik took the honours in his a Cessna 150 followed by Hans Schwebel also in the same C150 (ZS-IWD). Third place belonged to Marcel Griffen in a Pipistrel Sinus (ZS-GZC). Willem Greyling managed fourth place in a Savannah (ZU-FXZ)
Rob Jonkers was next up in Fifth place in his Cessna 172. Bennie du Plessis took Sixth spot in his beautiful red and silver Cessna 172 (ZS-DXZ). Seventh place was claimed by Shaun Murthy in yet another C172 (ZS-TRL). Last but not least was Gregory Clegg in his Lambada (ZU-EUK).
Gary Whitecross and Mark Howse kept the crowd on their toes with brilliant displays of aerobatics in gliders. Gary was in a Pilatus B4 and Mark in a Schleicher KA6, they both did two displays one from a tug launch and one from a winch launch.
For the speed freaks Scully Levine flew the pylon course in both a Beechcraft Baron and a Ravin 500. The Ravin belongs to Calle Hedberg, also known as “The flying Hobo.” Calle recently flew around the world this Raven. The trip took him just over 10 months.
While all the Flying was going on there were a series of talks kicked of once again by RAASA followed by an outline on the EAA Young Eagles. Dr Mike Brown presented his talk on Medicine in Aviation for all who missed it the day before whilst Mr JP Truter from the CAA, enlightened aviators on Aircraft certification and continuous airworthiness. Mark Swarts also from the CAA , presented a very interesting talk on Risk perception in the general aviation environment and also gave a breakdown of accidents and incidents over the last three years.
Karl Jensen interviewed a World War Two Spitfire Pilot, followed by a talk by Mark Howse on approved persons workshop.
A big word of thanks must go to Kevin and his team for a wonderful weekend.


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THIS. THISTHISTHISTHIS THIS. She says exactly what I wish I’d known how to say to people for most of my life.
I would, however, add the caveat that most counselors and therapists aren’t even comfortable dealing with suicidal people. Nearly all of them panic and hospitalize you if you have a plan and intent.
Every time a well-known person commits suicide, I brace myself for a torrent of well-meaning but patronizing advice to suicidal people on various social networks and blogs as the friends of the victim try to find something – anything – positive to do in a situation that is by definition past all help. Most often this takes the form of lecturing people to talk to their friends or family if they are feeling depressed or suicidal, mixed with a little “If only they’d known how much we liked them, they would have stayed alive!” That sentiment in particular is infuriating to many people who have been suicidal, since they are often aware that people love or depend on them and feel more guilt for knowing they are letting them down. It also trivializes suicidal feelings – oh, cheer up, people love you, okay!
For many depressed people, telling them “You…
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Hey there comic fans!
You know what’s more awesome than comics? Nothing. But what comes to a close second? Movies, and even better superhero movies! That’s what we’re going to talk about today, the comic book movies you should know about and be excited for hitting us in the good ol’ 2012! The list may seem short, but these are what I consider to be the top 3 most anticipated superhero/comic book movies. But fret not, because at the end I’ll list the rest. Never say I don’t take care of the readers!
The Avengers – May 4th
This could easily be the most anticipated comic book movie ever. Never has there been such a concerted effort to get one movie done and planned to a tee. This is the culmination of 5 movies worth of preparation and teasing. It’s been carefully configured and planned out and this is the year we finally get to see it. This movie has a lot at stake, Marvel has pretty much thrown in all their chips, betting on this hand of cards. But everything about it right now is exciting as all hell. I mean the sheer excitement for the trailer was palpable, and as we near the release date, you can bet that there will be Avengers mania! This movie has been given everything it needs, a set of stellar actors who’ve shown in each of their movies that they understand these characters, Joss “King of the Nerds” Whedon as the freaking director, and one hell of a marketing campaign. I’m sure we’ve all got our fingers crossed that it’s worth the wait.
Amazing Spider-man – July 3rd
This movie can be described with one word: Redemption. This is Sony’s one shot to get it right again, and if you’ve seen Spider-man 3, you know they’ve got a lot to make up for. But will it do anything different for us? It is another origin story, as though everyone and their dog didn’t know how Spider-man got his powers. However, it is the introduction of Curt Connors/The Lizard to the realm of movies and that could add something of interest to the movie. Not to mention, it’s a completely different cast from the first set of movies. So while Tobey Maguire is off starring in The Great Gatsby (which I’m actually insanely excited about), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, and Doctor Who once, huh.) will be playing everyone’s favorite nerd/superhero alongside Emma Stone (Superbad! and friggin’ Zombieland) as Gwen Stacy and Rhys Ifans (He was actually Xenophillius Lovegood in Harry Potter and Nicky’s oldest brother in Little Nicky, because that was my favorite Adam Sandler movie) as The Lizard. It’s got a lot of promise, despite what I may or may not think about the new costume. And hey, if it’s really awful, then maybe Marvel will be able to get the license back from Sony and we’ll see him woven into the Marvel Movieverse! Total win/win!
The Dark Knight Rises – July 20th
Oh man, talk about saving the best for the last! As you should all know by now, Batman is my favorite character of ever. Like seriously, I have a tattoo of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy with “Bat Nerd” written on a banner. My fandom goes over the upper limit on this one. Christopher Nolan has taken a broken and dying franchise of films, and made us forget what the name Schumacher means to the Batverse (Well, almost). Batman Beginscontinues to be one of my favorite movies of all time, The Dark Knight was critically praised and applauded by nearly everyone (I say nearly because there was probably one or two grouches who refused to comply with “mainstream” attitudes towards the movie) and just like the last two movies I’ve mentioned in this article, The Dark Knight Rises has a lot riding on it. Not many films have amazing sequels, and even fewer have amazing threequels (pardon the term, but it seemed right, I apologize). And the last time we saw Bane as a villain was in one of those aforementioned Joel Schumacher movies, not a terribly good sign. Well that’s where you’re wrong! Look at what Nolan has done with the last two movies and the images and characterizations we’re hearing regarding Bane, and even Catwoman. It sounds like it’ll fit perfectly into the universe he’s helped form. I have the highest hopes for this film as do many others, and you can expect to see me on the midnight opening for this movie.
Those are the movies I’m sure we’re all waiting to see with baited breath and Avengers/Spider-man/batman shirts waiting to be worn on release day. But what if you don’t care about these movies? What if there’s something other comics related movies that you want to see? Well I’ve got them! There’s G.I Joe: Retaliation, Ghost Rider andThe Hobbit! There’s also loads more than is speculated to come out this year (most notably Dark Tower, the Stephen King series, although it has no attached release date yet). Oh it will be a glorious year in comics and movies. Oh yes it will!
Until next time comic fans, I’m gonna go polish off my copies of Batman Begins and Dark Knight, and lock myself in a closet with a laptop until The Dark Knight Rises comes out! Happy reading!

