According to The Space Report 2009: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity overall worldwide space revenues grew nearly 2.5 percent in 2008, rising to $257 billion.
NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., will hold a media teleconference on Monday, April 6, at 8 a.m. PDT (11 a.m. EDT), to present the latest observations of sea ice conditions in the Arctic.
NASA will showcase its next-generation spacecraft and water landing testing, which will return humans to the moon, during two media events in April.
Approximately 75 high school and college teams from around the world will converge on Huntsville, Ala., April 3-4 for off-world racing in NASA's 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race.
The way to protect U.S. leadership in space against growing international competition is stable and sufficient investment, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey told a House appropriations subcommittee Thursday.
A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run.
Summers in the Arctic may be ice-free in as few as 30 years, not at the end of the century as previously expected. The updated forecast is the result of a new analysis of computer models coupled with the most recent summer ice measurements.
Middle school educators are invited to join NASA for the International Space Station EarthKAM Spring 2009 Mission on April 28-May 1, 2009.
Today, the House of Representatives approved H.Con.Res.85, which sets budget levels for fiscal year 2010 through 2014.
After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis now awaits liftoff for its target May 12 STS-125 mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
A powerful, newly refined image-processing technique may allow astronomers to discover extrasolar planets that are possibly lurking in over a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope archival data.
Dawn continues to coast quietly and calmly in its orbit around the Sun, keeping its main antenna pointed to faraway Earth.
The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing. New evidence from satellite observations also shows that the ice cap is thinning as well.
NASA astronaut Mike Massimino is using Twitter to provide a unique, behind the scenes peek at the last weeks of his training for the fifth and final shuttle servicing mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Media are invited to cover space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled move from Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2 to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Friday, April 10 at NASA's KSC for its upcoming STS-127 mission to the International Space Station.
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, according to new research.
A new Hubble image highlights striking swirling dust lanes and glittering globular clusters in oddball galaxy NGC 7049.
GOCE's sophisticated electric ion propulsion system has been switched on and confirmed to be operating normally, marking another crucial milestone in the satellite's post-launch commissioning phase.
The Conrad Foundation, in partnership with NASA Ames Research Center, today announced the winners of The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards.
A new study in the The Journal of Applied Physiology, suggests that astronauts need to modify their workouts to avoid extensive muscle loss during missions onboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Two members of the 18th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station and a spaceflight participant returned to Earth at 2:16 a.m. CDT Wednesday.
Going through some old papers, I found a school publication which contained an essay I wrote in 1971. If memory serves, I had just read Gerard K. O'Neill's "The Case for Space", and of course, the Apollo lunar expeditions were in full swing.
With the additional checks related to the flight worthiness of the Herschel telescope now completed, ESA and Arianespace have set the launch date of Herschel and Planck for 6 May 2009.
Visitors will have the rare chance to touch a piece of a moon rock this week in the new NASA Driven to Explore trailer at the University of Kansas.
NASA will hold a Science Update at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, April 14, to present new findings and three-dimensional views revealing the inner workings of solar storms known as coronal mass ejections.
Engineers have successfully ejected the dust cover from NASA's Kepler telescope, a spaceborne mission soon to begin searching for worlds like Earth.
The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for the Orion crew module.
ESA's spaceborne X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has carried out an exclusive observation of the galaxy Messier 82, for the '100 Hours of Astronomy' cornerstone project for the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
Several regions on Earth where annual temperatures are well below freezing and yet liquid water persists. Such polar regions provide analogs to study the hydrological cycle under conditions that have prevailed in the polar desert environment of Mars.
Two identical NASA spacecraft are preparing to enter a point in the universe that may eventually answer the question of how our moon was born.
First Results from Penn's Balloon-Borne Telescope BLAST: Extragalactic Survey Reveals Half the Universe's Starlight[Thursday, April 9, 2009]
After two years spent analyzing data from BLAST, the Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, physicists are releasing the first results.
Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic may be due to changes in tiny airborne particles called aerosols.
Notice of Availability and Request for Comment on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Streamlining the Processing of Experimental Permit Applications[Friday, April 10, 2009]
The PEIS examines the potential environmental impacts of issuing an experimental permit for the operation of reusable suborbital rockets anywhere in the U.S. and abroad.
The agency plans to make the announcement with the help of Expedition 14 and 15 astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." The program will air at 11:30 p.m. EDT.
Six pararescuemen from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., conducted recovery testing on a mockup of NASA's next-generation spacecraft March 8 at the Trident Turn Basin here.
NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop.
The Northrop Grumman Corporation Foundation is accepting teacher applications for the Weightless Flights of Discovery program, an initiative that places teachers on micro-and zero-gravity flights to energize students in the formative middle-school years.
The team operating NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend.
Over the past few weeks Europe's Planck Satellite has been going through final preparations before launch. Planck is Europe’s first mission to study the relic radiation from the Big Bang.
Herschel’s three scientific instruments have passed their functional tests and are good to go. This marks another milestone in the steady progress being made in preparing the satellite for launch.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a flare-up from a monster black hole. A jet of matter blasting from the black hole is giving astronomers an incredible light show.
SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 1 on it's 5th flight with a primary payload of Malaysia's RazakSAT as early as April 20 as everything reportedly remains on schedule.
The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After more than a million online responses, the node will be called "Tranquility."
Astronomers are on the threshold of discovering the Holy Grail of planetary sciences, new Earth-like planets. The next challenge will be to determine whether or not these worlds have life on them, especially intelligent life that we can communicate with
At ESA's special isolation facility, Cyrille Fournier describes how the Mars500 crew is managing to feel at home, decorating their sleeping quarters and eating fresh vegetables grown in the greenhouse after their second week.
Using ESA’s Envisat and the Italian Space Agency’s COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that shook the medieval town of L’Aquila in central Italy.
A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies.
Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
NASA's Kepler telescope has taken its first images of the sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new first light images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory along with the Hubble Telescope and Keck Observatory have identified the most crowded collision of galaxy clusters.
Scientists at Arizona State University’s Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has erupted on the Red Planet.
NASA centers across the nation invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency's efforts and contributions to understanding and protecting Earth.
NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., began a new phase of testing today for the Orion crew module, NASA's next generation spacecraft.
A special high definition feed from NASA Television on Earth Day, April 22, will feature views of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station.
To mark the International Year of Astronomy, ESA is launching a special competition for students. Participants will use data obtained by the Integral space observatory to investigate objects in one of the most active regions of our Galaxy.
In the 60s and 70s, the Apollo Program struggled with a miniscule, yet formidable enemy: lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces change during the lunar day with the elevation of the Sun.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two of the most complex molecules yet discovered in interstellar space.
An international team of scientists has found some of the most primitive matter containing abundant interstellar material analyzed to date amongst dust particles collected from the upper atmosphere by NASA aircraft.
An international team of scientists has found that giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their stars could lose a quarter of their mass during their lifetime.
