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By Scott Ockey
The thought of nematodes might send shivers down your spine, and many of them definitely send shivers right down to your roots.
There are thousands of nematode species, which are tiny worm-like creatures that exist under the soil, and they’re not all bad, but plant parasitic nematodes are the enemies we need to be aware of to prevent long-term damage to crops.
Harmful nematodes cover a wide spectrum, including migratory or sedentary types, and they feed on the outside or inside the roots of plants with a needle-like mouth that penetrates root tissues, which causes loss of vigor and yield in crops. Many crops could potentially recover after a season of plant-parasitic nematode damage, but permanent specialty crops including berries (blueberries and strawberries), citrus, tree nuts, tree fruit, and wine grapes run the risk of long-term damage that can inhibit growth, yield, and revenue to the detriment of growers.
Know What’s Below Your Soil
Unfortunately, many harmful nematodes love permanent crops because the roots act as long-term room and board for them.
Perennial crops often have increased numbers of nematodes associated with their root systems more specifically as the plants age. For example, nematodes such as Pratylenchus spp. (lesion nematodes) can reach such high numbers that replanting following removal of older trees or vines can result in a reduced vigor, stunting or even death of the replant because of the excessive damage by the high population of nematodes in the soil.
For this reason, growers should regularly test for nematodes during the life of trees and vines. A great way to do this is by approaching your testing results with a presence or absence mindset. If plant parasitic nematodes are present, set up a control program to reduce their damaging effects. If they are not currently detected, continue with a consistently scheduled soil testing program to ensure you can catch them early before they start to damage roots.
In cases where plant parasitic nematodes are present, it is best to apply an effective nematicide at key timings during plant growth. For perennials, you should target applications during root flush. This timing is when soils are warm enough for nematode activity and you have the greatest opportunity of protecting the more vulnerable roots.
Determine Nematode Types to Protect Perennial Crops
There are numerous species of plant parasitic nematodes that can damage perennial crops, and knowing their lifecycles is an important aspect that directly relates to successful control efforts.
- Migratory ectoparasitic nematodes are nematodes that spend their life outside of the plant roots, so you need a nematicide that can attack and kill all life stages from eggs to juveniles and adults.
- Migratory endoparasitic nematodes are nematodes that spend a portion of their lifecycle inside the plant root where some nematicides will not be effective. However, since they are migratory, there are life stages that are susceptible to nematicides as they move outside in the soil from root to root. This group of nematodes varies with some only having adult stages within the roots, whereas others have more life stages within the protective cover of a plant. Lesion nematodes are in this category but have numerous stages outside the plant when you can control them, so apply at regular intervals according to label instructions.
- Sedentary endoparasitic nematodes are nematodes in which female adults are attached to the plant root and do not relocate. In the case of root-knot nematodes, the female is found sedentary within the root tissue, and in cyst and citrus nematodes, females are attached to the root with a large portion of the female exposed outside the root.
It is important to choose a nematicide that is effective on all life stages because egg and juvenile nematodes can be controlled with effective applications, but some types, like the root-knot nematodes as adults, are protected by the root once they are inside.
When It Comes to Nematode Control, Timing Is EverythingTiming is imperative when considering biological nematicides for nematode control.
Nematodes in perennial crops have adapted to be the most mobile during the root flush stages, so in-season applications are important during the spring and fall root flush timing since roots are constantly growing and nematodes are likely migrating in the soil. In particular, focus an application timing in the late fall and spring to reduce nematode populations for spring planting and to protect new root flush before the nematodes go deeper in the soil for the winter.
These methods provide added flexibility and opportunity to control nematodes in annual crops and reduce the long-term effects of nematode damage in perennial crops.
Looking for a natural, effective and flexible solution to control nematodes at all life stages?

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The financial costs of tackling global climate change will be stupendous, amounting to trillions of dollars worldwide over the coming decades. Or so a common notion has it.
Perhaps, though, that view has it backwards. Rather, by setting out to keep rising temperatures moderate and manageable through comprehensive mitigating measures, we could save trillions of dollars by the end of the century. To be more precise: 20 trillions.
“[T]here is a 75% chance that keeping global warming to a 1.5 °C rise — an aspiration of the Paris climate treaty — will leave the world better off than letting it run to a 2 °C rise,” write the authors of a study in Nature, who examined the possible financial costs and benefits involved in mitigating climate change. “The probable savings: a cumulative US$20-trillion increase in world GDP by the end of the century. (Global GDP in 2016 was about $76 trillion.)”
Fostering green economies, such as through the provision of incentives for renewable energy sources, might be costly in the short term, yes. Yet they will bear plenty of financial benefits in future, not least by mitigating the worst effects of climate change that would wreak havoc with the planet’s economies and people’s ways of life.
The study’s authors examined the impact of temperature changes on GDP in 165 countries in the half century between 1960 and 2010. They then projected their results all the way to 2100. What they found was that the more temperature changes can be limited, the greater the economic benefits will be for the planet’s nations.
Under the Paris Agreement, the world’s countries agreed to try and limit warming in average global temperatures “well below” 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, preferably keeping it below 1.5 degrees Celsius. The study’s authors posit that if increases in average global temperatures could indeed be kept to 1.5 degrees Celsius rather than allow them to rise to 2 degrees, the planet’s economies would save a whopping $20 trillion.
That’s the equivalent of the current annual GDP of the planet’s strongest economy, the United States, and accounts for more than a quarter of the planet’s total annual GDP. In addition, the authors note, more than two-thirds of low- and medium-income nations, which contain 90% of the world’s population, would likely benefit far more economically from mitigating climate change now than from trying to adapt to it later.
The post Mitigating climate change could save us trillions appeared first on Sustainability Times.

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This special recipe comes to us from a monastery in Northern India. From their pristine gardens, these monks have blended three varieties of select black tea and suffused them with special healing prayers to create a fusion from a whole other level!
Water Temperature: 206 F degrees
Caffeine Content: Medium
Steep Time: 3-5 minutes
Ingredients: Organic Black Tea

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The affordable education loan option
Pretoria - She said “open the boom” but the security guard heard her say “you baboon”. Next thing she was arrested, driven in the back of a police van to the Sunnyside police station and locked up for the next five hours in a communal cell with about eight men.
Now Deborah Lynn Greaves of Centurion has won R50 000 from the police.
Greaves, 50, of Centurion instituted a R300 000 damages claim against the minister of police following her ordeal.
Her nightmare started when she was due to attend a training course at a conference facility in Sunnyside.
She tried to park inside a basement parking garage but was told by the security guard that parking was reserved and she should park in the street.
Greaves said she had previously parked inside, even though she did not have an access card.
That day, she parked in the street but when she returned the next day, she again tried to park inside.
Again she was denied entry, but this time, she said, the security guard was aggressive and screamed at her. He wanted her to park outside.
She phoned a colleague to arrange parking inside the parking garage for her, as she felt her car was unsafe outside. The colleague handed her his access card so she could drive into the basement.
But when she left that afternoon, the security guard refused to open the boom for her to exit. Greaves said she told him to “open the boom” and that “the way in which you do things is stupid”.
He apparently mistook what she told him as “you are a baboon” and that he was “stupid”.
Nevertheless, he opened the boom and she drove off.
She returned the following day and while attending training she was called by the course co-ordinator. He told her the police were waiting for her outside.
She was told by two policemen that she was under arrest.
Greaves was threatened that if she did not get into the police van, she would be cuffed.
The police drove her at high speed to the police station.
She said she was terrified and was being thrown around in the back of the van.
At the police station she was told that she was being held for crimen injuria.
She had to spend five terrifying hours in a cell with men, under conditions she described as filthy. Her lawyer had her freed on a warning at about five that afternoon.
Greaves said she was so traumatised that she had to receive counselling from a psychiatrist, who diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder.
The police initially denied all the allegations made by Greaves in papers before the Pretoria High Court.
Her lawyer, Konrad Rontgen, was ready to proceed on Monday, but just before the case was called the police indicated they would settle the matter by paying Greaves R50 000.
Greaves said she was happy it was over, but she was disappointed with the settlement amount.
“This does not compensate me for the humiliation, fear and embarrassment I had to endure. I still get nightmares and I become extremely fearful when I see a security boom.
“This was totally unnecessary and now the taxpayer has to pay for the wrongs of the police. All I wanted to do was to park.”
The charge levelled against her was that of crimen injuria, but the prosecutor refused to entertain this and dismissed the case.

