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United Television (UTV)
United Television Ghana (UTV Ghana) is a private, free-to-air television broadcaster in Ghana. It was launched by United Television Ghana Limited in 2013. UTV Ghana is perceived by Ghanaians as a local television station in the country largely due to their keen interest to satisfy the local Ghanaian market. It therefore broadcasts mainly in local languages.
UTV has the highest audience share (16.4% ) among all TV channels in the country, according to Geopoll, a mobile survey platform (January – March 2017). UTV has an audience penetration reach of 76% nationwide. During the week of the 2016 election (2nd - 8th December 2016), it was the most watched Ghanaian TV station. The highest peak point was 20:00hrs when the station had 1.2 Mio viewers.
Besides political news, UTV Ghana airs and produces mainly entertainment programmes including dramas, telenovelas, blockbuster movies and other entertainment shows. In the run-up to the December polls in Ghana, a survey conducted by Goodman AMC (a research consulting firm), shows that UTV News was the fifth most trusted source of information by respondents during the period.
The station operates under the company name United Television Ghana Limited which belongs to U2 Company Limited. It is jointly owned by Ernest Ofori Sarpong and Osei Kwame. The latter is also into other business operations such as real estate development, salt mining, stone quarry, fertilizer production, food processing and cable and wire manufacturing. He also owns – among various other businesses - the big media network "Despite Group of Companies" (Peace FM, Hello FM, Neat FM, Okay FM and Peacefmonline.com).
UTV was so far the latest channel to be birthed by a union between Osei Kwame and his fellow business colleague.
Audience Share
Greater Accra Region and Ashanti Region
Free-to-air (UHF)
Media Companies / Groups
U2 Company Limited
There was a company profile available at the Registrar General's Department. U2 Company Limited is a joint ownership between Osei Kwame, owner of Despite Group of Companies, and Ernest Ofori Sarpong.
Osei Kwame
Ernest Ofori Sarpong
Osei Kwame, Ernest Sarpong
Osei Kwame and Ernest Sarpong are entrepreneurs with business interest in the banking, mining and food processing sectors
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Kwame is an entrepreneur with a chain of media outlets in the name of Despite Group of Companies and through a daughter company, U2 Company Limited. He also operates companies in the food business.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Other Important People
Kennedy Osei
Fadda Dickson
Affiliated Interests other important people
General Manager, Despite Group of Comapanies and son of Osei Kwame
Director at Despite Group of Companies and Head of Administarion and Finance at the company.
U2 Company Ltd.;P.O.Box 17470, Accra
Revenue (in Mill. $)
Peace FM Online (2016). UTV Wins Tourism-Oriented Media Award (Watch). Accessed 29 June 2017.
Chris Danquah (2017). Wontumi, UTV Sued By Baba Jamal Over Galamsey Claims. Accessed on 29 June 2017.
Citi FM Online (2016). UTV emerges most watched TV station again – GeoPoll. Accessed on 29 June 2017.
Audience share from TV Stations based on a Geopoll report (Jan.-March 2017).
Vivian Kai Lokko (2015). UTV most watched TV station in Ghana – Report. Accessed on 16 June 2017.
Facebook Inc. (2017). UTV's Facebook page. Accessed on 16 June 2017.
Ghana Trade - Ministry of Trade & Inspire Nature Advertising (2017). Special Ice Company Limited. Accessed on 16 June 2017.
GhanaWeb (2016). Top 7 media programmes & platforms influencing 2016 polls. Accessed on 16 June 2017.
Registrar General (2011-09-08). United Television – SN009892015. Accessed on in May 2017. Available upon request.
Registrar General's Department. Date of Registraion 2014-10-28. U2 Company Limited – CS513722014. Accessed on in May 2017. Available upon request.
United Television – SN009892015. Accessed in May 2017
U2 Company Limited – CS513722014. Accessed in May 2017

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Posts Tagged 'Tora Harris'
A Change is Gonna Come?
Posted: 6 January by Brett Hoover in Cornell, Princeton
Tags: Tora Harris
The Big Green men's and women's squads — playing host to the Dartmouth Relays — aren't the only teams taking to the track around the League this week. Cornell and Princeton will also lace 'em up as the Big Red hosts the Cornell Open at Barton Hall on Friday and Princeton heads to Annapolis, Md., to face off with Navy Saturday.
Do you know you have to travel back in time, May of 2002 in Annapolis to be exact, to find the last time that a team other than Cornell and Princeton won a Heps track and field championship. That's 32 championships in a row. Eight indoor. Eight outdoor. Both genders.
The last team to beat the Red Tigers (or Big Orange) was the Penn men at the 2002 Outdoor Championships and those Quakers needed to close the meet with a record-setting performance in the 4×400-meter relay to beat the Tigers by just two points. I remember that well as a combination of that close finish coincided with Princeton's Tora Harris clearing 7-7 in the high jump as a nasty storm rapidly descending on Thompson Field. I don't even recall if the typical awards ceremony even took place as everyone scrambled for shelter.
It is crazy to think that last time a team other than the Red or Orange, men or women, won a Heps track title, we had never heard of the Beltway snipers or American Idol, the U.S. had yet to invade Iraq and baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams was alive.
Could this be the year for a change?
The Latest Chart Toppers
Posted: 4 January by Brett Hoover in Alumni, Athletes, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton
Tags: Adam Nelson, Anna Pierce, Ashley Higginson, Craig Kinsley, Delilah DiCrescenzo, Donn Cabral, Morgan Uceny, Sean Furey, Tora Harris, Track & Field News
Nine different Ivy Leaguers have been named to Track & Field News' year-end national rankings, including three that the 'Bible of the sport' considers to be in the top 10 in the world.
Ageless Adam Nelson of Dartmouth, a three-time Olympian, was Heps' top-ranked athlete on the world stage, tabbed seventh globally in the shot put (third in the U.S.). Two other former Heps champions — Anna Pierce of Brown and Morgan Uceny of Cornell — were ranked eighth and ninth in the world in the 800-meter run. Each was ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. in both the 800- and the 1,500-meter runs. Pierce was second in the 800 and sixth in the 15 while Uceny was third in each.
While not ranked in the top 10 in the world, Dartmouth's Sean Furey was the only Heps athlete to hold down a top spot in the U.S. in his specialty, the javelin throw. Brown senior Craig Kinsley, the NCAA champion in that discipline, is ranked third nationally.
Kinsley is one of three active Hepsters to be ranked, joining a pair of Princeton steeplechasers. Junior Donn Cabral is ranked eighth among the men and senior Ashley Higginson fifth for the women.
The final two Ivy Leaguers in the rankings are each multiple League champions — Princeton high jumper Tora Harris (fourth) and Columbia steeplechaser Delilah DiCrescenzo (ninth).
How 'Bout A Survey?
Posted: 19 August by Brett Hoover in Athletes
Tags: August Wolf, Brenda Taylor, Diana Wills, Dora Gyorffy, Jeomi Maduka, Joslyn Woodard, Mamadou Johnson, Meredith Rainey, Mustafa Abdur-Rahim, Nicole Harrison, Tora Harris
Confession time. Right before Outdoor Heps, I was running a series on Heps' most unbreakable records. Things got really busy and I never finished it. Then I just ignored it, like it never happened. I had 10 of the 12 done, but never wrote about high-jumping legends Dora Gyorffy of Harvard and Tora Harris of Princeton. So…. now that I discovered the polling feature on here, I opt to give you the final say.
By the way, that's Tora in the middle in this photo. I was on hand in 2002 to watch him as a storm was rapidly approaching Outdoor Heps in Annapolis. Word came to me that a timers' cable was laying inside of Tora's approach path, so I wandered over to see for myself. It was true, but I didn't want to disrupt his preparations. I was in discussion with the timer, pointing to the cord, when Tora walked passed and said, "It's fine." About 20 seconds later he cleared 7-7. So I vote for that!


