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Trieu, V. V. (2000). Legal framework for mangrove-friendly aquaculture: Vietnam experience. In Y. Tadokoro, V. T. Sulit, & R. B. Abastillas (Comps.), Technologies in Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture. Final Report of and Papers Presented to the On-Site Training on Mangrove-Friendly Aquaculture, Hai Phong City, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 19-30 April 1999 (pp. 70–76). Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines: Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.
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I've made a little progress on the skirt, although not as much as I'd like. My husband took me out for dinner last night for my birthday and today we're having friends over for a BBQ. Below is what I have so far. This is actually one of the better pictures of the lace and is pretty much how the skirt will look when finished and pressed properly.
The shell of the skirt is almost finished. I started by basting the lace to the fashion fabric that had been interfaced, as seen below. I did not invisibly tack the lace to the fashion fabric because these pieces are small; the lace will not pull away from such a small piece and hang oddly.
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Homicides in Los Angeles have sharply increased in the first two months of this year, reversing nearly five years of decline and posing a puzzling challenge for Police Chief William Bratton, reports the Los Angeles Times. “I take responsibility when it goes down, I take responsibility when it goes up,” Bratton said. The 74 killings so far in 2008 mark a 27 percent increase compared with the same period last year. The jump in homicides has included several high-profile killings, creating a perception of escalating violence.
Experts and police officials cautioned that it is too early to conclude whether the increase is a spike or the beginning of an extended rise, but Bratton and his top commanders have been flummoxed by the random, unrelated nature of the killings. Several of the deaths occurred during domestic fights or similar incidents that have no common factor linking them, making it difficult to fashion a comprehensive response. Further perplexing officers is that the rising homicide rate is set against a 5.1 percent decline in violent crime overall that includes a more than 2 percent drop in rapes and aggravated assaults, as well as a 25 percent drop in gang-related homicides. Gang killings can often account for upticks in the rate. Says Bratton: “It is just a lot of the good old-fashioned homicides — people killing each other out of passion or during the commission of a crime.”

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The Hartford Courant – By Gregory B. Hladky – May 25th, 2016
Connecticut’s congressional delegation is leading a renewed push for reform of federal commercial fishing quotas critics say are out of date, wasteful, fail to respond to climate change and unfair to New England fishermen.
Warming ocean temperatures are pushing vast numbers of fish like black bass, summer flounder and scup farther north into New England waters, according to the delegation’s letter to federal officials, but old fishing quotas severely restrict how many of those fish commercial boats from this region are allowed to keep.
The out-of-date quota system means that fishermen from North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland are allowed to take much larger numbers of those types of fish, even when they come to New England’s offshore waters to net them, according to a joint letter by Connecticut and Massachusetts members of Congress.
In a letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, the legislators complained that “fishermen coming from as far away as North Carolina can legally take sometimes more than ten times [the allowed catch] of New England vessels.”
“We think the trend of out-of-state fishermen moving north [to fish off New England’s coast]… has just been accelerating,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District. He said North Carolina boats are seen fishing off the eastern end of Long Island Sound “all the time now.”
“The Department of Commerce has authority to correct this hugely unfair and unproductive system,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Tuesday. “You would be hard put to devise a system more fraught with defects than this one.”
But fishermen and politicians from mid-Atlantic states have lobbied hard to keep the quotas as they are.
The battle over these fishing quotas and regulations has been going on for years, but Blumenthal said the chance for real reform may be better now because President Obama is nearing the end of his term.
“It could be a great parting policy step for this administration to bring some rationality and scientific common sense to this system,” said Blumenthal.
Courtney said federal legislation intended to enact some reform of the old quota-regulatory system passed the U.S. House but has stalled in the Senate. He said the letter to the commerce secretary is a change in tactics, and Courtney said he believes it is the first time congressional members from Connecticut and Massachusetts have joined together to push for administrative reforms.
Environmentalists agree that the current regulatory system needs reform and one key reason is that an estimated 80 percent of fish netted and returned to the ocean by commercial boats are dead by the time they hit the water again. State experts say hundreds of thousands of pounds of edible fish are caught and then thrown away as “bycatch” by commercial fishermen in New England waters every year.
A federal lawsuit was filed last year by the environmental activist group Oceana to force reforms in the way commercial bycatch is monitored and controlled. Gib Brogan, a spokesman for Oceana, said the suit remains entangled in legal maneuvering.
Quotas for different species of fish are set by regional councils along the Atlantic coast, with each council made up of representatives from states in that particular region.
Black bass, scup and summer flounder are regulated by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council because those species years ago were primarily found on the Mid-Atlantic coastline, and fishermen from that region were granted consistently large quotas.
Now that the greatest “biomass” of those species has shifted to northern waters, Connecticut and other New England states want to have a say in quotas for those fish. Last year, Connecticut commercial boats were limited to 1 percent of all black sea bass caught, or about 22,000 pounds.
“The bulk of the biomass is up here,” said David Simpson, head of the marine fisheries division of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. “The resource is moving north.”
New England currently has only one representative on the Mid-Atlantic Council, while states like North Carolina and Virginia have multiple votes. “The status quo works for those [Mid-Atlantic] states,” said Simpson.
Simpson said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is part of the federal commerce department, has significant influence over the way the regional fisheries councils operate. He said NOAA, “given enough pressure,” could convince the Mid-Atlantic Council to change its quota system.
Brogan agrees that the current regulatory system isn’t keeping up with the changes in fish populations. But he and other Oceana officials don’t believe “that a simple reallocation of quotas or representation on the councils is going to solve this issue.”


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Sodium Bicarbonate Day celebrates bicarbonate of soda and its uses on December 30 every year. This day acknowledges a fundamental commodity of every household and especially of every kitchen. Bicarbonate of soda is also commonly known as bread soda, cooking soda, and baking soda. These names correspond to its scientific and chemical compound name, which is NaHCO3, also known as sodium bicarbonate. Bicarbonate of soda is the most used chemical compound because of its many practical and effective uses.
HISTORY OF SODIUM BICARBONATE DAY
Sodium bicarbonate is a white powder-like crystalline that usually appears as a fine powder. When consumed, it tastes salty, one that is likened to alkaline water. The earliest uses of this substance can be traced back to ancient Egypt. In 3000 B.C., ancient Egyptians used a product called “Natron,” which mainly consisted of sodium bicarbonate.
In 1791, French chemist Nicolas Leblanc made what was known as “soda ash.” The most common use of bicarbonate of soda is as a leavening agent, specifically in the preparation of food. This is technically a component that would make a dough or batter rise through a chemical reaction when combined with gas and heat. Before the 1800s, most people would add yeast to their baked goods and desserts to let it grow. The only downside of this is that it was a tedious process and in most cases, the yeast would die at very hot or very cold temperatures. This is how baking soda started being used.
