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Trade of bushmeat and other wildlife for human consumption presents a unique set of challenges to policy-makers who are confronted with multiple trade-offs between conservation, food security, food safety, culture and tradition. In the face of these complex issues, risk assessments supported by quantitative information would facilitate evidence-based decision making. We propose a conceptual model for disease transmission risk analysis, inclusive of these multiple other facets. To quantify several processes included in this conceptual model we conducted questionnaire surveys with wildlife consumers and vendors in semi-urban centers in Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR, Laos) and direct observations of consumer behaviors. Direct observation of market stalls indicated an estimated average of 10 kg bushmeat biomass per stall per hour. The socio-demographic data suggested that consumption of bushmeat in urban areas was not for subsistence but rather driven by dietary preference and tradition. Consumer behavioral observations indicated that each animal receives an average of 7 contacts per hour. We provide other key parameters to estimate the risk of disease transmission from bushmeat consumption and illustrate their use in assessing the total public health and socio-economic impact of bushmeat consumption. Pursuing integrative approaches to the study of bushmeat consumption is essential to develop effective and balanced policies that support conservation, public health, and rural development goals.
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Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Health Program, 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10460, USA. Electronic address: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Animals, Public Health, Conservation of Natural Resources, Socioeconomic Factors, Commerce, Meat, Laos

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I HOPE it's finally spring time around these parts! Hope it is where you live, too. Toward that end, here are some fun spring activities that include environmentally related activities.
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I love helping 11 and 12 yr olds how you can play baseball. They are nevertheless on the age (most associated with them) where they have a tendency realize everything there is usually about the baseball swing movement. Nevertheless, one of the ideal rewards from teaching youngsters hockey drills is often the excitement on their faces when they figure out for themselves how to smash the baseball.
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a few. Once the hitter will start his swing, the spine calf which is still casing around 60% of the body weight will certainly rotate in what is normally referenced to as typically the pivot. As being the rotation happens, look to see if this weight and the respond with the back leg is still offer. One quick way to tell issue has occurred is see if there is an fictional vertical series running via inside shoulder through the hip, through the back knee upon finish of often the swing action.
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Artist: The Winter Coats
Title: A Black Cloud Between You and the Sun
Label: Stainless Manchu Music
Genre: Experimental rock
Before the CD arrived in the mail, I was intrigued by this album. Firstly, this is the band’s debut album. Secondly, it was inspired and based on the book The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle, an astrophysicist (this is Hoyle’s only work of fiction, I believe). Thirdly, it’s a genre that doesn’t get explored enough on this blog.
The first track opens and I’m greeted by the harmonious growling of guitars. This is interwoven with dreamy electronic elements and various affects with a fluttery backbeat. The tone is dark but not so dark that you’re unable to see. This works well to set things up for the rest of the album.
Track two: “There’s Blood at the End of the Tunnel” starts off much like the first track, but darts into the darkness in spots, arranging a more haunting vibe than what the previous track had created. The guitar and its effects are amazing, creating a warm, dark and vibrating atmosphere. Mentally, the world the Black Cloud is enshrouding is coming to form. This is made complete with the chirps and chimes from the synth as it shimmers in the background.
So, two tracks in and I am liking what I’m hearing. The experimental rock elements are structured deftly and the blending of darker ambient bits makes this just awesome. The theme is coming together nicely. Track three, “Charlie Lake,” sounds a bit more conventional as a song. Granted, each track thus far has been instrumental. This piece has defined chords and progressions and reminds me a bit of maybe early Dreamend, or a dark instrumental from Primal Scream’s angrier moments.
The next few tracks toy a little in different directions. There are some minor punk and progressive elements added to the guitar works in spots, giving some different emotions and ideas to be pondered over. Things get darker on “Duck, You Sucker,” which gives it a more post rock edge, definitely diving back into the wilder realms of experimentalism. It’s noisier, which certainly adds to the sinister and more desperate moments of the story.
The band does a good job at keeping the overall style fairly uniform throughout the album. Guitar effects and percussion are somewhat similar from track to track, at times making this feel like one long instrumental rock opera of sorts. Some tracks do have a more improvised feel, but that adds to the album, and in a way, ties it in with the theme. In a world that’s being faced with some sentient space cloud that incidentally blots out the sunlight and creates mass death due to starvation, it would be safe to assume that there’d be a lot of fear and uncertainty, and your survival would depend on spur of the moment acts. Hence, the improvisation really helps bring this point home.
The later tracks make gentle leaps from darker moments to hazy moments. This brings a fairly acidic feel to the mix. I guess this is what it would feel like to be in the vapors of the space cloud. At times it sounds like we’re alongside the band, held up in some vacant building, hiding from the chaos outside. The music becomes our escape.
Final thoughts? I know for some folks, the idea of a concept or themed album can be offsetting. Don’t let that idea intimidate you. This album is a good example of how a concept album should be done. It works well at capturing the emotions and/or the mental pictures that one might see when reading the book that this album was based on. The instrumentation, effects, textures and styles are solid through this entire recording and do not falter. It’s hazy, thick and strangely captivating.
4.6 out of 5.
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At least one of the two Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle technology demonstrators, has been modified as a testbed for the MQ-25 Stingray Carrier Based Air Refueling System (CBARS) programme as part of risk-reduction efforts connected with the programme. The X-47B was modified at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale California facility with an externally mounted air refuelling pod and external fuel tank. It was previously used to demonstrate the capability of UAVs to operate from aircraft carriers.
In 2017 the US Navy awarded CBARS riskreduction contracts to four companies – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman – to develop competing designs for the MQ-25 Stingray Carrier Based Air Refueling System. The programme, which has a $5 billion cost ceiling, is expected to issue a request for proposals before the end of 2017 and downselect one of the four designs in 2018. The UAV could be in service as soon as 2019– 2020. Half of the total MQ-25 development costs will be spent by fiscal year 2022.
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RJ’s Bar and Grill was born in 2002 in the heart of Bakersfield it is rooted in a robust and growing community. But no matter what part of Bakersfield you call home, we have the comfort food, and drinks you crave.
You’ll find bold and delicious flavors with our classic American comforts foods with the freshest ingredients and always tailored to meet any taste. In fact, we have a dish for everyone, and we’re happy to customize your order, whether you like steak, fish, or even a great salad, we’ve got you covered.
In 2017, RJ’s Bar & Grill was proud to re-opened under new ownership, with a revamped look and driver desire to provide great family entertainment.
At RJ’s Bar & Grill, it’s not just a meal; it’s an experience.

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In addition to his love for photography, Bill Belknap also had a passion for words. In a taped interview with R.J. Johnson in 1979, Bill spoke of how he first became involved with writing. "The writing part -- that came through doing a photographic assignment for the Geographic back in the early 1950's, I guess it was. The writer on this particular project conked out and so the folks at the Geographic said, 'well, we're in a spot.' 'How would you like to try to tackle writing a story for us?' I said, well, I'll try anything once. Somehow it clicked and I've kind of been hooked on writing ever since. I'm really in love with words and trying to learn all I can about them."
Bill wrote several articles to accompany his photographs for National Geographic, as well as free-lance stories for other publications. Between 1951 and 1956, interspersed with his assignments, family life and a myriad of other activities, Belknap wrote a weekly article for the Boulder City News. His column, "Boulder Camera," related information from his photographic shop and was a friendly, humorous, commentary on the people, events and time period of the Boulder City area and surroundings.
"Book publishing and [the] book distributing business all sort of grew out of photography. Those are the two main things that we’re into now. Writing. Gotten into doing several books," continued Bill in his interview. Two books were born out of his close friendships -- one in conjunction and about Hopi artist Fred Kabotie and the other written with his wife, Fran Belknap, regarding the painter Gunnar Widforss.