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WHAT'S AT STAKE?
DEVELOPING FORECASTS
HOW CAN WE ADAPT?
Societal impacts and adaptation strategies
Ocean acidification is a threat to food security, economies, and culture because of its potential impacts on marine ecosystem services. Information on how ocean acidification will impact ecosystems and the services they provide can help guide how we adapt to and mitigate forecasted changes.
ECONOMIC MODELING
The OAP funds modeling studies to advance our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on coastal ecosystems and fisheries.
Scientists can use a wide variety of models to project the potential progression of acidification in different regions, the impacts that changes in chemistry may have on marine life, and how these changes could affect a variety of ecosystem services including fisheries, aquaculture, and protection of coasts by coral reefs. For example, projections of ocean acidification can be incorporated into food-web models to better understand how changing ocean chemistry could affect harvested species, protected species, and the structure of the food web itself. Economic-forecast models can be used to analyze the economic impacts of potential changes in fisheries harvest caused by ocean acidification.
Figure from: Harvey et al. 2010
Ecosystem Modeling
Experiments on species response suggest that ocean acidification will directly affect a wide variety of organisms from calcifying shellfish and coral to fish and phytoplankton. Ecosystem models can capture the complex effects of ocean acidification on entire ecosystems.
How marine organisms respond to ocean acidification will be influenced by their reaction to chemistry change and their interactions with others species, such as their predators and prey. Scientists use ecosystem models to understand how ocean chemistry may affect entire ecosystems because they account for the complex interactions between organisms. Output from such modeling exercises can inform management of fisheries, protected species, and other important natural resources. Because ecosystem feedbacks are complex, understanding the uncertainty associated with these models is critical to effective management.
Projections of the economic impacts of ocean acidification can be created by combining economic models with findings from laboratory experiments and ecological models.
For example, these links can be made for port communities or specific fisheries through modeling changes in fish harvest. Researchers at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center have developed bio-economic forecasts for the economically and culturally important species red king crab. Researchers at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center are developing projections of how the economies of regional port communities might be altered by potential changes in West Coast fisheries caused by ocean acidification.
How can we adapt to our changing ocean?
The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) is working to build knowledge about how to adapt to the consequences of ocean acidification (OA) and conserve marine ecosystems as acidification occurs.
FROM OBSERVATIONS TO FORECASTS
Turning current observations into forecasts is the key mechanism by which adaptation plans are created.
Forecasting provides insight into a vision of the future by using models that visualize how quickly and where ocean chemistry will be changing in tandem with an understanding of how sensitive marine resources and communities are to these changes. By making predictions about the future, we can better adapt and prepare for ocean acidification. Coastal forecasts for ocean acidification are currently being developed for the West Coast, Chesapeake Bay, the East Coast, Caribbean and the western Gulf of Mexico. Ocean acidification hotspots are areas that are particularly vulnerable, either from a biological, economic, or cultural perspective. Identification of these hot spots in coastal waters is a priority for the Coastal Acidification Networks (CANs), fostered by the Ocean Acidification Program around the country. These networks bring together scientists, decision makers, fishermen and other stakeholders to identify and answer the most important questions about acidification and its effects in the region.
NOAA scientists have played an important role in development of the J-SCOPE forecast system, used to create seasonal forecasts for the North Pacific region. These forecasts will allow fisheries managers to predict seasonal outlooks for management decisions.
Developing innovative tools to help monitor ocean acidification and mitigate changing ocean chemistry locally
Management strategies use information provided by research and tools that can be used to make sound decisions to effectively conserve marine resources. Baseline research about organism and community sensitivity to ocean acidification is incorporated into these strategies, in an effort to sustain these resources for the future.
Before management plans can be created it is necessary to have baseline research about the effects of ocean acidification on marine resources, such as Pacific oysters, Dungeness crabs and rockfish. The OAP funds NOAA Fisheries Science Centers to expose various life stages of valuable species to present and future acidification conditions. The biological response research is then incorporated into models that can be used to create tools for managers to use so that they can test different scenarios on species' populations and habitats. Modeling efforts led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are now being used to produce one of these tools for Atlantic sea scallop fisheries. The dashboard will allow managers to test the impacts of different management actions on scallop populations. In the Pacific Northwest, NOAA, the University of Washington, and shellfish industry scientists have formed a strong partnership to adapt to ocean acidification impacts that have already affected the shellfish industry. Together these researchers determined that acidification was threatening oyster production and offered an approach to address it. They installed equipment to monitor carbon chemistry at shellfish hatcheries and worked with hatchery managers to develop methods that protect developing oyster larvae from exposure to low pH waters. Early warning tools are now being used to forecast seasonal acidification conditions to enable shellfish growers to adapt their practices.
CONNECTING PEOPLE ACROSS REGIONS AND DISCIPLINES
Ocean acidification is a global challenge, and the most effective adaptation strategies are holistic, incorporating the knowledge and experiences of many sectors. As an answer to the difficulty of bridging geographic and professional divides, together with the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification, NOAA helped launch the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange, an online community and discussion forum.
The OA Information Exchange is designed to make it easy to connect and find information, with tools to post updates, share documents, media, links, and events with fellow members. The site welcomes scientists, educators, students, policy makers, members of industry, and concerned citizens to help fulfill the mission of building a well-informed community ready to respond and adapt to ocean and coastal acidification. If you would like to join the conversation, please request an account at oainfoexchange.org/request-account.html
EXPLORE THE IOOS Pacific Region Ocean Acidification
This portal provides a real-time data stream of ocean acidification data that can be used by shellfish growers, regional managers, stakeholders and the public. The portal can be used to make resource decisions and build adaptation strategies.
OAP SUPPORTED Societal impact PROJECTS
Developing innovative tools to connect stakeholders with NOAA's Ocean Acidification Observing Network (NOA-ON)
Adrienne Sutton and Simone Alin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Students from University of Washington's (UW) College of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), are looking for local opportunities to apply their newly-acquired skills and gain experience in preparation for a competitive job market. We propose to leverage this local (and economical) tech resource by hiring student interns interested in working with the PMEL Carbon Program's large data collections and developing novel interactive tools for data visualization and communication that would serve the broader community of scientists, resource managers, and other stakeholders. We also propose to develop new 2D and/or 3D visualizations of observational data, model results, model-data comparisons, and conceptual diagrams related to OAP-funded work in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem to improve the coastal OA community's ability to communicate with stakeholders about observed and forecasted conditions and potential impacts. This work will build on an existing partnership with UW's Center for Environmental Visualization (CEV), which built the PMEL Carbon Program website in 2010 and recently updated our antiquated Google Earth data portal (www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/map/index). The proposed work will contribute to improving the public's access to and ability to interact with data generated by the NOAA Ocean Acidification Observing Network (NOA-ON) with the goal of increasing awareness and understanding of ocean acidification (OA).
Tags: Projects_CCEProjects_HumanDimensionsProjects_CCE_HumanDimensions
Multi-Scale Prediction of California Current Carbonate System Dynamics
Burke Hales, Oregon State University
The California Current is a dynamic eastern boundary system that spans the Northeast Pacific from Canada to Baja California, Mexico. Upwelling of cold, nutrient rich water drives multi trophic level productivity throughout much of the domain, but also results in naturally acidic on-shelf waters on regional scales. In addition, anthropogenic CO2 on basin to global scales, and local inputs by eutrophication, fresh water inputs, and local respiration or carbon assimilation result in multiscale and context-specific perturbations to the carbonate system. Thus, to understand, manage, or mitigate the effect of ocean acidification on ocean ecosystems, we need to quantify a suite of carbonate system parameters along the Pacific Coast in a mechanistic, spatially explicit, and temporally dynamic fashion.
We propose to embed an improved semi-analytical carbonate-chemistry prediction model within a dynamic classification of pelagic seascapes derived from satellite remotely sensed variables, including, but not limited to, phytoplankton standing stock (chl-a), SST, and wind stress. We will produce synoptic time series and nowcasts of surface TCO2, TALK, pH and Ω that will facilitate regional comparisons of interannual trends in OA parameters. We will include metrics of model and spatiotemporal uncertainty to better inform management decisions. These maps will be validated with the wealth of multi-parameter OA data generated from recent NOAA-supported field-observational efforts, from coastal moorings, West-coast OA cruises, and shore-based Burke-o-Lators. Statistical analyses will quantify spatially explicit trends across OA parameters, and local deviations from seascape-based predictions will disentangle basin-scale oceanic vs. local drivers of the carbonate system. Maps will be served in near real time on IOOS data portals. Time series and maps will inform marine ecosystem management and provide metrics of ocean health for National Marine Sanctuary condition reports.
Tags: Projects_CCEProjects_EnvironmentProjects_CCE_Environment
Evaluation of New Subsurface Carbon Technologies for OA Moorings
Adrienne Sutton and Chris Sabine, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
The PMEL Carbon Group has been augmenting and expanding high-frequency observations on moorings to provide valuable information for better understanding natural variability in inorganic carbon chemistry over daily to inter-annual cycles. The current NOAA Ocean Acidification Observing Network (NOA-ON) consists of 21 moorings in coral, coastal, and open ocean environments. At present, the OA mooring network includes a standardized suite of surface sensors measuring for air and seawater partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2), pH, temperature (T), salinity (S), dissolved oxygen (DO), fluorescence, and turbidity at all sites. Although OA is primarily driven by uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere, many coastal and estuarine processes that affect water chemistry and the interpretation of coastal OA are manifested in subsurface waters. Furthermore, many of the most sensitive organisms (e.g. corals, shellfish) are benthic and respond to subsurface water chemistry.
The Moored Autonomous pCO2 (MAPCO2) systems currently used on the 21 OA moorings are uniquely adapted for surface only measurements. PMEL has demonstrated these MAPCO2 systems are compatible with and comparable to ship-based underway pCO2 systems and discrete validation measurements used in the NOA-ON. However, similar standardized methods and technologies have not been evaluated for subsurface observations on the existing mooring network. Our project evaluates the best carbon system technologies to deploy in the subsurface, demonstrate the utility of these enhanced observations on the moorings, and make recommendations on how advanced technologies can be incorporated into the NOA-ON.
Tags: Projects_CCEProjects_EnvironmentProjects_CCE_EnvironmentProjects_Monitoring
Sustained OA Cruise Observations
Richard Feely, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
This project contributes to the NOAA objective to provide accurate and reliable data from sustained and integrated earth observing systems through research, development, deployment, and operation of systems to collect detailed carbonate chemistry measurements as a part of a hydrographic research cruises along the west coast. The NOAA Ocean Acidification Monitoring Program along North American coastlines (Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf, and Alaskan) and in the global open ocean will focus on mapping and monitoring the distribution of key indicators of ocean acidification including carbon dioxide, pH, and carbonate mineral saturation states. The overarching goal of the program is to determine the trends in ocean acidification (OA) and to provide concrete information that can be used to address acidification issues. The detailed hydrographic research cruises that are planned to be conducted every four years along our coasts are essential for providing high-quality intercalibration data across the full suite of OA observing assets in coastal waters, including well-proven technologies such as the MAPCO2 moored CO2 system and underway pCO2 systems on ships-of-opportunity as well as developing technologies such as wave gliders and sensors for additional carbon parameters.
The hydrographic cruise measurements facilitate the overall monitoring effort's ability to address the near-term performance measure of quantifying aragonite saturation state in the areas studied to within 0.2. In addition, the recurring coast-wide cruises allow us a critical opportunity to assess OA conditions along the West Coast in a synoptic fashion. Cruise-based observations have provided critical information for model validation that is facilitating the improvement of next-generation physical-biogeochemical models projecting OA conditions into the past and the future.
OA Coastal Underway Observations
Simone Alin, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PMEL's surface observational network, consisting of the complementary moorings and underway observations, is designed to quantify the temporal and spatial scales of variability of carbon species, pH, and aragonite saturation in surface waters. To assess spatial dynamics in OA and evaluate the synergistic effects of coastal processes along the coasts and in the open ocean, we will leverage our Ship of Opportunity Program (SOOP) infrastructure along the U.S. west coast. Underway observations have been enhanced by the collection and analysis of discrete DIC and TA samples beginning in FY 2010.
The primary objectives of our underway OA FY 2015–2017 sustained investment work plan are to maintain existing underway observations on NOAA Ships Oscar Dyson and Bell Shimada with autonomous pCO2, pH, and ancillary sensors that cover the continental shelf regions of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. We plan to work with Dr. Rik Wanninkhof''s group at AOML to ensure that the underway OA system on NOAA Ship Ronald Brown is working well for the FY2016 West Coast Ocean Acidification cruise. In addition to making ongoing observations from existing OAP-funded CO2/pH SOOP platforms, during this funding period we are placing a major emphasis on finalizing QC on backlogged underway pH and DO data, distributing the final data to CDIAC and NODC data archives, and data synthesis and publication efforts. These efforts are being undertaken in conjunction with other members of the PMEL Carbon Group, the PMEL Science Data Integration Group, our AOML sister group, and Dr. Todd Martz at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Finally, under the OAP SI FY15-17 work plan, we will continue to maintain the pH and O2 sensors that are presently on the container ship Cap Blanche and contribute to the trans-Pacific decadal time-series.


