The American Horse Council has launched a new effort to collect information on access issues equestrians are experiencing on federal lands. The center piece of this effort is an online form equestrians can use to report their personal experiences regarding trails and federal lands that have been closed to them or other access issues.
Americans who use horses and pack stock enjoy a unique experience when they ride on trails and public lands. It is an experience that ties them to the 'pioneer' era and provides not only a way to connect with America's vast and unique natural resources but a link with America's history and traditions. It is an experience that cannot be enjoyed without a trail system, trailhead access and areas for camping. It is an experience that Americans enjoyed even before there was a national park system and an experience they want to continue.
Unfortunately, equestrians are seeing an increasing loss of access through trail restrictions, trail closures, and use restrictions. Riders and stock users are being excluded from areas that they have historically traveled through and indeed first opened up. It is a loss of opportunities for riders, families, persons with disabilities, school groups and others. There seems to be a management environment less open to these traditional forms of use. Sometimes restrictions on equestrian use are done intentionally through management plans that reduce, restrict or eliminate horses, horse facilities, camping or grazing restrictions, cross-country travel restrictions or closures. Sometimes the restrictions are indirect though a lack of trail maintenance, or over regulation, or lack of services to the public like facilities that provide saddle and pack animals or parking for horse trailers.
In order to better combat this disturbing trend the AHC is asking equestrians to document examples of trails or entire areas that have been closed to equestrians on federal land (National Forest Service, National Parks Service, and Bureau of Land Management, etc). The AHC is seeking all relevant information concerning these closures such as the reason for the loss of access, details concerning any public process that was involved and the history of equestrian use on the closed trail or area.
The AHC is also interested in examples of attempts to bar equestrian access that have been defeated.
"The reduction of trails, trail heads and the closure of public lands to horses and pack animals is a continuing problem for equestrians. However, there is no centralized, comprehensive database that documents any loss of access and even fewer specific examples," said AHC President Jay Hickey. "We hope by giving equestrians a place to report their experiences we can get a better picture of the problem and use that information to fix it."
The AHC is asking all recreational riders to visit the AHC website and report any access issues they have had using this electronic form https://www.horsecouncil.org/survey.php. This will be a permanent feature of the AHC website.
"The AHC is committed to preserving equine access to public lands. It is very important for these efforts that we have evidence that demonstrates the extent of the problem and the need for action on the part of Congress or the federal land agencies," said Hickey.
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|Birth date:||August 23, 1978|
|Birth place:||Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States|
|Height:||6 ft 5 in (1.98 m)|
|Weight:||205 lbs (93 kg)|
|Profession:||Basketball player, Athlete|
|Nationality:||United States of America|
|Spouse:||Vanessa Laine Bryant (m. 2001)|
|Parents:||Joe Bryant, Pam Bryant|
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Regional NSW is rich in resources, talented labour and successful businesses, with lower costs than major cities. It is home to a third of the state's population, and produces one-fifth of NSW's gross state product. Regional NSW has thriving agricultural, energy and resources industries and strong manufacturing, tourism and service sectors.
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Key facts about Regional NSW
Regional NSW economy
of NSW's gross state product
April 2015 - September 2017
of manufactured goods are produced regionally, particularly food and defence
of the workforce employed in services, the highest of all Australian states
Source: ABS (6291.0); analysis based on ABS (5220) and DIRS, Australian Industry Report 2016, Experimental Gross Regional Product Estimates.
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Stable economy, business security
Regional NSW is the most diverse regional economy in Australia, generating a third of the NSW economy.
Regional NSW is intimately connected to Sydney and its dynamic economy and sector strengths in financial services, ICT, construction, manufacturing, arts, culture and screen. Regional NSW is home to 3 million people, 40% of the total NSW population.
Approximately 39% of the value of the State’s exports is derived from agricultural, fisheries and other natural resources primarily sourced from Regional NSW.
The economy of Regional NSW benefits from a stable state government, a transparent legal system, and business-friendly regulation and policies.
Businesses can take advantage of Australia’s economic performance, now in its 27th consecutive year of annual economic growth. Australia is the 13th largest economy in the world and 5th on the Index of Economic Freedom. It boasts one of the world’s most stable systems of government, underpinned by strong property rights and a robust financial system.
Diverse, established regional industries
Regional NSW is a diverse economic powerhouse. Traditional industry strengths have been developed using innovation and technology to add value and increase productivity.
Today, key sectors span agribusiness and food, advanced manufacturing, mining and resources, defence and aerospace, and professional and financial services.
Rapidly growing opportunities exist in renewable energy generation, tourism, health and aged care, and education services. Freight, logistics and distribution, construction and forestry continue to be important supporting sectors.
Regional NSW’s major merchandise exports include coal, copper, beef and aluminum. It has a diverse export-base of manufactured goods, agricultural commodities, high quality food and beverages, and minerals.
Regional NSW has successfully lifted and diversified its services-share of economic activity. Services account for 57% of regional employment. Productivity is enhanced by services in mining, agribusiness, health and aged care, manufacturing, and professional and scientific sectors. In addition, each region sustains a local service economy encompassing retail and public sectors.
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Regional NSW’s University of Newcastle and University of Wollongong both rank in the top 300 universities in the world in the 2018 Times Higher Education index.
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- Port of Eden, NSW's southernmost deep water port which receives cruise ships, wood chippers and log ships.
Businesses are well served by international airfreight and passenger services from Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane and Gold Coast international airports. There are more than 70 public airports in the region.
Air and sea transport times to major markets
|Auckland Port of Tauranga||3 hours / 11-13 non-stop flights per day||2 days|
|Dubai Port of Jebel Ali||14 hours / 3 non-stop flights per day||12 days|
|Los Angeles Port of Long Beach||13.5 hours / 5 non-stop flights per day||11 days|
|Seoul Port of Incheon||10 hours / 2 non-stop flights per day||8 days|
|Shanghai Port of Shanghai||10 hours / 2-4 non-stop flights per day||8 days|
|Singapore Port of Singapore||7.5 hours / 9 non-stop flights per day||7 days|
|Tokyo Port of Tokyo||9.5 hours / 3 flights per day||7.5 days|
Source: Air approximations are based on Google Maps. Sea approximations calculated on commercial container ships’ average speed of 24 knots based on data from Sea-Distances.Org.
Skilled labour is readily available in Regional NSW, with 50% of the regional workforce holding tertiary qualifications.
Of these, 24% have a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) qualification, 10% have a health qualification and 4% have an agricultural qualification.
Doing business in Regional NSW costs significantly less than major metropolitan locations.
Office rental costs in Regional NSW average A$249 per square metre per year compared to A$675 in Melbourne's CBD. Wages are also lower, with median wages of A$60,700 per year. The average annual charge for domestic waste in Regional NSW is A$293.
Source: ABS 2017 Greater Capital City Statistical Area-Rest of NSW, Census 2016 & LJ Hooker Commercial, 2017
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Regional NSW has over 1600 schools, 104 Technical and Further Education (TAFE) facilities and 5 major universities. Residents enjoy excellent access to high-quality health care and public services.
Housing affordability in Regional NSW is a key attraction with the average monthly rent only A$808. Utilities and other costs, such as school fees and childcare, are also affordable.
Regional NSW residents consistently report a higher quality of life, ranking life satisfaction and a sense of community belonging highly in surveys.
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for investment into regional water infrastructure
for enabling infrastructure needed to support job creation and economic growth across Regional NSW
for investment into infrastructure to increase tourist visitation to Regional NSW and create jobs
to support councils and community groups in delivery of crucial local infrastructure to improve quality of life across Regional NSW
to support investment into sports and cultural infrastructure
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International Paper (NYSE: IP), Memphis, TN, has agreed to explore a proposed business combination of xpedx, International Paper's distribution business, and Unisource Worldwide Inc., Norcross, GA. Both xpedx and Unisource are business-to-business distributors of printing, packaging and facility supplies.
The discussions were initiated when Unisource approached International Paper about a possible merger, and on April 19, the parties agreed to explore a possible transaction.
The letter of intent outlines a transaction in which International Paper would contribute the assets of xpedx to a newly-formed corporation, and receive a cash dividend financed with debt in the new corporation's capital structure. This new corporation would be spun off to International Paper shareholders and then merged with Unisource.
Following the spin-off and merger, the new company would be an independent, publicly traded corporation with a majority of independent directors. Some combination of current xpedx and Unisource management is expected to lead the new company.