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2021, half-year evaluation
Hello everyone, or good evening?
A half-year just finished this year so far, and I feel the time flies so fast. How have you been doing in these 6 months?
In this blog today, I would like to write down what I felt and learned in these 6 months.
【 Forgive 】
Looking back on these 6 months, I was supported by many people for my art opportunities.
I can’t thank you enough for each experience and opportunity I have had so far.
I also had Creator’s Market in Nagoya in June, that was also a good experience to know that there are people for sure who empathise with my art and its concept. That fact gave me confidence in creating artwork even for the future.
On the other hand,
I tended to forget to rest and care for my health and mental as I was lost in time.
So that I couldn’t do what I had normally done.
That was irresponsible of me.
And more, this is a bit more personal… but I have this bad habit that I tend to think of everything as “MUST”, which ends up putting strict ordeal on other people and myself. Then eventually it gets to a totally negative outcome.
I felt that kind of situation often in this half-year.
Under such circumstances, one of my older friends told me that...
“Forgive yourself more.”
I felt somehow lighter around my chest which had been holding something very heavy.
As I couldn’t forgive myself that I was always stuck with what was bad and what was wrong.
After all, only guilty and stress remain in me… which was just simply a negative chain.
That’s is why I want to tell myself from now on that “I forgive myself and let’s make the mistake good use next time!”. So that it allows me to change my mind.
For the rest of this year, I will try to be kind to myself, everyone around me, and the society.
And that is how I would like to create art.
In this modern society,
In this world that evaluates you by the rules and justice someone made,
No one is supposed to forgive you.
You are the one who forgives yourself.
Ok! That’s it for today!
In the next blog, I will write about what was my last project and how I worked on the project as that work was the main reason how I got offers from universities. (As I mentioned in the last blog..sorry for the sudden change this time!)
Thank you for reading my blog until the end!
See you next week and have a great weekend (^D^)/～♪

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Slava Kemlil, a member of the Chukchi indigenous people in Russia’s Far East, has lived a life bound to nature’s pulse – but the changing landscape of his tundra environment is posing fresh challenges.
Slava Kemlil is waiting for us on the dock in the Arctic town of Chersky.
He’s been there applying for government grants but it is not where he feels at home. Home is in the tundra with his reindeer. “You can relax there,” he says. “You can breathe the fresh air. In the settlement there are four walls and a lot of paperwork.”
Kemlil belongs to the Chukchi nation from Chukotka in the Russian Far East. They are an Arctic people and roughly divide in terms of traditional livelihoods between reindeer herding chukchis and sea chukchis who fish. Kemlil is of the first order but as proficient at sea as the second, guiding our boat deftly past shallow sand banks to dock at the small camp on the shore of the Kolyma river where his team are waiting.
They’re a group of nine, some of them experienced reindeer herders, the rest teenagers on summer placement sent by the local employment centre.
It’s a tough job. Shifts are 12 hours long, two herders at a time. Temperatures can drop to -55C (-67F) in winter and reach 30C (80F) in summer when mosquitoes keep the herd constantly on the move.
“It is in our blood since the dawn of time to be able to survive in such conditions,” Kemlil says.
It is a way of life bound to nature’s pulse. Kemlil lists the ways in which he has noticed changes to the tundra environment since he was young, shifts he attributes in part to man-made climate change. New lakes appearing or disappearing as the permafrost thaws, forcing the reindeer to adopt new migratory routes; less fish in the rivers; fawning season starting 10-15 days earlier with the earlier spring.
Then he backtracks slightly. “The old people used to say that it happened before. Sometimes it gets colder, then it gets warmer. That’s the course of nature.”
Warmer winters though have their drawbacks. More frequent rain and intermittent thaws mean icy crusts form on the snow which damage the reindeer’s hooves and muzzles as they forage for food. Kemlil has had to cull large numbers as a result. Lame animals would slow the herd.
“When such periods come the reindeer lose their fat, they waste all their energy on hoofing the snow. Sometimes you can hear them from far away, it sounds as if they are stomping ice or something very hard. So you have to inspect the routes very carefully to find the soft snow.”
The worst incident this year was when a pack of forty wolves attacked the herd, encircling 100 reindeer and separating them from the rest. That was the last the herders saw of them.
But climate change is bringing larger predators closer too.
Shrinking sea ice means polar bears are coming to the Russian mainland especially around Chukotka in search of food.
Two summers of Arctic wildfires have driven brown bears closer and they are difficult to spot, especially at night. “It’s getting harder,” Kemlil says.
The teenagers are incredibly polite. They keep the kettle filled and the tea coming and wait for permission to start eating. They are smiley and enthusiastic. They seem to be enjoying life on the tundra.
Katya Protoppopova is the only girl in the group. Her mother is Chukchi and grew up on the tundra, her father is Russian.
“I came here to earn money to buy a ticket for myself and go study. I might come back next summer as I like it but I don’t have plans to stay.”
She and some of the other teenagers film us on their phones as we interview Kemlil. It seems a strange juxtaposition against the backdrop of the tundra, so far from reception or any other hints of modernity but clearly no self-respecting teen would be without their phone.
“The world is being widely computerised and it is very difficult to live in this world, especially for the young people”, Kemlil sighs. “They can’t live without technology. We need to try to adapt to this modern world, match it step for step.”
For all the nuances of the shifts in climate and how those play out on the tundra, it is this which seems to worry him most, the eternal question of how to make the young stay.
“From times immemorial our forefathers were breeding reindeer and we try to keep this industry going to make sure it doesn’t disappear in our modern world. The young ones are not quite willing but we do our best.”


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It is also important to know that you have to pay an admission fee to the Galapagos National Park with a value of $ 100 USD when you arrive in the Islands.
At present there are rules to protect the Islands from the mass tourism despite which Galapagos is visited by 650,000 tourists a year from many parts of the world. Open areas are strictly limited and it is mandatory to go with a naturalist tour guide. So it is also important to know that there is a time difference with the Continental Ecuador of an hour, one hour less than in the continent.
About the weather, you have to know the Galapagos Islands are located on the equator; the climate of the Islands is moderated by the Humboldt Current although its climate slightly varies depending on the time of year. The warm season is from December to June, with temperatures between 22 ° C to 32 ° C, and the usual temperature of water is at an average of 21 °. From July to November is cooler and varies between 16 ° C and 23 ° C, while the temperature of the water in this period rarely reaches 20 ° C.
If you want to be familiar with the currency, both Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands handled the dollar. American dollars and Traveler's checks are accepted in the Islands. The most commonly accepted credit cards are MasterCard and Visa, while American Express is hardly used.
The most common way to go to the Islands is by air. There were cargo ships that went to the Islands, but it was a long and uncomfortable journey. Most flights arrive in Baltra, planned for cruises departing from Puerto Ayora several times a week. Some flights arrive at San Cristobal to those who take a different tour in the Galapagos.
As additional information to help you to decide when to travel to the Galapagos Islands: from June to September you can observe humpback whales. Every year there are groups of these marine mammals who travel from Antarctica to the Ecuadorian coast in search of warm waters to mate and have their offspring.
The largest groups of humpback whales are always reported in a place called "El bajo de Canta Gallo” located between the Island of La Plata and Puerto Cayo.
Below we provide a list of websites with additional information to plan your trip to the Enchanted Islands:
Galapagos offers all possible tourists comfort. If you are interested in the Galapagos Islands tours, you will find all the comfort you demand. It is important to check with your travel agency or tour operator about fees to the National Park, the stay rates, etc.
As a suggestion, you can also visit a place cheaper than Galapagos Islands. You can go to Isla de la Plata on the shores of Ecuador, province of Manabí, Machalilla National Park part.

