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Manual of Photography
Presenter: Pierre Leguillon
Sunday, September 22, 2019
2:00 – 3:30 pm
In conjunction with his exhibition Arbus Bonus, Pierre Leguillon presents a screening of his filmic anthology about how to frame, light, shoot, and develop photographs. Part of the artist’s long-running mobile project La Promesse de l’Écran (The Promise of the Screen), “Manual of Photography” samples from technical and popular works in the collection of the French Photography Society in Paris and masterfully weaves together scenes related to fashion, forensic, journalistic, and amateur photography. Leguillon concludes Promise of the Screen events with an interactive component, which underscores the uniqueness of collective viewing experiences where “sharing an image together can be a moment that you cannot reproduce.”
Film Concept: Pierre Leguillon
Production: Elysée Museum, Lausanne
Photo expert: Aurélien Mole
Camera: Julien Crépieux
Montage: Adrien Faucheux
Assistant editor: Olivier Strauss
About the presenter:
Pierre Leguillon (b. 1969, Nogent-sur-Marne, France) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He is known for transforming the slide-lecture format into performance art, including his “Diaporamas,” slideshows comprised of juxtapositions that offer unexpected connections and new classification systems. Leguillon also makes assemblages, dioramas, and performances exploring new ways to write history. His work has been the subject of monographic presentations at WIELS, Brussels (2015); Raven Row, London (2011); Mamco, Geneva (2010); the Moderna Museet, Malmö (2010); the Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2009), and Artists Space (New York, 2009). He published the journal Sommaire (1991–1996), and his writing has appeared in Purple, Art Press, and Journal des Arts.
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Jordan Eberle will receive treatment for two days on his hip flexor strain and will leave on Thursday for Team Canada's selection camp, according to the Regina Leader Post. Eberle will be evaluated by Team Canada doctors to determine his readiness for camp.
The Regina Pats forward suffered the injury during his team's win over the Red Deer Rebels on Sunday and missed almost the entire third period. He has 23 goals in 33 games in the WHL this season.
In the event that the 18-year-old Eberle cannot play for Team Canada, there is no guarantee that they will add another body to replace him, TSN has learned.
Hockey Canada invited a larger group to camp than usual - 10 forwards and seven defencemen on each of the two teams that will scrimmage - as injury insurance.


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ACC lower bounds for NQPSpeaker: Chi-Ning
Title: ACC lower bounds for NQP
Date: 09 Jul 2018 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: MD 221
Food: Thai food
Abstract: In 2011, Williams proved the seminal ACC0 lower bound for NEXP and open the new approach of proving circuit lower bound from circuit satisfiability algorithm. One of the key step of the connection between lower bound and algorithm is the easy witness lemma introduced by Impagliazzo, Kabanets, and Wigderson in 2002 for NE. In this paper, Murray and Williams prove easy witness lemma for lower bound nondeterministic time classes such as NQP and thus result in ACC lower bound these two classes.
In this talk, we will first explain the connection between circuit lower bound and satisfiability algorithm especially on how easy witness lemma plays an important role here. If time allows, we will sketch the proof of the original easy witness lemma by IKW and point out which parts of the proof broke down and were fixed by Murray and Williams.


text: One of the major causes of stress is time pressure. When we feel like we have too much to do ….. and too little time to do it! Eccles 3:1 says “There is ….. time for every purpose under heaven”. Ask yourself ….. “Is what I’m doing initiated by God ….. or is it because of other people’s expectations ….. or my inability to say ‘No!’ He is not obligated to bless the stuff He didn’t purpose! Food for thought!

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The Liberal Democrats have published a paper setting out the challenges facing the UK’s creative industries as a result of Brexit.
The Power of Creativity and Brexit paints a testing picture for the industry, with potentially huge impacts from changes to freedom of movement, loss of investment and funding and less access to markets after Brexit.
The creative industries are of huge importance to Britain’s economy - the music industry alone contributes £3.8bn to the economy.
The value of exports to the EU across the creative industries is £19.8bn, and these products are not fully covered by WTO rules - a future option the government has failed to rule out.
6.1% of the creative industries workforce and 10% of the design, publishing and advertising workforce are EU (non-British) nationals. Wimbledon MP Stephen Hammond has consistently refused to back guarantees for EU citizens rights after Brexit.
Baroness Bonham-Carter, the Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport said: “Liberal Democrats have always been proud to back the fantastic creative companies and individuals who are based in Britain. We will stand up for them as the government pursues a hard-Brexit that poses a real risk to their future prosperity. The Government have rightly recognised the impact of changes to market access for banks and financial services but they must think about other industries and sectors too."
Read the creative industries paper here.
Merton Liberal Democrats found out on Wednesday (embargoed until yesterday) that WHSmith will also be returning to Wimbledon in the Summer.
It's just been announced that Waterstones will be opening a new shop in Wimbledon in the Autumn.
The new shop will be at 40-42 The Broadway opposite The Piazza (currently Halfords).
In January Wimbledon’s large WHSmith and Waterstones will be closing, as their lease in Wimbledon Bridge House is up, and instead Metrobank will move in.
An application was made in February 2014 to allow the shops to be converted into a bank, with the landords supporting the change.
In December, when we asked if they would open other branches in the town - Waterstones said "there isn't a plan at this point" and WHSmith didn't respond to us. So in January, we launched our petition:
On 8th April 2014, Merton Liberal Democrats launched their local election manifesto 'Innovation Merton' with Liberal Democrat Party President Tim Farron MP.

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Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021
Stability, conflict, transition
Imprint: Cork University Press
- Published: October 2023
The book analyses the relationship between crime and conflict in Northern Ireland since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921. Despite the vast research literature that focuses on Northern Ireland’s political divisions and the violence of the ‘Troubles’, the relationship between these issues and crime has received much less attention.

