Space may not actually be as big as we imagine, at least not the space that directly surrounds our planet. When we gaze up into the night sky, romantically spotting stars we may have more of a chance of browsing items in the cosmic junk yard.
With more than 5,000 launches of various shuttles, satellites and other equipment in the last 60 years, space is becoming congested. Space trash is becoming a real problem …space rage may be the next thing to hit the headlines.
You may have seen the impact that space trash had on Sandra Bullock in the blockbuster movie Gravity, but surely that isn't something that could affect us right? Well it could be more of a problem to our daily lives than we realise.
How Can Space Trash Affect Our Daily Lives?
There are non-lethal ways that space junk could interfere with our daily lives. GPS signals, international phone call connections, TV signals and weather forecasts could be disrupted. But it could also have more serious implications.
What Exactly Is Space Junk?
It is debris, mostly man-made, consisting of a variety of non-functional left overs of space missions. Out-Of-Commission space vehicles, broken satellites, spent rocket launch stages, objects that have been 'dropped' by astronauts, including a glove, a tool box, nuts and bolts – and then fragments which result from collisions between these.
How Much Space Debris Is Orbiting Earth?
There are millions of fragments of debris, some as tiny as grains of salt rushing around the globe at speeds of around 17,500 miles per hours.
The amount of debris varies at different orbit levels around the Earth.
Low Earth-orbit (LEO), is between the distances of 125-1,250 miles from the surface. At this level, space junk is directly affected impacted by the atmosphere, which degrades their orbit – dragging the pieces back to Earth.


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My Money Is on a Trump Victory • National Review
For what it is worth: Nothing is ever certain, and much could go wrong, but my money remains on a Trump victory. Why?
1) It feels a whole lot like Reagan in '80 and Newt in '94.
Reagan was disliked by the establishment (who liked Baker or Bush), viewed with suspicion by professional conservatives (they liked Phil Crane, not a divorced, former Democrat, big-spending governor), and regarded with condescension by the media and the Left (who saw him as stupid and as a dangerous cowboy). Those camps could not fathom the breadth and depth of his popular momentum.
Ditto the GOP's taking the House in '94 — I was on CNN five weeks prior to that election and produced outright guffaws and rolled eyes from everyone when I said that the GOP would win not only the Senate but also the House. The signs were all there, but because the idea seemed so preposterous, many analysts couldn't see them.
More recently, Matt Bevin was left for dead by most of the smart money in his race for Kentucky governor, and Brexit was "sure" not to pass. Trump is an extension of that zeitgeist for many — a long-awaited reclaiming of control of their lives, their country, their self-identity.
2) Who are you going to believe, polls or your lying eyes?
I started asking people in the spring whom they were voting for. A surprisingly large percentage of not-supposed-to-be-a-Trump-supporter types turned out to be exactly that. That includes rich and highly educated people, women, blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims. A bunch of anecdotes, but interesting.
Everyone keeps saying this election is about Trump. But I have come to believe it really is about his supporters, who to a person are deeply versed in all his flaws and faults and support him regardless. For them, this is about one or more of the following:
· deep antipathy for Hillary and all she represents and would do;
· disappointment with a broken system they feel has ignored them and in some cases harmed them for years;
· a desire to reclaim the country and their own lives and personhood.
They genuinely love and worry about their country, and they want to feel proud again to be an American
3) If what got incinerated was a phoenix, don't bet against it rising.
If you've seen someone succeed at something five or six or nine times, how smart is it to bet they won't do it the tenth time? How many times was seemingly everyone sure that Trump was finished — only to see him come back stronger than before? Many of us missed, time and again, the meta messages Trump was sending that galvanize his support, and many miss it still.
4) Enter the stages of grief.
For two-thirds of GOP voters, Trump wasn't just another candidate — he was the one potentially viable candidate they feared. So with Trump triumphant, enter the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and, finally, acceptance – each person cycling through at his or her own pace.
You can tell that many are at the nadir of depression by the way those who are the most depressed about Trump interpret him. Having a predisposition, as understandable as it might be, can hinder our understanding of what is happening. If someone starts with the assumption that Trump is ignorant, stupid, or dangerous, it rules out considering the possibility that comments such as "founders of ISIS" could simply be brilliant hyperbole.
In contrast, allowing the idea that Trump is actually as smart as his overall track record, even discounted, indicates, permits the perspective that his repeated "gaffes" are a purposeful and calculated strategy to garner millions of dollars in free media, wherein his larger point gets made for him, over and over. That's no mean feat in a media environment stacked in favor of the Left and Democrats and against conservatives and any GOP nominee.
5) It's still summer.
I have found that many folks who are normally GOP voters but who are unhappy about Trump largely fall into two camps. The first are those who object because Trump isn't solidly, reliably conservative on their priority issues. The second are those who, at bottom, find Trump personally objectionable, as does almost everyone they know, so they feel that the prospect of supporting him would violate the way they see themselves and wish to have others think of them.
These are real concerns that even many Trump supporters say they have worked through. But if people are hitting despair in August, that means they have September and October to move to acceptance. Why would they? Because Hillary's presidency and all it implies will become so much more real.
Given the choice between someone who will get pretty much every policy decision wrong and someone who might get some of them right, more and more people who now can't see voting for Trump will decide that on the "lesser of two evils" spectrum, they will be a Trump voter, even if they are not a Trump supporter.
One cannot discount the barrage of negative ads that will come against Trump. And who knows what new revelations will shift the ground yet again? But particularly with more and more Clinton pay-to-play revelations, if by early October the social opprobrium shifts from "how could I possibly support him?" to "how could I possibly enable her?" then Republicans will win the presidency.
— Heather R. Higgins is the president and CEO of Independent Women's Voice, the 501 sister organization of the Independent Women's Forum. This piece originally appeared at Ricochet.
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The sculpture entitled ' BLITZ ' is the national memorial to the firefighters who lost their lives during the Second World War, who Winston Churchill referred to as "the heroes with grimy faces ". The small bronze that became the maquette for the memorial was commission in 1984 by C.T. Demarne O.B.E. ex Chief Officer of the West Ham Fire brigade, as a personal memorial to his colleagues who died during that awful war. This is now housed in the Hall of Remembrance at the London Fire brigade Headquarters, Lambeth. The unveiling of this work brought the realisation that there should be a larger memorial, on a prominent site.


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The Small Business & Community Equity Development Clinic engages students with the legal concerns and issues of economic and racial equity of communities in the Baltimore region. This transactional clinic satisfies the Cardin requirement and the experiential learning requirement for the Business Law track.
Student attorneys work in teams. Our practice group engages in community lawyering, which seeks to organize and empower communities and community-based organizations by utilizing a wide range of legal tools. The client work focuses on legal/practical matters of concern to neighborhoods, organizations, and small businesses that lack access to needed legal services.
providing legal aid to community organizations to use the state Community Bill of Rights statute to sue owners of neglected vacant properties in their neighborhoods.
Through representation of organizational clients, student attorneys typically interview and counsel clients; meet with community associations and community-based businesses of various types as they formulate and implement legal strategies; help new businesses and organizations to determine their most advantageous structure as they formalize; analyze and deploy a range of legal doctrines; and assist clients by preparing a range of transactional documents, including entity formation documents, legal memoranda, contracts, leases, and client advice letters.
The seminar component integrates legal doctrine/theory with a legal policy and pragmatic framework for student attorneys' work with communities, organizations, and businesses. The seminar sessions have two purposes: (1) to build that framework and (2) to collaborate in law practice meetings that capitalize on peer exchange, practice dilemmas, and applications of seminar topics in our client matters.
Time commitments: Student attorneys are expected to devote an average of 21 hours per week to their clinic work. Student attorneys work in teams and are responsible for weekly team meetings. Also, each team will meet weekly with their faculty supervisor to discuss the practical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of their community equity development work. Clinic hours include: (1) weekly seminar session, (2) preparation for seminar and seminar assignments, (3) weekly student team meetings, (4) weekly supervision meetings, and (5) all client work, including research, analysis, and drafting.
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Pre-Requisites/Co-Requisites: Business Associations OR Not for Profit Corporations is a pre-requisite or co-requisite for this clinic.
Prior experience is welcome in community organizing, non-profits, small business, social enterprise, real estate, planning, or tax. This clinic suitable for evening division students with flexibility in their schedules to meet during the work day by prearrangement.
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Lexington-based NGAS Resources, a natural gas exploration and production company, is restructuring its bonds.
The company announced Tuesday that it has entered into exchange agreements with the holders of its 6 percent bonds, $37 million in aggregate principal, due Dec. 15, 2010.
The holders have agreed to exchange the notes for $28.7 million in principal amount with 6 percent now due May 1, 2012, and $2.7 million in cash, 3 million common shares of stock and five-year warrants to buy 1.3 million common shares.
"In addition to reducing the face amount of our convertible debt and extending its maturity, the exchange creates the potential for gradually replacing the debt with equity at a premium to the current stock price," chief executive William S. Daugherty said in a statement.


