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If you’re in the market for a good ol Pick-Up-and-Play title, then Sumo Digital has a nice casual title for you. Sumo Digital, the studio behind Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed, LittleBigPlanet 3 and the upcoming Crackdown 3, brings you Snake Pass, a retro-style platformer based around the physics of a snake’s movements. Snake Pass brings you a colorful and cartoonish art style reminiscent of the earlier Rare titles like Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country. Let’s take a look at this new title set to hit Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and the PC in the US on March 28th.
You play as Noodle the Snake and Doodle the Hummingbird as you traverse a 3D world collecting collectables and progressing through the stages. Great care was put into Noodle’s snake physics and behavior in Snake Pass, as you utilize the natural movements and abilities of an actual snake to move through the world. Side to side movements push you forward faster. Stretch upward against the base of Noodle’s body to climb walls and other obstacles.
Tighten Noodle’s muscles to grab and hold onto objects that he is wrapped around, which is useful for traversing swinging objects or other moving puzzles. And of course, lighten your load by having Doodle hold up your tail for times when you need to be ginger or light. Here’s a tutorial created by the game’s designers…
From what we saw at PAX, Snake Pass is bound to impress fans of puzzle-platformers, having that easy-to-learn but hard-to-master feel. Best yet, it’s practically hitting every current gen platform. Outside of Xbox One, PS4, PC, and Nintendo Switch, Snake Pass will also be available for play on the PlayStation 4 Pro and 4K TVs. PS4 Pro and HD TV owners will get to play Snake Pass with High Dynamic Range and an even higher frame rate. Snake Pass will be playable on the Nintendo Switch in TV mode, Handheld mode and Tabletop mode. And last but not least, Snake Pass will also be an Xbox Play Anywhere title, granting playability on both PC and the Xbox One with just a single purchase.
Snake Pass hits the US in all of the above platforms on March 28th and hits Europe on March 29th. If you feel like finding out more about Snake Pass, do check out their website for yourself here!

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The Cumberland County Civic Center is easily the ugliest building in Portland, Maine. Along with the rest of the drab corridor of Spring Street that it sits on, this unfriendly-looking slab of concrete and glass is a prototypically mind-numbing example of late-century urban utilitarianism. It seemed all the more unappealing on the first bone-chillingly cold day of the year, December 18, 2011, when I ambled under its eaves. I was on my way to see the local American Hockey League franchise, the Portland Pirates, compete against the Eastern Conference leaders, the St. John’s Ice Caps.
What is the Eastern Conference, and how does one get to be its leader? What, exactly is the AHL’s relation to the NHL? Where is St. John’s, you ask? These are all good questions. After watching the Pirates get beat up by the Ice Caps, and engaging in some low-yield research, I’m still not certain I know the answers to them.
This much I know for sure: St. John’s is a city in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on the northeastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, which is about as far east and north as you can go and still be in North America. The Ice Caps franchise has a history as circuitous and confusing as the backstory on a Marvel Comics superhero, complete with name changes, outfit changes, unexpected reversals of fortunes, and swift departures from one home base to the next.
The Ice Caps’ website has a page with the somewhat biblical title “How the Ice Caps Came To Be.” I expected to read through a series of begats and behold-unto-thems: After four and thirty years, the Manitoba Moose begat the top affiliate for the Vancouver Canucks, and they said ‘come, let us build an arena,’ which they built of brick. And water did they freeze for a rink. Not quite, but pretty close: “On June 8 the team got approval from the AHL. On June 9 the announcement was made, and then the work began. A logo was created, a name was chosen, and a team was built. On Oct. 7 the team played its first regular season game.” Sifting through the polite Canadian PR jargon, what it boils down to is that the Ice Caps, formerly the Manitoba Moose, were booted out of Winnipeg to make room for a new NHL franchise, the second incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets, the original Jets having left town back in ’96 to become the Phoenix Coyotes—who were recently on the verge of moving back to Winnipeg to become the Jets again, until the Atlanta Thrashers did just that.
Such is the tangled biography of a typical AHL team, and the Portlands Pirates’ history is similarly spotted. Minor league hockey teams are batted around like loose pucks, even by comparison to clubs in similar tiers of baseball or basketball. The big thing to know about these Pirates is that this is technically their first year in Portland. While there’s been a Pirates team here since the mid-‘90s, that club was an affiliate of the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres. But this past spring, Buffalo sent their Portland boys to New York to become the Rochester Americans. A new squad of Pirates, affiliated with yes, the Phoenix Coyotes, came to town.
Northern New England is one of America’s hockey strongholds. Hockey is in the blood up here. Locals enthuse and obsess over the Bruins more in a few days than the poor Phoenix Coyotes might manage in a month. The original incarnation of the Pirates came to Portland in 1993, only a year after the departure of the Maine Mariners, who had held court at the civic center since 1977. Before that, the North American Hockey League’s Maine Nordiques played in nearby Lewiston. Portland without hockey would have just been weird, but that doesn’t mean Portland will fall in love with just any old squad of unshaven dudes with a pair of skates and French-Canadian surnames.
Earning fan loyalty takes time. In Section U, just above the visitor’s bench, I talked to season ticket-holders John and Holly, a father and his adult daughter from Kennebunkport.
“It’s hard, you know?” John told me. “These are all new guys for us.”
The family sitting above me, also season ticket holders, were from Freeport, home of L.L. Bean, 15 miles north of Portland. We started our conversation when I misheard them jokingly disparaging “Newfies,” and I replied that I too was a “newbie” to Maine.
“Oh, really?” one replied. “You’re a Newfie too? So is Frank over here—we’ve been giving him a hard time. Where in Newfoundland are you from?”
I told them I was from New York, which caused some polite head-scratching. After awkward pauses, they kindly gave me their thoughts on the Pirates.
“It’s good hockey,” one of the Freeporters proclaimed. “Hockey” pronounced in true New England fashion as “hauwkey.” I heard the same sentiment from Ernie, another genial fan I was advised to speak with (“he works in public relations, so he’ll have something good to say”) and from the portly guy working the Shipyard Brewery beer stand: “It’s good hauwkey.” Maybe because Sunday afternoon is family day at the civic center, or maybe it was a case of classic New England politeness, but I was hard pressed to hear a negative word about the Pirates from anyone. But then I didn’t hear that many positive words either.
Was it indeed good hockey? Not so good for the Pirates, but the Ice Caps, led by Patrice Cormier’s two goals, looked pretty tight. Cormier, it seems, is a bit of a fallen hero. As a rising star in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Cormier was suspended after viciously elbowing an opponent in the face during the 2010 season (There are dozens of clips of the incident up on YouTube. It’s truly gruesome). He made his pro debut for the AHL’s Chicago Wolves, and this season is struggling to crack the roster of the Ice Caps’ parent team, the Winnipeg Jets. If the jeers of “murderer!” from the crowd were any indication, he has a long way to go to live down his past.
Determined to assess the true goodness of this hauwkey, I started thinking about the sport in general. To the eye unschooled in the vagaries of the sport (like, ahem, mine), hockey can look like a gigantic ice-bound clusterfuck, with dudes skating around at breakneck speeds whaling on each other until a penalty is called or the period is up. But soon enough patterns emerge. The rhythm of the sport is sort of a tangled chess match, or maybe more like Connect Four—all the pieces slide into place, and then everything crashes down—a penalty, a fight, a line change, a power play. As any hockey fan will confirm, there is strategy, there is skill at play, and most importantly, there are moments of surprising grace—even for the Pirates.
Like that moment late in the first period when Pirate Brett MacLean, the AHL’s then-reigning Player of the Month, effortlessly glided through the wreckage of colliding skaters and hooked his own rebound into the net for his tenth goal of the season. For thirty seconds, I “got” hockey. The Ice Caps, however, went on to demolish the Pirates, 5–2. Most of the increasingly mild crowd hung around for the entire game—long enough to see the nasty fight in the third period. Toward the end, all the little kids were clutching their skates, amped up for a chance to free-skate on the ice post-game.
Even if the Pirates aren’t recording too many transcendental moments, they do offer cheap seats, cheap beer, and a cozy—if impersonal—stadium. Maybe it was all the puffy vests and kids lugging cold weather gear, but the whole enterprise reminded me of the start of a high school ski trip. A bunch of good-natured folks with unaffected hairdos, waiting around for something to happen.
The AHL experience is one that people seek out, rather than having spoonfed to them by an army of well-paid media merchants. No Fox Sports robot does aggressive victory dances on the side of your television screen. Pirates games are broadcast on both local TV and radio, but you’ll never understand the appeal of an AHL game without having attended one. At the Cumberland County Civic Center, beers are five bucks, you can win a free auto inspection during in-game contests and watch toddler hockey teams stumble around on the ice in-between periods. Maybe toddlers and free oil changes have as much to do with good hauwkey as the team itself.