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Document Type : Research Paper
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, P.O.Box 53714-161, Tabriz, Iran
In this study, a new graphene ceramic composite (GCC) was prepared based on the reduced graphene
oxide (rGO) doped in sol-gel derived silica. The GCC was prepared by dispersing rGO nanosheets into
the sol-gel precursors containing methyl triethoxysilane, methanol and hydrochloric acid solution.
During an acid catalyzed hydrolyze reaction and gelation process, rGO nanosheets were successfully
doped into the prepared gel. The fabricated GCC was characterized by field emission scanning electron
microscopy, Transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray
diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge/discharge
techniques. According to the electrochemical results, the prepared GCC has shown remarkable specific
capacitance in comparison with carbon ceramic composite. Due to unique configuration of GCC and
large specific surface area of rGO, the resultant GCC shows specific capacitance of 428 F g-1 at current
density of 1 A g-1and good cycling stability using three electrode system.

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This is an excellent cookbook for both the Kosher and non-Kosher cook. Everything is laid out in a clear, concise way, including the ingredients, the steps in the recipe and the time that it will take to prepare the food. Categories include No-Cook with Strawberry Feta Salad and Strawberry Basis recipes for example; 30 Minutes including Pumpkin Pie Pancakes and Barbecue Pastrami-Wrapped Asparagus as well as Perfectly Creamy Mac and Cheese, among others. There are also chapters on 5 Ingredient Meals such as Sausage Stuffed Sweet Potatoes and Lazy Meatballs, among with others and then sections on One Pot Meals and Slow Cooker & Pressure Cooker meals, again with each chapter including many recipes. Further, there are chapters on Bakery items, Staples, Holiday Menus and more. There are over 100 recipes in all. Beginning cooks will feel success with the recipes and experienced cooks will also enjoy their ease. The book is nicely illustrated throughout. I feel inspired to get in the kitchen!
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title in exchange for an honest review.
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Pareve, Easy Prep, Grain-Free, Vegan
Hummus is super simple to make from scratch, and the homemade version always tastes better than any store-bought container. You can easily create your own flavor variations, too. I love this creamy, rich hummus slathered on crunchy toasted bread, or as a dip with sliced carrot or roasted cauliflower—but my favorite way to eat it is on a fresh pita, one big bite at a time.
1. In the bowl of a food processor, combine the tahini, garlic cloves, lemon juice, water, olive oil, sea salt, and ground cumin; process until smooth.
2. Add the chickpeas and purée until they are completely broken down and the hummus reaches your desired consistency.
3. Serve drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with the za’atar and sesame seeds.
You can easily create flavored hummus by adding ingredients to the hummus base—try chopped roasted beets, roasted red peppers, extra garlic cloves, or hot sauce. For spinach-artichoke hummus, add ¼ cup baby spinach leaves and ¼ cup jarred marinated artichokes. Additionally, you can top hummus with savory toppings such as spiced ground beef, thinly sliced grilled chicken, or even Shakshuka.
- 2 tablespoons tahini
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- Juice of 1 lemon and 2 tablespoons cold water
- 1/4 cup olive oil (plus additional for serving)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
- 1 teaspoon za’atar spice blend, for serving
- 1 teaspoon sesame seeds, for serving


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Chesterfield Dentist - Stephen F. Paul, DDS - Cosmetic Restorations & Family Oral Care
Dr. Stephen Paul launched his family practice 43 years ago after graduating from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1974. He was born and raised here in the St. Louis area, where he met his lovely wife, Jane. They enjoy their time together with family and friends as well as caring for their animals at home. These fur babies include dogs, chickens, cats and horses. Dr. Paul's kindness and love for others is exhibited in the way he has taken in countless strays (people and animals) over the years.
Long time employee and friend, Kathy Ferguson, says "Dr. Paul cares so much for his patients and others that he not only takes an interest in their dental health, but their personal lives as well. He takes the time to catch up with them when they come in so that everyone sees they matter to him." The fact that there are patients in this practice that have been coming to Dr. Paul for over 20 or even 30 years speaks extremely highly of his reputation in this city.
Stephen F. Paul, DDS
Dr. Stephen Paul focuses on meeting his patient’s needs and creating an environment in his office that reflects that philosophy. His peers have recognized this commitment by naming him one of the topDentists™ in the St. Louis area again this year for the ninth year in a row.
The family practice Dr. Paul has built is a friendly, comfortable and caring environment. His team of professionals is focused on ensuring each patient’s individual needs are met. The team frequently attends continuing-education programs and seminars to enhance its professional knowledge to provide the ultimate in preventative and restorative care.
Since launching his practice, Dr. Paul has provided cosmetic dentistry, veneers, crowns, implants, partial and full dentures, periodontics, temporomandibular joint disorder (TMJ) treatment, teeth whitening and dentistry for children. Still, prevention is at the heart of his dental philosophy.
Prevention dentistry will always be the most important part of any patient’s dental care,” says Dr. Paul. “Regular dental check-ups and proper daily home care are still the very best way to avoid dental problems.”
The office has the latest in digital technology, lasers and intraoral cameras. Intraoral photographs can be viewed on TVs mounted in each treatment room to enlighten the patient about their dental needs and allow them to see, first-hand, improvements dental treatment has provided. He also offer nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia for his patients.
A graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry, Dr. Paul is a member of the American Dental Association, the Greater St. Louis Dental Society and the Missouri Dental Association. He also continues to volunteer on an advisory board for the Special School District’s South County Technical School, as he has for many years.

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South Sudan’s presidency agreed last week to consult Upper Nile state communities on the appointment of Johnson Olony as state governor, Sudan Tribune says.
The move came in a bid to end the stalemate between the president and his first deputy over the issue.
The presidency said that the revitalized transitional government of national unity would hold a conference in Juba for Communities of Upper Nile State to discuss ways and means of resolving any tribal or communal differences in the state prior to a final decision on the appoint of the governor of the state.
Lam Akol, the leader of the National Democratic Movement advised the presidency not to involve the Upper Nile communities in the dispute between the president and his deputy over the state government. He prefers that other four Vice Presidents should talk to their senior colleagues either to accept appointment or change nomination.
The date for the conference is yet to be set.