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): “The raw meat materials used for precooked-cooked products are lower-grade muscle trimmings, fatty tissues, head meat, animal feet, animal skin, blood, liver and other edible slaughter by-products.”
The US Department of Agriculture has announced that following recent customer complaints about finding pieces of bone and cartilage in hot dogs and sausages, Sabrett will be recalling a massive 7 million pounds of meat products.
This discovery has sparked an uproar and resulted hot dogs and sausages to be recalled en masse from a meat processor in New York.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service even said in a statement that a minor oral injury was sustained by a hot-dog eating consumer, however this is the only injury or illness to have been reported in connection to a meat processing plant in a New York borough, Marathon Enterprises Inc.
Predominantly sold under the name Sabrett, these meat products containing bone and cartilage segments were sold to a variety of institutions and retailers across the nation.
“Sabrett deeply regrets any concern or inconvenience this has caused its loyal customers.” – Marathon Enterprises Inc.
As seen in blockbuster movies such as Ghostbusters, Sabrett’s street-corner pushcart vendors with recognizable blue and yellow umbrellas have been a fixture on New York streets for many decades; therefore making Sabrett hot dogs a bit of a tourist attraction for New Yorker’s holidaymakers.
However, not all Sabrett meat products are of concern in regard to bone and cartilage contamination. Meat produced between March 17-July 4, 2017 and meat with a sell-before date between June 19-October 6, 2017 are the only batches which have been subject to a Class 1 recall thus far.
According to the USDA, if consumed, these meats are a serious health hazard which present a “reasonable probability of causing serious, adverse health consequences or death.”
Although the company says the decision to recall these meats is merely due to “an abundance of caution.” would you be comfortable eating a sausage or hot dog from a street vendor that is likely to contain bone and cartilage segments?
Perhaps this scandal poses a much broader question though – Why as a general population are we comfortable with eating “head meat, animal feet, animal skin, blood, liver and low grade muscle trimmings” but find it completely unacceptable to find a piece of bone in our food?
Ultimately it seems that there is a huge disconnect between the food on our plate and what it took to get there.

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Writers: Neil LaBute, Anthony Shaffer
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, Diane Delano, Michael Wiseman, Erika-Shaye Gair, Christa Campbell, Emily Holmes
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Tagline: Some Sacrifices Must Be Made
Plot: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
My rating: 5.5/10
Will I watch it again? Hells, no.
BURNING SPOILERS AHEAD...YARRRRR!!!
Everything that was special and wonderful about the original THE WICKER MAN (1973) is missing from this no-one-asked-for-it remake. That isn't to say it's utterly awful. It isn't. I really like the location and community used in the film. I would LOVE to live there but not within the society as seen in the film. That's too harsh...and religious. That's about where the positive begins and ends.
Just for a moment, I'll forget that the original film exists and try to look at this as its own thing. It's still not good. Many of the line readings are awkward making me wonder what the alternates left out of the picture sounded like. There's not much mystery and it's poorly hidden at that. It also includes a fair amount of little action-y bits. Nicolas Cage does a decent job but he has his moments where he goes into 'batshit Cage country'. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Between the dialogue, bland line readings and performances, the direction of this film is muddled and questionably weak. It shouldn't have been that way.
"Step away from the bike!"
Now let's put the original film back on the table. This remake doesn't have any folk tunes. I'm not saying it has to because the original did but this picture could have been helped by at least one. There's a scene where everyone is dancing in their animal costume as the frolic through the woods to a ceremony. A situation like that screams for a song performed by the participants, especially in a Pagan society such as this. The original film's conflict was between ideologies. Sgt. Howie's religion clashed with the island inhabitant's religion. The remake does a poor job of showing this since they altered the requirements for sacrifice from the original. I've got more to say but I need to wrap this up. Finally, there are the performances from the leads. Woodward's performance in the original is leagues better than Cage's. When the big surprise is discovered in the '73 film, Woodward's performance is hauntingly real. Cage's? Well... OK, one more thing. In the original, to get permission from Lord Summerisle to exhume a body, Sgt. Howie asks him at the outset of their introduction to each other. Lord Summerisle gives it to him early on but they continue their conversation in a lengthy and fun exchange. At the end of it Howie asks for permission again to which Lord Summerisle ends the scene, cleverly and playfully saying, "I was under the impression I had already given it to you." In the remake Sister Summerisle (the equivalent title to the '73 picture) says the line but it doesn't end the conversation. She speaks almost under her breath and continues speaking, effectively sweeping that great line under the run and lessening the potency of not only the line but of the scene. That about sums up how this film compares to the '73 original.

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IDG News Service - Acer CEO J.T. Wang is resigning from his post at the Taiwanese PC maker and will be replaced by president Jim Wong as part of a corporate restructuring that will try to revitalize the company's sagging fortunes.
Citing the company's recent run of poor financial results, Wang said in a statement on Tuesday: "It is time for me to hand over the responsibility to a new leadership team to path the way for a new era."
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Work has already begun on the next entry in the Indiana Jones franchise, but there’s a compelling what-if scenario regarding the last entry, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the CrystalSkull. That film ended up being rather lukewarmly received, which can’t help but make you think about what it could have been under M. Night Shyamalan, who at one point met with Steven Spielberg about the film and had a full pitch for the project. Shyamalan talked about the meeting and the process with Collider and revealed he still has the pitch he made in his green notebook.
“Oh, my God. I mean, it was fantastic. Obviously, Raiders of the Lost Ark is my favorite movie of all time, and so this was a dream, to be asked as a kid to go see a movie in a movie theater and then later to be asked by that person to write one of those in the future. I could faint at that moment. It was amazing. I do have my notebooks; I still have those with all my ideas for that movie. I did have a take. I talked to everybody involved and it was so nascent at that time, that movie. Everyone hadn’t gotten into a room yet. They were bouncing ideas off of me. So everyone had different ideas of what to do. When you say that, I have in my head, it’s a green notebook, and I had this idea. It was a darker idea,” Shyamalan said.
He had a pitch ready, complete with what the MacGuffin would be, and teased it was a little darker. “I did, I did, yeah. I had an idea. I hadn’t pitched it to them or anything like that, but I had an idea,” Shyamalan said.
Ultimately he didn’t end up working on the project, and Crystal Skull would go on to become the most divisive entry in the series. It was also supposed to set up a successor, but that didn’t pan out obviously. Harrison Ford will be reprising his role in 5, and while there have been some delays, Ford assured they are taking the time to get this one right.
“I don’t really want to give them what they want to see,” Ford explained. “I want to give them something they didn’t anticipate seeing. I think they’re used to a degree of disappointment when you revisit — I mean certainly the Marvel movies have made a spectacular example of success that worked the other way around. They killed it. Well, we’re not going to make another Indiana Jones unless we’re in a position to kill it. We want it to be the best. So we’ve got some scheduling issues, a few script things still to do, but we’re determined to get it right before we get it made.”
Indiana Jones 5 is expected to hit theaters on July 29th, 2022.
Would you have liked to see Shyamalan’s take on Indiana Jones? Let us know in the comments!