Men who have overcome same-sex attraction or want to feature in a New York Times article this week. The report, filed from Los Angeles, gives a voice to “ex-gays” rare in the mainstream media. (Top comment on the article when I looked begins, “Why was this published?”) The therapies that helped these men were outlawed for minors by California Governor Jerry Brown in September.
Signing the measure, Governor Brown repeated the view of the psychiatric establishment and medical groups, saying, “This bill bans nonscientific ‘therapies’ that have driven young people to depression and suicide,” adding that the practices “will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.”
But three of the four men who speak in this article say that the counselling techniques and weekend retreats in question helped them overcome homosexual tendencies they were unhappy with and begin to feel attracted by women. The fourth, an unemployed 20-year-old, is trying the scrape up the money to start formal counselling sessions to deal with what he regards as “an affliction”.
Gov Brown’s claim that these efforts drive young people to suicide are the opposite of the truth, says one of the men:
Aaron Bitzer [pictured], 35, was so angered by the California ban, which will take effect on Jan. 1, that he went public and became a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the law as unconstitutional.
To those who call the therapy dangerous, Mr. Bitzer reverses the argument: “If I’d known about these therapies as a teen I could have avoided a lot of depression, self-hatred and suicidal thoughts,” he said at his apartment in Los Angeles. He was tormented as a Christian teenager by his homosexual attractions, but now, after men’s retreats and an online course of reparative therapy, he says he feels glimmers of attraction for women and is thinking about dating.
“I found that I couldn’t just say ‘I’m gay’ and live that way,” said Mr. Bitzer, who plans to seek a doctorate in psychology and become a therapist himself.
Does anyone know where the official stats for “teenage suicide caused by reparative therapy” can be found?


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When you look online for things to do in Durham, every single website notes the American Tobacco Campus, referred to often as ATC. The tobacco industry was the base of Durham’s economy for a hundred years, ending about the same time as a major decline in cigarette smoking in the United States. The biggest companies had their industrial buildings in a single section of town that was dedicated to tobacco products manufacturing from 1847 to 1987. From Tour Durham‘s website: “Today, American Tobacco has been redeveloped by Capitol Broadcasting Company and is home to more than a million square feet of residences, offices, a movie theater, a gallery (where you can see the original coal-fired boilers!), and the Durham Bulls athletic park.”
ATC is not the bustling hive of activity they want you to believe, but it’s still pretty neat. I visited there on three different days and it’s quiet during the day, especially weekdays. It does get busier in the evening. This lack of daytime activity could be due to August weather. There are a couple of shops and a couple of restaurants, including the Mellow Mushroom, the amazingly delicious pizza place we ate at the night we arrived.
There are multiple entry points, and once you’re on the campus, it’s a long rectangle bound by old manufacturing buildings, with a central courtyard area that is very inviting from end to end. The lawns are beautiful and there are multiple places with seats and trees and umbrellas for shade. There are also a few public art pieces to enjoy.
One fun thing in the ATC is the headquarters of Burt’s Bees, Inc. I did not know it was here before I visited, and that was a fun discovery. I have been using their products for years, and enjoyed the beautiful headquarters building with the exceptional mural on the side. I also got a kick out of Burt’s old home (he died in 2015), which was converted from a turkey coop when he lived in Maine.
One thing I especially enjoyed about the ATC is that there is a water feature running through the middle. My guess is that the water played a role in the industry in the early days, and that’s why it’s there. Today the canal contains a couple of lovely man-made waterfalls that you can hear while walking through or sitting at one of the pleasant seats placed helpfully throughout.
Across Blackwell Street, west of the campus is the Durham Bulls athletic park. The front entrance is beautiful, and I included a night photo of it in an earlier post. On my last day in town, I went to the other side to see if I could get a look at the playing field. I arrived to find the gates wide open. I walked right in and took photos.
After I was done taking photos, I walked back out, and found a spot in the shade to sit and decide where to go next. Within minutes the gate was locked. I had somehow magically timed my entrance.
In this post my original plan was to include a bunch of photos to show random scenes around Durham that would illustrate more reasons to like the city. However, this post is already long enough. I’ll talk more about Durham later.
Our trip to North Carolina was over on August 7 and I can hardly believe there was so much to post about from that trip. And those posts have lasted so long that there are new things I want to post about. Since then, I’ve attended a Cherokee Chief’s event here in Oregon that I want to show some photos for. AND for the second year, the Belle Brigade is gearing up for our two-day relay race in the Portland-to-Coast event this weekend! Pedro is working again as a volunteer. So who knows what will get posted next. I hope you enjoyed this one and I hope you are enjoying the season. I’ll catch up with you soon. ❤

