coreboot is open source firmware for computer architecture including IA-32, x86-64, ARMv7, ARMv8, MIPS, RISC-V, POWER8 platforms. Originally called LinuxBIOS coreboot is a replacement for proprietary system firmware that is shipped on most PCs/laptops today. coreboot is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
coreboot – Fast, secure and flexible OpenSource firmware
coreboot is an extended firmware platform that delivers a lightning fast and secure boot experience on modern computers and embedded systems. As an Open Source project it provides auditability and maximum control over technology. coreboot is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
- Open Source – coreboot is built on the principles of Open Source Software. Many of the engineers working on coreboot have also worked on the Linux kernel. Instead of keeping improvements to one system a secret from all other vendors, in coreboot, these improvements are shared across the board, providing end users with a much better, much more stable firmware.
- Flexibility – The primary flexibility that coreboot offers is through the use of different payloads. We support legacy OS boot through SeaBIOS, network boot with an integrated iPXE ROM, or the latest UEFI payload. Customized payloads can be created using the BSD licensed libpayload toolkit.
- Also, with coreboot, you can do things like easily add your own boot splash screen in jpg format. You can boot so fast that there’s not even time to show a splash screen. You can get a debug console showing your boot log over serial ports, USB, the SPI bus, or even using the PC speaker. Or you can boot quickly and just retrieve the entire boot log once your operating system is up and running.
- Security – coreboot comes with a minimal Trusted Computing Base which reduces the general attack surface. It also supports a secure boot process called VBOOT2. It’s written in MISRA-C standard and provides other languages like Ada for formal verification of special properties. Also the use of platform features like IOMMU, flash protections and deactivated SMM mode increases the security as well.
- Safety – coreboot engineers have worked on many safety critical software projects. The architecture of coreboot is designed to have an unbrickable update process. Updating firmware should be no more dangerous than installing your favorite app on your mobile phone.
- Performance – coreboot is designed to boot quickly. For desktops and laptop machines, it can frequently boot to the start of the operating system in under a second. For servers, it can cut minutes off of the boot time. Some vendors have demonstrated a decrease in boot time by more than 70% when compared to the OEM BIOS.
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FIFA lost support Friday, June 12, 2015, from both the Vatican and Interpol due to fraud investigations. Interpol stated it would no longer take funding from FIFA, which is supposed to stop match fixing and other corruption in soccer. Four years ago FIFA pledged 20 million Euros over 10 years to stop illegal activities and govern the sport. The Vatican was going to receive a donation, but will no long accept the Copa American soccer tournament funds in light of the corruption allegations against FIFA.
Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock stated, due to the “current context surrounding FIFA, while Interpol is still committed to developing our Integrity in Sport program, I have decided to suspend the agreement. All external partners, whether public or private, must share the fundamental values and principles of the organization, as well as those of the wider law enforcement community.”
FIFA is disappointed. The governing body suspended the bidding process for World Cup 2026 and called an executive committee for July 20. It is a special committee to reform the structure and elect a new president. The new person would replace Sepp Blatter.
Blatter stated he would leave as soon as a new president is elected between December and March. He gained the win in the election shortly after US authorities charged FIFA with money laundering, bribery, and racketeering.
Swiss authorities are also investigating the 2018 and 2022 World Cups which went to Russia and Qatar.
FIFA stated the organization remains committed to stopping criminal activity and hope that they can negotiate with Interpol to remain as part of the solution. Interpol will assist in criminal investigations, including one against Nicolas Leoz for conspiracy and corruption. However, taking funds from FIFA to aide in helping the organization with the Integrity in Sport Program will remain suspended while the FIFA organization is considered corrupt.

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Flood focus urged for big clean-up
Volunteers at next month's Clean Up Australia Day are being asked to help flood affected communities.
The founder of the event, Ian Kiernan, is calling on people in south-west Victoria to get involved in cleaning up nearby towns damaged by floods.
Mr Kiernan hopes that work will help cut the time taken to clean up the rubbish left behind by floodwaters
"What we are here to do is to say we want to do everything we can to support your fantastic volunteers that are addressing the problems that are challenging the community. There is 21 years of experience out there of the community knowing how to mobilise itself in order to clean up," he said.
Clean Up Australia Day is on March 6.