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In Case Study Research, Bill Lee and Mark Saunders describe the properties of case study designs in organizational research, exploring the uses, advantages and limitations of case research. They also demonstrate the flexibility that case designs offer, and challenges the myths surrounding this approach.
Ideal for Business and Management students reading for a Master's degree, each book in the series may also serve as reference books for doctoral students and faculty members interested in the method.
Part of SAGE's Mastering Business Research Methods series, conceived and edited by Bill Lee, Mark N. K. Saunders and Vadake K. Narayanan and designed to support students by providing in-depth and practical guidance on using a chosen method of data collection or analysis.
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un is trying to develop alternative energy — everything from wind and tidal power to gasification of coal — to help fuel his economy, which is being squeezed by UN sanctions.
North Korean engineers have traveled outside the country for training in China and Russia to acquire skills for alternative energy projects, experts reveal.
North Korea's coal reserves are estimated at 15 billion metric tons, according to the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability.
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smile during a meeting at the second U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi on Feb. 28, 2019.
With President Donald Trump pushing hard to denuclearize North Korea, Kim Jong Un must contend with a major domestic crisis sparked by UN sanctions: how to fuel his ailing economy and military that nuclear energy is off limits and the amount of oil and energy products he can trade has been restricted.
It's a hard balancing act for the young dictator whose goal now is to develop alternative energy — everything from wind and tidal power to transforming coal into liquid synthetic fuels.
Time is of the essence. Sanctions have squeezed many North Korean industries that rely on imports of gasoline and diesel fuel, including agriculture, transportation and the military. Factories have closed due to a lack of raw materials and an inability to keep the lights on. Additionally, the UN Security Council has banned key North Korean exports, including coal and iron ore — key revenue generators for the North Korean economy. As a result, many people are unemployed and food is scarce.
Collapsed talks in Hanoi between Trump and Kimin February have only made the situation murkier for North Korea. Trump demanded Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. No agreement was made, and Kim needs sanction relief. It's unclear what Trump will do next after tweeting last month that he wanted to remove new sanctions against North Korea.
In the meantime, North Korea has been doing illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal, according to a UN report. Its operatives have been caught by cybersecurity McAfee hacking businesses around the world. The vast majority were in the U.S., including Houston, an energy hub, though McAfee did not name specific targets.
More than eight years into power, the young ruler Kim essentially is gunning for it all: A nuclear program and a viable energy state with reliable energy resources to fuel his army and spark top-down economic reform.
"The U.S. wants [Kim] to have to choose. He now has to figure out what North Korea has to give up — and at what price," said Andray Abrahamian, a North Korea expert and Korea fellow in the Korea Program at Stanford University.
According to energy experts, Kim's energy strategy includes transforming coal into synthetic fuels that can serve as substitutes for liquid petroleum fuels like gasoline and diesel. (This process is referred to as gasification of coal and can also be used to generate electricity.) North Korea also wants to take advantage of its coastline and use huge sea barriers with electricity-generating turbines to harness the power of the ocean's tides.
Coal and hydropower are North Korea's main energy resources. Pyongyang imports nearly all of its oil and petroleum products from China. North Korea has pursued some limited crude oil exploration, but it has no proven reserves of petroleum and other liquids, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. And even though North Korea has a nuclear weapons program, it does not use nuclear power for electricity generation.
It can be hard to fathom whether North Korea is even capable of developing a scalable, alternative-energy complex. The country's infrastructure, including the power grid, are grossly outdated. The regime can't even feed its 25 million people, and absence of a state food system helped trigger the rise of marketization activities that are tolerated by the regime and only growing.
But North Korea is far from an isolated nation. As any alternative-energy gains require knowledge and advanced skills, North Korean engineers have traveled outside the country for training in China and Russia, said Scott Montgomery, a geoscientist at the University of Washington and a longtime expert on the oil industry and North Korea.
North Korea essentially has begun a slow-but-steady workaround to reduce sanctions impacts.
"In the longer run, assuming the sanctions regime is effective in cutting off the bulk of prohibited oil imports, we suggested that DPRK would actively develop alternative sources of fuel, particularly for its transport sector," according to David von Hippel and Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. Their insights were published in February.
North Korea, unlike South Korea, boasts an abundance of mineral resources including coal that was first extracted in the early 1900s during the Japanese occupation of the peninsula. North Korea's coal reserves are estimated at 15 billion metric tons, according to the Nautilus Institute. The coal is also mainly anthracite, the most carbon-rich and high-ranking type of coal but also the least abundant in the world. It burns hotter and longer per unit weight than other types of coal and is the least polluting, producing little smoke and thus particulate matter.
"There is a new focus on increasing the amount of power in North Korea," said Montgomery.
The chimneys of a power station amid the Pyongyang city skyline.
Coal, however, generally isn't seen as a good oil-product substitute due to costs of such conversion. The last time coal was converted into liquid form on a substantial scale was by Germany in World War II and during apartheid South Africa when those nations were isolated from normal trade in crude oil and related products.
However, North Korea is inching forward to reduce oil sanctions impacts. According to research from the Nautilus Institute, a single gasification unit imported from China to convert coal to oil "could be used to produce synthetic fuels in volumes on the order of 10 percent of recent DPRK petroleum supplies."
North Korea is also eyeing more hydroelectric power, including tidal power. The country's western coastline is quite narrow and well suited to capturing tidal power. Hydro and tidal power are similar in that they convert moving water to spin turbines to produce electricity.
Montgomery noted that successful hydropower operations require a lot of cement to build large dams, access to turbines and storage facilities. Montgomery added that there's a good chance North Korea will become more capable in producing hydropower as well as synthetic fuels from coal — but it's a long game.
Additionally, development of atomic energy is unlikely in the near term. Overall, North Korea watchers say any additions to the country's energy resources will take years to scale, especially as sanctions prohibit outside foreign investment. "Producing liquid fuels from coal, whether by indirect or direct coal-to-liquids approaches (the latter a much less mature technology), would be an interesting addition to the DPRK's energy repertoire, but on a large scale it would likely take years to implement," according to von Hippel and Hayes of the Nautilus Institute.
Whether we're talking about coal or hydroelectric power, the bulk of North Korean energy is destined for industries or military operations. Ordinary North Korean citizens scrape by on cheap solar panels imported from China for their daily energy needs. Some North Korean entrepreneurs are even producing their own solar panels.
All told, North Korea's energy insecurity is both a key driver and factor in a negotiated settlement over the North's nuclear weapons. Viral satellite pictures of North Korea at night, which were captured in 2014, revealed a country shrouded in darkness compared to its well-lit neighbors.
North Korea's broad infrastructure, including its energy complex, could benefit immediately from its neighbor South Korea. Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, has expressed interest in economic interactions with the North starting with the Kaesong industrial park. Located inside North Korea just north of the demilitarized zone from South Korea, the Kaesong area includes both North and South Korean workers and is a prominent showcase of economic cooperation between the two nations.
South Korean officials have discussed refurbishing North Korea's rail system and troubleshooting the North's problems with electricity generation and distribution. The North's electricity grid alone would cost tens of billions of U.S. dollars to modernize, according to estimates by Nautilus. Some of the generation and transmission equipment dates back several decades.
"South Korea is very interested in helping North Korea refurbish its infrastructure. Seoul has been waiting for a breakthrough to unlock a wave of interactions between the two countries," said Abrahamian, a Stanford University Koret fellow. Abrahamian is also the former executive director of Choson Exchange, a Singapore-based nonprofit that supports North Korean entrepreneurs and knowledge-sharing with foreign executives.
Added Abrahamian, "If North Korea can find a breakthrough with the U.S., they've got a partner in South Korea that's willing to undertake these megaprojects."
Further down the line, there may be more opportunities for foreigners to invest in North Korea if and when the border between the two Koreas opens. Potential sectors for investment include mining, agriculture and tourism, according to Singapore-based U.S. investor Jim Rogers. Foreigners, including those from China, have invested in North Korea's mining industry in the past, though it hasn't always been easy to get profits out of the country.
Speaking on an NK News podcast last month, Rogers said details related to extracting money out of the North need to be worked out. Overall, Rogers, who first visited North Korea in 2007, is optimistic about the country's investment potential. He told NK News that curiosity and the newness of the region could lure many visitors to both North and South Korea in the future. He's also been named as an outside director of Ananti, a South Korean company that owns a hotel and golf course in the Mount Kumgang resort area in North Korea.
"Tourism is going to be staggering," he said.