Astronomers have completed the most wide-ranging census ever produced of dynamical star formation in and around the well-known Great Nebula of Orion.
To commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 19 years of historic, trailblazing science, the orbiting telescope has photographed a peculiar system of galaxies known as Arp 194.
Fuelling operations for the Planck spacecraft have been successfully completed last week. The filling of the propellant tanks with hydrazine liquid was performed in the S5A building at the Centre Spatial Guyanais.
Well-known exoplanet researcher Michel Mayor today announced the discovery of the lightest exoplanet found so far. The planet, "e", in the famous system Gliese 581, is only about twice the mass of our Earth.
Astronomers have found the most distant signs of water in the Universe to date. Dr. John McKean of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) will be presenting the discovery at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science.
Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous “Pillars of Creation” take shape.
About two weeks ago, Herschel was weighed to record its dry mass before the satellite was fuelled with 256 kg of liquid hydrazine. After switching it on to confirm normal function, engineers integrated the fuelled satellite with the Ariane 5 adapter.
Keeping up-to-date with cutting-edge astronomy and space science breakthroughs has just become that much easier, thanks to the Portal to the Universe, the latest Cornerstone project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009).
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully completed a rigorous qualification of its new Draco spacecraft thruster and Draco propulsion tank at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor, Texas.
In French Guiana a new launch base is being built for the medium-lift Soyuz. The Soyuz will join Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the future lightweight Vega in operations at the Spaceport.
Earth-bound tornadoes are puny compared to "space tornadoes," which span a volume as large as Earth and produce electrical currents exceeding 100,000 amperes, according to new observations by a suite of five NASA space probes.
An international team of researchers successfully reached the arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Canada on Friday, 17 April, after an 8-day, 500 km vehicular trek on sea-ice along the fabled Northwest Passage.
Mars exhibits numerous 'chaotic terrains'. These are areas with an apparently inordinate accumulation of rocks of varying sizes and flat-topped features.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited by Spirit in the past two weeks.
A montage of comet images made using NASA's Swift spacecraft illustrates just how different three comets can be. The images, including a never-released image of Comet 8P/Tuttle, were shown during a webcast called "Around the World in 80 Telescopes".
The gamma-ray sky comes alive in a movie made from data acquired by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope during its first three months of operations.
In a record breaking event, Steve Eves and his team of rocket men successfully launched a 1/10th scaled model version of the Apollo era Saturn V which took men to the moon. This is now considered the largest amateur rocket to ever be launched.
Speaking during the International Space University's recent symposium on "Space for a Safe and Secure World” University President Michael Simpson said that the 2007 study on Space Traffic Management recommended ways to prevent space collisions.
ESA's SMOS mission will launch on 9 September this year and the satellite has just been taken out of storage - providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepared for shipment to the launch site in Russia.
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, along with colleagues elsewhere in the United States and in the United Kingdom, have discovered the most distant object in the universe.
The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object is known as a gamma-ray burst which are the most energetic single events known in the universe.
NASA has developed a flash on-line game about telescopes, featuring NASA’s next-generation spacecraft, the James Webb Space Telescope! The game, called “Scope it Out!” includes an introduction to telescopes and four matching games.
Satellite images show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf -- indicating that the huge shelf has become unstable.
It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations suggest black holes may wander the Milky Way.
An extremely deep Chandra X–ray Observatory image of a region near the center of our galaxy has resolved a long-standing mystery about an X-ray glow along the plane of the galaxy.
Bursts of star making in a galaxy have been compared to a Fourth of July fireworks display: They occur at a fast and furious pace, lighting up a region for a short time before winking out.
NASA will 'break the ice' on a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change when a team of scientists embarks this week on a two-month expedition to the vast, frigid terrain of Greenland and Iceland.
The global citizen-science campaign GLOBE at Night 2009 recorded 80 percent more observations of the world’s dark skies than the program’s previous record.
Analyses of data from the NASA sponsored MESSENGER spacecraft’s second flyby of Mercury in October 2008 show that the planet’s atmosphere, magnetosphere, and geological past are all characterized by much greater levels of activity than first suspected.
Challenger Center for Space Science Education has added a new member to its Board of Directors, former Astronaut Scott Parazynski who was informed of his election at Everest Base Camp where he is preparing to make a bid for the summit of Mt. Everest.
NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.


CDC Group, the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, has announced a US $100 million (Ksh10 billion) debt commitment to ETG, the agricultural conglomerate connecting smallholder farmers to global markets through its operations in 48 countries worldwide.
The debt commitment will support the growth of ETG’s food and agriculture business and strengthen food value chains by expanding its logistic networks, boosting agriculture yields and the production of staple foods such as grains, rice and cocoa.
At $100 million, the capital provided to ETG marks one of the largest corporate debt investments in CDC history. ETG has long standing relationships with more than 550,000 smallholder farmers across Africa, whom it helps to significantly improve livelihoods by providing consistent demand for their produce through access to regional and global markets.
Operating a two-way logistics model, ETG drops fertilisers at the farm gate – improving crop quality – and then picks up the farmers produce to sell on the global market. ETG also provides warehousing and distribution centres giving farmers flexibility to store and sell their produce at the optimal time, thereby increasing their income potential substantially.
Furthermore, farmers supplying produce to ETG benefit from training, expert farming support and mechanisation which all lead to significantly improved yields.
This commitment marks one of CDC’s largest corporate debt investments.
As part of the funding facility, CDC will support ETG’s ongoing efforts towards implementation and alignment with international Environmental & Social standards with enhanced focus on supply chain risk management, safeguarding work and procedures.
ETG has strong ESG credentials, and recently launched a data-driven agricultural intensification pilot project in Kenya to improve farmers’ productivity while enhancing the environmental risk management and climate resilience of ETG Kenya’s food staples.
“ETG is excited to expand its existing presence in various markets and further offer support to communities across our extended footprint,” Anish Jain, Chief Treasury Officer of ETG, said.
Given CDC’s focus on ESG frameworks, this facility marks a solid achievement for ETG to further strengthen its supply chain and mitigate risks in its operations. Including this CDC capital commitment, ETG has one-third of the loan book linked with ESG and sustainability standards.”
Tony Morgan, Managing Director & Head of Private Equity and Corporate Debt at CDC Group, said agriculture and rural development are vital engines accelerating Africa’s economic transformation and meeting global food and health needs.
Access to Markets
“As these sectors continue to evolve and grow exponentially, this shift will be bolstered by a diversified, technologically-enabled, and commercially-oriented agro-industry –one that connects Africa’s markets regionally and internationally,” said Mr Morgan.
Emma Wade Smith OBE, Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa at the UK Department for International Trade, said: “Improving access to markets for Africa’s farmers is critical to food security, across the continent and the world. It is also essential to sustain and improve the livelihoods of Africa’s farmers and their families.”


