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1742-1815. He was the fifth of six children of Richard Edwards of Water Newton near Peterborough, and of his wife, Mary Fuller.
Edwards was commissioned lieutenant on 7 September 1759 and saw service in the American Revolutionary War aboard the Augusta 64, Captain Francis Reynolds. He was promoted commander on 22 April 1778, and for the remainder of the year had the bomb-ketch Carcass 8 manned by eighty men in an acting-capacity, forming part of Vice-Admiral Lord Howe s fleet at the defence of New York in July and in operations off Rhode Island in August. At the end of the year he departed for the Leeward Islands with Commodore William Hotham s squadron, and he was present at the defence of St. Lucia on 15 December 1778.
He removed to the Hornet 14 in the Leeward Islands and was posted captain on 25 April 1781. During the following month he commissioned the new Narcissus 20 at Plymouth for service in the Channel fleet, taking part in the June-November 1781 operations. This vessel later went out to the North American station and subsequently returned there after a brief service in the West Indies. During 1782 six men were hung and fourteen flogged for mutiny on board the Narcissus, and she eventually returned home to be paid off in March 1784.
Having joined the Pandora 24 three months earlier, Edwards left Portsmouth in November 1790 with instructions to seek out the mutineers who had rebelled against Captain William Bligh of the Bounty on 28 April 1789. On arriving at Tahiti on 23 March 1791 he found fourteen men, and chaining the innocent and guilty alike in an airless hell-hole on his quarter-deck he spent the next four months touring the Pacific in search of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty. His mission came to an abrupt end on 28 August when the Pandora sank in the Torres Straight with thirty-six deaths, but after an open boat voyage Edwards brought the survivors to Timor seventeen days later. During the voyage home to England aboard a Dutch ship he ensured that the alleged mutineers continued to suffer imprisonment and a meagre diet.
At the court-martial into the loss of the Pandora presided over by Vice-Admiral Lord Hood aboard the Hector 74 in Portsmouth on 17 September 1792, Edwards and his surviving officers were exonerated of any blame for her loss. He did not see any further active service but was employed as the regulating captain at both Inverary and Hull.
Edwards eventually reached flag rank on 14 February 1799, was further promoted to vice-admiral on 9 November 1805, and admiral on 31 July 1810.
He died, unmarried, on 13 April 1815 at his brother s house in Stamford, being buried in St. Remigius Church, Water Newton.
Although a fine seaman and of a venerable appearance, Edwards was a martinet of the worst order, and described as unimaginative . Opinions of him differed, especially as the influential Heywood family, whose loyal son he had treated harshly as a mutineer, led a furious campaign against him and possibly prevented his further employment, although equally his beaching could have been on account of the affect to his health of the open boat voyage following the loss of the Pandora. His own officers apparently held him in high regard.

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He joins the quartet in music for vocalist and quartet by Caroline Shaw (“By and By”) and Samuel Barber (“Dover Beach”). The ensemble will carry out string quartets by Zemlinsky and Brahms. The film — which premieres on-line Tuesday, Nov. 9, by way of All Arts, an arm of New York’s PBS stations — provides theater followers a chance to fulfill a few of the voices behind an important, dynamic department of American storytelling.
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An Improved Link Model for Window Flow Control and Its Application to FAST TCP
This paper presents a link model which captures the queue dynamics in response to a change in a transmission control protocol (TCP) source's congestion window. By considering both self-clocking and the link integrator effect, the model generalizes existing models and is shown to be more accurate by both open loop and closed loop packet level simulations. It reduces to the known static link model when flows' round trip delays are identical, and approximates the standard integrator link model when there is significant cross traffic. We apply this model to the stability analysis of fast active queue management scalable TCP (FAST TCP) including its filter dynamics. Under this model, the FAST control law is linearly stable for a single bottleneck link with an arbitrary distribution of round trip delays. This result resolves the notable discrepancy between empirical observations and previous theoretical predictions. The analysis highlights the critical role of self-clocking in TCP stability, and the proof technique is new and less conservative than existing ones.
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Burglars pry open Aspen bakery’s safe, steal cash
A person or group of people broke into Paradise Bakery’s basement office early Saturday morning, pried open a safe and stole an unspecified amount of cash from inside, sources said Monday.
“No one was hurt,” said Mark Patterson, co-owner of the popular downtown bakery. “It wasn’t an armed robbery or anything, although I’ve never had anything like that happen before.”
The street-level, retail portion of the business, where the public buys baked treats, coffee and ice cream, was not burglarized, Patterson said. Instead, the thief or thieves gained access to a common area in the building’s basement though a street-level door on Galena Street, he said.
Once inside and downstairs, they pried open the bakery’s office door, Patterson said. They toppled the safe onto the floor and then used an unknown tool to peel back the safe door, he said. The thieves made off with an unknown amount of cash, though Patterson estimated that it wasn’t more than “a couple thousand dollars.”
“I sure wish our camera had been working in the office,” Patterson said. “It would have been something to see.”
Patterson described the safe as “pretty heavy-duty” and said he’d owned it for about 35 years.
Aspen police Sgt. Terry Leitch said the operation was no simple feat.
“That took time and a lot of strength,” he said. “The door was pulled back like a tuna can (so they could) get something heavier in there and pop the latch.”
Leitch said he didn’t know what might have been used on the safe, though it would have been something heavy and sharp. It might have even been a power tool of some kind, he said, though that certainly “would have made a lot of noise at 2 in the morning,” he said.
Police received no noise complaints from the area Friday night or early Saturday, Leitch said.
The burglars would have been working within a relatively short window when no one is at the bakery, Patterson said.
“We’re only not there for about three and a half hours a day,” he said, noting that cleaners are often there past midnight and the baker arrives about 3:30 a.m.
Patterson called the incident “a wake-up call” and said he plans to replace the safe with a newer model.
“I know we’ll replace it with a heavier one, and we’ll bolt it down,” he said.
Police are continuing to investigate the theft.