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Come on guys, calm down. We feed the rest of the world. We are not going to run out of food or drink or toilet paper, which we export. Stop panicking. Recognise how our economy works and what we make. To hoard milk is like Inuit hoarding ice or French hoarding wine or Americans hoarding guns. Whoops.
We are not going to run out of food or toilet paper or beer or wine or hand sanitiser or even petrol. We are okay. We just need to ensure we look after each other.
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Just do a web search on what we produce as a nation. We are a food producer. It's what we do best. We are hugely lucky in that respect. We also make quality wines and beers. I have stocked up on single malt islay Scottish whiskey but that is more to improve my breath and personality.
Panic feeds panic. I was at the supermarket today and got caught up in the frenzy. My inner economist knew I was being dumb. I ended up buying two deodorants, a big packet of instant milk and a huge box of Weet-Bix and rolled oats. So I will smell nice if I have to self isolate, and my stools will be very solid.
I didn't buy any loo paper. I don't get the fixation on loo paper. I have an ample girth. But the print media in this country provides a fine alternative if push comes to proverbial shove. And a bit of ink may improve the blemishes on my ample bog Irish posterior (sorry, that's somewhat naughty to say if this article does appear in a reputable newspaper).
But New Zealand is a nation that excels in toilet paper production. We clean the bottoms of the world. There is a strong likelihood that Boris and Donald and Vladimir have applied the soft succulent tissue of the finest New Zealand three-ply to their worthy posteriors. We help clean some of the most prominent a-holes In the world. Perhaps we need to be more discerning about who we supply to.
We are not about to experience a loo paper famine. Nor a milk famine. Nor a meat famine. Nor a fruit and vege famine. We will be okay.
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If anything milk prices will fall. Meat prices will fall. Petrol prices will fall. Most fruit and vege prices will fall. The price of that Central Otago pinor noir will fall. Beer prices may fall. We are not going to starve nor are we going to experience a lengthy period of enforced sobriety, which could shatter our collective wellbeing.
If you want to spend a lengthy period in supermarket queues stocking up on products that are likely to be in over abundance, go for it. Enjoy the company.
We are not entering the end zone. Our production and supply chains are robust and will continue. We are a very lucky country.
Have a look at what New Zealand exports. We are fortunate in what we make when it comes to closed borders. We make basic foodstuffs, wine and beer and even loo paper.
Learn some basic economic facts about our cool country and relax about food and drink and wiping. We will be okay.
We just need to look after each other. Things are going to get tough but we are luckier than many other nations in meeting our basic needs.
• Peter Lyons teaches economics at Saint Peter's in Epsom.

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Products for the Living & Raw Foods Kitchen
Organic outdoor fungi growing kits for your yard and garden. These mushroom kits come with mycelium spore innoculated medium to start growing your own edible gourmet and medicinal fungi. Detailed growing inctructions include with every outdoor kit. Growing your own mushrooms is fun, healthy and delicious.

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I/O stands for input/output, or the process by which information is transmitted to a computer and the process by which the computer interacts with the physical world. Given the increasing number of sensors, actuators and peripherals in today’s vehicles
— each of which drives an I/O requirement on the controllers that support them — I/O is becoming an increasingly important area of emphasis in next-generation vehicle architectures.
In the IT world, common input devices are keyboards, mice, microphones and webcams — in other words, devices that allow people to input data to a computer. Examples of output devices are monitors, printers, speakers, sound cards and video cards.
There are also devices that have both input and output functions, such as hard drives, network interface cards and modems.
In the industrial world, input devices are pressure gauges, thermometers and other types of sensors, while output devices are the control valves and other physical systems that respond to the information provided by the input devices.
Input data is often transmitted via a bus (the hardware and software that makes up the communication system), and output activities are typically coordinated by a controller.
I/O in the automotive world
Vehicles are currently undergoing a rapid increase in I/O, unlike anything seen previously in the automotive industry. This is leading to high levels of complexity that require new approaches to electrical and electronic architecture, such as Aptiv’s
Smart Vehicle Architecture™ (SVA™).
Consider the number of input devices in an automotive scenario, allowing controllers to receive input not just from the human occupants, but also from the vehicle itself, the environment around the vehicle and wireless communications networks.
Common examples of human inputs include the buttons or touchscreens that allow occupants to turn up the heat, play music, adjust the seat position, roll down the windows, and so forth — and moving forward, inputs will increasingly come through microphones
and cameras for features such as voice and gesture control. Some inputs will come from the occupants without them having to take actions, such as the Passive Occupant Detection System (PODS) that detects someone sitting in a seat or the driver state sensing system that determines whether the driver is alert and in a driving position.
But the vehicle systems also receive other inputs ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge. For example, vehicle inputs include sensors measuring temperature, fuel level and tire pressure, but increasingly vehicles are adding environmental inputs
from radars, cameras, lidars and ultrasonic sensors that connect directly to a domain controller. Inputs from wireless communications are also
on the rise, from well-established wireless key fobs, to cellular and Wi-Fi support for over-the-air (OTA) software updates from the cloud, cellphone connections and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.
Outputs in an automotive scenario include the systems that perform required actions, from the actuator that makes the window roll down, to the braking system that stops the vehicle when the automatic emergency braking system engages, to the steering system
that keeps a vehicle in its lane or guides the vehicle during automated parking. Outputs also include comfort features such as the air conditioner, the seat heaters and cabin lighting. They include any communications with the driver and other humans,
from lane-change signals and indicator lights to the internal speakers.
Infotainment is a complex system that involves both input and output in a single device. Input is received when users touch the screen, and output is the information displayed on the same screen.
The challenge for OEMs is that all these inputs and outputs are being added at once, and space within a vehicle’s chassis is finite. In the past, each new feature has required its own electronic control unit (ECU), and each ECU would have its own I/O connections. This approach will not scale, and it is too complex.
Separating I/O from compute
Aptiv’s SVA divides the vehicle into discrete zones and deploys multiple zone controllers that are connected to
each I/O device in that zone. The zone controller helps manage the I/O in a much more efficient and cost-effective manner, performing local data transformation, aggregating the data and putting it onto a single high-speed cable that connects to the vehicle’s domain controller or central computer.
This decoupling of I/O from compute provides multiple benefits. Delivering power and data connections to the sensors and other devices with just a backbone connection to the domain controllers improves scalability and reduces physical complexity.
In addition, once I/O is separated from compute, resources can be allocated to various software applications dynamically, as needed, based on priority and need. This approach allows the sharing of resources among physically separate domain controllers,
so they can operate logically as one. And this approach supports mixed criticality, where processing power is prioritized for safety features over less critical functions such as infotainment.
Finally, Aptiv’s SVA not only reduces complexity and lowers costs for OEMs. The approach also provides a platform for innovation by giving OEMs the ability to fully control the software that defines the user experience of their vehicles and to enhance that functionality via continuous software release cycles.