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SZA Feat. Isaiah Rashad "Warm Winds" Video
SZA and Isaiah Rashad team up for the music video to "Warm Winds."
SZA's new album Z wasn't jam-packed with features, although TDE label mates Isaiah Rashad and Kendrick Lamar made an appearance in some of the few featured tracks. Isaiah Rashad appeared on the soft "Warm Winds" where he sang along with SZA.
Today the songstress reveals the official music video for "Warm Winds" which is a bit low-fi, as she opts to use found footage mixed in with hazy clips of herself and Rashad out in an empty field.


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Mushroom Risottoadapted from Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics (Clarkson/Potter 2008)
4 oz fresh wild mushrooms (the package at my store contained sliced oyster, baby bella and shitake)
1/2 lb fresh cremini mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
4 cups chicken stock
2 cups vegetable stock
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 oz pancetta
1/2 cup chopped shallots
1 1/2 cups Arborio rice
1/2 cup dry white wine
1/2 teaspoon saffron threads
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2/3 cup parmesan cheese, freshly grated
In a large saucepan, heat the chicken and vegetable stocks and bring to a simmer.
In a heavy-bottomed pot or Dutch oven, melt the butter and saute the pancetta and shallots over medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and saute for another 5 minutes.
Add the rice and stir to coat the grains with butter. Add the wine and cook for 2 minutes.
Add 2 full ladles of the chicken stock mixture to the rice, plus the saffron, salt and pepper. Stir and simmer over LOW heat until the stock is absorbed, 5-10 minutes. Continue to add the stock mixture, 2 ladles at a time, stirring every few minutes. Each time, cook until the mixture seems a little dry before adding more of the stock mixture. Continue until the rice is cooked through, but still al dente, about 25-30 minutes total.
When done, the risotto should be thick and creamy and not at all dry. Off the heat, stir in the parmesan cheese. Serve hot in bowls with extra cheese.


Peter Hain MP has established Refounding Labour, a public consultation on how the Labour Party must renew a itself as the movement of socialist progressivism in British society. Hain very rightly says:
Despite a proud achievements during 13 years in government, sometimes we lost our way: we lost hundreds of councillors, thousands of members and 5 million voters – and then we lost the General Election. By May 2010 our activist base had been seriously depleted and many members felt disillusioned.
I am one of those:
"I must be honest of my significant weariness of Labour. I grew up under the New Labour governments of Blair and Brown. While not undermining their many great achievements, what I can only view as the reactionary and illiberal authoritarianism of these years is the primary reason I have identified as a supporter of the Liberal Democrats until around a year ago. While this coalition government inflicts police brutality against the peaceful dissenters of its agenda causing devastation and injustice without mandate, Labour must renew the stand for individual freedom and equality that has defined it for generations."


Patricia // M.Rav
Max Ravitz is an accomplished designer of sounds and a composer of murky, melodic electronic music designed to elicit movement in the body. For the past several years, Ravitz has been a fixture in New York’s punk-ish world of do-it-yourself house and techno, releasing a steady stream of records (under his own name or in duos Inhalants, Masks, or Pulpo, but most frequently under his own legerdemain-styled solo moniker, Patricia) on labels like Opal Tapes and L.I.E.S. A lifelong musician, Ravitz grew up on the fundamentals (piano, guitar, clarinet) but developed a heartfelt love of electronic music when he was gifted a set of turntables at a young age. These days he can be found tooling and retooling his modular synthesizers, a process that allows him to hone closely in on his own idiosyncratic sound design.


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NOW That’s What I Call Country Vol. 4, the fourth installment of the popular series, will be released June 14 and features music by Sugarland, George Strait, Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Blake Shelton, Zac Brown Band and Miranda Lambert among others. Eleven of the album’s 18 tracks were No. 1 hits. [...]
Following a No. 1 single (“Old Alabama”) and album (This Is Country Music), reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Brad Paisley will launch his H20 II: Wetter & Wilder World Tour today (6/3) in Virginia Beach, VA. He’ll follow that performance with another tomorrow (6/4) in Hartford, CT. The 30 city trek includes four stadiums [...]
Mercury Nashville artist and American Idol champ Scotty McCreery’s “I Love You This Big” debuted at No. 32 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, the highest debut for a new artist’s first single since the chart began using BDS in 1990.
Mercury Records singer-songwriter Laura Bell Bundy will be hosting CMT’s Video Of The Year Special, premiering Saturday, June 4 at 1 pm CT. In the one-hour special, Bundy will portray everyone from Taylor Swift to Zac Brown as she presents the 10 nominees vying for Video of the Year at the 2011 CMT Music Awards [...]
The Oprah Winfrey Network will host the world premiere superstar Shania Twain’s first new music in six years a song titled, “Today Is Your Day.” The event takes place during the final episode of “Why Not? with Shania Twain” airing Sunday, June 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. As is fast becoming the custom, labels are [...]
Rascal Flatts will launch its new tour Flatts Fest on June 18 in Bristow, Virginia, and the trek will take the trio to 23 total cities with opening acts Sara Evans, Easton Corbin and Justin Moore. Full dates are included below.
It starts at 10 a.m., Thurs. June 9 at The Rutledge. The first 250 people will get in free and there will be a $5 breakfast plate available. But make sure you are awake, because the inaugural Rise, Shine & Party Time acoustic concert at CMA Music Festival is set to be anything but laid [...]
Luke Bryan is set to headline the 10th annual CMT On Tour this fall with special guests Lee Brice and Josh Thompson. CMT On Tour: Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines is set to kick off this September with approximately 25 shows to support Bryan’s third studio album for Capitol Records Nashville, Tailgates & Tanlines, due [...]
Robin Meade, host of Morning Express with Robin Meade on HLN, will release her musical debut, Brand New Day, on Tuesday, June 21. Other stars appearing on the album include Celebrity Apprentice winner John Rich, American Idol’s Bo Bice, Kix Brooks, and Sarah Buxton. Victoria Shaw produced the album, which includes songs Meade co-wrote with [...]


Is Impeachment Backfiring on Democrats? by Patrick J. BuchananDecember 20, 2019
Moynihan Letter #65, 2019: Viganò on Francis and MaryDecember 20, 2019
By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews, Dec. 19, 2019
But Congressman Collin Peterson of Minnesota of one of the few pro-life Democrats remaining in the nation’s capitol. And on Wednesday, he joined every Republican in the House of Representatives in voting agonist impeaching President Donald trump, who enjoys the support of pro-life groups and has built a pro-life record as president.
That put Peterson in a category of only three Democrats to not vote for impeachment — along with Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), who plan to become a Republican, and iconoclastic Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. And he says he voted no “in good conscience.”
Peterson said he possesses the “guiding belief that only through bipartisan action can we address the country’s most pressing challenges.” ….