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A few months ago this thing was all the rage on this discussion board...is it for real, will it ever ship, etc. They claim to have been shipping these since CES what...3 months ago? The website still says a 3 week shipping delay. Has ANYONE, besides those that work at/for icuiti, tested and/or bought one of these units? Or the other unit that was supposed to do 800x600 (forgot the name)? Any progress on either of these units or has everyone just given up because the products are yet again vaporware?
Do a search here for IIS. Same fictional company, new name.
If you doubt they are shipping, why don't you go to the Icuiti site, put a V920 in your basket and give them your credit card number. The website says nothing about a 3-week delay as you claim.
Or, go to the SkyMall site where they are also selling the V920.
Here is an independent user review (as far as i can tell anyway ) of the Icuiti HMD. Doesn't sound so hot to me.
Just got myself the pair of icuity V920. Expectations are met. The device is consumer oriented, with poorely designed battery compartment. Plastic joints that are easy to break and cables that would probably rip within a year. I'm taking the liberty of resoldering the device to extend the longevity.
My vision is not 20x20, so it was very nice to find separate focal adjustments for each eye, which is not a unique feature when it comes to head mounted displayes. This one; however, does not let you control separation between the displays. The divise is buit for an average person. Works better for those with eyes close together.
The manufacturer tried making the gadget as light as possible, yet it still feels heavy on the nose.
The device works best with standard video output (RCA). Console games look awesome, as they are initially designed for low resolution and limited color depth.
VGA output takes the device capabilities to the test. Flickering becomes apparent. Color is not as clear as it looks even on cheapest desktop LCD displays. Contrast is low. Visually I'd compare it to 300:1 LCD's. The resolution is capped at 640x480 and the reftresh rate at 60Hz, which means you'll either have to run Windows 2000, or have a resolution management utility such as "Multires" for XP. Don't know how it would work with Macs.
The projection size - it's small. I wear the device on my nose and the picture is smaller than the 17-inch display I have sitting on my table about 2ft away. I'd say it's an equivalent of about 15 inches diagonally. All that is not so bad, considering the resolution. Pixels are hardly visible. The size/resolution ratio is tolerable.
The eyes do get tired after about 15 minutes of use. 5 friends that tested the device confirm it. Refresh rate seems to be the reason.
I haven't tested the stereoscopic capabilities just yet, but will be happy to share my discoverise with you.
The glass surfaces catch reflections and interfere with the picture. The glasses dont cover the eyes completely, so it is possible to be involved with other tasks, such as typing on the keyboard without taking the glasses off; however, the level of immersion takes a hit.
In a dark room, even a slightest speck of light causes irritation. I find myself more comfortable working in daylight. In bright surrounding light low contrast of projection also becomes less apparent.
The last but not least - sound. The headphones that came with the system are practically useless, the sound quality is poor and the fixed placement causes great discomfort. Fortunately, they're removable and the decoder box has a headphone socket. The only disadvantage to using other headphones is that you'll have to wires running from your head instead of one. The amplifier transmits some of the power supply static onto the soundtrack, so the less additional volume boosting you do, the better. Batteries are the best as they provide continuous direct current. AC adaptor converts alternating current into direct and that produces some nosie. When used with an otionap USB power cable, the amplifier starts picking up all the internal static of the computer and the noise lever becomes intolerable.
The battery lasts 4 hours, as declared. The green power light on the device starts flickering when the juice is about run out. The shutdown is not imminent. First the screen flickers, then after about 10 minutes shuts down, which gives enough time to shut down the computer, or whatever the output device might be.
The quality could've been better, but for the price the gadget, I wouldn't expect anything more. Lots of room for improvement. Good value. Nice competitive product, which is, essentially a toy.
In a time when everything comes with a display of such kind, I can hardly imagine a situation where a person would have a device capable of generating a signal and not being able to output it.
For "on the road" movie experience I would recomend a portable DVD player or a laptop.
So what is the device best suitted for? Showing off! Isn't it obvious?!
"If you doubt they are shipping, why don't you go to the Icuiti site, put a V920 in your basket and give them your credit card number. The website says nothing about a 3-week delay as you claim.
Or, go to the SkyMall site where they are also selling the V920. "
I tried to buy a V920 on 05/03/2005 and this is the email I got when I ordered it.
"Thank you for your recent order for one of our new and exciting products.
product to you as soon as possible.
Again thank you for interest in our products.
I guess I should have bought it from skymall.
Why would anyone buy this toy when you could buy the Z800 3d HMD from eMagin? The Z800 offers: 1. uses OLED displays with true stereo 3D, 800x3x600 resolution, 1.6 million pix, and a 105-inch virtual screen at 12 feet, 2. has a built-in head-tracker, 3. has a 40-degree diagonal field-of-view, 360-degree horitontal if you include head-tracking 4. has a 200-to-1 contrast ratio and is flicker-free, 5. has excellent built-in stereo sound and noise-cancelling microphone, 6. runs completely off of USB power.
For the $899 price, you can't beat the Z800. Nothing even comes close. The Z800 is a SERIOUS piece of equipment, not an expensive TOY like the V920.
I would say I like V920 better. See, it is not fully developed product. But it seemed to me that the improvements are ongoing. I like its small size; it doesnt have to look fancy. in broader evaluation, v920 is better for the price you pay. I think eventually they will make the product much better in near future. I do researches as well in other fields; the progress goes just like that!
"Why would anyone buy this toy when you could buy the Z800 3d HMD from eMagin?"
That's a tough question to answer, since you CAN'T by the Z800. You can pay for it, I suppose, but does that really count? According the web site it won't be for 30-60 days.
"Nothing even comes close" is quite an exaggeration.
105" @ 12' is 17" @ 2 feet. The Icuiti review says it's a little smaller than 17" at 2 feet.
The Icuiti reviewer estimates 300:1 contrast, eMagin claims "> 200:1"
eMagin has the head tracker, Icuity does not.
And the eMagin costs about double what the Icuiti costs ($900 vs $500). For the price... only you can decide whether it's worth it.
But neither one of them is currently shipping. Maybe Icuiti should get bonus points in that department though, as they have shipped at least one unit so far (to the reviewer above).
why do people keep saying Icuiti is not shipping the V920? I have one, and I had no problem getting it.
I noticed the review in January, must have been one of the first units off the line. The headphones are not fixed, they are flexable, you can bend them to any shape, and they sound better than any in-the-ear ear buds that I have.
Also, there is no buzz or static of any sort in the audio.
I have going through 3 units to get one that worked properly. They are junk 640x480 in 2005? Sad.
Why would 640x480 in 3D be bad?, maybe brand new games but go try glquake or darkmasters quake work. I still use in 640x480 with shutter glasses and it's still cool. If you could get your hands on a V8 which is still being sold for $10,000 im sure you wouldn't mind. Why is it though they use 920,000 and seem to get a 60 FOV?
The real glasses supporting 1024 x 768 wont be out until the middle of next year. Both models are only sport a 26' fov. My money is on the emagin glasses which are 1024 and fov of 40'. I only wish they had the design and ergonomics of the icuits.