I recently got the opportunity to decide between either Boston or San Francisco for a summer analyst program at a large bulge bracket (think GS, MS, JPM) next year. The division would be Sales and Trading (I would want to be on the sales side).
Which city offers more opportunities / has more quality clients and workflow / has a better rep for S&T? Also, which would be best to potentially switch to NYC for FT?
If you're trying to get into the NYC office, probably Boston. Most regional managers in S&T understand summer analysts & analysts often want to work out of NYC but to land on a solid desk you need to network which is more easily done in Boston where people from NYC visit more often or you could take a day or two to travel down to NYC and meet other desks.


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Q: Adjust date of Carbon object using string I have a Carbon object that returns the string 2021-01-14 09:00:00, all good.
Now I want to adjust only the date using a string of the new date, like 2021-01-21 for example.
I know Carbon has a function called Carbon::setDate, but that function requires the format ($year, $month, $day). I just have the new date as a string, and I don't like having to extract the year, month & day of it each time.
So is there a better way to adjust the date, using a string of the new date?

A: You can use setDateFrom() to copy the date from one instance to another, something like...
$carbon = new Carbon('2021-01-14 09:00:00');
$carbon1 = new Carbon('2021-01-21');

$carbon->setDateFrom($carbon1);

echo $carbon;

gives...
2021-01-21 09:00:00

A: You can change the creating format with createFromFormat() function of the Carbon.
So you can create with string in date-time or Y-m-d H format or how ever you want.
echo Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d H', '2021-01-14 09')->toDateTimeString(); //You will get 2021-01-14 09:00:00