In 1846, the making of baking soda made everything easier for bakers and home cooks. Aside from being used in the kitchen, sodium bicarbonate has also been very effective for cleaning. Baking soda can remove mold and mildew build-up. This makes it the best option for polishing stainless steel, kitchen appliances, and even shower curtains. As of 1972, baking soda gained attention and more people have used it for food preservation.
As of the 21st century, this chemical composition was produced in bulk. Around two million tons of volume per year is produced. It is shipped worldwide and is sold to businesses and consumers for utility and productivity. Bicarbonate of soda has been deemed a miracle ingredient for many purposes such as removing foul odors, eliminating pesticides, neutralizing fires, brushing teeth, cleaning, and so much more.
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Nicolas Leblanc, a French chemist, makes sodium bicarbonate, also known as soda ash.
The Church & Dwight company develops the “Arm and Hammer” brand with the iconic logo of baking soda.
The compound is promoted through published articles in renowned magazines such as “Good Housekeeping” and “McCall.”
The Statue of Liberty’s 100th birthday is celebrated through its cleaning and refurbishing of inner copper walls, which leaves the figure effectively clean.
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Is it dangerous to drink Bicarbonate of soda?
Drinking small amounts of baking soda is not usually dangerous. In adults, this can provide short-term relief from indigestion. However, drinking large amounts of baking soda is dangerous, and it is not suitable for long-term use, use during pregnancy, or use in children.
Will a cake rise without baking soda?
Leaving baking soda out of the cake prevents it from rising, but you can use baking powder as a substitute.
Does baking soda raise your blood pressure?
The side effects of using baking soda in excess can be related to salt retention, including raised blood pressure and swelling.
SODIUM BICARBONATE DAY ACTIVITIES
Learn about the history and discovery
If you want to celebrate this holiday, do some research and learn more about how baking soda came to be. You can share this information with family and friends as well.
Share some of the ways you use bicarbonate of soda
Whether or not you are conscious of it, you have used baking soda at least once in your life. Think of its uses and share the ways it has acted as a miracle compound.
Create a project with this compound
Make an impressive science project for the kids. With the use of sodium bicarbonate, you can make a fun erupting volcano or even a self-propelling rocket.
5 FACTS ABOUT SODIUM BICARBONATE
It is good for the skin
Baking soda is great for exfoliating and helps balance the acidity of one’s skin.
Fun science activities
All baking soda experiments and projects can be thrilling, yet still safe for children.
It can be used in the laundry
Baking soda acts as a base with a pH level that is above 7.0, which helps give dirty clothes a deeper clean when washed.
Main ingredient in fire extinguishers
It is great for putting out a fire without being dangerous to its surroundings.
It is great for dental health
Baking soda is favorable for scrubbing away tough plaque and stains on teeth.
WHY WE LOVE SODIUM BICARBONATE DAY
It treats digestive problems
Many people suffer from acid reflux, which is when stomach acid goes back up to the esophagus from the stomach. This causes heartburn. The main element of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, which acts as an antacid and relieves the feeling of acid reflux.
Bicarbonate of soda can remove odors
We get to de-stink many areas in our household that usually have foul odors. No one likes foul odors and we can easily get rid of them through one compound.
It can be the answer to all your cleaning needs
Because it is an alkali, baking soda acts as a cleaning agent. It dissolves dirt and oil greases easily. It is non-toxic, pure, and natural. You can use it sparingly unlike many other household products.

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Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
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As tools the frameworks of PIRT and PCMM are only as good as how they are used to support high quality work. Using these tools will not necessarily improve your credibility, but rather help you assess it holistically. Ultimately the credibility of your modeling & simulation capability is driven by the honesty and integrity of your assessment. It is easy to discuss what you do well and where you have mastery over a topic. The real key to assessment includes a will and willingness to articulate where an effort is weak and where the fundamental foundational knowledge in a field is the limiting factor in your capacity for solving problems. The goal in credibility assessment is not demonstration of mastery over a topic, but rather a demonstration of the actual state of affairs so that decisions can be made with full knowledge of the weight to place and risks inherent in modeling & simulation.
A thing like quality is highly subjective and certainly subject to a great deal of relativity where considerations of the problem being solved and the modeling & simulation capabilities of the field or fields relevant come into consideration. As such the frameworks serve to provide a basic rubric and commonly consistent foundation for the consideration of modeling & simulation quality. As such PIRT and PCMM are blueprints for numerical modeling. The craft of executing the modeling & simulation within the confines of resources available is the work of the scientists and engineers. These resources include the ability to muster effort towards completing work, but also the knowledge and capability base that you can draw upon. The goal of high quality is to provide an honest and holistic approach to guiding the assessment of modeling & simulation quality.
In the assessment of quality the most important aspect to get right is honesty about the limitations of a modeling & simulation capability. This may be the single most difficult thing to accomplish. There are significant physiological and social factors that lead to a lack of honesty in evaluation and assessment. No framework or system can completely overcome such tendencies, but might act as a hedge against the tendency to overlook critical details that do not reflect well on the assessment. The framework assures that each important category is addressed. The ultimate test for the overall integrity and honesty of an assessment of modeling & simulation credibility depends upon deeper technical knowledge than any framework can capture.
Quite often an assessment will avoid dealing with systematic problems for a given capability that have not been solved sufficiently. Several examples of this phenomenon are useful in demonstrating where this can manifest itself. In fluid dynamics, turbulence remains a largely unsolved problem. Turbulence has intrinsic and irreducible uncertainty associated with it, and no single model or modeling approach is adequate to elucidate the important details. In Lagrangian solid mechanics the technique of element death is pervasively utilized for highly strained flows where fracture and failure occur. It is essential for many simulations and often renders a simulation to be non-convergent under mesh refinement. In both cases the communities dependent upon utilizing modeling & simulation with these characteristics tend to under-emphasize the systematic issues associated with both. This produces a systematically higher confidence and credibility than is technically justifiable. The general principle is to be intrinsically wary of unsolved problems in any given technical discipline.
Together the PIRT and PCMM adapted and applied to any modeling & simulation activity form part of the delivery of defined credibility of the effort. The PIRT gives context to the modeling efforts and the level of importance and knowledge of each part of the work. It is a structured manner for the experts in a given field to weigh in on the basis for model construction. The actual activities should be strongly reflected in the sort of assessed importance and knowledge basis reflected in the PIRT. Similarly the PCMM can be used for a structured assessment of the specific aspects of the modeling & simulation.
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This is not to say that these tools cannot assist in earlier uses of modeling & simulation. In particular the PIRT can be a great tool to engage with in determining modeling requirements for an effort. Similarly, the PCMM can be used to judge the appropriate level of formality and completeness for an effort to engage with. Nonetheless these frameworks are far more important and impactful when utilized for more mature, “engineering” focused modeling & simulation efforts.