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Toyota May Revive the Supra
The Toyota Supra is one of the best known Japanese sports cars ever made. Older Toyota Supra’s have become increasingly popular among tuners as their prices become more affordable. The Toyota Motor Company began production of the Supra back in 1979 and ended production in 2002. During this time the company produced four different generations of the supra. The last generation of the Supra was made available with both a naturally aspirated and a turbocharged engine, but the turbocharged variant was not available in some U.S. states because of their stricter regulations.
Surprisingly, the Toyota Motor Company let their trademark on the Supra name expire back in 2006. Even though the company is not currently producing the car, it seemed to be an odd decision to let such an iconic brand name expire. Recently Toyota has decided that letting the trademark expire was a bad decision and has decided to reapply for the trademark on the world famous Supra name. Does this mean that Toyota plans on reviving the Supra? It looks like this is a definite possibility for the future as Akio Toyoda, the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, has said that he would like to see production begin on a new Toyota Supra in the near future. This actually doesn’t come as a big surprise because Toyota has begun producing more sports cars under the Lexus brand name recently. These cars include the Lexus ISF sedan and the LFA supercar. It is no surprise that the company now wants to release a new sports car under the Toyota Motor Company brand name and the revival of the Supra is the perfect way to do this.

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Sunday 29 December 1935
It was Sunday, under the sign of Capricorn. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
Professional Soldier, directed by Tay Garnett, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1935
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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Have a look at the old newspapers from 29 December 1935 and get them!
Which were the most popular movies released in the last 30 days ?
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Which were the important events of 29 December 1935 ?
- The fourth day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
- R.C. Saints - Thomas Becket (optional memorial)
See other famous people born on 29 December
Tony Bramall: England, United Kingdom -- Auto dealer / multi-millionaire (Harrogate).
Virgil Johnson: American singer and radio host (The Velvets) (d. 2013).
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Which were the top hits in that special week of December 1935 ?
Top #3 songs in the USA
Twenty-Four Hours a Day - Joe Venuti & His Orchestra
A Little Bit Independent - Bob Crosby & His Orchestra
Alone - Hal Kemp & His Orchestra
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What news were making the headlines those days in December 1935?
- Science: Science vol. 82 issue 2139
- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: Kirsten Flagstad -- Dec. 23, 1935
- Science: Science vol. 82 issue 2138
Which were the most popular books released in the last weeks ?
Green Light, 1935 novel by Lloyd Douglas. Hardcover with dust jacket, 326 pages, published by Grosset & Dunlap.
A novel that takes place in the Valley of Virginia, tracing the experience of a family with four generations of strong women.
The second novel by the great American novelist now the subject of a major new film Genius starring Jude Law Colin Firth Dominic West and Nicole Kidman It is 1920 and Eugene Gant leaves the American South for Harvard New ...
STATED FIRST PRINTING. March 1971 Signet(NAL) mass market paperback, Rachel Field (And Now Tomorrow). After the death of her father, ten year old Kate Fernald and her mother head to the coast of Maine where mom has a job as ...
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Despite the ever growing-hype, there are, it appears, other things apart from football this year to attract the visitor to South Africa…as Brian Salter has been finding out
For those of us who are not particularly enamoured with 'The Beautiful Game' (and believe it or not, there are some of us around!) the very mention of South Africa stirs the subconscious into thinking of all kinds of other things – Cape Town's Table Top Mountain, the myriad wildlife reserves, the abundant flora, and the beautiful multi-coloured birds; but apart from train-spotting aficionados, I suspect not a lot of people would put a train museum near the top of their wish list of must-see attractions in this huge country. Which could well be a pity because …
I have visited train museums in a number of countries, but never before had I come across anything like the Outeniqua Transport Museum in George - the largest town on the world-famous 'Garden Route', nestling beneath the magnificent Outeniqua Mountain range. (Outeniqua, we are told, means 'man laden with honey'.)
George lies in a central portion of the Western Cape, almost midway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, and one of its claims to fame is that it has the last remaining continually-operated passenger steam train in Africa - quaintly known as the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe.
The railway was fully completed in 1928, and was declared an officially preserved railway in 1992, carrying about 40,000 passengers per year at the time. A decade later, it carried 115,000 passengers per year, 70% of whom were foreign tourists. That is, until the disastrous flooding of 2006 when large stretches of the line east of George to Knysna were washed away. Now trains run only between George and Mossel Bay to the west.
The ride lasts about an hour and on leaving George the Choo Tjoe offers its passengers a picturesque 52-kilometre journey, travelling through beautiful farmlands before descending to the crossing at the Gwaing River Gorge. A few kilometres further on it crosses the Maalgaten River by means of an impressive four-pillar steel bridge spanning the gorge high above the riverbed. After the Outeniqua siding, the line begins its descent to the sea; as the train twists around a large horseshoe bend, the hillsides fall away dramatically and the view of the Indian Ocean, with its foaming waves crashing on to the seemingly endless beach, is breath taking.
For those 'in the know', the trains are usually pulled by Class 19D steam locomotives, of 4-8-2 wheel arrangement with Vanderbilt-like "torpedo" tenders, although the task is occasionally handled by Class 24 steam engines. When tinder dry conditions in the summer increase the risk of wildfires, diesel locomotives (Class 32s) have to be used instead.
But to most of the tourists, what class of steam locomotive is used is perhaps somewhat irrelevant. Irrelevant, that is, until they enter the museum situated beside the station. It is a transport museum that has to be the equal of the very best in the world.
Surely this must be the only museum that houses not just steam trains (13 in all), but also a collection of over 200 old cars, vintage tractors, fire engines, a stage coach, a 100-year old hearse … and that's not forgetting the largest 'HO'-gauge model railway in the southern hemisphere, a display of model aircraft, a corner devoted to lighthouses… nor the reconstructed station building, or the collections of loco number plates and makers plates…. The list just goes on and on.
Pride of place goes to one of the coaches of the Royal Train used by the then-Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on their tour of 1947. Also on display is the Emil Kessler - Johannesburg’s first steam locomotive, as well as Paul Kruger's coach and private saloons. (It was Paul Kruger who gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, and who later became State President of the South African Republic – Transvaal.)
And to put everything into context, you will find a comprehensive photo gallery depicting some of the most breathtaking photos of South African steam, together with poetry relating to train travel, crockery and cutlery previously used on main line trains and in station restaurants.
It's not every museum that can lay claim to having on display something for everyone; but seeing the faces of family members visiting the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe with its fabled museum, surely this one deserves that accolade.
You can fly to George from Johannesburg or Cape Town, or drive there on excellent roads from Cape Town in about five hours through spectacular scenery and along the route of the longest vineyard trail in the world, which is also famous for its many ostrich farms. Entry to the museum is R20 (AED6) for adults and half price for children under 12 yrs.