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
DARPA - dreams of flying Humvees!
DARPA funds numerous research projects and some of them sound like science fiction more than a product that could see reality. One of the more interesting projects that DARPA has talked about in the past year or so is the Transformer flying car. The idea behind the Transformer is that the soldiers could fly the vehicle over IEDs and rough terrain to make insertions into combat zones.
DARPA expects the flying Humvee to be piloted by troops with about the same amount of training that it takes to drive an armored vehicle. The basic premise of the vehicle is to take a Humvee that is lightened for flight and equip it with a rotor system to allow quick vertical takeoff and landings. Defense News reports that in the weeks to come, DARPA will turn the Transformer idea over to several defense contractors for research.
The Transformer would have to be able to carry four combat ready soldiers and over 1,000 pounds of gear into battle. The car is expected to have a range of 250 miles when flying or driving on a single tank of fuel. One interesting aspect of the vehicle is that it would have automated flight capabilities as well. Using the automated flight capability, the flying Humvee could be sent to remote field locations with supplies offering the soldiers the gear and transportation they need for an objective.
The need to lighten the vehicle for flight would mean less armor. DARPA states that the vehicle would be able to stop most small arms fire and the reduction in armor would be offset by the ability to fly over IEDs and bombs.
Officials with the U.S. Marine core state that they are more interested in how the research into a flying Humvee might help unmanned helicopters they are developing more than they are interested in the flying car. James Lasswell, head of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, said, "The idea of having a flying car is interesting, but that is kind of a gee-whiz kind of thing."
DARPA first announced the Transformer program in January 2010.
Related : Farnborough 2010: Textron pursues 'flying Humvee' programme
Textron Systems is looking to take advantage of a slowed-rotor compound aircraft design developed by Carter Aviation as it pursues the Transformer (TX) programme.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project is studying the feasibility of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), road-worthy vehicle capable of carrying four troops on road and for distances in the air.
DARPA recently issued a broad agency announcement (BAA) solicitation, which a number of companies are known to have responded to, including Textron.
The multi-phase $54 million programme is looking to develop a concept vehicle as well as key enabling technologies for a ‘robust ground vehicle’ capable of converting into a VTOL aircraft with a maximum payload of 1000lbs.
Speaking to Rotorhub.com at the Farnborough Internatiobnal Air Show, Textron representatives said the company’s design leveraged a 40-year deal giving AAI, a Textron subsidiary, exclusive use of the slowed-rotor technology developed by Carter Aviation.
AAI vice president for unmanned aircraft systems, Steve Reid, said the company was looking at slowed rotors for unmanned applications, such as the US Marine Corps’ unmanned cargo aircraft requyirement, but the Transformer programme was also seen as an ideal use for the technology.
Reid said the engine was able to retain enough ‘optimise stored energy’ to provide a vertical take off while landings were performed similar to a helicopter autorotation.
‘Then in forward flight when it is flying like a traditional fixed-wing aircraft, the rotor blades are free wheeling for minimal drag,’ Reid said.
Carter Aviation has demonstrated the slowed rotor concept as part of the CarterCopter Technology Demonstrator (CCTD) and claim the design could allow a compound aircraft to reach high speed flight up to 500 mph but with less complexity than a tilt-rotor or other vectored thrust vehicle.
DARPA is dividing the Transformer programme into two disparate tasks.
Task A will develop and integrate a full vehicle and Task B will develop individual critical technologies components for the full vehicle. Multiple awards are envisioned for the first two phases with DARPA settling on a final design at the end of Phase II.
Other companies that are known to have responded to the BAA include AVX Aircraft, with a design similar to its proposal for the US Army’s Armed Aerial Scout programme, and Logi AeroSpace with a ‘shrouded propellor’ design.
The TX vehicle would be designed for military scouting, personnel transport, and logistics missions.
According to the BAA, technical areas to be explored include: hybrid electric drive ducted fan propulsion system, ring motors, energy storage methods such as batteries and ultra capacitors, morphing vehicle bodies, and advanced flight controls and flight management systems.
‘The TX vehicle is intended to make roads irrelevant for military small unit maneuvers. These units can use TX air vehicles to fly over obstacles or impassible terrain, avoid ambushes and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Personal TX vehicles could be dispatched for downed airman recovery or for evacuating injured personnel from difficult to access locations, or to resupply isolated small units,’ the BAA stated.
In news from the future: Al Qaeda training pigeons to carry IEDs to counter flying Humvee threat. ; )
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Women Who Mean Business: Cynthia Laffey, Inlanta Mortgage (Video)
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Company: Inlanta Mortgage
VIDEO: Watch her video on the lower right, courtesy of Real Media
Responsibilities: Laffey leads the sales team and manages production for the Overland Park franchise of Inlanta, generating new and repeat mortgage business.
Career highlights: Laffey consistently pulls off the top sales awards in the mortgage business wherever she’s worked. She was Rookie of the Year in the mortgage department at Bank of America and top 1 percent of sales nationally for Wells Fargo. She then launched a mortgage company with her husband, Kevin, which they sold four years ago to start a franchise of Inlanta Mortgage. In the first year, she finished No. 1 in total sales volume for the company nationwide.
Aha moment: At the beginning of her career in retail banking, Laffey was a top referral source for the mortgage department at a major bank. One day, she asked the mortgage company’s leader how much money the loan officer made when she referred a loan to him. “When he told me, I basically, the next day, changed careers,” she said.
Distinguishing characteristic: In a business that focuses on personal interaction, Laffey works to build long-term relationships.
“I’ve been able to just really grow a tremendous referral base, and I do a lot of repeat business,” she said. “A good one-third of my business comes from my database of clients that I’ve worked with over the last 15 years.”
“She leads with grace and confidence,” Koehler said.
Obstacle overcome: The recent economy pushed Laffey and her employees to work harder to succeed. But with a solid reputation and strong relationships with many Realtors, Laffey said this past year has been one of her best years ever.
“I think I have been able to really thrive in this down market just by being one of the best mortgage professionals in the city and having a reputation for that,” Laffey said. “People trust me, and Realtors trust me.”
Dr. Michelle Robin got a mortgage with Laffey’s help and recommends her to friends. Laffey is a creative thinker, Robin said, and that helps her build on success.
“Just when other people said it couldn’t be done on a tricky situation for my friend, she got it done,” Robin said. “She’s kind. She’s creative. She works hard for her clients.”
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Like any other average American, you probably only think about the cost of energy when you’re standing in front of a gas pump or thumbing through your monthly utility bill. But what most consumers don’t often consider is that our energy entails a series of costs and benefits, some of which are beyond our immediate control and most of which are hard to properly quantify. Energy production and consumption affects our economy, our environment, and our national security, all of which collectively affect our quality of life.
On the cost side of the equation, American consumers bear the expense of dependence on foreign energy as well as the costs of potential adverse environmental impacts from production. Due to our dependence on foreign oil for nearly half of our needs, we spent $435 billion spent to import 4.1 billion barrels of oil last year. Not to mention, American taxpayers incur the political and military costs of instability in key oil-producing regions. Consumers also pay for the costs when we fail to safely and responsibly produce and use energy in an efficient, environmentally friendly manner.
On the benefit side of the equation, American consumers have access to reliable supplies of energy that help us transport people, manufacture goods, light and heat our homes and businesses, and grow food. We also benefit from the millions of jobs and billions in revenue that domestic energy production generates for the American economy. Other indirect benefits should be considered, too: the ability to drive to places outside of walking distance or the ability to work at night in a lighted building – both of which wouldn’t be possible without energy and both of which have advanced the quality of our lives and the efficiency of our economy.
Attaching a monetary value to this equation isn’t easy and oftentimes doesn’t come with much certainty. Nevertheless, a group of graduate students at Yale University have done just that. In a new report on “The Arithmetic or Shale Gas,” the students analyze the costs and benefits that U.S. shale gas production has for American consumers. The report estimates that the increased supply of natural gas, thanks to expanded U.S. shale gas production, has led to significant price decreases for consumers on the magnitude of over $100 billion a year. However, the report considers the social and environmental costs that may incur if producers fail to adequately protect the environment. After accounting for these costs, the report concludes that the benefits significantly outweigh the costs, 400 to 1, for consumers.
While the economic benefits of our energy use may not exceed costs at a rate of 400 to 1 for all energy resources, the United States should strive for solutions that mitigate costs and increase benefits. We can increase domestic energy production, and we can demand that energy be produced in an environmentally safe manner.
We’ve entrusted our elected officials to balance the costs and benefits of energy production and consumption through rational, scientific-based and transparent management. With the November elections on the horizon, we must now call on all candidates to support safe, American energy production and all the benefits it can bring.


