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So what’s the state of mind of the LSU football team following that 29-0 loss to No. 1 Alabama last Saturday night in Baton Rouge?
And does it really matter as the Tigers head to Fayetteville for what promises to be a cold night game (and one that probably will be played before a sparse crowd) at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium?
The Tigers had no answer for Tua Tagovailoa last Saturday as he threw two touchdown passes and ran 44 yards for another score.
“We really wanted to make a statement in this game,” said Alabama head coach Nick Saban. “What better opportunity is there to make a statement than the circumstance we were in.”
Arkansas has had two weeks to prepare for the game against LSU. But again, does it really matter? The talent difference between the two squads is so great that I think the answer is “no.”
The better fan experience Saturday likely will be in Arkadelphia for the Battle of the Ravine, which is scheduled to kick off at 1 p.m. at Henderson’s Carpenter-Haygood Stadium. Ouachita is 10-0, ranked fourth in the country in NCAA Division II and has already secured its second consecutive Great American Conference championship (and its fourth title in the eight years the conference has existed). Henderson would like nothing better, of course, than to keep this from being the first Ouachita team to go 11-0 in the regular season (the undefeated 2014 team only played 10 regular-season games).
We were 4-3 on the picks last week to make the season record 64-20.
Here are the selections going into Saturday’s games:
LSU 34, Arkansas 20 — If LSU is indeed experiencing an Alabama hangover, the Hogs might hang around for three quarters or so. Last week, LSU’s defense allowed Tagovailoa to go 25 of 42 through the air for 295 yards. LSU enters the game with records of 7-2 overall and 4-2 in the Southeastern Conference. Arkansas is the only SEC team without a conference victory as the Razorbacks find themselves 2-7 overall and 0-5 in conference play. Expect Tiger quarterback Joe Burrow to have a much better game than a week ago when he was sacked five times and had a late pass intercepted in the end zone. Alabama held the Tiger running game to just 12 yards. The Crimson Tide finished with a 576-196 advantage in total yards while beating LSU for the eighth consecutive time.
Ouachita 31, Henderson 21 — The Battle of the Ravine is the best small college football rivalry in the country, and it’s right here in Arkansas. It’s the small college version of Alabama against Auburn — a game that divides families and is talked about 12 months a year. The two schools first played each other in football in 1895, and the series is almost even after all these decades. Henderson leads 43-42-6. The game has been decided by a touchdown or less in 42 of those 91 contests. The series was suspended from 1951-62 due to excessive vandalism. Attending a Battle of the Ravine should be on every Arkansan’s bucket list. Henderson is having a down season. The Reddies come in at 5-5 following a 24-17 loss to UAM in Arkadelphia a week ago, but this is the Reddies’ bowl game. Expect Henderson to play far better than it did a week ago.
Arkansas State 35, Coastal Carolina 32 — Arkansas State makes the long trip to Conway, S.C., to take on a Coastal Carolina team that’s 5-4 overall and 2-3 in Sun Belt Conference play. Coastal Carolina’s victories have come by scores of 47-24 over Alabama-Birmingham, 58-21 over Campbell, 30-28 over Louisiana-Lafayette, 24-13 over Massachusetts and 37-34 over Georgia State. The losses have been by scores of 49-15 to South Carolina, 45-21 to Troy, 45-20 to Louisiana-Monroe and 23-7 to Appalachian State. ASU moved to 5-4 overall and 2-3 in Sun Belt play last Saturday with a 38-14 victory over South Alabama at Jonesboro. Red Wolf quarterback Justice Hansen was 26 of 37 passing for 332 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions in that game. He’s now fifth on the all-time Sun Belt list with 74 touchdown passes.
Incarnate Word 27, UCA 26 — The Bears fell to 5-4 overall and 4-3 in the Southland Conference with a disappointing 38-24 loss to Lamar last Saturday night in Conway. Lamar rolled to a 35-16 halftime lead and never looked back. Luke Hales, UCA’s redshirt freshman quarterback, was 18 of 45 passing for 257 yards and one touchdown. McNeese State, Nicholls State and Incarnate Word are tied for the Southland Conference lead at 5-2. Incarnate Word comes to Conway for Saturday afternoon’s game with a 5-4 record overall. The wins have been by scores of 31-7 over Stephen F. Austin, 44-34 over Abilene Christian, 52-34 over Southeastern Louisiana, 45-17 over McNeese State and 43-26 over Sam Houston State. The losses have been by scores of 62-30 to New Mexico, 58-16 to North Texas, 27-21 to Lamar and 48-21 to Nicholls State.
Southern University 45, UAPB 29 — A long season for the Golden Lions got even longer before a big homecoming crowd in Pine Bluff last Saturday afternoon as UAPB fell 45-14 to Alabama A&M. The game wasn’t in doubt after the visitors took a 14-0 halftime lead. UAPB (1-8, 0-5) finished with 378 yards of offense. Taeyler Porter, who had come in averaging 130 yards rushing per game for the Golden Lions, was held to 40 yards on 15 carries. Southern University, this Saturday afternoon’s opponent in Baton Rouge, is 5-3 overall and leads the west division of the SWAC with a 4-1 conference record. The Southern victories have come by scores of 33-18 over Langston, 29-27 over Alabama A&M, 38-0 over Prairie View A&M, 21-7 over Texas Southern and 41-7 over Jackson State. The losses have been by scores of 55-7 to TCU, 54-17 to Louisiana Tech and 20-3 to Alcorn State.
Southern Arkansas 33, UAM 30 — Southern Arkansas came to Arkadelphia last week with a chance to gain a share of the GAC lead with a win over Ouachita. The Muleriders, however, fell to 8-2 as the Tigers thrashed the visitors by a final score of 35-10. SAU can still earn a spot in the NCAA Division II playoffs with a victory in Monticello against a UAM team that has won four of its past fives games (losing only to Ouachita during that stretch). In the Boll Weevils’ win at Henderson last Saturday, UAM senior quarterback Cole Sears was 12 of 23 passing for 185 yards and a touchdown. Devonte Dean rushed for 75 yards on 22 carries. I expect the Weevils to give SAU all it can handle.
Harding 49, Arkansas Tech 25 — Harding is 8-2 and has an outside shot at a playoff berth. The Bisons host a 3-7 Arkansas Tech team that has played below expectations all season. Harding won 24-10 against Southeastern Oklahoma last Saturday as Cole Chancey rushed for 99 yards and three touchdowns on 21 carries. The Bisons rushed for 258 yards and only passed for 21 yards on three passes. Tech fell 28-26 at home to East Central Oklahoma after having led 21-7 at the half. The season can’t finish fast enough for Wonder Boy fans. Harding, meanwhile, will have at least one more game. The Bisons will play in a bowl game if they don’t make the playoffs.