text: Limbo directed by John Sayles "Well, he'll never be a filmmaker..." were the first words out of the mouth of a friend I asked about John Sayles' Limbo before I saw it myself. But they were said wryly, even a bit fondly, and they prefaced a generally favorable opinion of the movie, an opinion I ended up sharing. As for Sayles not being a filmmaker, that's been a given for a long time. Unlike the films of the generation that came just before him (Scorsese, De Palma, et al.) and the one that arrived on his heels (Jarmusch, Hartley, Spike Lee), his work contained nary a hint of cinephilia, largely, it seemed, because he wasn't really interested in film. He was interested in the novel, in fiction-writing in the Hemingwayesque mold, but came to it in the moment when it had been eclipsed by the movies. Of course, he wrote novels himself, yet to the extent that his movies served as substitute novels, they were intrinsically deficient in the very qualities?a characteristic style and consistent thematic preoccupations?that made "filmmaker" register as artist rather than technician. That Sayles obviously didn't care too much about any of this was in his favor; auteurist cinema tends to be too primly self-conscious not to need the challenge of a few crusty outsiders and nonconformists. All the same, he has often come off less as Hemingway With An Arriflex than as a Crunchy Granola Michener, inserting his glibly lefty political notions into a tourist's brochure's worst of nifty locales, as if compiling a "Sayles Visits..." series of sporadically polemical travelogues. The backdrops have included Appalachia (Matewan), inner-city Philly (City of Hope), Cajun Louisiana (Passion Fish), Rio Grande Texas (Lone Star), mystic Ireland (The Secret of Roan Inish) and embattled Mexico (Men with Guns), among others. How tolerable, or not, one finds these exercises depends on the individual film's authorial viewpoint and cultural evocations. The results aren't always predictable. Given my own proclivities I would expect to be least amenable to his films with Southern settings, but two of those, Matewan and Passion Fish, are my favorite of his films, even though the former also has the apparent disadvantage of being preachily "political." On the other hand, I groan to think of his biggest hit to date, Lone Star, with its thunderously tinny regional stereotypes, its imperious outsider's viewpoint and (worst of all) its creaky, bludgeoningly obvious narrative machinery. Limbo, whose posters could be emblazoned "Sayles Does Alaska!" happily dispenses with his usual political bromides and, less happily, doesn't entirely jettison certain generic contrivances, which ultimately makes it a film that feels somewhat at war with its own better instincts. Its virtues, though, which predominate, involve allowing the story's human and geographic textures to bear the weight of meaning. Come to think of it, maybe those posters should read "Sayles Lets Alaska Be Alaska." The film opens with an actual travelogue about Alaska that seems to chide Sayles' own touristic propensities. The story proper begins at a wedding beside a bay outside Juneau, where the looming panorama of mountains, sea and forests gives the human action an immediate, subtly daunting context. Leisurely paced, the scene takes its own sweet time, skipping so erratically from one clump of characters to another that you begin to wonder who the dramatic focus will turn out to be. Is it the fleshy businessmen who're discussing the local economy? The glowing bride and groom? The bickering middle-aged lesbian couple who own the bayside resort? None of the above, it turns out. The band playing the wedding is fronted by a rangy, fine-boned woman with a keening voice. Between songs Donna De Angelo (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) offhandedly but acridly announces that she's just broken up with the band's leader and guitarist, then launches into Marshall Chapman's "Better Off Without You." When she comes offstage afterward, flustered and ready to bolt, she cajoles a ride to town out of Joe Gastineau (David Straithairn), resident handyman and, in this moment, interested innocent bystander. Left behind when they take off is Donna's disaffected teenage daughter Noelle (Vanessa Martinez), who's working as a waitress at the event. After just a short while in the company of Donna and Joe, a couple of things are blazingly apparent. One: They are both damaged goods. She's a wilted flower child and perpetual adolescent, still harboring unquiet dreams of music-biz success, dazed that she's just ended another disastrous romance, and guilty that she's given such a rotten, slipshod life to a daughter who seems both older and wiser than she. Joe's backstory is just as tangled if a touch more melodramatic. Feeling responsible for a couple of deaths in a boating accident many years back, he's exiled himself to a kind of downcast marginality, both professional and personal. The second thing that stands out about these two is more salutary: They are far more richly drawn and persuasively fleshed out than any comparable characters hailing from Hollywood lately. In general, Hollywood avoids lead characters with too many battle scars and lines around the eyes; and when it does embrace them, it's usually just to whisk them immediately toward some quick, airbrushed adventure or redemption. But Limbo, as its title might suggest, is actually interested in these characters for themselves, and in the antsy purgatory where they live: I don't mean Alaska but the state of being in one's mid-40s and still at loose ends. As it unfolded, the film reminded me of great character-based noirs like Nick Ray's In a Lonely Place. Sayles' dialogue writing is at its sharpest here. He knows Donna and Joe inside out, their hunger for connection as well as their leeriness of it; these are people who come from a generation and mindset that's as recognizable as a thumbprint. And this is where Alaska begins to make sense in an emotional way, not just as a pretty backdrop. Romantic mythology aside, it's a natural place for wary, burned outsiders to end up; a frontier place, whispering of renewal but guaranteeing only respect for solitude. The bar where Donna sings in town is a rustic saloon, and it's a mark of Limbo's looseness and droll humor that Sayles pokes fun at its cowboy quaintness (and his own penchant for such things) by showing tour-boat tourists parading through the background, gawking as a guide extols the place's wild past. The present can't be nearly so wild and brutal, can it? Well, irony?along with the lure of genre?urges otherwise, and the possibility takes the form of two characters who appear in the bar. Smilin' Jack (Kris Kristofferson) is a stranger who smilingly tries to hit on Donna one night, and whose affability seems to contain a hint of menace. Bobby Gastineau (Casey Siemaszko) is Joe's half-brother, a ne'er-do-well who returns to town and, concealing his reasons for desperation, arranges a boat trip for himself, Joe, Donna and Noelle. As it moves from land to water, the film edges roughly into the precincts of thrillerdom. Bobby is trying to outrun murderous drug dealers, and his failure to run far or fast enough soon lands Joe, Donna and Noelle on a remote island, without a boat or radio and with the lethal possibility that any day or minute the dealers might return to claim their lives. In some ways, Limbo doesn't want to turn into a thriller, and it does so rather half-heartedly and uncomfortably. The movie's abrupt, enigmatic ending seems to leave viewers startled and disgruntled, and, indeed, it is a slightly awkward solution to the story's dramatic problems. But I didn't mind. By the time the last act rolled around I had already found satisfactions aplenty in the world and the people Sayles had created, which are so much more peculiar, flavorful and messily persuasive than what most current movies offer. And then there are the performances. Limbo makes a helluva case that David Straithairn should be a major movie star, and should graduate instantly from character to leading roles. He has a reticent, rough-hewn virility that's a bit like Robert Mitchum without the sleepy malevolence. Straithairn's work here is striking in a very natural, unshowy way, and it's well matched by Mastrantonio's edgy, vulnerable portrait of Donna (she does all the singing herself, and does an extremely good job of it). If you go to Limbo looking for big thrills, you probably should look for another movie instead. This film's quiet beauties reside in its low-key humor and palpable sense of place and character; it's an Alaska of the mind, but one so real that you can almost feel the scent of the enormous trees and the cool of the misty air. For all of that, it ends up being one of Sayles' best films. Reeling "Best of Manhattan" citations happen only in the fall, but here at the film desk we're pleased to hand out "Worst of" prizes year round. Here's the latest: The award for the city's Worst Publicized Annual Film Event goes, yet again, to the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. This negative accolade was not always merited. Back in 1992, not long after I started writing for NYPress, the NYGLFF employed an actual film publicity firm, Samantha Dean and Associates, which did radical things like send out news releases and hold press screenings. I attended a number of the latter and was more than happy to devote a column to the festival: It introduced me to the most gifted Japanese director I encountered during the 90s, Ryosuke Hashiguchi (A Slight Fever, Like Grains of Sand), along with Mark Rappaport's brilliant Rock Hudson's Home Movies and a bracing array of other interesting, ambitious films. But sometime thereafter, the festival apparently decided to handle its publicity chores "in house," which meant a collapse into abject incompetence or a decision on someone's part no longer to reach beyond the gay press and audiences, depending on how you read the subsequent de facto blackout. I appealed at various times to board members of the NYGLFF, on the grounds that there were actually good, important films in the festival that deserved coverage as such. I got vague promises of the "we'll do better next year" variety; but they never did. Maybe it was a blessing in disguise. In an article titled "The Unbearable Lightness of Gay Movies" in the March-April Film Comment, Christopher Kelly argues that the Amerindie gay cinema "has gone fallow. The wealth of promising talent to emerge at the end of [the last] decade and the start of this one has mostly failed to live up to its potential, while the next wave has offered up a series of works that ape the conventions of softcore pornography or Beach Blanket Bingo-style farce, or sometimes both." My assumption a half-decade ago was that the NYGLFF contained work that merited scrutiny and exposure for its value as filmmaking, not just as part of a social event for Manhattan's famously insular and parochial gay community. Maybe that's still true, but you'd never know it given the festival's "Silence = NYGLFF" approach to publicity, which isn't nearly as insulting to interested critics and cinephiles as it is to filmmakers who'd like their work to reach beyond the ghetto walls.

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i have one of these hens and i was just wondering what breed they are?
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17.05.2012 [Times of India] - A source close to the film revealed, "The Sanjay Dutt and Vivek Oberoi starrer venture was not going as per schedule. There were differences between the producer Vinod Bachchan and Sanjay." According to the source, Dutt started shooting for Son Of
17.05.2012 [Times of India] - Director Lenin Rajendran, who is currently in Munnar shooting for Edavapathy, shares that he had Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi in mind for the lead role in the film. "Vivek had a slight Tibetian look and I felt he would be apt for the role," says the
16.05.2012 [Daily Bhaskar] - Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Humaima Mallick (of Bol fame) and Paresh Rawal will feature in Ashtavinayak's next flick based on the Gujarat underworld. The shooting has begun in Jaipur, Rajasthan and the movie will be shot on a start-to-finish 50 day
16.05.2012 [The Hindu] - It has English lyrics to reach out to the world and 16 Indian languages and 59 voices, including those of KJ Yesudas, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Mohanlal, Mammootty, Vikram, Vivek Oberoi, Zayed Khan, Shankar Mahadevan, KS Chitra, Usha Uthup
08.05.2012 [Rediff] - Vivek Oberoi is back on the sets of Kismet Love Paisa Dilli with Mallika Sherawat. 'Back on the sets of Kismet Love Paisa Dilli after 2 mths! Man I've missed this unit! Shooting the songs with @mallikaLA looking fwd to a rocking wk ahead! Sunny Leone.
27.04.2012 [Hindustan Times] - After memorable outings as a gangster, actor Vivek Oberoi is set to don a cop's avatar in director Sagar Ballary's next, Saali Khushi. Written by Saajan Agarwal, the film is a human interest drama set amidst dance bars and the underworld.
05.05.2012 [Hindustan Times] - While Amitabh Bachchan owns a piranha den, Shanouk, his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan had a female boxer, Sunshine, reportedly gifted to her by ex-beau Vivek Oberoi. Shah Rukh Khan has imported labradors Dash and Hulk.
08.05.2012 [Oneindia Entertainment] - However, RGV's Rakta Charitra is a two-part Indian biographical film, which was based on the Rayalaseema faction killings and Telugu Desam Party's Paritala Ravi. The movie starring Vivek Oberoi and Surya, had failed to do well at the Box Office.