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I love the word ‘sundowner.’ Actually, I love the thing itself even more. The first time my friend Patrick invited me to join him for a sundowner, I had no idea what he meant. But I think that was the night I fell in love with Cape Town. How could I not love a place that has a word to describe the drink you imbibe while watching the sun set?
Sitting on a terrace, sipping a cocktail, watching the sun go down over the water. Such a luxury. But the ubiquity of the Cape Town sundowner made the beauty of such moments an every day enjoyment. Jeff talks about instituting cocktail hour in our house. Sitting on our deck sipping a sundowner sounds wonderful. We may not have the ocean or mountains of Cape Town, but our back yard will do.
And this cocktail is the perfect spring sundowner. It’s finally strawberry season here in New England, and I’ve been sneaking strawberries into every dish and glass since I went berry picking last weekend. The strawberry rhubarb base here is barely sweet, and slightly tart. If you haven’t tried Lillet, give it a shot. It’s a French aperitif, slightly sweet, with the flavors of oak, citrus and herb. I really enjoy it on its own over ice, but it marries well with the strawberries and rhubarb for an impressively pretty drink.
With fresh strawberries overflowing from the markets these days, it’s no wonder that so many folks are sharing beautiful berry recipes. Devaki at Weave a Thousand Flavors is collecting strawberry recipes this month, and has a wonderful strawberry crumble cake of her own to share. Check it out here.
Strawberry Rhubarb Sundowner
1/2 cup chopped fresh rhubarb
1/2 cup chopped fresh hulled strawberries
2 tablespoons sugar
8 ounces Lillet
8 ounces seltzer or club soda
additional strawberries for garnish
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TAMPA — Gathered to discuss school funding, Florida's Board of Education spent much of Tuesday listening to complaints.
Superintendents and teachers' leaders lamented unfunded mandates from the Legislature. A charter school operator implored the board to treat charters as partners. A champion of state-funded preschools asked for better accountability. And there was concern about work conditions.
"Morale is at an all-time low in our districts," said Lee Swift, chairman of the Charlotte County School Board.
Earlier, Hillsborough County superintendent MaryEllen Elia said, "We all know that money will not necessarily improve education. We also know you have to have resources to meet the needs of every student."
Board members looked to Elia and others for ideas to increase efficiencies. They heard several, including cutting the amount of unused sick leave employees get paid at retirement, renegotiating contracts and expanding virtual school.
Within the discussion came pointed questions that might lay the groundwork for debate in the 2012 legislative session.
Board member Gary Chartrand asked if the state should again consider class sizes.
Chairwoman Kathleen Shanahan asked if the state should fund education based on course completion rather than enrollment. She raised questions about tenure for community college professors. And she suggested philanthropic organizations might underwrite some programs for at-risk students.
The emphasis on money is necessary, officials said. Legislative actions closed a mounting deficit this year, said Amy Baker, the state's chief economist. But the economy isn't expected to improve much until 2013.
Charter school proponents said their model goes a long way in containing costs. "Everybody within the charter world knows money matters," said Jon Hage, president of Charter Schools USA. "Competition works."
But Andy Ford, president of the Florida Education Association, decried the current climate for teachers: "The idea that you can improve our schools by cutting and consolidating and cracking the whip is a fantasy that is shortchanging our children."