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Adam Lambert – Better Than I Know Myself – Claude Kelly – MP3 Listen
Here’s the original version of Adam Lambert’s latest single ‘Better Than I Know Myself’ by Claude Kelly.
Claude Kelly recorded this in 2009 and was produced by Dr. Luke. The original song was composed by Lukasz Gottwald, Joshua Coleman, Henry Walter and Claude Kelly. He’s currently one of the vocal coaches on The X Factor. What a great song choice for Adam to do a cover. This is going to be a hit! Claude was the songwriter of ‘For Your Entertainment‘ from Adam’s debut album.
I’m a little disappointed that it’s not an original co-write from Adam (why I was led to believe that it’s going to be an original song I don’t know — maybe Adam led us on for months). But I’m not going to let that dampen my spirits now… This. Is. Amazing.
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According to a new legal document, Microsoft is creating a new subsidiary called ‘Vault.’ Microsoft will legally classify Bethesda and ZeniMax under Vault, rather than being directly connected to Xbox Game Studios. That is, of course, if the EU accepts the $7.5 Billion deal that includes ZeniMax Media as a whole, Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.
This sounds a little confusing, especially because Microsoft’s control over Vault seems iron-clad. The document states that Microsoft will acquire “sole control of the whole of ZeniMax.” Further details show that I don’t know a thing about mergers’ legalities or much else about the situation. Luckily, a few experts have cleared up some of the confusion.
In simple terms, Phil Spencer told CNET that “they’re [ZeniMax] not about becoming us,” when talking about the deal. Pete Hines, Bethesda’s SVP of global marketing, added, “we’re still working on the same games we were yesterday, made by the same studios we’ve worked with for years, and those games will be published by us,” in a separate blog post.
Microsoft controlling Vault does not guarantee exclusivity
Phil Spencer reports that Microsoft will honor the PS5 exclusivity agreed upon for two upcoming games. Future Bethesda games will still appear on Xbox, PC, and other consoles on a “case by case basis.”
We now know that ‘Vault’ will be separate from the existing Xbox Game Studios. Xbox Game Studious has 13 individual development teams working on new IP’s and content for existing games. Vault sounds like an easy way to keep all of ZeniMax’s under one umbrella. The more I read, the less I’m convinced that Microsoft will use Vault as an excuse to keep games such as The Elder Scrolls and Fallout as Xbox exclusives.
Todd Howard talked about not being limited to the Xbox ecosystem: “Like our original partnership, this one is about more than one system or one screen. We share a deep belief in the fundamental power of games, in their ability to connect, empower, and bring joy. And a belief we should bring that to everyone – regardless of who you are, where you live, or what you play on. Regardless of the screen size, the controller, or your ability to even use one.”
What this entails
We’re not looking at a Bayonetta situation. Sega initially funded the PlatinumGames hit, but Nintendo stepped in once the project halted and supported it. Once Sega and Nintendo shared the rights, they agreed they should make the game for the Wii U. The games in Bethesda’s wheelhouse aren’t facing funding challenges. Still, they will take advantage of the funding to become better developers.
It looks like a win-win. ZeniMax will have far more resources to create video games. Microsoft will be able to task them with creating exclusive IPs while ZeniMax continues to release their well-known franchises across each console for the foreseeable future. That’s what I hope Phil Spencer’s “case by case” basis truly means.
PSU offered a great example of how the above might work. The PlayStation Studios logo appears on the Xbox Series X|S retail box for MLB The Show 21. Similarly, we may see “Vault” labeled video games on the PlayStation versions of these games in the future.
ZeniMax is already looking to the future
The studio that created Elder Scrolls Online is currently hiring for several positions ranging from art, design, engineering, and production. ZeniMax Online Studios tweeted about the job postings and noted that the positions are for ESO and multiple unannounced projects.
Of course, we can only speculate what could be coming, but seeing more than one project in the works confirms that ZeniMax isn’t waiting for the merger—they’re ready to create now. As a fan of ESO, I’m excited to see what comes of their newfound resources.

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Be warned, I am a self-confessed SJW. I would prefer that society has justice and I'm willing to do whatever I can to try and make it happen. Since I can't exactly ride down any --ist peoples like an avenging valkyrie, I choose instead to yabber on about whatever happens to be on my mind at the time. In this case, it's the justified laughing at people we call 'comedy'.
I use 'justified', here to mean 'socially approved by most without thinking about it' because the meaning is a mouthful and I need to be snappy to keep your attention. Nothing drives the audiences away quicker than a whining SJW going on about injustice, convoluting the language as they go.
We justify all kinds of things by implicit social approval. It is still hilarious to many to see a cis male in a dress. We never ask why it is so, it is just so. The manlier the man, the frillier and girlier the dress, the more hilarious it is. Why this is so is because emasculation in the form of a feminine affect is turning the ideal of manhood into its opposite.
It is funny to imply that the manliest of men could even be thought of as the same as a "weak and powerless" lady. Society agrees because established gender roles say so. Similarly, it is a different kind of amusing to see the girliest of girls kick ass in a meaningful way... but it isn't the same.
Men being put "down" via feminine affect is funnier than women being "elevated" by manly skills. Why? Because the former is allegedly impossible whilst the latter could be alarmingly real. Women cheer when the girly girl kicks Manly McLargehuge's butt, but the men in the audience don't.
The same sort of thing goes on with racism. You better believe I'm going off about that, because people of colour can't win. They're 'hilarious' when they're a walking stereotype, and they're 'hilarious' when they're the exact opposite of a stereotype (or accidentally creating a new one).
Ah, say the white men of the audience, but stereotypes exist for a reason. We know. It's called 'racism'. You pummel black men and women down for close to three hundred years, you'd better believe that you will get the Angry Black(tm) who has zero capacity for bullshit. This one's especially prevalent on the silver screen, and you get hair-trigger sensitivity about issues played for the lols.
It's so easy to do, too. Consider the following:
White Person: [Something easily construed as racist]
Angry Black(tm): What did you say?!
We see it so often, we expect it. Haha, white people have to be so careful around black people, haha. Anything could set them off, haha. Real people don't get into situations like that because real people have more social awareness than the average pickle. Ha. Ha.
Sure, it's great to see a little more colour and diversity on the screens, but... can we please try for something with a little more effort than the Loud Angry Black, the Studious Wise Asian, or the Hilarious Uncontrollable Disability?
No, I don't want to spoil your fun, fragile snowflake white-man. I want you to explore some different kinds of fun. Different can be good.
It's rare for me to see that comedy as written by the minority voices, but when it is, I can tell that it's been written by someone who usually doesn't get a voice. You know how I can tell? The white cis (usually) male in the situation actually learns something. Nobody has to be put down, put in their place, or put in a pigeon-hole for ease of consumption.
Let there be more minority writers. Let there be more minority directors. Let them make comedies that don't rely on the same tired old stereotropes that are easy for the serial killer demographic to understand. Maybe, if there was diversity in the staff before the movie was made, those old stereotropes could go quietly into that good night.
Is it horrible to want to see yourself on the screen? Is it horrible to imagine that there are others who feel like that too?
I don't think so. But then again, I'm a mentally disabled SJW who's tired of seeing the white men win at everything and learn nothing.
No, no. Put that rage down, sir. Listen. It is possible to lose and become a better person. You're just angry because you still believe the world needs to cater to you, that's all. You can't see that you still hold the majority because you're too busy howling about how some 'feminazi' stole your cookie/job/lollipop/whatever.
I don't expect you to understand. You, sir, have never had to sit through representations of yourself being a stereotrope. Even if you can think of a handful of examples, I am confident in betting a dollar that this particular example also made it all the way through the movie whilst hurdling the lowest bar possible.
Men in film just have to accept themselves in order to get the prize. Especially white men. Women have to fit an ideal to get even most of the way there. Even then, they usually have to give up one of their life goals in order to attain 'happiness' with a man who has done little to no character growth.
Hell, in the third act hookup, there's often very little in the way of anticipatory prelude to that. The relationship -such as it is- goes from zero to gonzo in nothing flat and can easily be erased in the case of a sequel. Not that comedic film get a lot of sequels. Just re-hashed plots. I have digressed.
Too much comedy relies on easy elements. Many of those elements are --ist hangovers from the Victorian Era.
Don't you think it's high time comedy did some growing with social attitudes... instead of attempting to tear them down?
 Serial killers are almost universally single white men aged 16-45. Co-incidentally, marketers everywhere aim to sell things to single white men aged 16-45. For me, this raises eyebrows.