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First to be launched were high-end Ryzen 7 CPUs designed particularly to take on Intel’s i7 designs. The rest of the Ryzen series was slowly released over the course of the year, including the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 models, along with the most powerful of them all– the Ryzen Threadripper. The Ryzen series kept doing what AMD did best– providing users with reliable and budget-friendly services, unlocked CPUs with solid overclocking efficiency and jaw-dropping core counts at extremely low costs.
This did not alter with the second generation Zen CPUs, nor with the current third generation Zen2 designs that introduced on July2019 Subsequent generations provided incremental efficiency improvements and some additional features, although very little had actually changed apart from that. However, the Zen2 generation will be presenting some beefier performance-oriented designs such as the Ryzen 7 3700 X, Ryzen 7 3800 X, and Ryzen 9 3900 X, so they ought to show to be good competitors for Intel at higher cost points.
Overall, Ryzen had actually the forecasted result. It leveled the playing field and required Intel to adapt. And sure enough, the 8
generation of Intel CPUs developed on the Coffee Lake architecture saw an increase in core count, something that was needed if they wanted to keep up with AMD, and in 2019, more and more people are leaving the Intel camp for AMD, primarily because they feel that Ryzen CPUs provide better value for their cash. Clock speeds
Before, AMD’s more robust architecture had allowed their CPUs to accomplish higher base clock speeds and to have greater overclocking potential than the majority of Intel’s lineup. The scenario is a bit various today, as the two are basically uniformly matched in this regard.
Nevertheless, clock speeds provided on paper are an extremely bad way to estimate a processor’s performance. As a matter of reality, they can actually be deceptive, specifically in this day and age where you will not find a video gaming CPU with a base clock speed lower than 3 GHz, as they are mostly in the 3-4 GHz variety.
As we have currently pointed out, AMD processors are known for their overclocking abilities. This mainly holds true for Ryzen CPUs, too, for the a lot of part– they are all opened and can be overclocked, offered that the motherboard chipset actually supports overclocking.
On the other hand, not all Intel CPUs are opened. Only the designs that have a “K” at the end of the design number can be overclocked safely. We stress the word securely because, while there are methods to overclock Intel CPUs which aren’t unlocked, doing so is generally not recommended due to risks of hardware damage.
Eventually, overclocking potential varies from design to design, although Intel’s CPUs tend to have the upper hand in this regard. An unlocked Intel Core CPU can be pushed substantially further than a Ryzen model and more efficiency can be squeezed out of the CPU in this manner. Only lovers will be able to benefit from this, as Intel motherboards that support overclocking tend to be on the pricey side, not to mention the additional expenses of setting up adequate cooling that will be needed if you want to press the CPU close to the 5 GHz mark.
All in all, any AMD CPU can be overclocked, a lot of AMD chipsets support it, and Ryzen CPUs typically deliver with strong stock coolers, so essentially anybody can overclock a Ryzen CPU at little to no extra cost. The advantages are no place near as obvious as with Intel, so that’s one of the factors why Intel remains so popular amongst enthusiasts and professionals.
The high number of physical cores in Ryzen CPUs was among their primary selling points, as they surpassed every model Intel was using. Prior to the intro of Ryzen, Intel mostly depended on hyperthreading i.e. the innovation which allowed a single physical core to operate as two sensible cores and manage 2 jobs simultaneously. Logical cores are more commonly referred to as “threads”.
In terms of physical core and thread count, Ryzen CPUs transcend to the majority of Intel’s lineup.
The core/thread counts of Ryzen CPUs vary from 4/4 with the most affordable Ryzen 3 CPUs and APUs, the Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 CPUs boast 6/12 and 8/16 cores/threads respectively, at the same time the high-end Threadripper models can go as high as 32/64 Naturally, such a high variety of threads reflects effectively on multitasking, as Ryzen CPUs almost always outperform Intel CPUs in this regard.
On the other hand, the most recent Intel i3 CPUs include 4 cores, the i5 designs with 6, and the i7 models include 8 cores. Hyperthreading is presently booked just for the high-end Intel Core i9, which has 8 cores and 16 threads.
That stated, it’s obvious that Ryzen beats Intel in this department, too, a minimum of for the time being. While they might fare better when it comes to multitasking, that’s not all there is to a gaming CPU, which brings us to the general efficiency that one can anticipate from AMD and Intel.
When it concerns performance, we have actually already pointed out that Ryzen has an edge in regards to multitasking. While they may lag behind in this regard, Intel Core CPUs do use much better single-core efficiency.
So, which is more important for gaming?
Well, that is not a simple question to answer. In the past, games typically didn’t make much use of several cores considering that multi-core CPUs weren’t all that typical, however in 2019, now that we have mainstream CPUs with as lots of as 16 threads, the circumstance has altered.
Naturally, numerous developers will optimize their video games so regarding make the most of these high core/thread counts. Moreover, CPU-heavy games such as method games or video games with huge open worlds will definitely take advantage of a higher core count, however nevertheless, the distinction in in-game efficiency between, state, an Intel Core i5-9600 K and a Ryzen 5 2600 X will be limited in the majority of games. After all, it is always the GPU that does most of the heavy lifting!
When it pertains to compatibility, there are 2 essential elements of the motherboard to think about: the socket and the chipset
The socket is just what the name indicates: the slot where the CPU itself is positioned and through which it interfaces with the motherboard. And if the CPU can fit the socket, then it will work with the chipset, though more affordable chipsets will lack some functions that the more pricey ones lack. As discussed above, not all chipsets support overclocking, and in addition to that, they vary based on supported optimum clock speeds, multi-GPU setups, the number of ports and adapters, and additional innovations such as Intel Optane or AMD StoreMI.
Now, Ryzen CPUs use the latest AM4 sockets and chipsets created specifically for them. The socket itself was created to be universal and forward-compatible, so all of the newer AMD CPUs use it– disallowing, of course, the Threadripper models which utilize a special TR4 socket because of their size. You can see a list of all AM4 chipsets here
On The Other Hand, Intel CPUs utilize the LGA 1151 socket which was presented in 2015, although it had actually because gotten numerous revisions that made backward/forward compatibility troublesome. You can see a list of all LGA 1151 chipsets here.
That said, it’s obvious that AMD has the upper hand in this regard as well, because you can easily swap out CPUs without needing to worry about compatibility.
And now, the response to the main question.
As far as we’re worried, AMD Ryzen is the much better choice for gaming at the minute, and the circumstance is unlikely to change whenever soon. So, why Ryzen?
Sure, they aren’t much better at whatever but while high-end Intel CPUs are a mostly a much better option for enthusiasts and professionals due to their overclocking capabilities and outstanding single-core efficiency, Ryzen uses so much more for less money if we’re discussing gaming.
Not just are they less expensive while offering comparable overall performance, however updating a Ryzen CPU is also simpler, the motherboards are less expensive, and they deliver with great stock coolers. All of this amounts to make Ryzen a more cost-efficient service, something that many players are bound to value.