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According to both Mediaset Premium and SportItalia, the two clubs are in advanced negotiations for a transfer at the end of the season.
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DLA Piper has advised Doc+, one of the largest Russian digital health startups, on a USD 5 million round of financing from existing investors Baring Vostok, a Russian private equity fund, and Yandex, one of Europe's largest Internet companies.
The startup already partnered with Yandex.Health, an online medical consultation service, and raised USD 5.5 million in the previous round from Baring Vostok and Yandex in July 2016.
According to DLA Piper, Doc+, which was founded in 2015, "is ranked top-20 in Europe and earned revenues of USD 1.2 million in 2016 with 70,000 app installations and 60,000 doctor visits. The new injection of money will be used to develop advanced digital health services, and to expand the core business of on-demand visits and telemedicine consultations of Doc+."
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Man Shows Up to His Own Funeral in a Helicopter After Faking His Death – Just to Teach His Family a Lesson
In what must have been one of the most shocking lessons one can teach a loved one, a man faked his own death and then showed up to his own funeral in a helicopter just to prove a point.
David Baerten, a 45-year-old TikToker, and his wife and children decided to orchestrate the prank to trick loved ones and see who actually cared about him.
The elaborate prank involved his children spreading the news of his death on social media.
“Rest in peace, Daddy. I will never stop thinking about you,” the daughter wrote, according to the Times UK. “Why is life so unfair? Why you? You were going to be a grandfather, and you still had your whole life ahead of you. I love you! We love you! We will never forget you.”
The fake funeral, which was held near the city of Liege last weekend, was attended by dozens of friends and family members dressed in black, waiting for the ceremony to begin until they were met with a landing helicopter.
In true TikToker fashion, the landing was caught on video and posted to the social media app.
Baerten's funeral was filled with mourners, but they were all the victims of the prank that was simply a test to see how much they cared. There were plenty of people who were relieved to see him, but also several that looked incredibly confused.
You had us we love you my friend we are happy that you are among us,” another TikToker, Thomas Faut, wrote on the site.
Why did he do it?
“What I see in my family often hurts me, I never get invited to anything. Nobody sees me. We all grew apart. I felt unappreciated,” Baerten said, according to the New York Post. “That’s why I wanted to give them a life lesson and show them that you shouldn’t wait until someone is dead to meet up with them.”
I'm... not sure that's how you get invited to more family functions, though.