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Tiipoi - Exhibition Design, VEEM - Dutch Design Week
Tiipoi's Longpi collection of sustainable ceramic cookware, was launched and exhibited at Eindhoven for VEEM - Dutch Design Week, 2019.
Under the guidance of senior product designer Andre Pereira, I learnt how to conceptualise a designed display within restrictions of space and logistics.
Together, we were able to come up with a simple system of racking, and customised it by hand-painting the baseboards, and topping it with an acrylic sheet. We then added interactive design elements cut out into layers of vinyl, placing them between and on the boards for audience interaction.
I was tasked to create basic designed assets for the exhibit - like the A1 sized display boards and information cards for the customers to take away. I had to work within Tiipoi's established brand guidelines, but also find a way to make the display unique.
I was able to do this by establishing a visual system and language centred around a carefully selected tone of yellow, and a single strong design element.
I used the flattened conic curve of the pot form, as a relayed aesthetic throughout the visual story of Longpi.
This conic curve was one of the many subtle yet unique elements that Wilson Astley (former product designer at Tiipoi) and Andre Pereira had conceptualised the cookware collection with. The minimal use of the conic curve helped reiterate the simplicity of Tiipoi’s design interventions - ones that simply ameliorated an existing technique of hand made production, and didn’t overpower it.
The purpose was to show the process of production, the making of the unique ceramic material itself, and showcase our tests and iterations along the way. The resultant assets worked together as an effective display that we still use for our events!
The photographs displayed are by Nishant Shukla
Please note: All the designs and assets displayed are owned solely by Tiipoi

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Dennis DeYoung has shared a new single “There’s No Turning Back Time,” which dropped along with the former Styx singer’s final studio album, 26 East, Vol. 2.
26 East, Volume 2, a sequel to 2020’s 26 East, Volume 1, features 12 tracks, four of which were co-written by Ides of March and ex-Survivor member Jim Peterik.
“I want people to put on the headphones and judge Volume 1 and 2 like the old days. It’s a listening experience,” DeYoung said during a recent interview.
“The songs were listed in an order which I thought would make the listening experience to an album more enjoyable,” he added. “I know a lot of people these days have got in that habit of front-loading where they put the three best songs at 1 and 2, and since I didn’t have any great songs, I oh wait a minute. I’m sorry. So, I just I decided to give everyone an entire listening experience.”
Actually, DeYoung had thought that 26 East, Vol. 1 would be his final recording, but his label Frontier Records convinced him to release a second album.
“The last album was supposed to be my final album, but there were so many songs written that Serafino of Frontiers suggested dividing it into two albums rather than one,” DeYoung said.
26 East, Volume 2 track list:
“Land of the Living”
“The Last Guitar Hero”
“Your Saving Grace”
“Proof of Heaven”
“Made for Each Other”
“There’s No Turning Back Time”
“So Little Did We Know”
“The Isle of Misanthrope”
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LOCAL government in Wales could face a £30m cash shortfall when the responsibility for council tax benefit is devolved next year, First Minister Carwyn Jones warned yesterday.
The First Minister said that the Welsh Government was having the power ‘foisted’ upon it by Westminster but with only 90% of the funding required to run the present scheme.
Local government minister Carl Sargeant has been working on proposals to take on the commitment from April 2013 under the UK coalition’s localism agenda.
Some 327,000 people receive the benefit in Wales but it is estimated that £100m went unclaimed.
The minister is expected to make a statement to the Assembly on the issue on May 8.
Mr Jones denied ministers were hiding bad news until after next week’s council elections.
He told his monthly press conference in Cardiff: “The bad news came when the UK Government gave responsibility for council tax benefit to the Welsh Government but won't fund it properly.
“There’s a substantial cost that will have to be met to keep council tax benefit at a level at which it’s been. Nevertheless you know that there are many people dependent upon it.
“The reality for us is there is a black hole of some £30m, we believe, and on top of that local authorities would have to find another £10m themselves in order for the scheme to remain as it is at the moment.
“We are looking very very carefully at what we might be able to do in terms of alleviating the position for individuals in the future but the reality is the UK Government has decided they will foist the responsibility on the Welsh Government and then not provide the money that responsibility to be fulfilled.”
Steve Thomas, chief executive of the Welsh Local Government Association said that it had been working on the assumption of a cut of £24m.
Taken with the wider welfare reform agenda, the benefit scheme was going to be the ‘hottest political issue over the next two years’.
Councils already under financial pressure would have to pay for new computer software to run the new system
“Should the Welsh Government decide to fund this shortfall we would be delighted but clearly they would have to find the money for somewhere and there would have to be cuts elsewhere. It’s a massive issue.”
Last week, Plaid Cymru challenged Labour to guarantee that council tax benefit levels would be maintained despite the switch, a commitment already given by the Scottish Government.
Plaid spokesman Rhodri Glyn Thomas said that almost a third of a million of the poorest households, including many pensioners, could face having to pay more council tax. Passing the cuts onto councils would endanger the future of local services and put vulnerable people and pensioners at risk, he said.