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From Split, we travelled just half an hour up the coast to Trogir. Last year we drove through Trogir on our way to Split and I thought at the time that it looked a nice town and made a note to come back to stay.
The road leading up to the campsite was quite narrow. Our motorhome is quite big and passing other big vehicles on this road was a bit hairy, to say the least. Our sat nav had told us that there was not a “camper route” up to this campsite but did we still want to go. We pressed yes and wondered why it said that at the time and obviously it was because the road was so narrow.
The campsite, Rozac auto camp, was in a small village called Okrug which is on a peninsula and this road was the only one coming off and on. There was quite a traffic jam the day we left and hate to think what it must be like in the height of the season.
The campsite was worth it though as we were surrounded on both sides by the sea.
The side we camped was by the marina, and as you can see from the photo we couldn’t get much closer to the water, which we loved, and the other side looked out to a beautiful beach.
From the site, it was just a short walk to several beach bars and restaurants which were great places to sit with a drink watching the sunset of an evening.

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Smart #1: The all-electric SUV boasts a sleek design and a plethora of modern technologies
Smart #1 is the first all-electric SUV from the Smart brand. The car has its own design language and this design style will be used by the manufacturer throughout the future Smart cars.
This electric crossover is Smart's first product after a 50% stake in parent company Daimler was acquired by Chinese company Geely.
Smart #1 has a design quite similar to Smart Concept #1 introduced last year. The electric SUV still has a rounded and cute exterior. The front of the car doesn't have a grille, and the sharp and edgy headlights design also brings a new look to the Smart brand, which used to have a slightly retro design.
Looking at the side of the car, you can notice that Smart #1 is equipped with frameless doors and pop-up door handles (which pop up when the driver presses the unlock button). In addition, the panoramic sunroof extends the entire length of the car with a design that resembles a floating roof above the car body.
The design of the rear end of the car follows a similar style to the front, with a sharp-tapered tail light cluster that is connected by a strip of horizontal LED lights running across the body of the car.
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Smart #1 has a size equivalent to the Mini Countryman and Kia Niro EV, but it is the largest car that Smart has ever produced. Specifically, the car has a length of 4,270mm, a width of 1,820mm, a height of 1,640mm, and a wheelbase of 2,750mm. The car weighs 1,820kg.
Stepping inside the cabin, Smart #1 remains faithful to the design of Concept #1. The pure electric SUV is equipped with a flat-bottomed sports steering wheel, a modestly sized 9.2-inch display screen at the back, and a 10-inch head-up display. The high-mounted central control panel is surrounded by a decorative metal trim and an eye-catching lighting system. Smart provides passengers with a 12.8-inch infotainment screen that can control most of the vehicle's functions, including the air conditioning system.
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The large panoramic sunroof creates a bright and extremely airy cabin, creating the effect of spacious interior space. The rear seats can also be moved up or down to add space for luggage or legroom - a convenient feature that not every car in the same segment has.
Smart car #1 will have a 66kWh battery with a range of approximately 420 - 440 km based on the WLTP cycle. Its fast DC charging feature of 150kW allows the car to charge from 10% to 80% in just 30 minutes. The AC charger with 22kW capacity will accomplish a full charge in approximately 3 hours.
The interesting point of Smart #1 lies in its engine. Specifically, the car will only be equipped with a single engine option with a power of 268 horsepower and torque of 343 Nm, and a rear-wheel drive system. This electric SUV can achieve a maximum speed of 180 km/h.
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This is a completely new model in Smart's product line with much more power, new features, and larger space compared to older models such as the EQ ForTwo and EQ ForFour. As a result, the price of this SUV is predicted to be slightly higher.
Smart #1 car price
The new Smart #1 will be available in three trims from launch: Pro +, Premium and the hot Brabus model. A limited-edition launch model will also be available with some unique styling tweaks.
New Smart #1 Pro +
Entry-level Pro + models start from £35,950. For this you get a panoramic sunroof, adaptive cruise control, heated seats, a 360-degree camera and a power tailgate.
New Smart #1 Premium
Step up to the Premium model and you get a Beats audio system, matrix LED headlights and automatic parking assist. This will set you back £38,950.
New Smart #1 Brabus
The full-fat Brabus model gets plenty of sporty styling upgrades over the standard car including deeper bumpers, bonnet vents and larger 19-inch alloy wheels. Inside, there are red seat belts, metal pedals and sports seats. This model will make a £43,450 hole in your wallet.
Range of movement
The 66kWh battery gives a maximum range of up to 273 miles in Premium and Launch Edition models and 260 in entry-level Pro+ models. The Brabus models still get a reasonable 248 miles, although it should be noted that the large-battery versions of the ID.3 and Born will travel even further.
All can be charged with a maximum power of 150 kW on a fast charger that can provide enough power, giving a charging time of 10-80% in less than 30 minutes. On a regular type two connector, the Pro+ charges at a maximum of 7,4kW like most home wall boxes, but higher end devices can take advantage of the 22kW charging more commonly found in offices. This cuts charging time from about seven and a half hours to less than three.
Both the regular version and the Brabus version have been adjusted to provide a similar driving experience, which mostly feels comfortable when encountering odd bumps and potholes. It's a gentler option compared to the Cupra Born and VW ID.3 and helps you feel satisfied driving at high speeds thanks to the precise steering system and peace of mind. The car's body roll isn't too bad, and you can even enjoy some fun with the rear-wheel-drive on single-motor versions.
In fact, it's almost the same size as the MINI Countryman and challenges small electric family cars like the Cupra Born, Kia Niro EV, Renault Megane E-Tech, and Volkswagen ID.3 while surpassing premium competitors like the BMW iX1 and Mercedes EQA. Inside, there's plenty of room for adults, and the rear seats are flexible so you can increase the trunk space if you're not carrying tall friends that day.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Sweden is home to 2,000 Takfiri extremists, the nation's intelligence chief revealed - ten times the number recorded before Europe's migrant crisis.
Anders Thornberg, head of domestic spy service Sapo, attributed the rise primarily to the sophisticated propaganda machine of ISIS.
Although 'few extremists' have 'the will and ability' to carry out attacks, they must be found and closely followed, Thornberg said.
'It's important that everyone in Sweden takes responsibility to end this trend... before we see an attack or a violent act,' Thornberg told news agency TT in an interview published on Monday.
Sweden has been on the edge ever since an Uzbek national, who had shown sympathies for terrorist groups including ISIS, used a stolen truck to mow down pedestrians on a busy shopping street in Stockholm on April 7, killing five people and injuring 15.
Europe has seen a string of attacks in recent years including large-scale assaults in Paris Brussels and Berlin.
Thornberg said that out of around 3,000 violent extremists currently in Sweden.
A 2010 Sapo report estimated the number of violent Takfiri extremists in the Scandinavian country at 200.
Sapo has previously said that about 300 people from Sweden are known to have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS since 2012.
Around 140 have returned to Sweden and about 50 are said to have died abroad.
Terrorists or sympathisers from Sweden have been linked to several terrorist attacks in recent years, as a Swedish national, Osama Krayem, has been charged with terrorist murders over the 2016 Brussels metro bombing.