Westwater Books, a Belknap Family endeavor and the brainchild of Buzz Belknap, Bill's son, produced a series of mile by mile guides for the major rivers of the Colorado Plateau. Bill contributed photographs and some of the text and captions for the river guides. Writing, like photography, remained a constant in Bill Belknap's life after he first embraced it, and his writings provide an insight into the man behind the camera and the typewriter.
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US 2877389 A
Description (OCR text may contain errors)
March 10, 1959 R. WIENER 2,877,389
PRINTED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT Filed June 25, 195;
INVENTOR. Ross/w WIEIIER ATTORNEY United States Patent Ofifice PRINTED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT Robert Wiener, Milwaukee, Wis., assignor to Globe- Union Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., a corporation of Delaware Application June 25, 1953, Serial No. 364,025 4 Claims. (Cl. 317-101) This invention relates to improvements in printed electronic circuit units and particularly to units embodying complex resistance capacitance (R. C.) filter networks.
Heretofore units of this type have been limited to simple circuits such as pi type filters in which the resistance has been connected to electrodes mounted on the same side of the dielectric base plate.
It is the object of this invention therefore to provide units of this type consisting of complex R. C. filters in which resistances are connected to electrodes on both sides of the supporting dielectric member.
It is a further object of this invention to provide a unit of this type which utilizes a base plate with silvered areas the design and physical structure of which is the same for units having varying circuits.
The novel features, which are considered characteristic of the invention, are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, both as to its organization and its method of operation, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood from the following description of a specific embodiment when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Fig. 1 is a view in front elevation of a printed electronic circuit unit embodying the present invention;
Fig. 2 is a view in rear elevation of the unit shown in Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 is a view in end elevation of the unit of Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of the electronic circuit embodied in the unit of Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive;
Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation of a modified form of a printed electronic circuit unit embodying the present invention;
Fig. 6 is a view in rear elevation of the unit of Fig. 5;
Fig. 7 is a view in end elevation of the unit of Fig. 5; and
Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of the electronic circuit embodied in the unit of Figs. 5 to 7 inclusive.
In both modifications of the unit shown in the drawing the base plate with its silvered areas is identical and only one description will be made. Insofar as the other elements are the same in both modifications they will be given the same reference numerals. The base plate 10 is formed from a flat, rigid body of ceramic material having a relatively high dielectric constant. It provides the support for the unit and the dielectric for the capacitors thereon. The base plate capacitors have a common electrode 12 formed by a silvered area covering one side of said plate except for a relatively small border 14 between its edges and the edges of such base plate. The other electrodes 16 and 18 of the base plate capacitors are formed by two spaced silvered areas. The outer edges of these areas are spaced from the edges of the plate 10 to leave a small border 20. The inner or facing edges of these areas are cut back as shown to provide uncovered portions 22 and 24 on the base plate 10. Between these portions the electrode 16 has a tab 26 and the electrode 18 a tab 28 used for attaching the resistors. Another 2,877,389 Patented Mar. 10, 1959 tab 30 on the electrode 16 is used with the delta type net work. In the portion 22 there is a small silvered area 32 forming a connector for resistors 34 and 36 painted on the exposed portion 22 and extending respectively to the tabs 26 and 28. A flat ribbon conductor 38 is soldered to the area 32. It extends around the edge of the plate 10 and is secured to the electrode 12. This much of the structure is identical in each of the networks.
The R. C. network of the unit shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive has two sets of capacitance and resistance in parallel and may be hooked up in desired circuit by three wire leads. Wire leads 40 and 42 are attached respectively to the electrodes 16 and 18 and wire lead 44 is attached to the common electrode 12. The resistances and capacitances of this unit are connected in circuit as shown in the schematic diagram of Fig. 4.
The R. C. delta type network shown in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive has three sets of capacitance and resistance. It is made structurally by adding to the electrode 16 a third unitary capacitor. This capacitor has a ceramic dielectric plate 46 of electrical characteristics like those of the base plate 10 and proportioned as to area and thickness to produce the same capacitance. This base plate has an outer silvered area forming an electrode 48 and an inner silvered area (not separately shown The additional capacitor is mounted to the electrode 16 by sweating or soldering its inner electrode to the electrode 16 in a manner well known in this art. A third resistor 50 is painted on the exposed portion 24 and extends from the electrode 16 to the electrode 18. There is suflicient area on electrode 16 left uncovered by the third capacitor to provide proper connection for such resistor. A ribbon connector 52 is attached to the electrodes 48 and 18. Such connector must be spaced from the exposed portion of electrode 16 or insulated therefrom by a protective layer indicated at 53. This unit has three wire leads by which it may be connected on a circuit. Wire lead 54 is attached to the common electrode 12. Wire leads 56 and 58 are attached respectively to the electrodes 16 and 18. The resistances and capacitances are in this manner connected to form the delta-type filter network shown in the schematic diagram of Fig. 8.
While several embodiments of the invention are shown and described, this application is intended to cover such changes or modifications as come within the spirit of the invention or scope of the following claims.
1. A printed electronic circuit resistance capacitance unit comprising a flat, rigid body of ceramic material, a first electrode on one side of said body, a pair of spaced electrodes on the other side of said body in capacitance relation with said first electrode, said spaced electrodes having their facing edges cut back to provide an uncovered portion on said body, tabs on said electrodes, resistance elements applied to said other side in said uncovered portion and connected with said tabs, and a connector on said body connected to said resistance elements and said first electrode.
2. A printed electronic circuit resistance capacitance unit comprising a fiat, rigid body of ceramic material, a first electrode on one side of said body, a pair of spaced electrodes on the other side of said body in capacitance relation with said first electrode, said spaced electrodes having projecting tabs on their inner edges, a small separate silvered area on said other side between said spaced electrodes, resistance elements carried on said other side and connected with said tabs and said small separate silvered area, and a connector on said body engaged with said small separate silvered area and said first electrode.
3. A printed electronic circuit resistance capacitance unit comprising a flat, rigid body of ceramic material, a
first electrode on one side of said body, spaced electrodes on the other side of said body in capacitance relation with said first electrode, said spaced electrodes having projecting tabs on their facing edges, a. small separate silveredarea on. said other side between said spaced electrodes, resistance elements carried on said other side connected with said tabs and said small silvered area, a first connector on said body engaged with said small separate silvered area and said first electrode, another resistance element on said other side connected with said spaced electrodes, a separate ceramic dielectric capacitor having one of its electrodes secured to one of said spaced electrodes to mount said separate capacitor, and a second connector secured to the other electrode of said separate capacitor and the other of said spaced electrodes.
4. A delta type filter unit comprising a ceramic base plate constituting the support for three capacitors, there being a. common electrode on one side of said plate for at least two of saidv capacitors, three resistance elements on the other side of said plate, and a connector extending from one to the other side of said plate to connect two of said resistance elements to said common electrode, the
other end of said two resistance elements being connected to the separate electrodes of the two capacitors using said common electrode, the third'of said elements being connected to the two electrodes of the third capacitor.
References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,433,384 McLarn Dec. 30, 1947 2,445,719 Sylvester July 20, 1948 2,464,377 Cohen Mar. 15, 1949 2,566,666 Kohouri Sept. 4, 1951 2,648,804 Steigerwalt Aug. 11, 1953 2,673,949 Kohouri Mar. 30, 1954 2,694,185 Kodama Nov. 9, 1954 FOREIGN PATENTS Great Britain Mar. 7, 1951 OTHER REFERENCES Wireless World, 1 sheet, June 1949.


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“Yeezus” is a glitchy, stripped down album, experimental at its core, but all the ridiculousness and insight you’d expect from Kanye West.
Reverb spoke with MC Sole about how audiences in Europe took to his controversial ideas and political action.
Going into Summer Jam 2013, it seemed that the unstoppable Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would steal this year’s annual hip-hop concert.
For an optimal experience, we’ve put together a guide to Summer Jam 2013 Denver, where we chose our three favorite acts.