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UK electronic whizz Tourist has released his new album ‘Inside Out’ and we’d be lying if we said we weren’t listening to it every day since!
In a special turn of events, Tourist, real name William Phillips has given us an honest and emotive run-down of the sublime LP. This is how fans can really get a deeper understanding of the creative process and love a track, or tracks even more.
While we’d already been privy to a number of singles, hearing the thing in full shows the poignant curation that goes into creating a full-length release in a day of sub-3-minute singles.
This is also an independent release on his own label which must give a sense of freedom away from overly marketed or themed releases to attract a ‘current feel’.
Dive into each track and description of the creation below.
Track 1 – Speak In Symphony
I wanted to start my record in a way that felt as though the whole album was revealing itself to the listener. The big difference with this LP is that the tempo is on average higher than my last two albums. I’ve always been a huge fan of dance music, whether it’s UK Garage, Jungle, French House etc, and it felt as though my last two records were more in the realm of “downtempo”. So with this album I had made a conscious decision that I wanted to see what would happen if the locus was the dance floor. “Speak In Symphony” is for me a transition between two musical identities, ambient and propulsive.
Track 2 – Your Love
This was one of those tracks I feel like I’ve been trying to write my entire life. Something that is rooted in euphoria and melancholia in equal measures. I was looping this Penelope Trappes vocal sample in 1-second increments and I started hearing these really beautiful and ethereal melodies/chord changes come about. That’s the main repeating vocal sample you hear throughout. From there, I actually sang into my phone the lyrics “Your Love” – and just repeated them over the loop. I think the first time I heard it it made me cry. There was something very sincere about the sentiment of asserting a statement of love over and over on a dance track – like an old Roule records release. I then added in the Julianna Barwick vocal from “Labyrinthine” (who’s voice I adore) and eventually, the sample from Big Thief’s “Mary”, running Adrienne’s voice through a vocoder seemed a bit sacrilege but I feel it worked really well. In the end, It forms the centrepiece of the album and is the one resounding sentiment I’d love people to take away from Inside Out.
Track 3 – Avalanche
I started writing Avalanche on the Isle of Skye whilst on a trip with my wife. Initially – it was a very glacial ambient piece, just synth arpeggios and pads. I was looking out over the sea whilst working on it, it was a deeply moving place to write music. I found an acapella by Ellie
Goulding on my laptop and I heard this phrase that sounded like “Hold Me”, I loved how haunting that was. My instinct on previous albums might have been to leave it ethereal, but with this record – I wanted to push it to a more dance floor place. In the end, it became quite a cinematic piece of UK Garage. Also, who doesn’t love an out of context dulcimer? I played it to Ellie and she loved it thankfully!
Track 4 – With You
This is formed from a Shakespeares Sister sample, I really love the vocal performance on their original track “Stay”. I used some software to extract just the vocal track, and then I started playing some chords on my piano at home that worked over the vocal. I ran the chords through a tremolo and a distortion unit and it became this crunchy half time R&B thing that I loved. For some reason, “I’ll go anywhere with you” against those chords really made me feel something.
Track 5 – A Dedication
“A Dedication” is about the unspoken words between people. There was this period when I was trying to let someone know I was thinking of them, and my messages were going into the ether. The lyric “I know it’s hard for you, because it’s hard for me” really summed up how I felt at that moment. I really liked the idea of sampling a late 60s song and juxtaposing that against these early noughties breakbeat drums, it brought a kind of unexpected quality to a track that might usually feature an R&B sample – which felt far too done.
Track 6 – April
This is probably one of the more murky points on the album, an ambient slowed down house track. This one is tinged with sadness, the name of the demo (the month in which it was written and also when everything really fell apart) became the name of the track. It felt quite cathartic to explore the darker / sadder sounds for a few minutes.
Track 7 – We Thought You Were Sleeping
I wanted this track to feel almost jubilant on the surface, but really sad when you actually listen to what’s being said. There are two main lyrics, one is “just in your room, we thought you were sleeping” and the other is “couldn’t hold her”, which comes in towards the second half of the track. I was experimenting with a Durutti Column track called “Bordeaux”, chopping it up in a way that Todd Edwards might do. It was on a loop in my headphones and after a while, I started to hear the words “just in your room, we thought you were sleeping” – that struck me as such a devastating lyric that I had my friend Tom (Swim Mountain) sing over the top to reinforce it. As the drums come in, I recorded myself singing “couldn’t hold her”, and manipulated it a lot – this was in reference to me not being able to comfort the people I needed to be around at such a difficult time.
Track 8 – Lark
I woke up with an impulse to write something that felt free and blissful, almost like a track Air France would have written in the early 10s. I’ve always been a fan of music that feels collage-like and “Lark” was me indulging in those tendencies. The field recording at the beginning is from a forest where I finally met someone really important to me after 18 months.
Track 9 – Silent Letter
I wanted to write a track where it felt as though there were lyrics trying to say something but you could never quite make out what was being said. I like those in-between vocals where it’s really up for interpretation. People will imbue their own meaning onto it. There’s something about a voice disembodied from language that really appeals to me. Just those primal choral sounds that speak to my soul.
Track 10 – Eternal
I wanted to end the album with a declaration of absolute optimism and love. The lyric here being “my love is eternal”. That is true for my friend and my daughter. Sonically, I was asking myself how it would sound if Brian Eno made a jungle/breaks track. Like if “The Big Ship” was made now. All of the synth lines are coming from my Moog Model D, which is usually a mono synth – but when you stack up about 6 of them together you get this huge wall of sound. I loved how it felt so all-consuming sonically. It felt sheer. At the end of the track and indeed the album, you can hear my daughter’s heartbeat – which was recorded in the hospital the day she was born. This was my nod to the future, a kind of acceptance in the sense that life always goes on.
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Ebola is now in America. The CDC on Tuesday confirmed that a Texas hospital is treating the first case of Ebola ever diagnosed in the United States.
But Ebola actually arrived on U.S. soil almost two months ago. That was when Emory Healthcare leaders decided — in a much-scrutinized move — to fly in a pair of missionaries who'd gotten ill treating Ebola patients in Africa.
"We made the final decision to go forward on Tuesday, July 29," Emory's CEO John Fox told me. "I remember that night clear as a bell."
I spoke with Fox about a week ago, as part of a broader interview we were doing for the Advisory Board Daily Briefing. (You can see an excerpt here.) Fox walked through Emory's choice to accept Ebola patients, and how other hospitals could hypothetically respond if Ebola did make it to America — a scenario that's now quite practical.
Talking to Fox reminded me of something that's been missed in the Ebola news coverage: Several U.S. hospitals already have experience treating Ebola.
They know how to see it. They know how to treat it. And they know how to beat it.
And that wisdom can be contagious.
Emory's experience with Ebola has been incredibly high-pressure and high-profile. When missionary Kent Brantly arrived in Atlanta on August 2, a news helicopter followed his ambulance from the airport. Dozens of media trucks were parked outside of Emory's receiving bay.
"It's certainly the biggest media event that Emory's ever been through," Fox said.
Some pundits at the time suggested Emory's decision to treat Brantly was controversial. That bringing Ebola to America would backfire. But within the hospital, staff were confident they could help and even eager for the challenge.
In a column in the Washington Post, Emory's chief nurse Susan Grant pointed out that Emory's special isolation unit — one of only five such units in the United States — was specifically created for treating patients with highly infectious diseases like Ebola. The unit is physically separate from other patient areas and, as a local TV station's video shows, the unit features:
- A negative-pressure air-handling system, designed to circulate the air every three minutes and prevent it from getting out;
- Special gear, including oversized shells (they look like bicycle helmets) to shield health care workers from patients' droplets; and
- Uniquely designed features intended to reduce physical contact, like a light-activated, hands-free sink.
Emory's staff also had trained years for the moment, Grant notes. That's one reason why when Emory issued a call for volunteers — staff were allowed to say no to treating Brantly, and fellow missionary Nancy Writebol (who arrived several days later) — Emory ended up with more volunteers than the hospital needed. "At least two nurses canceled vacations to be a part of this team," Grant writes.
Before they arrived at Emory, Brantly and Writebol had begun in Africa to receive ZMapp, an experimental serum designed from the antibodies of people who had survived Ebola, and that course of treatment continued in the United States. Emory staff also worked to replace the fluids that Brantly and Writebol were losing because of Ebola's symptoms (which include vomiting and diarrhea), and administered a cocktail of antibiotics.
The treatment worked. Both Brantly and Writebol were released within three weeks of arriving at Emory.
A third Ebola patient, an American doctor who also contracted the disease, arrived at Emory on September 9. As of October 1, there's been no update in his condition.
What We've Learned, And What We Still Don't Know
The evidence from Emory shows Ebola can be beaten. And according to Dr. Bruce Ribner, who runs Emory's infectious disease unit, there's reason to think that with the right approach, Ebola can even be beaten most of the time.
"We would anticipate that ... most patients, if they have not had any substantial organ damage, will make a full recovery," Ribner said at a press conference in late August.
Ribner said that it's important for doctors and nurses to focus on replacing potassium, calcium and other electrolytes in Ebola patients who are rapidly losing fluids.
"One guidance we are giving back to our colleagues is that they need to pay attention to replacing these electrolytes," he said. "Even if they’re unable to do the same tests [as Emory did], there are things they can do to try to improve outcomes."
For example, it's still unclear if ZMapp, or if the care at Emory — which was significantly more comprehensive than what was available in Africa — was the prime reason the two Emory patients recovered.
"If the question is, 'Did ZMapp do this?' The answer is that we just don't know," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told Liz Szabo of USA Today.
It's an especially timely question because the Ebola patient in Texas is now critically ill, and the CDC is exploring "experimental" treatments...but supplies of ZMapp are exhausted, and replacement drugs aren't expected for months.
Emory's experience also shows the logistical challenges of treating Ebola in America.
"At its peak, we were up to 40 bags a day of medical waste, which took a huge tax on our waste management system," according to Emory’s Dr. Aneesh Mehta. But Emory's waste management company wasn't willing to take the infectious waste off of Emory's hands, at first.
(The company's decision to say no was shielded by federal law, which requires that Ebola-related waste must be handled with special packaging and by people with special training.)
As a result, Emory had to come up with a detailed workaround, which involved the university's autoclave. "Our waste management obstacles and the logistics we had to put in place were amazing," Patricia Olinger, director of environmental health and safety at Emory, told Reuters.
Of course, most hospitals don't have an isolated infectious diseases unit, or staff that have specifically prepped to treat Ebola. Many facilities lack an autoclave.
But they do have experience dealing with highly contagious patients. And they're staffed by caregivers who want to make a difference.
"Here's the biggest thing," Emory CEO John Fox told me. "This is our mission. This is the reason we exist."
"If we can help people—if it's effective and if we can do it safely—we have a moral obligation to do it."
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Book Club at the White Settlement Library meets the third Tuesday of each month from 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM, with a break during the summer months.
The Library orders multiple copies of the books through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Stop by the front desk, call 817-367-0166, or email email@example.com to put yourself on hold for a copy & join in the discussion! You may also be able to check out electronic copies of the books through Overdrive.
The Book Club meets in the classroom unless otherwise noted.