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Portland Police Officer Confirms What We Know: The Real Problem Is White Liberals
More often than not, the people you see screaming the loudest and acting the most unhinged at any of the recent protests are white liberals. The wokest among us are always there to save the day, especially when they think African-Americans don't have the ability to speak for themselves (see WHITE PEOPLE IN HARLEM WANT TO ABOLISH THE POLICE. BLACK PEOPLE THINK THAT'S INSANE. and IDIOT WHITE LIBERAL CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY BLACK COP THINKS BLUE LIVES MATTER). Though like most liberals, when someone belonging to one or more of the preferred marginalized groups decides to speak for themselves — or worse, disagree — those same liberals go right to the racism in response. Or whatever the appropriate -ism or phobia is at the time.
Who gets it the worst from white liberals lately are black cops, as this Portland police officer recently shared with a reporter.
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It says something when you're at a Black Lives Matter protest and you have more minorities on the police side than you have in a violent crowd. And you have white people screaming at black officers, "You have the biggest nose I've ever seen."
If we're going to solve the world's problems, identifying a common enemy helps. Usually white liberals do everything they can to prevent black people and non-white liberals from communicating. Now they even want to prevent black people from communicating with other black people if one of those black people is wearing a police uniform. Their agenda always comes before actual solutions.
Cut white liberals out of the equation, and I'm fairly certain the rest of us can all sit down together and figure this all out.
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The book Computer Science Education: Perspectives on Learning and Teaching at School (2nd edition) is out today! It is the second edition of a book edited by me (Sue Sentance, Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, and Chief Learning Officer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation), together with Carsten Schulte, University of Paderborn, Nicol R. Howard, University of Redlands, CA, USA, and Erik Barendsen, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
Bringing together international experts in the field of computer science education in school, this book will be useful both for those studying to become computing teachers and those starting research careers in computer science education all over the world. Over 30 authors have contributed to the second edition. With the growth of computer science in schools around the world since the first edition was published, I hope that what’s in here is useful and complements other books and textbooks in this general area.
Highlights of the second edition include:
- New sections on machine learning and data-driven (epistemic) programming
- A new focus on equity and inclusion in computer science education
- A revised chapter on relating ethical and societal aspects to knowledge-rich aspects of computer science education
- A complete set of chapters on the learning of programming, including design, pedagogy, and misconceptions
- A chapter on the way we use language in the computer science classroom
The book has been structured with chapter outlines, synopses, and key points. We hope that the explanations of key concepts, real-life examples, and reflective points help to make the theory relevant to classroom practice.
I’ve enjoyed working with all the many amazing contributing authors as we prepared the new edition, all of whom are experts in their own area. This edition includes contributions from UK, USA, Germany, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands. The subtitle “Perspectives on Teaching and Learning in School” reflects the many different perspectives on computer science education that are represented in the book.
We hope you enjoy this new edition and find it useful for your research or study! Below is the Table of Contents and an invitation to a mini-book launch if you are local to Cambridge.
Table of contents
Part 1: Positioning Computer Science in Schools
1 Carsten Schulte: Introduction to Part 1
2 Matti Tedre: The Nature of Computing as a Discipline
3 Erik Barendsen and Mara Saeli: Perspectives on Computing Curricula
4 Carsten Schulte, Felix Winkelnkemper and Lea Budde: Computer Science, Interaction and the World: The ARIadne Principle
5 Shuchi Grover and Roy Pea: Computational Thinking: A Competency Whose Time Has Come
6 Ilkka Jormanainen,Matti Tedre, Henriikka Vartiainen, Teemu Valtonen, Tapani Toivonen and Juho Kahila: Learning Machine Learning in K–12
Part 2: Computing for All: Equity and Inclusion
7 Nicol R. Howard: Introduction to Part 2
8 Jill Denner and Shannon Campe: Equity and Inclusion in Computer Science Education: Research on Challenges and Opportunities
9 Tia C. Madkins and Nicol R. Howard: Engaging Culturally Relevant and Responsive Pedagogies in Computer Science Classrooms
10 Maya Israel, Latoya Chandler, Alexis Cobo and Lauren Weisberg: Increasing Access, Participation and Inclusion within K–12 CS Education through Universal Design for Learning and High Leverage Practices
Part 3 Teaching and Learning in Computer Science
11 Erik Barendsen: Introduction to Part 3
12 Tim Bell and Caitlin Duncan: Teaching Computing in Primary Schools
13 Paul Curzon, Peter W. McOwan, James Donohue, Seymour Wright and William Marsh: Teaching of Concepts
14 Ira Diethelm, Juliana Goschler, Timo Arnken and Sue Sentance: Language and Computing
15 Quintin Cutts and Peter Donaldson: Investigating Attitudes towards Learning Computer Science,
16 Sue Sentance, Shuchi Grover and Maria Kallia: Formative Assessment in the Computing Classroom
Part 4: A Focus on Programming
17 Sue Sentance: Introduction to Part 4
18 Michael E. Caspersen: Principles of Programming Education
19 Jane Waite: The Role of Design in Primary (K–5) Programming
20 Juha Sorva: Misconceptions and the Beginner Programmer
21 Sue Sentance and Jane Waite: Programming in the Classroom
22 Sven Hüsing, Carsten Schulte and Felix Winkelnkemper: Epistemic Programming
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David Vann on Life and landscape
It's no secret that David Vann's recent novel, Goat Mountain, returns to the territory of his semi- autobiographical debut novella and short story collection Legend of a Suicide. But if that book, published when Vann was 42, exorcised the demons unleashed by the suicide of his father when Vann was a 13-year-old, Goat Mountain is, as he declares at its end, "the novel that burns away the last of what first made me write, the stories of my violent family". It is true, Vann declares down the phone from New Zealand, where he now lives for part of each year: "I do actually feel finished with the family stories."
Indeed, for a man who's written six highly acclaimed books dealing with the legacy of family suicide and violence, Vann is remarkably upbeat. In fact, the 47-year-old American writer and professor of creative writing at England's University of Warwick exudes wholesome sunniness and good cheer. And for an author who's notched up some 15 of the world's most prestigious literary awards as well as some of the most glowing reviews in 20 languages, he's refreshingly unpretentious.
He laughs away the many comparisons to Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy and instead speaks of his fascination with Greek tragedy. "It's when life falls apart that you see what the Greeks knew, which is that we hurt the people closest to us, that our lives are lived out of control. We have no idea what we're doing. And that to me is what Greek tragedy is all about."
But there's no denying that Vann's luminous sentences put him in a class all his own. Landscape is an ever- present force in his novels and takes on an inferno-like resonance in Goat Mountain, which explores the atavistic nature of violence. Revolving around three generations of men hunting for deer on Goat Mountain, the book was inspired by his family who were "just crazy for hunting. But my next two novels have nothing to do with my family. So I really have finally moved on. But in terms of the ones that are already published, they do all fit into a kind of boxed set," he laughs. "I've been very lucky. Five suicides and a murder and growing up in beautiful places. You couldn't have hoped for anything better for writing. And especially because I write everything through landscape. So to be able to grow up in places like Alaska then rural northern California while having all the drama in the foreground of the suicides and the murder, plus all the divorces and bankruptcies, was incredible, actually."
Not to forget all his own aborted ocean voyages, boat building and sinkings, the subject of A Mile Down, a non-fiction that releases in Australia this March, and which again harks back to his father's suicide. Interestingly, it was the first book he had published, initially solely in the US, but was written after Legend of a Suicide which he'd tried to get published, unsuccessfully, for 12 years until he finally was successful in 2008. A Mile Down tells the story of the interim years when he was failing to get his writing published and took to the oceans, to realise his dream of running a "university on water", by holding writing classes on a sailboat out of Turkey. "Because I couldn't get published for 12 years, and I couldn't get a tenure-track job, I had this completely other career."
A Mile Down is such an engaging account of his adventures as a captain and boat builder that it became an instant bestseller when it was finally published in the US in 2005. "From that point, I didn't really look back. I was able to get a tenure-track job and I haven't tried to do boats for business since."
He is still an avid sailor and spends part of each year with his wife, Nancy, sailing in Turkey, despite his travails as boat builder there. "It's true I lost my shirt there but I really love it." For Vann too, those disaster-packed years were critical in finally escaping the legacy of his father's suicide.
For as he reveals in A Mile Down: "I think I went to sea to repeat my father's life and get close to his suicide and test it really. I had always felt doomed, that things would get bad and that suicide would be waiting for me, that it would be inescapable and I would repeat what he had done." But in a terrible moment on the ocean, when everything went awry and he was forced to abandon the ship he'd spent months and all his funds building, he explains: "I realised my brain just didn't think of suicide. I realised that it's just not in my nature."
Since walking away from the "kind of awful immersion in boats where they just take over my life", he says: "I was able to write six books in six years." He's actually written 10 books in total and has four more releasing soon, first in Spain and in France, where his work is particularly popular.
"A writer needs luck and generosity from other people and everyone has been very generous in a lot of different places," Vann says. "I've been wonderfully lucky."
David Vann will be a guest of the 2014 Perth Writers Festival.
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An intense men’s fashion week starts in Paris on Tuesday, with the ‘Karl for Ever’ event and 60 catwalk shows, including rookie labels Bode, Phipps, Ludovic de Saint Sernin and Sies Marjan, and Balmain’s gig-show.