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Breaking news courtesy of NBC: Pharrell Williams is a new vocal coach for Season 7 of NBC’s “The Voice.” The announcement came via social media, and 2.71 millions of the Twitter follers at 2:45 p.m. EST on March 31, 2014, NBC started tweeting hints about who the new vocal coach would be. Just an hour ago, NBC tweeted the first hint: “We know something you don’t know. Meet us here at 2:45 EST for a big surprise.”
Arriving at their Twitter page promptly, followers read the first hint posted: “We may have a #NewVoiceCoach!!! We can’t exactly tell you who yet, so we’re just going to drop you hints.”
Anxious fans responded and waited for the next hint: (see slideshow for pictures accompanying hints)
“HINT #2: We promise our #NewVoiceCoach is out of this world…just like this planet. pic.twitter.com/KWWfdlFw2e”
Not a lot of information but the next photo hint was a giveaway:
HINT #3: Our #NewVoiceCoach is very into fashion. I mean, check their shoe game.
It was a great hint because you saw only a pair of wildly styled Adidas tennis shoes and a pair of blue jeans. Pharrell Williams fans know that he just signed a major endorsement deal with Adidas and given the immense popularity of “Happy,” it just made perfect sense to bring the biggest recording star of the hour to the best music reality contest on television.
Next hint was the adorable happy face symbol, and the clue: “HINT #4: We’ll tell you what, the #NewVoiceCoach is definitely not sad.”
That did it. If anyone has missed the most popular song in the world right now, you’d have made an error in guessing but for those who know that face, it’s the “Happy” face. That was a giveaway, and a great move for the show to keep viewers engaged and mixing up the judge rotation a bit.
No official word yet on which coach will be on tour and missing from the show but it could be Shakira, because the fourth hint was a picture of the most familiar hat on the planet. The singer’s photo was final revelations after the clues.
Then, NBC tweeted “Guys, we can’t get over how amazing Season 7 will be with @pharrell as our #NewVoiceCoach.” Houston, Texas, for one place, is more than happy with the annoucement.
Already Twitter is trending with the great news. And the fans of “The Voice”? They’re very, very happy! Sing along because you know the words: “Clap along if you know what happiness is to you” because you’re ‘Happy’ to welcome Pharrell Williams to “The Voice” for Season 7.

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There were some items that will not receive the attention they should. The head line of this story should have been the indoctrination of our youth by the Marxist/Progressives (Democrats) is working.
Nearly half of millennials in the U.S. would rather live under socialism than under a capitalist democracy, according to a new study.
A joint survey by the research firm YouGov and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that nearly 45 percent of millennials would prefer to live in a socialist society, compared to the 42 percent of millennials who said they would rather live in a capitalist one.
Seven percent of millennials took it a step further, responding that they would rather live in a communist society.
“Millennials now make up the largest generation in America, and we’re seeing some deeply worrisome trends,” Marion Smith, executive director of the foundation told Fox News. “Millennials are increasingly turning away from capitalism and toward socialism and even communism as a viable alternative.”
The study also found that one in five Americans in their 20s consider ex-Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin a heroic figure and more than a quarter of those polled thought highly of former dictators Vladimir Lenin and Kim Jong Un.
The survey asked more than 2,000 people about their views regarding socialist and capitalist political systems.
The poll explains that many Americans feel this way about socialism and communism because they are not familiar with its definition. Seven out of ten Americans reported that they do not know the definition of communism and how it differs from socialism.
The same amount of people surveyed also underestimated how many people have been killed under communist regimes.
Lenin, for example, killed 90 million innocent people that included Roman Catholic priests and others who challenged Bolshevik ideology under his watch.
The media have also contributed to this ignorance among Americans about the truth behind communism. The New York Times, for example, featured pieces celebrating or defending it in a section of the paper called “Red Century,” a series of editorials about the 100-year anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
The outlet ran a piece hailing Lenin as an environmentalist and published puff pieces on Communist Party officials in the series.
“This troubling turn highlights widespread historical illiteracy in American society regarding socialism and the systemic failure of our education system to teach students about the genocide, destruction, and misery caused by communism since the Bolshevik Revolution one hundred years ago,” Smith said.
And the other story is Austria understanding and addressing their immigration problem. They are taking action unlike so many Western European countries. Until this same action is taken in by the entire European Union, and the United Kingdom, their Islamic terrorism problem will not change. States in the United States, namely California, can also learn from the positive actions taken by Austria.
Austria’s conservative People’s Party (OVP) and the populist Freedom Party (FPO) have agreed to slash benefits for migrants and introduce five-year residency rules to curb welfare for European Union (EU) nationals.
Austria took in a huge number of asylum seekers, equivalent to more than 1 per cent of its population in 2015. The largest groups of arrivals into the nation have been Syrians, Afghans, and Nigerians.

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Baker Hughes (BHGE) will eliminate references of General Electric Company (GE) from its name as the U.S. industrial conglomerate has lowered its ownership stake in the oilfield service firm.
Phillips 66 Partners (PSXP) has been witnessing downward earnings estimate revisions by analysts, as lower throughput volumes and balance sheet weakness are weighing on the stock.
Chesapeake Energy's (CHK) 250.7 million common stock issuance represents 15.3 of the company's 1.63 billion shares outstanding as of Jul 31, 2019.
Valero Energy (VLO) is expected to produce 400 million gallons of diesel per annum and 40 million gallons of renewable naphtha from the new facility in Port Arthur, TX.
ExxonMobil (XOM) can use the proceeds from the divestment of GoM assets to focus on better opportunities in the Permian and offshore Guyana.
Baker Hughes (BHGE) announces that General Electric (GE) plans to further lower its stake in the oilfield service provider to less than 50%.
The weakness in oil prices, rising lease operating expenses and pipeline bottleneck problem in the Permian are hurting Centennial Resource (CDEV).
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) stock is about to trade ex-dividend in 3 days time. Ex-dividend means that...
Transocean (RIG) intends to retire three ultra-deepwater floaters, namely Discoverer Enterprise, Discoverer Spirit and Discoverer Deep Seas.
While headwinds will continue in North America in the form of softness in activity, Halliburton (HAL) CEO sees robust customer spending on international drilling and completion projects.
Shares of oil driller National Oilwell Varco are rising more than 5% Thursday after the company was upgraded to buy from hold by analysts at Jefferies who also raised the company's price target to $25 from $23 per share. Analyst Brad Handler wrote that the company has growth potential based on its backlog and that its "completion and production solutions" business, or CAPS, could see elevated order intake in the second half. international equipment, much of which is production infrastructure related," Handler wrote.
In 2019, Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) intends to drill and produce 265-290 wells in the Permian region compared with 270 wells drilled last year.
BP reportedly announces that the escalating tariff war between the United States & China, and growing fears of recession have been denting demand for oil and refined petroleum products.

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Wallet a little empty lately? Bank account a little less than zero? Want to make the sweet cash moneydollars that smooth off life's rough edges?
Write TV theme songs. If you write a TV theme song, they will play this song every time the show is ever mentioned, in a hundred different countries around the world. They will hear your song in Croatia. They will translate it into French.
And every time a young Brazilian lass hears her favorite program's opening notes, you'll get royalties. For the rest of your life. For a song that lasts no longer than one minute.


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Before acting fire Chief Rick Butcher can claim the title permanently, he must first retire.
The Tarpon Springs Fire Pension Plan does not allow participation for more than 30 years. Butcher has been with the Fire Department for 29 years.
Butcher will retire from the department July 6. The next day, he will be appointed fire chief. In Butcher's new contract, he forfeits the right to participate in the General Employees Pension Fund.
"He comes over as chief and gets no city retirement benefits," City Manager Mark LeCouris said. "So I get a chief with 29 years of experience who is well known throughout the state for emergency management, and I save a whole bunch of money for the taxpayer."
Butcher's salary was raised to about $97,500 when he was named acting chief. But since he will be considered a new hire as chief, his pay will be reduced 5 percent to $92,864.30.
Butcher declined to comment on his appointment, deferring to LeCouris.
The fire pension plan is separate from that of other city employees, LeCouris said. Fire employees contribute the majority of the money to the fund and the city adds a percentage of an employee's salary, typically between 6 and 9 percent, he said.
In his 29 years with Tarpon Springs Fire Department, the city contributed $128,395.81 to Butcher's pension. LeCouris noted that during the four years and three months that Stephen Moreno was the fire chief, $67,808.47 was contributed by the city.
Butcher, 51, was named acting fire chief in February after Moreno resigned. Moreno stepped down after an investigation determined that his behavior at a fire scene in January - when he arrived after having been drinking - warranted his termination.
In a special session Tuesday, the City Commission will vote to ratify the appointments of Butcher as fire chief and Bob Kochen as police chief.
Kochen, 44, has been serving as the acting chief since June 2008 when LeCouris left that post to become interim city manager. Kochen's salary also will be $92,864.30.