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Sorghum presents a sustainable feedstock for Mediterranean buffaloes due to its reduced water and nitrogen requirements compared with maize, which is currently fed primarily. We investigated the effects of feeding sorghum as opposed to maize on Mediterranean buffalo rumen microbial diversity and milk fatty acid content. Four cannulated lactating Mediterranean buffalo cows were fed a basal diet for one month before switching either to maize or sorghum-silage based diets for a 3 month period, buffaloes were then changed over to the contrasting diet for a further one month. Rumen and milk samples were collected at the end of each month. DGGE- and T-RFLP based dendograms generated from rumen samples did not show an effect of diet on rumen bacterial diversity. Milk samples also did not differ in terms of their fatty acid content post sorghum feeding as compared with maize feeding.Thus, sorghum provides an environmentally beneficial alternative to maize for feeding Mediterranean buffalo with little effects on rumen microbial diversity and milk fatty acid composition compared with maize feeding.
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Professor Van-Tam, known as JVT, earned a name for himself by using football analogies during nationally televised briefings on the spread of the virus.
He had held the role of Deputy Chief Medical Officer until March last year, and is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Nottingham University.
He said he was “delighted” to be joining the charity, which organises community runs in more than 2,200 locations across 22 countries.
“Parkrun is a fantastic organisation which has done so much to promote free, inclusive, friendly participation in sport, exercise, movement and mental wellbeing and I am delighted to be joining it this year as one of its trustees,” said Sir Jonathan.
“As a public health professional, I am passionate about supporting initiatives which focus on the benefits that an active lifestyle can bring to our physical and mental wellbeing both in the short term and in helping us to live longer and healthier lives.
“I look forward to contributing to the charity’s continuing success.”
Professor Van-Tam was knighted for his services to public health last year.
He was supposed to originally receive his knighthood from Prince William at an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, but could not go as he caught Covid. He instead collected the gong at a later date.
Parkrun started in 2004 with just 13 runners and 5 volunteers in the capital’s Bushy Park, but now attracts hundreds of thousands of participants to its weekly park runs.
Its global CEO Russ Jefferys said: “It has been incredibly humbling to see the calibre and passion of the individuals applying to join us.
“I’m looking forward to welcoming them all to the team and working with them on this next exciting chapter for parkrun.”

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Gaming provider 888 William Hill has announced that it has named Phil Walker as its new UK and Ireland Managing Director effective immediately, according to a report by iGaming news website iGB.
In a reaction following the announcement, Walker expressed his joy at starting his new position as UK and Ireland Managing Director at 888 William Hill.
Walker, who has been with William Hill since 2019, previously served as their Managing Director for the UK.
Following the acquisition that led to 888 and William Hill merging last year, Walker’s role was expanded to comprise the company’s operations in the UK and Ireland.
Walker’s experience includes a role as William Hill’s Online Managing Director upon joining them.
Apart from his William Hill experience, Walker also occupied a number of roles with Gala Interactive. There, he served as their Marketing and Customer Operations Director, and Managing Director within the company’s Remote Gambling division.
This is not the only change in personnel 888 and William Hill have experienced over the past month.
Earlier this year, Naama Kushnir stepped down as 888’s Chief Transformation Officer after only 9 months to become an independent consultant.
While last December, 888’s business development Vice-President, Marcel Elfersy left to become Gaming Innovation Group’s new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), earlier in the same month, 888 hired digital expert Anna Barsby as their new Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO).
Barsby’s appointment came after 888 declared it would integrate William Hill’s non-US assets, which include Mr Green.
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The COVID-19 crisis is expected to wipe out 6.7 per cent of working hours or 195 million full-time workers globally during the second quarter of the year, which started this month.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) said large reductions are foreseen in the Arab states, (8.1 per cent, equivalent to five million fulltime workers), Europe, (7.8 per cent, or 12 million full-time workers), Asia and the Pacific (7.2 per cent or 125 million full-time workers).
According to ILO, huge losses are expected across different income groups but especially in upper-middle income countries (seven per cent or 100 million full-time workers), adding that this far exceeds the effects of the 2008-9 financial crisis.
The sectors most at risk include accommodation and food services, manufacturing, retail, business and administrative activities.
The global work body noted that the eventual increase in global unemployment during 2020 would depend substantially on future developments and policy measures. It added that there is a high risk that the end-of-year figure will be significantly higher than the initial ILO projection of 25 million. The ILO said more than four out of five people (81 per cent) in the global workforce of 3.3 billion are currently affected by full or partial workplace closures. “Workers and businesses are facing catastrophe in both developed and developing economies,” said ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder.
“We have to move fast, decisively, and together. The right, urgent, measures, could make the difference between survival and collapse.”
The ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work, which describes COVID-19 as “the worst global crisis since World War II”, updates an ILO research note published recently.
The updated version includes sectoral and regional information on the effects of the pandemic.
According to the new study, 1.25 billion workers are employed in the sectors identified as being at high risk of “drastic and devastating” increases in layoffs and reductions in wages and working hours. Many are in low-paid, low-skilled jobs, where a sudden loss of income is devastating.
Looked at regionally, the proportion of workers in these “at risk” sectors varies from 41 per cent in the Americas to 26 per cent in Asia and the Pacific. Other regions, particularly Africa, have higher levels of informality, which combined with a lack of social protection, high population density and weak capacity, pose severe health and economic challenges for governments, the report cautions.
Worldwide, two billion people work in the informal sector (mostly in emerging and developing economies) and are particularly at risk.
Large-scale, integrated, policy measures are needed, focusing on four pillars: supporting enterprises, employment and incomes; stimulating the economy and jobs; protecting workers in the workplace; and, using social dialogue between government, workers and employers to find solutions, the study says.
“This is the greatest test for international cooperation in more than 75 years,” said Ryder. “If one country fails, then we all fail. We must find solutions that help all segments of our global society, particularly those that are most vulnerable or least able to help themselves.”