I am so honored to be a jury member of the La Maestra international conducting competition at the Paris Philharmonic, and can’t wait to discover the talents of the candidates!
A UNIQUE COLLABORATION
The Philharmonie de Paris and Paris Mozart Orchestra are delighted to announce the 1st edition of their joint International Competition for Women Conductors which will take place at the Philharmonie de Paris from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 September 2020.
This new competition will be co-directed by Claire Gibault, Music Director of the Paris Mozart Orchestra, and Laurent Bayle, President and General Manager of the Philharmonie de Paris. Ewa Bogusz-Moore, General and Programme Director of the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, will chair a strictly gender equality-based international and prestigious jury composed of 6 of the world’s leading women and men conductors.
For more information: https://lamaestra-paris.com/


Synoptic and meteorological drivers of extreme ozone concentrations over Europe
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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The present work assesses the relationship between local and synoptic meteorological conditions and surface ozone concentration over Europe in spring and summer months, during the period 1998–2012 using a new interpolated data set of observed surface ozone concentrations over the European domain. Along with local meteorological conditions, the influence of large-scale atmospheric circulation on surface ozone is addressed through a set of airflow indices computed with a novel implementation of a grid-by-grid weather type classification across Europe. Drivers of surface ozone over the full distribution of maximum daily 8 h average values are investigated, along with drivers of the extreme high percentiles and exceedances or air quality guideline thresholds. Three different regression techniques are applied: multiple linear regression to assess the drivers of maximum daily ozone, logistic regression to assess the probability of threshold exceedances and quantile regression to estimate the meteorological influence on extreme values, as represented by the 95th percentile. The relative importance of the input parameters (predictors) is assessed by a backward stepwise regression procedure that allows the identification of the most important predictors in each model. Spatial patterns of model performance exhibit distinct variations between regions. The inclusion of the ozone persistence is particularly relevant over southern Europe. In general, the best model performance is found over central Europe, where the maximum temperature plays an important role as a driver of maximum daily ozone as well as its extreme values, especially during warmer months.


Volvo Penta is taking yet another step in its journey towards offering electrified power solutions by 2021 by presenting an emission-free terminal tractor featuring a Volvo Penta electric driveline at TOC Europe 2019, the leading tradeshow for port and terminal technology and operations.
At this year’s TOC Europe exhibition in Rotterdam, held June 18-20, Volvo Penta continued to prove its progress in developing an electromobility platform of the future by showing an electric-powered terminal tractor.
Volvo Penta converted the terminal tractor to fully electric using proven electromobility technology from Volvo’s bus and truck applications.
“We strive for sustainable power solutions not only from an environmental standpoint but also from an economic one,” says Peter Granqvist, CTO of Volvo Penta. “We are seeing that certain electric applications are reaching a point where they are providing a lower total cost of ownership than diesel engines. Material handling is a promising segment for electrification due to its high machine utilization and greater accessibility to charging. We therefore decided to create a proof of concept for this segment in order to implement market feedback into our development.”
Close collaboration with OEMs and operators
By fitting and optimizing an electric driveline for a proven terminal tractor, Volvo Penta has gained a deeper understanding of both the challenges and opportunities in the installation process, which is paramount when designing driveline solutions for OEMs.
“Our approach going forward in the development will centre around close collaboration with OEMs and operators; this is critical for success,” adds Granqvist. “With deep application knowledge, our solutions will be fit for purpose and adapted to customer needs. We take a full systems supplier approach, using our global aftermarket service network to take responsibility for the full system installation. This is how we will help our customers in the transition towards new, clean technology solutions.”
Volvo Penta is leveraging the benefits of Volvo’s proven technology and competence in the field of electromobility, combined with a deep understanding of customer applications and needs. Earlier this year it was announced that Volvo Penta will develop the electric driveline in Austrian manufacturer Rosenbauer’s first industrialized electric fire truck. The strategic partnership with one of the world’s top manufacturers of fire-service vehicles followed the announcement that Volvo Penta is providing the propulsion system to Gothenburg’s all-electric ferry. Both projects demonstrate important steps in the company’s journey to offer electrified power solutions.


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De Loreans come back to the future
Hundreds of parts discovered in warehouse
November 02, 2015
DeLoreans could come Back to the Future after 'time machine' parts found.
Hundreds of silver gull wing doors immortalized by Hollywood film discovered in warehouse (but 'flux capacitors' unlikely to be included)
The DeLorean's silver gull wing door design was immortalised by the 1985 Hollywood film starring Michael J Fox a few years after the collapse of the original manufacturing firm in Northern Ireland.
It has now emerged that around 1,000 doors still exist from the factory in Belfast and they are sitting in a warehouse in the US.
Even though the "flux capacitors" used to spirit the acting stars into the past are unlikely to be included, modern manufacturers said the vehicles enjoy an enduring appeal.
James Espey, vice-president of the DeLorean Motor Company, told Xcar website: "We own all the remaining stock of parts that came out of the factory in Belfast and that comprises most of our inventory.
"We do parts sales to shops and owners all around the world as well."
Mr Espey added: "There are about a thousand doors, so to speak, here in the building and the door of course being the most complicated part of the car to reproduce they are almost evenly matched in pairs left and right so about 500 cars would be the maximum."


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An overseas nurse recruitment scheme in Northern Ireland has secured just under 50 new staff after nearly two years and £4.2m spent.
There is currently a 1,500 nurse shortage in Northern Ireland, meaning the country’s health service is operating at 10% below capacity of nurses.
As a response, in May 2016 the Department of Health launched an overseas recruitment scheme to encourage nurses to come from the Philippines and a small amount from India, with the aim of delivering 622 nurses by March 2020.
As previously reported by Nursing in Practice, by August 2017, the scheme had cost £566,000 but secured only 12 new nurses.
The scheme to recruit 200 international nurses is expected to cost around £10.5m over the four-year period.
The expenditure for 2016/17 was £4.2m out of the £10.5m allocated, meaning that while only an eighth of the target has been acheived so far, close to half of the budget has been spent.
At the time, 15 months into the programme, 66 applicants had come to Northern Ireland, although only 12 had been registered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to practise.
As of January the scheme has secured almost 50 new nurses for the country, with approximately 50 more working as nursing assistants until they complete registration with the NMC.
A spokesperson for the Department of Helath said: ‘As with any similar campaign, the position changes on a monthly basis. Approximately 100 new nurses have arrived in NI so far, with almost half of these already in nursing posts. The remaining nurses are working as nursing assistants until they complete registration with the UK nursing regulator.
‘In Northern Ireland, we have a very strong interest in the nursing profession with nursing places oversubscribed by approximately 10 applications for every university place. Non completion rates are also lower in Northern Ireland compared with the rest of the UK.
‘We have a longstanding reputation of educating high calibre nurses – skilled graduate professionals whose education takes three full years. This means there are no “quick fix” solutions to the shortage we currently face. However, the Department is committed to ensuring we have sufficient nurses in our workforce and is proactively progressing a range of measures’.
They added: ‘This is not an option but a must do to support our staff and citizens in Northern Ireland’.
Other measures to address the nursing shortfall include:
- A return to practice programme, to encourage nurses who are out of practice to return to the profession.
- A pilot scheme to reduce the amount of administrative work that nurses are currently responsible for.
- Increased Investment in undergraduate training.
- Regional recruitment and retention works, including offering all final year nursing students permanent jobs.
- An investment of £12 million to help increase nurse staffing levels in acute hospital wards.
- An investment of £7.6 million in 2017/2018 for post registration nursing and midwifery education.
- An increase in funding for nursing degree places from 650 places per annum in 2014/15 to 901 by 2017/18, with added funding of £9.5m per year.
In October 2016, the then Northern Irish health minister established a Nursing and Midwifery Task Group to identify how this can be achieved and maximise the contribution that nurses make to improve outcomes for our population. The task group is due to report at the end of March 2018.