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Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Carla Freeman is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and associated faculty in Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory. Freeman earned her AB in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College in 1983 and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in 1993. Her books include High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink Collar Identities in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2000), Global Middle Classes: Ethnographic Particularities, Theoretical Convergences (with Rachel Heiman and Mark Liechty, SAR Press), and Entrepreneurial Selves: Neoliberal Respectability and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class (Duke University Press, 2014). Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fulbright, and the OAS, and her articles appear in such journals as American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Signs: Journal of Women, Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, and Critique of Anthropology. Freeman is the editor (with Li Zhang, UC-Davis) of a new Oxford University Press series of contemporary ethnography, Issues of Globalization and is the President Elect of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. Her general areas of research are: culture and political economy of globalization and development; feminist anthropology; affect, economy and the changing nature of work/life; and she is at work on two new studies of the cultural specificities of romantic love and Indian IT professionals in changing transnational circuits of labor.
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The hottest color on this year’s Golden Globe Red Carpet was, Green. Four of the hottest celebrities in Hollywood donned the Emerald color. Each star had a dress style all her own but each look was equally fabulous.
1) Angelina Jolie wore a lovely green Versace dress to the Golden Globes this year. The floor length gown featured a crew neck in front, strong shoulders and a sexy low cut back. Angelina also had one of the sexiest accessories of the night, her hubby Brad Pitt! Angelina is nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture- Comedy or Musical for her role in The Tourist.


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Badgers will host Gophers this Saturday
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Wisconsin right guard Kevin Zeitler will make his second straight start for the Badgers on Saturday, when they host Minnesota. And a number of Badgers players are set to return from injuries.
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text: This article is concerned with the study of the ability to judge people or to predict their behavior, and it should be considered as a purely exploratory approach to the problem. Lately, U. Bronfenbrenner and P. Dempsey have worked on the related concept of social sensitivity, which they have defined as the "accuracy with which persons could estimate (or preferably from our point of view, 'respond differentially' to) behavior assumed to reflect the psychological state of another". The ability to judge people has been used in many studies--ranking, ratings, etc.--but the validity of the procedure is often cause for controversy. This is partly due to our ignorance concerning the dynamics involved in the process. As far as theoretical formulations are concerned, two main theories have been used in trying to explain the psychological process; namely, the inference and the intuitive theories (2). Concepts like empathy, insight, etc., have been employed in connection with these studies, but in view of their connotations it is preferred to avoid their use. Expressions like social sensitivity, or ability to judge others, of ability to predict behavior of others, are to be preferred. The purposes of this pilot study were twofold: (a) to investigate certain methodological and scoring problems, and (b) to investigate some hypotheses related to the process of predicting behavior.


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This is probably the best photo I’m ever going to get of this, so I have to share. This is what spider sex looks like.
The female is the larger one, which is very typical of spiders. The little ‘legs’ seen here extending out to the front are pedipalps, and one of the ways you can easily (well, more or less) tell the gender of a spider, because the male’s are always larger – very often club-shaped rather than slender like the female’s. His are visible too, the dark blobs extending towards the underside of the female’s abdomen. Arachnosex consists of the male stretching his pedipalps underneath his own abdomen and depositing semen therein, then crawling or reaching underneath the female and delivering the semen, uh, manually. It all seems odd from our perspective, until you think about our perspective anyway.
This is the scale shot – all of it took place in the female’s lair on the underside of a holly leaf (one of my current go-to’s for arthropod pics, at least until more plants come into full leaf.) The female might be all of 3mm in body length – the blurry blobs in the top image are not ghosts or spirits, but pine pollen.
The best I can say is that these belong to the family Theridiidae, otherwise called the cobweb spiders, which includes probably half of the species you might find within your home. That identification only came about because I recognized the body shape and eye positions (visible in other images not shown here) to be very similar to black widows; eye position is actually a very good way to determine families of arachnids.
I had spotted the two spiders within her protective cluster of web strands and knew something was imminent – spiders do not tolerate close proximity unless either mating or newly hatched. I returned with the camera just in time to catch the
money shot action. No way to use a tripod and nothing to brace against, so these are handheld while partially crouched and aiming slightly upwards, tripping the shutter as I swayed into sharp focus range. Sounds like I’m drunk, but when sharp focus is obtained within a 2mm bracket (for the lens used in the closeup image anyway,) only the rock-steadiest of people will not be leaning in and out of range constantly.
Artistically, however, I like this pic better, a neighbor only 15cm away on the same tree. That would be within earshot, except spiders don’t have ears, so the horrified look is just how jumping spiders appear normally. I love the cartoon eyelashes.


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BAM: 1:1 Concerts (Outdoor)
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BAM Presents 1:1 Concerts© at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Curated by Silkroad Conceived for BAM by Stephanie Winker, Franziska Ritter and Christian Siegmund Featuring Members of the Silkroad Ensemble & Guests
Step into a world-class concert curated just for you. Nestled in secluded corners of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acclaimed artists from the Silkroad Ensemble and their guests from New York’s thriving music scene await. Follow your unique path to a socially distant, private stage and discover which musician will share their artistry in a ten minute, one-to-one concert. The safety restrictions of the pandemic open up new performance possibilities, inviting you to an intimate musical experience unlike any other, and encouraging you to give back the profound gifts of an appreciative audience: admiration, connection, and joy. In a world where we are more separated than we have ever been, this series encourages audiences and musicians to re-connect, one person at a time.

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Izzy and Zoë, the adorable tuxedo cat duo, have taken the internet by storm with their irresistible charm and unique personalities. These two feline friends have captured the hearts of cat lovers worldwide, and it’s time to dive into their delightful world. Join us as we explore the story, characteristics, and endearing antics of Izzy and Zoë, the dynamic duo that has become an online sensation.
Izzy, the elder of the two, is a captivating tuxedo cat with a playful spirit and a penchant for mischief. Her striking black-and-white coat gives her an elegant and distinguished appearance, which perfectly complements her spirited personality. Izzy’s vibrant green eyes are like windows to her curious and adventurous soul.
Izzy is known for her mischievous antics, which often include playful pounces on unsuspecting toys and sly attempts to swipe treats from the pantry. She’s an agile and agile explorer, always on the lookout for new adventures in her home. Yet, beneath her playful exterior, Izzy has a gentle and affectionate side that she reserves for her best friend, Zoë.
Zoë, the younger member of the duo, is a charming tuxedo cat with an endearing innocence that melts hearts. Her adorable black nose and white whiskers are simply irresistible. Zoë’s wide, expressive eyes reflect her sweet and inquisitive nature, making her impossible to ignore.
Zoë is the yin to Izzy’s yang, providing a calming influence with her gentle and easygoing demeanor. She enjoys lounging in cozy spots around the house, soaking up the sun’s warmth, and occasionally watching Izzy’s playful antics with a bemused expression. Despite her laid-back personality, Zoë is deeply attached to her partner in crime, Izzy, and they share a strong bond.
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Izzy and Zoë’s extraordinary connection is the heartwarming core of their story. These two tuxedo cats are inseparable, often found napping together, grooming each other, or engaging in delightful games of chase. Their friendship is a testament to the powerful bonds that can form between animals, and it’s a joy to witness their companionship.
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Izzy and Zoë’s charm hasn’t gone unnoticed on social media platforms. Their adorable photos and playful videos have garnered them a substantial following on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Thousands of fans eagerly await their daily dose of cuteness and heartwarming moments.
Izzy and Zoë, the adorable tuxedo cat duo, have become beloved internet sensations, thanks to their irresistible charm and unbreakable bond. These two feline friends have proven that the world of cats is full of surprises and heartwarming stories waiting to be discovered. Whether you’re a seasoned cat lover or new to the world of feline companionship, following Izzy and Zoë’s adventures is sure to bring a smile to your face.