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One of the Museum's scholarly activities in 2012 was a symposium in commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Telstar, the satellite that made the world's first transmission of live television possible. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France, the symposium featured a satellite television connection to the Pleumeur-Bodou Telecommunications Museum in France. Pleumeur-Bodou is where the first transmission was received in 1962.
Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough began the event with remarks, followed by French Ambassador Francois Delattre and the U.S. Consul in France, Robert Tate. Following that, historians and experts from industry and government discussed Telstar's historical significance, its impact on commercial space endeavors, and the birth of global communications. Concluding remarks were delivered by State Department Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones.
Telstar 1 launched on July 10, 1962, from Cape Canaveral and was the first privately sponsored space-faring mission. It handled a variety of transmissions, including telephone, fax, data, still pictures, and television signals from several locations across the United States and Europe.
Support for the program was provided by Intelsat and France Telecom-Orange.
Photo: An engineering back-up of the Telstar satellite is in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum.

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Thanks to the increase in popularity of microbreweries the packaging for craft beers has become a new canvas for designers and illustrators to work their magic. Independent brewers rely on the branding of their product to stand out, which results in some really creative designs for us to enjoy. In today’s post I showcase 30 […]


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An extensive oil spill has reportedly affected a stretch of shoreline in a nature preserve in Curacao.
Dick Drayer, a Curacao-based journalist estimates that the spill covered an area ??of around 30 soccer fields.?? He added that three distinct oil slicks are floating offshore and are ??threatening the southern coast of Curacao.?
The spill of crude oil at Curacao?s Jan Kok preserve is believed to be from a storage tank owned by the Isla oil refinery, the largest business and employer on the island.
The refinery is run by the state-owned oil company of Venezuela and they have started cleanup efforts.
The Venezuela?s state-owned oil company is also dealing with the after effects of a huge explosion that killed 41 people and injured more than 150 others.


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Must do in Fez
The Medina of Fez is the heir city of Andalusian culture and the cradle of the main Moroccan dynasties.
Built in the VIIIth century, Fez is fascinating and bewitching, both traditional and modern.
You will be mesmerized by its medieval Merinid architecture, its old-fashioned atmosphere and its lively souks.
Our guide leads you to the discovery of the Old Medina, from the traditional tanneries, the Royal Palace, the foundouks, mosques and medersas to the Mellah (Jewish quarter), which holds a special place, with its unique and peaceful white cemetery overlooking the hills and its synagogue sheltering parchments dating back to the four centuries.
A journey through time
Beyond the monuments and exceptional architecture of Fez, take the time to observe the local population.
The craftsmen with ancestral methods still holds the keys to transform noble materials into treasors.
But above all, don’t miss a glass of mint tea at Boujloud… the most immersive way to discovering Fez!
CITY WALL TOUR
The tour of the ramparts takes you on a visit to the main gates of the old town and up to the forts, offering splendid views. It also includes an interesting visit to the potters.
Origin of the city walls
The walls of Fès, like those of Marrakesh and most historic cities in Morocco, were generally built in rammed earth, also known as “pisé” (from French) or “tabia” (from Arabic), an ancient building technique found across the Near East, Africa, and beyond.
The ramparts of Fes served both a defensive and a controlling function. They protected the city from attack and kept out strangers. City gates were closed and locked at night; travelers would not generally have been able to enter the city at a late hour. The walls and gates also controlled the comings and goings of the city’s own inhabitants.
History of the city walls
One of their most important functions in controlling access was to control the flow of goods and to ensure they were properly taxed.
With the advent of gunpowder, the medieval walls became partly redundant as military defenses; however, they remained essentially unchanged in the following centuries. This is mainly because Fes was a central inland city and rarely faced external threats.
Only, on one occasion was Fes taken by a foreign army: The Ottomans, in 1554. They stayed less than a year, before the Moroccan Saadian Dynasty took it back.