That is not to say that Intel is not a practical option, but there’s just no rejecting that the ride has been bumpy with Intel ever since Ryzen happened. Every year, Intel Core CPUs come across as costly, and the compatibility concerns are just icing on the cake. Eventually, as discussed above, they are quite worth the money if you’re building a high-end video gaming or workstation PC and plan on overclocking the CPU to get as much efficiency out of it as you can, but as far as gaming is concerned, the worth of an i3 or an i5 CPU is more suspicious than ever.


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27 July at 20:00–23:00
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A monthly night run by saxophonist Alan Wilkinson featuring improvising musicians of many ilks.
Tonight’s event is curated and hosted by multi-talented Ivor Kallin (he of Ambrosia Rasputin, London Improvisers Orchestra, 2:31, Barrel and a host of other kinds of fame). He will also be playing upright electric bass in Glowering Figs, one of tonights acts, with Dave Fowler on drums and Jerry Wigens on guitar, a splurge of free triodom not to be missed.
Also on the bill is the great Dave Draper who will be weaving complex electronic guitarisms into a satisfyingly drole whole.
And that’s not to mention Chromabergs, abstract expressionist poetry band extraordinaire led by artist/wordsmith Geoff Mowlam who is intriguingly supported in his post-postbox endeavours by Stanley Bad on bongos and xaphoon (and very likely other things) and Jerry Wigens on clarinets (and maybe other things).

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Emirates and flydubai will expand their codeshare partnership this year with more destinations as the Dubai airlines seek to improve efficiencies, boost the number of customers and increase profitability.
The two airlines, which started their partnership in October 2017 with 29 codeshare flights, have jointly flown 3.29 million travellers across 84 destinations in 2018, Emirates said on Wednesday.
“During 2019, the network of codeshare flights will be further expanded, with the launch of new flydubai destinations Naples and Budapest, as well as several others that will be announced in due course,” said a statement.
Emirates, the biggest long-haul airline, and its low-cost peer flydubai are hoping to launch codeshare routes to 240 destinations by 2022, supported by more integrated flight schedules, shared fleet usage and aligned frequent flyer programmes.
Emirates and flydubai want to boost the number of customers they serve and cut costs after their profitability in the first half of 2018 was hurt by higher fuel bills from the increase in oil prices during that period.
As part of the partnership, flydubai in December last year started operating 11 flights from Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport to improve connections between the two airlines. More flights will be moved to the terminal this year, Emirates said.
The partnership “has not only delivered tangible benefits to our collective customers, but also to both airlines in terms of the synergies that come with working closely together, for example, reducing route overlaps and the realignment of schedules to common destinations,” said Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed, chairman and chief executive of Emirates Group and chairman of flydubai.
Emirates' first-half net profit fell 86 per cent to Dh226 million, as rebounding oil prices and a stronger dollar put pressure on its margins.
Flydubai widened its first half loss to Dh316.8m compared with the same period last year, as rising oil prices increased fuel costs. Flydubai reported a price setback of Dh175m in the first half of this year due to a 35 per cent increase in the average Brent crude price compared to the same period last year.


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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – The heirs to the comic book artist who created superheroes Captain Marvel and Falcon are accusing Marvel of retaining valuable copyrights that should belong to them, court records show.
Artist Gene Colan’s son and daughter filed a counterclaim against Marvel Characters Inc. on Tuesday challenging the company’s ownership of the iconic characters, according to Brooklyn Federal Court records.
âGene Colan worked day-to-day, in his own premises, using his own instruments and materials, and thus he bore the entire financial risk of creating the [characters] in question â, indicates the lawsuit.
“[Marvel] attempts to rewrite history by claiming that Colan equipment was “work made for hire” originally owned by … so-called predecessors. “
Patch contacted attorneys representing the heirs of Colan and Marvel Characters Inc. but did not receive immediate responses.
Nanci Solo and Erik Colan, the late artist’s children, are among a group of artists and landowners who have sought this summer to end Marvel’s copyrights in characters including Spider-Man and Thor, according to court records.
The artists brought their claim under the Copyright Act, which allows artists to terminate the assignment of copyrights after 35 years if they provide two years’ notice.
Marvel sued the artists in September, filing lawsuits in federal courts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and demanding that termination notices be declared invalid, according to files and reports.
Marvel arguing that the creators were paid workers who had already been paid and therefore were not covered by copyright law, according to legal documents.
But Colan’s heirs contend their father was not a salaried worker but a freelance artist who was underpaid for his contributions, which included purchasing equipment and creating screenplays, the lawsuit says.
They also dispute the contributions and writing credits given to Stan Lee, who they say accepted the credit but did not contribute to the story, according to legal documents.
“Authors have generally accepted unilateral subsidies, preventing them from sharing the success of their works,” argues the lawsuit.
“The results were often supremely unfair, as when a work was found to have lasting commercial value but only enriched the publisher.”
Colan’s characters have made and are making comic book history.
His character Falcon, a man from Harlem who was able to fly and control birds, became the first black mainstream superhero when he appeared in a Captain America comic book in 1969.
Captain Marvel – recently played by Brie Larson in a 2019 film and more to come – made headlines by successfully foiling the “sexist trolls” who tried to criticize his movie, Vox reported at the time.
According to a report from Polygon, Captain Marvel was created to tap into a burgeoning feminist movement and to establish The Marvel brand on the name.


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Guess what, internet? I'm menstruating right now! GASP! I know, right!? Shocker! Let's talk about it! At the moment I am on day 1. Day 1 is the worst. Part of me wants a Java Chip Frappucino, part of me wants sleep, and part of me wants to bend in half backward because, for some reason,… Continue reading Reading list for your period!
Bookish things I’m thankful for
Happy Thanksgiving! Before I stuff myself with food and drink and remain in a stupor for the rest of the day, I want to make a list of things I'm thankful for, within the boundaries of the bookish theme of my blog. And here they are: Finally having (almost) enough shelf space for my home… Continue reading Bookish things I’m thankful for
WE ARE HALFWAY THROUGH NABLOPOMO, PEOPLE! It has gone by very fast, and so far I've been doing well. Thank you to all who have been reading, and good luck to all of you bloggers who have made it this far! It's all down hill from here... Today I am going to make a list… Continue reading Half-finished books
Bookstore bucket list
I've mentioned this before, and now I've actually written it! Here it is, my bookstore bucket list! I've also included famous bookstores I have already visited (it always feels better when you write a to-do list and include some things you've already done just to cross them off - we all do it). The criterion… Continue reading Bookstore bucket list
Beasts I want to see in “Fantastic Beasts”
As you know, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is being made into a movie trilogy written by J.K. herself. The first images of the film were released today, so I thought I'd do a post about it. (Also, the movie comes out on my birthday! Which is not the first time that's happened… Continue reading Beasts I want to see in “Fantastic Beasts”
What your reading position says about you!