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Suzuki Gixxer 250cc motorcycle will come in both naked streetfighter and fully-faired versions.
Japanese two-wheeler automaker, Suzuki had unveiled the GSX 250R at the 2016 EICMA Motor Show in 2016. It was speculated that this motorcycle (could be called Suzuki Gixxer 250) will also mark the re-entry of Suzuki in quarter-litre segment of India; that didn’t happen. Instead, Suzuki is working on an all-new 250cc motorcycle for the Indian market. Scheduled to be launched in the second quarter of 2019, the new bike will be sold under Gixxer nameplate. We believe that this will be a great move to bring in the more powerful bikes considering the growing popularity of 200-250cc bikes in India. And just like the Gixxer 150cc, the company has an option to launch the 250cc model too in both naked and fully-faired versions. This will also help the company rival the KTM Duke 200, Yamaha FZ250, KTM RC200 and the upcoming Bajaj Pulsar 250.
Suzuki will first launch the streetfighter version of the Gixxer 250, which will be followed by the faired Gixxer 250 SF in the second half of 2019. The India-spec model will receive a single-cylinder unit with a 4-valve SOHC layout. This engine will be benefitted with a vertically stacked oil-cooling system instead of a liquid-cooling one, and fuel injection technology. For people not in the know, this isn’t the first time Suzuki is entering the quarter-litre segment. The company earlier had Inazuma, which failed to generate volume for the company due to its high price. The product otherwise was really capable. And now with the huge success of the Gixxer brand, it won’t be that tough for the Japanese bikemaker to sell a 250cc bike under the same brand.
Suzuki Gixxer 250 India Launch Date
Japanese automaker, Suzuki is yet to make an official announcement on the launch of its new entry-level sports bike. Media reports claim that the new motorcycle could be launched in the second quarter of 2019, most probably in June. We’ll update the launch details as and when the company announces it. Also See – 2019 Suzuki Gixxer 150 In The Works
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Price in India
|Minimum||Rs 1.50 lakh|
|Maximum||Rs 1.80 lakh|
If launched in India, the Gixxer’s 250cc version will be positioned against the Yamaha FZ25 and the upcoming Bajaj Pulsar 250 within estimated price range of 1.50 lakh – Rs. 1.80 lakh (ex-showroom).
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Specifications
|Engine||248cc, single-cylinder, liquid-cooled Petrol|
|Max Power||24.7bhp @ 8,000rpm|
|Max Torque||23.2Nm @ 6500rpm|
The global 250cc GSX250R is powered by a 248cc single-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine paired to a 6-speed gearbox. It is capable of putting out a maximum power of 24.7bhp, while generating 24.2Nm of torque. This engine has stroke with a compression of 11.5:1 and 53.5 x 55.2 bore. The India-spec Gixxer 250 is likely to get a new 250cc, single-cylinder engine. This engine is expected to come with 4-valve head, and will use an oil-cooler instead of liquid-cooling. Power output is expected in the range of 22-25bhp. Power will be transmitted to the rear wheel via a 6-speed gearbox. Also See – Suzuki Intruder 150 Price, Specs & Details
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Mileage
Powered with a 250cc single-cylinder engine, this entry-level sportbike is expected to deliver a mileage around 30kmpl-35kmpl.
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Design
The India-spec Gixxer 250 will be based on the existing Gixxer 150 frame, which ensures greater localisation and aggressive pricing. The global model is based on Suzuki’s GSX platform. Both naked and fully-faired versions will be launched; first will be the naked streetfighter. This model will share design cues from the premium Suzuki GSX-S750 and the GSX-S1000, which are already on sale in India. The vehicle could also share some visual elements from the upcoming Suzuki GSX-S300. On the flip side, the fully-faired model will share design cues from the global Suzuki GSX-250R. The bike is expected to get a sporty tank, a newly developed swing-arm, clip-on handlebars, raked split seats, edgy tail section and LED headlamp and tail-light. Along with the standard fork upfront and monoshock rear brakes, it will also get anti-lock braking system.
The faired version is also likely to get Hayabusa inspired large headlamp unit, rear view mirrors, a tall windscreen, single exhaust with twin aperture, fully digital instrument cluster and LED taillights, side blinkers and daytime running lamps.
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Features
– Stronger Gixxer 150 frame
– Sharp edged panels
– Gixxer 250 badge
– GSX-R-inspired styling
– Huge fuel tank
– Tall windscreen
– Rear view mirrors
– Fully digital instrument console
– Clip-on handlebars
– Split seats
Suzuki Gixxer 250 Other Details
Front – Telescopic Forks
Rear – Monoshock
Front – single disc with two-piston caliper
Rear – single disc
Dual-channel ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System)


Karachi: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has cut its policy rate by 50 basis points to bring it down from 10 percent to 9.5 percent with effect from 17th December, 2012. This was decided by the Central Board of Directors of the State Bank of Pakistan at its meeting held under the chairmanship of SBP Governor, Yaseen Anwar in Karachi today.
According to the Monetary Policy Decision, the decline in CPI inflation is considerably faster than earlier estimates. The year-on-year CPI inflation for November 2012 stands at 6.9 percent, with food inflation dropping to 5.3 percent and non-food inflation coming down to 8.1 percent. Even the core inflation measures are in single digits. This broad based deceleration in inflation is now expected to keep the average inflation for FY13 below the 9.5 percent target for the year. Therefore, the Central Board of Directors of SBP has decided to reduce the policy rate by 50 basis points to 9.5 percent with effect from 17 December 2012.
‘ The changes in fundamental variables influencing the recent monetary policy decisions of SBP continue to support the current stance. The credit extended to private businesses remains muted. The deceleration in CPI inflation is faster than the projected path. And the external current account deficit in October 2012 is small. The overall stress in the external position, however, is increasing given the declining financial inflows and substantial debt repayments.
Assigning appropriate weights to these competing considerations is the main challenge currently faced by monetary policy. Led by direct and portfolio investment flows, the total net capital and financial account inflows are on a declining path for some years now. For instance, these inflows have come down from a peak of 7.2 percent of GDP in FY07 to 0.7 percent of GDP in FY12. This trend is continuing in FY13. During the first four months, there has been a net outflow of $304 million from the capital and financial account. This, together with substantial debt repayments to the IMF, has resulted in a decline in foreign exchange reserves of SBP from $10.8 billion at end-June 2012 to $8.6 billion as on 14 December 2012. Thus, despite an external current account surplus of $258 million during July-October, FY13, there has been some pressure on the rupee to depreciate. Since the beginning of FY13, the rupee, viz-a-viz dollar, has depreciated by 3.3 percent.
This stressed external position has implications for the rest of the economy. For instance, the decline in foreign exchange reserves is causing contraction in rupee liquidity. A depreciating currency is also affecting the size of the outstanding external debt in rupee terms and thus has implications for the fiscal position. Moreover, the magnitude and speed of pass through of exchange rate changes to CPI inflation need to be monitored closely in these circumstances.
Both the level of interest rate set by the SBP and the timely realization of budgeted foreign inflows are critical in managing the balance of payment position. The lower interest rate can potentially affect the credit demand, including that of imports, and return on rupee denominated assets relative to foreign currency assets. The first consideration is not a source of concern at the moment given the weak overall credit conditions and consistent decline in the quantum of imports. The second consideration is important and puts a natural limit on downward adjustments in the interest rate. However, it needs to be weighed against the expected budgeted foreign inflows, which are not linked with the interest rate but can boost much needed financial inflows.