Any high level integrated view of credibility is built upon the foundation of the issues exposed in PIRT and PCMM. The problem that often arises in a complex modeling & simulation activity is managing the complexity of the overall activity. Invariably gaps, missing efforts and oversights will creep into the execution of the work. The basic modeling activity is informed by the PIRT’s structure. Are there important parts of the model that are missing, or poorly grounded in available knowledge? From PCMM, are the important parts of the model tested adequately? The PIRT becomes a fuel for assessing the quality of the validation, and planning for an appropriate level of activity around important modeling details. Questions regarding the experimental support for the modeling can be explored in a structured and complete manner. While the credibility is not built on the PCMM and PIRT, the ability to manage its assessment is enabled by their mastery of the complexity of modeling & simulation.
In getting to the quantitative basis for assessment of credibility, the definition of the uncertainty budget for a modeling & simulation activity can be enlightening. While the PCMM and PIRT provide a broadly encompassing view of modeling & simulation quality from a qualitative point of view, the uncertainty budget is ultimately a quantitative assessment of quality. Forcing the production of numerical values to the quality is immensely useful and provides important focus. For this to be a useful and powerful tool, this budget must be determined with well-defined principles and fairly good disciplined decision-making.
One of the key principles underlying a successful uncertainty budget is the determination of unambiguous categories for assessment. Each of these broad categories can be populated with sub-categories, and finer and finer categorization. Once an effort has committed to a certain level of granularity in defining uncertainty, it is essential that the uncertainty be assessed broadly and holistically. In other words, it is important, if not essential that none of the categories be ignored.
This can be extremely difficult because some areas of uncertainty are truly uncertain, no information may exist to enable a definitive estimation. This is the core of the difficulty for uncertainty estimation, the unknown value and basis for some quantitative uncertainties. Generally speaking, the unknown or poorly known uncertainties are more important to assess than some of the well-known ones. In practice the opposite happens, when something is poorly known the value often adopted in the assessment is implicitly defined quantitatively as “zero”. This is implicit because the uncertainty is simply ignored, and it is not mentioned, or assigned any value. This is dangerous. Again, the availability of the frameworks comes in handy to help the assessment identify major areas of effort.
A reasonable decomposition of the sources of uncertainty can fairly generically be defined at a high level: experimental, modeling and numerical sources. We would suggest that each of these broad areas be populated with a finite uncertainty, and each of the finite values assigned be supported by well-defined technical arguments. Of course, each of these high level areas will have a multitude of finer grained components describing the sources of uncertainty along with routes toward their quantitative assessment. For example, experimental uncertainty has two major components, observational uncertainty and natural variability. Each of these categories can in kind be analyzed by a host of additional detailed aspects. Numerical uncertainty lends itself to many sub-categories: discretization, linear, nonlinear, parallel consistency, and so on.
The key is to provide a quantitative assessment for each category at a high level with a non-zero value for uncertainty and a well-defined technical basis. We note that the technical basis could very well be “expert” judgment as long as this is explicitly defined. This gets to the core of the matter; the assessments should always be explicit and not leave essential content for implicit interpretation. A successful uncertainty budget would define the major sources of uncertainty for all three areas along with a quantitative value for each. In the case where the technical basis for the assessment is weak or non-existent, the uncertainty should be necessarily large to reflect the lack of technical basis. Like statistical sampling, the benefit to doing more work is a reduction in the magnitude of the uncertainty associated with the quantity. Enforcing this principle means that follow-on work that produces larger uncertainties requires the admission that earlier uncertainties were under-estimated. The assessment process and uncertainty budget are inherently learning opportunities for the overall effort. The assessment is simply an encapsulation of the current state of knowledge and understanding.
Too often in modeling & simulation uncertainty, efforts receive a benefit through ignoring important sources of uncertainty. By doing nothing to assess uncertainty they report no uncertainty associated with the quantity. Insult is done to this injury when the effort realizes that doing work to assess the uncertainty then can only increase its value. This sort of dynamic becomes self-sustaining, and more knowledge and information results in more uncertainty. This is a common and often seen impact of uncertainty assessment. Unfortunately this is a pathological issue. The reality is that this indicts the earlier assessment of uncertainty where the estimate that was made earlier is actually too small. A vital principle is that more work in assessing uncertainty should always reduce uncertainty. If this does not happen the previous assessment of uncertainty was too small. This is an all to common occurrence that occurs when a modeling & simulation effort is attempting to convey a too large sense of confidence in their predictive capability. The value of assessed uncertainty should converge to the irreducible core of uncertainty associated with the true lack of knowledge or intrinsic variability of the thing being modeled. In many cases the uncertainty is interacting with an important design or analysis decision where a performance margin needs to be balanced with the modeling uncertainty.
An ironic aspect to uncertainty estimation is the tendency to estimate large uncertainties where expertise and knowledge are strong, while under-estimating uncertainty in areas where expertise is weak. This is often seen with numerical error. A general trend in modeling & simulation is the tendency to treat computer codes as black boxes. As such, the level of expertise in numerical methods used in modeling & simulation can be quite low. This has the knock-on effect of lowering the estimation of numerical uncertainty, and utilizing the standard methodology for solving the equations numerically. Quite often the numerical error is completely ignored in analysis. In many cases the discretization error should dominate the uncertainty, but aspects of the solution methodology can color this assessment. Key among these issues is the nonlinear error, which can compete with the discretization error if care is not taken.
This problem is compounded by a lack of knowledge associated with the explicit details of the numerical algorithm and the aspects of the solution that can lead to issues. In this case the PCMM can assist greatly in deducing these structural problems. The PCMM provides several key points that allow the work to proceed with greater degrees of transparency with regard to the numerical solution. The code verification category provides a connection to the basis for confidence in any numerical method. Are the basic features and aspects of the numerical solution being adequately tested? The solution verification category asks whether the basic error analysis and uncertainty estimation is being done. Again the frameworks encourage a holistic and complete assessment of important details.
The final aspects to highlight in the definition of credibility are the need for honesty and transparency in the assessment. Too often assessments of modeling & simulation lack the fortitude to engage in a fundamental honesty regarding the limitations of the technology and science. If the effort is truly interested in not exposing their flaws, no framework can help. Much of the key value in the assessment is defining where effort can be placed to improve the modeling & simulation. It should help to identify the areas that drive the quality of the current capability.
If the effort is interested in a complete and holistic assessment of its credibility, the frameworks can be invaluable. The value is key in making certain that important details and areas of focus are not over- or under-valued in the assessment. The areas of strong technical expertise are often focused upon, while areas of weakness can be ignored. This can produce systematic weaknesses in the assessment that may produce wrong conclusions. More perniciously, the assessment can willfully or not ignores systematic shortcomings in a modeling & simulation capability. This can lead to a deep under-estimate in uncertainty while significantly over-estimating confidence and credibility.