Dunhill has opened an ‘experiential’ store in the new menswear department of Harrods. Located in the new International Designer area, the space can fully transform in line with the brand’s seasonal collections.
The creative director of Carolina Herrera, Wes Gordon, has insisted that the brand’s Resort 2020 collection pays homage to the “cultural wealth” of Mexico, after being accused of cultural appropriation.
Kering, owner of brands including Gucci, will tighten its grip on its e-commerce operations, focusing on its own branded sites to sell its luxury products or ventures where it can control its image and client data.
Big-spending luxury brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior are splashing out on everything from fashion shows to teams of advisers as they target social media platforms in the hunt for young shoppers.
Cosmetics chain Sephora closed its US stores for an hour on Wednesday to hold an "inclusivity workshop" for its employees, a month after a Grammy-nominated black singer said she was racially profiled in the shop.
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Harnessing Data To Overcome the Barriers of Digital Adoption
Digitalization in the oil and gas industry has been the focus of much discussion, but little has been written on the slow rate of adoption. This paper outlines some of the barriers the industry faces as it assimilates into Industry 4.0—automation and data integration in manufacturing.
In recent years, the benefits and opportunities presented by digitalization in the oil and gas industry have been the focus of much discussion. However, little has been written on the slow rate of adoption of digital solutions in the industry and some of the challenges facing operators. This paper aims to address these topics by outlining some of the primary barriers the industry faces as it assimilates into Industry 4.0—the current push toward automation and data integration in manufacturing.
Digitalization Value and Drivers
Over the past decade, Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things, and the wave of digital solutions they encompass have affected nearly every aspect of life. The declining cost of smart sensors and data storage, coupled with an increase in the reliability of communication networks and advances in data analytics, has driven a rapid pace of digital adoption across all industries.
Despite these advances, oil and gas operators have been slow to adopt new digital solutions. More importantly, they have been reluctant to adopt new internal operating and business models, thus inhibiting their ability to fully realize the savings and efficiency gains that can be generated through digital transformation.
This has not been the case in other industries. Many have experienced the quantifiable value that can be generated by leveraging the capabilities of advanced digital solutions. A few real-world examples are outlined in Fig. 1.
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Why Has the Industry Been Slow To Digitize?
Safety Risk. The inherent safety risk posed by oil and gas operations has meant that the industry has had to remain conservative in its adoption of new technologies. Any solution that has the potential to change a process must be well proven before it is deployed.
Cost of Unplanned Downtime. Another driving force behind the industry’s conservative nature is that most facilities and processing plants are designed for continuous operation with minimal scheduled downtime. This is in stark contrast with other discrete process facilities, such as automotive plants, where work cells can be removed and retooled for new car models, or the rail industry, which can introduce new rolling stock or take equipment out of service for refurbishment.
Cybersecurity. By far, the most cited concern regarding the adoption of digital solutions in the industry is cybersecurity. The industry has always been secretive with any information relating to operational performance and the simplest approach to maintain that secrecy is not to share any data. While no industry is safe from cyberattack, the energy sector presents an especially attractive target because of both the high value and vulnerability of the operational data, as well as the effect that can be created from successfully executing an attack.
Two of the primary cybersecurity trends that need to be addressed in the industry include:
The shift of cyber threats from IT to OT infrastructures. One of the major shifts industrial companies are seeing in cybersecurity is that attackers have begun to move their attacks from traditional IT (information technology) infrastructure to OT (operational technology) targets, which are the machines, systems, and networks that are directly used at plants and in operations. OT systems are often decades old and, thus, far less protected than IT networks. As a result, attackers target OT not only to steal and destroy data, but also to affect critical operations and safety. This inevitably raises the profile and profitability of their attacks.
Cyber risks across the supply chain. While an increasing number of oil and gas companies are taking proactive measures to protect their assets from cyber threats, many are still reluctant to embrace digitalization because of uncertainty about the cybersecurity practices of partners in the supply chain.
What Can Be Done To Facilitate Digital Adoption?
Embrace Digitalization. In order to realize the full potential of Industry 4.0, the industry will have to become more open to embracing digitalization and being more digitally integrated across the entire supply chain. In addition to its inherent conservatism, another philosophy of the industry culture that operators must reevaluate is their sensitivity to sharing data. This makes it virtually impossible to leverage data and connect information flows in ways that will tangibly improve how the business operates. Although the status of some equipment can be used to infer production performance, there is a large volume of data that can be shared without the risk of divulging sensitive information.
Adopt a Holistic Cybersecurity Approach. While many advanced technologies and methodologies exist today that can help operators secure their operating environment (i.e., unidirectional gateways), the industry must work in unison if it is to keep pace with evolving cyber threats. Additionally, companies must dedicate commensurate financial resources to integrate cyber vigilance at every level of their enterprise. A number of oil and gas companies with a shared concern over the current lack of industry preparedness are showing leadership on this front. In the US, the Oil and Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center collects information provided by companies, synthesizes this information, and turns it into actionable data about common threats. More companies are also working with regulatory leaders to develop effective national cybersecurity policies for critical infrastructure. These collective actions are important but not sufficient. Companies must adopt a proactive approach to protecting their own critical assets.
Reevaluate Talent Acquisition and Human Resourcing Strategies. Attracting and retaining talent is a challenge that the oil and gas industry has been dealing with for quite some time. While many companies and trade associations have taken measures to help fill the void caused by the Great Crew Change, the wave of digital technologies sweeping over the industry is giving rise to a new environment where operators are being forced to compete for talent with the likes of Google, Alphabet, Apple, and many others. There is immense competition across industries, from finance, to healthcare, to technology, for young data scientists, programmers, software engineers, and experts in artificial intelligence and robotics. Labor market research shows that these positions are at an above-average difficulty to fill than other positions in the US. There is a very low candidate supply and high competition from highly dispersed organizations. More often than not, these professionals gravitate toward more-attractive career paths where they can work in a millennial-driven environment with their peers. Right now, the oil and gas industry is at a significant disadvantage, as it simply does not fit that bill. Companies will need to approach recruiting on a more strategic level. They will need to find new and innovative ways to engage young professionals and be open to creating more-collaborative work environments that allow them to compete and attract talent on a global scale. Capitalizing on digitalization will also require companies to invest in training their existing workforce.
Initiate Cultural Transformation. Experience implementing digital solutions across multiple industries has shown that the benefits of embracing digitalization increase greatly when there is collaboration and shared data between stakeholders. The oil and gas industry is no different and can benefit by embracing a more open ecosystem, where vendors across the supply chain can work together to deliver projects jointly with their suppliers. Reaching the point at which companies feel comfortable sharing data in a secure but open environment will be critical as the industry forges ahead. Achieving this will require a commitment and willingness from individuals at the top of the organizational hierarchy to create a corporate environment that prioritizes innovation and technology adoption. Overall, operators must begin to embrace the notion that capitalizing on Industry 4.0 is not something they can achieve on their own.
Where Is Digitalization Heading?
While big data and the cloud have been the subject of much attention in recent years, the trend in the future will be for artificial intelligence (AI) to be pushed into edge computing. The advantage of edge computing is that decisions and actions are real-time, independent of Internet connection, and can be based on large volumes of high-frequency data. This development will be made possible by the rapid development of edge-processing capability and cooperation across other real-time-based industries.
Drones equipped with sensors can serve as a vehicle for inspection and are far more accurate and reliable than humans. In addition, replacing humans with drones or other technologies for inspection purposes improves safety greatly by eliminating the need for personnel to enter hazardous locations.
Another area where AI will develop is the capability for edge-computing devices to collaborate with each other. The increasing low cost of processing capability, coupled with advances in analytics, will allow the sensor itself to become the edge device and perform its own measurement validation. This would not be restricted to analyzing direct data, such as signal-to-noise ratio, but having an awareness of the environment around the sensor.
In the coming years, AI will replace much of the diagnostics that are currently being performed by the operator and will be used to provide operator guidance and assistance. Once the assistance or decision support becomes reliable, the loop will be closed with automated actions and the result will be autonomous operations.
This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper OTC 28699, “Effectively Harnessing Data To Navigate the New Normal: Overcoming the Barriers of Digital Adoption,” by Bruce Bailie and Matthew Chinn, Siemens, prepared for the 2018 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–4 May. The paper has not been peer reviewed. A video of the presentation of this paper can be found here.