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Risen 2: Dark Waters is now available on PC, console owners being forced to wait a few more months, and we took a bit of our precious weekend time to capture a few gameplay videos for you guys. Once gain, Piranha Bytes' new game suffers from quite a few technical issues (pop-in mostly, but also framerate issues on my PC - i5 3.2 Ghz, RAM: 8 Go, Geforce GTX 570) but there is something definitely appealing in being a pirate. The videos were captured using Fraps at 60 fps thanks to Miguel's new comp (i7 5 Ghz, RAM 16 Go, two Geforce GTX 680) so big thanks to him. Update: Images added.
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Decoding Diesel Heaters: How Do They Work and Why You Need One
Understanding the inner workings of diesel heaters is crucial for anyone venturing into the diesel heater business or seeking the right heating solution for their needs. In this blog post, we'll delve into the fundamental principles behind diesel air heaters, shedding light on their functionality and the reasons why investing in one, especially the feature-rich HC-A01 Diesel Heater by Hcalory, is a wise choice.
What is a Diesel Air Heater?
A diesel air heater is a specialized device designed to provide consistent warmth to the interior of vehicles or marine vessels. Unlike traditional heaters, these devices operate by heating the air within the space. The process involves drawing in air from the surroundings, mixing it with diesel fuel, and igniting it to generate heat. Diesel serves as the primary fuel source for these efficient heaters.
Why Opt for a Diesel Air Heater?
Immediate and Intense Warmth:
When facing extreme cold, especially when your body is freezing, a diesel air heater offers a swift and effective solution. It provides instant and intense warmth, making it indispensable in frigid conditions.
Diesel, known for its combustibility, might pose risks. However, diesel air heaters confine the fuel in a furnace section, eliminating the risk of dangerous fumes or burning diesel escaping. Moreover, these heaters come with automatic shutdown features in case of overheating, ensuring safety.
Diesel air heaters are renowned for being fuel and power-efficient. Despite their low consumption, they deliver superior heating performance even in extreme cold conditions, making them a cost-effective heating solution.
Modern diesel air heaters, like the Hcalory HC-A01, operate quietly and without vibrations. Advanced technology ensures a stealthy and peaceful heating experience, ideal for both vehicle and marine applications.
Hcalory's HC-A01 Diesel Heater: A Closer Look
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Technological advancements, climate change, and geopolitical tensions have transformed the global manufacturing landscape in recent decades. Here, Carl Haycock, UK operations director, Domino Printing Sciences, considers what the next phase of change will have in store, and identifies five key trends to monitor for the year ahead.
Digital tools for optimisation
Digital tools, including cloud computing and automation, are increasingly used to enable real-time insights and optimisation across production facilities, helping manufacturers improve efficiency, reduce waste, and increase resilience.
Contrary to the perception of many manufacturers, digitisation does not have to be embraced in an ‘eat the elephant whole’ style approach. Indeed, by targeting specific areas of the production process in a bite-sized manner with readily accessible digital tools, common and costly production issues can be easily addressed, helping to improve overall production efficiency.
For example, the simple addition of automated coding solutions and vision inspection systems can enable businesses to streamline product changeovers, limit manual data entry, optimise quality control of products and coding, and improve reporting – all of which can facilitate the acquisition of more information about production processes and a better understanding of production lines, which in turn can pave the way for more creative solutions in the future.
Automation for manufacturing resilience
We’ve seen our fair share of volatility over the last few years, with manufacturers struggling to remain productive while faced with shrinking margins and consumers feeling the pinch of higher prices and longer lead times. In this climate, it’s become increasingly apparent that automation tools are proving increasingly valuable in helping manufacturers to add operational resilience to production processes.
From managing labour and skills shortages and redeploying existing workers into value-added improvement activities to reducing running costs and eliminating errors, automation has been instrumental in helping businesses protect themselves against the many and sundry challenges facing the manufacturing industry over the past few years.
Evidence suggests that continued investment and optimisation could place these same businesses in good stead for future economic uncertainty. Indeed research from Bain & Company has revealed that companies make more dramatic gains and losses during periods of economic uncertainty than during stable periods, highlighting investment in automation as a critical priority for businesses when adjusting strategies to prepare for a recession.
Scalability and sustainability through collaboration
One of the significant global challenges advanced manufacturing seeks to address is sustainability, particularly how to ensure that growth and progress are both economically and environmentally sustainable.
The path to sustainable development involves addressing many economic, social, and environmental challenges, necessitating coordinated efforts and collaboration with various stakeholders with potentially competing short-term objectives, to ensure that growth and innovation in one field doesn’t have unforeseen negative impacts elsewhere.
Take for example, the development of sustainable packaging solutions which requires collaboration from the whole value chain – from manufacturers, packaging providers, and coding and marking suppliers, to retailers, end users, and waste and recycling companies. These new systems require a step change in packaging design, management, and technology. In all instances, collaboration between brands, packaging providers, retailers, and technology partners becomes critical.
In the coming years, as companies increasingly look to develop new systems and solutions for sustainability, collaboration, and, in particular, open innovation – that is, being open to sharing and receiving information and working with individuals, businesses, and institutions to drive progress on common objectives – will help to ensure that businesses can make significant change in a way that benefits everyone.
In his book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Professor Karl Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, called for leaders and citizens to work together to ‘shape a future that works for all by putting people first, empowering them and constantly reminding ourselves that all of these new technologies are first and foremost tools made by people for people’.
Today’s conversations surrounding AI inevitably bring up concerns around the replacement of human workers – the likes of which have been seen during every period of human growth dating back to the first industrial revolution – however, for the short term at least, the opposite is likely to be true, and businesses should prepare themselves for increased interaction between manual workers, and digital tools.
Indeed, Forbes suggests AI will enable workers to focus on more meaningful and high-value activities, including design and management tasks, in the coming years. At the same time both MIT and Statista suggest that human-robot collaborations will be the future of manufacturing – with a 2016 study from MIT finding that teams made of humans and robots could be up to 85% more productive than teams made of either humans or robots alone.
Preparing a workforce for AI projects will be an ongoing process. As technologies evolve, businesses must invest in learning and development to ensure employees remain equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to progress.
Predictive mindset approach
Just as the industry is on a journey towards digitisation, automation, and smart solutions, so too are today’s service and maintenance technicians and engineers. These people have always played a key role within manufacturing operations; when a machine fault or an issue arises which causes production to stop a service or maintenance engineer is often the go-to person, trusted to identify and fix the problem to get the system back online.
However, this traditional ‘break and fix’ model of service and support falls short of modern-day manufacturing requirements. Manufacturing uptime is vitally important to ensure customer service levels are met efficiently with minimal investment in excess inventory and other forms of waste. Worst case, waiting for a specialist service technician to travel across country to attend a site can be highly disruptive, costly, and detrimental to the environment. Preparedness can only be achieved with a fundamental shift in service and support, to focus on predictive uptime monitoring and proactive quality improvement.
The service engineer of the future will have a varied skill set adding remote consultative capabilities and knowledge and understanding of data analytics to their technical knowledge and face-to-face interaction skills. This new breed of data-driven service engineer will be able to identify and fix potential problems with machinery before they cause issues on the line and, potentially, before a manufacturer even realises there is a problem.
The last decades have seen the rapid evolution of manufacturing production lines further sped up by the circumstances imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions, and a global focus on sustainability.
In this new advanced manufacturing environment, digital tools – from coding automation and automated vision inspection systems to data visibility and cloud-based remote monitoring systems – underpin production line optimisation and business resilience, supporting the drive towards sustainable solutions and enabling a new breed of workforce, with skills supported and enhanced by automation.
These are the trends of today that will shape tomorrow’s manufacturing industry.