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“This is harder than I thought.”
That observation (and others like it) was uttered to me a few dozen times during the week in December 2010 when more than 600 students and staff at Shorecrest and Shorewood high schools in Shoreline, Wash., gave up social networking.
The students in my Video Production 1 class conceived this “Social Experiment” after I ranted about kids walking down the halls fixated on their phones and oblivious to their surroundings. The experiment encouraged students, teachers and staff to forgo texting, Facebook and other technology-powered socializing for seven days in order to gauge the impact these diversions were having on their daily lives. In the weeks leading up to the experiment, students produced commercials, movie trailers and posters — and even created an “event” on Facebook (irony intended) — to promote what we were doing and get others excited about it.
Shorewood High School teacher Marty Ballew and I asked students to sign honesty pledges. But we also monitored participants, using spies to patrol Facebook and sending fake text messages (through our teaching assistants) to entice people to reply.
Initially, most students seemed to think they could step away from these tools with ease. Within a day or two, however, many began to crack. One student marched into my room on the second morning and said, “I just can’t do it.” Like many others, he had left his phone at home to avoid texting. But he couldn’t resist Facebook.
Until this project, I hadn’t realized just how big a part of my students’ lives Facebook had become. All week long, students proclaimed that they use the site to do homework with friends or to find out what they missed in class. They also admitted spending “a couple hours a day” on it and wondered aloud, “How do I know what’s going on if I’m not on Facebook?” Even the kids who weren’t participating complained: “Facebook is so quiet this week.”
This made me curious about the content students were posting. Was it appropriate for a general audience? Were they aware that their posts could live online forever? Did they realize potential employers use Facebook to research job applicants?
So I asked the students if they ever regretted their posts. Almost everyone said yes. I then asked if they ever were disappointed or hurt by something that a friend posted about them online. Again, almost every hand went up.
If nothing else, the experiment was forcing students to think and talk about the long-term effect of living their lives online for all to see.
Roughly half of the experiment’s participants went the full week without using social media. Many students were amazed by the time they gained to focus on homework and family. Of course, others felt the week was torturous and couldn’t wait to resume their “normal” lives. The big question everyone asked was this: Did the Social Experiment change anything?
Well, yes and no. I don’t believe students will stop using social media. And I doubt anyone is ready to quit Facebook. But I do think the students who participated did see that there are other ways to communicate and that you don’t have to be plugged in 24 hours a day. In fact, some kids thought it was pretty cool to “disappear” — for a little while, at least.
What a Week
Both Shoreline high schools were visited by a variety of media throughout our “Social Experiment.” But we were stunned to discover as ABC News aired its Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, live broadcast that we had been named its “Persons of the Week.” I was very honored that others felt our experiment was worthy of recognition, and I was proud of my students, who worked so hard to plan, promote and execute such a large-scale project.
To view the “Persons of the Week” segment, along with student-produced advertisements and documentaries about the Social Experiment, check out shorelinesocialexperiment.blogspot.com.

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Get Custom Christmas Boxes on Wholesale Rate on Black Friday
- Post by: Jeff
- Created Date: Fri, Nov 12, 2021
We are delivering top-notch quality Christmas boxes with full personalization and customization. Christmas is just ahead and the preparation is bang on the. So we are also stepping forward in presenting you with flawless deals of Christmas boxes for boosting up the sales. There is an open chance for the wholesalers and retailers to enhance the leads and set the long chain of customers outside their store with ravishing custom display boxes.
On this holiday let's spread the sparkle of new styles, sizes, and shapes that are never seen before in the market. With all of these incredible features and love for the customers, we are delivering the deals to celebrate Christmas to get a huge profit at the end of the month. What is not here that you are finding? We have everything that you are looking for from traditional boxes to highly elegant styles. That is in today’s demand. So we are striving to come on the top with the highly fascinating design for customers. Let’s find out what is the procedure we follow to produce the invitation boxes.
We are producing high-quality custom boxes that are made with high-quality material. now let’s find out the which are the possible types, sizes, and designs that we are selling on black Friday with wholesale customized Christmas boxes.
Christmas Boxes In Possible Shapes, Sizes, And Styles
Explore the various types and styles that we are curating for the Christmas boxes. The types that will bump the sale incredibly only with the highly convincing features. First of all, let’s discuss the customize shapes and types in detail that we manufacture in our production unit.
- Rectangular shapes
- Cardboard material boxes
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- Folding cartons
- Display boxes
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So all of these types are heavily boosted for the sale in the retail market. these styles of boxes will represent the brand quality, strengthening the brand image, and quality assurance with the incredible features.
The additional features associated with the bang on sale that will grab the customers to your shop. Supposedly, that you are displaying the Christmas boxes in the rack. Impressively, the visitors will stand there to notice the highly glamorous style that is capturing the attention. Likewise, they will not able to step the next forward bygone your shop. That’s why they forcefully step into your store by noticing the highly captivating shapes of the Christmas boxes. as they walk in they will introduce the exotic looks and styles.
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We offer fascinating yet exclusive printing designs that have not been seen in the market yet. So the customers will never go to the next store looking at the marvelous style of custom boxes. The custom boxes are not less than the gift boxes due to their high-quality cover. The encasing in which the Christmas items will save. On the other hand, the presentation boxes will also work as your gift boxes that are another great thing to save your money on buying the beautiful boxes. So that’s why the glamorous styles are associated with the mesmerizing beauty to impress your loved ones on this Christmas event.
Give Feast Your Customers with Gift Boxes This Christmas
The gift boxes are the way to share love and care with your loved ones. So the gift boxes are not less than the enthralling piece of art. That is containing high-quality printing, images, and the brand logo on the gold foiling. Additionally, the lamination of glossy and matte will double up the appearance of the gift boxes.
What Material Is Used For The presentation boxes?
We always choose what the best for your product to stand you out from the crowd we focus on high-quality material. Rigid boxes like corrugation used for the production of presentation boxes. It is so sturdy, firm, and robust that can contain heavy products without any damage to your gift. However, the gift items need to store with top care and love. So it must be like same as the time of production so that the gift’s value never decreases.
The invitation boxes are made with corrugation that will keep up their look and strength. That’s why the heavy-duty material will assist the product inside for a long distance without any deterioration. For instance, the high-quality material will never let the extraneous like heat, mist, and light affect the internal item.
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We respect our customers and make sure to deliver beyond their level of expectation. Thusly, we deliver them the services of manufacturing with additional free features the features are including:
We use digital offset printing with brilliant results. So, we use reliable ink that never faded with time and the colors will sparkle and glittery effects will say it all about the product. The high-quality printing services delivered with the best design from trained designers.
We make sure to deliver high-quality services of logo designing to maintain the brand image in the marketplace. Additionally, the highly captivating features of logo designing will leave a lasting impression in the mind of the customers. That’s why logo design is the crucial factor in developing the Christmas box.
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We deliver the free services of finishing and lamination the boxes with the best glossy and matte option. The glossy will keep the gloss on while the matte will maintain the decency of the product and the item. So it will increase the appearance of the box.
We never ask about the charges of customization. From sizes, styles, types, and designs you are free to choose your favorite option and go with that. Our trained staff will assist in creating the unique boxes that will help boost the sale.
Christmas boxes booking are on. Feel free to talk with us anytime. Our 24/7 customer services are waiting to hear from you