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Cloverdale OKs Plan for Seniors Community
The Cloverdale City Council gave final approval to Del Webb Corp.'s plan to build the $70 million, 400-home Clover Springs community for seniors on a 175-acre vacant parcel near the south end of town.
Most residents in the Sonoma County community wanted to see the project completed, because it would dump a cornucopia of cash into the struggling town.
A few residents worried that a lot of the seniors would refuse to vote for school taxes and bond measures.
The addition of 750 Clover Springs residents would increase Cloverdale's population by 14 percent.
But because all the new residents will be old enough to vote, the number of registered voters could increase by a third.
Del Webb Corp., the Phoenix real estate developer, has built and manages 10 communities for seniors in the West and Southwest.
Del Webb will require that every house at Clover Springs have at least one occupant aged 55 or more, and none below age 45.
Most occupants are expected to be in their 60s or 70s.
The houses will range in size from 1,100 to 2,300 square feet and in price from about $150,000 to $250,000.

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2017 harvest yields record $1.5 billion of grapes from North Coast vineyards
Despite lower yields from a difficult harvest between heat spikes and wildfires, North Coast vineyards produced a record $1.51 billion of grapes in 2017 as prices continued to climb to new highs, according to preliminary figures released Friday.
The average price of grapes from Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake counties last year jumped 9 percent to an unprecedented $3,259 per ton, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Although the size of the crop fell 8 percent last year to 464,765 tons, rising prices drove up the value of the region’s prized grape crop 1.3 percent from $1.49 billion in 2016.
The 2017 harvest was difficult for winemakers as they battled a Labor Day heat wave that forced them to pick pinot noir and chardonnay grapes before they began to raisin. A month later, some growers had to leave their fruit — mostly late varietal reds — on the vine because they were damaged by smoke from the October wildfires.
Sonoma and Mendocino counties had the largest declines in yield in 2017, with both experiencing a 10 percent drop, while Napa County grape production declined 7.5 percent. Lake County increased grape production for the third straight year, rising 3 percent to a record 47,783 tons.
Grape prices set new records in all four counties for the seventh consecutive year, a timespan that has seen prices for North Coast fruit soar 48 percent. Napa County growers again commanded the highest prices in California for their grapes, averaging $5,205 per ton, while Sonoma County grapes sold for $2,803 per ton, on average.
The report provided the first official statistics on the economic impact of the region’s most valuable agriculture crop, which declined in size for the third time in four years. Analysts said the heat wave in September, where temperatures spiked to 110 degrees and higher throughout Sonoma County during Labor Day weekend, likely played a much bigger role in the overall yield than the fires. For example, growers harvested 60,920 tons of Sonoma County chardonnay last year, down 19 percent from 2016 and the lightest crop since 2011.
Likely all of that varietal, which is the largest grape crop in the county, had been picked by the time of the fires on the night of Oct. 8.
“We had three days of intense heat,” said Glenn Proctor, a partner at Ciatti Co., a San Rafael wine and grape broker. “I really think that whacked the whites, chardonnay in particular.”
Late rains that swept through the region last year also could have played a factor because it didn’t allow the ground to dry out as quickly as it should have to kick-start the vines’ root systems, said Karissa Kruse, president of the Sonoma County Winegrowers trade group.
In contrast, the cabernet sauvignon crop, typically one of the last varietals picked, increased 3.3 percent last year to 42,930 tons in Sonoma County. In Napa County, the cabernet sauvignon crop fell only 1.1 percent. Analysts said cabernet sauvignon was likely on pace for an even larger than typical harvest until the fires struck, affecting such regions as Atlas Peak in Napa County, an area known for mountain cabernet sauvignon.
However, another late-harvested red, merlot, fell 16 percent in Sonoma County and 12 percent in Napa County. The varietal is commonly blended into cabernet sauvignon.


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Simultaneous in vitro measurement of patellofemoral kinematics and forces following Oxford medial unicompartmental knee replacement.
Price AJ., Oppold PT., Murray DW., Zavatsky AB.
The Oxford medial unicompartmental knee replacement was designed to reproduce normal mobility and forces in the knee, but its detailed effect on the patellofemoral joint has not been studied previously. We have examined the effect on patellofemoral mechanics of the knee by simultaneously measuring patellofemoral kinematics and forces in 11 cadaver knee specimens in a supine leg-extension rig. Comparison was made between the intact normal knee and sequential unicompartmental and total knee replacement. Following medial mobile-bearing unicompartmental replacement in 11 knees, patellofemoral kinematics and forces did not change significantly from those in the intact knee across any measured parameter. In contrast, following posterior cruciate ligament retaining total knee replacement in eight knees, there were significant changes in patellofemoral movement and forces. The Oxford device appears to produce near-normal patellofemoral mechanics, which may partly explain the low incidence of complications with the extensor mechanism associated with clinical use.


Lawmakers: Rules For ‘Essential’ Defense Contractors Need Clarity
Recent Defense Department guidance aimed at helping federal contractors operate during the COVID-19 pandemic does not provide enough clarity for suppliers in the defense industrial base, lawmakers write in an April 1 letter to Defense Secretary Mark Esper and acquisition chief Ellen Lord.
On March 20, Lord issued a memo designating the defense industrial base as “essential critical infrastructure.” According to lawmakers led by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, 13 small businesses in Ohio that do work for the Air Force Research Lab near Dayton are still raising concerns because local leaders and contracting officers differ over what tasks and personnel are “mission essential” and the rules for which contractors may work remotely during the pandemic.
A recent trend at the Pentagon has been to push decision-making authority to the lowest possible level. But during the coronavirus crisis, that practice has led to uncertain, conflicting guidance, Turner and seven other members of Congress believe.
As such, the lawmakers recommend the Pentagon allow contractors to work remotely as much as possible, allow mission-essential personnel to work on site when required, provide contractors with flexibility to meet their contractual demands and keep the workforce intact to prevent reductions in employment.
If contractors cannot work on site or remotely, the lawmakers ask Esper and Lord to direct contracting officers to tap into authorities such as those provided by the $2.2 trillion stimulus package recently signed into law. One section of that act allows agencies to modify contracts to reimburse leave costs for employees, though offset by other credits the contractor is receiving under these relief acts, according to an analysis of the bill by the Crowell & Moring law firm.