For modeling & simulation efforts properly focused on an honest and high integrity assessment of their capability, the frameworks of PCMM and PIRT can be an invaluable aid. The assessment can be more focused and complete than it would be in their absence. The principle good of the frameworks is to make the assessment explicit and intentional, and avoid unintentional oversights. Their use can go great lengths to provide direct evidence of due diligence in the assessment and highlight the quality of the credibility provided to whomever utilizes the results.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
― Henry Ward Beecher


Our inflation update looks at how the costs of living is faring now in Europe, after two years of high inflation. Hopefully, we will continue to see improvement over the coming months and years, but it remains important for retired people to plan for the long-term rising cost of living.
It has been two years now, since inflation began to climb and we were soon noticing the higher cost of living. Prices continued rising over the following year, peaking in the autumn across much of Europe, but we have seen improvement since then. Food inflation however, while slowly decreasing, remains in double digits in many areas.
EU inflation update
Across the EU as a whole, inflation peaked at 10.6% last October and has since fallen to 4.9% in September (provisional data). So on average, EU prices were 4.9% higher than in September 2022). For the euro area it is 4.3%. Prices have been largely driven, both up then down, by energy costs.
Commodity prices initially began rising over 2021 as a result of recovering global demand. Then Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed prices up further in 2022, causing energy inflation to hit a record 44.3% high in the Eurozone. Food prices were also significantly impacted, reaching a historic high of 15.5% this March.
The European Central Bank expects inflation to continue to slow due to easing cost pressures and supply bottlenecks, as well as the impact of monetary policy tightening. Under projections published this September, headline HICP [harmonised index of consumer prices) inflation is expected to decrease from an average of 8.4% in 2022 to 5.6% in 2023, then 3.2% next year and 2.1% in 2025, reaching the 2% target in the third quarter of 2025.
These are average rates for the Euro area and inflation levels vary across the member countries.
Spain’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) returned close to the 2% target in June, falling to 1.9%. However, it returned to an upward path in July and was 3.5% in September. Food inflation remains high at 10.5%.
Cyprus also recorded 1.9% CPI inflation for June but it was back to 4% in September. Inflation for the food and non-alcoholic beverages category was 9.7%. At the other end of the scale transport inflation was -2.02%.
The France Consumer Price Index was 4.9% year on year in September, the same as the previous month. Energy prices accelerated (+11.9% after +6.8%) but was compensated by food prices slowing (+97% after +11.2%).
In Portugal, after falling for eight months from 10% in October 2022 to 3.1% for July, the Consumer Price Index recorded 3.7% in August and 3.6% in September. The index for unprocessed food was 6% in September, while the annual rate of change for energy products was in negative territory at -4.1%.
Unless they are negative, falling inflation rates do not mean that prices are falling, it just means they are rising less slowly than they were 12 months previously. The cost of living remains higher than it did back when all this started in 2021.
UK inflation update
The UK endured persistently high inflation for longer, but in June the Consumer Price Index resumed a downward path and finally fell below 8%. There was a sharper drop in July with a 6.8% annual rate of change, followed by 6.7% in August and September. This is the lowest inflation recorded since February 2022, though still far above the 2% target.
Food inflation remains stubbornly high at 12.2% in September 2023, but it is down from 13.6% in August and a recent high of 19.2% in March 2023.
The Bank of England expects inflation to fall markedly over the rest of 2023, to around 5% by the end of the year. Its August Monetary Policy Report explains that:
“Higher interest rates will help to reduce the demand for goods and services in the economy. And this will help slow the rate of inflation down further”, adding “We expect inflation to keep falling next year and meet our 2% target by early 2025”.
Inflation and your savings and retirement income
We will all breathe a sigh of relief when inflation, including food inflation, returns to normal levels again, but should not become complacent about the inflation risk and how the rising cost of living affects us over time, particularly once we’re retired.
While the impact of high inflation is quickly noticeable, low inflation is insidious. It seems harmless at the time, but slowly but surely, compounded over the longer term, it erodes the spending power of your savings and income.
As a basic illustration, if you have €50,000 in a current account with no growth, and inflation is 3% every year, after 10 years its value will have fallen to around €37,000. After 20 years it’s around €27,500 and after 30 just €20,555. That’s a 59% reduction in purchasing power.
If you’re retiring now at age 60, you need to plan for over 30 years of retirement. Unless your savings grow each year, they will buy you considerably less as the years go by. We all need to plan to protect our savings and future income from the rising cost of living – making sure your money lasts as long as we do should be an integral part of our financial planning for retirement.
You, therefore, need to invest in assets that are usually expected to produce enough growth to at least keep up with inflation over the medium to long term. Although bank interest rates have now risen in response to inflation, we saw over the last decade or so how easy it is to earn negative real (inflation-adjusted) rates of return from banks.
While you may become more averse to investment risk in retirement, remember that inflation is also a big risk to your savings. Reduce investment risk to more comfortable levels by calculating your attitude to risk, then build a suitable well-diversified portfolio around your risk tolerance, circumstances, and objectives.
Working with a wealth management adviser to follow a disciplined investment process:
- Establish your goals and time horizon.
- Determine your attitude to risk – your adviser should take you through a suitability process to calculate this objectively.
- Construct a suitable, well-diversified portfolio to achieve your investment plan and objectives.
- Use quality investment managers.
- Review your portfolio annually to keep it on track.
- Be patient and stick with your plan – it is time in the market, not timing the market, that is likely to help you achieve your longer-term goals.
Holding your investment portfolio within an arrangement that is tax efficient in your country of residence will help protect your capital from unnecessary taxation as well as inflation.
Seek advice from an advisory firm that provides holistic strategic financial planning advice and which can integrate your investment planning with your tax and estate planning. Blevins Franks have expert financial advisers backed by investment specialists and in-house teams of pensions and tax advisory service personnel.
Contact us today.
CPI data as at 18 October 2023. CPI figures are the annual rate of change, comparing prices to the same month in 2022.


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Updates, 5 August 2023
Zerose that are going to watch the fan con physically or online, WakeOne just released the list of merchandise.
Things to note
- Items 1 to 9 will be sold on the actual date, 15 August 2023 right at the concert venue.
-  Acrylic Light Stick  Photo Slogan  Image Picket  T-shirt  Trading Card  Handheld Fan  Tote Bag  Bottle Bag  Acrylic Key Ring
- Items 10 to 14 will be available from 10 August to 23 August 2023
[Mon to Thu, 10:30 AM to 8:00 PM]
[Fri to Sun, 10:30 AM to 8:30 PM]
Sold at The Hyundai Seoul B2 iKONIC Pop-up Zone
-  Jersey T-shirt  Custom Name Tag  Collect Book  Necklace  Candle
Original post, 18 July 2023
WE GOT THE DATE!
Previously on 23 June 2023, it was announced that ZEROBASEONE has been confirmed to host their first solo concert at Gocheok Sky Dome [고척스카이돔] this August.
This morning on Zerobaseone’s social media account, they dropped the visual poster of the upcoming fan con with details leading to it.
It will be happening on 15 August 2023, 7:30 PM (KST).