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Historic two-hour forum brought together America's top modern conservative black leaders for the first time.
On Monday, January 23rd, 2012, Star Parker moderated the premiere Conservative Black Forum in Washington,D.C., hosted by Congressman Allen West.
Star Parker asked a panel of conservative black leaders, including Allen West and South Carolina's Tim Scott, questions regarding unemployment in the black community, conservative values, and the social disparity in urban communities.
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-- Perception vs. reality when it comes to black conservatism.
-- Urban issues in the 21st Century.
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-- Conservative principles in the black community.
-- GOP outreach to black conservatives.
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What a refreshing and enlivened discussion! Star, you did a wonderful job moderating. Thanks to everyone involved for forging ahead on real solutions. I learned about Frederick Douglass and why so many refer to themselves as adhering to his brand of conservatism, and I get it now. I learned that the vast majority agree morally and biblically, but don't vote their conscience. May 2012 be the year where intelligent, compassionate black conservative leaders are heard. God bless you!
Star! You guys were fantastic! I was shouting AMEN the whole time! Great job!
Watched it last night instead of The State Address! Was so much more informative and interesting. Thank you so much for moderating the forum!


BHUBANESWAR: A group of fishermen of Talapada, a nondescript village in Balasore district, were in for a pleasant surprise after netting a prized catch, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight tested from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), about 20 km from the place. The British-made target drone Banshee was caught by fishermen who had gone fishing into the deep sea. They were taken by surprise when the target aircraft fell on their net when they were preparing to collect fish.
“We had cast nets in the sea for our daily catch. The mini aircraft fell inside. For a moment, we thought it would destroy our net. We slowly dragged the heavy metal object towards our motorised boat and brought it to the shore,” said a fisherman. He said they would hand over the UAV to officials of the test range once they arrive.
Developed by Meggitt Defence Systems, Banshee is an aerial target for surface-to-air and air-to-air weapon systems. The aircraft is designed to float for overwater operations recovery. Its installable options include radar enhancement devices and target sleeves. It can simulate a sea-skimming missile or serve as a scouting UAV with a camera.The drone’s length is about 2.84 m, wingspan 2.49 m and height 0.86 m. It weighs around 73 kg. Travelling at a maximum speed of 200 km/hr, it can fly nearly 75 minutes with a service ceiling of 23,000 ft.
Defence sources said the drone was flown as part of a radar calibration exercise of Indian Air Force (IAF). The IAF officials usually flight test target drones to calibrate it with the radar on fighter aircraft before going for an actual launch of an air-to-air missile.“The Banshee drone was used as an expendable target which need not require recovery. It was for once use. It is of no use after the calibration was over. Its retrieval is not necessary,” said a defence official.
IAF successfully tests short range missile
IAF personnel successfully test fired a short range air-to-air missile from the ITR off Odisha coast. The 13-km range missile acquired by the armed forces destroyed the target with high accuracy. “It is a routine trial and user training exercise by the IAF. The missile used for the mission was randomly selected from the stock. While the drone used in the forenoon was for calibration exercise, another flown in the afternoon was neutralised by the missile,” an official said.


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Thanks to Jason Skipper for reading at the Artsmith Literary Salon last night from his novel, Hustle, about three generations of southern men hustling for money, women, and art, and, ultimately, redemption. Definitely worth a read. Not convinced? Read what Charles Baxter has to say about this compelling debut novel:
What do the generations owe each other? Everything and nothing, Jason Skipper’s beautifully plain-spoken novel tells us, as it invites us to watch its young protagonist learning his hardscrabble survival skills from a few amazingly unreliable mentors. Some human truths need to be presented without embellishment, and the central truth of Hustle is that we’re all on the edge of a cliff. This is a fine story, honestly told.
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Minnesota is telling the overseer of a St. Paul charter school a plan to address serious missteps there falls short.
A recent investigation at the Community School of Excellence documented problems in collecting federal meal funds and reporting suspected child abuse. Last month, Concordia University, the school’s authorizer, highlighted steps the school is taking to fix the issues — even as it acknowledged some do not seem to go far enough.
The state Department of Education told St. Paul-based Concordia this week its response doesn’t cut it.
In recent years, the state has stepped in occasionally to demand more vigilance from authorizers — colleges, school districts and nonprofits that oversee charters, which are independently run public schools. Exchanges like the one with Concordia have picked up as Minnesota rolled out a 2009 charter law that spells out a much more active oversight role for authorizers.
Charter advocates generally have hailed the new law’s focus on accountability. But some disagreement remains over just how much authority authorizers have to drive changes at the schools they monitor.
“This has been an interesting couple of years,” said Charlene Briner, the education department’s chief of staff. “We really are moving to Charters 2.0, where they are part of a high-quality system of innovation.”
The issue likely will come to a head when the state begins evaluating its authorizers under the new law next year. The Department of Education releases guidelines about how it will size up authorizers Friday, and Briner said it expects some push-back.
The state charter association stresses the law requires authorizers to push school leaders to solve problems. The association questions if in cases such as the recent Concordia letter, the state is expecting authorizers to do the solving themselves.
In an email, Lonn Maly, Concordia’s vice president for academic affairs, said university officials will discuss a response to the state next week. Community School of Excellence school board Chair Patti Hessling said the board and administration are “bringing effective and efficient organizational change to our school.”
Last year, the state called for an investigation at the school after receiving complaints from current and former employees. A local attorney enlisted by the school board dismissed some allegations but validated others. The school serves 960 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, most of them Hmong.
The attorney found the school continued to collect subsidized meal dollars for breakfasts and lunches students did not consume — despite a 2012 penalty imposed by the state for similar violations. The investigation also charged that founder and Superintendent Mo Chang continued to discourage employees from reporting suspected child abuse to authorities as required by law — despite a change in the school’s policy that the state had demanded.
The report said Chang cultivated “a culture of fear” at the school, where employees were loath to disagree with her.
Based on the findings, the school board crafted an improvement plan for Chang, which the state provided to the Pioneer Press. It calls on Chang to line up food service training for staff and parent information sessions on abuse reporting requirements. The board stripped Chang of direct oversight over the school’s nutrition program and urged her to avoid micromanaging employees.
In its letter to the state, Concordia said efforts to resolve issues at the school are well underway, and it would monitor them closely.
Maly did say the university has concerns, including that Chang’s improvement plan does not adequately address complaints about her management style. He said reports that more staffer resignations have added to the school’s high employee turnover recently are “very disconcerting.” In addition, the report cites allegations that Chang shared with parents the identity of a teacher who reported suspicions of abuse — a possible misdemeanor under state law.
But overall, Maly concluded, “Concordia University is holding the board accountable for the operations of the school.”
In a response, the education department countered that Concordia needs to spell out step-by-step plans to address each issue and prevent relapses.
Briner said the department has stepped in repeatedly and urged authorizers to strengthen their oversight since the new law went into effect.
“The expectations are greater, and it’s hard work,” she said. “We’ve had some authorizers really welcome this increased accountability.”
In 2010, many charter overseers pulled out, saying new requirements to monitor finances and achievement closely were too time-consuming. The number of authorizers shrank from about 45 that year to 27 now.
Eugene Piccolo, the executive director of the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools, said authorizers have kept a much closer eye on how charters run — an offshoot of the law the association welcomes. But he said the state’s letter to Concordia is asking too much.
“The Department of Education does not understand the role of authorizers,” Piccolo said. “It’s not their job to fix problems. It’s to make sure the school board and administration are fixing the problems.”
Piccolo noted the department has more recourse to ensure compliance, including by imposing financial penalties. Concordia, on the other hand, has the “nuclear weapon” of withdrawing the school’s charter, essentially putting it out of business.
Briner said the department has never communicated an expectation that authorizers solve the problems at charters they oversee. But it has pushed them to be more forceful in demanding solutions, she said. The department has not ruled out additional action in the Community School of Excellence case.
Briner said there has been push and pull with authorizers in drawing the line between oversight and troubleshooting: “It’s a tension we feel all the time in finding that sweet spot.”
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Tension between Quito and London has temporarily eased over the Assange case after the Organization of American States (OAS) called for an end to the standoff on Friday 24 August.
Ecuador had accused Britain of threatening to storm its London Embassy, which is a violation of diplomatic conventions, to grab Assange. The OAS condemned the threat and backed Ecuador, eventually leading to a retreat by the UK.
In a weekly media address, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said: “We consider this unfortunate incident over, after a grave diplomatic error by the British in which they said they would enter our embassy”.
Political asylum was given to Assange by Ecuador, however, the UK has stated that he will be arrested by the Metropolitan Police of London and deported to Sweden for sex assault allegations if he leaves the embassy building.
Concerns have been raised that an extradition to Sweden would lead to Assange’s ending up in the hands of the US, where he could face life imprisonment or the death penalty for the exposure of classified US documents.