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Microwave Bean and Corn Chili
This easy chili uses ground turkey instead of beef. For a vegetarian version, simply omit the turkey.
INGREDIENTS | SERVES 6
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 pound ground turkey
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce
- 1 (15-ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 (4-ounce) can diced green chilies, undrained
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 1 tablespoon chili powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- ⅛ teaspoon pepper
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
In 2-quart microwave-safe dish, place olive oil, onion, and garlic. Cover, vent one corner, and microwave on high 3 minutes.
Crumble turkey into dish and mix with onions and garlic. Cover and microwave on high for 3 minutes, then stir. Microwave for 2 to 3 minutes longer until turkey is done.
Add all remaining ingredients and mix well. Cover and microwave on high for 5 minutes; remove and stir. Cover and microwave again for 7 to 8 minutes until mixture is hot, bubbly, and blended.
Let stand on solid surface 5 minutes. Top with cheese and serve.
The microwave oven creates hot and cold spots in the food, so standing time after cooking is important. This time lets the food finish cooking and evens out the temperature. Don't place the container on a wire rack or trivet; it must be on a solid surface.

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October 10, 2016
— Hurricane Matthew blew a tip off of a ancestral rocket, tore partial of a roof off a residence used by a astronauts and defeated a space shuttle-era gantry arm on vaunt during NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The space group on Saturday (Oct. 8) common photos from an aerial consult of a center, arrangement areas that postulated repairs from a absolute storm. Hurricane Matthew delivered postulated winds of 90 mph (145 km/h) and gusts that exceeded 105 mph (170 km/h) as it modernized northwards along a Space Coast overnight Thursday into Friday, about 26 miles (42 km) off a seashore of Cape Canaveral.
“It was dynamic that a core perceived some removed roof damage, shop-worn support buildings, a few downed energy lines and singular H2O intrusion,” Kennedy Space Center officials wrote in a matter on Saturday. “Teams of inspectors are going from building to building assessing damage.”
Photos and video from a aerial consult uncover that a center’s iconic, 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) transient repairs damage.
The VAB formerly mislaid 820 panels from a south wall during Hurricane Frances, and 25 some-more off a easterly wall by Hurricane Jeanne, in Sep 2004. Photos on Saturday showed a walls, including a extensive U.S. dwindle and NASA trademark on a south side, intact.
Another sketch taken adjacent to a VAB suggested that a vast space convey artifact had been toppled. The orbiter opening arm used by astronauts to residence a convey atop Launch Pad 39A was blown over onto a side where it sat on outside arrangement in a Vehicle Assembly Building’s parking lot.
Nearby exhibits of an armored M-113 wanderer shun car and an Orion cancel complement building mockup looked to be unscathed.
NASA did not uncover a condition of Pad 39A, that is being mutated by SpaceX for blurb launches. A statement supposing by SpaceX to a record news website Ars Technica pronounced that a company’s comforts during a ancestral Apollo and convey pad were not damaged. SpaceX reliable that a Cape Canaveral cargo estimate trickery that it uses postulated “some repairs to a exterior.”
Satellite imagery acquired and released by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) showed Pad 39A’s vital structures intact.
NASA photos of Pad 39B, that has been prepared for a agency’s new Space Launch System (SLS), did not uncover damage.
The same could not be pronounced for several support buildings around a center, that suffered roof damage. Similarly, partial of a roof was ripped off The Beach House, a 1962 two-story residence that was famously used as a pre-launch wanderer hangout.
A sketch taken over a Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex showed usually one conspicuous pointer of a storm’s effects. The tip of a Thor-Delta, one of 7 ancestral boosters station in a park’s renouned Rocket Garden, is missing.
The Visitor Complex pronounced that a arrangement of a late space convey Atlantis was unaffected, as were a other indoor exhibits.
The Visitor Complex re-opened to a open on Sunday (Oct. 9), yet but a train tours of a Kennedy Space Center and opening to a Apollo/Saturn V Center located on NASA’s property. Direct train use to a moon booster’s building was set to resume on Monday.
The station of NASA’s ancestral Mercury and Gemini launch pads and comforts during a Cape Canaveral Air Force Station was unknown, yet NOAA’s satellite imagery showed a reproduction Mercury-Redstone rocket was still station during Launch Complex 5 (LC-5). The 45th Space Wing during Patrick Air Force Base, that controls a Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, reported repairs to some of a comparison buildings.
A Navaho barb arrangement located during a station’s opening embankment was also toppled.