In the wake of all the silly listicles on our beloved internet, I wrote a thing. Cross-legged, wrapped in blankets, or sprawled on the sofa, where and how you read can actually reveal surprising things about your personality! Laying on your stomach, book open on the ground in front of you: You are enjoying a… Continue reading What your reading position says about you!
[Censored] Book List
It's banned books week! In celebration of the freedom to read whatever the hell you want, here is a list of some of my favorite banned books: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Scary… Continue reading [Censored] Book List
The Book Guilt List
We all have those books we are ashamed of having not read. I posted this on my personal blog a few months ago and thought it would be better placed here, on my new book blog, so I've decided to make a revised list. This list is based on my tastes, personality, and general reading… Continue reading The Book Guilt List

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By Brian Wheeler
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Charlottesville-Albemarle community continues to put its unique imprint on the plans for the future Biscuit Run State Park . A 27-member advisory committee held its third meeting Monday after spending two hours touring parts of the 1,200-acre site located south of Charlottesville between U.S. Route 20 and Old Lynchburg Road.
Janit Llewellyn, an environmental program planner at the Department of Conservation and Recreation, said the committee planning the park was generating “some really good input.” The committee’s recommendations will be shared at a public meeting on June 6.
“I am looking forward to a large public meeting,” said Llewellyn. “A lot of state parks are more rural, and we don’t get as much feedback.”
Previously planned as the largest residential development ever approved in Albemarle County, Biscuit Run’s 1,200 acres were acquired by the state to create a new park in December 2009 .
The committee has been refining a purpose statement for the park along with enumerating goals and objectives for park amenities and uses. In the audience, some of the special interest groups lobbying for inclusion in the park’s plans included dancers, musicians, and disc golfers.
“We have a lot of special interest groups here,” acknowledged Llewellyn. “It’s great to have that enthusiasm.”
John Clem, a member of the Blue Ridge Disc Golf Club , came to revive an idea for a disc golf course.
“Originally when they were going to make it a development, the developer approached us about designing a course,” Clem said in an interview. “We have a successful course at Walnut Creek and we would like to have one closer to the city so you don’t necessarily need a car to get there.”
The park’s proposed statement of purpose highlights the goal of engaging and learning from the “unique natural, scenic, historical and cultural resources” in the area.
As a state park in close proximity to the city of Charlottesville and Albemarle neighborhoods, like Mill Creek South and Lake Reynovia, the goals also include connecting “urban and rural recreational and educational opportunities.”
Lonnie Murray is a member of the advisory committee and chair of the Albemarle County Natural Heritage Committee that advises the board of supervisors on land use decisions. Murray has advocated for the park to be used, in part, to provide opportunities to experience native plants and wildlife.
One “invasive species” he hopes will be close to extinct in the new state park is recreational vehicles. Murray advocated for establishing tent camping and RV’s in separate locations, and noted a more natural experience could bring different customers.
“If you don’t include RV’s, we will attract an entirely different sort of person to the park,” Murray said.
The committee discussed eliminating RVs all together as a use, but ultimately landed on language that would recommend development of a “tent-only campground.” RVs might be allowed in a “limited and separate” area.
Johnny Finch is president of the Virginia Association for Parks and a member of the advisory committee.
“I am not opposed to separate facilities, but I do think it would be a travesty for a Virginia state park to discriminate against a very viable part of the park industry,” Finch said in an interview. “Some objections seem to be about generators, but here they would have electrical connections and water hook-ups.”
After the meeting, Murray said he hoped the state wouldn’t take a cookie-cutter approach to the park’s planning.
“I am pretty excited about the next steps that will actually create something that will pull people in,” Murray said.
One idea that got Murray’s attention was a proposal submitted by Rob Craighurst for a musical performance venue he is calling the Biscuit Run Community Stage . His plan depicted a multi-use covered stage that would be surrounded by an outdoor grassy amphitheater.
“It’s hard to say where this goes, [the goals and objectives] are so general,” said Craighurst in an interview. “I am going to keep pushing for the unique [amenities] that will make this park different.”
“We have all kinds of musicians here that could book a concert there several nights a week,” Craighurst added.
The committee agreed to include both an amphitheater and a multi-use pavilion as proposed objectives. However, neither athletic playing fields nor a disc golf course made the cut, though the latter was mentioned as a potential use in the proposed “activity areas.”
Bob Crickenberger, Albemarle’s parks and recreation director, was one of the officials who called for inclusion of new athletic fields at the committee’s March meeting .
“I still would hope they would take that into consideration,” said Crickenberger after the meeting. “I will encourage our user groups to attend June 6th as I think [the state] needs to hear that from the community.”
The DCR expects to complete a master plan by the end of the year. Implementation of the plan, and the ultimate opening of the park, will require new funding from the General Assembly.
A public briefing and public input opportunity will be held on June 6 at 7:00 PM in the Lane Auditorium at the Albemarle County Office Building.


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Nasdaq, Citi Join Novogratz in Funding Blockchain Firm SymbiontKim Yorio, January 23, 2019
Nasdaq Inc. and Citigroup Inc. are among firms that are investing $20 million in Symbiont.io Inc., a New York-based company that’s applying blockchain technology to capital markets.Their support for Symbiont shows Wall Street’s enthusiasm for the technology behind Bitcoin hasn’t completely cooled with the collapse in cryptocurrencies. And it comes despite a growing pragmatism about the technology’s limitations and potential applications, according to Symbiont Chief Executive Officer Mark Smith.
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The Washington Wizards G League affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go, held their second open local player tryouts at the Entertainment and Sports Arena Saturday morning in Southeast D.C.
Over 100 hopefuls filed into the arena with plans to impress Go-Go General Manager, Pop Mensah-Bonsu, head coach Ryan Richman, and his staff.
Although each player in attendance has a unique path that’s led them here, they all shared one simple, yet intricate goal:
One shot in the G League.
Adam Stanford, a prospect from California, traveled on a red eye to make the tryout on a less-than-ideal amount of sleep.
“My plane left at midnight from LAX, I had a two-hour layover in Denver, made it to Reagan National at five, checked into my hotel at six, took an hour nap and then Ubered here for tryouts,” he said.
“If I made this team it’d be big. Not just for me but for everyone who knows what I’ve been through from college to now.”
Stanford is a 6-foot-4 wing from Campbellsville University, where he averaged 7 points, 5 rebounds, and was an academic All-American.
Even with his positive outlook on the process, and an impressive showing Saturday morning, Stanford’s name wasn’t called for a follow-up workout later in the afternoon.
The harsh reality that your chances are extremely slim to make a G League roster from an open tryout can be a tough pill to swallow, but as a guy who’s been on the opposite end of the chopping block, Mensah-Bonsu had an immense amount of respect for those who showed up to compete Saturday.
“Personally it’s tough because I never wanted to be that guy to read out the numbers of those who did make the team, and skip over those who didn’t,” Mensah-Bonsu said, “it’s heartbreaking. We always anticipate what the DMV has to offer in terms of the wealth of talent in this area.