Taylor Swift dominated the Billboard Music Awards 2013 with 11 wins, including top artist. She performed along with Prince, Justin Bieber, Miguel and more.
Canadian breakout star Drake has announced the OVO Fest 2013 lineup in his hometown of Toronto, and it includes James Blake, Frank Ocean and more.
In commemoration of “Modern Vampires of the City,” we’ve put together a list of the best Vampire Weekend songs from their storied five-year career.
With a name like Fabolous and a reputation as one of hip-hop’s most ostentatious artists, the rapper kept things subdued at the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday.
Here are the top five moments from the infamous Mobb Deep that have left an indelible mark on the history and culture of rap music.
Chris Kelly, one-half of 1990s hip-hop group Kris Kross has died, according to the Associated Press. Kelly, pronounced dead Wednesday, was 34 years old.


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As per a new report published by Fact.MR, a market research and competitive intelligence provider, the line marking robots market is anticipated to exceed a valuation of US$ 10 Mn in 2021, and surge at an impressive CAGR of more than 29% over the forecast period of 2021 to 2031.The market experienced high demand over the studied regions, registering annual growth of 27% during 2016 – 2020. Fact.MR anticipates significant potential in the line marking robots market, owing to factors such as increasing investments in sports across many regions, rising automation adoption rate, and improving technology.
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Key Takeaways from Line Marking Robots Market Study
- GPS-embedded line marking robots are expected to remain the most attractive and witness an absolute dollar opportunity of US$ 115 Mn during 2021 – 2031.
- Based on marking speed, line marking robots with 2.1-5 m/s speed are anticipated to be the most lucrative raking in more than US$ 117 Mn revenue by 2031.
- Based on end user, demand by various sports authorities for line marking robots is expected to grow 13X over the next ten years.
- Together, North America and Europe represented over 85% of overall market share in 2020.
- Market in East Asia is expected to provide an incremental opportunity of over US$ 11.3 Mn from 2021 to 2031, and emerge with a valuation of over US$ 12 Mn by 2031.
“Rising awareness regarding sports is likely to accelerate investments in the field. Automation is the answer to flawless and swift operations on fields and track of sports, which will drive market growth,” says a Fact.MR analyst.
Segments Covered in Line Marking Robots Industry Research
By Tracking Technology
- DPS + GLONASS
- Three Wheel Line Marking Robots
- Four Wheel Line Marking Robots
By Mode of Operation
- Automatic Line Marking Robots
- Manual + Automatic Line Marking Robots
By Marking Speed
- 1-2 m/s Line Marking Robots
- 2.1-5 m/s Line Marking Robots
- >5 m/s Line Marking Robots
By Paint Capacity
- Below 10 Liter Line Marking Robots
- 10-15 Liter Line Marking Robots
- 15-20 Liter Line Marking Robots
- Above 20 Liter Line Marking Robots
By End User
- Sport Authorities
- District / State Level
- Recreational Parks
- Youth Clubs
- Sport Authorities
Majority of the companies discussed in the report have focused on expansion, investments, acquisitions, delivery focus, portfolio expansion, and brand development.
Some of the key developments are:
- In 2020, two leading companies – Tiny Mobile Robots and Turf Tank – secured funding from various sources. Tiny Mobile Robots secured funding of US$ 2 Mn from an angel investor. Similarly, Turf Tank secured an investment of US$ 13.5 Mn from a Danish-based company.
Similarly, recent developments related to companies offering line marking robots have been tracked by the team at Fact.MR, which are available in the detailed report.


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“Orange” you glad you caught this segment today?! Well, even if you didn’t, we’re sharing it here!
In our kitchen today, Registered Dietitian Annessa Chumbley shares a few recipes that put a “twist” on your standard orange!
Did you know? Navel oranges are one of the most common varieties of sweet oranges. Usually seedless with thick pebbly skins, navel oranges provide numerous health benefits. They help to prevent kidney disease, reduce the risk of liver cancer, lower cholesterol, and help maintain blood pressure.
Chicken Strips with Chilean Orange Dipping Sauce
• 2 large eggs
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 3/4 cup ground golden flaxseed
• 3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
• 2 teaspoons zest from a fresh Chilean lemon
• 2 teaspoons onion powder
• 2 teaspoons garlic powder
• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard powder (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs cut into 2-3 inch pieces
• 1 fresh Chilean orange zested and juiced – about 1/2 cup (use more juice if necessary for flavor)
• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 2 tablespoons Thai sweet chili sauce
• 2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Preheat oven to 400°F. In a medium sized bowl, lightly beat egg and stir in butter. In a separate bowl, combine flax, parmesan, lemon zest, onion powder, garlic powder, mustard powder, salt and black pepper. Lightly salt chicken, then dip each piece of chicken in the egg mixture, letting excess drip off, and then roll in flax mixture until coated. Place chicken about 1-inch apart on a parchment or silicon lined baking sheet and cook for 15-20 minutes, flipping once halfway, or until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, place orange juice and zest, coconut milk, chili sauce, ginger and honey in a saucepan and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir together cornstarch with 1 tablespoon water and stir into orange mixture. Continue to simmer until slightly thickened. Serve nuggets with dipping sauce.
Stress Less Smoothie
1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
1 frozen banana
1 carrot, cut into chunks
1 navel orange
3/4 cup unsweetened vanilla coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Blend all ingredients on high until smooth. Add ice and pulse for a thicker smoothie. Enjoy!

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Private room in a beautiful 3 bedroom home on the Russian River. Stunning views of redwoods with your own beach. 5 minutes from Redwood Forest, wineries, and a cool little town. Host is single and private and welcoming. I have cats (not in the guest room). indoor/outdoor.
View of the river has no traffic in view. Rare around these parts.
deck, beach, walk to town
taxi and bus to/from Santa Rosa
Beautiful setting. Friendly and gracious hostess. Would love to go back.
Mo's home is an excellent spot for a weekend getaway. She is a very gracious host and her home was great for relaxing (beautiful back deck with a fire pit overlooking the river, clean and quiet house, and she even left a bottle of wine for us). She gave us an amazing recommendation for dinner as well (definitely go to Boon!).

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Time to unleash Norfolk as a science and innovation county
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Mid Norfolk MP George Freeman issues a challenge for Norfolk to step up
Covid has been an economic disaster as well as a public health crisis. On top of the tragedy of more than 100,000 lives lost, the wider societal and economic costs of Covid will be with us for years.
To revive our local economy, we will need a bold Recovery Plan.
That’s why I’ve been working this last year through The Norfolk Way and the Big Tent Foundation and the LEP’s Restart project to help support innovative local approaches to post-Covid regeneration. It’s also why I’m delighted to support this paper's Fightback campaign.
Imagine what “build back better” here in Norfolk could mean. We could have total digital coverage so more people can be closer to home. Our town centres could be regenerated with more cycle lanes and footpaths. Our children could grow up in environments with cleaner, healthier air.
There could be a wave of high-growth technology companies creating exciting new local jobs.
This is a unique opportunity for our area. Before giving up my career in technology start-ups to stand for Parliament, I worked for 15 years financing new businesses in the Eastern region.
- 1 Woman in her 50s who died in A11 crash named locally
- 2 Train travellers set for another weekend of rail disruption
- 3 Woman in her 20s dies in A47 crash
- 4 The school where boys can wear skirts - but not shorts
- 5 Woman in serious condition in hospital after crash between two cars and van
- 6 Mum trying to find lost 'heart' of daughter who died days after birthday
- 7 North Norfolk pub re-opens as a hotel
- 8 Redundancy leads to Norfolk mum earning up to £3,000 a month
- 9 Abnormal load to travel through county on first day of Norfolk Show
- 10 North Norfolk glamping site named among best in the UK
I know from first-hand experience that Norfolk boasts world-leading science and technology expertise like the Norwich Research Park (NRP) with huge opportunities to create the companies and jobs of tomorrow and export our services to the world’s fastest developing markets.