Tickets will be available for Fanclub (Zerose) on 24 July 2023, from 8 PM to 11:59 PM (KST). The tickets will be limited to 1 per pax.
Price: VIP at 143,000 WON. (VIPs can participate in open rehearsal)
General Seats: Fanclub 88,000 WON. General 99,000 WON.
General sales will open on 25 July 2023, at 8 PM (KST).
For those who are looking to grab Online streaming and/or CGV Live Streaming tickets, it will be open on 27 July 2023, at 2 PM (KST).


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Many fantasy loving tourists make a pilgrimage to New Zealand to see the sights from the epic trilogy Lord of the Rings. But you might not know the country was home to many more movie blockbusters.
New Zealand for Movie Buffs – Film Locations Around North and South Island
Here are many places to explore if you like your flicks without Hobbits. Peter Jackson returned to New Zealand to film his ape spectacular King Kong. Much of it was shot in a Wellington studio, but for the breathtaking scenery Jackson turned to the country's iconic countryside. Skull Island was shot in both Lyall Bay and Shelly Bay, right near Wellington. For the on-ship scenes the crew sailed to the Cook Strait, the waterway that runs between the country's North and South Islands. You can see it for yourself when you catch the ferry from Wellington to Picton. And even the New York scenes were shot in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Auckland's Civic Theatre made an excellent stand in for the New York Theater, while Seaview, Lower Hutt made a passable Big Apple. And if New Zealand can pass as the United States, why not Japan? Uruti in northern Taranaki was the ideal substitute for 19th century Japan in Tom Cruise’s 2003 film The Last Samurai. The creators simply added the image of Mount Fuji into the background once filming wrapped! The film didn’t set the world's box offices alight, but Uruti locals don't seem to care. They've recreated many of the sets, and encourage tourists to join them on guided tours of the key movie locations. The magical world of Narnia wasn't filmed inside a wardrobe, but around New Zealand.
Fans of the epic Chronicles of Narnia series will find that mountain biking around the Woodhill Forest isn’t very scary without the White Witch camping there. If you’d prefer to see where the forces of good dwelled, visit Aslan's Camp in the Waitaki Valley’s Elephant Rocks. The great lion king also spent some time at the Vanished World Center near Duntroon, which isn’t too far away. Fans of the first movie also shouldn't miss Flock Hill in the Southern Alps, which was the site of that epic battle. Whale Rider is one of those rare Kiwi-made movies that attracted attention around the globe. Keisha Castle-Hughes earned the Oscar nomination, but the East Cape of the North Island was almost as big a star. The film was shot around the small town of Whangara; it may not enjoy a lot of action but it's worth visiting for those ocean views. So who needs Hollywood? New Zealand offers a much more picturesque alternative for film buffs.
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The music is in all of us! Each person owns a unique voice. Like any fine instrument, each of us needs to understand what enhances a good voice into a great one, and a great voice into a star. There are many tips for singing better, try implementing even a few, and see how it can help you.
Music is the universal language, imprinted on each human's soul. We believe that anyone who can talk has the full capability to sing. If you want to get more information about music teachings in Sydney, you can search the browser.
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Here are a few things we recommend to help you take your voice to a whole new level.
Own your voice
While it's great to find characteristics of vocalists you like and emulate them, to some extent it's important to own your voice. Each voice is a beautiful tool and will sound different to everyone. There are very few vocalists who don't have critics. Think of how many professional singers have "unconventional voices".
Learn to breathe
Not knowing how to properly control your breath is a huge mistake. Nerves can make you hold your breath, as can many other things. However, the more aware you are of your breath, and the muscles associated with it, the better your singing will sound. A common mistake is to hold one breathe while singing.
Sing to yourself
Mirrors are also a great tool to help you to have more control over your voice. By being more aware of your body's posture, you can help yourself to become more aware of your breathing. If you experiment with your facial muscles, posture, and breathe, you can determine what helps you personally to sing your best.


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LAS VEGAS (NBC News) – The stories of the victims of Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas are as diverse as America itself, 59 people, all with friends and families and jobs and dreams.
Those who knew them are choosing to remember not how they left this world, but what they did in their all-too-short time in it.
People like Sonny Melton of Tennessee, who died while making sure his wife Heather lived.
“He loved her,” says Easton Melton. “I think it was just second nature to him to do something like that.”
Amidst the grief there are also stories of bravery, love and selflessness.
Paramedic Dawn-Marie Gray from Oregon and her husband, Kevin, treated wounded victims and sent them off to the hospital as bullets rained down.
“When we came out it was horrific, a field of bodies,” she says.
The survivors call them heroes.
“I couldn’t believe the human spirit and the kindness that everybody was helping everybody,” says survivor Aaron Jenkins.
Read more at NBC News.

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(b Mount Gambier, 9 Apr. 1909; d Sydney, 28 Sept. 1986)
Australian dancer, choreographer, director, and actor. He studied locally as a child then with Pavlova's company while it was touring Australia. After performing in musicals and revues he came to London in 1933 and was accepted into the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells) Ballet where he was promoted principal in 1934. In 1935 he danced with Weidman and in the revue Stop Press but otherwise remained with Sadler's Wells Ballet until 1950 (and as occasional guest artist thereafter). Although he lacked a powerful technique, his vivid dramatic talent, musicality, and stage presence allowed him to portray convincingly elegant classical princes as well as to create memorable interpretations of contemporary roles. His celebrated partnership with Fonteyn played a major part in the development of Sadler's Wells Ballet and in the popularization of dance in Britain. He created many leading roles in, among others, de Valois's The Haunted Ballroom (1934), Checkmate (1937), The Prospect Before Us (1940), and Don Quixote (1950), and Ashton's Apparitions (1936), A Wedding Bouquet (1937), Dante Sonata (1940), Don Juan, and Cinderella (both 1948). He created his first workshop ballet, La Valse (mus. Ravel) in 1939 for the Royal Academy of Dancing and his first professional ballet in 1942, Comus (mus. Purcell–Lambert) for Sadler's Wells Ballet. This was followed by Hamlet (mus. Tchaikovsky, 1942), Miracle in the Gorbals (mus. Bliss, 1944), and Adam Zero (mus. Bliss, 1946). Though his choreographic ideas were not original he had an instinct for inventive staging and narrative and created the leading roles in all these works. During this period he also worked occasionally as an actor and opera producer, appearing notably in the films The Red Shoes (1948) and Tales of Hoffmann (1951). In 1955 he went to Australia with the Old Vic Company, starring with Katharine Hepburn in The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, and The Taming of the Shrew. In 1960 he collaborated with Nijinska on the de Cuevas production of Sleeping Beauty and in 1963 worked with Ashton on the Royal Ballet production of Swan Lake. In the same year he also choreographed Elektra (mus. Arnold) for the Royal Ballet. In 1965 he was appointed joint director (with van Praagh) of Australian Ballet, having choreographed a ballet for the company in 1964, The Display (mus. M. Williamson). He subsequently created Yugen (mus. Y. Toyama, 1965), Sun Music (mus. P. Sculthorpe, 1968), and Perisynthyon (mus. Williamson, 1974) for the company. Between 1975 and 1976 he was sole director of Australian Ballet, during which time he produced R. Hynd's ballet The Merry Widow, which became the biggest hit in its repertoire. In 1973 he directed and performed the title role in Nureyev's film Don Quixote. Though he retired from Australian Ballet in 1976 he continued making occasional stage appearances until his death. He was knighted in 1968.