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The poultry industry was not built on a “one-size-fits-all” approach. It has taken years of immense expertise, research, and out-of-the-box thinking to achieve the success of today’s modern broiler production market.
The benefits of organic zinc supplementation are well known. As selective attention places focus on welfare and environmental improvement strategies, the use of more bioavailable zinc (Zn) sources in broiler diets have been thoroughly investigated to reduce inorganic source inclusions due to numerous unfavourable outcomes on broiler production. However, it does raise the question – do higher concentrations of combined organic and inorganic Zn sources affect broiler production? Conflicting data constructed the objective of a recent research article in which the supplementation of broiler diets with various forms and levels of zinc was evaluated.
The study by Zakaria, et al. (2017) examined broiler productive performance, carcass, and meat quality characteristics, as well as blood parameters. Two dietary treatments consisted of a corn–soybean diet supplemented with 80 mg/kg of zinc oxide or 80 mg/kg of zinc oxide with 42 mg/kg of organic Availa® Zn120, totaling 122 mg/kg of zinc. This study was unable (P>0.05) to demonstrate statistically significant production performance or carcass yields among treatment groups. However, a higher level of organic and inorganic zinc, in combination, significantly (P<0.05) lowered the mortality rate, produced juicer breast meat fillets due to a lower shear-force value, and increased the zinc, phosphorus, and total protein concentrations in the blood.
The answer to the question is yes, the higher concentration of combined organic and inorganic zinc presented overall better results in modern broiler production. This study has proven the future exploration into animal nutrition modification techniques to be useful in improving broiler production.

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Audit review presented to Donaldsonville City Council
Suzanne Giroir and Don McLean, certified public accountants with Postlethwaite & Netterville, presented the results of the annual audit to the Donaldsonville City Council during a virtual meeting held Feb. 9.
As in past years, the auditors worked closely with the city’s managers to confirm figures dating back to the end of the last fiscal year on June 30, 2020.
McLean said the issued opinion was “fairly presented,” which in accounting terminology means principles applied by the entity are generally accepted and accounting principles are appropriate under the circumstances encountered by the entity.
“It’s the best kind of opinion you can get,” McLean told the council.
Each year, the auditors point out weaknesses and recommend solutions.
Weaknesses noted this time included: lack of segregation of duties, payroll functioning, and reconciliations. Significant deficiencies included: timing of bond reserve requirements, and full compliance with public bid law.
Mayor Leroy Sullivan clarified that the city government has been strictly following public bid law. The issue pointed out by auditors concerned properly documenting a reason why a sole bid might be sought.
The instance in question was a particular pump the city needed to purchase, which has been sold by one particular vendor in the area. Seeking the item outside of the area would incur additional cost.
“You just have to have documentation explaining why you did it,” McLean said.
In another matter:
City officials discussed amending fees associated with renting parks for events.
The council decided to table the item, so it can be discussed further during the next Committee of the Whole meeting.

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Infosys founder and former UIDAI head Nandan Nilekani has expressed concern over the aggregation of data on few technology platforms and feared it would create a new set of digital monopolies unless there is some kind of a policy intervention.
At a fireside chat organised by Upgrad, an online education start-up on the theme “How Data Analytics and automation will transform India” here on Tuesday, Nilekani said there is a need for a policy regime which will ensure open access of data. According to him, creation of data is something that is here to stay with the presence of over 3.5 billion smartphones globally and with Internet of Things (IoT) set to become more popular, the flood of information is only going to increase.
Though, he felt that the government has taken certain step towards the protection and dissemination of data through the creation of a digital locker which allows individuals to securely store their personal information. “We have got the digital consent architecture, and the advantage that India has is that we do not have to worry about technology legacy infrastructure to create new systems,” he said. D J Patil, the former chief data scientist in the Obama administration also echoed Nilekani’s thoughts.
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We sometimes get asked: “what can I do with Keto Chow besides make shakes?” The best place to start is our Keto Chow Recipes page, here are some of the recipes that use Savory Chicken Soup Keto Chow:
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I’ll admit I was lured in by the commercial, but the product was really good! It is as easy as the commercial says, it tastes good (the mocha flavor was a little heavy, but other flavors were great), and it keeps away hunger pangs. I love that I can order single serving packets to try other flavors too!
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Development of A Knowledge•Based Compliance Auditing System for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Projects in Malaysia
Rahman, Md. Mizanur (2001) Development of A Knowledge•Based Compliance Auditing System for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Projects in Malaysia. PhD thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Environmental Management Program (EMP) constitute an important component of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the development projects where the environmental monitoring programs and the environmental compliance auditing (ECA) aspects should be described in detail. ECA requires systematic selection of monitoring variables and analysis of the monitoring database and also requires that a uniform quality standard in auditing be maintained for different types of development projects and different stages of their development. ECA should produce an audit report that is easy to understand and could be used under taking mitigation measures. Presently, in Malaysia, for the EIA projects, there is neither any specific guideline for conducting compliance auditing nor any systematic management of the data generated through monitoring of the projects. The main objective of this study is to develop a knowledge-based environmental compliance auditing system (called ECA-KB) that uses expert's knowledge from different environmental fields and a quantitative technique of evaluating the environmental compliance level of a particular project. ECA-KB comprises of three components namely monitoring database system, compliance auditing model, and knowledge base system. These three component systems have been integrated together to produce concise and comprehensive environmental compliance audit report for the EIA projects. The study provides a tool for the decision-makers and the stakeholders namely the project proponents, environmental consultants, and Department of Environment (DOE) to monitor, evaluate environmental compliance level of the projects, generate compliance audit report, and to keep track on the compliance trend. The great potentiality of the developed ECA-KB is that it is produced in easy interactive and simplified manner that can be run as desktop applications by both the experts and the non-expert users. The system is available in install able CD's and can be reached to the potential users by several ways including distribution of CD's through market channel, demonstration in the seminars, and symposium.
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With the latest county update, Neighborhood Church recommends masks when meeting inside, but they are not required.
"Effective Thursday, October 28 at 12:01a.m., Montgomery County suspended its mandate requiring face coverings indoors in locations accessible to the public." (read more Montgomery County mask guidelines here: https://montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/face-coverings.html)
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After exceeding the three scores and 10, it took a century, less ten, to close a chapter. In the wee hours of Thursday, August 4, 2022, the cold hands of death snatched from us the gold brand geographer-cum-urbanist. The indefatigable erudite Professor Akin Mabogunje has marched on. These 90 years were productive and impactful in spreading the gospel of geography, urban planning, development and management across many lands.
Akin Mabogunje, the first Professor of Geography in Nigeria and an Honorary Fellow of the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, made his mark by putting the all-time relevant book, Urbanisation in Nigeria, on the shelves of libraries in 1968. As a student of Social Science at the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, I began to use the book in 1975 and acquired a copy in 1978. By the time he came to examine my Master’s degree thesis in Urban and Regional Planning at ABU in 1982, I had read well enough to defend my thesis but not enough to defend my graphic presentation. My maps and diagrams fell short of the examiner’s standards!
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Urbanisation in Nigeria is a global resource book on indigenous and colonial urbanisation in Nigeria as it lucidly traces the history, composition and internal structures of towns and cities, modes of livelihoods organisation, linkages and flows, population dynamics and classes of human settlements in Nigeria. This treatise has remained a frame for urban planning, policies and development debates and formulation in Nigeria, Africa and beyond.
The writings and advocacies of Prof. Mabogunje have not had the much desired effects in Nigeria. This is simply because the prophet has no honour in his home. Otherwise, how can one explain the fact that a fellow colonial nation like India has well defined functional human settlements system and Nigeria has none? In India, the metropolitan cities stand out clearly against other tiers of cities. Nigeria is far from attaining this. Yet the institutionalisation of urban and regional planning has remained weak, the numerous interventions of the energetic scholar at federal ministerial level notwithstanding.
Certainly, we have lost the hands with which to write his epitaph and the voice to sing the dirge. We can, however, uphold his legacies which include rigorous urban analysis, painstaking planning and regulation of urbanisation, structuring of towns and cities, urban processes and patterns. It is important to leverage on the immortalisation of the legacies of Professor Mabogunje by firming up institutional capacities for the entrenchment of the ideals and practices of urban and regional planning, development and governance in overall development process in Nigeria. A hierarchy of urban system and functionally sustainable cities that attract investments and promote human advancement and welfare are products of application of principles of urban and regional planning by physical planners or town planners. That is the core message left for us.
As it is, our cities and regions are epitome of socioeconomic and spatial disorganisation, human degradation and environmental stress. The degree of poor urban planning and development and the state of physical, social and economic infrastructure is abysmal. Access to land is highly constrained, yet arrangement of activities on urban land only creates large villages with a good chunk of villagers instead of cities and urbanites. Transportation is problematic, water, air, noise and land pollution are issues while housing in terms of quality and quantity is a challenge. Add to these, high unemployment and poor local economy due to low investment attraction. All were worries of the unquestionable professor of urban geography. The panacea for all these is strong urban and regional planning system together with highly skilled and dedicated Town Planners.
In the philosophy of the professor, town planners should be allowed to determine and know what land is devoted to what activity through the process of granting use and development permits. So, at all times, anything any one wants to do in the city – building, roads, parks, industrial, markets or offices development, boreholes development among several others, it is mandatory to consult the planning office and talk to a town planner. This will secure developers’ investments and properties. Developers will also be contributing to aesthetically pleasant and functional cities.
All persons in the cities should have a role in making the cities and towns healthy, functional, clean, beautiful and economically boisterous. It is the official duty of the town planner to drive this. In a nut shell, for improved and sustained security, high inflow of investments to towns or cities, town planners are desirable and must be invited to the table. To protect and grow investments in the cities, planners are necessary. To protect properties from flood, fire or collapse, there is need to strengthen planning and town planners. If you desire a city that works for you and all others, partner a town planner. It is planning and town planners that can create liveable, sustainable and functional human settlements. Surely, the government, corporate agencies, civil society and the citizenry must work with town planners to give cities the desired roles in national economic development and human advancement.
The Federal Ministry of Housing and Works should make the speeches and submissions of this professor emeritus handy as a guide to urban development and governance policy formulation and implementation. Like never before, I expect the tempo of urban and regional planning at city, local council, state and federal levels to increase astronomically as a tribute to Akin Mabogunje.
As for the students, mentees and associates of this great teacher, researcher and advocate, the only tribute to this pacesetter in human geography and urban development is, if the bar can’t be raised, to sustain his academic excellence, professional standards and ideals. I should express my sincere condolences to the government and people of Nigeria and, particularly Oyo State, his students, family members and associates. Professor Akinlawon Ladipo Mabogunje, good night.
Yunusa is the Executive Director, Socioeconomic and Environment Advocacy Centre, Zaria