The NRP with the world famous John Ines centre is one of the world’s most important clusters in the science of food, nutrition, medicine and energy systems. Indeed, it was instrumental in the Covid genome sequencing effort.
We have the chance to make Norfolk a genuine innovation county creating companies spinning out from the NRP, just as Cambridge has done (but without the two-hour traffic jams which now gridlocks Cambridge each workday morning).
But to do that means changing the way we - and Whitehall - think about our county. For too long we’ve allowed ourselves to be treated as a rural backwater and lacked a clear vision of Norfolk as an innovation county developing the smarter cleaner greener healthier model of growth the world urgently needs.
In medicine, we could invest in telemedicine and smaller local testing to help earlier diagnosis and community health. In energy, instead of having thousands of miles of cabling and pylons, why don’t we bring the energy ashore in one place and build a hydrogen fuel hub? Instead of building energy inefficient homes we could embrace energy efficient construction.
In agriculture, a new generation of Norfolk farmers and scientists at the NRP are pioneering the way in clean energy, modern Low Input High Output farming, and in medicinal “nutraceuticals”: specialist crops for health like cancer-reducing broccoli.
These are huge global markets. Here in Norfolk we need to plan and invest in sustainable growth and the NRP infrastructure.
But Government has a key role to help us unlock the potential of the NRP and our innovative new industries.
That means getting the regulatory framework right. This isn’t abort a bonfire of red tape - it’s about regulation FOR innovation. New sectors need clear regulations to build investor confidence - and if the UK can lead in setting the global standards in new sectors like nutriceuticals, hydrogen fuel and carbon pricing we are more likely to become a global innovation cluster too.
Sensible regulation is a vital condition of investor confidence. While the EU has been a big supporter of science and research, it has often been very slow and restrictive in regulation. For example the blight resistant potato pioneered at the NRP, with massive benefits for the environment and farmers by eliminating the need for every potato field to be spayed with fungicides. But banned by the EU.
As we regain our regulatory sovereignty we have a chance to move more quickly to set sensible regulations which protect consumers, workers and the environment in a way which doesn’t prevent investment and innovation.
That’s why I am so pleased to have been asked by the prime minister to help lead his new regulation for innovation taskforce specifically designed to help remove barriers to the new businesses and sectors by embracing a new framework of regulation for innovation outside the EU.
Get this right and the UK - and Norfolk - could lead the next bioscience green revolution, just as we did 200 years ago with 'Turnip' Townsend and Norfolk leading the agricultural revolution.
It’s a big prize. Let’s seize it.


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September 14, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: Security was stepped up outside all American and European offices in the city on Thursday after widespread protests and attacks were reported from the Middle East over blasphemous portrayal of Prophet Mohammad in a film uploaded on the Net. The US ambassador to Libya was killed in one such attack. Delhi Police said it has no specific inputs but is following orders from the home ministry. A day earlier, the Intelligence Bureau had issued specific alerts for a week, beginning September 13, about terror groups like the LeT trying to target crowds in the capital and south Gujarat.
August 17, 2012 |
LONDON: WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange on Thursday said he was grateful to Ecuador president Rafael Correa for granting him political asylum. After watching foreign minister Ricardo Patino's proclamation live on TV in company of Ecuadorean diplomats, he tweeted it was a "significant victory". A loud cheer rang out from throngs of his supporters gathered outside the embassy. In a statement, Assange said, "It was not Britain or my home country, Australia, that stood up to protect me from persecution, but a courageous, independent Latin American nation.
August 7, 2012
TIMES VIEW Good move, but go beyond government The IFS increasing its numbers by recruiting from other government departments is a necessary step. Currently, the IFS is woefully understaffed. With approximately 800 officers across its embassies and headquarters, the world's largest democracy - and one of its most dynamic economies - looks modest before China's foreign service corps, numbering over 6,000. Hence, the IFS push to recruit more is welcome - and must be extended.
August 2, 2012 |
LONDON: Sikh groups in UK have approached the government urging it not to allow former Union minister Jagdish Tytler, former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar , ex-Punjab Police chief K P S Gill and its current DGP S S Saini to attend the ongoing Olympic Games here because of their alleged role in human rights abuses against the community in 1980s. The government, on its part, has remained non-committal but set out policies in such cases. In a letter to shadow foreign office minister John Spellar , the foreign office minister responsible for India, Jeremy Browne , has said that his office did not routinely comment on individual cases.
July 24, 2012 |
ISLAMABAD: External affairs minister S M Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Pakistan from September 7 to review the second round of the bilateral dialogue process with his counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar. Indian high commissioner Sharat Sabharwal met Pakistan's foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Tuesday and informed him about the dates for Krishna's visit, diplomatic sources said. The dates for the visit were earlier suggested by the foreign office. The Indian envoy and Jilani also discussed bilateral issues, including preparations for Krishna's visit.
July 14, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: Faced with a massive capacity shortage in the foreign office that may be impacting Indian diplomacy, foreign secretary Ranjan Nathai said on Friday that the ministry of external affairs (MEA) would recruit over 500 officers in the next few years. Launching a new MEA-IDSA report, "India's Neighbourhood Challenges in the next Two Decades", Mathai countered the general criticism that MEA only responds to developments, and is far away from proactive diplomacy. MEA, he said, has not been "entirely reactive, nor have we let the acute shortage of resources stop us from taking some proactive steps".
July 10, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: The relief aircraft which travelled to Nawabshah airport in Sindh, Pakistan was supposed to refuel itself for the return journey as well as the stranded plane. But in their haste, Indian officials forgot to carry something called the 'Shell' card with which they would have paid for the fuel. Pakistan came to the rescue. PIA officials spoke to DGCA and Air India here and it was PIA that forked out the cost of the fuel that was needed for both planes. "They did everything," said an Indian official.
July 3, 2012 |
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the US on Monday held crucial talks on ending a six month blockade of supplies to foreign troops in Afghanistan but failed to take a final decision on reopening the supply lines closed after a Nato attack. Foreign office spokesman Moazzam Khan was quoted by state-run media as saying that a final decision had not been made. Khan said talks between Pakistan and the US on the issue will continue. The Pakistani delegation was led by foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar while deputy secretary of State Thomas Nides headed the US team.
July 3, 2012 |
ISLAMABAD: Days after LeT handler Zabiuddin Ansari's revelations about the Mumbai attacks being controlled and facilitated from Karachi, Pakistani authorities have claimed 40 Indian nationals were involved in the terrorist incident. "Our information is that there were at least 40 Indian nationals who helped the attackers. We want India to come clean on this," an unnamed official of Pakistan's foreign office was quoted as saying by The Express Tribune. Pakistan will "push" India to share details of the recent arrest of Ansari alias Abu Jundal when the Foreign secretaries of the two countries meet in Delhi this week, the report said.
June 2, 2012 |
NEW DELHI: India asked the UK to ease visas for businessmen and entrepreneurs and students and the declining Indian investment climate and a burgeoning economic relationship with the UK formed part of the India-UK foreign office discussions, between foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai and his counterpart Simon Fraser . The engagement is important because the Indo-UK economic relationship is now several notches above political ties. According to official sources, India said it was open to more investment from the UK. Bilateral trade in 2011-12 exceeded $16 billion up from $12.5 billion in 2010-11.

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I wrote more of my novel The Harvest, and I figured it was high time Ashley took a swipe at Dean Andreanna. So stay tuned for that development. You can read the rolling draft in The Harvest Draft section.
On a writer note, I briefly introduced a cool side character, and killed her a few scenes later. She served her purpose and gave Ashley some empowering advice, but sometimes a few dead characters here and there help the plot move along. My main issue with some writers is when authors needlessly kill a main character. Not to spoil it, but Joe Hill did that with one of his more likeable main characters, and while I understand why he did it, as I am sure there was a Feminist reason for it, the death really pissed off my students who were reading the novel.