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The Setlist for the Second Annual Sammy Awards!
Terminal Degree Jazz Band performs THIS FRIDAY at 5:30 pm at the Rio in Santa Cruz. Wes Souza created the musical program for the evening of jazz standards and video game themes.
- Chitlins Con Carne – A jazz standard and funk originally composed by famous guitarist, Kenny Burnell, will be our opener for the evening.
- Four – A second jazz standard popularly done by Miles Davis.
- Bossa De Link – This is a bossa nova based off of the Zelda theme, originally performed by the OneUps, arranged by Sherol Chen.
- Waltz De Chocobo in 5 – The timeless theme of the chocobo from the Final Fantasy series, arranged as a waltz in 5/4 by Wes Souza, featuring Yves Tan on clarinet.
- Tetris – The Tetris theme based off of Russian song, Korobeiniki, played as a gypsy/ska tune, arranged by Raj Maitra and featuring Yves Tan on clarinet.
- Hello World * / Universe Theme / FFVII – Sammy nominee selected musical tune, orignal composition by Eric Lawson, transitioning into a feature on Final Fantasy 7, arranged and performed as a piano solo by Raj Maitra.
- Autumn Leaves – A well known jazz standard, orignally French.
- Sheepo Theme – Based off of an original tune written by Matz Haugen, composed and arranged by Daniel Brown, who is unable to join us due to conflicts with his graduation for his Doctorate in Music Composition. This song was written for a video game, Sheepo, done by, saxophonist, Sherol Chen. The debut of this song is dedicated to Dr. Daniel Brown, our cellist.
- Mario – This famous tune, originally composed by Koji Kondo (as were a few other songs in our set), is arranged by Yu Yahagi, featuring Wes on guitar, David Fryaf on drums, and Yu on bass.
- Terra’s Theme – A ballad based off of the overworld theme from Final Fantasy 6. Arrangement by Wes Souza and featuring Ben Akiyama on Trumpet.
- Mario 2 – This is an adaptation of Adrian Holovaty‘s gypsy arrangement of the Mario 2 theme, done by Sherol Chen as a medium swing.
- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore – This popular swing tune is the typical closer for Terminal Degree, arranged by Raj Maitra in a unique mix of funk and swing.
- Coral Riff ** / Last Chance – The actual closer for the set is a song from the nominee game, “Last Chance,” composed by Emily Kingsbury, arranged as a funk tune by Yu Yahagi, featuring Yves Tan on alto sax.
* The game Hello World is a callback to old single-session arcade style games. The player controls a space explorer who navigates to the center of each planet-maze he or she discovers, flips a switch at the center, and must escape backwards through the maze before the planet explodes into a star. This action is all framed by a story that gradually becomes uncovered as the player unlocks more planets. From the website: ” Hello World is a celebration of human’s ability to grow, our natural urge to explore, and the beauty of understanding.”
The song I sent in for Hello World is the Universe Theme–the song that plays when the player is navigating through space to the next planet. I think of it as pretty open, non-urgent, unthreatening, perhaps even lonely. The minor section meanders with what seems like no particular harmonic goal until it finds its way back to the familiar home key. This is meant to reflect the player’s likely behavior during this section of the game; fly through empty space until you see a planet, then explore it.
If you want to see a bit of this song in action, there’s a short video on the game’s homepage: helloworldgame.com
** “Last Chance is a tower defense game designed around cleaning up oil and defending beaches and sea-life from toxic spills.” (TeamBroFistGame.pbworks.com) The player is given several different tools (including a boat, fire, and bacteria,) with which to destroy the renegade oil drills and stop the spreading spill. The several different levels of Last Chance take place in various waterfronts around the world, and each one introduces a new character and a new tower. Cutscenes tie the levels together to form a story, and we join Barry, the engineer seeking to atone for his part in bringing the world to crisis, as he meets other activists along his journey. Their motives and relationships shape the heart of the game.


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Sea Stars. You know ‘em. You love ‘em. But if you’ve got an Android instead of an iPhone, how can you play ‘em? By waiting until today, that’s how. Hothead Games, an equal-opportunity TriplePoint client, has got you covered over on the Android Market — not to mention in Chinese, Korean, and Swedish, all languages which now have localized versions of the game. Oh, and it’s free. The sea is a big place, after all, and there’s room for all of us.
Indie developer Hothead Games today has announced the release of their first game for Android devices, the popular underwater treasure game, Sea Stars.
Colorful graphics and responsive one-touch controls make Sea Stars an ideal pick-up-and-play mobile game, and the infinite gameplay is super-addictive. Download it from the Android Market for free now.
Dive on in, Android users. Just… not with your phone. They don’t replace those if you get them wet.


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Note: This book is appallingly outdated. In the more than five and a half years since the last update to this book, pretty much everything has changed. For example, the selection of document scanners is totally different, OCR has gone from something that happens only in special apps (and with a great deal of fuss) to something that happens automatically in some operating systems, and software tools for automation have changed dramatically. Book scanners have become much more common, too. In addition, after receiving numerous requests, Joe has promised to include coverage of Windows in the next edition. We hope, but do not promise, to release a new edition as a paid upgrade in the second quarter of 2023. (Read more about updates).)
Join Joe Kissell as he helps you clear the chaos of an office overflowing with paper. With Joe’s guidance you can develop a personal clean-up strategy and choose your Mac-compatible tools—a scanner and the software you need to perform OCR (optical character recognition)—plus devices and services for storing your digitized documents and tools to categorize, locate, and view your digital document collections.
Once you have your gear in hand, Joe shows you how to convert your paper documents to digitized files and gives you ideas for how to organize your office workflow, explaining how to develop day-to-day techniques that reduce the amount of time you spend pressing buttons, launching software, and managing documents.
Bonus! The book also comes with downloadable “folder action” AppleScripts that simplify the process of OCR-ing PDFs in Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader Express, PDFpen/PDFpenPro, and Readiris. Save or move a PDF in the appropriate folder, and the script does the rest!
You’ll master these paper-reducing skills:
- Scanning or photographing documents you find while out and about—business cards, receipts, menus, flyers, and more—so you keep only digitized versions. Joe discusses a variety of mobile scanning options, with an emphasis on using a camera-equipped iOS device, but with mention of a few options for Android smartphones.