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Me and my spouse have a birthday related tradition – each birthday the hero of the day gets to wish for look a for the birthday cake he/she will receive. So far the realized wishes have included for example Spiderman, an elk, Hobbes, etc. One thing that never crossed my mind though was to wish for a cake which would look like cat litter. However it seems, that the imagination of some people do not seem to have limits. Here is a cake baked by Andrea James, which indeed does look like cat litter.
The detailed instructions on how to bake your own cat litter cake can be found from here (particularly noteworthy is the instruction to use fresh, NON USED litterbox)
Civet coffee is processed through the digestion of a civet cat
This is the worlds rarest type of coffee, and only 500kg of it is produced each year. What makes the coffee particularly special, is te taste it gathers while going through the digestion of a civet cat.
Civet cats are wild animals, which roam the coffee plantations in Sumatra, picking and eating only the most delicious coffee berries from the local plantations. The droppings of the civet cat are thereafter collected from the area, from which this very special type of coffee is later produced.
Cive coffee is available from example this web shop at the price of about $40,- for 57 grams of the delicacy.


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These records include correspondence and memoranda mostly between the Executive Director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC), Mary Ellen Lane, and various heads of CAORC's overseas Centers. Additional correspondence is from different universities in and outside the United States, from individual scholars, from member institutions and from …
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This collection is primarily the work of one individual, Donald Harvey Sultner, known professionally as Donald Sultner-Welles (1914-1981). The collection forms a written and visual record of Sultner's family, life, and career from 1913-1980. Its major strength is Sultner's photographic documentation of the world during his travels, ca. 1950-1980. Work by other photographers …
Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings
This collection, with bulk dates from 1950-1994, documents the life of Ralph Rinzler and his professional activities as Director of Field Programs for the Newport Folk Festival, Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (formerly the Festival of American Folklife) and the Office of Folklife Programs (now the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage), and the Smithsonian Institution's Assistant Secretary for Public Service. Includes personal papers, business records, correspondence, notes, photographs, audiotapes and field recordings.
This accession includes International Center records which document programs of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Materials include correspondence, memoranda, executive committee and annual board minutes, payroll earning lists, newspaper clippings, questionnaires, membership information, curriculum vitae, security precaution recommendations, articles, audited reports, blueprints, program materials, fellowship applications, publication …
E.P. (Edgar Preston) and Constance Richardson papers
Richardson, Constance, 1905-
The papers of art historian E. P. Richardson measure 28.7 linear feet and date from 1814-1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1921-1996. Within the papers are scattered biographical materials; acquisition files for Richardson's personal art collection; professional and personal correspondence with colleagues, art historians and critics, artists, museums, galleries, and dealers; numerous writings, including manuscripts and research files for his published books, articles, and lectures; general research notebooks and files compiled by Richardson on a wide variety of art-related topics and artists; professional and committee files; as well as a smaller amount of Constance C. Richardson's papers.