1st deputy director general of Kazakhstan-China Pipeline named
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ASTANA. KAZINFORM Sabit Rziyev was appointed as the 1st deputy director general of Kazakhstan-China Pipeline LLP and elected as a member of Kazakhstan-China Pipeline LLP Board, Kazinform refers to the press service of KazTransOil JSC.
Prior to the appointment he served as the head of the Shymkent oil pipeline department of KazTransOil JSC.
Kazakhstan-China Pipeline LLP is a joint venture of KazTransOil JSC and China National Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Company Ltd.


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The Embassy of Iran, Abu Dhabi is the diplomatic mission representing Iran in the United Arab Emirates. It is located on Al Karama Street in the Diplomatic Area of Abu Dhabi. Mohammad Reza Fayyaz is the current ambassador of Iran to the UAE.
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Hold on to your seats Q45 drivers, Nissan’s recalling over 5500 cars. Nissan reports a possible problem with with the electrical connector on it’s side air bag systems. The mounting position of the connector allows small movement between male and female half can create the possibility of oxidation on the metal pins. This creates a poor electrical connection which could result in air bag failure during a side impact.
The fix involves moving relocating the connector and applying epoxy to the plugs to eliminate any movement or oxidation. Nissan estimates that most affected cars have already been fixed during routine maintenance. If you or some one you know owns an Infiniti Q45 then a quick phone call to the nearest dealership will get you an appointment to fix the problem. Don’t ignore this! It’s a free fix to a serious safety issue.
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As someone who is deeply embedded in the consumer technology industry and thrives in it passionately, ‘disruption’ for me is the very valuable fundamental that shapes trends, discards clutter, and makes way for the new and exciting things on the horizon. The industry, by nature, never adheres to a strict status quo. And that’s how we have evolved so far. Think about the time when you used to run to your local restaurants to buy food. Today, there are several food-tech apps that will deliver orders to you in a jiffy, and allow you to pay later at that!
From social media becoming a tool to capture memories and networking to broadcasting your most cherished experiences in real-time, and even emerging as pathways of revenues for businesses. Multi-tasking while working remotely? Just place orders to your smart AI-enabled voice assistants to help you out. Mobile internet has become one of the primary means worldwide, especially in South-east Asia to communicate, create, and be productive. At the same time, it has proliferated into a high-growth internet economy with ride-hailing apps, e-commerce, food-tech, fintech, social commerce, and so on.
As we bid adieu to a significant year that underlined the importance of technology and connectivity in our lives, let’s put the spotlight at the intersection of various consumer trends that will cement themselves in 2021:
Power-packed 5G chipsets
2020 was a significant year as several brands introduced 5G-ready smartphones. realme was the first brand to enter the 5G handset arena with its realme X50 Pro 5G. Next year, we will see more smartphones with powerful 5G chipsets entering the market. Even though full-fledged 5G infrastructure is a few years ahead, consumers will showcase a steady demand for 5G smartphones. Why? Because a high-end 5G-ready processor will unlock exponential capabilities for daily use – be it gaming, camera, UI, or any other operations. Consumers will get the chance to use a future-ready smartphone to cater to various needs, offering maximum power and performance for a tech-empowered life. With more commercialization of 5G chipsets, we may even see them making more headway in mid-range smartphones as OEMs look to strengthen their portfolios. In fact, industry forecasts say that global 5G smartphone production will likely exceed 500 million units, with an almost 40% penetration rate.
Do you feel that gaming smartphones are just a niche? Well, think again. India has a sizable catchment of mobile gamers and e-sports users today with 4G/LTE penetration in Tier 2 cities and performance-oriented devices. Post the pandemic, the demand for e-sports has accelerated further. A report by Google states that India’s growing gaming industry is expected to boast 440 million gamers by 2022. Pro gamers are looking for powerful processors, high refresh rate screens, ultra-fast cooling, and fast charging creds that improve their smartphone gaming experience. The industry has seen an influx of leading gaming chipsets such as MTK Helio G95 and G85 processors that bring an excellent ownership experience, as gamers can multitask without any frustrations on delays and lags. As the gaming industry thrives with more esports tournaments, viewership and engagement increased consumer demand will give wide berth to devices that satisfy emerging needs.
Smart Techlife living, with smart home solutions
It is estimated that there are approximately 12 billion IoT devices in play worldwide. Jump to 2030, and we will see 30 billion IoT connections. Smart homes and demand for smart tech-lifestyle experience are some of the key drivers propelling consumer IoT today. Consumers, especially Gen Z and millennials, are looking for a connected experience where they can control various smart devices in their homes through a centralized platform such as an app on their smartphone. Smart home solutions will move beyond smart devices to include Smart TVs, soundbars, smart white goods as well. Smart TVs have paved the way for connected viewing, with users streaming content on bigger screens when at home, opting for a more immersive experience. The demand for smart TVs will be on an upward trend with families preferring to gather together in connected living rooms to spend quality time. An increasing appetite for OTT content and video consumption will also fuel this trend. 5G will be a game-changer for smart home solutions, with ubiquitous connectivity, peak data rates, ultra-low latency, and greater interoperability.
Sophisticated computational photography
From single and dual-lens cameras to smartphones housing multiple lenses and advanced sensors, there are flagship camera experiences in the mid-range as well as the premium segment. Computational photography or the technique of capturing diverse images, processing them, and producing one composite shot has transformed the smartphone camera landscape. Artificial intelligence will continue to play a more defining role in smartphone photography going ahead. For instance, AI-driven algorithms can analyze the scenes to be photographed, consider diverse factors such as light, movement aspects, shoot a series of images with different exposure levels, and bracket them together to produce a single image with stunning details and clarity. We may even see chipsets from vendors that can combine the footage taken from all three cameras of a smartphone and form a highly detailed image. Given the hardware limitations of smartphones, OEMs will invest in powerful sensors and SoCs that yield vibrant image quality, akin to professional technologies. And consumers can unleash their inner photographer and click away to their hearts’ content.
Immersive AMOLED displays
Smartphone display has emerged as one of the key cornerstones driving creative experiments in the industry. From the waterdrop-notch display in 2018, we saw the center of gravity shift towards the punch-hole display, and even in some cases, no-notch displays. Why? Well, this particular design caught steam due to its high screen ratio, stunning visual effect, and aesthetically pleasing quotient. In 2021, we will see this trend get democratized across mid-range and entry-level smartphones as well, with the added thrill of AMOLED displays being integrated across different pricing tiers. Owing to its extremely lightweight and flexible form factor, vivid color reproduction, low power consumption, greater contrast ratios, better responsiveness and refresh rates, global production was projected to be 70 million in 2020 to satisfy consumer demand. For uses who love to multitask on their smartphones, consume content, play games, and seek a richer, deeply immersive experience, AMOLED displays with high refresh rates will emerge as a critical driver for purchase decisions.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision” – Peter F Drucker had famously extolled. We are already reaping the fruits of a superior tech-lifestyle, thanks to many tech disruptions over the last decade. Whichever aspects of life you look at, the potent combination of smartphones, the internet, and connectivity has brought in unparalleled ease and convenience. And as we step together into a new year, holding vibrant new promises in the offing, I am beyond thrilled to witness the magic technology will unfold for us.
Madhav Sheth, Vice President, realme and CEO, realme India and Europe
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Cinemadison, a University of Wisconsin-Madison film group, put on a student film festival in the Marquee Cinema at Union South last week that was a celebration of what it means to be an artist burdened by the role of being a student.
The festival featured four films: “St. Abby,” directed by DePaul University student Matthew Shariff; “Faces of Void,” directed by Cinemadison president Rohan Pemmasani; “The Helper,” directed by Indu Konduru; and “Fragments,” which was also directed by Pemmasani.
Each film was beautifully crafted, and the attention to detail that each frame received was astonishing. It’s easy to forget that they were made with little to no budget.
Pemmasani during the festival spoke on the importance of the art of filmmaking, especially student and amateur filmmaking.
“There's no stakes involved at all, so we can truly just say what we want,” Pemmasani said.
That creative freedom and ability to not have to cater to a broad audience allows the director's whole vision to be reflected in the film.
“It's a unique voice because we’re so limited with what we have,” Pemmasani added.
Although Pemmasani only filmed in the Madison area — more specifically, his friend’s apartment — “Faces of Void” received critical acclaim at film festivals both domestic and international.
“Faces of Void” is a brilliant story that demonstrates the importance of human connection when you lose sight of morality. It follows a phone scammer making a connection with a potential victim. The film is a wonderful commentary on modern life, exploring not only the absurd nature of scams but also the relevance of relationships formed without face-to-face interaction.
The film festival was not exclusive to UW-Madison students. Matthew Shariff is currently a third-year student at DePaul University in Chicago. He directed the film “St. Abby,” which takes inspiration from French new wave and auteur cinema to craft a brilliantly funny tale about a date gone wrong.
Shariff spoke during a post-screening Q&A about the pride he holds in finally seeing his work grace the silver screen. He highlighted the importance of seeing your hard work and effort come to full fruition in an environment surrounded by people who respect the time and effort it takes to craft a piece of art.
As the evening came to a close, Cinemadison board member Alan Zarycki spoke about how tight-knit the filmmaking community is despite the size of their productions.
”It gives me a sense of hope and freedom that whatever I do could maybe translate into something big,“ Zarycki said. “You can literally do anything that your heart desires because, at the end of the day, everybody is by your side.”
Zarycki said this makes him and other student filmmakers optimistic for the future of student filmmaking at UW-Madison.