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In a world where 50 million people are on the move, a UniSA researcher examines how migrant integration is playing out in regional Australia.
Author: Michèle Nardelli | published: 2/24/2015 2:45:00 PM
For Senior Research Fellow at UniSA's Hawke Research Institute, Dr David Radford, understanding the complexities of migrant integration in regional Australia is a bit like peeling back an onion.
What happens to a traditional country town when strangers move in? The very use of a word like strangers tells part of the story – the strange, the different, the new – all require some adjustment, some accommodation fora community to survive and thrive.
"Every community develops from a nub of people and then there are layers formed, many will simply represent new generations of the same sorts of people. But when people from different socioeconomic, religious or cultural backgrounds join the community it can challenge a sense of harmony and tradition," Dr Radford says.
Focused on the South Australian town of Naracoorte more than 300km south east of Adelaide, Dr Radford's research is looking at how the arrival of a large Afghan Hazara community in the regional town is playing out.
"Naracoorte has had waves of migrants – there was Maori settlement mainly to work in the local meatworks and more recently Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, English and Afghans," he says.
"By far the biggest group from a completely different cultural background have been the Hazaras, a particular ethnic group from Afghanistan who have suffered severe oppression and systematic pogroms under the rule of the Taliban and their tribal allies."
Today Naracoorte is home to more than 300 Afghan people representing about 24 families and individuals and making up about 2.1 per cent of the population. About a third of the group are single men.
They have contributed to the stabilisation of the town's population – which more than 10 years ago had been in decline – and they are already buying homes and establishing small businesses in the community.
And there is strong support for their presence from groups such as Rotary, local church groups, the Migrant Resource Centre, schools and the kindergarten.
While there can be a great deal of goodwill to ensure migrant resettlement in a community works, Dr Radford says successful settlement doesn't happen through goodwill alone.
"You can't assume the ride will be easy for both the existing community and the new arrivals," he says.
"What I am hoping to identify are the things that positively contribute to successful integration."
Given that 6.4 million people living in Australia were born overseas, according to the Federal Government's Australia's Migration Trends 2012–13 report, identifying what positive factors influence successful integration in a community is of critical importance.
For Muslim Hazaras, there are already some big stumbling blocks.
Dr Radford says the impact of global news about extremists, who also purport to be Muslim, plays into the hands of people who already hold prejudices.
"Those reports give racists some sort of perceived vindication, and for people who are unsure or ill-informed, the reports raise fears and heighten mistrust," he says.
"I've found that lack of knowledge about geo-politics and cultural histories means that locals fail to recognise that the terrorist philosophies espoused by the Islamic State movement are what drove the persecution of the Hazara people in Afghanistan. Extremism forced their flight from their homes.
"These are the historical details that many people don't hear about in the news. Sensationalist or simplistic reporting and political sloganising fails to inform people of the complexities. They are therefore less capable of making an emotional distinction between the terrorist extremist and the faithful, peaceful Muslim."
But it is not only distorted external portrayals of Muslim people that build barriers. Dr Radford says it is also the 'everyday otherness' that people need to struggle through to find common ground.
"It is Haram or against religious practice for Muslim men to drink alcohol, so having a drink in the pub after a hard day at work is not something they are going to do," he says.
"In just about any rural or regional town in Australia – men who don't drink in the pub are considered unusual, outside the norm or simply unfriendly. It is perhaps a trivial thing, but it is the little things that sometimes undermine trust."
Dr Radford says language can also be a barrier.
"A local woman I spoke to said she had smiled at a Hazara woman but was upset that the woman lowered her eyes and kept walking," he says.
"The local thought that it was standoffish or an act of rudeness but for many of the Hazara women – who are less likely to be out in the community and learning English – reluctance to engage could be motivated by lack of language proficiency. To return the smile is perhaps to invite a conversation that they feel unable to carry on."
Dr Radford says these tiny, somewhat superficial cultural and social differences need to be handled delicately or there is a danger that small things become a stumbling block to community harmony and cohesion.
"Finding differences difficult to deal with is not always a sign of prejudice or racism, but if we are quick to label it as such, it can reinforce a negative divide and some people within both communities, who already feel disempowered or threatened by change, may embrace the tag," he says.
According to Dr Radford, the Hazara community is quite positive about how life is unfolding in Naracoorte.
"There is work, education for the children, opportunities to set up small businesses and a chance for peace and a happy life, but their informal leaders have a common sense approach to integration," he says.
"They understand not everybody is good or kind in any community, both here in Australia and back home in Afghanistan.
"While community leaders are hopeful of a successful integration, there is probably not yet enough shared social and cultural capital to be sure of success.
"The real challenge is for the local and migrant communities to imagine a future they can reach for that is inclusive. Once they have decided how they want Naracoorte to be and what they must change or embrace to make that happen, then they will be on the path to building a diverse, successful community."
Find out more at the UniSA Hawke Research Institute website.
New centre researches a world in motion
The number of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people has exceeded 50 million worldwide this year, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
To meet the social challenges this unprecedented volume of human displacement presents, UniSA recently launched the Hawke European Union (EU) Centre for Mobilities, Migrations and Cultural Transformations.
Officially opened by former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, the Centre will promote new research, debate policy choices, and promote cultural initiatives to protect human rights, to counter discrimination and to develop humane responses to migration and the rising numbers of displaced peoples globally.
During his opening address, Hawke said the new Centre will tackle some of the most critical human rights issues facing Australia and the world at large.
"This Centre will be an ideal place to bring together a global community of people – from both Australia and the EU – from scholars to policy makers, experts, specialists, local and national government groups as well as the wider public to generate this necessary dialogue and scholarship," he said.
The Centre will be led by acclaimed sociologist and literary theorist, Associate Professor Jennifer Rutherford. According to Assoc Prof Rutherford, the impetus to research current global challenges has never been more urgent.
"We'll be working closely with our European colleagues and developing a multi-disciplinary approach across UniSA to tackle these issues," she said.
"We are already living in an environment where more people are travelling and more quickly than at any other time in history.
"Coupled with global pressures from terrorism and counter-terrorism, disease and economic hardship, today we have more than 50 million people on the move worldwide - refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced people.
"Our remit is to look at what pressures that instability and movement causes – the impacts on social cohesion, human rights, cultural development and change, nationhood and citizenship, and how those terms may be redefined, and ultimately how these cracks and shifts in global communities affect peace and stability."
In collaboration with UniSA, the EU has funded the new Centre at the Hawke Research Institute, Australia's largest social science and humanities institute.
Find out more at the Hawke EU Centre website.
A town like Naracoorte
Established as a government settlement in 1845, Naracoorte's roots are as a service town for people going to and from the Victorian gold rush – a place on the way to a more lucrative destination.
After the heady days of the gold rush, it became a central "city" for the thriving cattle, sheep and wheat farmers in the wider district, providing their business and supply needs.
In more recent years the surrounding wine regions, the World Heritage listed Naracoorte Caves National Park, and the wetland Bool Lagoon have become a drawcard for tourists and wine buffs.
For most of the hundreds of small regional communities in Australia, population growth, economic sustainability and employment are fundamental for survival and often precariously maintained.
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The only way is up for minimum price
Architects of MUP will double down when they should fold
Alcohol sales have risen since the introduction of MUP on May 1
HERE is my confident new year prediction – for 2020: the minimum unit price (MUP) for the sale of alcohol will rise from the current 50p to at least 60p.
That would hike the base price for a 70cl bottle of whisky from £14.00 to £16.80; the same quantity of vodka would rise from a minimum price of £13.13 to £15.75; and a 13% ABV bottle of wine (75cl) would cost no less than £5.85.
Why am I confident? There are four clear, compelling reasons.
Firstly, let's look at the alcohol sales figures for the first six months following the introduction of MUP.
While there was a 14% rise in the value of purchases (no surprise there), the volume of purchases increased by 4%.
The hot summer weather and the World Cup may have had some impact – lager sales from off-trade outlets jumped by 18% over the same period last year – but sales of wine were up by 4.5% and spirits by 9%.
In England and Wales, there is of course no constraint on pricing (except that alcohol cannot be sold below cost plus VAT). The corresponding figures are increases of 8% (value) and 7% (volume).
Colin Angus, a researcher at Sheffield University's Alcohol Research Group – commissioned by the Scottish Government to predict the effects of MUP – told The Herald newspaper that, but for MUP, the rise in Scotland might have been bigger.
That's what I call putting a brave face on it.
Secondly, when the 50p unit price was set, there were complaints that the figure was too low.
Thirdly, the Scottish Government's recently-published refreshed Alcohol Framework confirms a commitment to monitor the figure and has promised a review of the unit price after May 1, 2020.
And fourthly, there is absolutely no question of MUP failing.
There's a so-called "sunset clause" in the legislation. After five years the Scottish Government is obliged to publish a report on the operation of MUP; and by the end of the sixth year the measure lapses unless renewed.
You can be absolutely sure that at this point a Scottish minister will not be saying, "Well, it was a bold experiment, but it failed".
Instead, it's likely that the unit price will continue to rise, while measures – such as marketing restrictions – will be deployed to push its "success" over the line.
On any view, the good weather and World Cup don't explain rocketing sales of Buckfast – a product untouched by MUP. Over the six-month period, the fortified wine achieved a sales boost of an extra 3630 bottles a day.
As to the suggestion that the royal wedding may have boosted the alcohol market, the image of Scots toasting Harry and Meghan with a caffeinated alcoholic drink doesn't come easily to mind.
By comparison – and unsurprisingly – Frosty Jack's cider has all but disappeared from the shelves.
So, while the claimed benefits of MUP rest on a so-called "model-based appraisal" carried out by Sheffield University academics, it seems to me that the doubters' forecasts of product and substance displacement are already turning out to be more accurate.
In fact, Aidan O'Neill QC, representing the Scotch Whisky Association, told the UK Supreme Court that MUP ignored "the problem of Buckfast alley".
The absolute very best that can be said for the Scottish Government's flagship measure is this: it's early days.
Yet, although we're over four years away from the final evaluation results, those who call for the introduction of MUP in England remain confident that Westminster has fallen behind in the war against alcohol abuse.
A leading medical journal, The Lancet, claims that, "Results from the introduction of MUP in Scotland… are likely to seriously expose the weakness of England's position".
It also suggests that alcohol consumption in the UK was "escalating"…
But here's a fact check: the overall trend is one of decline. And according to the Office for National Statistics, the 2017 rate of alcohol-specific deaths in Scotland had dropped by 21% since 2001.
Once again it seems that, in the war against alcohol, factual accuracy is a primary casualty.
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Millennials urged to contribute more to workplace pensions
The under 40s need to contribute more into a pension, if they are to maintain current spending habits in retirement.
According to current research the average millennial is spending around £1,700 a month, more than twice as much as the State Pension.
Profile Pensions analysed the spending patters of different generation groups – including both essential and more discretionary spending. It says it highlighted this potential pension gap to encourage younger workers to save more into pension, and make the most of workplace pensions available.
Even making minimum contributions under automatic enrolment may not be sufficient to build adequate retirement income and Profile Pensions urges workers to make the most of any 'matching' arrangement available.
Key figures in their research show that millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) pay an average of £773 in rent alone each month, more than the average state pension of £731.
Discretionary spending pushed these totals upwards, with the average millennial spending £52 a month just on takeaway coffees and £40 a month on gym membership.
Profile Pensions also pointed out essential spending on housing bills and food was almost £600 a month more than the state pension.
It adds that people may think that their lifestyle will change after retirement, but these figures show that they need to be saving more to ensure not only the basics are covered but to enjoy a better standard of living.
Profile Pensions chief investment officer Michelle Gribbin says: "Although monthly expenses can vary from generation to generation, we wanted to showcase to those still climbing the career ladder the necessity of preparing for their financial future early, by highlighting just how much of their current lifestyles they would have to change in order to live comfortably in retirement.
"Although it can be easy to glance over small indulgences from time to time, it does all add up, and preparing for retirement is key for us all, no matter our age. In fact, as our results show, the earlier you can start saving, the more comfortable your retirement can be. "
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The Greatest Football Player to Never Win a Super Bowl?
Hall of Fame Quarterback Dan Marino's Ring-less Career
Justin Artz, Staff Writer
From college prodigy at Pittsburgh University, to a first round pick in the 1983 draft, hall of farmer Dan Marino is considered one of the best NFL athletes to never win a Super Bowl.
In Marino's rookie year, he played in only 11 games, and threw for 20 touchdowns, while only throwing 6 interceptions. Showing signs of potential, Marino would start all 16 games the following year after being named the Miami Dolphins starting quarterback. He shattered records in his second year (most touchdowns in a season and over 5,000 passing yards), throwing for 48 touchdowns and 17 picks. Marino threw more touchdowns in his second year in the NFL than hall of fame quarterbacks Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, John Elway, Jim Kelly, Steve Young, and Brett Favre ever threw for in a season. That year the Dolphins would appear in Super Bowl XIX and play against Joe Montana and the 49ers. Miami got blown out 38-16. Since then, the Dolphins still have not been to another Super Bowl.
While not making it to the big game ever again, Dan Marino still had an iconic career the following years. Marino was a 9 time pro bowl select, the 1984 Most Valuable Player award, the 1994 Comeback Player of the year, and 1998 Walter Payton Man of The Year award. Marino led the Dolphins to the post season 10 times in his 16 year career, making it to 18 playoff games.
Marino retired with the Miami Dolphins, playing his full NFL career with the team. Throwing for 420 touchdowns (5th of all-time), over 61,000 yards (5th of all-time), and a quarterback rating of 86.4, making Marino the greatest player in NFL history to never win a Super Bowl.
Tom Brady and The Bucs Future
History To Be Made
The Ultimate Beatdown
The Xtreme Continues
From Having Everything, To Being Behind Bars
Roundhouse at Fieldhouse
To Be Honored
Rise of The Titans
Icons: Tom Brady
BREAKING NEWS: New Polices in Sports