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October 11, 2019 No Comments arizona, Automotive, california, electric scooters, electric vehicles, Florida, New York, Scooter, shared mobility, TC, Texas, Toyota AI Ventures, Transportation, Washington D.C.
Electric moped startup Revel could expand to Texas next Revel, the New York-based shared electric moped startup, appears to be preparing to expand into Texas, according to job listings first spotted and reported by Thinknum Alternative Data. The expansion into Texas would be Revel’s fourth market and its first west of the […]
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Electric moped startup Revel raises .6 million as it eyes new markets In less than two years, Revel has gone from an idea to a shared electric vehicle startup with more than 1,400 mopeds across Washington D.C., and Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Now, it’s ready to grow up — and beyond […]
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On-demand parking startup SpotHero raises million SpotHero, the Chicago-based company that has developed an on-demand parking app, has raised $50 million in a Series D round led by Macquarie Capital. Union Grove Venture Partners participated in the round, along with existing investors including Insight Venture Partners, Global Founders Capital, OCA Ventures, AutoTech […]
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How parking app SpotHero is preparing for an era of driverless cars On-demand parking app SpotHero wants to be ready for the day when autonomous vehicles are ubiquitous. Its strategy: target the human-driven car-sharing fleets today. The Chicago-based company, which has operations in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. and Seattle, has […]
Volkswagen’s MOIA debuts its all-electric rideshare vehicle Some carmakers are talking a lot about the potential of shared mobility services and alternatives to car ownership, but Volkswagen’s MOIA is actually going a step further, with a brand new vehicle it’s unveiling today that’s focused entirely on this new market. The all-electric car, […]

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Strathspey action group ‘disgusted’ at care services
A STRATHSPEY action group has fired a withering broadside at Highland Council’s social work department over its provision – or lack of it – for care at home services in the area.
They accuse the service and some councillors of failing to keep to their promises and letting down vulnerable members of the community yet, at the same time, claiming their are spending millions on upgrading the provision of care.
And in a letter to the Strathspey and Badenoch Herald the members of POST – Protect Our Services Today – catalogue a string of complaints and say they, as well as the general public are disgusted.
Their concerns are voiced hot on the heels of a pledge last week by Highland Council’s Housing and Social Work Committee chairman Councillor Margaret Davidson, regarding the authority’s commitment to the enhancement of care at home services across the region..
However, one of the POST signatories Mrs Mairi Brown, Kingussie, said yesterday that the elderly, their relatives and even some of the carers were at “their wits end” about how they are going to care for the more vulnerable members of society in the face of sweeping cash cuts.
Councillor Davidson insisted they are investing heavily in home care services in recognition that modernising care at home is a critical element in the enhancement of all community care services. She said it may take time for the benefits to be seen due to changes in the way services are provided across but gave an assurance of the council’s commitment to helping people stay in their own homes for as long as is practicable..
She said: “To date, the council has invested an additional £3 million in home care and is investing a further £1 million in 2010/11. This means that big improvements have been made, with 10,000 hours of home care being delivered every week to around 2,300 people. That involves an increase of 1,800 hours every week over the last 18 months, and increases of up to 15 per cent in evening and weekend provision – which is when people often need it most. There have also been enhancements in home carers’ rates of pay..
“We appreciate the value of home care to individuals and their families. We know that most people want to be supported to live healthily and happily in their own homes, rather than move into residential care. We also know that most people want that support to help enable them to do things for themselves, not to have everything done for them.” Councillor Davidson admitted there is still much work to be done, involving a further stage of improvements including increasing the capacity in the independent sector and streamlining and speeding up assessment processes. There is also a need to develop and put in place new and sustainable staffing and management structures within the authority..
“It is likely to take some time before further improvements are seen everywhere. There are some considerable challenges that will have to be addressed. It is important that we establish modernised home care services that meet complex needs and assist people to be supported to live at home. We are committed to delivering this across all Highland communities,” she said.
Her assurances, however, have cut no ice with POST who wrote the following scathing letter to the Strathy..
“Three weeks ago in this newspaper, our local councillors promised to meet with us. Since then we have heard nothing from them.
“We have, however, heard from some older people, their worried relatives, and their concerned home carers. They tell us that the Home Care Service no longer does ‘domestic work’, and that even those people who need personal care have had their care provision cut by 20 per cent across the board.
Publicly made promises to develop, then to improve, the Wade Centre; promises to meet with us at POST; promises to care for vulnerable older people . promises . promises . promises – all empty.
“Social Work is £3.9 million in debt and their convener, director and councillors are unable to keep their promises or even answer questions. And no one is resigning or even being held accountable. As tax payers – some of us with a lifetime of paying taxes – voters and worried members of the public, frankly we are disgusted.”.
Mrs Brown told the Strathy: “I am deeply concerned about the cut backs in care for the elderly, especially during the winter. They are the most vulnerable members of our community and they are being made to suffer like this.
“This morning I was speaking to a relative whose mother’s care has been cut completely, yet her medical condition has not changed. Relatives, the elderly themselves a nd even home carers have said to us they are at their wits end about how they are going to care adequately for the elderly.” Mrs Brown added: “The council has to spend money. It has to put it into front line services and not into the system. Highland Council have to look at their structure in great detail and stop having a manager for every little service and get more people on the front line.” And fellow POST member Rev Helen Cook, Kingussie, pointed out that a lot of elderly people living in what is effectively a rural environment did not have any immediate family support and were particularly dependent on home care.
Rev Cook added: “Highland Council say they are investing money, but where are these investments going? They all appear to be going into new posts, not being used for care in this area.”


Reporting "Asre Khodro", following up on the issues discussed at the meeting of October 25, 2917 at the Office of the First Vice-President of the President, in order to exchange views and make a decision on reforming the tariff system, a meeting was held with the participation of representatives of relevant organizations at the Office of the Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade And it was decided some new regulations.
In the event of the final image of this new tariff system, imports of over 2,500 cc vehicles with higher tariffs to support domestic production will be possible, as well as a significant increase in import tariffs for vehicles with a capacity of more than 1,000 cc.
- Automobiles with engine volume from 1000 to 1500 cc - Increase of tariffs from 40 to 55%
- Automobiles with engine volume from 1500 to 2000 cc - increase from tariffs 40 to 95%
- Automobiles with engine volume from 2000 to 2500 cc - Increase of tariffs from 55 to 130%
- Automobiles with a motor capacity of 2500 to 3000 cc - an increase from the tariff of 55 to 150%
- Automobiles with engine volume higher than 3000 cc - increase from tariffs 55 to 150%


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Warm weather greeted 270 competitors on the firing lines of the Talladega Marksmanship Park at the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) Inaugural Talladega 600 last December.
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The CMP has announced the Talladega 600, a new match at the new Talladega Marksmanship Park. The event has been designed to appeal to rifle, pistol and shotgun fans to provide a wide variety of marksmanship opportunities for competitive shooting enthusiasts.


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Carol Ann is looking forward to continuing touring her one-woman show "The Power of Music: Twelve Souls in Song"
Carol and Will Patton are at Twigg's, Main Street St. Albans June 1!
Carol's fourth release, "Christmas in Vermont" is available here as well as "Out of the Blue", "Hope" and "Supercharged!"
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Hawker Beechcraft King Air A100, Sandy Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada, Jan. 7, 2007–The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has recommended mandatory regular crew resource management (CRM) training for all operators in Canada as a result of the accident that destroyed the King Air after an aborted landing attempt. According to the accident report, the aircraft, which was operating as a medical transport, did not maintain a positive rate of climb during the attempted go-around and struck trees beyond the end of the runway.
The first officer, who was flying at the time of the accident, suggested a go-around at an appropriate time, according to the Board. However, the captain overruled him, as a result of ineffective CRM coupled with inadequate preparation by the crew, the Board concluded. When the captain decided to discontinue the landing attempt, his communication to the first officer was non-standard and ambiguous, and as a result the first officer did not immediately increase the engine power to initiate the go-around.
Investigators determined “the crew did not employ basic strategies that could have helped prevent the chain of events leading to this accident.” The Board stated the crewmembers did not assess the aircraft performance and did not identify runway length as a threat. Consequently, they did not discuss and agree on a point at which a safe landing was no longer possible and were unprepared to make and execute a timely go-around decision. The captain died soon after the crash, while the two medical technicians suffered serious injuries. The copilot received minor injuries.