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Australorp – (Black)
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The Australorp is a chicken breed of Australian origin, developed as utility breed with a focus on egg laying. It achieved world wide popularity in the 1920s after the breed broke numerous world records for number of eggs laid and has been a popular breed in the western world since. It is considered the honorary National Chicken Breed of Australia, and The most popular colour of the breed is black, which is the only colour recognised in the United States of America, but blue and white are also recognised in its home country and the Poultry Club South Africa recognises buff, splash, wheaten laced and golden in addition.
The original stock used in the development of the Australorp was imported to Australia from England out of the Black Orpington yards of William Cook and Joseph Partington in the period from 1890 to the early 1900s with Rhode Island Red. Local breeders used this stock together with judicious out-crossings of Minorca, White Leghorn and Langshan blood to improve the utility features of the imported Orpingtons. There is even a report of some Plymouth Rock blood also being used. The emphasis of the early breeders was on utility features. At this time, the resulting birds were known as Australian Black Orpingtons (Austral-orp).
The origin of the name "Australorp" seems to be shrouded in as much controversy as the attempts to obtain agreement between the States over a suitable national Standard. The earliest claim to the name was made by one of poultry fancy's institutions, Wiliam Wallace Scott, before the First World War. From 1925 Wal Scott set to work to have Australorp recognized as a breed with the Poultry Society as he developed the breed. Equally as persuasive a claim came in 1919 from Arthur Harwood who suggested that the "Australian Laying Orpingtons" be named "Australs". The letters "orp" were suggested as a suffix to denote the major breed in the fowl's development. A further overseas claim to the name came from Britain's W. Powell-Owen who drafted the British Standard for the breed in 1921 following the importation of the "Australian Utility Black Orpingtons." It is certain that the name "Australorp" was being used in the early 1920s when the breed was launched internationally. In 1929, the Australorp was admitted to the Standard of Perfection.
Colours and varieties
The Australorp, like many breeds of chicken, comes in both bantam and standard size and multiple colours.
The Australorp currently has three recognised colours according to the Australian Poultry Standard; black, white and blue. White Australorps have been recorded since 1949 but they were only recognised in the 2nd Edition of the Australian Poultry Standards in 2011. South Africa recognises further colours; buff, splash, wheaten laced and golden.
It was the egg laying performance of Australorps that attracted world attention when in 1922-23 a team of six hens set a world record by laying 1,857 eggs for an average of 309.5 eggs per hen during a 365 consecutive day trial. It must be remembered that these figures were achieved without the lighting regimes of the modern intensive shed. Such performances had importation orders flooding in from England, United States of America, South Africa, Canada and Mexico. Well looked after Australorps lay approximately 250 light-brown eggs per year. A new record was set when a hen laid 364 eggs in 365 days. They are also known to be good nest sitters and mothers, making them one of the most exceptional large, heritage utility breeds of chicken.


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This cracking grass is happiest in a lightly shaded spot (ideally where it gets morning sun, but shade during the hottest part of the afternoon) where its golden foliage will really shine. It does tolerate sunnier conditions, but the foliage colour is less luminous, turning a more lime green in full sun. One of the best for forming low groundcover, it looks great planted in big numbers, as well as softening the edges of a pathway or border. It also works really well when potted up on the patio.
Garden care: Incorporate lots of well-rotted garden compost into the planting hold. Leave flower heads to dry out through the winter, adding valuable texture to plantings. Apply a light mulch (3cm) of well-rotted garden compost after cutting back old foliage and before new growth emerges in spring.
Hello, The best time to move it would be while it is dormant - so from late autumn to early spring.
Can I plant Hakonechloa in the Autumn or is it best to leave until Spring?
Hello, This grass is fully hardy, so it can be planted now. I would only wait until the spring if your soil stays very heavy and wet in the winter.