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Medical Malpractice Negligent Treatment Doctor Removed Too Much Tissue In Hemorrhoid Surgery
Verdict Search: New York Reporter
Settlement: $400,000, Xxxxxxx Vega and Xxxxxx Vega v. Methodist Hospital and [PL]; XXXXX/93
Venue: King County Supreme Court
Judge: Randolph M. Jackson
Plaintiff Attorney: Eric Turkewitz, New York, NY
Defendant Attorney: Scott W. Bermack, Callan, Koster, Brady & Brennan, L.L.P., New York, NY
Insurer(s): Physicians' Reciprocal Insurers for [PL]
Facts & Allegations
On May 28, 1992, plaintiff Xxxxxxx Vega, 25, an office assistant, underwent an outpatient hemorrhoidectomy at Methodist Hospital in New York. [PL] performed the procedure, which was intended to remove three hemorrhoid clusters.
While in the recovery room following the surgery, Vega was found to have hemorrhaged about 15% to 20% of his blood volume. Two hours later, he underwent exploratory follow-up surgery. [PL] discovered an arterial bleeder, which he repaired with a suture. He also cauterized other areas from which fluid was oozing.
Within a month of the surgery, Vega developed an anal stricture, due to extensive scar tissue. He underwent several anal dilations to stretch or break the stricture.
Vega brought a medical-malpractice action against [PL]. He claimed that [PL] removed too much tissue during the hemorrhoidectomy, and that [PL]'s failure to leave islands of healthy tissue caused scars to form around Vega's anus.
Vega also contended that [PL]'s use of a cautery damaged healthy tissue and led to further scars. He added that [PL] did not inform him that a change in diet might have obviated the need for surgery.
[PL] contended that he left islands of healthy tissue, and that the amount of tissue removed was appropriate. He claimed that post-operative bleeding was a risk of the hemorrhoidectomy and the subsequent emergency, life-saving procedures — including the cauterization.
[PL] also noted that Vega had been suffering from hemorrhoids since the age of 11, and that Vega had already attempted conservative treatment. Thus, he contended that any reasonable person would have opted for surgery.
Editor's Note: This case was originally tried in January 2000. That matter ended after Justice William J. Garry precluded the plaintiffs' expert witnesses, due to the plaintiffs' alleged failure to timely exchange expert disclosure. The plaintiff then attempted to try the case on informed consent, based on [PL]'s testimony. But Garry precluded questioning in this area and rendered a directed verdict for [PL]. (See VerdictSearch New York Reporter, Volume XVII, Issue 39, page 31.) The appellate division subsequently reversed on both issues and ordered a new trial. The plaintiffs then discharged their original attorney of record and retained the attorney who subsequently tried this case.
Injuries / Damages:
incontinence; loss of consortium; loss of services; scar and/or disfigurement
Vega sustained sphincter-muscle damage with several dilatations. He has severe anal scars, and he experiences difficult bowel movement and occasional incontinence. He was hospitalized for five days after the hemorrhoidectomy and its follow-up procedure.
Vega's wife, Xxxxxx, claimed loss of consortium and loss of services.
Methodist Hospital was granted summary judgment on liability rior to the initial trial. The plaintiffs settled with [PL] for $400,000 during jury deliberations.
Post-Trial: Following the settlement agreement, the jury revealed that it would have rendered a plaintiff's verdict on all three allegations.


Tissue expansion is a relatively straightforward procedure that enables the body to "grow" extra skin for use in reconstructing almost any part of the body. A silicone balloon expander is inserted under the skin near the area to be repaired and then gradually filled with salt water over time, causing the skin to stretch and grow. Although tissue expansion is most commonly used for breast reconstruction, craniofacial surgeons use tissue expansion to repair skin damaged by congenital anomalies, accidents or surgery.
Almost anyone in need of additional skin can benefit from tissue expansion, from infants to elderly men and women. It is an option for repairing or replacing areas of the scalp, where hair growth makes it difficult to replace lost tissue with skin from other areas of the body. Tissue expansion generally produces excellent results when reconstructing some areas of the face and neck. If the affected area is severely damaged or scarred, expansion is probably not an option, since healthy skin is the first requirement.
Until recently, surgeons were limited to skin flaps and skin grafts to reconstruct damaged tissue. Tissue expansion, however, provides an added technique with several advantages. First, expansion offers a near-perfect match of color, texture, and hair-bearing qualities. Second, because the skin remains connected to the donor area's blood and nerve supply, there is a smaller risk that it will die. In addition, because the skin does not have to be moved from one area to another, scars are often less apparent.
On the other hand, skin expansion has one significant drawback: the length of time required to grow additional skin. Depending on the area to be reconstructed, tissue expansion can take as long as 3 - 4 months. During this time, the expander creates what can be an unsightly bulge which can be quite noticeable for someone requiring repair of the scalp or other areas of the body. Furthermore, the procedure requires repeated visits to the surgeon for injection of the salt water that inflates the balloon. For some people, the inconvenience and obvious appearance of an expander are enough for them to consider other options.
Risks and complications Skin expansion can produce some remarkable results. But as with any operation, there are risks associated with surgery and specific complications associated with this procedure. The most common concern is that the silicone expander used in the procedure will break or leak while it is in the body. While expanders are rigorously tested and placed with care, leaks do occur. If the expander should leak, the salt-water solution, also known as saline, used to fill the expander is harmlessly absorbed by your system and the expander is replaced in a relatively minor surgical procedure.
During your initial consultation, your surgeon will evaluate your condition. Your age, skin condition, medical history and other factors will help determine if you will benefit from tissue expansion. Your flexibility and tolerance for the inconvenience associated with this procedure will help you determine if you want to pursue it.
In most cases, the initial operation will take one to two hours, depending on the size and area of skin to be expanded. The surgeon will begin by making a small incision next to the area of skin to be repaired, and will do everything possible to make the incision as inconspicuous as possible. She will then insert the silicone balloon expander in a pocket created beneath the skin. The expander includes a tiny tube and a self-sealing valve that allows her to gradually fill the expander with saline solution. The valve is usually left just beneath the surface of the skin.
Once the incision has healed, you will be asked to return to the office periodically so that the expander can be injected with additional saline. As the expander enlarges, your skin will stretch. In some people, this procedure causes some minor discomfort.
When the skin has stretched enough to cover the affected area, you will have a second operation to remove the expander and reposition the new tissue. More complex surgery to repair skin on the face or scalp will take longer, and may require more than one expansion sequence to complete.
How you feel after surgery depends on the extent and complexity of the procedure. The initial surgery to insert the expander causes most patients only temporary discomfort which can be controlled with medication.
How soon you resume your normal routine depends on the length, complexity and type of surgery you have had. Most tissue expansion patients find they can keep up with their normal routine while the expander is in place. Following the second surgery, most patients are up and about within a week.