Sometimes a death, though, doesn't have to be physical. I think about The Hunger Games and how some characters died to us, the readers. Peeta died to some extent, but he came back to a version of himself when Katniss had children. Gale, on the other hand, just flat out died to me, when he made horrific choices and had a clear personality transformation, an unexpected one. I think I prefer that, instead of flat out killing a character.
Now, with that said, one of my students who gave feedback on "La Bruja del Barrio Loco" was really mad at me for killing Flor. She had to die though. The antagonist in that story was so powerful that nothing short of a human sacrifice would have stopped her. Plus, just like the characters in fiction take a life of their own, sometimes they die of their own free will. It just feels right.
And that is all I've got. On a real note, I am still fighting this cold, and although it's only been a minor impediment to my writing process, I'm tired of being sick. Ugh. I have to ready myself for real union battles today and need to rest up and give myself some strategize.
Kill your main and supporting characters with maximum discretion. #Resist


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East India Company was the name of several historic European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia for their respective countries. Before 1600, Portugal controlled most European trade with India and the Far East or 'the Indies' and until the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) by England it was much of a monopoly of Spain and Portugal. Because of the Spanish failure to quell a Dutch rising in the Netherlands, and after the defeat of the Spanish Armada the trade was opened to both the Dutch and England.
When the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama landed at Calicut in 1498, he was restoring a link between Europe and the East that had existed many centuries previously. The first known connection between the two regions had been Alexander the Great's invasion of the Punjab, 327-325 BC.
The Portuguese were the first agents of this renewed contact, because they were among the few European nations to possess both the navigational know-how and the necessary motivation for the long sea voyage. During the 15th century, the land routes for the Indian trade - via the Red Sea and Egypt or across Persia, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey - had become increasingly blocked, mainly by Ottoman action. The surviving Egyptian route was subject to increasing exploitation by a line of middlemen, ending with the Venetian monopoly of the European trade, and in 1517 it likewise passed under Ottoman suzerainty. The motive for finding a new route was therefore strong; this task fell to the Portuguese, partly because the stronger Spaniards were absorbed in discovering the New World but doing so by searcing for an Eastern route.
Further in favour of the Portuguese was the inherited crusading zeal from wars against the Moors in Portugal and North Africa. and the fact that they had learned navigational techniques from the Genoese, who were disgruntled at their exclusion from the Mediterranean carrying trade.
When Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, he hoped to find Christians cut off by Muslim action, to deal a blow at Muslim power from their maritime rear, as it were, and to corner the European spice trade. He found his Christians in the Syrian Christians of Cochin and Travancore, he found the spices, and he found Muslim Arab merchants entrenched at Calicut. It was his successors, Francisco de Almeida and Afonso de Albuquerque, who established the Portuguese empire in the East. Almeida set up a number of fortified posts; but it was Albuquerque (governor 1509-15) who gave the empire its characteristic form. Afonso de Albuquerque took Goa in western India in 1510, Malacca in the East Indies in 1511, and Hormuz (Ormuz) in the Persian Gulf in 1515 and set up posts in the East Indian Spice Islands.
The object of these moves was to establish for Portugal a strategic command of the Indian Ocean, so as to control the maritime spice trade and to ruin the Ottoman-controlled Middle Eastern Muslim world by cutting off its trade. Hormuz dominated the Persian Gulf; an attack on Aden was intended to do the same for the Red Sea. While Malacca was the nerve centre for the spice-producing islands of Indonesia and the exchange mart for the trade with the Far East (East Asia), Goa, not Malacca, was the capital because of Portuguese concern with the Ottomans of the Middle East.
The Portuguese method was to rely on sea power based on fortified posts and backed by settlements. Portuguese ships, sturdy enough to survive Atlantic gales and mounted with cannon, could easily dispose of Arab and Malay shipping. The bases enabled the Portuguese to dominate the main sea-lanes; but Portugal, with fewer than one million people and involved in Africa and South America as well, was desperately short of manpower. Albuquerque turned his fortresses into settlements to provide a resident population for defense. Intermarriage was encouraged. At the same time, Christianity was encouraged through the church. Goa became an archbishopric. St. Francis Xavier started from Goa on his mission to the South Indian fishermen. The Inquisition was established in 1560. The new mixed population thus became firmly Roman Catholic and provided a stubborn resistance to attacks.
A lack of resources precluded any attempt to establish a land empire. Portugal's control of the Indian Ocean - its period of empire - lasted through the 16th century.
During this time it attained great prosperity. Goa acquired the title of Golden, and it became one of the world's wonder cities. Trade with Europe was a royal monopoly, and, in addition, a system of licenses for all inter-Asian trade enriched the royal exchequer. Inter-Asian trade was free to individual Portuguese; and it was the profits of this, combined with trimmings from the royal monopoly, that gave them their affluence.
The three marks of the Portuguese empire continued to be trade, anti-Islamism, and religion. The Portuguese early considered that no faith need be kept with an infidel, and to this policy of perfidy they added a tendency to cruelty beyond the normal limits of a very rough age; the result was to deprive them of Indian sympathy.
In religion the Portuguese were distinguished by missionary fervor and intolerance. Examples of the former are the Madura mission of Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656), nicknamed the White Brahman, and the Jesuit missions to the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar (ruled 1556-1605). Of the latter, there was the Inquisition at Goa and the forcible subjection of the Syrian church to Rome at the Synod of Diamper in 1599.
The Portuguese thus had few friends in the East to help them in a crisis, and in 1580 the Portuguese kingdom was annexed to Spain and until 1640 Portuguese interests were sacrificed to those of Spain. Because of the Spanish failure to quell a Dutch rising in the Netherlands, and after the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, the route to the East was opened to both English and Dutch. The Dutch arrived first; under their blows in Indonesia and those of the English in India the Portuguese ascendancy crumbled, though they held on to Goa until 1975 and Macao until 1999, losing out, in the end, respectively to India and China.
The English East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John Company", formally (1600-1708) Governor And Company Of Merchants Of London Trading Into The East Indies, or (1708-1873) United Company Of Merchants Of England Trading To The East Indies, English company formed for the exploitation of trade with East and Southeast Asia and India, incorporated by Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600. Starting as a monopolistic trading body, the company became involved in politics and acted as an agent of British imperialism in India from the early 18th century to the mid-19th century. In addition, the activities of the company in China in the 19th century served as a catalyst for the expansion of British influence there.
The company was formed to share in the East Indian spice trade. This trade had been a monopoly of Spain and Portugal until the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) by England gave the English the chance to break the monopoly. Until 1612 the company conducted separate voyages, separately subscribed. There were temporary joint stocks until 1657, when a permanent joint stock was raised.
The company met with opposition from the Dutch in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and the Portuguese. The Dutch virtually excluded company members from the East Indies after the Amboina Massacre in 1623 (an incident in which English, Japanese, and Portuguese traders were executed by Dutch authorities), but the company's defeat of the Portuguese in India (1612) won them trading concessions from the Mughal Empire. The company settled down to a trade in cotton and silk piece goods, indigo, and saltpeter, with spices from South India. It extended its activities to the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and East Asia.
After the mid-18th century the cotton-goods trade declined, while tea became an important import from China. Beginning in the early 19th century, the company financed the tea trade with illegal opium exports to China. Chinese opposition to this trade precipitated the First Opium War (1839-42), which resulted in a Chinese defeat and the expansion of British trading privileges; a second conflict, often called the "Arrow" War (1856-60) or the Second Opium War brought increased trading rights for Europeans.