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Lottery Grand Prize: Musou Harem Rights – Chapter 22
Chapter 22: Enter a Faith
「Damn! If it was like this, I will go collect more and more lottery tickets!!」
The man made a frustrating expression, and ran out of the lottery room.
More and more he said……That means he'd collect more that 100 pieces right.
……What does he do to collect that many? How did he even collect 100 pieces?
Just as I've thought, I should ask him the next time I meet him.
「This will be the fourth prize, it is a 50% OFF card」
What the staff took out was a golden card.
Well literally looks like a credit card's gold card, but when I touch it, its texture was strange.
「If you go shopping and show this while paying, everything will be 50% OFF. You can use it as long as you want, but be careful because you can only use it on humans」
「The same with the feather huh. I got it」
I put away the 50% OFF card.
The remaining 10 turns were drawn by Eleanor, but they were all Magic Balls.
After being able to go shopping with 50% OFF, there is one thing that I have to test.
It's how much do I need to spend in shopping to get lottery tickets.
It was 1 piece per 300 coins before.
With 50% OFF, I want to test if it would be 1 piece for every 150 coins.
I had no more money because I used everything before at once, so I want to earn 300 coins.
If you ask me why 300 coins, it was because it wouldn't be wasteful if I got 2 pieces on a 300 coins shopping. If my idea was wrong, I would have wasted each piece in a 150 coins shopping.
Thinking of that, from the mansion that I went back from the lottery room, I moved to the grasslands where mountain cows were at.
I was called by a voice. It was Io.
Io was on her usual magician-like look, and stood beside me.
「A-Are you going out today」
「Yeah, I'm going to hunt mountain cows……Do you want to come?」
I remembered that Io and I were in the same party, so I invited her.
She nodded with a splendid smile. I see, that's why she came.
「Then let's go, come near me」
「Eh? Yes……」
Io was making a strange face, but still came near me.
I took out the Warp Feather, and went to the grasslands of mountain cows.
「……Eeeeeeeeeeh」
She was surprised in a grand scale. As I've expected.
「Where is this? We were inside the town right」
「This is the grasslands where mountain cows appear. We jumped here with magic at once」
It was an item, but I told her it was magic.
「Jumped……That kind of magic, I have never heard of it」
「It's a magic that I can only use」
「Amazing……Being able to use such magic」
「I could only jump to places I've been before though」
「It's amazing even like that!!」
I searched for mountain cows together with Io who was deeply impressed.
Come to think of it, what should we do after entering a party.
「What can Io do?」
「I can use Attack Magic. My best magic is Lighting Magic. It takes time for it to activate, so I would be probably causing you trouble」
「Ahh, the time that the vanguard needs to endure right? Does it correspondingly increase its power?」
「It's power is only that of normal magic, but it's lightning, so I can attack while ignoring the enemy's defences」
「Well it's electricity huh」
I was thinking "I see". Lightning Magic huh, so I can use it, I should ask her to shoot at me.
In this world, there is the possibility to be able to learn magic by getting hit by it.
While we were chatting, we finally saw a mountain cow.
「Yosh, 100 coins for start」
I pulled out Eleanor……But, the mountain cow was strange.
After seeing me it backed off, just like that it turned around, and ran away.
I was puzzled. Did it run away?
I recovered my attention, used the Warp Feather to go after it, and kill the mountain cow.
「What was happening? Right now……」
I mumbled while looking the mountain cow that I defeated.
From my experience until now, I think that this is a species that doesn't know how to run away.
With its ferocity, although it was a mountain "cow", it's personality was that of a charging boar.
That's why I was surprised when it ran away.
While doing that, Io has caught up.
「Amazing……It was the first time I saw a mountain cow run away」
「I was also surprised. Well then, let's go exchange this with money huh」
Using the Warp Feather, together with Io and the mountain cow we moved to Andreu Merchant Company.
Handing over the mountain cow to Andreu who was more and more polite to me, in exchange, I took a bag with the money.
Leaving from the entrance, I joined with Io.
「Kakeru-sama」
I was called when I was thinking "Let's go then".
When I turned around, Helene was there.
Helene who wasn't wearing a princess' dress, but clothes that are light, and made a ponytail with her long hair.
Honestly, her atmosphere was very different. It was something of a disguise.
「Helene huh. What happened with that look」
「I wanted to meet Kakeru-sama, so I sneaked out a little」
「I see.……un」
I stared at Helene intently.
Her princess look was beautiful and pretty, but her appearance right now was also very good.
Combined with her elegance there was also vigor within it and that looked very beautiful.
……Honestly, I was mesmerized with her appearance.
「D-Does it looks strange. It is the first time I wear something like this, so I really do not know……」
I pulled Helene's hand when she was looking down, and softly embraced her.
「It's not strange, it looks good」
Helene was blushing inside my arms. I was almost mesmerized by her again.
「We're going on a little hunt, does Helene want to come too」
「I will come with you」
Helene answered promptly.
When I looked towards Io, she was speechless.
「Io? What happened?」
「K-Kakeru-san. Isn't that person……Helene-sama?」
「Are you like that with Helene-sama……」
「Well, it is like that」
When I answered, Io was surprised more and more.
Helene also was blushing more and more.
「With a princess……Kakeru-san is amazing……」
「Yes. Kakeru-sama is an amazing person. Because while he holds Demon Sword Eleanor, his heart wasn't swallowed, and is using it to all its potential. As far as I know, he is the only one in history to do that feat」
「Eh?! Eleanor?」
Io was surprised.
「Un, this」
I pulled out Eleanor.
『Do not call me "this"』
Eleanor was saying something, but lightly ignored her.
「Eeeeeeeeeh」
Io shouted with a loud voice and was surprised in a grand scale.
It took the attention of everyone nearby, so I made he shut her mouth in a hurry.
「T-That sword, was it Eleanor?!!」
「Yeah, that's right」
……Was this such an amazing sword.
「Eleanor. Appearing in the history a lot of times, leading the Undead Army it was the Legendary Demon Sword that ruined a few empires. In exchange for power, it was being said that it destroys all of its wielder's heart without exception」
「There was no longer an Army, though if it's a ghost」
I summoned Tanya through Eleanor.
「Hello, I'm Tanya Chiakis you know」
The face of the maid ghost that was transparent appeared in front of the two.
We are on public eyes so I returned her quickly though.
「Amazingly strong……in that kind of relationship with a princess……uses the Demon Sword normally, without being possessed……Amazing!! Kakeru-san is amazingly amazing!!!」
Io used that word consecutively. Amazingly amazing she said, I felt that she was on the verge of collapsing her words.
『She looks like she's on a roll, that she had strange faith, to enter some kind of a cult』
Eleanor was giggling in my head.
It somehow seemed like it would really come to reality, she had that momentum within her right now.
I don't feel bad about it though.
Chapter 21 <-> Chapter 23
8 comments on "Lottery Grand Prize: Musou Harem Rights – Chapter 22"
devilscarlet says:
I wish he would have stayed with only Helena, she is so cute… More harem member mean less screen-time for the existing one…
Well thanks for the chapter!
Mesmerised says:
overpalada says:
sfcipher says:
Instead of " she's on a momentum", I believed it maybe more appropriate to use the phrase "she's on a roll".
Agung Trianto says:
Terima kasih~
CvkHawk1547 says:
Thanks for doing this chapter!😋