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the CanadaVisa Team - 08 July, 2015
A new quality of life report, called the “Better Life Index”, has ranked Canada as the fifth happiest place in the world.
“Canada performs very well in many measures of well-being, as shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large number of topics,” read the report.
Canada was compared to other countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation (OECD), which includes almost all developed nations. A few important Canadian statistics measured by the report include:
Overall, 80 percent of Canadians surveyed stated that they have more positive feelings than negative in an average day.


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(Ed note: This is the first of a two-part essay by Laurence Goldstein. Laurence Goldstein is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and Editor Emeritus of Michigan Quarterly Review (1977-2009). His most recent book is a volume of poems, A Room in California (Northwestern University Press, 2005). A book of literary criticism, Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the City’s Essential Poems, is forthcoming from University of Michigan Press.)
MEETING B. F. SKINNER, 1963
“Wear a coat and tie, if you have them,”
my editor advised. “He’s pretty famous.”
I folded my father’s formal jacket
over my sport shirt and peggers, and strolled
across the wide piazza toward Royce Hall.
Humming step by nervous step, in a
cascade of arias from the auditorium,
I mounted many stairs to an airless room.
He wore a coat and tie, of course: Harvard
spiffed-up for UCLA, noblesse oblige.
We both sweated a little. This interview,
we understood, was one building block
in my enlightenment, like the class hour
just past, on Wordsworth or Milton, spirits
most antithetical to L.A. “I hope I don’t
bore you,” I offered. “I’m never bored,” he said,
“Tired sometimes, but never bored.” I tried
to keep it andante, but he had foresuffered
all my queries on free will and social control.
If this were sport fencing, I died in five minutes.
I flourished a final thrust: “You write in Walden Two
that this utopia knows no unhappiness,
thanks to the Planners’ perfect design. Yet
the citizens rehearse a production of Hedda Gabler.
How can that be? How would they understand
so much heartbreak?” He gazed downward;
I felt my education hang in the scales of logic.
Finally, diminuendo, his small defeated voice:
“You’re right. The young wouldn’t understand.
I must change the play in the next edition.”
I felt sorry for him, for my own petty
triumph, my cub mousetrap cunningly sprung.
Skinner didn’t correct the next edition.
So what? Walden Two lost its audience.
The late Sixties made any bossy republic
Seem an affront to the young libido. A discord.
Only the spot of time seems unshakeable,
the invulnerable memory, those few minutes
atop the concert hall, my heart pounding
and the axis of culture shifting, adagio.
“Meeting B. F. Skinner, 1963” was written to mark the semi-centennial of a half hour’s encounter between a UCLA undergraduate, myself, and a distinguished scientist-philosopher visiting the campus to deliver a guest lecture. In the early 1960s I imagined that my destiny lay in journalism, and as an eager junior reporter for The Daily Bruin I volunteered to interview B. F. Skinner, who generously made himself available for a conversation he probably assumed would be a waste of his valuable time. The poem preserves the few remarks I can remember and tries to recreate the feel of an event which turned out to be more long-lasting in my memory than my exchanges during those years with other visitors to campus as well as figures residing in Los Angeles: John F. Kennedy, John Dos Passos, Stan Laurel, Dorothy Parker, Christopher Isherwood, Aldous Huxley.
At the same time I settled into the romance of journalism—I cherished the old saw that this poorly paid profession was highly desirable because “you meet such interesting people”—I became increasingly fascinated by serious literature, especially poetry. The two worlds meshed for me; both demanded intellectual curiosity, stamina, and high-end verbal skills. The eight-paragraph news items and book reviews I wrote for the Bruin corresponded to the eight-line stanza poems, often of eight stanzas, I turned out as exercises in verse composition. Sometimes those poems had the form of a meeting, an interview, a narrative of significant contact between two people. Sometimes I still write those same kind of poems. Inevitably I have formulated a few rules governing the encounter poem.
1) For maximum effect, the narrative must dramatize a meeting between two people that is clearly a one-off, a nonce occurrence. These two people will never meet again, and that fact is understood by both parties. The unrepeatable quality of their encounter intensifies their emotional and intellectual exchange. Love poems do not belong in this category, nor poems of family and long friendship.
2) There is an imbalance, a fundamental incongruity, in their status. The speaker is likely to be the younger person, more a listener and learner taking mental notes. It is he or she who registers the impact of contact with a person likely to be somewhat exotic, exceptional, troubling, capable of surprising statements. The speaker is almost always impressed by the strangeness of the other’s presence. The best poems in this mode have that Pip-meets-Miss Havisham affect.
3) To say as much is to indicate the closeness of the genre to fiction and drama as models. The encounter poem treats scenes in ways familiar to all consumers of literature, film scripts, and popular songs. It is intertextual to a high degree, its practices open to introjection from a variety of familiar and recondite sources. The encounter poem sounds like a scene in a novel or a condensed short story. A certain moral weight attaches to the encounter poem because of its deliberate situation in the literary mainstream. Rules for social conduct are right on the surface.
4) There must be some dialogue to fulfill the above-mentioned dialogic structure of the dramatic lyric, though the speaker may prefer to direct his part of the conversation to the reader in the form of a meditative aside. Meetings with non-human creatures may have some of the same conventions as the encounter poem but their rhetorical strategies differ from this person-with-person mode. The epiphanies that belong to poems of contact with birds, fish, moose, skunks, groundhogs, bears, deer, dogs and cats (readers can supply some famous examples) differ from the turns and intentions of the interpersonal poem.
5). Likewise the allegorical conjunction of one human and one spirit figure do not qualify. “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” is one of the great ballads of the English language, but it does not advance by exchange of dialogue. The demon lover sings, sighs, and moans; she does not speak beyond her false declaration, “I love thee true.” (Nor does the “glimmering girl” in Yeats’s “The Song of Wandering Aengus” who calls her victim’s name but disappears before she can establish herself as anything other than an archetype.) I would make an exception of some special cases like T. S. Eliot’s encounter with the “familiar compound ghost” in “Little Gidding” and the dialogue of the two dead soldiers in Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting.” Probably it is Owen’s death in war that makes us subconsciously hear the “I” of the poem as the posthumous voice of the poet. Dialogues with God do not qualify for this category (sorry, George Herbert!) but because the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are persons, a conversation with, say, Koch Industries, is allowable.
6). The fact that the speaker has written a poem to document the encounter becomes an important motif, either explicitly or implicitly. The artifact brings news about how knowledge and power got transmitted to the talented speaker. “Something for your poetry, no?” says the Colonel as he pours a sack of human ears onto the table to intimidate the poet-journalist who is dining with him. Precisely. Carolyn Forché’s prose poem enacts the shift of power between them after their encounter, when her world-famous text mortifies his bullying performance.
These references to Miss Havisham, the Colonel, the Beautiful Woman Without Mercy, might suggest that the encounters that most interest me take the structure of a contest between Good and Evil; that the poet always portrays the Other as an antagonist to be overcome, not as an agent of personal development. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not even in my own poem about B. F. Skinner, whose brave acknowledgment of an error in his most famous book continues to inspire me fifty years later. The more complex the duality of values in the poem, the better chance it has to provoke and intrigue the reader and call him or her back to repeated readings.