The original company faced opposition to its monopoly, which led to the establishment of a rival company and the fusion (1708) of the two as the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies. The United Company was organized into a court of 24 directors who worked through committees. They were elected annually by the Court of Proprietors, or shareholders. When the company acquired control of Bengal in 1757, Indian policy was until 1773 influenced by shareholders' meetings, where votes could be bought by the purchase of shares. This led to government intervention. The Regulating Act (1773) and Pitt's India Act (1784) established government control of political policy through a regulatory board responsible to Parliament. Thereafter, the company gradually lost both commercial and political control. Its commercial monopoly was broken in 1813, and from 1834 it was merely a managing agency for the British government of India. It was deprived of this after the Indian Mutiny (1857), and it ceased to exist as a legal entity in 1873.
The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company") was established on March 20, 1602, when the Estates-General of the Netherlands granted it a monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was the first multinational corporation in the world and it was the first company to issue stocks. The VOC consisted of 6 Chambers (Kamers) in Amsterdam, Middelburg (for Zeeland), Enkhuizen, Delft, Hoorn and Rotterdam. Delegates of these chambers convened as the Heeren XVII (the Lords Seventeen). To the counsel of Heeren XVII, eight delegates were from the Chamber of Amsterdam, four from Chamber Zeeland and one from each of the smaller Chambers. Access to the seventeenth seat was rotated among the Chamber of Zeeland or one of the smaller Chambers. Amsterdam had thereby the decisive voice. The Zeelanders were particularly suspicious at the start up of the VOC for this reason. The fear was not unfounded, because in practice it meant that indeed Amsterdam stipulated what happened.
The Heeren XVII met alternately 6 years in Amsterdam and 2 years in Middelburg. They defined the VOC's general policy and divided the tasks among the Chambers. The Chambers carried out all the necessary work, built /their own ships and warehouses and traded the merchandise. The Heeren XVII sent the ships' masters off with extensive instructions on the route to be navigated, prevailing winds, currents, shoals and landmarks. The VOC also produced its own sea charts.
The first fully-equipped VOC fleet sailed on 18 December 1603, with orders not only to engage in trade, but also to attack Portuguese strongholds in Goa and East Africa. This latter task was beyond its powers, and the same was true of the fleets that sailed in 1605, 1606 and 1607. The only Portuguese fort to surrender – and that without a fight - was on the remote, but valuable spice-island of Ambon. It became clear that they needed a permanent base in the East Indies that could serve as a meeting point for VOC ships and become a staple harbour for the goods they carried. In short, the VOC must set up a rival to the Portuguese Goa.
Strategy required the chosen location to be close to the Sunda Strait, between Sumatra and Java, where VOC ships could reach the East Indies without passing through the Malacca Strait, which was controlled by the Portuguese.
The obvious site was Banten on the Java side of the Sunda Strait, but since the local regent neither wanted to disturb the established Chinese trade in pepper nor force the English factory to close, so in 1610 the Dutch subverted the 'prince' of Jacatra - a harbour city along the coast to the east of Banten – and with his support established a fort there.
In 1613 the VOC appointed as its director-general in charge of its trade in Asia Jan Pieterszoon Coen. He was convinced that Jacarta alone must become the centre of both government and commerce. By mobilizing all available VOC ships nearby he succeeded in establishing Jacarta, once and for all, as the VOC command centre in the East Indies. The directors in Amsterdam decided to call their new Dutch town 'Batavia' – the old Roman name for the Netherlands. This is now again known as Jakarta and since 1949, the capital of the Republic of Indonesia, with a present population of more than ten million.
With the company headquarters established in Batavia on Java (now Jakarta, Indonesia) other colonial outposts were also established in the East Indies what later became Indonesia, such as on the Spice Islands (Moluccas), which include the Banda Islands where the VOC forcibly maintained a monopoly over nutmeg and mace. Methods used to maintain the monopoly included the violent suppression of the native population, not stopping short of extortion and mass murder.
The VOC traded throughout Asia. Ships coming into Batavia from the Netherlands carried silver from Spanish mines in Peru and supplies for VOC settlements in Asia. Silver, combined with copper from Japan, was used to trade with India and China for textiles. These products, such as cotton and silk, including ceramics, were either traded within Asia for the coveted spices or brought back to Europe. The VOC was also instrumental in introducing European ideas and technology to Asia. The Company supported Christian missionaries and traded modern technology with China and Japan. A more peaceful VOC trade post on Dejima, an artificial island off the coast of Nagasaki, was for a long time the only place where Europeans could trade with Japan.
In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established an outpost at the Cape of Good Hope (the southwestern tip of Africa, currently in South Africa) to re-supply VOC ships on their journey to East Asia. This post later became a fully-fledged colony, the Cape Colony, when more Dutch and other Europeans started to settle there. VOC outposts were also established in Persia (now Iran), Bengal (now Bangladesh and part of India), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Malacca (Melaka, now in Malaysia), Siam (now Thailand), mainland China (Canton), Formosa (now Taiwan) and southern India. In 1662, Koxinga expelled the Dutch from Taiwan (see History of Taiwan).
By 1669, the VOC was the richest private company the world had ever seen, with over 150 merchant ships, 40 warships, 50,000 employees, a private army of 10,000 soldiers, and a dividend payment of 40%.
The company was in almost constant conflict with the English; relations were particularly embittered after the Amboyna Massacre in 1623. During the 18th century, its possessions were increasingly focused on the East Indies. After the fourth war between the United Provinces and England (1780–1784), the VOC got into financial trouble, and in 1798, the company was dissolved, four years after the end of the Estates-General. The East Indies were awarded to the Kingdom of the Netherlands by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The Danish East India Company (Danish, Dansk Ostindisk Kompagni) was founded in 1616, following a privilege of Danish King Christian IV. It was focused on trade with India and had its base in Tranquebar.
After a short blossoming, it lost importance quickly and was dissolved in 1729. In 1732, it was refounded as Asiatische Compagnie ("Asiatic Company"), yet in 1772 it lost its monopoly. During its heyday, the Danish and Swedish East India Company imported more tea than the British East India Company.
During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801 and again in 1807, the British navy attacked Copenhagen in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807). As a consequence of the last attack, Denmark lost its entire fleet and the island of Helgoland. British control of the seas spelled the end of the Danish East India Company.
The French East India Company (French Compagnie des Indes Orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies.
Planned by Jean Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. The first Director General for the Company was François Caron, who had spent 30 years working for the Dutch East India Company, including 20 years in Japan.
The Company failed to found a colony on Madagascar but established ports on the nearby islands of Bourbon and Île-de-France (today's Réunion and Mauritius). By 1719, it had established itself in India but was near bankruptcy. In the same year it was combined under John Law with other French trading companies to form the Compagnie Perpétuelle des Indes. It resumed independence in 1723.
With the decline of the Mogul Empire, the French decided to intervene in Indian political affairs to protect their interests, notably by forging alliances with local rulers in south India. From 1741 the French under Joseph François Dupleix pursued an aggressive policy against both the Indians and the English until they ultimately were defeated by Robert Clive.
The Company was not able to maintain itself financially, and it was abolished in 1769, a few years before the French Revolution.
Several Indian trading ports, including Pondicherry and Chandernagore, remained under French control until 1949.
The Ostend Company was a private company established in 1717 to trade with the Indies. The success of the Dutch, English and French East India Companies led the merchants and shipowners of Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands to desire to establish direct commercial relations with the Indies. The emperor Charles VI encouraged his subjects to raise subscriptions for the new enterprise, but did not grant a charter or letters patent. The company was abolished in 1731.
The Swedish East India Company (Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with the far east. The venture was inspired by the success of the British East India Company and grew to become the largest trading company in Sweden during the 18th century, until it closed in 1813. Already in 1626 the Dutch Willem Usselinx got royal privileges from the Swedish King for a trading company. Wars and hard times did however stop the company before it got ships off to the far east. Another attempt was made by pirates sailing out from Madagascar, as they thought Sweden better suited as a base. They offered solid financial rewards, and the negotiations was well ahead with the Swedish King Karl XII at his camp in 1718 during his campaign towards Norway. With the Kings death the venture folded.