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Enrique Vinicio Carrera
2020–2022 Distinguished Speaker
Enrique V. Carrera (SM'07) received his BE degree in electronic engineering (1992) from the Ecuadorian Armed Forces University – ESPE, Ecuador, and his MS degree in electrical engineering (1996) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 1999, he received his PhD in computer engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a visiting scholar in 1999 at the University of Rochester, USA. From 2000 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, USA. He was also associate professor at University San Francisco of Quito, Ecuador, from 2004 to 2011. Since 2011, he is full professor at the Ecuadorian Armed Forces University — ESPE, Ecuador. Dr. Carrera has participated in approximately 20 founded research projects and has more than 80 publications in recognized journals and conferences. His main research areas are Signal Processing and Computational Intelligence.
Email: evcarrera@espe.edu.ec
Machine Learning Techniques for Radar Target Detection
Radar target detection is a process that requires the reception, processing and analysis of radio-frequency signals reflected over long distances. This process must comply with several high-performance parameters to guarantee response capacity to threats in the environment. Current systems base their operation on algorithms that have poor performance when operating with a low SNR (signal to noise ratio), a situation that is common when analyzing distant targets in uncontrolled environments. However, the improvement in machine learning algorithms has led to supervised training systems that reflect better results as classifiers. Therefore, this talk presents the problem of radar target detection and classic detection algorithms. After that, comparisons between a classic Bayesian algorithm (AR LMS MEAN) and machine learning algorithms, specifically Random Forest and LSTM Neural Networks (Deep Learning) are presented. The results show that machine learning greatly improves the detection of radar targets for lower levels of SNR.
Nature-inspired Optimization Algorithms Applied to Control Systems
In the design of control systems, the adjustment of controller parameters plays a fundamental role in the performance of the transient and steady-state regimes. From this perspective, the tuning of controller parameters has been carried out using several methods and tools, but recently, meta-heuristic algorithms have improved the tuning procedures to guarantee the operation and stability of the systems. Thus, optimization algorithms that mimic the evolution of self-organizing biological systems, also called nature-inspired algorithms, have gained high relevance due to their great potential for solving optimization problems. In particular, this talk presents the application of the Cuckoo search algorithm to adjust the controller parameters in three different case studies: (i) the tuning of proportional-integral-derivative controller parameters of a temperature plant, (ii) the fuzzy logic controller parameter tuning of a nonlinear magnetic levitation system, and (iii) the fuzzy logic controller optimization of the energy management system of a residential microgrid. Simulation results are provided to highlight and compare the features of the optimized controllers for the three cases and compared against other traditional techniques.
Signal Processing for Machine Learning
Machine learning is a powerful tool for solving complex modeling problems in a wide range of applications. The benefits of these techniques are being achieved in implementations everywhere, including predictive maintenance, health monitoring, video surveillance and advanced control systems. However, developing predictive models using machine learning for signals obtained from sensors is not a trivial task. In addition, there is a growing need for developing smart sensor signal processing algorithms, which can be deployed either on edge nodes, embedded devices or even on the cloud. Therefore, this talk presents several signal pre-processing techniques, automatic feature extraction algorithms, and the usage of traditional machine learning algorithms, as well as deep learning algorithms for classifying signals and building predictive models. Results for several case studies are presented, including classification of seismic waveforms, radar target detection, epileptic seizure prediction and disease diagnosis based on images.


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Taboo Food
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Saturday, October 12th, 2019 #61
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18 year old Pia Olden became famous over night when she ate her past horse
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- I work as a cook out on the sea and luckily have bad reception. In that way I'm living a bit isolated, says Pia Olden (18) from Bjugn in Trøndelag.
Olden explains that she's been forced to turn off her mobile phone since monday because she didn't have the time for all the hate-messages. The messages came after she posted a picture of her past horse, Drifting Speed, as a meal on Facebook last week, and Norwegian media wrote about her.
- People tell me to go hang myself, and that I should lose the right to have animals and children, says the 18 year old who've never before been a "celebrity".
Olden is unsure about how this happened, but suddenly the case escalated to international media like Daily Mail and New York Post.
- It turned out the be an unintended PR-stunt, she says.
Despite the death-threats from all over the World, she doesn't regret eating her horse, who had to be put down because of an incurable injury.
- In today's society, there is a lot of talk about living sustainably and making use of the resources, Olden says.
She explains that she tries to do just that - and even still it is something wrong in some people's eyes.
- But I have no regrets, says Olden.
- Why do you believe people react like this?
- It is a controversial thing to do. I think it's very taboo to eat one's own horse. But on Iceland, for example, it is completely normal to eat one's horses, except that one exchange one's own horse with somebody else's, says Olden.
Translated from Norwegian article: https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/..._content=row-2
Death threats for that are over the top crazy but that's still messed up - if I lived in a small town and I knew someone did this, I would give them a very wide birth basically forever. You don't eat things you have had a relationship with unless you're starving, it's like it was just fodder to her and not her partner in competitions. To me, this is a serious behavioral read flag, like what the hell else is this person capable of if they're willing to trangress that boundary?
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Originally Posted by Coillearnach
I suppose it depends on nature of the relationship. If one is settled on the idea that the animal is going to be food once it dies, already in the establishing phase of the relationship, I don't think there's anything objectionable about eaten it/her/him oneself. But then again, the relationship would be colored by this fact from beginning to end, anyway, and not really comparable to the relationship the average person has to his or her dog or cat, for instance.
I've eaten pigs who've been raised on a farm I worked at. Some times feeding them and cuddling them, and even sleeping together with them once. I was always aware of their destiny, though, that they would ultimately be turned into sausages in the not-so-distant future. The fact that they were treated with kindness and sympathy during their lifetime, didn't make eating them feel any more 'messed up' than it would have felt if they were merely treated as a piece of meat during life as well as in death. In fact, it felt much more comfortable, knowing that they had led a great life. In contrast to the mass-produced meat from animals kept under horrendous conditions in factory farms.
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My dad was raised on his family farm that was located in Southern Ohio. He told me he and his three brothers had to contend with their emotional attachment to the livestock they raised for eventual slaughter.
However, he informed me that horses and mules were properly respected solely as beasts of burden, and never used for food by normal folk that he knew of.
Feelings are a necessary part of life. But we have to learn to temper them with logic.
As for the context of this topic, the girl who ate her horse attained the wrong kind of noteriety as far as I'm concerned. I think she is a mentally deranged attention seeker(Another version of Greta Thunberg, and the feminist dweebs who recomend physically emasculating men.) who needs to be institutionalized before she can move on to devouring human flesh for even more publicity.
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As for the context of this topic, the girl who ate her horse attained the wrong kind of noteriety as far as I'm concerned. I think she is a mentally deranged attention seeker (Another version of Greta Thunberg, and the feminist dweebs who recomend physically emasculating men.) who needs to be institutionalized before she can move on to devouring human flesh for even more publicity.
Are you for real? She posted a picture of it on her Facebook... Hardly like she was shoving it in anybody's face.
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Eating horses, dogs, cats, and monkeys is just plain disgusting.
Not all in life is at it appears to be.
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Normally, I stay away from eating anything too "taboo", I guess mostly due to habit and culture, not sure what I would do in a survival situation though. I've read of a case of cannibalism that resulted from a plain crash in the Andes. During such times people might resort to extreme measures.
Regarding the Norwegian teenager who ate her horse, far as I've read, the horse had to be put down due to illness, so it was not a clear cut case of her intending to use the horse for food from the very beginning. Not that this would make it necessarily taboo, a lot of children who grow up on farms bond with farm animals which are grown specifically for that purpose. I remember that I myself bonded with a hen and didn't want to eat any fried chicken or chicken soup afterwards. On the other hand, if it had died by natural causes, maybe I'd have felt different. Perhaps another way of seeing it is that she wanted to honor her animal friend by making use of its meat and not letting it go to waste/rot in the ground. Maybe she feels like the horse is now "part of her". Strangely enough, this is how some cannibals motivated their actions from an emotional/spiritual angle. It was not uncommon for people to want to preserve or carry a part of their dead loved ones with them. Bracelets and jewelry made out of hair used to be common, nowadays a more extravagant version would be turning the ashes into a diamond. Some people would taxidermy their best animal friends or turn their fur or hide into clothing.
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I could never eat animal to which I have/share feelings/emotional connection.
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People are increasingly losing any sense of proportionality when it comes to animals. While it's certainly a little weird to eat one's "pet" (as far as a horse is a pet) and posting it on facebook (which I find more weird than to eat it), how does this justify wishing death upon some girl? It's the same when it comes to whaling in the Faeroe islands. People get all worked up and then come up with "solutions" like "why don't they just buy their (factory farm) meat in the supermarket like everyone else? Monsters!".
It's not even like she killed it for that purpose but let it be puth to death because it was ill.
If most of these people were full-blown vegans, it wouldn't be so hypocritical at least. But mostly they themselves, as Thor fittingly said buy "mass-produced meat from animals kept under horrendous conditions in factory farms". What this girl did was at least sustainable.
People are also simply becoming totally disassociated from where their meat comes from. For my grandparents generation it was still totally normal to slaughter livestock themselves, your November's pet bunny became your Christmas roast. It's fairly irrelevant that it's a horse, there is no logical reason that it should be any different from eating any other animal, apart from it being an inherited taboo in some countries (in Germany, for example, this used to be totally normal up to the 20th century and still is no taboo, though uncommon).
Could you please translate what she said here, Thor?
First you write: "Feelings are a necessary part of life. But we have to learn to temper them with logic." but then: "before she can move on to devouring human flesh for even more publicity."
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What do they know of Europe, Who only Europe know?
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Horse meat tastes okay, actually.
I wouldn't buy any but I once ate some (by mistake) when in France.
Originally Posted by Juthunge
"Friday's dinner, the proper way, at Olden tonight. We received important visitors, so then the best meat we had to offer was served. Outer and inner filets of my own Drifting Speed, which we unfortunately had to slaughter in 2018, could finally be dug out from the freezer. And what a tender and tasty meat!
A little bit weird to eat one's own horse, but my cook's heart said that I had to do it. "If I'm going to eat horse meat, it has to be my own" I said jokingly, and when Drifting was put down, we placed a return order on her meat. I was with her till "the final end" on the slaughterhouse, knowing that she lived a good life, free from medicines/drugs and junk. The meat was not eaten with a bad conscience, to put it that way.
Misunderstand me correctly - I loved that horse, even though I made a meal with her meat."
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Edinburgh International Festival ordered to improve diversity in its programming
The Edinburgh International Festival has been ordered to ensure greater diversity in its programming by the Scottish Government in the wake of claims that women, disabled acts and artists of colour were overlooked in this year's online programme.
Saturday, 3rd October 2020, 7:00 am
Soraya Mafi and Jonathan McGovern appeared in Scottish Opera's production of The Telephone, which was filmed at the King's Theatre. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic
The event is to be closely monitored in future to ensure it makes improvements and meets official "obligations" on equality, diversity and inclusion.
The government has revealed that the festivals has "accepted" there were a lack of "female artists, artists with disabilities and artists from non-white backgrounds in the online programme, which was announced in early August.
The festival, which receives more than £4.5 million from the government and the city council each year, has apologised for the make-up of this year's programme after being targeted in an online petition.
Stina Tweeddale, who performs as Honeyblood, was filmed at Leith Theatre for this year's online programme. Picture: Ryan Buchanan
Formal complaints were also made to culture secretary Fiona Hyslop and Iain Munro, chief executive of the government's arts quango, Creative Scotland. They were urged to take steps to "ensure positive change happens and that this organisation is held accountable for their unethical working and programming."
Campaigners claim the festival failed to respond to the Black Lives Matter movement with a line-up of artists who were "almost 90 per cent white."
The number of male performers in the programme were said to be double the number of women, while disabled artists were said to be overlooked completely.
Organisers admitted they had failed to "reflect the diversity of practice in
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Maris was a bishop of Chalcedon in the 4th century and a prominent backer of Arianism.