|Publication number||US4232196 A|
|Application number||US 05/973,627|
|Publication date||Nov 4, 1980|
|Filing date||Dec 27, 1978|
|Priority date||Dec 27, 1978|
|Publication number||05973627, 973627, US 4232196 A, US 4232196A, US-A-4232196, US4232196 A, US4232196A|
|Original Assignee||Frederico Filippi|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (17), Classifications (13)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention concerns an interphone apparatus for a voice and image transmission system, commonly and currently called as a video-interphone. In this type of installation, widely used at present time, a distinction is made between an external position which includes an interphone push-button pannel with a closed circuit television camera, and one or a plurality of indoor positions, each one including an interphone apparatus of the microtelephone type incorporating a so called "monitor", that is, a kinescope for the display of the images sent by the television camera from the external position.
Specifically, the present invention concerns the above said indoor positions, namely, the interphone apparatus and its operatively associated picture tube monitor.
At present time, the indoor positions include a casing, generally made of a polymeric or similar material, the casing having been formed to provide seats to contain and hook the microtelephone and the monitor screen, generally placed toward the side of the microtelephone. Behind the screen, the kinescope is placed with its axis perpendicular to the screen so that the monitor forms a small television apparatus placed toward the side of the microtelephone. The arrangement presents the drawback of a considerably encumbering size and generally requires the casing or container to be at least partially embedded, due to the remarkable extension of the kinescope, in order to reduce, at least partially, the protrusion of the container from the wall. This causes firstly a greater structural complication of the indoor position whose casing must include a metallic bottom portion for its embedding; further, a remarkably laborious installation which requires the preparation of an embedding seat in the wall and the masonry work for the embedding. Furthermore, the known indoor positions can not be easely transferred from one room to another room and particularly, they can not be used as so called table installations, that is installations wherein the interphonic apparatus forming the indoor position is simply resting on a support, as a bracket, a desk or other plane surface, as a conventional telephone hand-set apparatus.
The present invention, starting from knowledge of the above-mentioned shortcomings and drawbacks aims at their elimination. The invention has particularly the object of providing an indoor position, as specified, which has an extremely reduced encumbrance, substantially equal to that of a conventional microtelephone interphone, requires no embedding in a wall, is easely transferable and may also be used in desk installations.
In order to attain the foregoing objects and others, which are to be made clear from the following detailed specification, the present invention provides an interphone apparatus forming the indoor position of a video-interphone, as specified, whose essential particular feature resides in that it incorporates a kinescope, or monitor in the form of a picture tube placed with its axis parallel to tha longitudinal axis of the interphone apparatus, coincidently with the axis of the hand set portion when the same is in the hooked position, a reflecting surface to deviate the image and make it visible through a viewing window formed on the frontal wall of the interphone apparatus and perpendicularly to the projection direction of the kinescope.
According to the invention, the viewing window is placed on the frontal surface of the apparatus below the hand-set and the image is made visible through an the aperture formed in the handle of the hand set aperture having a contour coinciding with the contour of the showing window.
Since the kinescope and the viewing window have limited dimensions, it is advantageous if the latter, or the aperture formed in the handle of the hand-set is provided with a transparent screen having also the function of an enlargement lens.
The invention will be better understood through the detailed following specification referred to the accompanying drawings, given only as a non limiting example and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an indoor interphone apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is an elevation side view partially sectioned of the embodiment of FIG. 1.
With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, numeral 10 indicates a video box-like body of the interphone and 20, its hand set. The body 10 has the usual conformation and comprises a bottom 11 which may be provided with resting feet 12 for removably placing the video interphone on a desk and one or more recessed seats 13 for the possible engagement of corresponding hooks or plugs suitable to allow installation of the video interphone on a wall. Two seats 14 and 15 are formed in a frontal wall of the body 10, for the engagements of a transmitter end 21 and a receiver end 22 of a hand-set 20. Conventional auricular and microphone modules are positioned with the respective ends 21, 22 of the hand set 20. Between the seats 14 an 15, in the central part of the body 10, there is formed a viewing window 16.
Inside the body 10 and correspondingly with the seat 15, near the end 22 opposite to the the end 21 which contacts a contact carrying plate 17, there is located a kinescope or monitor in the form of picture tube 18. The picture tube 18 is oriented with its axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the body 10 and hence parallel to the hand-set 20 when it is engaged in the retaining seats 14 and 15.
The picture tube 18 projects the image, sent by a remotely positioned television camera T of the external position, on a reflecting surface 19, formed e.g. by a mirror, which reflects the same image making it visible through the viewing window 16 and an aperture 23 formed in the handle of the hand-set 20 when the hand-set 20 is positioned in the seats 14 and 15, when the hand-set 20 is removed from the seats 14 and 15, or when a user wishes to speak to an individual appearing on the monitor 18, the image appears in the viewing window 16.
The reflecting surface 19 is connected to the upper edge of window 16 and extends inside the body 10 in the space free of the contact carrying plate 17 and is inclined through 45° with respect to the axis of the picture tube 18. The viewing window 16 which will preferably be provided with protective transparent screen, is formed correspondingly with the hand-set 20 which, when hooked, is superimposed over the viewing window.
However as pointed out above, the window 16 is made visible by the presence of an aperture 23 formed on the handle of the hand-set 20 the aperture 23 having a contour coinciding with the contour of the viewing window 16.
Advantageously, as the picture tube 18 and the viewing window 16 have small dimensions, the aperture 23 will preferably be provided with a transparent screen 24 having the function of an enlargement lens. In the body 10 and preferably on the sides of the picture tube 18 there will be also located advantageously, with the interposition of multiple connectors, the reception and image formation conventional printed circuits (not shown).
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|US4716585||Apr 5, 1985||Dec 29, 1987||Datapoint Corporation||Gain switched audio conferencing network|
|US4800438 *||Dec 8, 1987||Jan 24, 1989||Yuter Seymour C||Telephone console for restaurant tables|
|US4839921 *||Mar 18, 1987||Jun 13, 1989||Siemens Aktiengesellschaft||Telephone station comprising an optical display device|
|US4843461 *||Jun 25, 1986||Jun 27, 1989||Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.||Over-door interphone system provided with a night-vision monitoring device|
|US5003300 *||May 31, 1988||Mar 26, 1991||Reflection Technology, Inc.||Head mounted display for miniature video display system|
|US5014267 *||Apr 6, 1989||May 7, 1991||Datapoint Corporation||Video conferencing network|
|US5023905 *||Jul 25, 1988||Jun 11, 1991||Reflection Technology, Inc.||Pocket data receiver with full page visual display|
|US5048077 *||Jul 25, 1988||Sep 10, 1991||Reflection Technology, Inc.||Telephone handset with full-page visual display|
|US5280266 *||Mar 9, 1992||Jan 18, 1994||Kao Yao Tzung||Visitor sensing device|
|US5760848 *||Sep 21, 1994||Jun 2, 1998||Cho; Myeong-Eon||Video monitor apparatus having display module capable of being used as a portable television receiver|
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|EP0230473A1 *||Jun 25, 1986||Aug 5, 1987||Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.||Monitoring device applying noctovision for a doorphone system|
|EP0230473A4 *||Jun 25, 1986||Oct 25, 1989||Matsushita Electric Works Ltd||Monitoring device applying noctovision for a doorphone system.|
|WO2000005878A1 *||Jul 8, 1999||Feb 3, 2000||Legrand Espaņola, S.A.||Improved monitor for video gate keeper|
|U.S. Classification||348/14.01, 379/433.01, 348/E07.089, 379/428.01, D14/130, 379/435, 379/110.01|
|International Classification||H04N7/18, H04M11/02|
|Cooperative Classification||H04N7/186, H04M11/025|
|European Classification||H04N7/18D3, H04M11/02B|


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The Government has approved the publication of the Gambling Regulation Bill, paving the way for the creation of the new Gambling Regulatory Authority.
The independent regulator will cover both online and in-person gambling, with advertising, gambling websites and apps all contained within its remit.
The Bill also seeks to streamline gambling licensing activities, replacing the old system with three types of licences; business to consumer gaming, betting and lottery licences, business to business licences, and gambling licences for charitable.philanthropic causes.
The Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland is due to operational next year.
Welcoming the Bill’s approval, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said it was “unquestionably a major milestone”.
“It is an important and necessary piece of legislation, designed to meet the challenges of gambling responsibly in 21st century Ireland.
“This long awaited and much needed Bill takes a responsible approach to balancing the freedom to gamble with the safeguards to protect people from falling prey to addiction,” he added.
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee said the Bill will allow the Gambling Regulatory Authority to “appropriately, meaningfully and swiftly respond to ongoing and future developments in the gambling sector”, adding: “The focus on preventing harm is of vital importance.”
“As a former Minister of Mental Health and as a local representative, I have seen the damaging impact gambling addiction can have on people and families, particularly on their mental health,” Ms McEntee said.

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The AccessKenya has launched a free online traffic camera service onto their home portal www.home.co.ke. The update service consists of Internet Protocal (IP) cameras that will capture traffic movement and transmit visuals of the same via the AccessKenya portal, live and in real time.
The Group has so far put up 23 such cameras within the Nairobi’s Central Business District and its environs as well as 2 cameras in Mombasa.
“We have more than 20 cameras in key areas around the city including Ngong Road, Westlands, the Industrial Area and Mombasa Road,” said Jonathan Somen, the Group Managing Director of AccessKenya, adding that more cameras are to be installed in the coming weeks in the capital and in Mombasa.
A close look at Uhuru highway
The attempt by Kenya Police through their website to provide regular updates #failed and it is great to see AccessKenya doing this. It is still early days on this but the idea has been long overdue. If successful, this could really help motorists and commuters in planning their movement schedules and travels in Nairobi. Due traffic jam in Nairobi a journey from Westlands to Upper Hill and back for example may take up to 4 hours while in the real sense it should be a matter of around 40 minutes.
The research has it that Kenyans lose upto Ksh.60 billion annually due to traffic jam. If you throw in the issue of time wasted on the roads, and the total amount is unbelievable. There are talks about Vision 2030 almost everywhere these days but i don’t think it will be achieved when people who are meant to be working towards that are wasting their times on the roads.
So what is the real cause of the Kenyan road mess? It is funny, it is a joy to drive or travel on our roads when schools are closed, mmmh so school going kids are causing traffic jam? Well, that is in fact a stupid question to ask. The parents feel the need to drop their kids to schools and that means all the unroad worthy vehicles out there do enjoy their days in the sun when the schools are open. And then there are the mad matutu drivers! I wish we had a canning cop..yes kibogo. Anytime the mathree driver brakes the traffic rules, give instant punishment.