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On Sept. 22, a search warrant was ordered on Bryant’s house on Sand Hills Drive in Haslet. Three cellphones, a tablet, a computer, and three memory cards were seized from the house. According to Administration Sergeant Robert Eberling of Grapevine Police Department, authorities found what they suspect to be child pornography on at least one of the devices.
The FBI inventory property list included in the warrant recorded knives, guns, ammunition, potential bone fragments in a fire pit, soil and blood samples, and a hacksaw with potential hair on the blade as items found in Bryant’s home. Authorities previously found Vandagriff’s purse in Bryant’s trashcan, according to the Arrest Warrant Affidavit.
The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office is to complete and release Vandagriff’s autopsy report within approximately 60 days of Sept. 15.
Vice President for Student Life Monica Mendez- Grant said in a Sept. 20 email: “As we continue to mourn the loss of Jacqueline “Jackie” Vandagriff, one of her family’s wishes is that Jackie’s passion and enthusiasm for her time at TWU be reflected in how she is remembered. Therefore, we have established a fund in Jackie Vandagriff’s memory through the TWU Foundation.”
The family asked on GoFundMe that those who wish to donate in Vandagriff’s honor do so through the TWU fund or through Operation Kindness, where Vandagriff adopted her cat Shay. Donations can be made online at www.twu.edu/foundation and www.operationkindness.org
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Lovey my Chocolate Point Male Siamese
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Lovey turned 18 May 2009. He has been the best indoor cat I ever had. In June he became constipated and had to have a enema. He has had 3 this year. The vet took blood for the lab.test at $200 and the vet said my cat had kidney disease. I now give him only canned cat food, pumpkin and Lactulose and olive oil for his constipation. I started him on Tripsy on July 27 2009 which is suppose to treat the kidney disease with herbs. I was told to give him fluids in his neck but I could not after several attempts, and the vet charges $32.00 per treatment for 5 treatments per week. I decided I will let nature take its course. I am so sad.
I am preparing his grave. Right now I still enjoy his company. He looks good although much thinner, we still takes naps together every day. He always lets me know when it is time for our nap. I will miss him when he goes to cat heaven

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Oh, Amanda Holden, why have you turned yourself into a Barbie doll?
At first, I thought it was Pamela Anderson. Hmm, those rather beady brown eyes . . . is it Elle Macpherson? No, the star on the cover of the latest edition of Easy Living — you know, the tome for grown-ups, 40-plus women with homes, teenage children and conservatories — is Amanda Holden.
And while this is probably, just like every other magazine cover, extensively airbrushed, the problem is that Amanda Holden actually looks like this in real life. A Barbie doll. A ghost of her former self.
Now, whatever Amanda Holden wants to do to her face and body is entirely her choice. But the metamorphosis is truly astounding.
What Amanda could have had done, from her waxy, clear skin to her plump lips complete with a cupid bow
In 2002, she had lines around her eyes and tramlines from nose to mouth. You know, normal for a woman who was then in her early 30s. Back then, she had much less hair, softer eyebrows, no eyelashes to speak of. She was just . . . less. Pretty, but somehow normal, a friendly girl-next-door type we used to know and love.
Wind back to 1991, as a contestant on Blind Date, and she reminds me of Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones: a bit plump, in High Street clothes. Certainly not the someone who now reminds me of a drag artist, with a forehead so smooth it resembles a party balloon.
Her skin would probably squeak were you to run a finger over it. Aged 41 and a mother of two, she has no flaws at all. Not one. No age spots, no wrinkles, no discoloration, no fine lines.
She has even lost the childhood gap in her teeth and now has those big, all-American teeth seen even in the mouth of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Amanda doesn’t look young; she just looks other-worldly. An alien whose life is not writ on her face, because her face is suddenly a blank canvas.
The look is Fifties Brigitte Bardot, which is apt, given she pre-dates feminism: she looks like the ultimate blonde airhead, a modern day Jayne Mansfield — surely not a role model for young women?
Unhappy in her own skin? Amanda pictured on the red carpet at a Britain’s Got Talent photocall (left) and dressed in her best at Ascot last month
What interests me most, though, is not so much the detail of what she has done — the Botox, the fillers — but why she has done this to her face. And I know why she has done it because I have done it, too: a face-lift, an eye-lift, Botox, fillers, microdermabrasion, the works.
I have regular injections of Botox in the corner of my mouth (oh, the pain!) to stop it drooping (I almost typed ‘drooling’; I’m sure that day will come), and to make me look more cheerful.
I do it to blot out the disappointment in my face, the sadness, the never having felt good enough. And, as you see yourself emerge ever different (I wouldn’t say younger, just not the same), the change becomes addictive: I’m supposed to have Botox and filler only every eight months, but instead I have it every three.
Women who have plastic surgery hate themselves and their lives. They detest who they are. I’m sure Amanda, like me, is not totally happy in her own skin, so she wants someone else’s.
The photo of Amanda as a child in 1985 is the most telling. She had freckles, mousy hair and brown eyes. Unremarkable, but super-ambitious, she transformed herself by force of will.
I wager as a child she wanted to be Kelly LeBrock, the pillows-for-lips and pale blue-eyed star of Weird Science and sex symbol for a whole generation of young men in the mid-Eighties.
Thirty years on and I’ve just Googled Kelly, a once breathtaking, corkscrew-haired goddess I haven’t thought about for a while. When I type in her name, what comes up is the word ‘fat’. Another beauty who has ‘let herself go’.
This is the pressure women are under. We are expected to stay as we are, and if we go to seed, or ‘age’, then we are ridiculed. If we hold back the years using surgery, then we are the devil incarnate, letting the side down.
I think Amanda is another driven, self-doubting woman who merely wants to be the best she can, and to work hard for as long as she possibly can.
While ambitious men do this by acquiring things, and power, women increasingly have to do it by changing ourselves. It’s silly, and dangerous, having surgery on our faces.
So, no, I don’t condemn Amanda Holden for her transformation. I feel sorry for her. Who knows what demons she nurses, what tragedies she wants to erase?


St. Pete had budget surplus for 2nd straight year
For the second straight year ---the entire tenure of Mayor Rick Kriseman--- the city finished with a budget surplus.
After the annual budget cleanup, the city announced this week that it finished the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30 with a $1.43 million extra in the municipal piggy bank.
The overall budget was $505.6 million. The general fund, which provides much of the city's day-to-day funds, is $224.3 million.
Before last year, the last time the budget was in the black was 2010.
The city put $1 million into reserves last year. This year, it stashed another $500,000 into reserves, bringing the total to more than $46 million.
Rising property values have provided most of the breathing room for the budget in recent years. But the city had enough wiggle room to hire a dozen new police officers for almost $ 1million and build a new fire station for $3.6 million.
“One of the ways we are keeping the promise of our vision to the citizens of St. Petersburg is through stewardship and fiscal responsibility," said Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin in a news release.