Sweden was poor after the Great Northern War, trade was therefore seen as an option for rebuilding the country. Opinions were however mixed, as steel and timber were used for trading; was it not a waste to exchange such good for worthless tea and porcelain. The emerging Swedish textile industry was also threatened by the trade, so much that the new company promised to refrain from it.
To start a new trading company that would venture into the interests of European powers France and Britain was not easy, but at the same time the monopoly given to trade companies was a help. The Scottish and English merchants left out of the British East India Company were more than eager to have their share of the trade, by financing the new Swedish company.
In 1729 the Scottish merchant Colin Campbell got help for setting up a company with the Swede Henrik König and the Gothenburg born merchant Niclas Sahlgren. The reaction from the Swedish government was reluctant: the failure of a similar company based in Ostende in Austrian controlled Holland was not tempting the Swedes to go against the main powers. König took the matters to the Swedish parliament and succeeded, gaining royal privileges for the company on 14 January 1731, initially for a period of 15 years
The dividend on expeditions could be around 25-30% of capital invested, but up to 60% was achieved. The last official SOIC vessel returned to Gothenburg in March 1806, and even though the company had a privilege until 1821 it closed in 1813 due to financial difficulties.


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When your living room is on the small side, it allows you to get creative with various sofa designs and colors. Choosing the right sofa color for a small living room can have a huge impact on the overall aesthetic of your space. The last thing you’ll want is for the sofa to overtake the room.
The idea is to help your seating furniture blend into the small living room by complementing other colors that surround it while at the same time, the color you pick for the sofa must remain stylish for years to come.
If you’re undecided on the best sofa colors for your small living room, here we have a few ideas to help you spruce up your space.
Sofa Color Ideas for a Small Living Room
To make your small living room appear larger, opt for a bright-colored sofa. White is the brightest color that reflects the most light, making the room look bigger than it is. This is the best sofa color for compact living rooms, plus you can easily add other pops of color like pink or yellow to cheer up your space.
In minimalist living rooms, for example, a crisp white sofa with earthy throw pillows can create a cozy feel in the small space, as shown here. The white fabric sofa emits a sense of calm throughout the room, with the addition of a wooden table makes the entire room feel more homely. Mix in some pops of color or indoor greenery to further liven up your small room.
A gray sofa can make your small living room feel more elegant and cozy. This is the ideal color for tight spaces as the sofa won’t stick out too much among the rest of the decor or furniture. By choosing a light shade of gray, you can keep the focus on the overall room. Slate gray, for example, is a popular shade for a sofa in a small living room. This shade creates a neutral backdrop that can be paired with sharper hues, such as greens and blues.
While some homeowners may see gray as a gloomy color, a light shade can actually brighten up a small room and prevent it from appearing dingy. This classic color goes with any interior design theme as it combines both a chic elegance with a relaxing environment. That said, it’s best not to pick a large gray sofa as it can overtake the entire room.
Just like in this example, the light gray sofa is dressed with striped gray throw pillows that blend in beautifully with the small living room. The idea is to furnish the compact room with small-size furniture so that the eye isn’t drawn directly toward them.
Other Neutral Tones
Other neutral sofa colors that go well with small living rooms include beige, cream, sand and off-white. These soft hues maintain a calming ambiance in white-dominant rooms. This color palette is incredibly versatile so you can mix it with a selection of neutral throw pillows and wooden furniture to add a little warmth to your small room.
You can safely combine your neutral sofa with plenty of brightly colored accessories, including wall art and rugs. These colors retain the neutral backdrop and allow the surrounding furniture to shine instead of making you feel cramped in your small living room.
Similar to neutrals, green is another calming color for a sofa in a small living room. While you don’t have to go for a floral-themed interior, a stylish rich green couch can accentuate your small living room and make it feel cozier.
Rich green shades are a popular choice in minimalist, small living rooms. They work well with light wooden furniture to bring an earthy vibe to the room. As you can see in this small, stylish living room, the deep green sofa together sets a cozy and soothing ambiance. When decorated with other earthy and organic textures like indoor plants, the color green can freshen up the small living room in no time.
Taupe or Brown
Staying with the earthy, organic color palette, taupe or brown are the other excellent options for a sofa color. In small, bright living rooms, any shade of brown, from tan to cocoa, and everything in between works beautifully.
Whether you choose a brown leather or velvet sofa, the earthy color can accentuate the natural tone of the furniture’s material and blend beautifully with neutral surroundings. A brown or taupe sofa is perfect for both vintage or modern small living rooms as shown here. We love the cohesive look of this light brown leather sofa against the natural brick wall as a rugged backdrop.
In small living rooms, a bright and cheerful sofa color can add elegance to your space. Yellow is a bold color that is sure to draw the eye to itself. When accentuated with other organic colors like green or blue, the pop of colors brings unity and cohesiveness to the small interior space.
This living room example pops thanks to the bright yellow sofa and a blend of blue with green textures. All these colors come together beautifully to provide a cozy, comfortable space.
Whilst we’re on the subject of bold sofa colors, orange is another great option for small, bright living rooms. Whether you go for a muted or light orange shade, it is the perfect on-trend color that brings a warm feel to the room.
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Applications such as multiphase machine drives and wind energy conversion systems are normally based on voltage source converters (VSCs) which feature a convenient and familiar control scheme. In high-power medium voltage drives, three-phase current source converters (CSCs) are widely used owing to its simple topology, motor-friendly waveforms, power reversal capability, and short-circuit-inherited protection. Although controlling CSCs in three-phase is a troublesome, multi-phase CSCs gating generation and control are challenging. In this paper, a sinusoidal PWM-based controlled modulation index gating signal generator is introduced for five-phase CSCs. Two different simulation models have been built, using MATLAB/SIMULINK, to verify the proposed concept on rectification and inversion modes of the CSCs. The proposed controller provides a controllable linear modulation index with the availability of over modulation. © 2014 IEEE.
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|Publisher||Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.|
|State||Published - Jan 1 2014|


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Thursday, August 23, 2012
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This story of a family curse and the Dominican Republic is told by several narrators (in some cases it's hard to determine from whose perspective the story goes), and the time and place vary from chapter to chapter. The book begins as the narrator explains that all subsequent events can be attributed to a curse - fuku, which was brought by Europeans to the Americas. Modern Dominicans do not believe in the curse, but the current generation of parents believes that it’s real.
Oscar, the protagonist of the novel, from the age of seven had a weakness for girls, and also was the main geek of the Dominican ghetto. After an early incident when he first broke up with a girlfriend, and then another girlfriend dumped him, Oscar is rapidly gaining weight, becoming the thickest on the block. Oscar become SF&F fan, he reads fantasy and science fiction all day, play role-playing board games, watches anime and B-movies, in general. In school, he learns so-so, not interested in sports, does not participate in extracurricular activities. Girls shy away from him, and the friends soon start to laugh at him. Despite all the loving Oscar by high school years is suffering from a lack of steady girlfriend. Moreover, his geek-friends miraculously lost their virginity, and Oscar hasn’t yet.
In Junot Diaz’s style lay the main strength and weakness of this memorable novel. To show the actual integration of the two cultures, the Dominican and American (Oscar is American in the first generation), Diaz throws in the boiling cauldron of his prose pinch of Spanish in the bulk of English. English clearly dominates, but this mix does not confuse and not deterred. Diaz uses single words and whole sentences in Spanish in the text without selecting them either italics or bold, not giving footnotes and translation. Not knowing Spanish, you can still understand 80 percent of the writing, and the remaining 20 to guess the meaning. And the mix of languages is not the only thing that the writer mixed in his book. In the novel, for example, swearing in Spanish and baroque prose in perfect English are mixed, too. Of similes and metaphors, there are those that have a geek origin (reference to Marvel comics, jokes from the B-movies or quotes in Elvish from "The Lord of the Rings"), and there are those that mention Dickens. In narrators’s language Dominican sayings, world like Negro, passages, worthy of the best family sagas are perfectly combined. Since the main characters in the book teenagers and young adults, the tone of the narrative is quite cheerfully and youth, with youth slang, especially in Spanish. But in such a vigorous mix of everything you can find a few flaws. First, the story is told by several narrators, but the style of the book in all chapters is more or less similar, so the difference between the narrators is not very visible. Second, even when the author describes the history of the Cabral family, or something else non-youth, he still continues to use the vocabulary of a 15-year-olds from the Dominican ghetto.