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W.M. Kranenburg1*, T. van der Kaaij1, M. Tiessen1, Y. Friocourt2, M. Blaas2
Salinity Intrusion through the Rotterdam Waterway puts a significant pressure on fresh water availability for drinking water and industry, and is expected to increase due to climate change (changing river discharge characteristics, sea level rise) and infrastructural developments (waterway deepening). In an open connection to sea, salt can intrude beyond the tidal excursion length due to the density driven estuarine exchange flow (gravitational circulation, Hansen and Rattray, 1965; Geyer and MacCready, 2014), but also due to tide driven dispersion, e.g. through tidal trapping in harbor basins and branches (Fischer, 1979), which are omnipresent in the Rhine Meuse Delta. In this study, we investigate the contribution of the various dispersion mechanisms in the Rhine Meuse Delta, to support design of effective salt intrusion mitigation measures.
The central method in this study is salt flux decomposition (see Lerczak et al., 2006). 3D-model results for salinity and flow at multiple locations along the Waterway and New Meuse have been decomposed into time-averaged and time-dependent and depth-averaged and depth-dependent components. From these components, the individual contribution of estuarine circulation related, time-dependent shear related, tidal oscillation related, and net flow (mostly run-off) related salt fluxes have been determined.
From analysis of the salt flux contributions it was found that in the Rotterdam Waterway, the estuarine circulation related salt flux dominates over the tide related contribution most of the time, whereas tidal dispersion related fluxes dominate further upriver in the New Meuse. However, during surge events the contribution of the estuarine circulation reduces strongly, also in the Rotterdam Waterway. At these times, salt transport into the Rhine Meuse Delta is mainly produced by a temporal reversal of the net, tide-averaged flow, related to the large storage area in the system, and stratification vanishes almost completely. These results imply that measures aiming to reduce salt intrusion by enhancing vertical mixing in the Rotterdam Waterway can be expected to be effective most of the time. However, they likely have no effect on salt intrusion during surge events, which might be the more critical conditions.
Figure 3: a) Forcing of the system; b) Salt intrusion into the system; c) Total tide-averaged salt flux (blue, positive is inward) and contributions of the individual salt flux components, for location Maassluis (Rotterdam Waterway).

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I provide pleasant and cleaned up rooms with private bathroom, autonomous heater/air conditioner, double glazing, mini-fridge, hairdrier and alarm-radio-clock.
The building is from 1880.
Breakfast includes: croissant, toasted bred, butter, marmellates, cereals, juice fruit and thé, coffe, milk...
My B&B is also gifted with the typical Italian warmth and welcoming of a house inhabited by a real family.
Since 1999, I have been managing my B&B with the precious help of my mother Elvira. We personally deal with every aspect of the B&B: from the reception to the final greeting before your departure. We do not delegate things to others because we want to be sure of the good result.
Personally managing an activity as such it means to provide deep cleaning of all rooms, bathrooms and common areas; washing and sterilisation of towels and leanen; care in the choice of furniture and wish to improve the offered services; personally serving breakfast.
This also means the possibility to apply competitive prices and an excellent quality/price relationship.
In addition, we are always present in order to satisfy your needs and answer to your questions, advising you on places where to eat or do shopping, organise trips aoutside Rome, tours in the city (because the beauty of Rome is not only linked to its museums, monuments, squares and churces, neighborhoods but also to its small roads and unique athmosphere to live and taste before reaching the most famous places).
So...what do you do? Are you coming?
N.B.: tax on the stay not included (€ 2 per person per night), and it must be paid at arrival
Staying at Sergio's place was great. Sergio is a very kind person, he is ready to do everything to make your stay memorable.
Every time I had questions or anything, he was always available to answer them and to give me some great advices about restaurants, place to visit.. etc etc
I stayed in a studio with mezzanine, it was extra clean, very fonctionnal and the bed was very comfy.
The accomodation is very close of : buses, trams, metro and shops.
And I highly recommend you to stay there.
Thank again for everything Sergio.
Sergio was a great host! He was thoughtful and gave us everything we needed for a comfortable home which was especially craved for after a long day of exploring rome. He also provided us with lots of info for travelling around rome. Communication wasnt a problem at all! Would Stay there again when I go back to rome :)
Sergio and his mother Elvira looked after us very well. We had a good variety for breakfast served at a communal table which was at the heart of the apartment. Our room was clean and tidy and a good size with ensuite facilities. Sergio made sure we had all the information we needed for an enjoyable experience in Rome. The building is well located for the Rome metro thus easy access to all attractions. We used the shuttle bus from the airport which dropped us off at the main Termini rail station, this took us 20 minutes to walk to the apartment. Sergio's instructions on how to get there were very clear. Overall we were very pleased with our experience and would recommend.
Agradecemos a estadia no apartamento do Sergio! Ele foi muito atencioso, nos deu todas as dicas dos passeios. O apartamento é bem localizado, perto do Coliseu e dos principais pontos turisticos da cidade e do metro. Recomendamos!
Hi Sergio thank for our wonderful time at your place it was great.
I would recommend Sergio's if wanting to stay in the best band b in Rome wonderful host waited for us we were 1 hour late great room comfortable bed made up every day new sheets after about 4 days spend every breakfast with us talking about his family we felt like family by the time we left great breakfast wanted cereal was going to provide what we wanted only had 2 days to go so told him not to worry am sure it would have been there the next morning we woke late most mornings Sergio was there with coffee and breakfast for us.
Most knowledgable about Rome gave us hints and even the medical center which we had to use we are from Australia and in our 60s and 70s would not go any where else central 5 minutes from the metro.thank for making our stay so fantastic and also your email concerning our finding another band b in Florence our next stop.
Very caring and a great spot if you want central Rome and a wonderful host which treats you like family.
Two Aussie travelers
Wir haben 2 mal übernachtet ,
die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel sind alle direkt vor Ort, der Bahnhof ist auch zu Fuß erreichbar!
Sergio ist ein sehr netter hilfsbereiter Gastgeber!
Leider ist es etwas laut aber das ist in Rom wahrscheinlich nichts Ungewöhnliches wenn man im Zentrum wohnt.
La collocazione del palazzo è logisticamente molto comoda (vicino alla stazione Termini e vicino al binario per il treno per l'aeroporto, la metropolitana a pochi metri). Ho apprezzato la cortesia e la familiarità. La presenza della madre di Sergio è rassicurante (cosa importante in un'offerta low cost) e questo è un punto positivo per viaggiatrici single. Colazione ok. La mia camera non aveva il bagno in camera, ma l'uso di quello attiguo ed esclusivo non ha comportato nessuno disagio.
Volevo solo precisare che la descrizione della camera a cui è collogato questo commento è conforme (ossia il bagno è in camera) e che all'ospite era stato preventivamente spiegato, prima di prenotare, che per problemi di calendario la camera che le sarebbe stata assegnata sarebbe stata un'altra con bagno privato esterno (anche questa presente su airbnb).
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A surreal way to spend a cold winter’s day is to duck into Iceland's geothermal pools.
The man who brought us The Chronicles of Narnia and countless Christian apologetic works is actually an Irishman by birth.
Architecture and Design ee // The infinity pool at Villa Honegg in the Swiss Alps offers jaw-dropping views.
This magnificent, spiraling walkway is currently being constructed in Denmark's Gisselfeld Klosters Skove preserved forest,
How and why Black expats like James Baldwin, Josephine Baker, and Miles Davis felt more at home in Paris than in their own country is the theme of Black Paris Tours.
These remote, luxury cottages celebrate the unspoiled beauty of the area. || Inhabitat
Is it truly possible to transform a city into a national park and what does that mean exactly?
The Glenesk Hotel in Edzell received its place in the Guinness World Records for “the most varieties of whisky commercially available."