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"Iron Spring near Middle Falls"
This mounted photograph shows what was known as the "Mineral Spring". Popular with tourists in the early years of the Park, it was located on the path to the Middle Falls from the Glen Iris Lawn. When the structure was built is unclear, but a map of the estate from the 1870's shows a spring in that location.
What happened to the Spring? A story told by the wife of a former Park employee gives a possible explanation. According to this account, the famous spring water suddenly stopped flowing one day in the late 1930's or early 40's. Workmen were sent to see if they could restore the spring, and were surprised to find that the water had been coming from a pipe. When the pipe was traced it was discovered that the " mineral spring water" was actually the overflow from the fountain and fish pond near the Glen Iris Inn! The Spring and the little springhouse soon disappeared.
Traces of the Mineral Spring can still be found along the Middle Falls path.


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Gas extinguishing systems and their components - mirror committee of CEN/TC 191/WG 6
NA 031-03-04 AA is responsible for the development of standards for the design and testing of fire extinguishing systems with gaseous extinguishing agents and their components. The committee's work focuses on monitoring the European standards of the EN 12094 series "Fixed firefighting systems - Components for gas extinguishing systems", EN 17446 "Fire extinguishing systems in commercial kitchens - Design and test requirements" and the EN 15004 series "Fixed firefighting systems - Gas extinguishing systems", the latter being a modified adoption of the international standards of the ISO 14520 series "Gaseous fire-extinguishing systems - Physical properties and system design". The Committee therefore mirrors the European Working Group WG 6 "Gas extinguishing Systems and components" of CEN/TC 191 "Fixed firefighting systems" and the work of ISO/TC 21/SC 8 "Gaseous media and firefighting systems using gas". The secretariat of CEN/TC 191/WG 6 is held by DIN.
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Santa Fe Irrigation District tapping into new water source
The Santa Fe Irrigation District (SFID), which provides water to residents in Rancho Santa Fe and Solana Beach, is one of eight local water districts that have contracted with the yet-to-be-built Carlsbad Desalination Project to supplement its imported water supply.
Once completed, the plant will supply a fifth of the amount that the district previously imported.
The Desalination Partners, as they call themselves, include the Carlsbad, Valley Center, Rincon del Diablo, Rainbow, Vallecitos and Olivenhain Municipal Waters District and the Sweetwater Authority. SFID joined the collaboration in September 2007.
“Water is a commodity in California,” said SFID general manager Michael Bardin. “Our water supply is coming under increasing constraints. We have to find some new sources of water.
“Our board had to take a leadership role and say, ‘We think desalination is part of the future of water resources in California and we’re going to be a part of it.’”
The Carlsbad Desalination Project, which began development in 1998, has four primary objectives: to provide a local source of potable water to supplement imported water supplies, to improve the reliability of the local water supply, to improve water quality, and to complement regional water conservation and recycling programs.
Designed to process 50 million gallons of seawater each day, many of the facility’s components take advantage of existing infrastructure. Its proposed location is adjacent to the existing Encina power plant to access the required energy.
“The reason it’s located there is because the power plant already has ocean intakes,” explained Bardin. “The jetties already draw in water to cool the power plant and then discharge it out.”
Additionally, the plant would use the two main aqueducts that supply water to San Diego County as its primary means of water delivery.
Poseidon Resources is the privately funded corporation leading the public works project, creating what Bardin called a “unique public/private partnership.”
“We’re working together to support the project and make it happen,” he said, adding that the San Diego legislative contingent is also in support of the desal plant.
A letter dated July 19, 2007 from the California Legislature to the California Coastal Commission stated: “Drought conditions and the environmental impacts of climate change coupled with looming legal constraints placed on the Colorado River mandate a strategy to diversify San Diego’s water portfolio. Desalination is just one part of the solution, but it’s a critical part that must be pursued. To this end, we cannot afford further delays on this critical water infrastructure project.”
The California Coastal Commission will be meeting Aug. 6 – 8 to vote on the Marina Life Mitigation Plan and the Energy Minimization and Green House Gas Reduction Plan permits. Community support at this meeting is vital, Bardin said.
Once the permitting process is completed, construction will begin. The plant is expected to be operational by 2010.
“From a water resource management (perspective), there’s no silver bullet,” Bardin said. “It’s not like by doing desalination we’ve solved the water crisis in California. We have to do conservation; we have to use the water we have as wisely as we can. We have to recycle water … and we have to look for new supplies. Desalination, when you live next to the ocean, is the logical place.”
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From more than 600 hospitals suing HHS over Medicare payment cuts to a former executive suing Novant Health for “reverse discrimination,” here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.
1. Florida healthcare mogul must pay $44M in massive Medicare fraud case, court rules
A federal judge ordered Philip Esformes, a Florida healthcare executive sentenced to 20 years in prison in a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud case, to pay $44.2 million in forfeiture and restitution.
2. 15 hospitals sue HHS over Medicare reimbursement
Capital Health Medical Center-Hopewell in Pennington, N.J., and 14 other New York and New Jersey hospitals are suing HHS, alleging the agency is disregarding a previous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that sided with hospitals in a Medicare payment dispute.
3. Former exec sues Novant Health for ‘reverse discrimination’
A former Novant Health executive is suing the health system for wrongful termination and discrimination — he says he was fired to help the Winston-Salem, N.C.-based organization reach diversity goals.
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4. DC hospital allegedly fired director of nursing for reporting unlawful billing
The former director of nursing for emergency and trauma services at Washington, D.C.-based Howard University Hospital filed a lawsuit Nov. 8 alleging she was fired for reporting unlawful billing practices.
5. 622 hospitals sue HHS, accused of illegally allowing reimbursement cut
More than 600 hospitals are suing HHS, challenging the department’s decision to allow a 0.7 percent reduction in Medicare inpatient hospital reimbursement to continue into federal fiscal years 2018 and 2019.
6. Neurosurgeon hit with false claims complaint after Sanford’s $20M settlement
The federal government filed a False Claims Act complaint against Wilson Asfora, MD, and two medical device distributorships owned and operated by Dr. Asfora.
7. Anthem plans sue for $100M in federal payments
Anthem Blue Cross filed a lawsuit against the federal government to recoup $100 million in payments under the ACA.
8. Former CEO will sell California health clinics to settle billing fraud allegations
The founder and former CEO of Merced, Calif.-based Horisons Unlimited, a chain of health clinics, will be excluded from federal healthcare programs and sell 13 properties to resolve false claims allegations.
9. US Supreme Court rejects rural Iowa hospital’s challenge over Medicare payments
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a case that challenged the calculation method for Medicare payments to rural hospitals.
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review