I want to call attention to two masterpieces of the genre. The first is the encounter of William Wordsworth, or “William Wordsworth,” and the Leech Gatherer in the poem “Resolution and Independence.” I put the author’s name in quotation marks because the poem is not a fully accurate account of their meeting on the moors; we have Dorothy Wordsworth’s journal entry of 3 October 1800 to remind us that this most sincere of all poets did not hesitate to recast his experience into a more perfect artistic form for his readers’ benefit. He was an artificer and sought a truth-to-life beyond the constraints of exact transcription.
Manipulation of details can be expected from a poem with such an overt therapeutic purpose. We know from biographical materials that this poem of 1802 is Wordsworth’s response to his friend Coleridge’s professions in person and in writing of his suffocating experiences of dejection. Wordsworth, also a prey to melancholy even in the happiest times of his life, harked back to an encounter two years previous and impersonated the malady he shared with his fellow poet. The first-person plural in the poem’s most famous couplet is no accident: “We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.” In no way does this biographical context impair the poem; quite the contrary. The formal question and answer structure, rendered in rhyme royal, sustains the dignity of a colloquy that might have become maudlin in the hands of a lesser poet.
The Leech Gatherer (the poem’s original title) seems at first to be the subordinate figure of the duo: “His body was bent double, feet and head / Coming together in life’s pilgrimage.” Add to his physical debility the fact that the leeches upon whose sale his survival depends have diminished in number over the years. Poor and exhausted, he is obviously close to death by natural causes. And yet this pathetic creature is full of good cheer, fortitude, and trust in his Creator. The speaker elicits the facts of the matter by repeated questions and remarks, during which time we as readers stand in awe of how the Leech Gatherer’s “discourse . . . // Cheerfully uttered, with demeanor kind” rebukes the poet’s anxiety and self-pity. That transmission of spiritual power complicates the narrative by means of a confusion of understanding as to just who is more or less fortunate, more glad and grateful to be alive. This confusion nourishes the paradox of the poem’s presence in our lives. The Leech Gatherer continues to be a consolatory figure for readers who may enjoy comfortable circumstances outwardly but suffer bouts of melancholy within. Paul Goodman wrote that he could not read the poem without weeping. (Lewis Carroll, who skewered it in a parody, apparently could not read it without laughing.) It remains an encounter poem we read throughout our life with mixed and deep feelings.
Compared to all the hundreds (thousands?) of commentaries Wordsworth’s poem has garnered, it is astonishing to me that a poem close to it in quality has received no lengthy readings at all (I hope to be corrected on this point). I refer to Robert Hayden’s “Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves” from his volume of 1970, Words in the Mourning Time, and reprinted in his Collected Poems. In Part I of this dramatic lyric the speaker wanders by a seaside minstrel/freak show featuring performers doing various sketches of a humiliating kind. “Poor devils have to live somehow,” he remarks to himself in a one-line stanza. Obviously dejected, he sits by the shore, and then in Part II he is joined by the woman who performs the role of Aunt Jemima, “fake mammy to God’s mistakes,” as she wisecracks. But like the Leech Gatherer she is full of good spirit and fills the rest of the poem with vivid autobiographical musings.
The speaker does not address her at all, making this poem a notable variation on the customary dialogue structure. (Forché directs no quoted speech to the Colonel either.) But we do hear his silent response, his meditation, or rather overhear it in the mode famously described by John Stuart Mill. Compared to Aunt Jemima’s fluent, idiomatic wit, his reactions, seemingly addressed as an aside to the reader, remain elevated in diction, professorial in allusion, and complex in syntax. What seems a mental withdrawal from interaction with his companion can also be read as an effort to translate the picaresque narrative of her life into high-culture literary language:
Scream of children in the surf,
adagios of sun and flashing foam,
the sexual glitter, oppressive fun. . .
an antique etching comes to mind:
“The Sable Venus” naked on
a baroque Cellini shell—voluptuous
imago floating in the wake
of slave-ships on fantastic seas.*
I’ve never been quite sure how to read this silent rejoinder to her discourse. He has acknowledged in Part I that he is a “confederate” of the minstrel show figures like Aunt Jemima and “Kokimo the Dixie Dancing Fool.” He too is black-skinned with a talent for self-invention. Is he evading the embarrassing implications of her demeaning self-portrait, as if turning away in shame from what she confesses is a degrading life of role-playing and deception? (She could be making it all up.) Or does he honor her by interpreting her adventurous life history as a high Romantic life-journey? In either case he has clearly retreated to the honorable role of Poet, master of language, inviting the reader’s admiration for his elevated rhetoric but covertly yielding the stage to her superior verbal skills. The last stanza is her unwitting rebuke of his quality reverie:
sighs. Reckon I’d best
be getting back. I help her up.
Don't take no wooden nickels, hear?
Tin dimes neither. So long, pal.
It’s too late for this advice, we think. His somewhat strained language—a deliberate risk on Hayden’s part—is precisely the stuff of legend and tradition that separates her low raffish idioms from his high eloquence and keeps her fixed in her lowly role as Aunt Jemima.
The poem is more complex than my few comments can begin to describe. By bringing these two figures into conjunction--alike in race, unlike in education and life experience--it challenges our good intentions of reading the plot in a straightforward, politically correct manner. The nervous speaker is too erudite to carry on a companionable conversation, and how strange that seems, to us as to him. The encounter is a dramatic and linguistic impasse, a stand-off of verbal styles. What gets transmitted to us is the same failure of class solidarity we glimpse in Wordsworth’s poem, but made more unsettling and ambiguous by the modernist manner of its clashing frames. This dissonant duet—she speaking to him, he speaking in monologue form to the reader—enlarges the genre of the encounter poem as befits a major poet.
If the alien figure of the Leech Gatherer looks forward in obvious ways to Aunt Jemima, he anticipates even more obviously Robert Frost’s haunting narrative, “Two Tramps in Mud Time,” the quintessential Great Depression poem, in which an encounter occurs between the backwoods speaker (one has to grit one’s teeth not to type the words “Robert Frost”) who is chopping wood and two lumberjacks, though only one of them approaches the wary speaker and yells “Hit them hard!” (He is given no further speech.) By approaching closer to the chopping block, he makes clear his desire to usurp for pay the speaker’s satisfying task of preparing firewood for the cold season. Like the single utterance of La Belle Dame in Keats’s poem, these three words fix the “hulking” stranger as an archetype, in this case of the dangerous woods from which he emerges. Giving him no further speech is a mistake, I think. Frost’s long monologue in response can’t help but reduce the tramp to a prop, a poor occasion for the poet’s self-congratulating sermon about the proper way to behave “For Heaven and the future’s sakes.”
One final note. When we consider the figures of the Leech Gatherer and Aunt Jemima—neither is granted a personal name in the poems—we face the inescapable problem of whether to identify them as “doubles” for the poet in the manner Freud defines this elusive concept in his essay on “The Uncanny.” Encounter poems often do introduce a dyad in which one figure seems to represent the daimon of the other. Their dialogue enacts the psychic tensions felt by the speaker, who may or may not be trying to exorcise the mysterious personality spun off as a sibling or parent from his unconscious. When I wrote my poem on B. F. Skinner I intended it as an homage. Skinner first took shape as a patriarchal voice of rectitude in the music of time. But in reviewing the manuscript drafts I see how inevitably Skinner emerges as a venerable icon that the speaker treats irreverently. He and his utopian book are an affront to the twenty-year-old, fated to be an academic scholar as well, who confronts the master and uses the poem as a way to undermine him, if not to slay him in the Oedipal paradigm. Is there a more forgiving poem about B. F. Skinner out there? I sincerely hope so.
- The painting Hayden’s speaker has in mind can be seen by searching “The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies.”