He is best known to history as an attendee present at the Council of Nicaea in 325. He was one of the Arian Bishops at that Council. He eventually signed the Nicean Creed with the other Arian supporters, Zopyrus of Barca, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea. He was exiled with the other three Arian bishops.

He is also notable for confronting the anti-Christian emperor Julian the Apostate in 362 after going blind - in reply to Julian telling him: "Thy Galilean God will not heal thy sight." He replied: "I thank God for depriving me of the power of beholding thy face."

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Jetski is een attractietype dat voorkomt in attractieparken. De Jetski-attractie bestaat uit een rond platform dat zich in het water bevindt. Aan het ronde platform bevinden zich smalle boten (die op waterscooters lijken) waarin plaats is voor 1 á 2 personen. Tijdens de rit draait het platform in de rondte, waarbij de personen in een boot de mogelijkheid heeft om zich van het platform af te laten schieten. Dit veroorzaakt een 'splash' en geeft G-krachten op de persoon in de boot. De boot wordt vervolgens naar het platform toegetrokken, waarna de actie herhaald kan worden.

De waterattractie wordt geproduceerd door fabrikant Zierer.

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The show would be hosted by Tom, Georgie & Deb. Tom would be officially co-host but will do the news like now as well as anchoring segments. TJ would be sports editor, hosting a "Sports Chat" segment every Monday & Friday, as well as being crossed to live for big stories. But everyday sports updates are Tom.
The three of them would do the first 2-3 Top Stories, before Tom looks at what else is making news.
Still coming up with ways to expand it, but this is where I'm at. Criticism welcome!
The T makes me think of the Sydney trains signage for trains.
Being in Perth i've never seen that before but yeah your right.
What about for Stevie, Brooke and Dickie?
They would keep their current roles basically.
I think Sunrise graphics done in the NBC Today style is also a good idea.
ABC and Nine aren't affiliates anymore, so that is highly unlikely to happen. In sating that, I like the concept. I know 2D graphics are trendy, but personally, I think glossy looks better.
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Philadelphia Had a Violent 2020 and is Witnessing Rising Homicide Numbers
Urban Centers Across America are Becoming Dysfunctional
Jose Nino
Philadelphia has had a rough 2020 as far as homicides were concerned. According to a report by Chris Palmer of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the annual total for homicides in the city was almost 500. Similar scenarios have taken place across American largely due to unrest from the Wuhan virus pandemic and many cities' decisions to implement lax policies to fight crime.
Philadelphia's homicide count as of December 31, 2020, stood at 499. This number is 40 percent higher than in 2019 and represents a greater total of homicides recorded than the years of 2013 and 2014 combined. The last time more people were murdered was during 1990, when law enforcement reported 500 homicides. This number took place against the background of the crack-cocaine epidemic.
The increase in shootings was even more significant. Over 2,240 people were victims of shootings from January 1 to December 31 of last year. Law enforcement were quick to blame the increase of firearms in circulation. In 2020, there were 2,300 arrests related to illegal firearm possession, which is double the number from 2015.
Palmer outlined how Philadelphia's current crime problem is not an isolated development. It's a national trend:
Philadelphia is far from alone in experiencing a homicide spike. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington are among the urban centers recording a surge in violence.
The Council on Criminal Justice, a D.C.-based research group, found that homicides in 21 American cities were up 32% between March and October compared with 2019. And some analysts believe 2020 could record the largest-ever single-year increase in murders in the United States.
Since the rise of "the Ferguson effect" following the death of Michael Brown in a confrontation with the police in Ferguson, Missouri, police have become more hesitant to use more proactive methods in stopping crime. Combined with a growing push for gun control across the nation, many lawful citizens simply have little recourse to defend themselves against criminals. Hence, the surge in crime.
Something will eventually have to give. Criminal activity can only go on for so long until there is a heavy-handed reaction.
Career Criminal Killed Two Siblings in Stolen Car Crash…He was Free Despite 18 Prior Felony Convictions
This is what liberal criminal justice reform creates.
Orlando, Fla. resident Reginald Lamar Harris, 47, is behind bars yet again after speeding on the wrong side of the road after allegedly stealing a car and killing two siblings while being chased by law enforcement.
Harris has quite the extensive rap sheet, which includes 18 felony convictions, 20 misdemeanor convictions, and eight prison sentences, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. Still, he was allowed back on the streets despite his history of recidivism, and two innocent people are now dead as a result.
"I mean, the bottom line is (he was a) career criminal. He murdered two people. Those kids were murdered. It's no different than if he took a gun and put it to their heads, what he did to those kids," Chitwood said.
Harris was believed to have been driving in excess of 100 miles per hour during the time of the crash. 21-year-old Domynick Milis, and his 18-year-old sister, Danycka Milis, were killed in the crash. Kyley Larsen, 17, and Drake Milis, 13, were in the back seat and injured in the crash but are expected to survive. The survivors have created a GoFundMe which has already raised almost $150,000.
Big League Politics has reported on the explosion of crime across the country as liberal criminal justice reform allows dangerous thugs back onto the streets:
A 21-year old man with two convictions for violent crimes as a juvenile has been arrested in the shooting homicide of a Nashville, Tennessee nurse. 26-year Caitlyn Kaufman was shot and killed as she was driving to work at St. Thomas West Hospital in Nashville in I-440 on December 3rd, with local law enforcement launching an extensive investigation to apprehend a suspect afterwards.
An anonymous tip led Metropolitan Nashville Police to arrest 21-year old Devaunte Hill at an apartment complex on Friday. He's being charged with criminal homicide in the death of Kaufman.
NMPD Chief John Drake announced in a press conference that 21-year old Hill had implicated himself in the highway shooting death of Kaufman in an interview with detectives following his arrest. Ballistic testing also allegedly matches rounds fired in the shooting with a 9mm handgun in Hill's possession. A motive in the shooting is still unclear, with the investigation indicating that six rounds were fired at Kaufman's vehicle from the corner of the road…
Shockingly, Hill was originally charged with four counts of attempted homicide in his 2016 aggravated assault conviction, having shot his grandmother and his minor sister and nephews. Somehow, he was spared serious prison time after shooting three people, including two children.
Most recently, Hill was arrested as an adult on charges of charges of assault, driving without a license, failure to be booked and drug paraphernalia dating back to as recently as August.
Left-wing policies combined with a religious devotion to diversity and multiculturalism are a death sentence to Western Civilization. There will be more innocent people who suffer due to this agenda.