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And now for something completely ridiculous. K. Gordon Murray was an American movie producer of the late 1950s through the early 1970s, chiefly known for his shrewd tactic of picking up the rights to foreign (more often than not Mexican) films on the cheap and re-dubbing and repackaging them for American audiences. Interestingly, one of his first jobs in Hollywood was promoting Cecil B. Demille's 'The Greatest Show On Earth' in 1949.
While it would certainly be hard to point to any of Murray's work that approached that legendary film-maker's level of over-the-top showmanship, it seems that the young protege was indeed taking notes and his films are imbued with their own sense of 'roll-up, roll-up' theatricality, often due to narration provided by Murray himself. Of course, by their cheap and cheerful nature, Murray's works made in this manner were relegated to B-movie status. The majority of these repurposed flicks revolved around myths and fairytales, and so K. Gordon Murray was bestowed the title 'King Of The Kiddie Matinee'. So let's take a look at 1959's 'Santa Claus' - a hugely successful movie profitably re-released several times in the years after its initial release. Jolly old Saint Nick in a Christmas movie helmed by the 'King Of The Kiddie Matinee'? What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, where to begin? If I were to tell you that Merlin the Wizard appears in this movie as Santa's right-hand man and 'most trusted friend', you may react with understandable puzzlement. You may ask "What would Merlin be doing at the North Pole"? Well, allow me to reassure you Merlin is not at the North Pole. For that matter, neither is Santa. No, for this movie Santa and Merlin's base of operations is a bizarre Toyland castle which is perched in outer space and full of various frankly obscene looking devices. At this point I feel I should warn you that things are about to get weird.
Who, you may wonder, is the antagonist in this delightful childhood yarn? A sneaky no-good Elf who's been smuggling toys? Perhaps a rogue anti-Communist reindeer planning on pulling in the other direction to stop the Bearded Red Menace from spreading the wealth and joy? No readers, even that would be less surprising than 'Santa Claus'' true villain - none other than Lucifer himself. Seriously. Some movies claim to have it all, but only K. Gordon Murray could bring America's kids Father Christmas, a legendary Arthurian magician and the Prince of Darkness, together at last before their disbelieving young eyes - in space.
The fact that all of this crazy information is immediately dumped on viewers in the opening moments via Murray's effusive, cheery but matter-of-fact narration is (to me at least) one of the funniest aspects of 'Santa Claus', but under its strange genre-mangling surface is the film's story particularly out of the ordinary? In all honesty, no. Children of all races (well, at least three) are gathered at Santa's castle to assist him in his Yuletide preparations and sing a song of festive unity in a scene somewhat reminiscent of the 'It's A Small World' Disneyland ride. We cut to Hell (ho ho ho!) where we meet Pitch, a luckless sap of a demon who Lucifer has inexplicably entrusted as his second-in-command for his diabolical plan to turn the children of the world against Santa.
Pitch is sent to Earth to set about these schemes which include getting three oafish brothers to throw rocks at a store window and to later plot to rob toys from a parentally-neglected rich boy named Billy. A further, much less successful attempt revolves around Pitch enticing Lupita, the young daughter of an impoverished family and the heart of the movie, to steal a doll. Santa is able to observe all of this through his magical telescopes and technology, and when with the help of Merlin he finally makes it to Earth himself to deliver his annual rounds (after many hijinks) suffice to say that the boys receive their comeuppance, Billy's parents see the error of their ways and Lupita's good-heartedness is duly rewarded. The latter scene it must be said, is actually quite moving thanks to the performances by Lupita and her poor parents, whose anxiety at being unable to afford to fulfill their daughter's simple wish is nicely played and entirely believable.
So overall, a conventional tale unconventionally told. Of course the real fun is to be had in the head-scratching surrealism of the journey, yet by the conclusion your sense of Christmas spirit will likely be oddly satisfied. Chances are many of you know this film was riffed in its entirety for a classic episode of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000' and if you can pick that version up, you're in for a lot of laughs amid the chaos. A perhaps lesser known fact is that K. Gordon Murray went back to the well once more with 'Santa Claus', mixing the existing footage with truly confounding newly shot scenes of Santa's 'workers'- (life-sized mascots including 'Stinky the Skunk') as a rather less defensible promotional series for a franchise of Christmas theme parks. Fortunately the crew at MST3K successor 'Rifftrax' have dutifully given them the same treatment under the appropriate title 'Santa's Village Of Madness'.
As for 1959's 'Santa Claus', as cheesy and bizarre as it may be, its clear that the film-makers' hearts were in the right place and understandable that those who grew up with the film will still revel in the nostalgia of it all. It may not be a great movie, or even a good one but at the very least it's a kids movie with a kid-sized imagination.