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Remember the salmonella outbreak of 2010, the one that that sickened 2,000 people and led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs?
A federal investigation has pulled the curtain back on the way the man at the center of the outbreak, Jack DeCoster, ran his massive egg empire. He and his son Peter DeCoster have pleaded guilty to the “distribution of adulterated eggs in interstate commerce,” resulting in the 2010 outbreak, the US Department of Justice reports.
And that’s not all. One of DeCoster’s companies, Quality Egg, also copped to attempting to bribe a USDA inspector, not once but twice in 2010, to allow it to send out eggs that didn’t meet the agency’s quality standards. The company also admitted to falsifying expiration dates on egg cartons “with the intent to mislead state regulators and retail egg customers regarding the true age of the eggs,” between 2006 and 2010.
Even before these revelations, the episode had revealed gaps in how the US regulatory system handles massive livestock operations. DeCoster’s own company-run tests had found salmonella in its facilities before the outbreak, but it continued churning out eggs. Shortly before the outbreak, US Department of Agriculture inspectors had noted filthy conditions but didn’t act to halt them—they were there to inspect egg size, not cleanliness. The Food and Drug Administration, which does regulate food safety in large egg operations, filed a damning report on DeCoster’s facilities—but only after those half-billion suspect eggs had been trucked out to supermarkets nationwide.
And though DeCoster ran no corporate empire along the lines of Tyson or Smithfield Foods, his egg fiefdom was quite large. My reporting at the time established that the companies he controlled accounted for more then 10 percent of US laying hens—more than any other egg producer.
DeCoster pere et fils face prison sentences of up to one year; fines of $100,000 each; and a “term of supervised release after any imprisonment for up to one year,” the DOJ reports.
Thus, presumably, ends an illustrious career at the heights of industrial-scale agriculture. Previous highlights include:
• In 2002, one of DeCoster’s companies paid a $1.5 million settlement after women at one of his Iowa plants “alleged they were subjected to sexual harassment (including rape), abuse, and retaliation” by supervisory workers.
• In 2000 he got himself declared a “habitual offender” of Iowa’s manure management laws by the state’s attorney general.
• In 1996, Robert Reich, then the US labor secretary, slapped a $3.6 million fine on DeCoster’s Maine egg operation for labor violations. Reich denounced the company as ”an agricultural sweatshop” where the workers are treated like ”animals.”


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Thank you to Bekah Taylor Photography for capturing our event in these beautiful pictures.This past weekend we got to host two mixed media paint workshops at our studio. They were so fun! It was amazing to get the tools a little cleared out, the floors swept up a bit, and be able to use our place for what we are working towards.
Our guests were able to hear a bit of the Studio’s vision and learn more about the value of self affirmations and coming up with a word for the year. We then learned various paint techniques to be able to create a meaningful piece to encourage and inspire us in our homes.
It was so fun to see how everyone took the learned concepts and made their own piece. Each creation was so unique and different. Seeing how everyone can make the craft their own is one of our favorite parts of these workshops.
We had a blast and can’t wait to get more events on our schedule!
To update you a bit on our construction, we have some plumbing and electrical work that still need to be completed, before we can officially open. After these steps are completed, we will then be able to host events more regularly. Will you help us get over this last construction hump? Your donations will literally help us open our doors.
We are a certified 501c3 non-profit organization and can give you a tax-donation receipt for your donation.

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Forscan has a lot of service tools that do not require changing any of the computer settings. I know there are some issues with modifying the settings before you tune but, I think you are okay to do it afterwards. Someone can confirm.Would the Forscan tool work, if I had a tune in my truck already? Or, does the tune have this brake issue fixed already?
I've never noticed this mushy brake pedal on my 21 at all...
The brake purge is just a service procedure you can activate with the program.


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'New' interim rolling stock for the Capital Connection train is now running from Palmerston North to Wellington. But could the Capital Connection be even better?
I live in Shannon. The platform raising started on Monday. I presume the old set is now at Hutt for refitting, though I see the double sliding-door arrangement, though conforming to current best-practice, as inferior to the old arrangement with the pneumatic (?) steps since it makes the re-integration of mothballed stations more expensive due to platform raising requirements.
A change of government will doom all further development. Very worrying to see so much potential wasted for ideological reasons.
I just started Substacking, mainly my interest is modern economics, but particularly as it impinges on what the country can and can't "afford". I'm still learning to navigate the platform, meanwhile perhaps you'd like to read what I wrote about National's recent transport announcements and how it affects investment already made: https://open.substack.com/pub/kevinmayes/p/luxons-election-roading-proposals?r=cfkw4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web