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The world is aging. Some countries are not only aging, but their populations are shrinking as immigration fails to make up for rapidly falling birth rates. Many U.S. allies and security partners are among those beset by these trends. This raises questions about how decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancies will shape the future world order, and specifically the sustainability of U.S. alliances such as with Japan, whose aging and population decline will make it more difficult for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) to compete for the best Japanese talent as the Japanese labor pool shrinks ever smaller, and Japanese tax dollars with which to hire military personnel grow ever scarcer.
Unless SDF recruitment trends change dramatically, Japan’s ability to participate in both technology-intensive and manpower-heavy alliance missions will decline over time. The fulfillment of manpower-intensive missions requires, of course, manpower, while even the fulfillment of technology-intensive missions will be affected by the JSDF’s inability to recruit technologically proficient talent. Ensuring the JSDF meets quantity and quality targets is imperative, but will require more government spending. But an aging and shrinking population will reduce the size of the working age population that pay taxes and increases the size of the retired population that depends on the state’s benefits for the elderly. While this will affect the JSDF’s ability to fulfill both technology-intensive and manpower-heavy missions with the United States in the future, the alliance will remain relevant to U.S. security in the Indo-Pacific because of the value of U.S. bases in Japan which forms the core of the alliance.
Despite positive attitudes and media coverage of the JSDF’s role in disaster relief following the 2011 Triple Disaster, Japan’s pacifist and antimilitarist culture, as well as some of the burdens associated with life in the forces, still makes the JSDF an undesirable job prospect for many citizens. Steps that the MSDF, in particular, are considering in order to improve life at sea is to allow MSDF personnel the use of internet and social media while onboard. Even though year-to-year recruitment rates fluctuate, in fiscal 2018 the SDF as a whole achieved only 70 percent of its recruitment target, while the MSDF could not reach even 60 percent.
Early signs of personnel challenges having a detrimental effect on operations are beginning to emerge. After Japan backtracked on the Aegis Ashore system in June 2020, it decided to acquire two additional Aegis destroyers for missile defense – but one of the most significant hold-ups to this development is the challenge of finding 500 MSDF personnel to crew the destroyers. That said, Japan still contributes to manpower-heavy humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) missions in the region, whose importance will only increase as climate change contributes to more frequent and more severe natural disasters.
The most recent Ministry of Defense Annual White Paper (as of March 31, 2020) reveals that at the lower enlisted ranks, the forces are only staffed at 77 percent of authorized levels. But in the same year, the acceptance rate for uniformed SDF personnel candidates (privates) was 26 percent, and the acceptance rate for non-commissioned officer candidates was 23 percent. The JSDF is not competing with the Mitsubishi and Mitsui-Sumitomos for top college graduates, but recruits must still meet a baseline of physical and mental fitness. An aging and shrinking population only exacerbates this challenge.
According to a forecast by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan’s number of 18 to 32-year-olds was 19.03 million in 2018, will be 17.5 million in 2028, and will shrink to 15.63 million by 2038. With conscription unconstitutional, many economic and social factors contribute to recruitment difficulties. These include salary and benefit levels that are not competitive with the private sector, more qualified high-school graduates wanting to go to college rather than join the JSDF, and the general rigors and challenges of a military lifestyle.
Attracting technologically-proficient recruits to perform technology-intensive missions and having enough boots on the ground to be effective at HA/DR will require Japan to invest in increasing salaries and benefits for the SDF and destigmatizing this career choice. Other routes to bolstering the JSDF include increasing the mandatory retirement age, increasing the maximum age of new recruits, and increasing female participation. Perhaps the most easily implementable reform from the perspective of countering China and North Korea is to shift personnel from the much-larger Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) to the smaller but increasingly more important – for surveillance and enforcement – MSDF and Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF). However, even this requires a trade-off by cutting back on the GSDF at the same time HA/DR missions are likely to become more important. It is one of Japan’s ironies that the GSDF is so dominant in an archipelagic state, but this is a Cold War legacy of the JSDF being primed against a Soviet invasion through Hokkaido.
But even with the JSDF’s foreseeable decline in numbers, the U.S.-Japan alliance is still valuable to U.S. security interests in the Indo-Pacific because of the kinds of contributions Japan makes. An ally’s ability to make troop contributions to the alliance is directly related to its population size, mediated by social and economic factors already discussed (e.g. competitiveness of wages, constitutionality of conscription, acceptance of women in combat roles, and so forth), while an ally’s ability to contribute geographically is not related to its population size at all. Therefore, the more value an aging ally brings to the alliance because of its troop reserves, the more the alliance is impacted by its aging, and the more value an aging ally brings to the alliance because of its geographic position, the less the alliance is impacted by its aging. As long as Japan allows the U.S. military to perform the missions that they need to out of U.S. bases in Japan, the alliance will be valuable and, hence, sustainable from the U.S. perspective.
Japan can also offer the alliance a strategic vision, regardless of its aging. While the core of the alliance is the result of a Cold War bargain, the future of the alliance lies in intangibles. Aging and shrinking does not have to affect Japanese leadership or creativity. It was Japan that promulgated and propagated the “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” vision, and Japan has been making the most active effort trying to bring together major regional players in the Quad grouping. Under former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, Japan was an “idea innovator,” as the 2020 Armitage-Nye Report on the alliance notes. Even under new leadership, Japan will contribute the most to the alliance when it can play the role of the long-term strategic visionary.
The incoming Biden administration should keep these tangible and intangible contributions in mind when it negotiates an updated agreement for Host Nation Support in fiscal 2022 and beyond. What Japan pays cannot be weighed against what Japan “should” pay for U.S. protection relative to what the United States pays for it (as the Trump administration assumed), but what the United States would have to pay to project power in the Indo-Pacific on the same scale from as far back as Hawaii or Guam.
While demographics will create challenges for the U.S.-Japan alliance in the future, the greatest benefit to the United States from the alliance was never Japan’s personnel, financial, or technological contributions, but the geographic contribution Japan could make and equally important going forward will be Japan’s vision. Both of these contributions are enough to transcend the problem of an aging alliance.
Mina Erika Pollmann is a PhD student in MIT's Department of Political Science, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. Her research interests focus on Japan’s security and diplomacy, U.S, foreign policy in East Asia, and international relations in the Asia-Pacific. After graduating Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service summa cum laude with a BS in Foreign Service, she worked for TV Tokyo-America and a DC-based risk consulting startup. Mina is a recipient of the Walter A. Rosenblith Presidential Graduate Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.


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That's how Miley Cyrus' girlfriend Kaitlynn Carter reacted to the "Slide Away" singer's getup for Tom Ford's NYFW show on Monday night, and we can't blame her.
Ahead of the exclusive fashion show, Cyrus took to Instagram to give her fans a first-look at her all-black ensemble for the outing, which included silk pants, a dramatic velvet topcoat, and a very unbottoned dress shirt that plunged to her navel. She finished the look with an oversized fluffy hat and transparent aviators.
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While several celebrities weighed in on Cyrus' latest fashion moment in the comments section, it was her rumored girlfriend whose comment predictably got the most attention: "dear god," she wrote alongside a drooling emoji.
At the time this article was published, the comment had already racked up over 1,600 likes.
Carter and Cyrus appear to becoming more comfortable showing off their relationship to the public since weathering allegations of infidelity following the announcement that Cyrus and ex Liam Hemsworth were calling it quits less than a year into their marriage.
Just last week, the couple become "Instagram official" when the star of "The Hills: New Beginnings" shared multiple photos of herself celebrating her birthday with the "Wrecking Ball" singer on her Instagram Story. At the end of August, they were also very publicly photographed heading into a VMAs after-party hand-in-hand.
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Tune into ABC’s iView to see Missy’s first Australian television interview and performance for the year on ‘Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight’ which aired on ABC1 Wednesday April 25th. The show will only be up on iView for 12 days! See it here
Watch an in-depth interview with Missy before she performs ‘Everyone’s Waiting’ – a brand new song from her forthcoming album ‘The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle’, out June 1.
The season finale also includes interviews with Shaun Micallef and Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens).
It also features an all-star lineup for the Gordon St Classic with Shane Howard, Missy Higgins, Dan Sultan, Bart Willoughby, Barton Williams,Natalie Pa’apa’a & Blue King Brown.
For more info on the show visit www.abc.net.au/tv/adamhillsIGST/ – MISSY HQ