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Addis Ababa, February 7 2019 – Sustainable and healthy food systems are fundamental to reach a world without hunger and malnutrition, as well as to achieve the African Union's Agenda 2063 vision and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
A high level event, Nourishing Africa through improved nutrition and sustainable food systems was held on the margins of the 32nd Ordinary Summit of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which the African launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission Report on Food, Planet, Health, took place.
The African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) CEO, Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, opened the meeting and declared that, "Most of the stakeholders are convinced that we need to address nutrition challenges in Africa. Therefore, this report highlights one critical area, that of re-orienting agricultural production from just producing food in huge quantities. The quality of the food that is produced needs to improve sustainably."
He further highlighted that solutions to the challenges faced by the continent include connecting smallholder farmers to markets; capitalising on the potential of informal markets that offer easy access and affordability of food, and; promoting regional integration in order to have better operating regional markets.
Ms Sacko Josefa Leonel Correa, African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture commended the EAT Lancet Commission Report for outlining what needs to be done to attain better nutrition. "It is possible to feed the whole world sustainably," the Commissioner reiterated.
In agreement with the other speakers, Dr Gunhild Stordalen, EAT Executive Chair and Founder stated that, "If we get it right, food is a powerful tool for action and change. With this report at hand, we need to ask ourselves questions on how we can make sure that we actually produce food that we need for better nutrition and sustainability."
The EAT-Lancet Commission finds that:
- Healthy dietsinclude food quality and quantity, meeting daily energetic needs of individuals (±2500 kcal per day) with approximately 50% consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, 30% of energetic needs coming from grains, preferably whole grains, greater proportion of beans and pulses in diet, and more moderate consumption of meat ranging between 0-186 g per day.
- Science targets for environmental propose limits on food production to ensure a functioning and resilient Earth System. The Commission provides science targets for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, water use targets to preserve environmental flows, nitrogen and phosphorus applications targets to limit water pollution while closing yield gaps, land targets to protect biological carbon stocks, and biodiversity targets to halt the loss of biodiversity.
- In 2050, we can globally feed a healthy diet to a population of 10 billion, but this will require significant efforts in shifts to healthy diets, reducing food waste and loss by half, and sustainably increasing food production.
Adhering to the report's findings will address many of the challenges outlined above and can unleash unprecedented progress towards the bold visions of Africa's Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030. Action in and by Africa itself, led by African governments and with support from international public and private sector partners playing supportive roles, will be critical to success.
The full report can be downloaded at: https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/eat-lancet-commission-summary-report/
For media queries contact:
Mwanja Ng'anjo | Tel : +27 11 256 3582 | Email : Mwanjan@nepad.org


I am presenting a FRAMEWORK capable of processing any data generated by MS SCCM and integrating it into Splunk. What is novel about my solution is that I provide an Artificial Intelligence Layer that sits between the SCCM data and Splunk. The AI layer is designed to reduce the noise, and distill information down to ACTIONABLE INFORMATION for users.
Actionable Information Through Splunk
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) can assist processing the massive amount of information coming from SCCM. For instance, the AI can not only perform traditional business intelligence data analytics such as predictive analytics, but more importantly, "Preventative Analytics" to do early detection of system failures, before they become critical. By identifying patterns of system behavior, it can early-detect variances and shifts-from-norm to alert before catastrophe strikes.
Quality Information over Quantity With Splunk
Secondly, the AI can mitigate the massive amount of data, and use business-wise expert-system analysis of the data. A simple example is that alerts from non-critical systems are sent to the appropriate staff in the morning, whereas mission-critical system alerts can immediately text message, and wake all mission critical staff. So instead of a blur of alerts and noise, the AI can intelligently sort, and process the massive amount of information.
100% Uptime Monitoring & Intelligence From Splunk
I have combined the biomimetics approach of hive consciousness with an advanced from of artificial intelligence that yields not only predictive analytics but extends this to actually preventative analytics to help enterprise customers be proactive and prevent system failures long before they happen, and long before they become catastrophic.
Intelligent Conversations Through Splunk
Traditional analytics takes a data mining approach: SELECT MACHINES THAT HAVE DONE X IN THE LAST Y DAYS
The layer of artificial intelligence in between SCCM alerts and the manager. Example use cases are:
Set of servers that do frequent updates on a schedule, and reboot during update cycles. So ignore "most" alerts from these machines. But if reboot alerts deviate from the scheduled cycles, then alert a manager. So the AI knows the schedule, ie. Once per week. So these groups of servers are allotted one reboot per week. As soon as they exceed their allotment, alert the manager.
An example conversation between the user and the AI would be:
AI: A mission critical server was late on its heartbeat response. Do you want me to escalate this alert on the next late response or do you want to look into it now? User: Yes escalate on next late response. AI: Okay on the next late heartbeat, I will text message critical support staff and alert you as well.
AI: The following non-mission-critical clients have been showing slowed response time this could be due to operating system software overload and will be reported to technical support to prevent future failure.
Notes On Biomimetics and Uptime Guarantees
Although you communicate with a singularity through your phone or smart watch, I utilize something called biomimetics to gain high reliability since this is a mission critical function. For this project I am using hive biomimetics where there can be an infinite number of Daisy instances running, each serves a drone, but act a single consciousness.
So There can be multiple instances of Daisy running, each as a backup to each other. They function as a hive. To you, you are only communicating with one daisy, but in reality all the daisies in the hive can perform all the tasks, and in fact compete for each task.
So if one or even several daisy units fail, each daisy is capable of handling all the tasks, and from the user perspective there will never be a failure in performance, and the enterprise user gets guaranteed 100% uptime SLA.