"I was pleasantly surprised because we ended up selecting 15 guys to stick around for the afternoon portion, but going into this we were only planning to pick five.”
Those who made the cut won’t be announced until a later date, which leaves the larger point of how those who were passed on respond?
The all-time leading scorer in Peach Sun Belt Conference history, Detrek Browning, was in attendance Saturday and put on a show. His combination of quickness, deep range shooting ability, and a knack for loose balls/putbacks captured the attention of every media member in attendance.
However, his name wasn’t called for the next round of tryouts.
Still, in a state of shock, he delivered words of encouragement not just for his self, but others to turn to after a similar letdown.
“I for sure thought I was going to get a place here, but you just gotta focus and move on,” Browning said. “I quit my job in June to focus on basketball and it’s been paying off. I’ve seen my game increase exponentially.
“I did my best and that’s what matters,” he added. “I appreciate them not picking me up, it’s just going to make me work even harder.”
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Preventing Prediabetes Turning Into Type 2 Diabetes
I wish I had known about prediabetes and had the chance to change my lifestyle before I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I now know that many of the niggling symptoms I was experiencing in the years leading up to my diagnosis were warning signs.
I think in my heart of hearts I knew I was likely to develop the condition – I used to avoid reading about diabetes even though my paternal grandmother went blind with type 2 diabetes.
In addition, I had been slightly overweight for years and I was (and still am) the typical diabetic apple shape with skinny arms and legs and a waist measurement well over 31cms.
People used to ask me if I was pregnant because I looked relatively thin with a very rounded, swollen stomach. I used to tell myself it was bloating caused by bread, veg or soda, and tried to ignore the adverts everywhere shouting that my body shape put me at high risk.
If you are tempted to turn away too – don’t!
If you are prediabetic (also known as borderline diabetic) the good news is that if you tackle your fears and make even small changes to your lifestyle there is a chance you can slow down or even completely avoid developing full-blown type 2 diabetes.
So what are the risk factors and symptoms of pre-diabetes?
The main give-away is that your healthcare provider might have advised you your blood glucose (sugar) levels are higher than is considered normal, but not yet at a level classed as diabetic.
Other risk factors include:
- Being overweight or obese.
- Having a close relative, like a parent or brother or sister, who has diabetes.
- Being over 40
- Having given birth to a baby that weighed over 9lbs.
- Having high blood pressure and/or low “good” cholesterol or high triglyceride (blood fat) levels.
- Some groups are genetically more prone to prediabetes and diabetes, including Native Americans, Afro-Caribbeans and South Asians, but prediabetes can affect anyone of any age, gender or race.
Tick a few of those boxes? Don’t panic – making a few changes to your life will benefit your health generally and could even prevent you developing Type 2 diabetes at all.

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Jessica Stam for RUSSH magazine April/May 2011
Another shoot perfectly executed by our favourite editor Stevie Dance.
Can this woman ever do wrong?? Whether styling herself or others she manages to create a perfect vision of style and sophistication that is her very own.
We are so excited to track her down during Rosemount Australian Fashion Week 11' for more glimpses of her personal style as she trots from show to show in more jaw dropping outfits. She represents Australian fashion with a conviction and flair that is truly inspirational. We are secretly hoping to see a lot more of this woman in the near future.
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Templar Cavalry in the Field of War
Templar Cavalry in the Field of WarFollow @KnightsTempOrg
The Knights Templar’s mission to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land of Palestine quickly developed into a full capability with the most advanced military equipment and tactics of the time.
This naturally included heavy cavalry, as this well-researched and accurate video explains…
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4-11-12 - Springfield - Republican staff photo by Don Treeger- The Springfield Retirement Board holds a hearing where they decided to deny pension benefits to former police officer Jeffrey Asher.
Springfield currently has just 29 percent of the money it needs to keep its promises to current and future retirees. Measured in dollars, Springfield has an unfunded liability of $652.7 million, according to a 2012 annual report by the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission.
The Pioneer Institute database gives new insight into what has been a perennial problem in Massachusetts – the funding of the state’s 105 public pension systems. The problem is particularly acute in Springfield, which has seen its unfunded liability grow steadily over the past decade.
The issue has particular resonance now due to Detroit’s recent bankruptcy. That city also had significant unfunded liabilities in its pension system. Whether those retirees will get more than pennies on the dollars which were promised to them is up to a bankruptcy court.
Anne Leduc, executive director of the Springfield Retirement Board, was asked if there is a chance that future Springfield retirees will not see their promised pension benefits. “If I could see in the future, I’d probably be laying on a beach right now,” Leduc responded. “I don’t think you’ll get a straight answer to that one.”
Under current projections, Springfield’s pension fund will be fully funded by 2037 – a date that puts the City of Homes in 15th from last among all of Massachusetts’s public pension funds.
But Springfield is not the only city with pension fund problems. Only one pension fund in the state is fully funded – the small Minuteman Regional School District in Lexington.
Twenty-five pensions are funded at less than 50 percent. Everett and Lawrence, the second and third lowest funded pension funds, are both funded at less than 40 percent.
"When one looks at the pension problem in Massachusetts, it's clearly worse today than it was a decade ago," said Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. "That's a cause of great concern for the state and municipalities."
All the pension funds were hurt by the 2008 stock market crash, Widmer said. The funds count on growth of about 8 percent a year from their investments, and anything that falls short of that increases the unfunded liability if the money is not made up by taxpayers.
Additionally, he said, legislation over the years has sweetened pensions, adding to the costs. People are also living longer.
Combined with separate unfunded liabilities for retiree health benefits, Widmer said, “It’s simply an overwhelming obligation that communities have assumed but they can’t pay for.”
Iliya Atanasov, the Pioneer Institute’s senior fellow on finance, who led the institute’s pension research, said cities like Springfield, Lawrence and New Bedford have had a more fundamental economic problem over the last couple of decades, since they lost their manufacturing bases.
“For a lot of these places, the pension issue is an integral part of general economic decline - falling housing prices, poor education. It’s the same kind of dynamic that we saw with Detroit,” Atanasov said.
A range of factors can contribute, Atanasov said, to a low-funded pension: annual cost of living increases given to employees, the number of employees a city has, small pension funds that do not have the capacity to make smart investment decisions, low employment rates and an ailing economy that limits the tax dollars available to pay these costs.
“There’s no one way in which this issue can be repaired,” Atanasov said. “We need to rein in management expenses, be more careful with payroll costs, find ways to boost the economy. We need to be sure the investments we make are wise.”
The conservative-leaning Pioneer Institute argued in a separate policy brief that consolidating administration of the state's 105 pension systems would save up to $25 million annually in labor costs and stipends to board members, which could then be put toward the unfunded liabilities.
As of 2012, Springfield had around 3,200 employees and 2,700 retirees and paid an average retiree benefit of $21,300.