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Oldies and Oddities: The LIttle Steel Strike Airlift
Robert G. Pushkar
On the eve of Memorial Day, 1937, in the small Ohio town of Niles, strikebreaking was lifted to new heights. In the skies over Republic Steel's plant, there began an airlift to rescue company employees locked inside during "the Little Steel Strike," one of the most turbulent and bloody in labor's long struggle to unionize workers.
Republic Steel president Tom M. Girdler had created a Maginot Line with other "little" steel companies—Bethlehem, Inland, National, Youngstown Sheet and Tube—to stave off trade union formation by the newly formed Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a branch of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Big Steel, as the industrial Goliath, United States Steel, was known, recently had agreed to recognize the union. To Girdler, this was nothing less than betrayal and capitulation. He was ready for war. On May 20, he shut down Republic's Massillon mill. Six days later, the SWOC ordered a strike against Republic and Sheet and Tube operations. Strikers formed a heavily armed picket line around the plants, blocking people and supplies from entering and loyal employees from exiting.
After hearing that 2,600 employees were holed up with almost no food or supplies in the Niles and nearby Warren plants, Girdler hatched a scheme to send them sustenance. "We were going to fly it!" he wrote in his autobiography, Boot Straps. "Airplanes were the only answer."
The first aircraft to be made available, a Waco biplane, belonged to a company employee. Bread, ham, beans, and canned salmon were packed into padded sacks. On the first attempt, two sacks landed outside the Niles plant fence and fell into the hands of union pickets. But a second drop successfully landed 10 sacks, and Girdler's employees were soon eating.
That afternoon, Girdler arranged to buy four used Wacos, the nucleus of a fleet that eventually consisted of seven cabin Wacos and two open-cockpit models. Four of the eight pilots were Republic employees. Flights originated from a secret base, Great Lakes Airport, 50 miles north of the mills. It took 200 workers to unload supplies off a convoy of trucks and reload them onto aircraft. Company representatives tried to get Ashland County sheriff Frank Wallett to deputize workers, but he refused, saying, "That would drag me into it."
Republic was able to keep the whereabouts of its base of operations concealed for a time. Two weeks into the strike, however, the company was denied landing rights by Cleveland Mayor H.H. Burton and forced to seek another airport. A 50-acre private field in Ashland became Republic's new base.
Management ordered a pine board landing strip to be built next to the rail yard at the Warren plant. From dawn to dusk for 28 days, Republic's fleet of Wacos shuttled tons of food and supplies into the factories.
Witnessing a new brand of strikebreaking, the Steel Workers Organizing Committee responded with countermeasures. It sent its own airplanes skyward on "scouting missions" to thwart the airlift—in effect, to attempt an air blockade. Records don't identify the union aircraft, but the Youngstown Vindicator reported: "The union planes did a few stunts in the clouds in their 'maneuvers' calculated to frustrate 'enemy' attempts to bring new supplies to the workers."
On the ground, strikers resorted to violence. Men hid in trees and ditches and opened fire with rifles as the Wacos wobbled toward their destinations. Every landing was a feat. Pilot Frank Groat, an electrician and part-time pilot hired by Republic, remembered volleys of gunfire as he eased his Waco toward the airstrip. "Every now and then you could hear the bullets whizzing by you as you flew into the mill," he recalled from his home in Florida. "We never shut off the engines when we came in. We landed, men came out to unload the planes, and we took off. In Niles they used a big net to catch the supplies when we flew over. On those flights we took a second man along, a 'bomber,' we called him. He threw the supplies out through the door."
On June 2, an open-cockpit Waco slammed into a lumber pile alongside the Warren landing strip, bounced into the air, struck a boxcar, and crashed. One wing was broken off and the landing gear badly damaged. The pilot, who was not identified in the Vindicator, walked away with slight bruises.
By June's end, the Little Steel Strike collapsed. The Steel Workers Organizing Committee failed to organize workers and ordered its men back to work without a contract. Ten people had been killed and a hundred wounded in the "Memorial Day Massacre" clash between strikers and police at Republic's South Chicago plant.
Republic pilots had delivered 200,000 pounds of supplies. "In buying these airplanes, in flying food and supplies to the beleaguered plants," Girdler said in Boot Straps, "Republic Steel Corporation was simply taking care of its own."


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Sofidel è una società privata a capitale italiano, produttrice di carta per uso igienico e domestico. Il Gruppo, di proprietà delle famiglie Stefani e Lazzareschi è in attività dal 1966, anno di costituzione della cartiera Stefani & Lazzareschi. È titolare di più di 15 marchi, tra cui Regina, Softis, Le Trèfle e Sopalin.

Storia
Nel 1966 Emi Stefani e Giuseppe Lazzareschi aprono la prima cartiera, Stefani & Lazzareschi, a Pracando (Villa Basilica), zona con una lunga storia nella produzione della carta.

Nel 1969 nasce la seconda cartiera, Fine Paper, a Porcari in provincia di Lucca, area particolarmente ricca di acqua, risorsa fondamentale per il processo produttivo. Le attività della cartiera si espandono anche verso gli impianti di trasformazione. Nel 1972 viene costituita Soffass e nel 1979 Delicarta. Nel 1987 viene lanciato da Soffass il marchio Regina.

Nel 1988 l'azienda cambia la sua denominazione in Sofidel, acronimo dei nomi Soffass, Fine Paper e Delicarta. Nel 1994 inizia la costruzione di Delipapier s.a.s a Nancy. Nel 1997 nasce Papernet a Porcari (Lucca), attiva sul mercato Horeca (Hotellerie-Restaurant-Café).

Attraverso costituzioni o acquisizioni di società il gruppo negli anni 2000 prosegue il processo di crescita e internazionalizzazione: in Polonia con Delitissue (2000), in Italia con Fibrocellulosa (2000), Cartiera di Monfalcone (2002) e Imbalpaper (2003), in Gran Bretagna con Intertissue (2003), in Germania con Delipapier GmbH e Delisoft (2003), in Spagna con Ibertissue (2003), in Turchia con Sofidel Kagit (2004), in Francia con lo stabilimento di Buxeuil nel dipartimento della Vienne (2006), in Germania con le società del Gruppo Werra (2007), in Grecia con Papyros a Katerini (Salonicco) (2009). Vengono anche acquisiti il marchio tedesco Softis (2008) e i marchi francesi Le Trèfle e Sopalin (2009). In questo periodo, inoltre, Sofidel diventa partner del programma internazionale del WWF Climate Savers (2008).

Nel 2010 nasce, in Croazia, Sofidel Papir e vengono acquisite, in Romania, Comceh S.A e, in Gran Bretagna, LPC Group (rinominata Sofidel UK), con sede a Leicester e fabbriche in Regno Unito, Svezia, Belgio e Francia. Sofidel diventa così il secondo produttore europeo del settore. Nello stesso anno aderisce alla Fondazione Sodalitas e al Patto mondiale delle Nazioni Unite, aderendo a progetti di sostenibilità ambientale.

Nel 2012 Sofidel si espande nel mercato statunitense acquisendo Cellynne (rinominata Sofidel America) e supera la capacità produttiva di 1.000.000 di tonnellate, attivando un impianto in Florida, uno nel Winsconsin e un altro in Nevada.

Nel dicembre 2012 viene avviata la collaborazione con la Fondazione Telethon e nel marzo 2013 con Cospe per un progetto sociale e ambientale in Senegal.
Nell'aprile 2013 Sofidel acquisisce altri marchi: Thirst Pocket, Kitten Soft, Inversoft e Nouvelle Soft (GB e ROI) e lo stabilimento di Horwich, in Gran Bretagna.

Nel 2014 viene aperto un nuovo impianto di trasformazione in Oklahoma (Tulsa) e potenziato quello in Nevada. Nel 2015 Sofidel acquisisce la società Green Bay Converting Inc., un impianto di trasformazione in Wisconsin (Green Bay) e un fabbricato in Mississippi (Hattiesburg). Contemporaneamente il Gruppo attiva un nuovo investimento da zero in Ohio (Circleville) e vengono aperti nuovi uffici in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

Nel 2017 Sofidel è presente in 7 Stati degli USA, dove ha una capacità produttiva di 200.000 tonnellate.

Nel 2021 l'Assemblea dei soci, ha nominato il nuovo CdA in cui entrano per la prima volta consiglieri esterni alle famiglie Stefani e Lazzareschi: Chiara Mio, Silvio Bianchi Martini, Andrea Munari e Alessandro Solidoro.