- Creating a digitized image of your signature so you can sign and share documents digitally, rather than printing them for the sole purpose of signing them with a pen.
- Setting up your computer to send and receive faxes so you can avoid using a physical fax machine with paper input and output. Joe describes online fax services and using a fax modem (note that fax modem support is not available in macOS 10.12 Sierra).
Joe also discusses standard techniques for reducing paper—paperless billing, online bank statements, reducing unwanted catalogs and junk mail, and more, as well as less common practices, such as paperless postal mail services and check depositing services.
“If you still have multiple banker’s boxes filled with old docs, this is the e-book for you. Like all the Take Control books, jargon-free, accessible, invaluable.” —Lars Hoel
You’ll find answers to numerous questions, including:
- What is a searchable PDF, and why is it key to a paperless office?
- What differentiates document scanners from other types of scanners?
- What’s a book scanner?
- What if I need a mobile, portable scanner?
- What does TWAIN stand for, and should my scanner support it?
- Why do I need OCR software, and what features should I look for?
- What scanners and OCR products does Joe recommend?
- How can I automate my workflow for scanning documents?
- How should I name and file my digitized documents?
- What paper documents should I keep in physical form?
- How do I use common tools to add a signature to a PDF?
- How can I access my digital documents remotely?
- How should I back up my important digital documents?
Take Control publisher Joe Kissell has written more than 60 books about technology, including many popular Take Control books. He formerly wrote for publications such as Macworld, Wirecutter, and TidBITS. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife, his two children, and his cat.
What’s New in the Third Edition
This edition brings the book up to date with the latest technologies and advice. The most significant changes are as follows:
Revised What’s New in the Paperless Office to cover changes in scanners, OCR software (including Acrobat Pro DC), cloud services, and more
Expanded and updated descriptions of desktop, convertible, and portable scanners in Pick a Mac-compatible Scanner, and added a new category: Book Scanners
Updated Pick a Mac OCR Package to cover Acrobat Pro DC and Vuescan, as well as newer versions of Evernote, Neat, and Readiris
Added a Scan to Notes sidebar about automatically adding scanned documents to Apple’s Notes app
Included a topic that outlines my own process for naming and saving scanned documents; see How I Name and File Scans
Updated Automate OCR, and the various AppleScripts it refers to, to cover Acrobat Pro DC, ABBYY FineReader Express, and newer versions of Readiris
Updated recommendations for various categories of mobile apps in Pick an iOS Scanning App, and removed coverage of BlackBerry and Windows Phone
Completely overhauled the instructions to Add a Signature with Acrobat Pro to support Acrobat Pro DC
Modified Use a Modem for Incoming Faxes and Use a Modem for Outgoing Faxes to address the fact that macOS 10.12 Sierra no longer directly supports fax modems
Is this book useful to me if I want to work with a Windows computer?
The book assumes that you are using a Mac, so some topics are Mac-centric, especially those that describe scanning software, OCR software, PDF-manipulation software, and other tools that you'd be using on a desktop computer. However, the discussions of scanner hardware, features to look for in scanning/OCR/PDF software, overall workflow, online storage options, and integration with handheld devices would be (nearly entirely) equally applicable.
The paperless office is a myth. Why did you bother publishing this book? And, why should I bother to read it?
Honestly, I (Tonya) wondered the same thing until I started editing the manuscript. However, while editing, I learned that there is such a thing as a document scanner. Unlike the flatbed scanner built into my printer, a document scanner whips through piles of paper in almost no time at all. In fact, I ended up I buying a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 document scanner. I wrote about how much I like it in a TidBITS article, Dragging School Papers into the 21st Century with a ScanSnap. Although I still don't have a paperless office in the sense of no paper, I do have a paper-less office with far less paper than I would otherwise. And, I find that the firms and contractors who I work with are becoming increasingly comfortable with sending me PDFs from the get-go, so more of my paper arrives digitally.
Also, I finally learned how to digitize my handwritten signature and use it on PDF. Being able to sign and return PDFs without ever printing them has saved quite a bit of time and bother.
Is this book agnostic about filing software? I ask because I know that you've published a book about DEVONthink, and I am a committed EagleFiler user.
The book mentions EagleFiler, but because it doesn't do OCR, it's not discussed at any length. However, DEVONthink isn't discussed at any significant length either because of Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2—DEVONthink gets more mentions because of the OCR aspect of things—and because I use DEVONthink to store scanned documents—but I don't think you'd have trouble applying the recommendations to EagleFiler.
Take Control of Your Paperless Office is broad—it talks about choosing a scanner, setting up an office workflow, capturing documents with an iOS device or digital camera, backing up and sharing digital documents, cutting down on incoming and outgoing paper—lots of topics. It says a few things about DEVONthink, including a look at my scanning workflow in DEVONthink, but it barely scratches the surface of all that DEVONthink can do. If you already use DEVONthink, or suspect that you are DEVONthink kind of person, then you'll probably want both books.
The DEVONthink book, on the other hand, is deep—it tells you everything you need to know to use that particular tool effectively. But it doesn't say much about all the other paperless office topics.
Posted by Michael E. Cohen on March 28, 2017
Joe, sporting a refreshed version of his purple “Joehawk,” returns to MacVoices to fill Chuck Joiner in on what is new in his latest revision to the paperless office book, including information on new scanners (book scanners seem to be hot these days), revised scripts, a fresh look at online services that help with your paperless office quest, and more that we could tell you about if we hadn’t forgotten to scan our handwritten notes before we shredded them…
November 23, 2022—This book is appallingly outdated. In the more than five and a half years since the last update to this book, pretty much everything has changed. For example, the selection of document scanners is totally different, OCR has gone from something that happens only in special apps (and with a great deal of fuss) to something that happens automatically in some operating systems, and software tools for automation have changed dramatically. Book scanners have become much more common, too. In addition, after receiving numerous requests, Joe has promised to include coverage of Windows in the next edition. We hope, but do not promise, to release a new edition as a paid upgrade in the first quarter of 2023. (Read more about updates.)
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Chance to go roving
Are you up for off-road adventure? Do you think you’re capable of surviving the challenge of a lifetime, asks PAUL GOVER
OFF-ROAD adventurers around the world are being called to compete in another ultimate four-wheel-drive challenge. The Land Rover G4 Challenge is touted as the ‘‘adventure of a lifetime’’ and pits competitors from 18 countries against one another and the environment.
The third running of the G4 Challenge will be held in remote Asian locations with a combination of off-road driving and sporting contests, ranging from kayaking to mountainbiking and climbing.
The aim is to test the two-member teams in trials of their strength, stamina and strategic awareness.
The G4 challenge has been held twice before. Belgian fighter pilot Rudi Thoelen won in 2003 in the Moab Desert in the US. South African Martin Dreyer won in 2006 on a course that included Thailand, Laos, Brazil and Bolivia.