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|Lev Cameron Khmelev Quick Info|
|Height||5 ft 7.5 in|
|Date of Birth||October 11, 2005|
Lev Cameron Khmelev is a French-American dancer, actor, and social media star, best known as the competitor on the reality-TV dancing show, Dancing with the Stars: Juniors in 2018. He also appeared on Dancing with the Stars the same year as a junior dancer and was also in the Top 30 competitors on the TV show So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation in 2016. As an actor, Lev has appeared in TV series such as My Haunted House (2016) as Henry, 555 (2017) as Little Boy, Evil Things (2017) as Harris, and played Squirgly Dag in the movie Ham on Rye (2019).
Lev Cameron Khmelev
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
He was an advanced student and attended preparatory school so he could pass the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) at the age of 12.
When he turned 13, Lev enrolled in Los Angeles Valley College in Valley Glen, Los Angeles, California, United States, and attended it online.
Social Media Star, Dancer, Actor
- Mother – Irina Khmelev
Lev Cameron Khmelev self-represents his career.
5 ft 7.5 in or 171.5 cm
62 kg or 136.5 lbs
Girlfriend / Spouse
Lev Cameron Khmelev has dated –
- Piper Rockelle (2019-Present) – In 2 videos uploaded to his YouTube channel in November 2019, Lev had named Piper, a social media star and a dancer, as his crush and the two started collaborating. When asked whether they were dating by their mutual fanbase, both Lev and Piper chose to dodge the question. Later, in January 2021, he uploaded a video claiming that he had broken up with Piper. However, it appeared to be a prank video. Later, on January 16, 2021, Piper had uploaded another YouTube video to confirm their separation. However, it was again a prank.
Race / Ethnicity
Lev Cameron Khmelev has endorsed brands such as Wrapped In A Cloud.
Lev Cameron Khmelev Favorite Things
- Dancing Idols – John Travolta, Justin Timberlake, Marty Kudelka, Kenny Wormald
- Disney Movies – Wall-E (2008)
Lev Cameron Khmelev Facts
- His dream place to visit is France since he was born and spent a small portion of his life there. He also speaks a little French.
- Lev started dancing at the age of 5, primarily ballroom.
- Lev is self-taught at the “popping and locking” style of dancing.
- He appeared in a music video for the song Can’t Stop The Feeling by Justin Timberlake in 2016. He didn’t get to talk to Justin Timberlake a lot during the filming. However, Justin decided to put him on his shoulders and spin him. Even though it was cut out from the final version, he still considers it an awesome and memorable moment.
- In 2017, he and his dancing partner, Sofia Sachenko, appeared on the musical competition, Little Big Shots, created and produced by Ellen DeGeneres and Steve Harvey.
- Lev finds contemporary and tap dancing the most challenging to perform.
- At the time of his competing in So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation (2016), his dancing skills were judged by Jason Derulo, Paula Abdul, Maddie Ziegler, and Nigel Lythgoe.
Featured Image by Lev Cameron Khmelev / Instagram

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The express business purpose of the entity
is to invest in real estate properties for total return including an objective to realize capital appreciation (through disposal of its real estate properties, for example).
Under the proposed definition, it would be common for a reporting entity
to be the same as a legal entity
Certain tax jurisdictions allow that tax payments made by an entity
are attributable to the owners of the entity
and may be claimed by the owners as a payment against their own personal income tax.
Under this current regulatory provision, a foreign entity
is not deemed to have a federal tax classification until the entity
is relevant for U.
Normal cost refers to the post employment benefits other than pension that the entity
will be responsible for in the future for the current year of service.
In selecting the right entity
-management firm to help establish a business entity
in the U.
1503(d)-1(b)(4), a "separate unit" is defined as a foreign branch ("foreign branch separate unit") or an interest in a hybrid entity
So the varying ways in which PHI can enter a covered entity
, the varying formats and record contents, the desire to store, protect and recover PHI, all in an economic climate of flat to declining IT budgets and tightening scrutiny of medical costs, create a strong demand for storage technology that is fast, flexible, reliable, inexpensive and scalable.
The Title II entity
will then understand all the issues involved and be in a strong position to review the program requirements from an informed perspective.
Thus, unlike most current systems in which a single or a small collection of simulated entities exists, the number of simulated entities will be unlimited with each entity
possessing unique knowledge, emotional associations, and life histories.
The accuracy of the data's representation of the entity
and environment from which it originated, as well as its currency, are factors of data quality.
SLTs: A subsequently listed transaction (SLT) is any transaction to which an exempt entity
is a party that the IRS determines to be a listed transaction at any time after the entity
became a party to the transaction.

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Book: The Red and the Black by Stendhal
#85 on the Telegraph’s 100 novels everyone should read.
What is the story about?
The story follows Monsieur Julien Sorrel and his rise from obscurity, the son of a carpenter in the countryside, to fame in the posh Paris salons.
I really wanted to like this book .. but to be honest .. it’s just meh.
I left the book with an impression of reading a wana-be Romeo and Juliet but not quiet getting there.
In the end I felt like everyone was in love with Julien except for me. He actually annoys me for most of the book. He was too full of himself and thought the world revolves around him.
I also didn’t like the ladies in the book. Mme de Renal was a good wife and mother until Julien came along. Then it’s like she loses her mind and forgets everything she ever believes in when she gazes in his dreamy eyes.
As for Mlle Mathilda .. Oh my. She is a spoilt girl who enjoys getting things she can’t have .. but then loses interest as soon as she actually gets them.
The only character I liked was M. de la Mole, who was wronged by almost every character in the book.
If I have read this book back in my teens when I was a hopeless romantic .. maybe I would’ve liked the story more.
But for now .. it’s just meh.
Next book: The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.
I used to call my sisters and I the three musketeers. will be nice to know their real story..
Till next time ❤