By introducing fantastic element (although this element is rather vague, it was a curse or not, everyone decides for himself) in the novel, Diaz opened his novel to a large audience of fans. Family saga, coming-of-age story are what a "serious public" can find here, but the geek references, curses, and the main character, writing a fantasy - it's all for science fiction fans.
This is a book for everyone, and Diaz knows it. What's it about? About the relationship between generations, fate, the inner strength, will say someone. And they would be right. About that fat people remain virgins, will answer somebody else. And this is also true. He offers a lot of youth slang, which may make you think about the frivolousness of the novel. But then Diaz has a complex structure of the novel, which can not be called frivolous.
The title of the novel includes the name of Oscar, but the book is not only about him, but about his family. Oscar's sister all the time is somewhere on the sidelines, but Oscar's mother is already too voluminous character.
The book contains a number of references, written in small print, on the history of the Dominican Republic, but they are annoying and at times there seem superfluous.
Oscar had quite busy life, and the book was very enjoyable too. This is the book, which, I think, will long be remembered.
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It’s a sight for sore eyes for many within the construction industry: Cranes dotting the skylines of Boston, cement trucks pulling in and out of work sites, carpenters and iron workers swarming around skeletons of buildings rising from the ground.
One of the hardest hit sectors during the recent recession, the construction industry, both commercial and residential, is slowly making a comeback in Massachusetts and across the country, as the economy improves and lenders begin to loosen credit strings a bit for both big and small projects alike.
But at this early stage of recovery, the industry has already been hit with an unexpected surprise: Construction costs for many materials are starting to rise fast, from drywall (up nearly 40 percent in the past year) to softwood lumber used at almost every work site (up 30 percent).
Other materials, such as cement (up about 5 percent in the past six months), may not be rising quite as high and fast. But the collective effect of the price spikes has come as somewhat of a shock to many in the construction industry.
The laws of supply and demand are clearly at work, with rising demand for construction materials forcing up prices. There’s no surprise there.
But David Crowe, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders, said this particular post-recession rise in raw-material prices is a little bit different from economic recoveries of the past, precisely because of the severity of the Great Recession.
The construction-industry plunge was so steep after the housing-market crash late last decade, that many raw-material suppliers either went out of business or remain extremely cautious about ramping up operations to produce plywood, orientated strand board, cement, and other products used within the sector.
“Capacity is down,” said Crowe, “and many suppliers simply don’t want to get burned again.”
The result is higher than expected prices at this early stage of economic recovery.
As an example, Crowe said that single-family home starts are only at 46 percent of their peak levels before the recession, and yet the price of drywall is already at 94 percent of its pre-recession level. Prices for soft lumber, such as the classic two-by-four wood products, are at 93 percent of their pre-recession levels.
Local developers are seeing, and dealing with, rising prices on an almost daily basis.
Jim Grossman, vice president of operations at Boston’s Suffolk Construction, said total construction costs are rising at the rate of about 0.5 percent per month, or 6 percent a year. That may not sound like much, but considering how tight margins are today and how skittish lenders remain, it’s becoming a problem in juggling financing for ongoing projects, he noted.
Meanwhile, subcontractors are also starting to raise their prices at faster-than-expected clips, roughly for the same reason that raw-material suppliers have increased their prices: supply side shortages.
In the case of labor, many skilled construction workers, from electricians to plumbers, either retired during the recent long downturn or simply gave up their trade professions to take other jobs.
“We lost a lot of good workers who are no longer around,” said Grossman. “Now that we need more people, they’re not coming back or not there.”
One construction trade area that hasn’t seen a big rebound yet is carpentry.
Mark Erlich, executive secretary treasurer of the New England Council of Carpenters, noted that the council had about 23,000 members across the six-state region before the recent recession, and today that number is down to about 19,000. He said his union has “plenty of qualified people ready for work” — as long as the current tentative recovery can sustain itself.
Padraig O’Beirne, owner of Sudbury Home Improvement, agreed that it’s really the price of raw materials, not labor, that’s causing him most problems. “It’s the good old law of supply-and-demand at work,” he said. “We’re definitely having to pass along these increases to customers.”
Fred Kramer, president of ADD Inc., a Boston architecture and design firm, said some developers are getting nervous about the recent price spikes. ADD Inc. has recently focused mostly on multifamily residential projects in Boston, but some developers wonder whether future apartment rents can keep pace with rising construction costs, he said.
“In the end, it’s good news,” he said of the slowly recovering construction industry. “But we’re experiencing price pressures that are starting to raise concerns. It’s something we’re monitoring quite closely.”


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The werewolves in the room were silently watching Violet's horns disappear. Violet looked over at Andrew with a smile.
"Get up and pack your bags. You're coming with me."
Andrew went to his room with a quick nod.
"I don't understand why you kept this a secret from me and right now I really don't care. I don't have time for this shit, I need to hurry and find my next target before it's too late." Violet glared at Egor.
Vuk stood up and stepped in front of Violet. He kneeled in front of her.
"I'd never expected you to be a werewolf, I thought you were just insane and messing with me." Violet giggled at the man.
"Well now you know for sure that I wasn't lying." Vuk said, smiling up at the girl.
"Wait a minute, you two know each other?" Oliver asked.
"That's right Alpha. I know Violet since she was in diapers. I've been taking care of her ever since, but of course I had to go to university and leave her here, next thing I know she became a really badass demon." Vuk smirked.
Violet crouched down and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She stood up and pulled Vuk in a standing position. She then looked at Bogdan and smiled at him.
"You said that I don't have a mate... What did you mean by that?" He asked.
Violet rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Seriously? Diana is a siren who once wanted to steel a very precious ruby stone from the Devil. She was caught and exiled. She was supposed to be my guardian but the Devil changed that because she would have killed me."
"Because Egor did not submit to her and instead became my friend. Listen dog boy, Diana only wanted revenge on Egor, she never loved you, and used her siren song to make you think you were mates and that she loved you."
Bogdan slumped down back into his seat. He was staring at the wall in front of him absentmindedly. Violet looked over at Vuk who just shrugged. Andrew came in with a suit case and a travel bag. Violet nodded and went towards him.
"Well we had a nice chat boys, but I have to go now." She said.
"Wait!" Bogdan stood up.
Violet turned around to see him taking his shirt off. She raised her eyebrows. He threw his shirt to the side and walked over to her.
"Please make me like Andrew! Please!" He yelled.
"And why would I?"
"Because, I'll help you take care of the siren."
Violet looked him in the eyes, seeing the golden color they produced made her smirk.
"Alright, but let me make a proposition to Alpha Oliver."
Oliver's head shoot up to look at the small girl. "What kind?"
"I want to take Andrew away, and right now Bogdan is tempting me to take him as well, but I know that won't happen so easily. So what would you say if your little pack became my hounds?"
Oliver's eyes widened. The idea of becoming a demon's servant terrified him, but then again he could make use of it.
"What's the catch?" He asked.
"I give you power and protection for your services and loyalty towards me."
Vuk took off his shirt.
"You know I'll follow you anywhere Kennedy."
Violet looked at the man who she knew for the last 15 years and considered family. A few years ago he told her he was a werewolf and she considered it a joke, but right now she was believing in this joke.
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