In Springfield, the investments made by the pension fund are controlled by the state. A 2007 state law requires the state pension fund to manage any public pension fund that does not meet certain investment standards. The goal was to help funds that do not have the same resources as the state to make investment decisions. Springfield’s fund has been invested with the state since 2005.
Springfield officials attribute the low funding ratio of the pension fund to market and economic conditions. “If you go over the last 10 to 15 years and the way the economy is, it added to the position that the Springfield retirement fund is in now,” Leduc said.
Springfield comptroller Patrick Burns, an ex-officio member of the retirement board, said the decline in funding is due to the 2008 stock market crash. The fund reported losing 28 percent of its value in 2008, the biggest drop in investment returns since 1985, the earliest date for which data available. “I think every pension system in the commonwealth was affected by the crash,” Burns said.
As the market has rebounded, the Springfield pension fund has improved its performance, gaining 13 to 14 percent in three of the last four years.
Burns could not explain why Springfield’s funding is still lower than others in the state. But, he said, the retirement board is addressing the problem by adopting a more aggressive funding schedule.
For fiscal year 2014, which started this month, the city paid $37.2 million into the pension system. Next year, it will increase that amount by 5 percent, with 6 percent increases every year thereafter. The new schedule, Burns said, will let the city fully fund its liability by 2037.
Historically, Springfield’s pension system had been funded at above 50 percent through 2002, hitting its highest funding level – 57 percent – in 2000. Investment returns dropped significantly in 2002 and the funding level never rose above 50 percent again.
James Harrigan, a retired firefighter who was on the retirement board from 1996 to 2008, said the fund “took a huge hit” around 2000 due to market conditions. The stock market crashed in both 2000 and 2002, and the country went into recession. Harrigan said the Springfield retirement board fired some of its money managers around that time.
In addition, Harrigan said, the city was hurting financially for years and did not always put enough money into the pension system. “It was just a hard time to come up with money,” he said.

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The People ParadoxStreaming Video - 2004
Through vivid personal stories, this program reveals many startling trends. In Japan, Europe, and Russia, birth rates are shrinking and the population is aging. But in parts of India and Africa, more than half of the still-growing population is under 25. The surprising conclusion: world population is now careening in two dramatically different directions.
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- Volume 15 Issue 17
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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Risk of Endometrial Cancer: a Mini-Review
- Tokmak, Aytekin (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital) ;
- Kokanali, Mahmut Kuntay (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital) ;
- Guzel, Ali Irfan (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital) ;
- Kara, Aydan (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital) ;
- Topcu, Hasan Onur (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital) ;
- Cavkaytar, Sabri (Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Woman's Health Education and Research Hospital)
- Published : 2014.09.15
The polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrinological disorder of reproductive age women with a prevalence of 5 to 8 %. The most common diagnostic criteria used for polycystic ovary syndrome are oligo- or an-ovulation, clinical and/ or biochemical signs of hyperandrogenism and polycystic ovaries. Hyperandrogenism results in increased estrogen levels and lack of cyclic progesterone due to anovulation and persistent stimulation of the endometrium may lead to endometrial hyperplasia or adenocarcinoma development. In this mini review, we aimed to evaluate the possible relationship between polycystic ovary syndrome and endometrial cancer.
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How do I know if my car loan is in default?
Your car loan could be considered in default after just one missed payment, though it varies by providers. Typically, most lenders won’t take steps to repossess your car until your 90 days late on a repayment. Your loan agreement should detail how many days you have to miss before your loan to go into default.
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Just being late on your car loan repayment will likely lower your credit score. But going into default will add another negative mark to your credit report. If your car is repossessed, your account is sent to collections or your lender sues you, your credit score could take an even greater hit — dropping as much as 100 points in some cases.
2. Your car may be repossessed and sold.
In most states, your car can be repossessed once your loan goes into default. However, your lender is required to notify you beforehand and give you the chance to catch up on payments first. If you’re unable to get out of default, your lender will likely seize your car and sell it at a fair market price.
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3. You may still owe your lender after your car is repossessed.
If your lender sold your car for less than your outstanding loan balance, you’ll be on the hook to repay the difference — called the deficiency balance. You’ll also be responsible for paying any costs associated with repossessing your car.
4. Your remaining debt could be sent to collections.
Fail to repay the deficiency balance? Your lender might sell your debt to a third-party collection agency, which tries to get you to pay up. If you don’t, there’s a chance the agency could sue you for repayment.
What is the statute of limitations on car loans?
The statute of limitations on car loans varies by state, ranging anywhere from three to 15 years. It all depends on whether your state considers your car loan contract to be a promissory note or written contract. Once the statute of limitations on your car loan passes, your lender no longer has the right to sue you for repayment.
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How will defaulting on my car loan affect my cosigner?
If a family member or friend cosigned your car loan, they’re legally responsible for paying back your loan should you default. If they fail to do so, your cosigner will be hit with the same consequence you’re facing, including a lower credit score and the risk of being sued over an unpaid deficiency balance.
I defaulted on my car loan. What can I do?
If you received a notice from your lender that your car loan is in default, you still have a few options to prevent your car from being repossessed. These include:
- Contact your lender to set up a new payment plan. Your lender may be willing to adjust your payment plan to make it more manageable — especially if you have proof of economic hardship. If you’re able to come to an agreement on a revised plan, make sure you get it in writing.
- Refinance your car loan with another lender. If your credit score hasn’t taken a huge hit, you may be able to refinance your car loan with another lender. Even if you can’t qualify for a lower rate, extending the term can make for smaller monthly payments.
- Sell your car and pay off your loan in full. This is ideal if you owe less than your car is worth — you may even be able to make a profit from the sale. However, this may not be the best choice if your car loan is upside down.
- Surrender your car to your lender. If repossession is on the horizon and you’ve exhausted all other options, you can voluntarily turn your car over to your lender. While this will still count as a repossession on your credit report, you won’t be responsible for paying repossession fees.
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Home-improvement firm Curbio, Inc has announced that it has been ranked No. 1,467 on Inc. Magazine’s prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately owned companies for 2023. This is the second time that Curbio has ranked on the Inc. 5000, following its inclusion in 2022 during their first year of eligibility for the list.
“We are honored that Curbio has once again been named to the Inc. 5000 list, ranking amongst some of the most successful companies in the world. This recognition is a testament to the hard work of our team, who are all remarkably dedicated to our mission of transforming home improvement for real estate. I want to congratulate everyone at Curbio on this achievement and look forward to another year of our continued growth and success,” said Rick Rudman, CEO of Curbio.
The Inc. 5000 class of 2023 represents companies that have “driven rapid revenue growth while navigating inflationary pressure, the rising costs of capital, and seemingly intractable hiring challenges.” This year’s Inc. 5000 companies have added 1,187,266 jobs to the economy over the past three years.
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To see the full list, visit https://www.inc.com/inc5000. For more information, visit https://curbio.com/.