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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission voted today to split up the (814) area code. This area code, which covers from Erie County to the Maryland border, is running out of phone numbers.
The PUC considered three proposals on how to divide up this massive swath of Pennsylvania. Of the four original Pennsylvania area codes established in 1947, (814) was the last area code to remain unchanged.
Below is as link to the PA PUC website showing the county split. The new area code number has yet to be determined.


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EDMONTON, Alta. - Decades after former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed's infamous Bridge to Nowhere was constructed it finally leads to somewhere; leaving residents in the Wood Buffalo region wishing L...
EDMONTON, Alta. – Decades after former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed’s infamous Bridge to Nowhere was constructed it finally leads to somewhere; leaving residents in the Wood Buffalo region wishing Lougheed had built a few more. Built during Lougheed’s premiership (1971-1985), the bridge was constructed by the provincial government as a show of good faith to an oil exploration company, proving the current government was willing to work with big business. But when the oil exploration operation failed to materialize, the bridge sat dormant and unused just north of Fort McMurray, Alta.
Officially named the Peter Lougheed Bridge, Fort McMurray residents have now nicknamed the structure, the Bridge to Somewhere; and it serves as a vital link between the booming oil community and oilsand developments.
Oil developments in Northern Alberta have fuelled the province’s economy, but have also put significant strain on the region’s infrastructure system. As the area struggles to keep pace with business and population growth, a number of industry stakeholders gathered in Edmonton to seek out proper avenues to address the situation.
On Oct. 18 and 19, the Van Horne Institute hosted a conference entitled, Alberta’s Oilsands: Transportation Challenges and Opportunities.
The conference was attended by about 80 people, including oil and gas developers, transportation companies, government officials and other industry stakeholders.
Setting the stage
“Energy and the environment will most likely be the defining issues of this century,” said Dr. Robert Mansell, professor of economics at the University of Calgary and senior fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy.
“Alberta’s economic future will be largely decided by the energy sector because we do not have another industry that could duplicate the size of it,” he added.
It is difficult to calculate the exact portion of Alberta’s economy the energy sector accounts for.
A common figure thrown around is that one of six employees in the overall economy works in the oil and gas sector. But as Mansell pointed out, if you include the number of occupations that are a direct spin-off of the oil and gas market, the ratio moves closer to one in two employees; and there are other ways to calculate the impact as well.
“Prior to the discovery of the Leduc No. 2 in the late 40s, Alberta and Saskatchewan had roughly the same population and GDP,” noted Mansell. “Today Alberta has roughly three times the population and three times the GDP. If you look at it like that, oil and gas is two-thirds of the overall economy.”
While oil and gas exploration is a dominant portion of Alberta’s economy, it still remains a relatively small portion of the overall production in North America.
“The oilsands represent about 13% of the North American supply, it’s not going to save the world,” explained Mansell. “As long as there is population growth and economic growth there will be growth in energy. The potential exists to become a major global, competitive clean energy supplier.”
With the growth of the energy sector and the population have come challenges, and as important as it is to fix the infrastructure issues, it’s equally important to have a long-term vision in place.
“Over the past 50 years, Alberta’s population has grown at 1% above the national average. Infrastructure is a long-term gain, so lets build along with that projection,” urged Mansell. “It’s only in periods of rapid growth that we can discuss what we are trying to do here. We need detailed plans for developing the road, so if there is a slowdown we don’t walk away.”
There is a vast pipeline network spanning North America, which allows the oil products themselves to be exported from the area in a timely manner. There are further projects in place to expand the pipeline and storage networks of oil companies, with price tags in the billion-dollar range. The infrastructure issues however, can be seen above ground along Hwy. 63.
To undertake the huge development projects in the Fort McMurray region, there needs to be a huge amount of people and huge equipment to perform the work.
“The machinery and equipment we use and see coming up there can really only get there one way – and that’s by truck,” said Jacob Irving, executive director of the Athabasca Regional Working Issues Group (RIWG).
In 2005, RIWG developed a list of 11 near-term transportation priorities. Today, three of 11 have been either started or completed.
One such development is the completion of a high-load corridor between Edmonton and Fort McMurray, which reduced the travel time for heavy loads between the two cities.
“There is a nine-metre high corridor on the westerly route; where we can continuously move and not worry about moving wires and stopping, which doesn’t interfere with the public as much,” said Gary Dahl, transportation and logistics manager for Canadian Natural Resources. “We’re faced with a single north-south route. Safety is a major concern and staying out of the way of the general public is a major concern.”
Travelling along Highways 63 and 881, through the high-load corridor, travel time for super loads has been reduced from eight days to five. The loads are hauled in stages during the night to have less interference with public traffic and take between 15 and 18 runs to complete.
“When they do pull off the highway they need to be able to get off without wiring services getting them off,” said Dahl. “They need to be able to safely exit.”
In the Fort McMurray region itself there is only one staging area, which is located on the south end of the city.
“Everything goes right through the city, which I think is unique. One mess up and Fort McMurray comes to a stop,” explained Dahl. “We have to get through town and off the highway by 6 a.m. There are already terrific traffic jams and if one of these loads were on the road it would be terrible.”