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HANOI: Just one photo is all that remains of Dang Van Con, a young Vietnamese repairman shipped to France at the outset of the First World War along with tens of thousands of colonial conscripts from Indochina.
The postage stamp-sized picture of Con is the only link his seven grandchildren have to the man whose military service in France would turn the family into pariahs after north Vietnam communists expelled the French in 1954.
In post-colonial Vietnam, then headed by revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, ties to the defeated French empire could spell death.
The family destroyed all of Con’s books, letters, uniforms and photos – save for one, a black-and-white image of Con at his cousin’s wedding in 1953.
“It was like the Cultural Revolution … we had to burn all evidence of involvement with the French,” Con’s eldest grandson Cao Van Dzan, 75, told AFP at the family home in Hanoi.
Con was among 10,000 Vietnamese and about 2,000 Cambodians recruited to serve France during the First World War.
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He was bestowed with an honourable ranking by the titular Nguyen Dynasty when he returned home, boosting the family’s social status.
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The family’s dangerous alliances would later extend beyond the French: one of Con’s nephew’s fought for the American-backed southern regime, a black mark on the family in the eyes of the communists who won the Vietnam War in 1975.
Though Dzan laments the destruction of the family memorabilia, he said the path his grandfather forged allowed his descendents to study and work abroad.
“I’m proud of my grandfather,” he said. “His journey to France allowed for a civilised lifestyle for his children and grandchildren.”


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In their latest report, S&P experts assigned Cyprus the sovereign credit rating of BBB-/A-3. This sufficiently high rating is evidence of the stability of the economy and the satisfactory solvency of the state.
What was the forecast of the European Central Bank in spring 2020
In April 2020, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde projected a 5-12% decline in EU GDP for 2020. Today, S&P expects Cyprus to have a GDP deficit of 4.6%.
The Government of Cyprus was able to contain the decline in GDP through effective measures. In particular, construction companies resumed operations in May 2020.
Experts from S&P say that the Cyprus economy will show a steady growth trend by the end of 2020. They predict that the country's economic situation will fully recover by the end of 2022.
Growth in economic indicators will also affect the interest of foreign investors who are planning to buy property in Cyprus. In particular, we are talking about participants in the citizenship programme for investments. After all, along with economic recovery will increase property prices.
Situation on the real estate market in 2020
The Cyprus real estate market experienced its first changes due to the crisis in March 2020.
The number of real estate transactions fell by 33% compared to March 2019. Limassol and Paphos had the lowest number of deals. In these resort towns there were twice as few sale and purchase agreements concluded as in March last year.
Between January and July 2020, the number of non-EU Cyprus property sales to foreign investors decreased by 46% compared to the same period in 2019. At the same time, the total number of purchase and sale contracts concluded with foreigners decreased by 43% over the same period.
The decline in demand for real estate is due to closed borders and the financial crisis. Buyers, including applicants under the Citizenship for Investment programme, could not come to the country to choose a property to buy.
The option of buying real estate remains the most popular among the programme participants. Between 2013 and 2018, 55% of all investors who participated in the Citizenship for Investment programme received a Cyprus passport through the purchase of real estate.
Real estate market and Cyprus citizenship programme in 2020
Another reason for the outflow of foreign buyers is the change in the Cyprus citizenship programme for investments. It took several months to consider the amendments to the citizenship programme. As a result, many investors were waiting to accept them before buying property to participate in the programme.
A sharp drop in real estate transactions occurred in Limassol, Paphos and Nicosia and resulted in temporary price reductions. It is therefore beneficial for investors who are now planning to participate in the Cyprus citizenship programme to buy property in these cities.
Earlier we said that Cyprus was ranked 1st on the list of countries that Russians most often indicate as a tax residence country. The reason for this is low tax rates: for example, VAT is 19%. This is a low rate compared to other EU countries, and you can take advantage of the benefits.
Under certain conditions, VAT on purchases of new properties will be only 5%. In transactions with secondary real estate, there is only 4% tax on the transfer of ownership, while there is no VAT.
Cyprus also took 3rd place in the ranking of countries where Russians opened accounts most often in 2019.

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by Doris Donnerman
(last updated February 17, 2009)
I am a huge fan of fur. I love pets that have soft fur, and love to pet it. However, I hate the pet hair that seems to spread all over the house, all over my clothes, and all over my furniture. Shedding is actually one of my number one things I hate about cats and dogs because there's almost no avoiding it. No matter where you go, there seems to be pet hair and it can definitely drive you up the wall. There are a couple of ways though that you can avoid such things and keep your mind sane!
You can actually use liquid fabric softener to remove pet hair from your clothes, furniture, and carpet. When pets shed, the hair gets everywhere, and for a housekeeper, that can be super frustrating. There is a simple way though that you can reduce the amount of hair that floats around your house, settling on your clothes, furniture, and carpet. All you need is a bit of liquid fabric softener. Make up a solution of liquid fabric softener and water. Dilute the softener with the water and just pour it into a spray bottle. When you do your routine housecleaning, take the spray bottle with you, and whenever you come across a surface coated in pet hair, just spray a bit of the solution onto the fabric. Wait for a couple minutes until the solution is dry, and then vacuum or brush off the hair.
Another way you can remove the hair from your couch is to use the pet remover attachment that came with your vacuum. Chances are, your vacuum came with a pet hair remover, and it could be just the thing you're looking for. If you can, find that user's manual that came with your vacuum and peruse that for a minute, looking for that magical heading called the "Pet Hair Remover." Once you locate that page on the manual, you should then proceed to look for the actual piece. You probably didn't throw it away, so dig deep and look hard. Once you find the pet hair remover, read quickly on how to actually use it, and start vacuuming! You should move slowly along the couch or carpet with the pet hair remover to make sure you collect all the hair you can.
You can also try preventing the hair from getting on your furniture and clothes. Try stroking your pet with wet hands next time. Before you sit down to watch television and you know your pet will come up to cuddle, just get your hands a little wet. When you do stroke your pet, the water will actually help the loose hair on your pet stick to your hands. The water acts like a kind of hair magnet that will attract the hair to your hands rather than to your clothes, furniture, or carpet. When you are sitting there petting your pet, you might want to keep a bowl of water next to you so you can continue stoking and still dealing with the hair problem. Dip your hands in the water every time the water on your hands dries out, and continue petting. This will help the loose hair not get where you don't want it. The same idea works if you groom your pet with rubber gloves on, and you can use the rubber glove technique to collect hair as well; do this by sweeping your hand up and down the couch, and the hair will attach itself to your rubber glove.
As a pet owner though, you do need to accept the fact that even if you do take measures to minimize and clean up after shedding, if your pet is a shedding pet, that's something you'll have to deal with the entire time you have your pet. You may hate the shedding, but it is a part of having pets, and if that doesn't fly so well with you, then you should either look into buying a non-shedding pet (there are non-shedding dogs like poodles that make for great pets), or not having a pet at all. Shedding is just a part of pet ownership, and so you can't be upset when your dog or cat leaves hairs around the house.
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Manns Crossing is the "just right" neighborhood - not too big and not too small. With approximately 40 custom homes on 1+ acre lots, only a few homesites remain. Bring your own builder, or we can suggest one! Building site sits below street grade, allowing for a great walk-out basement or you can set the house down like the house on Lot #12, photo included. The driveway can be easily accessed from the right side to place the garage either on the lower level or the main level with a little bit of fill.
Listing courtesy of Terra Nova Global Properties.
Listings provided courtesy of Triangle MLS, Inc. of NC, Internet Data Exchange Database. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. © 2019 Triangle MLS, Inc. of North Carolina. Data last updated .