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"Possibly" Never Fired. I am selling my Uncles Estate Firearms. They look like they have never been fired!
Reserve the right to sell local and also to sell to "uncomplicated" buyer!
I have to go through a dealer. Charges with shipping are approx $100.00


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Audio Player ( English for audio player ) called audio devices and software that are able to play back audio data. The range of functions of the software player has evolved significantly in the 2000s, which is why most audio players have now become media players .
Audio players are programs that only load audio data from audio formats or from CDs , convert it at great expense , if necessary, and then pass it on to a computer's sound card as digital music signals .
Some players also include database functions for managing the audio files. These enable the user to sort his audio data according to artist , music album or other criteria, to create playlists or to offer sophisticated search functions.
Some audio players have the ability to graphically display the audio data to be played using visualizations. For example, the frequency spectrum is displayed as a bar chart. Many visualizations use the audio data primarily to create artistic graphics or animations.
The advent of compact audio formats , chiptunes and later tracker modules on home computers in the 1980s led to the emergence of the first software audio player. This continued at the beginning of the 90s on the PC platform with MS-DOS , computers were now also equipped with CD-ROM drives, which made it possible to play audio CDs . Inertia Player and CubicPlayer are examples of audio players for audio CDs and tracker formats of that time. With the development and spread of the highly compressed MP3 audio format at the end of the 90s, the use of the PC as a playback device gained wider popularity, especially through the creation of compressed pieces of music by CD ripping . Audio players in today's sense emerged, including the genre-defining Winamp , with a consistent plug-in system (for audio formats, sound output and audio visualization ) and a customizable user interface (via skins ).
Due to the further growth in computing power and the associated video capabilities, many audio players expanded their capabilities in this direction in the 2000s and thus became media players .
These are devices that can only play audio data. These devices include CD players and the first generation of MP3 players .

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Job prospects Administrative Assistant in Alberta
Job opportunities for Administrative assistants (NOC 1241) are fair in Alberta over the next 3 years. These job prospects are also applicable to people working as an administrative assistant.
Note: These employment prospects were published in December 2021 based on the information available at the time of analysis. The next update will be in December 2022. To learn more, see our FAQs. You can also find additional information on the Canadian Online Job Posting Dashboard.
Job opportunities in Alberta
The employment outlook will be fair for Administrative assistants (NOC 1241) in Alberta for the 2021-2023 period.
The following factors contributed to this outlook:
- Employment decline will lead to the loss of some positions.
- Several positions will become available due to retirements.
- There are several unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.
Here are some key facts about Administrative assistants in the Alberta region:
- Approximately 25,950 people work in this occupation.
- Administrative assistants mainly work in the following sectors:
- Elementary and secondary schools (NAICS 6111): 12%
- Construction (NAICS 23): 9%
- Local, municipal, regional, aboriginal and other public administration (NAICS 913-919): 6%
- Provincial and territorial public administration (NAICS 912): 5%
- Religious, grant-making, civic, and professional and similar organizations (NAICS 813): 5%
- The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
- Full-time workers: 78% compared to 81% for all occupations
- Part-time workers: 22% compared to 19% for all occupations
- 62% of administrative assistants work all year, while 38% work only part of the year, compared to 59% and 41% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 34 weeks compared to 32 weeks for all occupations.
- 7% of administrative assistants are self-employed compared to an average of 12% for all occupations.
Breakdown by region
Explore job prospects in Alberta by economic region.
|Athabasca–Grande Prairie–Peace River Region||Fair Fair|
|Banff–Jasper–Rocky Mountain House Region||Fair Fair|
|Calgary Region||Fair Fair|
|Camrose–Drumheller Region||Fair Fair|
|Edmonton Region||Fair Fair|
|Lethbridge–Medicine Hat Region||Fair Fair|
|Red Deer Region||Fair Fair|
|Wood Buffalo–Cold Lake Region||Fair Fair|
To view this data on a map, go to: LMI Explore
Labour market conditions over the next 10 years
We expect that the labour supply and demand for Administrative assistants (NOC 1241) will be balanced in Canada over the next 10 years.
Mining Sector Hiring Forecast
The Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR) forecasts that the mining sector will need to hire a total of 1,055 Administrative assistants in Alberta from 2011 to 2021.
The following table shows MiHR’s forecast for the total number of jobs that will need to be filled from 2011 to the given year.
|Cumulative Hiring Forecast (base year 2011)||2013||2016||2021|
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BRIDGES is a private, non-profit organization providing mental health and supportive services to children, transitional age youth, adults, and families affected by mental health disorders and who are Medi-Cal eligible in Los Angeles County. We are a contract provider of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and member of the Association of Community Human Service Agencies.
BRIDGES is committed to improving the well being of children and adults with serious emotional and mental health disorders by providing comprehensive mental health and social services within the County of Los Angeles. Services are flexible and intended to meet the unique needs of the individuals or families served. Some of our mental health programs offer services at alternative locations to our offices, such as at the individual’s home or group home, at schools, or other safe meeting spaces in the community. For adults 18 and over who would benefit from a therapeutic congregate living environment with 24-hour staff assistance, BRIDGES operates two community residential facilities in the San Gabriel Valley.
Programs are licensed and certified by California State Department of Social Services and certified by the State Department of Health Care Services to provide adult residential and specialty mental health programs.

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Kannada film actor Akshay, who made his debut with the movie Ganga Cauvery, is ready to hit on the big screen with a musical love story titled Cinderella. Akshay was launched by his producer father RV Venkatappa in Ganga Cauvery.
Akshay has been waiting for a right chance and proper script from last two years to make his presence felt on the big screen again. He has now come out of the RV Venkatappa controversial producer BP Srinivas" Harischandra Ghat and is ready to play a multimillionaire son in the new movie.
The shooting for Cinderella has started at Dharmagiri Sri Manjunatheswara temple in Bangalore. Madhukar Belakawadi is directing this movie, in which the heroine is like a dream girl for the hero Akshay. P Sudarshan, who is experienced in Hindustani music, is composing the music for this movie and will take the audience to the olden melodies.
Maruthiraj is the producer of the movie and has invested Rs.1.25 crores on this film, which has 45 days schedule. Actress Sushma, who has been seen in Madhura Prema, is playing the second heroine in Cinderella and the makers are yet to finalize the dream girl of Akshay.
Hope the film works for Akshay and he becomes able to make a place in the Sandalwood!