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St. Thomas, Ontario – Representatives of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) and all three levels of government have met and planned a collaborative effort to convince Daimler Trucks to keep its Sterling Truck Plant in St. Thomas, Ontario up and running. Last week, the automaker announced that it would discontinue the brand and close the plant, along with a similar plant in Oregon, and move other brands of truck production to Mexico.
The meeting was chaired by St. Thomas mayor Cliff Barwick, and was attended by Joe Preston, Conservative MP for Elgin-Middlesex-London; Steve Peters, Liberal MPP for Elgin-Middlesex-London; officials from the St. Thomas Economic Development Corporation; CAW national president Ken Lewenza; Sterling Truck Plant chair David MacArthur; and CAW Local 1001 president Dave Elliot. All stakeholders are working together to build a convincing business case to keep the plant open, and CAW leadership will meet with Daimler officials on Tuesday in Windsor, Ontario.
Preston said that federal funds could be made available for retooling the plant through the Automotive Innovation Fund and Community Development Trust Fund, and drew an analogy to Ford’s Windsor Essex Engine Plant, which recently received $80 million in federal money from the fund.


When you’re ready for an updated water heater in Nashville, energy efficiency is typically at the top of the list of desired features.
A tankless water heater is an ideal choice for saving gas. As a matter of fact, the U.S. Department of Energy has determined a tankless heater is 8 to 34 percent more efficient than a storage tank water heater.
Unlike conventional tank heaters that heat gallons of water and hold onto it for use, tankless water heaters use gas burners or electric coils to heat water as required. That could save you a lot on utility bills—at least $100 a year, according to energy.gov.
Since heated water isn’t stored for later use, you won’t be paying for heat losses like with tank heaters. You’ll also enjoy a continuous amount of hot water.
In sizeable homes, the flow rate of hot water may not be adequate to take on multiple uses at once. One of our Donelson Air Service Experts professionals can calculate your flow rate and give you suggestions based on their knowledge.


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I just chanced upon Classical FM’s Fast and Friendly Guide to Bach. It’s a short video on J.S. Bach and some of the defining moments of his life.
The written biography within this link is well worth a read, too. Characterizing Bach as “music’s most sublime creative genius” is spot on!