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As a part of our “Portraits of Climate Change” initiative, supported by the North Caroliniana Society, CPH will take on the road this spring an exhibit of photographs from Southern Cultures’ fall 2023 issue. These compelling images of climate change from the American South will be on display at our partner sites alongside student photographs of climate change.
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Monday, September 04, 2006
Underwhelmed by Martin Amis's fictionalization of Mohammad Atta's last days. I guess the white boys get a hard-on imagining the cool nihilism and depilation/ablution regimes of suicidal mass murderers. In cold blood. If only they'd shagged more, there'd be peace in the valley of death. Yep nice n easy reasons. 'T were only so simple. More 911 BS to follow I'm sure as we approach the day. I remember on September 11, 2002 I was shopping in Selfridges with Shuchi and Mama. We suddenly realized we were the only ones talking in the food court. Everyone was stumm due to two minutes of official silence for the dead in the USA. Two minutes of silence for Pinochet's victims? Two minutes for Srebernica? Two minutes for Sabra and Chatila? Let me pick up that designer sandwich and talk about it puh-leeze. Heard someone has published a graphic novel of the 9/11 Commission's Report. That should be better reading than Martin's literary jihad. AllahuAkbar Martin. I like how 'Amis's' sounds more like the London Jewish diction of Alec Guiness's Fagin than just plain old English Amis'. Martin remiss. You're no Truman Capote.
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas (WHEC 716) pulled into port to participate in previously scheduled theater security cooperation activities with the Ukrainian Navy, according to the Navy News.The visit by the 378-foot, high-endurance cutter, which has been scheduled since Spring 2008, represents one of the many routine visits to the Black Sea region by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard in recent years designed to strengthen global maritime partnerships and foster greater maritime safety and security capabilities with Black Sea nations.
Included in the training will be shipboard damage control, law enforcement training and vessel boarding procedures.
"The principal aim of visits like these is to increase interoperability by developing the individual and collective maritime proficiency of partner nations, as well as promoting friendship, mutual understanding and cooperation," said Capt. John Moore, commander of Combined Task Force 367, under which the Dallas is operating.
The Dallas, home-ported in Charleston, S.C., is on a regularly scheduled deployment and has been under the command of the U.S. Navy`s 6th Fleet since May 25. Earlier in the deployment, Dallas participated in Africa Partnership Station and conducted similar training with navies and coast guards throughout West and Central Africa.
On Aug. 27, the cutter became the second U.S. military ship to deliver humanitarian aid supplies to Georgia as a part of Operation Assured Delivery, the ongoing U.S. mission to bring relief supplies to the conflict-torn country.


The US Navy accepted its first upgraded Boeing E-6B Mercury on June 6, when pilots from the service’s Strategic Communications Wing 1 (SCW-1) flew the newly enhanced aircraft from Northrop Grumman’s Aircraft Maintenance and Fabrication Center in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma.
This aircraft (serial unknown) – which had been undergoing the upgrade work with Northrop Grumman in Lake Charles over the last year – is one of a number of E-6Bs that will be upgraded to ‘Block II’ standard under the US Navy’s Integrated Maintenance and Modification Contract (IMMC) by 2027. The $111m upgrade contract aims to enhance and upgrade the Navy’s Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) nuclear deterrence mission, ensuring that the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense and US Strategic Command remain connected to the nation’s nuclear arsenal in a degraded environment during a worst-case scenario.
The Navy’s IMMC provides for six major ‘Block II’ modifications that are designed to improve the Mercury’s command, control and communications (C3) functions, further enhancing the platform’s ability to connect the National Command Authority with both strategic and non-strategic US forces. The upgrades will extend the viable service life of the E-6B fleet in the TACAMO role.
Commenting on the arrival of the first upgraded E-6B at Tinker AFB, Capt Adam Scott – program manager for the Navy’s Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program Office (PMA-271) – said: “An incredible amount of work went into this aircraft, which can now perform its nuclear deterrence mission better than ever. During the past year, the team that fielded this capability worked tirelessly to implement improvements to deliver the Block II capability with urgency.”
According to US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), upgrade work on the second Mercury is already underway at Northrop Grumman’s Aircraft Maintenance and Fabrication Center in Lake Charles. The firm is actively working with the US Navy to reduce the turnaround time of the upgrade work to six months – which includes the implementation of span engineering, scheduling, management and production improvements – as was set out in the initial IMMC requirements.
Based on the now-matured Boeing 707-320 airframe, the initial E-6A Hermes completed its maiden flight on February 19, 1987, before being delivered to the US Navy for testing on July 22, 1988. The platform was officially renamed the Mercury in 1991 and 16 examples were delivered to the service in total. These aircraft were subsequently upgraded to E-6B standard from 1997 to 2006.
Today, the E-6B remains to be a critical part of the US Navy’s TACAMO nuclear deterrence mission. It operates across a wide frequency spectrum, where it transmits and receives secure and non-secure voice and data information that helps provide survivable, endurable and reliable airborne C3 in support of US Strategic Command and the offices of the President and Secretary of Defense. The platform also carries out Airborne Command Post missions, facilitating the launch of US land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) using an airborne launch control system.
In 2021, the US Navy purchased a second-hand Boeing E-3D Sentry AEW1 from the Royal Air Force for use as a dedicated E-6B training platform. Following conversion, this aircraft will be used to further extend the operational life of the Mercury fleet by absorbing the training duties that are currently carried out by E-6B mission aircraft.


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As the threat of Coronavirus pandemic has spread all over the globe, there was some other news that was more threatening to the world was news of a big asteroid hitting the earth, which was in trend from last month. The name of the asteroid is as 1998 OR2. The rumors of an asteroid hitting earth were so much that NASA and other astronomers confirmed that the asteroid would not be hitting the earth, it will be passing far away from the earth on 29th April 2020.
Astronomers and astronomy fans were so much excited for gazing the huge asteroid passing nearby to the earth, and that too happened on 29th April 2020, which stuck their eyes to the live streaming of solar system. It began to approach by 6 AM ET. The rumors of hitting totally vanished as it was too far away; the distance between earth and asteroid was about 16 times the distance between earth and moon, i.e., approximately 6.3 million KM.
The orbit period of the asteroid around the sun is 3 years and 8 months, which is so likely that it approaches earth every 4 years. Talking about its width and structure, the asteroid was about 2 kilometers wide with the speed of 30,578 kilometers (19000 miles) per hour which was enough to cause huge damage and human or even biodiversity loss and the structure was too much likely to the conditions of the earth as it was looking like big rock wearing a mask which is quite funny after being noticed.
Talking about its threats over the earth there was no such impact on the earth by its fly-by; even it will not be causing any sort of damage till the next 200 years, its next closest approach will be in 2079, which will be quite far, i.e., six times the lunar distance.


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Some Blood Pressure Drugs May Be Risky for several Surgery Patients: – MONDAY, Oct. 5, 2015 – – Some individuals on blood pressure medicines known as beta blockers may face heightened risks of heart complications during non-cardiac surgeries, a new, large study suggests. The extensive research involved over 55,000 surgery patients who have been on various medications to treat high blood circulation pressure. The investigators found that those on beta blockers experienced an increased risk of heart attack, stroke or related death, compared to patients on other medications.

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