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Greetings, ye scum! I bring you the greatest treasure you’ll ever lay yer grubby little paws on! This pack of 63 hand-drawn assets will help you create the bloodiest, most brutal maps the world has ever seen!
You’ll get 21 non-colorable, 21 colorable, and 21 sample color buildings, each as tough and ugly as an orc’s mug. Castles, tents, palaces, and even a temple – all built to withstand the unforgiving world of orcs. And with the colorable versions, you can make each building as unique as ye are, reflecting the rage and power of yer orcish horde.
But hold on, ye puny human! Ye’ll also get a bonus angry orc, Gobnob! adding a touch of terror and violence to yer maps. And, with image files included, this pack is perfect for use with Wonderdraft or any other image software you fancy.
So why waste your time with weak and pathetic maps when you can create something truly orcish? Get yer filthy hands on the Orcish Settlement Markers pack today and let yer map-making journey begin!
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McLamb Wellness & Aesthetics offers 2 options for medical grade skincare… SkinBetter Science & Hydrinity.
Medical grade skincare has been clinically proven to be far superior to OTC & even professional grade skincare. Products deemed “medical grade” must meet certain standards to receive this designation. You wouldn’t put water in your car’s gas tank would you?! Why put drugstore skincare products on the only skin you’ll ever have? Invest wisely in medical grade skincare products… there’s no better way to single-handedly “Put Your Best Face Forward™.”
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So many SkinBetter Options… Where do I start?
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7 Small Shawls: T - 208 days and counting down.
I've ripped back the giant edging swatch and am continuing on with edging the whole shawl. I can't wait to block this shawl! Squeeeeeeeeee!
I've been using two skeins of sock yarn from The Royale Hare for Maia. Karen is local to me and dyes some colors especially for me. Well, she was dyeing up one of them (Verdigris) when dye pot disaster struck and this particular color resulted! She didn't like it, but I loved it with a fiery hot passion. A passion which she was kind enough to requite. There were four skeins; I kept two and gave my friend A two for her birthday. Her love for yuck green is second only to mine, but we argue about that. She thinks she loves it more. Ha! As if!
Karen likes dyeing smaller skeins of yarn, because it works better with her method, and each skein (at 245 yards) is more than enough to knit one cable-y intricate confection-y sock of a pair. This is all well and good for those who are buying two skeins of sock yarn to actually knit socks, but for those of us who like to knit other things with sock yarn, well! Multiple skeins can sometimes be a little bit off from each other even though they shared a dye pot. What might be ok when they are on separate feet is not ok when they are together. When that happens, a distinct line will result. This is why hand dyers usually say to work from two skeins at once, knitting two rows from one and then switching to the other.
Here's where my mini tutorial comes in.
I used to carry the yarn up the side of whatever piece I was knitting, but that doesn't work very well for shawls. It's much too easy to pull too tight and end up with one side wonky. So now I do it a little differently. Here we have two unsuspecting balls of yarn, one a teensy little bit darker than the other.
As you can see, both are attached and being worked simultaneously.
(Avert your eyes from my uneven stitches please! And always remember, lace looks like crap until blocked!)
On every right side row, I knit the first stitch with both yarns held together.
I then continue on with only one strand, alternating the yarns every two rows.
It makes a much nicer edge for a shawl. If I were going to sew a seam and hide the edge, it wouldn't make much of a difference, but as the edge needs to be nice and stretchy and look good, this method is the clear winner for me!
And the yarn? Can we convince Karen to dye more? YES! She's going to do it! We're leaning towards calling it Bug Juice, but what do you think?
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We live in an ever-changing world where consumers are constantly introduced to a wider range of options and novel products. If the citrus industry doesn’t follow this trend, consumers might start seeing it as unimaginative and unexciting.
This is why growers must regularly introduce new varieties, says Etienne Rabe of Biogold USA and Paramount Citrus, who addressed the Global Citrus Conference in Cape Town recently. South Africa is already one of the world’s foremost producers and exporters of quality citrus produce, and introducing new varieties would see the sector expand even further.
“Valencia and navel oranges currently account for 67% of citrus hectarage in South Africa, which is ranked 12th in the world for production volumes and is second only to Spain when it comes to export volumes,” says Etienne.
The future of the citrus market
Etienne points to the mandarin market, where a number of seedless or low-seeded selections have emerged over the past 10 years. He predicts these new selections will cause a major shift in plantings, possibly to the detriment of other late navel varieties like Valencias.
“I’d guess that seedless or low-seeded mandarins could account for up to 25% of the fresh-citrus market in about 10 years,” he predicts. South African producers have already responded to this new demand by introducing the Nadorcott (also known as Afourer or ClemenGold).
“A large area has been established of this variety,” Etienne explains. “It fills a very important late-maturing sector (July to September) of the business in Europe and other northern hemisphere countries. The same applies to other late mandarin-types such as Orri and Mor.”
But, he adds, because citrus trees are long-lived and replanting is expensive, it’s unlikely there will be a large-scale overnight change. Another thing to bear in mind is that there aren’t necessarily new varieties to replace the older ones in every sector and time frame of the season. All the same, Etienne says, variety management companies in South Africa are always on the look-out for new varieties that will benefit growers and keep the industry competitive.
Consumer wants, producer needs
“A lot of citrus is grown around the world and there’s no shortage. That’s why I believe eating quality will become more important for consumers,” says Etienne.
“In the past, larger fruit sizes always paid better and growers or regions with better eating quality didn’t always get a look-in. But this should change.
“Growers need to gear themselves to produce fruit that tastes better in a market that’s not just oversupplied with citrus. But where there are many other exciting fresh fruit offerings available to the consumer,” says Etienne.
This means growers need to keep their eyes open for new varieties that will naturally produce fruit of good eating quality. That’s in addition to other consumer “favourites” like seedlessness and easy peeling.
However, when introducing new varieties, producers have to make sure these fit into their management philosophy. Other considerations also come into play, such as higher yields, better colour and good post-harvest shelf-life.
“It’s important to consider whether or not the management company offering the selection has the technical capacity to address production issues and generally assist in ensuring successful commercialisation when it comes to marketing,” says Etienne.
“How will the variety be managed? Through grower clubs or controlled hectarage? What are the rootstock choices?”
Another issue is to ensure that only growers who have paid the necessary royalties and are licensed to produce a specific variety get to produce that fruit, and that rogue growers are prosecuted. Technology can help here. Tracing systems and fruit “tattoos” ensure supermarkets only accept genuine varieties.
Future superstar varieties
“There are a few new selections in the pipeline and some that are being commercialised that fit the ‘future superstar’ designation,” says Etienne.
“One is an early navel selection from Australia, the M7, which is becoming available to growers in South Africa. It colours early with good internal eating quality and is a round fruit, unlike most early navels which are somewhat elongated.”
Then there are a number of new seedless Valencias, such as Lavalle, Alpha and Mclean, and late-maturing navels, such as Cambria and Glen Ora, as well as a seedless lemon from the Agricultural Research Council-Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops (ARC-ITSC), South Africa.
A risk worth taking
“When introducing a new citrus selection or variety, farmers always run the risk it won’t perform as well as advertised,” warns Etienne. There’s also the possibility of over-planting if the distribution of the plant isn’t controlled by limiting acreage.
“But if you’re a progressive grower, you can’t afford to sit on the sidelines and calculated risks have to be taken,” he says. “The most important thing is that the management and royalty structure reasonably assures the grower the risk will pay off.”
Contact Etienne Rabe at [email protected].


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Ayalon Eidelstein’s Openness and Faith focuses on the centrality of the idea of openness, or open-mindedness, to the educational sphere. The first half presents the challenges in modern ‘divided-consciousness’ and its consequences of egoism, materialism, and hedonism on the one hand, and religious fanatism on the other. Eidelstein’s main audience is the Israeli secular public, to which he proposes an educational and philosophical middle-way rooted in sincere human and inter-human openness. This openness is inspired by the idea of disinterestedness that Kant articulates in his Critique of Judgment. Eidelstein refers to additional authors, including Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, to conceptualize the idea of open-mindedness. In the second half of the book, he engages classical American Pragmatism, specifically that of William James, in order to establish the possibility for, and the validity of, a humane open-mindedness. Pragmatism thus paves the way for accepting beliefs that may otherwise be excluded as superstitions and accords them a legitimate and productive role in the life of a modern individual.
The difficulty, however, lies in Eidelstein’s employment of Kantian disinterestedness, for it is in fact seriously dissonant with the worthy pragmatic educational purposes that Eidelstein elaborates in the second half of his book. Pragmatism is opposed to disinterestedness in that it stresses the entanglement of fact and value, viewing interests as playing a necessary and productive part in moral motivation and action, while Kantian deontology eliminates consequentialism from the moral scope. While for pragmatists (for example John Dewey’s Democracy and Education) the human creature is holistically conceived, as made of flesh and blood and not only as ‘spirit’, Kant maintained the dualistic Cartesian tradition.
This tension calls for a rigorous address. Since Eidelstein’s book is making an important claim about the place open-mindedness has within the Judaism, it must be noted that the disinterestedness of a presumed human ‘self’ is also not easily compatible with the dominant voices in normative Jewish tradition. The Bible does not deal to a large extent with the ‘self’ or with mental intentions, and its conception of the human is not categorically different in the Talmudic corpus. On the contrary, the rabbis frequently endorse pragmatic and ‘external’ reasons, as the motivational basis for action. The kind of purism associated with disinterestedness (as in Mishnah Avot 5:18-19) is barely represented in rabbinic thought.
Openness and Faith: In Search of Cultural Education Here and Now is nevertheless an important contribution to the intellectual discourse over the individual and public virtues. In our ever-more segregated and fenced-off world, there is an urgency to delineating the virtue of openness, hoping that Ecclesiastes is right in contending that “No person has power over the spirit [רוח] to retain it” (8:8). But to make Eidelstein’s point about openness in the second half of his book educationally viable, there a need for a pragmatic refinement of the philosophical anthropology in its first half. One way or the other, Openness and Faith is praiseworthy for its articulateness and depth, which invites its readers to an open-minded conversation about the concept of openness.