The ACLU is suing an Iowa county’s sheriff’s department on behalf of a man who says his First Amendment rights were violated when he was charged with criminal harassment after he posted negative comments about a police officer’s conduct.
A Colorado state senator is being sued for blocking a constituent on social media. Anne Landman is suing Republican Senator Ray Scott after he banned her from his official Twitter and Facebook accounts two years ago. “Sen. Scott censored me for being a critical constituent. Yet, he’s allowed his like-minded followers to ridicule me on his page and retain their right to speak freely,” Landman said in a statement. “This doesn’t feel like democracy. This feels like hypocrisy and punishment for having a different point of view.”
Five former intelligence officials are suing two U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense, challenging the constitutionality of the agencies’ “prepublication review” system. The prepublication review system requires current and former intelligence agency employees and military personnel to submit for government approval anything they write about their past work.
February 24, 2019 marks 50 years since the Supreme Court made its landmark ruling in Tinker vs. Des Moines that protected the First Amendment rights of students in public schools.
Watch Amy Werbel, Associate Professor of the History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of Lust […]
The ACLU of D.C. submitted a formal written comment expressing opposition to the National Park Service’s proposed regulation changes to […]
Buzzfeed News investigative reporter Chris McDaniel can move forward with his lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections to be […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a non-partisan civil rights organization, has recently been criticized for allegedly retreating from their […]


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BY KEITH LACEY
For most diehard golfers, there are only two seasons, not four. ThereÂ?s golf season, of course, and then a long winter of discontent.
Even though Mother Nature has provided Northern Ontario with terrible spring weather following a long and bitterly cold winter, golf season has arrived at some Sudbury and area courses, while others are only a few days away from opening for the 2003 season.
Pine Grove Golf Course on Highway 69 near the Four Corners was the first local club to open last Friday with all 18 greens ready for play.
Despite the course being brown and with terrible weather over most of the Easter Holiday weekend, the course was busy.
Â?We opened for business Friday and we had quite a few of the diehards out,Â? said club pro. George Lacko. Â?All the greens came in very nice, although the fairways are still wet in places.
Â?We need some sunshine and a little warm weather to green things up, but the fairways and greens came in nicer than they have the past couple of years, which is nice considering how long and cold the winter was.Â?
Regulars are very anxious to get their clubs out and start hitting balls, said Lacko.
Â?Those out on opening weekend werenÂ?t crying too much because they were just happy to be out playing the game,Â? he said. Â?Hopefully the weather will be nice by this weekend and we can get the place into full swing.Â?
Todd Fryer, operator of Meadow Springs Golf Course in Monetville, said his club hopes to open on the May 3 weekend.
Â?The last couple of springs we were lucky enough to be open in April, but itÂ?s usually normal to open the first or second week of May,Â? he said. Â?We havenÂ?t had very much nice weather this spring, but once we get some sunshine and warm rain, things should green up quite nice.Â?
HereÂ?s a look at some of the other area golf courses and when they plan on opening:
Cedar Green Golf Course in Garson also opened last weekend with all 18 greens ready for play.
You donÂ?t have to book tee times until May 1. Phone 560-1090 for more information.
Clearview Golf Course in Val Caron plans on opening all 18 holes, including full greens, on Thursday, weather permitting. Phone 897-6419 for more information.
Colonial Golf Course in Chelmsford plans on opening during the first weekend of May, depending on the weather. Phone 855-5888 for more information.
Forest Ridge Golf Course in Chelmsford is aiming to open Friday morning with all 18 holes and full greens, weather permitting. Phone 855-8558 for more information.
Lively Golf and Country Club in Lively is tentatively scheduled to open the May 1 weekend, weather permitting. Phone 692-5553 for more information.
Penage Golf Course in Penage still has spring runoff and hopes to open the first or second week of May. Phone 866-2793 for more information.
Sixth Avenue Golf Club in Lively is aiming to open Saturday morning, weather permitting. The clubÂ?s restaurant and cafe is open daily for lunch and dinner. Phone 692-4203 for more information.
Sudbury Highlands Golf Course on Silver Lake Road off the Highway 17 bypass is hoping to open for the 2003 season on Thursday, weather permitting. Phone 523-2518 for more information.
Timber Wolf Golf Course on Maley Drive in Sudbury, is scheduled to open the weekend of May 2, depending on the weather. The championship golf courseÂ?s pro. shop is now open daily from 9 am to 5 pm. Phone 524-9653 for more information.
Twin Stacks Golf Club in Coniston is aiming to open late next week, weather permitting. Telephone 694-2131. Most Sudbury and area driving ranges opened on the weekend as well.

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Some people will know that Subaru has been known as one of the most interesting and also popular car developer. Their latest improvements of the car which is going to be marketed is the new 2019 Subaru Crosstrek. As one of the latest development buy Subaru this car will offer a brand new specifications and features. Due to this reason alone, this new car by Subaru will be one of the anticipated car.
There are several improvements that will take place into the new Subaru Crosstrek. Some of the most notable improvements will be the car design and also the engine. This means that the car will have better specification that most of the other car from Subaru previous design. On the other hand the design are improved to make the car feels stylish but also comfortable.
For you people who are interested to know more about this car. Then coming here is the best thing you can do, as we will help you to give some information regarding this car. In the next paragraph, we will talk about several interested feature and design of this car. Of course it will also related with the car engine and system as well.
2019 Subaru Crosstrek Interior and Exterior Design Improvements
After we know about the new 2019 Subaru Crosstrek interesting news. We also need to know what kinds of improvements and feature this car has to offer. The most interesting and notable car improvements that can be seen on this car is the exterior design. The new Subaru will now introduce a brand new design which has many interesting advantage.
From what we can see, the new Subaru crosstrek design is now much more focused on making it looks aerodynamics and curved. The body design is now look much more compact and unique. Not to mention that the new front side of the car is now looking even more gorgeous than ever. Finally the headlight and stylish grille design will make the new exterior feel much more astonishing.
On the other hand, the interior itself will be featuring several improvements as well. The most notable improvement that we can see from this car is several high tech features. The features ranges from touch screen display, rear seat fold down mechanism and also automatic lane change assist and vehicle detection. This is combined with the interesting larger interior design.
2019 Subaru Crosstrek Engine, Release date and Price information
After we know about the car interior and also exterior design, it is important to know about the engine as well. According to the information that we can gather this car is supposedly to have a four cylinder engine with power of 148 horsepower. For the torque, the car is able to give 145 lbs. of torque and it will be supported with five speed transmission system with manual option.
However, what about the price and also the release date of this car? According to the information that we can gather this car is expected to be released on the year of 2019 especially on may. This car itself is rumored to have different price tag. For the normal or basic price for the new 2019 Subaru Crosstrek is going to be $21.000 while the most powerful and better featured will have $26.000 price