Dahl noted the industry has done a good job of working together and sharing information to coordinate the movement of equipment for projects, but there needs to be more places for trucks to pull over safely.
“We need to be able to manage how we get loads up the highway without interfering too much with the public,” said Dahl. “We have a few specialized service producers (heavy staged hauls) who do this work for us and they do it safely. All the industry has recognized their work and they’ve kept us out of the limelight by performing safely and doing a fantastic job.”
As well as limited space on the highway, the infrastructure system is lacking services along the highway.
“We lack basic services for trucking professionals. Spots to park their trucks, rest areas, places to eat…” commented Dahl. “For a place that relies on trucks we need to provide the essentials for them.”
There are projection targets of 1.7 million barrels per day by 2008 and 3.6 billion barrels per day by 2015, which will likely equate into approximately 3,100 loads per year coming out of the Edmonton area.
Improving the highway network to reduce congestion is paramount to sustaining the area’s growth. However the region’s stakeholders have worked on other initiatives to aid in reducing highway congestion.
Recent work has been done on exploring freight movement along the Mackenzie River and some companies have started fabricating their equipment in the region, although a lack of industrial land has made it difficult to set up shop.
There is also a rail line running from Edmonton to Fort McMurray, which is operated by Athabasca Northern Railway.
In the past seven years the rail line has increased traffic to about 12,000 cars a year, but has not grown enough to sustain a long-term operation.
“In 2000, a poll said 90% of businesses in Fort McMurray didn’t know there was rail service to the area,” said Bob Feeney, manager of business development with Athabasca Northern Railway. “Since 200
0, we’ve had a 400% increase in car loads per year. It’s growing but not enough to justify needed investment.”
CN recently purchased the portion of the railway line between Edmonton and Boyle, but without more investment the railway will discontinue service in December.
“Keeping that option open is profoundly important. We need transportation options and transportation commitment,” said James Gray, who is a corporate director for numerous companies and has worked for 50 years in the oil and gas sector in Western Canada.
“We’re not just building in a bubble in Fort McMurray, we’re building into a permanently large industrial hub,” explained Gray. “In 20 years, the idea of everything going through downtown in Fort McMurray is ludicrous. It will be bypassed, there’s no question about that.”
The size of the industry and the city has grown to the point it will sustain new value-added businesses.
“It won’t be long before we’re the third largest city in Alberta. The regional infrastructure is way behind, roads, sewage and water; they’re working on it, but it’s way behind,” noted Bill Almdal, the founding executive director of RIWG. “The one critical infrastructure need is a modern high-speed transportation system. The question is when and who takes the risk?”
Funding the need
Funding for infrastructure is generally done with taxation or user-pay systems. More commonly, a combination of the two systems is put into place. With an infrastructure that is already years behind and rising construction prices spurred on by a booming economy, there needs to be innovative funding and financing approaches.
“We’re looking at innovative solutions for our projects,” noted Neil McQuay, executive director of major capital projects with Alberta Infrastructure and Transportation. “We’re looking for integration of the design, construction and maintenance of our highways, taking all those costs and looking at a single source.”
More precisely, McQuay and the provincial government are looking at public/private partnerships, or P3 projects.
With P3 projects there is a fixed price on the payment schedule for 30 years, a fixed completion date and a 30-year warranty.
“I have no problem making the claim this is faster to produce,” added McQuay.
Traditional delivery of highway projects takes about six years to complete, while with a P3 project most are delivered in four years; and once the contract is signed by a private company, there are no changes.
“There wasn’t one change made to the costs of the southeast Anthony Henday Drive in the entire process,” explained McQuay. “There are no negotiations once the contract is signed. They try, but we always say ‘No’ and there hasn’t been a problem so far.”
The P3 projects are delivered on time, which is encouraged by significant penalties for lateness on the given timeline. Once the project is completed, all regular maintenance falls to the hands of the contractor, while the government will pick up the tab on any future lane expansions or third-party damage.
“P3s are not just a funding mechanism, but rather a delivery mechanism. P3s transfer whole-of-life responsibility,” explained Nick Hann, executive director of Macquarie North America. During the last 10 to 15 years, Macquarie has become one of the largest private sector investors across the world.
“People confuse P3s with privatization, so there’s lots of fear mongering of P3s but that’s not the case,” said Hann. “P3s actually give the government more control by setting provisions and writing the agenda while stepping back and ensuring it’s fulfilled.”
As well as taking over management of Chicago’s Skyway on a 99-year contract, Macquarie has other infrastructure investments all over the world, including one in Northern B.C., which could serve as a possible example for road service in Northern Alberta.
“The Sierra Yoyo Design road in Fort Nelson in northeast B.C. is funded off the government balance sheets through overload truck fees and royalty payments,” explained Hann. “It was a small road, only $40 million, but could be an excellent model for Fort McMurray. Sierra is a good model for companies paying for better service roads through royalty payments.”
Others however envision improvement in the region with good old-fashioned tolling and better management. During his address to the luncheon crowd, Lougheed suggested a heavily tolled roadway was established for the industry – with a free option for the public – and a reduction in the number of developments in the region to allow for better management of the infrastructure.
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