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Healthcare leaders Q&A: Making special connections
NRC Health recently interviewed several nationally recognized healthcare leaders on the critical role Human Understanding plays in healthcare to drive growth, personalize care, build trust, drive loyalty and equity, transform services, and help organizations exceed expectations. Here’s what leaders had to say about creating unique connections.
Q. How does NRC Health enable your organization to create unique connections with each patient?
Making Connections through patient Feedback
“ChristianaCare’s partnership with NRC Health really helps us create a connection with each patient and family through real-time understanding,” says Mike Puchtler, Vice President of Patient Experience at Christiana Care Health System. “Through the quantitative data and the patient narrative in the comments, that whole process, of being able to access that level of insight from our patients in real time, is extraordinarily valuable.”
Puchtler says Christiana Care’s team members who are deploying process-improvement initiatives have the opportunity to use that information to enhance the experience of their patients.
“Building relationships is a key principle of our Orlando Health way,” says Ken Kozielski, Vice President of Customer Experience at Orlando Health. “Our partnership with NRC Health really enables us to do that, because it’s transformed our measurement program away from being a reactionary, after-the-fact, lagging indicator.”
Kozielski says that the change to NRC Health’s patient feedback capabilities has been an operational tool that helps the organization engage in real time, and that Orlando Health has embraced the alert feature. “We have over 900 alert owners who receive those alerts,” he says. “They make phone calls, and they’re out there building relationships with our patients.”
Fostering Community from Insights
“I think there’s a lot of ways in which the partnership between NRC Health and Nemours really benefits human understanding,” says Peggy Greco, Ph.D., Medical Director of Patient Experience at Nemours Children’s Health. “NRC Health has allowed us, through the portal, to have some special tools, and to look at responses by demographic data—looking at race, language, and ethnicity, and ensuring that our patients and families are represented fully. If we really want human understanding, we have tools that allow us to assess not only whether we have representative information, but how the experience varies based on those demographic groups.”
Greco says that this process has allowed them to change their strategy to target those disparities. “I would say our partnership with NRC Health has really allowed us to get broader input from our families through the community insights platform, which has grown to include 11,000 families,” she says. “We have recently submitted a survey on fairness and been able to gather very diverse opinions on what fairness is like for the patients and families who experience us.”
Jennifer Baron, CPXP, Chief Experience Officer at UC Davis Health, says the organization is partnering to lift a patient and family community through the NRC Health’s patient experience solution.
“I’m really excited to be able to understand things beyond the feedback that we’re getting from our patient-experience surveys,” she says. “I really want to understand what’s most important to our patients and families, to know how we can design meaningful experiences that will impact and support them in their lives. And I think that’s really what this partnership and that community will be able to do for us.”
Looking at Attributes to Better Understand Market Insights
“We really take a look at the Market Insights that we get from NRC, especially the attributes, to understand what people see, think, and feel about us, because everything is really wrapped up in your brand experience,” says Steve Telliano, M.A., Assistant Vice Chancellor of Strategic Communications for UC Davis Health.
Telliano says that they get plenty of anecdotal information by interviewing people and holding focus groups. He says that looking at the information in the aggregate and getting the big picture is also important to understand the public and market perceptions.
“We look at the market, tracking data, but with the NRC data, we dive into the attributes to understand and break apart why people feel the way they feel, and what are the perceptions behind the perceptions, so that we can truly understand where people are in relation to UC Davis Health,” he says. “This helps us look for things that we can improve, so that we’re bettering human understanding and the patient experience.”
Telliano emphasizes that the use of market-research data—and especially data like Market Insights provides—is incredibly important for today’s healthcare environment. It can be very easy to become inwardly focused, or just to become focused on the delivery of care, because that’s really what’s important. But how you deliver care and how people perceive your organization are equally important, because that’s what the future is. “I think that it’s critically important that people spend the time to understand the research, pull the data out of it, and see what it’s telling them,” he says. “Because if you don’t, you really run the risk of going the wrong direction.”


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2 reviews of Wok One
Very good food - try the chicken spring rolls! Fast pleasant service.
Fantastic food and efficient service. I was extremely impressed with Wok One. Wheatley itself is a picturesque village, and this is the best for miles around.


A £200,000 initiative to help farmers cope with reduced farm payments under Common Agricultural Policy reforms has been launched in Scotland.
The “Planning for Profit” initiative will provide advice sessions for livestock and mixed livestock/arable farmers to help them develop a structured approach to business planning and boost their competitiveness.
It is backed by the Scottish government’s Skills Development Scheme, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and NFU Scotland, which have voiced concern over the restructure of the CAP and the potential for a significant reduction in farm incomes.
Scotland’s rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead said: “We all know the next CAP will bring about a shift to area-based payments and, since it looks unlikely that DEFRA will give Scotland’s farmers the budget allocation they deserve, it’s clear there will be reduced direct support for many farm businesses in Scotland.
“This will bring obvious challenges to businesses, making it more important than ever for farmers to have a critical look at reducing input costs and maximising efficiency savings. I am pleased to provide funding support to the Planning for Profit programme at such an important time for the livestock industry.
“This project will enable farmers to review their current management systems and make a step change towards securing a sustainable, profitable future for their businesses, which provide the raw materials that drive the continued success of our food and drink industry.”
NFU Scotland’s regional co-ordination manager, Lisa Roberts, added: “Scottish farmers must plan, prepare and adapt to a new era where reduced farm support is a certainty.
“While NFUS will be holding roadshows this winter that specifically look at the implications for future support arrangements in Scotland, this initiative goes further and gets farmers thinking about how to ensure their businesses are both profitable and competitive in the years ahead.”
Planning for Profit Roadshow dates:
To book contact Kirsty at QMS on 0131 472 4040 or email email@example.com with your name, address and telephone number, stating which of the roadshows you would like to attend. Each roadshow starts at 10.30am and finishes at approximately at 3pm. A free lunch is included at each workshop.
“I strongly encourage farmers to take part in this free initiative that will help to ensure a structured planning process for their businesses. By doing so they can plan for the future, confident their businesses are well positioned to grow.”
The advice sessions will be delivered by SAOS, SAC Consulting (part of Scotland’s Rural College) and agricultural consultant Peter Cook. The initiative kicks off in December with the start of a series of roadshows around Scotland.
Key to the project is the production of a new reference guide that will give examples of best practice, including practical, workable case studies and ideas about what is possible to adapt systems and plan for the future.
Jim Booth of SAOS said: “Planning for Profit is not just a response to CAP reform, it is also a great opportunity for farmers to think about the future and how they grow their businesses.
“There’s a real need to improve farm productivity to increase our competitiveness and Planning for Profit will provide farmers with the opportunity to replan their businesses.”
The roadshows in December and January will be followed by a series of farm visits and workshops and these will involve farmers who have already successfully introduced changes to improve their farms’ performance.
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Only offered here in the long wheelbase A8 L form, its engine operates in conjunction with a belt alternator starter (BAS), which is the nerve centre of the 48-volt electrical system.
This MHEV (mild hybrid electric vehicle) can coast with the engine switched off, and restarts smoothly.
Fuel economy can be improved by up to 0.7 litres per 100km in real driving conditions.
In its fourth generation, the A8 L is renowned worldwide for sports appeal, lightweight construction and quattro permanent all-wheel drive.
Exterior features include a front end with the wide, upright Singleframe grille as well as striking HD Matrix LED headlights, and the LED light strip rear lights.
As for the interior, the new A8 L does away with the familiar rotary pushbutton and touchpad of its predecessor.
The instrument panel is kept largely clear of buttons and switches.
At its centre is a 10.1-inch touchscreen display which, when off, blends almost invisibly into the high-gloss black surround thanks to its black-panel look.