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Amazing one of a kind 40 acre tract in one of the most beautiful parts of Gallatin Valley. This 40 acres has live water with Cottonwood Creek running thru it, as well as lush groves of aspen and evergreens and some of the most awe inspiring views of all of the surrounding mountain ranges from various locations on this parcel. 4 bedroom, 4 bath home on 2-levels with full, finished walk-out basement. Your access will be via a grand entrance and a county spec'd paved private road to this exclusive 4 tract enclave, which includs a private, owner and guest only, 2 acre amenity to fish the creek or pond, BBQ, play horse shoes and more. This legacy property is exactly what you think of when you think of owning a piece of the Montana Dream! Each tract will receive a share of the 18 water rights that are included. Only 20 minutes outside of Downtown Bozeman, 30 minutes from the international airport, and 40 minutes from Big Sky’s resorts and world-class skiing.
Courtesy of Sue Frye with ERA Landmark Real Estate.


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Oho.. yeh kya kardiya behen.. What was the need? See how you’ve got the country busy. Toxic men and women falling all over each other to put you in your place. The simpletons are not used to this you know. Historically we love silent women. Strong, pious, resilient but silent women. Compliant women. They are our favourite kind.
Archives have recorded brave incredible leaders, rulers, men who fought for power, dignity, or their people. Men who we all admire. And men who made incredible mistakes but made it to history books because they were MEN who made incredible mistakes.
And while the men were busy conquering the world and making it a better place, where were the women?… nowhere to be found!
We are remembered for supreme sacrifice - like Rani Lakshmi Bai or Rani Padmavati. What’s the point in knowing their backstory? Tyaag and sacrifice, that’s all they care about.
Then we are remembered for being great partners to great men - like Kasturba Gandhi, Jodhabai… What’s the point in knowing about their aspirations? Loyalty and piety, that’s all they care about.
And what about those who didn't fit in the above two categories? For them there is the Mother Teresa status. Great caregivers - one dimensional stories. No need to know more.
Now don’t get distracted by the thought of millions of women who were strong, courageous and fought battles that will never make it to dinner table conversations let alone history books. Don’t think about how these brilliant women must’ve lived in shadows, knowing and maybe believing that what they spoke about will be forgotten.
Develop a little empathy. Don’t you know they fear women who assert? Those who refuse to toe the line? How inconvenient it is for the poor junta - Not knowing how to deal with the ones who don’t give a damn. What else can they do to pin you down? Compliance is important no? If you speak up unnecessarily, what other option there is apart from reminding the world you are unsanskari. Of bad character. Ashleel. What other option than defining you by the only thing that truly is unique to you. Your sexual identity.
Remember how Cleopatra is known for her incredible sex appeal that she used as a manipulative political weapon? Remember when we actually realised she was a brilliant ruler and strategist who is never referred to as that?
Remember when Sania Mirza rocked at tennis, how the sanskar-ke-thekedar were busy frothing over the length of her skirt?
Yes yes, I hear you. We had thought that it being 2021 and all the world will be an easier place for women with opinions. But ab nahin hain na… ? Calm down, now. Don’t be over-sensitive. Aren’t we always told that? Then listen to the kind well wishers and their good advice. Stop calling it misogyny now. Be a good girl.
Yes darling, I know you are demanding a valid conversation, a good, solid debate. But who will you debate with? They're nameless gargoyles on the other side. They aren’t listening & want no argument or second opinion, so there will be no debate.
There will be attacks though. So be ready for it.
BUT... if you won’t settle for this. If this grates your nerves. If you are feeling as angry as I am. If you’ve had enough - Then don’t stop speaking.
Don’t stop making your point, demanding to be heard and standing in solidarity with those who are not being respectfully heard. Refuse to join the choir that knows but one song. Let’s play our song with many voices, so many that it drowns the uproar of the gargoyles and the harmony of plentiful perspectives soothes the ear of sore monotones.
Let’s continue to speak. Let the world catch up. Let them adapt to the voice.
The voice that emerges, when a woman speaks.

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Mamma Chen’s is putting on a punk night for the west.
Spill Kit, Dirty Bloods, Thundabox, Rhinosaur and Forklift Assassins will be there, making noise, being stupid and annoying the neighbours.
Come to Mamma Chan’s and be stupid and annoying too.
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, the true owners of the land that we live and operate on. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.


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Rider Name: Jone Gravdal
Specialization: Sweet-spot intervals & long races, breakaways
Favorite Foods: Pizza, pasta, ice cream, beer, coffee, burgers
Dad of 2 girls/Social worker. Racing bikes since the age of 11, never a threat to anyone, but fully enjoying it, he quit before joining the junior ranks. Faced with the choice of training 20 hrs a week and playing rock music & chase girls he took the hardest way out and opted for a (imaginary) career playing punkrock for pocket change. After growing up, the hours on the bike increased gradually each year and after a crash zwift became a form of training he got addicted to. He has hardly been seen outside after.


I have a 2004 ES330 next a hestitation problem. It is good from a full stop but behind I go around turns on onto highway ramps, gone I sadden the accellarator (sp?) it hesitates for 2 seconds past reving up. I ve taken it to a mechanic and he says it is normal. I have an 2003 Avalon as soon as the similar engine and it jumps off the start and has no hesitation. Mechanic s Assistant: Will the headlights face on? Is the battery thoroughly charged? With or without headlights on. Relatively other battery. Mechanic s Assistant: What is the model of your 04 Lexus? ES330 Mechanic s Assistant: Are you fixing your vehicle yourself? What have you tried thus far? I ve cleaned the MAF sensor. Checked for contacts in the intake. later I put my Turbo OBDII app on, whatever seems good except that the TPS stays constant just about 30%. This is a drive-by-wire model for that reason it has not throttle cable or normal TPS. I say you will the TPS is integrated taking into account the throttle controller/motor. Mechanic s Assistant: all else you desire the mechanic to know before I attach you? No, I guess that is it.
I'm 1500 too high.. or more. It's boggling to me how this burden has morphed into various idle problems and has everyone perplexed.. or for that reason it seems. I've been dealing behind this since July.. makes me appreciate my 240z 10 times more.My dad owns an sc400 and its been essentially good to him.. I'm having a hard times not inborn caustic taking into consideration this purchase. I reach atmosphere bearing in mind its a good car though. Motor sounds gorgeous and is super smooth subsequently executive right.
behind I begin the car, the engine surges up between 1200 and 2000 rpm help and forth. I distorted the IAC and the TPS next no fine-tune in symptoms. I have noticed that several Lexus SC's have this same issue. Prior to this I would have to accustom yourself the idle readiness screw to lower the rpm and it would support for a while. Now, the engine is continuously surging to the point where I cannot steer it for startle of damage to the steer train. Any experienced solution?