Australia has been represented by champion ironman Guy Andrews, but Alina McMaster did best when she won several individual events and finished sixth of 18 competitors two years ago.
‘‘The challenge is all about pushing yourself and your vehicle as hard as possible in some of the world’s most spectacular locations,’’ G4 challenge manager Ed Tilston says.
The challenge is an amazing event that gives people the chance to experience a real adventure. It tests not only physical strength, but also mental and strategic talents and teamwork. And this time it will be raising money for a very worthy cause.
The objective is to raise $1 million for the Red Cross, and the winning team will get a Land Rover vehicle for their country’s Red Cross or Red Crescent Society.
Australian hopefuls will be up against men and women from Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway/Sweden, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and the US.
The Australian selection trials will be held late this year to choose the two men and two women who will advance to the international selections early next year before the G4 Challenge finals in the middle of next year.
‘‘Only two people from Australia will go to Asia for the adventure of a lifetime, but winning a place on the challenge is all part of the excitement,’’ Tilston says.
‘‘The new team format marks a massively exciting move for the challenge and we are expecting thousands of entrants from the 18 nations on the list,’’ he says.
Tough task: the Land Rover G4 Challenge tests not only physical strength but also mental and strategic talents and teamwork.

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When news came of Mary Wilson's passing on the evening of February 8, 2021, a collective gasp could be heard around the world. Wilson was planning for an active 2021 once it was safe to resume performing, including a tour with B.J. Thomas and the release of previously unheard recordings. In her final message to fans shared on YouTube, the legendary Supreme confirmed that "I finally decided how to work with Universal, and they are going to release new Mary Wilson recordings. Yes! At last! At last." Mary promised that her 1979 self-titled album for Motown would finally see a reissue as well as the productions by the late, great Gus Dudgeon (Elton John, David Bowie). "It was four wonderful songs that were never released...and I also have some other songs, some surprising new songs...Thank you Universal for chiming in with me and helping this come true. Hopefully some of that will be out on my birthday, March 6th... I've got my fingers crossed."
Today, one day before what would have been her 77th birthday, Universal announced that it has made good on Mary's promise. The digital premiere of Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition on April 16 will include the original Mary Wilson album; three single versions of the album's disco anthem "Red Hot;" the four bonus tracks produced by Gus Dudgeon; and an all-new single streaming now with special relevance to the world in which we live, "Why Can't We All Get Along." The latter was produced by Richard Davis of Gold Forever Music, a publishing company established by Mary's old friend and collaborator Eddie Holland. The poignant song was written by Davis and Angelo Bond, co-writer of Freda Payne's 1971 anthem "Bring the Boys Home."
1979's Mary Wilson - her solo debut, released over two years after The Supremes' final album - is the centerpiece of this digital release. Produced by Hal Davis (The Jackson 5, Diana Ross, Bobby Darin), the Motown LP was geared at the dancefloor and anchored by the smoldering and insistent "Red Hot." Penned by Frank Busey and John Duarte, that song is celebrated by the inclusion of its original single edit and 12-inch remix by Rusty Garner, as well as by Garner's shorter promotional remix.
While Mary Wilson charted on the Billboard R&B survey and "Red Hot" made it to both the R&B and Disco charts, the album didn't launch the Supreme's solo career as was hoped. The next year, Mary teamed up with Gus Dudgeon to pursue a new sound as the post-disco era was already taking hold. In her second memoir Supreme Faith: Someday We'll Be Together, she wrote, "I was very excited about these four songs. It wasn't the formula disco of my first album. Two of the songs were big ballads. The other two were rock and roll in the style of Tina Turner's mid-eighties hits; I was certainly ahead of the time." Despite the strength of the songs and Dudgeon's typically immaculate productions, they sat on the shelf. In 2015, "You Dance My Heart Around the Stars" saw a belated release from its co-writer Stephen John Kalinich, the poet-lyricist best-known for his collaborations with Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. It's reprised here while the other three songs are all making their official debuts.
Mary Wilson retained ownership of her solo recordings, and so it's hoped that this digital expanded edition will be just the first project this year to celebrate her life and extraordinary legacy. Watch this space for any and all news on upcoming releases. You'll find the track listing below. Beginning April 16, Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition can be enjoyed on Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube, and wherever else you do your digital listening! In the meantime, "Why Can't We All Get Along" is streaming now!
Mary Wilson, Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition (Motown LP M7 927 R1, 1979 - reissued 2021)
- Red Hot (6:06)
- I've Got What You Need (5:08)
- You Make Me Feel So Good (5:51)
- (I Love A) Warm Summer Night (4:07)
- Pick Up the Pieces * (5:01)
- You're the Light That Guides My Way (3:18)
- Midnight Dancer (3:08)
The "Red Hot" Singles
- Red Hot 7" Single Version (3:53) (from Motown single M 1467F, 1979)
- Red Hot 12" Disco Version - Remixed by Rusty Garner (7:12) (from Motown 12-inch single M 00033D1, 1979)
- Red Hot 12" B-Side Promo Version - Remixed by Rusty Garner (3:53) (from Motown promotional single PR-58, 1979)
The Gus Dudgeon Sessions - previously unreleased except **
- You Dance My Heart Around the Stars ** (4:34) (from California Feeling 2, MsMusic Productions MUS 107-1, 2015)
- Love Talk (4:05)
- Save Me (3:53)
- Green River (3:36)
The Richard Davis Sessions - previously unreleased
- Why Can't We All Get Along (Single Version) (4:50)


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In offseasons past, I never paid much attention to pre-draft workouts. Things happen so rapidly on draft night that after the top 15 picks, it seems like everyone takes the best player available. So the whole dog-and-pony show seemed like a facade to me.
But apparently these workouts do matter, a lot. David Thorpe - the guy who turned a raw beanpole named Kevin Martin into the #26 pick of the 2004 draft - says these workouts are very important to team executives and scouts:
So obviously, Petrie cares about these workouts - that level of statkeeping during warmups and 1-on-1 games is astounding. (Kevin's shooting was also astounding.) So in order to know what's going to happen June 28, we should probably pay attention to all this, right?
Well then, here are the players that have worked out for the Kings:
Also, Saer Sene - the 7-footer from Senegal with a wingspan of 7'8 and allegedly remarkable shot-blocking and rebounding talent - will reportedly be working out for the team in the next week (if he didn't over the weekend).
According to DraftExpress - the best draft site out there - these are the guys likely to be working out in Orlando:
I'll be eager to find out if Petrie works out any of the other top point guard prospects with a possibility of falling to #19 - Guillermo Diaz, Sergio Rodriguez, Quincy Douby. Guys like that won't be in Orlando (except for a physical), and Farmar may end up skipping the meat market, as well. If Diaz, Douby, and Rodriguez don't end up working out for Petrie, it could mean the Kings are either looking strongly at taking a big man (Armstrong and Sene would be the logical options) or Farmar.
Keep an eye on this.

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