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Distracted Driving Awareness MonthEmily Sezzi
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office encourages drivers to focus on the road and obey the state’s hands-free cell phone law. https://local.nixle.com/alert/8630024/
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Brussels, 21-12-2012 — /europawire.eu/ — Today, EU transport ministers adopted a comprehensive set of Council conclusions which will lay down the framework for an ambitious EU external aviation policy for the coming years.
Based on the European Commission’s recent Communication “The EU’s external aviation policy – addressing future challenges”i, the Council has called for stronger coordination, unity and solidarity at EU level and for a more robust EU external aviation policy in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the European aviation industry while supporting the interests of European consumers.
Global aviation is changing dramatically and Europe has been harder hit by the recession than many other regions. The actions proposed by the Commission and endorsed by the Council will help boost the international competitiveness of the EU’s aviation industry by opening negotiations with key partners to access new business opportunities in fast growing markets, developing new tools to fight unfair competition and creating the right regulatory conditions to stimulate investment.
Vice-President Siim Kallas, European Commissioner responsible for transport, said: “Aviation plays a crucial and strategic role in the European economy both in terms of jobs, growth and connectivity. The new framework that the Council adopted today represents a major step forward towards a fully coordinated EU external aviation policy. The Commission, EU Member States and industry have to work together in an increasingly concerted manner to meet the serious challenges facing the EU aviation sector in the global market place. An effective and early implementation of the new EU external aviation policy will make a significant contribution to enhancing the competitiveness of the EU aviation industry and to the recovery of the European economy.”
In its conclusions, the Council in particular:
- Considers that a tailored EU approach is now appropriate in relation to a number of key partners;
- Encourages the Commission to reach comprehensive EU-level agreements with all neighbouring countries by 2015;
- Welcomes the Commission’s intention to request an authorisation to open negotiations on comprehensive EU air transport agreements with Turkey and India;
- Welcomes the Commission’s intention to prepare a comprehensive roadmap for enhancing EU-Russia aviation relations once Russia respects its international commitments towards the EU in aviation to phase out royalties for overflying Siberia. An objective of the comprehensive roadmap would be a comprehensive EU-Russia air transport agreement;
- Acknowledges the Commission’s intention to engage in a dialogue with Gulf countries with a view to enhancing transparency and fair competition;
- Supports the Commission’s intention to present a proposal for a revision or replacement of Regulation 868/2004 concerning protection against subsidisation and unfair practices with the aim of developing a more effective instrument to safeguard open and fair competition. In the same spirit, the Council welcomes the Commission’s intention to develop a template for a “fair competition clause” for inclusion in air services agreements with partner countries;
- Invites ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, to play a leading role in modernising the existing economic regulatory framework governing the global aviation market including in relation to liberalising market access and airline ownership and control while safeguarding fair competition.
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LASIK is an incredibly fast procedure that can give you extremely improved vision. The whole procedure only takes about 10–15 minutes per eye, and the majority of that time is spent preparing for it.
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Society, culture, and reform, 1820-1860 was not a new idea but never before were the social experiments so numerous as during the mid-1800s the open lands of the us before the civil war proved fertile ground for over a 100 experimental communities the earl mormons may be considered an example of a religious communal effort & brook farm.
Essays & papers social change in the united states in the period 1820-1860 - paper example social change in the united states in the period 1820-1860 transportation has played a significant part in the development of spurring economic and industrial growth in america - social change in the united states in the period 1820-1860 introduction.
The steamboat was invented in the late 18th century, so it wouldn't necessarily have changed much during the 1820-1860 window, but it certainly was prevalent at the time it allowed boats to go upstream, which revolutionized trade. A new society: economic & social change the american economy's phenomenal growth rate during the '20s was led by the automobile industry after the passage of the nineteenth amendment, women's political progress also slowed when given the vote, for example, women cast their ballot much the same way that men did, basing their decisions.
2 how were the reform movements of 1820-1860 in the united states related to the growth of industry and urban life during the years 1820-1860, america has received a wave of social reformation movements that were in correlation with the growth of industry and urban life. During 1880 to 1860, the united states of america went through social, political and economic changes, which affected the north and south in different ways the economy of the south depended primarily on slaves.
Transportations effect on social and economic change in america between 1820 and 1860 topics: united states economic and social change in indonesia essay topic 1: european during the second half of the year, the indonesian central bank attempted to hold off pressure on its currency, the rupiah.
In what ways did developments in transportation bring about economic and social change in the united states in the period 1820 to 1860 between the 1820s and the 1860s, advances were being made in leaps and bounds, especially in transportation from the invention of the cotton gin to interchangeable parts, mechanical advancements began to take effect.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have coffee cake using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Coffee cake :
- Make ready of butter.
- Take of sugar.
- Get of eggs.
- Prepare of all purpose flour.
- Take of baking powder.
- Prepare of cinnamon powder.
- Prepare of instant coffee.
- Take of warm milk.
- Take of vanilla essence.
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Instructions to make Coffee cake :
- Butter and flour baking dish. Preheat oven to 170°c.
- Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon mix and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar until pale. Add eggs one at a time and beat in. Add vanilla and mix.
- Mix milk and coffee powder until well dissolved.
- Beat in flour mixture into creamed butter and sugar. Add in milk coffee and mix. Transfer to baking dish and bake for 30mins or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run English-language channel is reporting that its American anchorwoman detained in the U.S. will appear in court in Washington.
Press TV said Marzieh Hashemi’s court appearance is Friday. It did not elaborate.
The newscaster’s son has said his mother was arrested Sunday in St. Louis by the FBI on a material witness warrant. The FBI has declined to comment.
Her detention comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. after President Donald Trump withdrew America from the nuclear deal.
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California election: Carbajal, Caldwell swap punches in 24th Congressional District debate
In a debate marked by accusations, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal and challenger Andy Caldwell traded punches on health care, political ideology and COVID relief funding.
The candidates faced off in a virtual debate Saturday organized by KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara. Carbajal is a two-term Democratic incumbent from Santa Barbara. Caldwell, a Republican from Nipomo, is executive director of the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture & Business Santa Barbara County.
They're battling to represent a 24th Congressional District that includes part of western Ventura County and all of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
The punches started with discussion of the economic devastation incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Carbajal emphasized his support of House stimulus packages designed to provide relief to businesses and individuals, asserting his opponent does not support such aid.
Caldwell jabs at Carbajal on spending
Caldwell, also a conservative talk show host, said he supported initial relief but contended Carbajal wants to spend trillions and create debt that will be passed to future generations.
"He’s spending money we don’t have," he said.
Caldwell asserted businesses and people have been treated unfairly by COVID restrictions with Walmart and Target allowed to remain open while mom and pop businesses were shut down. The inequities went further, he said.
"They can go to a pot shop but they can't go to church?" he said of restrictions that pushed gatherings at places of worship outside this summer.
He advocated the prompt and safe reopening of the economy and of public schools.
On COVID and Obamacare
Carbajal announced earlier this month he tested positve for COVID-19 in news that changed plans from a debate with the candidates facing each other in KEYT's studio to a virtual event. He has said his symptoms are mostly mild and he is recovering.
At the debate, Carbajal urged people to wear masks and to social distance.
"We shouldn't have to choose between our public health and our economy," he said, then focusing on Donald Trump and what he called super-spreader events. "I think this president has been reckless in polarizing this very important issue."
The congressman said he worries the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett could lead to the Supreme Court stripping away the Affordable Care Act. He said if that happens he would fight for aggressive legislation that protects pre-existing conditions and offers the option of a public insurance plan.
Caldwell said Obamacare was supposed to decrease deductibles and premiums while raising benefits. It did none of that, he said.
"I believe government doesn’t make anything cheaper, more affordable and more plentiful," he said. He offered support of a plan pushing government and insurance companies out of health care, using health savings accounts to let people deal directly with their doctors.
On Caldwell claiming Carbajal supports socialism
A fiery debate may have reached its burning point with a question regarding Caldwell's assertions his opponent supports socialism. In response, Caldwell said Carbajal consistently votes with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and supports legislation that amounts to government takeover of the economy.
The congressman responded with a smile and a rebuke.
"That's the kind of name-calling and mischaracterization that goes on in Washington all the time," Carbajal said, citing his service in the Marine Corps and support of policy that puts the interests of the Central Coast first. "I believe in our good capitalistic system that works."
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Caldwell, Carbajal discuss George Floyd, police reform
The conversation turned to George Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes in Minneapolis. Caldwell said he was shocked by the action but has also been shocked by violence against police. He condemned the concept of police defunding and claimed his opponent will not do the same.
Carbajal smiled again, explaining he supports banning police chokeholds and other reform.
"I am not for defunding the police," he said, noting his opponent had made the accusation repeatedly. "I do not know how else to tell him but he keeps repeating the same thing over and over again.”
Candidates talk division, make closing statements
They talked too about the growing wall of division in the country. Carbajal focused on the importance of civility. He said people can disagree without demagoguery or disrespect.
"We roll up our sleeves and break through our differences," he said.
Caldwell said he was a Democrat for half of his life before switching parties. He said he has made a career out of collaborating with Democrats and Republicans.
In his closing statement, Carbajal listed legislation and principles he supports including building on the Affordable Care Act, abortion rights, stimulus legislation and no offshore oil drilling.
His opponent, the congressman said, takes the opposite stance on each issue.
It was Caldwell's turn to smile. He didn't respond to each assertion but emphasized his support for working class families and contended the current style of government is not working.
"I'm a change agent," he said.
Tom Kisken covers health care and other news for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at email@example.com or 805-437-0255.
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Deadline to register: Online by Oct. 19 and in-person only Oct. 20 to Nov. 3.
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I am currently a 19 year old female and have been recently diagnosed with osteoporosis. I believe it is related to my dramatic weight loss in the past 5 months due to uni stress and selective eating (not anorexia but similar traits). My periods have also therefore stopped and the specialist (for periods not osteoporosis) prescribed me contraceptives for this. My question is,
1. I don't know what foods to eat to gain weight but also not make my osteoporosis worse i.e. I know I shouldn't consume red meat and processed sugars and only eat fruits, vegetables and lean proteins for osteoporosis but would this help in my weight gain? My priority is gaining weight but I want to do so properly without making conditions worse, so what foods should I eat?
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Nice photo of a magnificent monument; it wasn't fenced in the last time I saw it. - Thanks for your comment on my pictures. Best regards from NJ - Jim
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Thin Green Line’s Amanda Dudgeon recorded her fellow rangers in action on a journey round Australia, using the Panasonic LUMIX S5 mirrorless camera with the Atomos Ninja V+ recorder.
The Thin Green Line Foundation aims to raise awareness and support for rangers working in conservation around the world. Amanda Dudgeon is among Thin Green Line’s most dedicated supporters in Oceania, a long-term volunteer who has worked as a ranger in some of Australia’s most beautiful landscapes, from the scorching deserts of central Australia to freezing Macquarie Island, half-way between Tasmania and Antarctica.
In 2022, she undertook a solo 366-day expedition to Walk the Thin Green Line – a journey of over 94,500km around Australia – to document the work of the country’s rangers by recording interviews and scenes from their lives. Her goal is to tell their compelling stories and to bring awareness to their role in protecting natural and cultural heritage across the region. She is now using the extensive digital content collected during her travels to produce a feature documentary.
While travelling on her own through remote areas under challenging, varied outdoor conditions, Amanda needed to be able to film the ranger interviews and environmental footage at cinema quality. To do this, Amanda worked with Atomos, the expedition’s major sponsor, to put together key products to cover her video production needs and support her storytelling efforts. The gear included the Atomos Ninja V+ external monitor-recorder to use with a Panasonic LUMIX S5 full-frame mirrorless camera.
The LUMIX S5’s 24.2MP CMOS sensor uses the Panasonic dual native ISO, contributing to low noise images and video in lighting conditions ranging from harsh bright sunlight to nearly dark. Amanda could also select the shutter speed and aperture she wanted in low-light conditions.
Especially relevant to this project is the camera’s firmware update version 2.0 that allows the Ninja to record 5.9K 12-bit Apple ProRes RAW video directly from the S5’s HDMI output. This format holds the information needed to preserve image quality, while maintaining manageable file sizes.
The 5-inch HDR touchscreen of the Ninja is very bright, which was invaluable for monitoring footage in sunny outdoor environments – Amanda could change settings and view audio levels at a tap of the screen. Because of its light weight and adaptable design she was able to position the monitor however she needed to get the shot she wanted, whether standing, sitting or holding the rig herself.
Atomos also supplied fast AtomX SSDmini drives. These gave Amanda the essential capacity to capture hours of footage without constant concern about running out of space, a critical factor in keeping the production flowing from day to day. She used them with a high-speed AtomX SSDmini reader/writer to back up the footage on her laptop. At the start of this project, Amanada was a fairly inexperienced videographer, and she remarked that, overall, the Ninja gave her the flexibility and confidence to get the shots she needed in diverse, uncontrolled environments – especially while working on her own.
The Ninja Difference
"The Ninja made a huge difference in my efforts to capture cinema-quality footage on this expedition. The bright HDR screen meant I could monitor shots in harsh outdoor light, and recording directly to ProRes RAW onto the SSDs gave me excellent quality from the LUMIX S5. Even better, the light, adaptable design made it possible to shoot handheld and set up interviews anywhere the route took me, even when conditions varied from 45° C to -4° C. That flexibility was essential to record as many ranger interviews and external videos as possible.”
Without the Ninja's functionality and portability, she doubts that she could have filmed the stories of Oceania's rangers on location, to the quality she required. “I certainly wouldn’t now be studying for a Diploma in Film at SAE Creative Institute, while working full time as a ranger as well as making the documentary, without having had the support and belief in my abilities from the Atomos team from the very beginning,” she said.
Using the Ninja, Amanda captured over 30TB of ProRes RAW interviews and environmental footage during her Thin Green Line expedition. She is currently reviewing and shot listing the footage in preparation for her feature-length documentary slated for release in 2024. www.atomos.com