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Click on the “In the Kitchen with 11 Magnolia Lane” Button to read about our new series
It has been four months since I have changed my eating habits (and began work on this meal plan series!) and I have noticed some serious changes. The biggest change I’ve made in my diet is to give up bread, pasta, flour, crackers, pretzels and as much processed food as possible. I still indulge here and there, but it usually leaves me feeling terrible. That result really has helped me curb my cravings for sugar and processed foods. Why eat something if the end result makes you feel terrible? Now, don’t get me wrong– I still drink wine (and even the occasional cosmopolitan 🙂 ). I will definitely enjoy a homemade dessert once in a while without any hesitation. I am just trying to ensure that I am aware of what I eat, when I eat it and why I am eating it (is it to benefit my health or did I have a bad day and feel I need chocolate?).
Among the physical changes I have experienced are weight loss and inches off my waist line. That was never my personal goal but it sure is a nice bonus:). My goal was simply to feel more energized. I felt like I was walking around in a fog and I grew tired of that low energy feeling. Managing the sugar (breads, pasta, rice…) has reduced my body from spiking insulin and therefore I am no longer crashing through out the day. My energy is back which has allowed me to give more of time to my kids, my home, my nutrition, the gym and of course, this blog.
One of the best things I have learned from this journey is that no two bodies are alike so people really need individualized meal plans to feel great. I am not advocating a low carbohydrate meal plan for everyone but this is how I cook and it works well for me and my family (and lots of my friends too). The second thing I have learned is that you have to continually educate & advocate for yourself. We live in this low fat/chemical word and now science is proving that philosophy wrong. You have to be your own advocate and I hope that some of the meals I provide inspire you to take action in your own the kitchen and your own personal health.
Here is another yummy recipe option to add to your own personal recipe book and here is the spring shopping week 2.
Sesame Grilled Pork Chops and Green Apple Slaw
- 4-6 pork chops (boneless or bone-in)
- 1 bottle of your favorite sesame marinade
- 1 cup mayo
- 1/4 cup white vinegar
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 medium green cabbage, shredded
- 1 medium sweet onion
- 1 carrot
- 2 tart green apples
- Salt & pepper to taste
- Marinade pork chops 30 minutes prior to cooking.
- Grill pork chops for approx. 5-6 minutes the first side and 3-4 minutes on the opposite side. Let stand 5 minutes after you remove them from the grill.
- For the slaw, shred the cabbage, onion and carrot into large bowl. Thinly slice the apple, match-stick style.
- Combine the mayo. sugar, vinegar, salt and pepper in a mason jar and shake well until combined.
- Pour over the slaw and let sit for a few hours to ensure the flavors come together.
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The government would roll out a new tax amnesty scheme ahead of the next federal budget. File
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Asad Umar has announced that the government would roll out a new tax amnesty scheme ahead of the next federal budget for individuals to declare their local and foreign assets under the scheme.
It is also under consideration to allow public office-holders, including politicians and bureaucrats, to avail the amnesty scheme, Umar told reporters.
To a query about becoming one or two-tranche country after accepting tough conditions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, the finance minister said easy decisions could not fix the economy when there are massive deficits.
“The carrot and stick policy will be adopted but exact details of the amnesty scheme will be worked out. There are all kinds of strict laws and there is demand for providing last opportunity, so the amnesty scheme is under consideration.”
Umar said that there were many amnesty schemes which were brought in the country despite opposition extended by the IMF and World Bank. He said the compliance requirement of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) related to ‘Know Your Customers’ (KYC) would be taken care of when the government would announce the tax amnesty scheme.
He also announced that withholding tax on banking transactions for non-filers would be abolished in the coming budget. The government, he said, would also withdraw ban on purchase of property for non- filers.
The minister also announced that the federal government, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) would jack up valuation rates for real estate plots and then reduce the rate of tax. He said he would extend support to restoration of wealth tax and if there was a constitutional bar, then the provinces could move ahead.
In order to remove confusion on sending money abroad under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) limit, the minister said that the government would propose an amendment as many people sent out money beyond the limit of $5 million for investment purposes and buying flats by using the excuse in the name of FERA.
According to a report, nearly 81,000 individuals have deposited Rs1.67 billion in penalties and higher taxes to avail the government’s amnesty scheme for the closure of automatic audit.
The last date of the scheme was Feb.28, which was already extended by two months. The scheme was originally announced for Dec.31, 2018.
An official said that as many as 613,213 non-salary audit cases are still pending after the due date of the amnesty scheme. These individuals will have to face normal audit procedures, he said.
But it will be a big challenge for the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to prosecute such a huge number of audit cases owing to human resource problems and the government will have to offer some scheme to facilitate these individuals.
The FBR issued electronic audit notices to as many as 1,035,875 late filers since Nov 14, 2018 with a deadline to provide records, documents and books of their accounts. These taxpayers had submitted their returns for tax years 2015, 2016 and 2017 after the deadlines had passed in the respective tax years.
These cases included 342,314 salaried individuals and 693,561 non-salaried individuals including association of persons (AoPs) and companies.
The cases of 342,314 salaried individuals selected for automatic audit for late filing were settled without collecting penalty amount of Rs20,000. The penalty amount collected in few cases from salaried individuals will be adjusted against their tax liabilities in the current tax year.
For the non-salaried 613,213 individuals, the FBR had earlier given a deadline until Dec 31 which has now been extended to Feb.28.
The data showed that of the Rs1.67b deposited under section 214E of the scheme, the payments include a penalty amount of Rs593.6 million and approximately Rs1.08bn under other heads.
The city-wise settlement shows that Karachi has emerged the major beneficiary of the scheme. Around 24,430 individuals from the metropolis have availed the scheme by depositing an additional amount of Rs563.26m to close their audit cases.
A total of 18,709 individuals in Lahore closed their audit cases by depositing Rs473.15m. In Islamabad, 4,391 individuals paid Rs139.23m.
In Faisalabad, 5,206 individuals paid Rs76.96m, in Peshawar 2,364 individuals paid Rs71.68m where as in Quetta only 1,224 individuals opted the scheme by paying Rs14.17m.
Centurion: Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat in the third one-day international against South Africa on Friday as Sarfraz Ahmed said Andile Phehlukwayo had accepted his apology for a controversial comment he made about his skin colour.
Sharif is serving a seven-year sentence imposed last year for failing to disclose the source of income that allowed him to acquire the Al-Azizia Steel Mills in Saudi Arabia. He has appealed.
The actress said, “I draw the line when my character is questioned.”
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday announced an Rs162 billion development package for Karachi city, which will be focused on priority areas like transportation and water provision. The package includes grants for 18 projects. The premier, who is on an official trip to Karachi, made the announcement during a meeting of the Karachi Transformation Committee, chaired by him.
The Abu Dhabi police arrested a bank employee, who had stolen Dhs600 million from the bank and was making an attempt to flee the country.
The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), a Sharjah-based global humanitarian charity dedicated to helping refugees and people in need worldwide, has launched a zakat donation campaign, ‘Create a Sustainable Impact with Your Zakat’, to help alleviate the suffering of millions of Syrian children, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and Palestinians in Gaza.
70 percent of 5, 351, 009 calls made to the emergency number 999 last year concerned non-emergency and non-serious matters, police revealed on Tuesday.
The Indian Business& Professional Council (IBPC), Dubai, celebrated Suhoor gathering with the Al Noor Training Center, Dubai, and made a contribution of Dhs100,000 for the benefit of the determined students of Al Noor Training Centre for Persons with Disabilities.