Nel marzo 2021 Edilio Stefani succede al padre, Emi Stefani, come Presidente di Sofidel.

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Aziende cartarie italiane
Aziende della provincia di Lucca
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New charts from the Washington State Department of Transportation illustrate what people crossing Lake Washington already know: there was a dramatic drop in highway use for the first two weekdays of a big construction job on I-90.
Traffic volumes have plunged as much at 60 percent during some of the busiest times.
This chart shows that only 1,500 cars crossed the East Channel Bridge westbound between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. Monday, instead of the usual 3,800. A similar dropoff occurred in the afternoon.
So far, traffic on today has also been light through the work zone, where only a single westbound lane is open. Workers are replacing a cracked steel expansion joint until 5 a.m. Friday.
Many citizens have said in comment threads and blogs, such as this Publicola column titled "Carpocalypse Never," that if the state and its commuters can adapt for two days, they ought to be able to break the freeway habit permanently. Additional evidence comes from recent gains in transit use from West Seattle to downtown when lanes were reduced, and in the Highway 520 corridor as tolls took effect.
On the other hand, schools are on summer break, giving young families more flexibility than usual, while reducing bus and staff trips. Population continues to grow year-round, and the metro area still ranks anywhere from fourth to eighth in various congestion lists.
The worst delay so far was about 15 minutes and three miles, at 6:35 a.m. Monday, as commuters headed to work early.
Slight congestion showed up Tuesday afternoon on the Highway 520 toll bridge, but that may have other causes, besides diversion from I-90.
The next test will be a repair shutdown of the Alaskan Way Viaduct for four days, Aug. 23-26. Crews will remove the Broad Street overpass and fill the space beneath at South Lake Union; fix a damaged expansion joint at the Seneca Street offramp; and replace broken concrete panels just north of the West Seattle Bridge.


CartIt Corporation was administratively dissolved in 2003 by the State of Florida. Since that time another company is using Cart-It LLC so this would prevent "CartIt Corporation" of Florida from rising from the dead- so-to-speak. Nothing is sure but death and taxes and there would probably be issues there as well, but that would be the only way to wrest control of the copyrights for CartIt. Considering the program was given away as no-cost prior to the company dissolving, it seems this rebirth is not likely. The products produced by CartIt Corporation are effectively "orphaned" or "orphanware".
This means there is no longer a company behind the cart- but this is no different than any free shopping cart like OSCommerce, Zencart, and others. There is support for CartIt among the users and developers, future support will be community based.
Don't let the orphan status scare you away. The intent is to eventually replace CartIT with a truly free (as in BSD licensed) open source implementation of the orginal cart functions. This will happen in stages as new components are released to replace the originals. In the end it should work like CartIt does now, not be orphanware, and be regularly extended depending on users' needs.
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A few weeks ago, we had 10 dead trees taken out of our front yard. It was quite an endeavor, but I'm so glad we had it done.
Because then it snowed. Birds had to fend for food, sometimes in groups of 10.
My poor little fig tree, hanging on.
It's started to melt, but there's still quite a bit left!!


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Poor understanding of ratios leads to bad shopping decisions, study says
by University of Miami
Consumers make poor purchase decisions when they need to work with ratios to assess a product's value, says a new study published in the May 2017 of the Journal of Marketing Behavior, from the University of Miami School of Business Administration. In situations where consumers must average ratio information, such as comparing the fuel efficiency of two cars using the ratio miles per gallon, they often flub the numbers by incorrectly assuming the mathematic equation to find miles per gallon would be to average the sum of the mileage of both cars and then divide by two, instead of using a more complex equation needed to accurately compare ratios. This incorrect way of crunching the numbers leads to only 25-30 percent of shoppers getting the correct answer.
"People rely heavily on the 'normal' way to compute an average and if they simply had ready access to software that calculates the average of ratios, they could make more informed decisions about many big-ticket purchases, such as cars," said Michael Tsiros, professor of marketing at the University of Miami School of Business Administration. "If you think about how many different ways we miscalculate the average of ratios, you'd realize how much of an impact this likely has on our stock purchase decisions that can also suffer from the same bias given they can also be compared as ratios," said Tsiros, who conducted the study with a colleague from Texas A&M University.
The researchers conducted two studies to demonstrate consumers' difficulty in dealing with ratios. In the first study, participants were assigned word problems that, in order to arrive at the correct answer, required them to use the formula for averaging ratios. The majority, 53 percent of the participants selected the response that reflected the arithmetic average vs. the average of ratios. In the second study, participants received information on the cash ?ow, discount rate, and growth rate of three stocks and were asked to allocate $1,000 across them. Similar to the first study, 48 percent of participants' selections reflected the incorrect use of the arithmetic average formula.
"Whether the decision is about allocating funds properly to a 401K plan or finding a washer and dryer that uses a lower ratio of water per load, this study points to the significant need for something like a ratio calculator built on to relevant shopping websites or perhaps in-store," continued Tsiros. "Maybe it's an easy mobile app. Whatever it may be, the return that comes with going the extra mile for your customer, especially those making big-ticket purchases, is a smart business decision."
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Planning permission approved for our third Bristol dealership
We are celebrating this month (November, 2014) after being granted planning permission for a third outlet in Bristol that will create 25 new jobs.
As you may know we already have two dealerships in the city and will open a third purpose-built, Nissan showroom in October, 2015 at Cribbs Causeway.
Keith Brock, our Managing Director, explained: "We are over the moon that our planning permission has finally been approved and we can now really get the ball rolling on the new project. It's a massive investment for us as the whole project will cost in the region of £5million.
"Wessex Garages is firmly rooted in Bristol's business community and this next stage in our development will enable us to have a much greater impact on the local economy with the creation of new jobs and money being put back into the community.
"The new Nissan dealership will be on Hayes Way at Cribbs Causeway, an area that is developing and it looks set to be an excellent retail location for us."
(From left to right) Keith Brock, Managing Director of Wessex Garages, and Dave Murfitt, Director of Network Development and Quality for Nissan GB, at the new site with the plans for the new dealership.
The dealership will span just over 18,000 square feet and create at least 25 new jobs in addition to our existing Nissan business, which is situated on Pennywell Road.
Dave Murfitt, Director of Network Development and Quality for Nissan GB, said: "We have been working with Wessex Garages on this project for over three years and are delighted that it has now received planning approval.
"The Nissan brand is growing in the UK; we have virtually doubled sales and market share in the past four years and we need to maintain this growth.
"Building a showcase dealership in Cribbs Causeway, which will be run by Wessex Garages, our long term business partners in Bristol, will ensure that we will provide a great facility in the ideal location to fully meet the needs of current and future Nissan customers."
The dealership will be a centre for electric vehicles and will be an additional charging point for the city.
Keith added: "We are really passionate about Bristol as it's our home town. At a time when jobs are scarce, our new dealership will help to create some fantastic employment opportunities for people in the area.
"The entrance to the new site will be the gateway to a whole new development of around 2000 new homes with local amenities on what we know as the old Filton runway.
"We will be looking for some of the best people from the motor industry to join us and there will be a variety of positions available. Anyone who is interested in finding out more should email their CV to enquiries@wessexgarages.co.uk.
"Another great bonus for us is that the location for the dealership is not part of the Bristol residents' parking zones (RPZs) congestion scheme, which is good news for our future customers."
For more information, please call our dealership on Pennywell Road in Bristol on 0117 244 9242.
You can also keep up-to-date with our latest news and events by liking us on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/wessexgarages or following us on Twitter www.twitter.com/wessexgarages.