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Some of the greatest RPGs of all time are coming back around again for the PC. The Baldur’s Gate series, Icewind Dale and more are getting Enhanced.
If you’ve played any of these games the first time around, you already know why this is good news. The Baldur’s Gate series alone represents some of the greatest cRPGs ever. When you add in Icewind Dale, Planescape: Torment, and Neverwinter Nights you get a collection to rule them all.
And that’s just what Skybound and Beamdog have planned for the PC later this year.
The games will be heading to the Xbox One, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch. Yes, that’s freaking awesome. As you’d expect, console versions of these games will mean special control schemes. Developer Beamdog is well aware of that. But you can expect much more.
The re-releases of all the games in the set will be upgraded with:
- native support for high-resolution widescreen displays
- controls optimized for console controllers
- new standalone content
- additional characters and classes
- new voice sets
- expanded character creation options
- improved multiplayer functionality
- redesigns of the UI and UX
- bug fixes
- balance changes
- …and more
That’s a heaping helping of upgrades. Many of which might make these games a relatively fresh experience, even for those who’ve played them to death in the past.
As to how you’ll be able to get ahold of these titles, there are a few options. They’ll be available both digitally and physically as well as in a collected edition. Neverwinter Nights sounds like it’ll get a standalone release as well.
That game arrives on December 3rd in the US, and on the 6th elsewhere. As for the rest, there’ll be a boxed version made available for all consoles much earlier. That one will hit on September 24th, and run you $49.99 USD.
Included will be:
- The Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Pack: Celebrating the series’ 20th anniversary, the original Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition and its sequel, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, return with all DLC and restored quest content, as well as the Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear expansion, featuring new original content developed by Beamdog to bridge the two games.
- Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition / Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition: Two must-play games and all their DLC in one package – the chilling Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition, plus its expansions, and the enhanced edition of 1999’s RPG of the Year, Planescape: Torment.
- Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition: The 2002 Computer RPG of the Year and all its DLC deliver 10 standalone D&D-based adventures featuring co-op and online multiplayer.
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Penumbra was an experimental ballet performance which responded to live music and audio/visual as well as atmospheric installation artwork created and presented by a collection of independent artists who mined their darker instincts for lushness and beauty. Designed to engage multiple senses, the show was an unconventional collaborative performance curated by Unraveled in order to bring artists together who might not otherwise find one another.
The two-hour continuous dance performed by ballerinas Marina Kec, Jenna Frome, Caitlin Dagle, and Nicole Battestilli responded to two live music performances by local Philadelphia bands — Ecstatic Vision, who make it their mission to pummel eardrums with beefy sheets of psychic rapture; and Canada, who snake through time signatures and vibrant tones to weave a lush aural tapestry. The audience was seated between the dance at one end of the room and the live music at the other, strategically positioned at the center of the conversation. We fundamentally dislike traditional formats of audience viewing experiences and therefore built a variety of different seating options and plenty of room for the public participants to walk around and get up close to the performers. We see their movement as an additional performance element, informing and inspiring the bands and dancers to adapt and respond.
The two live music performances were separated by an audio/visual installation tailored to kinky and manic post-punk synth tunes designed by Unraveled Artist Entertainment. For Penumbra, Entertainment chose to present the concept of non-presence as an intentional out of body experience. An atmospheric installation to bring the walls around these performances to life was designed by Unraveled Founder and independent installation artist Farida Amar assisted by Kaylee Bugg and Karna Ray.
Penumbra appeared only once under the Capricorn moon on August 9th, 2014 in AUX, a black-box space owned by the artist-run space Vox Populi, in Philadelphia.
All promotional images photographed and edited by Callan Kapush. Layout and type design by Farida Amar. Limited edition poster (below) printed in Los Angeles.
Images below taken by Bill Hebert from one of the Penumbra rehearsals. The ballerinas had been rehearsing twice a week for six months and on this day they were able to rehearse in person with Ecstatic Vision for the first and only time before the show.
“The pieces we choreographed for Penumbra teeter on the edge of classical and contemporary ballet. We very frequently deconstructed and rearranged classical ballet movement vocabulary to better complement the music and overall aesthetic of the show. I feel that this had to happen in order to achieve a more powerful expression of female sexual energy. The beauty of ballet largely comes from its incredible control and physical sacrifice. We had to shatter the glass to expose our softer, more fluid sides. I think audiences will be pleasantly surprised by our work. Viewers’ expectations may be based on familiar ballet stereotypes – pink, tutus, tight hair, giggling girls – but what they will encounter is a more confident, sensual interpretation of traditional classical ballet movement.” — Marina Kec, Penumbra ballerina
“In Ballet’s purest form, it is used to showcase the body in ways that people find majestic. It is used to exemplify grace and poise. In Penumbra, the choreography takes a look at the side of us that wants to break apart the standard and find ballet’s more contemporary form. What happens when ballet is set the melodic tones of heavy rock music instead of the perfectly arranged classical music? Penumbra happens of course. In this experiment, we look to our shadows to inform movement and pushes the dance into a more experimental realm. Resulting in a weaving and highly entertaining new look on an ancient art form.” — Caitlin Dagle, Penumbra Ballerina
“The show concept has been floating in and out of our conversations about Unraveled events since early 2013. I can’t remember where it came from, probably an external visual stimulus. Or from dream. Sometimes I look at objects or images like a chair in my house or a crack running through the concrete blocks under my feet and it sparks something within. We decided this would be a great adventure to share with Philadelphia – a city already booming with independent works of dance, theatre and music taking place amongst and within not only traditional performing arts spaces but also on the streets amongst the murals and in small experimental DIY venues in someone’s basement.” — Farida Amar, Unraveled founder
All images below were taken by Nick Rayment. All videos below were made by John and Kasey Breedlove as visualizations of Entertainment songs and were projected during the show as a digital manifestation of the band’s live presence.
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Just over a year of playing gigs and writing new songs passed and as the songs got heavier we needed something more. At this point we asked a dear friend, beginner alcoholic and Beatles fanatic, James Colledge to play synth for us. This thickened our sound out, brought us a lot more laughs and made paying our practise room cheaper..
Around this time we also started to record the singles and the rest of the tracks from our debut album, "Why We Sleep Fully Dressed" . As we were all studying on a music production course at the time, this album was fully written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released ourselves in the college studios. We hope you'll have a listen and maybe tap ya feet.
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