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I'm trying to make some mango caviar and am trying to decide which method to use. I was going to initially just add alginate to mango puree and drop into calcium, but I just read that something similar can be done with agar (dropping into very cold olive oil).
Which would be the better way to go? The olive oil method seems a like a good idea because the calcium chloride bath does lead to a slight bitterness if the flavors aren't strong enough to cover it.
I also have calcium gluconate so could use that in my puree and drop into an alginate bath, but if I remember correctly, that method is prone to having the spheres interact and merge. So that wouldn't be ideal in this situation.

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PHILADELPHIA, Miss.–A man threatened to kill his mother, himself, and all of her grandkids, according to police radio traffic Saturday evening.
The dispatcher said the mother had called 911 just before 5:30 p.m. saying the 27-year-old man had a history of mental illness, but she took his threats seriously and asked if police could pick him up. The call was on Hwy. 16 West, on the east side of Philadelphia.
Police discovered the man had a warrant out for his arrest for contempt of court.
An ambulance was called and the man was taken to the hospital. It wasn’t clear if he would be taken to jail after being treated.


text: A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band from Salford. Pioneers of the post-punk movement Joy Division had a unique sound and style that provided a backdrop to the late ‘70s. The tragic suicide in May 1980 of lead singer and songwriter, Ian Curtis, at the age of 23 happened on the eve of the Band’s first US/Canada tour. Just 2 months later their 2nd and last album “Closer” was released; it and the single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” proved to be the band’s highest charting successes. A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band.


It was a big news week for Facebook this week. First, the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Microsoft was discussing buying a small chunk of Facebook. It would be a minority stake of about 5%, valued at $300 million to $500 million. “But Microsoft must first outgun Google, which has also expressed strong interest in a Facebook stake,” the Journal adds. On the downside for Facebook, New York Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo said his office “issued subpoenas to gather more information about the Palo Alto company’s policies and procedures after an undercover investigation found that Facebook was slow to respond to complaints about sexual solicitations of underage users,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Facebook said in a statement that Facebook took the attorney general’s concerns “very seriously” and would work with him and other attorneys general, the Times added.
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MARK EITZEL & BAND/ Fernando/ HowlinFriday, 17. February
pres. “Hey Mr Ferryman”
Recorded with and produced by Bernard Butler
Confirmed lead review for next UNCUT, Rough Trade album of month Key radio tracks - `The Last Ten Years´ and `An Answer´.
Hey Mr Ferryman is Eitzel´s first studio album recorded in London. It was made at 355 Studios with Mercury Prize winner Bernard Butler (ex-Suede, McAlmont & Butler), who has produced or recorded albums with Ben Watt, Duffy, Edwyn Collins and more. Butler produced Hey Mr Ferryman and played all of the electric guitar, bass, and keyboard parts on the album.
Hey Mr Ferryman features the vivid melodies long associated with Eitzel´s former band American Music Club (a.k.a. AMC), which remains a cult favorite to this day, as well as Butler´s distinctive guitar that serves to complement Eitzel´s expressive vocals. Of that voice, Pitchfork once wrote: “If Leonard Cohen´s voice is a story about the passage of time and Levon Helm´s is a story about losing what is most precious to you, Eitzel´s is about the circuitous roads we take in search of ourselves.”
“The songs on this record are about celebrating musicians and music, about misogyny, the long shadow of history, getting one´s head out of one´s ass,” quips Eitzel on the themes of Ferryman. “Also oceans, blood, skies, hearts, gay pioneers, carpenters, weeping women, and how death waits for you even in the happiest place on earth: Las Vegas.”
Mark Eitzel has released over 17 albums of original material with American Music Club and as a solo artist. The Guardian has called him “America´s greatest living lyricist,” and Rolling Stone once gave him their Songwriter of the Year award. Originally formed in 1983, AMC released seven albums before breaking up in 1995. The band reunited in 2004 for two full-lengths, Love Songs for Patriots and The Golden Age. In April of 2012 while working on his last solo record, Eitzel suffered a heart attack which forced him to slow down and delayed the album´s release. In 2015, he wrote music for Simon Stephens´ Song from Far Away, his second collaboration with the English playwright.
Ab 22.30h: HOWLIN (60s, Garage, Psych, Soul)

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For the few people still reading this blog, I thought I’d vary my analogy today. I’ve given up supermarkets for the moment, since supermarkets imply movement. I’m going with quicksand today since there is absolutely no movement whatsoever. Plus I can also get in the whole ‘journey to publication’ thing since, apparently, it is a journey. Except I guess that too is a misnomer since ‘journeying’ also implies movement. And I’m not moving. I’m stuck in the quicksand of waiting.
It’s depressing. You can’t do anything. You can’t move forward and you can’t even go back. Oh, you keep writing but you wonder what the point of it all is. You’ve got stacks of stories but why write more? No one’s ever going to read anything you’ve written anyway, right?
Even your blog posts start sounding the same.
I’m not quite sure what to do really. The quicksand is steadily sucking all my enthusiasm for writing away and soon I’ll have nothing left. The real world is calling and a job that actually pays money for hard work is seeming all the more attractive.
I thought this year I would start to get somewhere. I’ve had few modest successes and I think my writing is better than it’s ever been. But now the successes haven’t lead anywhere but into more quicksand, things are starting to feel like retread of last year. And the year before that. And the year before that.
So what’s the point with continuing to standing here, stuck in the middle of a journey that isn’t going anywhere? Anyone got any sage advice for a quicksandee?

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Sodium-ion firms get cash boost to bring technology to market
The sodium-ion batteries which power the world’s first sodium-ion vehicle, developed by Faradion in conjunction with Williams Advanced Engineering and the University of Oxford, part funded by Innovate UK.
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A UK based project to develop sodium-ion batteries for the next generation of electric vehicles has received a £38.2million grant.
The scheme to develop the technology to meet vehicle manufacturer specifications is part of Innovate UK’s initiative to make the UK a global leader in emissions-cutting technology.
English firm Faradion and Scottish based AGM Batteries were awarded the funding to deliver a working prototype of its technology for electric vehicles (EVs) by 2018.
Read the article at http://www.bestmag.co.uk/industry-news/sodium-ion-firms-get-cash-boost-bring-technology-market
Jon Fold von Bülow
Jon Fold von Bülow recieved his Cand. Scient. in Nanoscience from University of Copenhagen in 2011 and is currently working with upscaling Li- and Na-ion battery materials to the 100+ kg scale for Haldor Topsøe A/S.
Jon's main interest lies in energy technologies for the future and he started working with fusion energy at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy. He has since developed a growing interest in technologies that are closer to potential industrial application. He is a highly dedicated academic as well as a very active professional and have initiated and participated in many different projects.
His studies within nanotechnological material science and affiliation with Risø National Laboratories has taken him to Germany, China and the US, where he has collaborated independently with several international research groups. He has so far succeeded in pushing two academic projects to industrial application, first with the Danish company Coloplast A/S and recently with a California-based battery start-up – an invention that is currently being US patented.
Jon has conducted most of his work on Li-batteries in the facilities of California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) as a research scholar at UCSB-MIT-Caltech Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB). The manganese based cathode materials he fabricated during this period were all tuned for high-power applications and covers synthesis of various manganese oxides from solution, molten and solid states.
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