Ankita will be starring alongside Kangana Ranaut in movie Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi.
Actress Ankita Lokhande has been in the spotlight recently as she will be making her Bollywood debut alongside actress Kangana Ranaut in movie Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi. But that is not the only thing that has got rumour mills churning, as there have been a good number of speculations about her love life and impending marriage to beau Vicky Jain.
Earlier, there were reports that Ankita is set to tie knot with Vicky this year, but now she has in an interview with Bombay Times clarified that she is in love, but as of now she is concentrating on her work.
"If it happens, I will let you know and invite you for the wedding. I can't say anything right now, but there are no such plans yet. I am just focusing on work at the moment," she was quoted as saying.
Ankita went on to speak about Vicky and what her idea of love, relationship and marriage is.
"He is a very nice guy. He is a businessman from Bilaspur. Yes, I am in love and you will get to know about it when the time is right," she said.
"Love is really important for me, because I believe in it. Relationships are very important, because that's the bond you share with someone and that's how love grows between people. Marriage has always been my dream. I have always wanted to get married. But at this point, my priorities have changed. I am really looking forward to more films," she added.
Both her personal and professional life looks to be in a happy space post her 2016 break up with longtime boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput. While Sushant was reportedly seeing Raabta co-star Kriti Sanon, Ankita kept a clean chit until this year in January when it was said that the actress has finally found her soulmate in Mumbai-based businessman Vicky.


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Business News›News›Politics and Nation›Supreme Court gets four new judges; strength reaches 34
Supreme Court gets four new judges; strength reaches 34
The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names to the government last month.
Four new judges were appointed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, taking its strength to 34, the highest-ever.
According to separate Law Ministry notifications, justices Krishna Murari, SR Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy were appointed as judges of the top court.
Justices V Ramasubramanian and Krishna Murari head the Himachal Pradesh and Punjab and Haryana high courts respectively.
Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Hrishikesh Roy head the Rajasthan and Kerala high courts respectively.
With a huge backlog of cases in the top court, the government had recently increased the strength of its judges from 31 to 34, including the Chief Justice of India.
As of today, the apex court has 30 judges. Once the new judges take oath, the strength will go up to 34, the highest ever.
The sanctioned strength of SC judges was increased days after Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to increase the number of judges in the top court.
According to a written reply by the Law Ministry to a Rajya Sabha question on July 11, 59,331 cases are pending in the top court.
Due to paucity of judges, the required number of constitution benches to decide important cases involving questions of law were not being formed, the CJI said.
"You would recall that way back in 1988, about three decades ago, the judge strength of the SC was increased from 18 to 26, and then again after two decades in 2009, it was increased to 31, including the CJI, to expedite disposal of cases to keep pace with the rate of institution," he wrote.
"I request you to kindly consider, on top priority, to augment the judge-strength in the SC appropriately so that it can function more efficiently and effectively as it will go a long way to attain the ultimate goal of rendering timely justice to the litigant public," Gogoi wrote.
Some of the consultee judges are learnt to have questioned the recommendation to elevate some of the candidates who are lower in the order in the all-India seniority list.
Consultee judges are those who have earlier served in courts where the candidate judges are currently posted. The views of consultee judges are not binding on the collegium.
The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1956 originally provided for a maximum of ten judges (excluding the CJI).
This number was increased to 13 by the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Act, 1960, and to 17 in 1977.
The working strength of the Supreme Court was, however, restricted to 15 judges by the cabinet (excluding the chief Justice of India) till the end of 1979. But the restriction was withdrawn at the request of the chief justice of India.
In 1986, the strength of the top court was increased to 25, excluding the CJI. Subsequently, the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Act, 2009 further augmented the strength of the court from 25 to 30.
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Unilever CEO retires , replaced by insider Jope
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LONDON: Unilever's Chief Executive Paul Polman will step down next month after 10 years in the job, leaving insider Alan Jope to step into his shoes after the Anglo-Dutch group's failed attempt to shift its headquarters.
A UK investor revolt forced Polman and the Unilever board to scrap a plan in October to move the headquarters of the dual-listed company, which makes Dove soap and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, to the Netherlands.
Company veteran Jope, 54, is the boss of the beauty and personal care division which is Unilever's largest, accounting for almost half of group annual profits. The Scotsman also previously led the company's business in China and has long been seen as a possible successor to Polman.
"Our global footprint includes strong positions in many important markets for the future and our focus will remain on serving our consumers, and our other multiple stakeholders, to deliver long‐term growth and value creation," Jope said.
At the helm since January 2009, Polman, 62, generated big returns for shareholders totalling 290 per cent over the period, expanded its presence in emerging markets, and in 2017 fended off a $143 billion takeover approach by Kraft-Heinz.
That failed bid, however, helped prompt Dutchman Polman to seek to simplify Unilever's structure by shifting its headquarters to Rotterdam. That angered UK-based shareholders as Unilever would have left the UK FTSE 100 share index, forcing some to sell.
Unilever's board, led by Chairman Marijn Dekkers, ditched the HQ move plan on Oct. 5 after it became clear that it could fall short of the investor approval needed.
Dekkers denied the row had accelerated Polman's retirement.
"The appointment of Alan Jope as the successor of Paul has nothing to do with the simplification process," he told reporters on Thursday.
Polman's decision to retire was not unexpected and the board had started a process a year ago to consider appropriate replacements, Dekkers added.
"That's why we were able to appoint Alan immediately," he said.
Polman's reputation as a champion of issues like sustainability and the company's social impact wasn't always appreciated. Bernstein analyst Andrew Wood said some investors were irked by what they considered a "preachy" style but added that Polman had a strong record over the past decade.
"Just like one of Unilever's highest-profile products, Marmite, Polman engenders strongly differing opinions from investors," Wood said.
"We consider that Polman has been an exceptionally good CEO of Unilever," Wood added.
Dekkers said that Jope's appointment "stands for continuity", reassuring investors that the company was on track to meet guidelines set by Polman, that includes a target for an underlying operating margin of 20 per cent by 2020.
Unilever investor Skagen Global Fund said it hoped that Jope would build on Polman's legacy.
"Jope is an impressive executive and we congratulate the board on an excellent choice of successor," Skagen Global fund portfolio manager Knut Gezelius said.
"Choosing Jope over presumably a long list of strong external candidates is another testament to the strength of the internal bench and management quality at Unilever."
NATIONAL BALANCE
The appointment of Jope rebalances the Anglo-Dutch leadership of the company in favour of the British-side. While Dekkers is Dutch, Unilever's Chief Financial Officer Graeme Pitkethly is also British.
Dekkers said that nationality played no role in how Unilever made appointment decisions.
Pitkethly, who was involved in the media campaign defending the plan to move the HQ, had also been rumoured as a possible replacement for Polman.
Jope joined Unilever as a graduate trainee in 1985. He will be paid a fixed salary of 1.45 million euros ($1.65 million) plus a target annual bonus of 150 per cent of fixed pay in his new role as CEO.
Investors will not have to wait long for a chance to quiz the company on its future – Unilever is due to hold an investor day in Mumbai, India on Dec. 4 and 5.
On the new CEO's agenda will be Unilever's bid for Glaxo Smith Kline's Indian Horlicks nutrition business, where it is competing against consumer giant Nestle, as well as handling any fallout from a possible no-deal Brexit as Britain is due to leave the EU in March 2019.
Polman, who was paid a fixed annual salary of 1.4 million pounds but with bonuses took home a total package of about 10 million pounds, will stay on for six months to support Jope's transition into the role, Unilever added in its statement.
Shares in Unilever traded 0.2 per cent higher in midafternoon. The stock has risen 170 per cent since Polman took the top job, outperforming Britain's bluechip index which is up about 75 per cent.
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i love her. but someone pls make ryuji or yusuke.
Confidants getting figures before Haru. I hate to complain because hey, Takemi, but damn I'm losing hope that I'll get the full team on my shelves.
How long will it take for me to visit her clinic?
Do we have an idea of release date or pricing yet? It must be soon if she's painted now, right?
She's already looking better than Makoto imo. Either way I REALLY want her to be good; will just have to wait for higher-quality and/or close-up shots.
I think her eyes could stand to be smaller and her face less wide. As it is, it's throwing off the look of her hair/face ratio. This was an issue with Amakuni's Makoto scale with her face looking a bit round which gave the weird effect of making her hair volume look thinner.
That said, I don't think it's terrible at all and it still looks good, enough that I'm definitely ordering on day one.
kewligirl95 (2 maand(en) geleden) #51064922I'm contemplating the same thing now too lol.