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Are We Genetically Similar To Bananas And Why Is This Important For Research In Disease?
'How related are humans to bananas' is one of the most commonly googled questions - and some answers say it is as high as 50%. How can this be, we hear you ask? Well, it's not exactly true. Here's why:
If we start with the human DNA sequence, only about 2% of our DNA is made up of genes, which code for proteins. 10-20% of DNA is made up of regulatory elements, which are parts of the genome that control how genes are switched on or off. Finally, the last 80-90% of DNA we have is unlikely to code for anything at all - it's basically junk. Back to the question on similarity between humans and bananas - overall, the vast majority of human DNA is very different to bananas. However, if you just look at the 2% of DNA corresponding to protein-coding genes, there is a pretty high degree of similarity between them; which is where the 50% comes from.
Are we genetically similar to plants then?
To put this question into perspective, we've got to understand that there is only one type of DNA and all creatures and plants on this planet have it. This DNA is made up of a combination of only four bases; adenine (A), thymine (T), cytosine (C), guanine (G). These bases code for amino acids which form proteins, so it's not surprising that all animals and plants have many of their genes in common.
Overall, there are a lot of similarities between all the living things on earth. For example, the way we respire or replicate DNA across species is almost universal and there are dozens of enzymes associated with this process alone. Each one of these enzymes is a protein and each protein is built from instructions encoded within DNA. If we compare DNA side-by-side between humans and any plant species, we find many overlapping segments encoding instructions for these essential proteins.
What about other animals?
We're much more similar to other animals than we are to plant species. That's because animals and plants diverged much earlier from basic microbial life on earth. According to the latest research, all life on Earth evolved from a single-celled organism that lived roughly 3.5 billion years ago.
A recent article in the New Scientist disclosed that the earliest ever animal fossil is a 660-million-year-old-sponge. Sponges were probably one of the earliest animal groups to evolve, followed by all the other ancestors of everything that exists on the earth today.
Huge changes in climate and environment, as well as natural disasters, have had a massive impact on the genetic information available on the planet and the creatures who inhabit it. For example, the earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years but about 66 million years ago, all nonavian variants suddenly disappeared. Why this happened is still a mystery but some mammals, birds, small reptiles, fish and amphibians did manage to survive. However, it's believed that a massive three-quarters of life on earth did not.
The birds we see today evolved from a group of meat-eating dinosaurs called theropods about 150 million years ago - which, surprisingly, is the same group that the T-rex belonged to! These ancient birds looked quite a lot like small, feathered dinosaurs and they had much in common. Their mouths still contained sharp teeth but over time, birds lost their teeth and evolved beaks. Even so, it's estimated that we share about 60% of our genes with some birds, including chickens.
The mass extinction of dinosaurs made room for mammals to take over the ground and eventually evolve into the large selection of animals we see today, including apes and humans. Now, our species shares 44% of our genes with fruit flies, 92% with mice and over 98% with chimpanzees!
Long distant historical relatives?
The first Neanderthal fossil was found in 1856 in the Feldhofer Cave of the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf, Germany. Since then, we've learned through carbon dating that Neanderthals lived in Eurasia 200,000 to 30,000 years ago.
Neanderthal's appearance was very similar to our own, which made classification of early findings difficult. However, there were a few key differences in their physiology compared to modern-day humans. Archaeological evidence and DNA analysis suggest that Neanderthals shared the Earth with other human species, including Homo-sapiens, and even interbred with us - making their classification and extinction timeline a little bit more challenging to define.
The theory that humans and Neanderthals interbred really caught fire when a 2010 study determined that Neanderthal DNA is 99.7 percent identical to modern human DNA. Researchers of the Neanderthal Genome Project found that 2.5 percent of an average non-African-descent human's genome is made up of Neanderthal DNA, whereas humans with most of their recent ancestors in Africa have little to no Neanderthal DNA. According to a 2012 study, this information supports the interbreeding hypothesis because it suggests that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens only interbred once the humans had moved out of Africa into Eurasia. On the other hand, if humans and Neanderthals didn't interbreed, these similarities in the genomes of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals could be because both groups share a common African ancestor.
And other humans?
You may have also heard that humans share 99.9% of DNA with one another and this one is actually true. If you cross-compared two people, they'd probably only be different in about 1 in every 1000 bases. The only bit of mistruth to this is that we also have some larger-scale differences. So, one person may be missing a chunk of DNA and another may have an extra bit somewhere else in their genome, etc. However, if we look at just single base changes, we are about 99.9% similar to other humans.
Why is this relevant to how we diagnose and treat disease?
As you might imagine, the DNA that is nearly identical between apes, mice, fruit flies, and even bananas serves a very important purpose. This DNA is called 'evolutionarily conserved' and these DNA are, on average, much more likely to cause disease when they are mutated. For example, the Dystrophin gene is the longest gene in the genome, and genetic changes to this gene can cause Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Becker Muscular Dystrophy. The amino acid sequence of the human Dystrophin gene is 91% identical to the sequence in mice.
Learning about this key type of DNA as well as understanding others we share cross-species is helping us to treat disorders and learn more about specific genes and what they influence. For example, The Vertebrate Genomes Project was set up specifically to further our understanding of genetics to aid conservation efforts as well as our fundamental understanding of biology, which could lead to better understanding or treatment of genetic disease. Projects like these will inevitably help shape the future of genetic research and hopefully provide answers for why many genetic conditions occur and how we can treat them better.
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With our freeze-now, serve-later dishes, you can give your family a comfy meal on even the busiest weeknight. Turkey kielbasa adds flavor and lean protein to this fragrant stew.
In 8-quart saucepot, heat 2 teaspoons oil on medium until hot. Add half of kielbasa and cook 4 to 5 minutes or until browned. Transfer to medium bowl. Repeat with remaining kielbasa and 2 teaspoons oil.
In same pot, heat remaining 2 teaspoons oil on medium. Add onion, carrots, and celery; cook 15 minutes or until vegetables are golden, stirring often. Stir in garlic; cook 1 minute.
Add water, broth, tomatoes, and lentils to pot; heat to boiling on high. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer, uncovered, 40 minutes or until lentils are tender. Stir in kielbasa; heat through. Spoon half of stew into serving bowls; garnish with celery leaves. Spoon remaining into freezer-safe containers (see Thawing and Reheating Tips).
Tip: Sort through dry lentils to remove any small stones or shriveled pieces, then rinse to remove any grit.
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Microwave oven: Heat, covered, on Low (30 percent) 10 minutes, stirring once or twice, then on High 10 to 15 minutes, stirring once.


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The seventh edition of the Javier Miñano Campus begins (01/07/2019)
The Javier Miñano Soccer Campus has started its march in this its seventh edition.
This is one of the most important base football sports projects in the Region of Murcia.
Each year it gathers more than 150 children from the different municipalities that make up the Northwest region, as well as from other points in the Region of Murcia and the Valencian Community.
The mayor of Cehegín, Alicia del Amor, accompanied by the councilors of the consistory, Jerónimo Moya, José Antonio Zafra and Juan Martínez, have made the inauguration that has also had the presence of the founder of this Campus, former physical coach of the Spanish National Team of Soccer, and Adoptive Son of the locality, Javier Miñano.
As explained, "the Campus works with the objective of educating through sports and instilling values such as respect, companionship or competitiveness." For this the Campus team, composed of coaches, instructors and assistants, works with the same enthusiasm and enthusiasm as the first time for the children to live an unforgettable experience. "
The Javier Miñano Campus was born as a family idea and it continues to be that way.
Currently has about 150 children.
This is why the campus works on the concept of family and its main objective is to inculcate values and educate through the example and practice of football.
The VI Campus Javier Miñano has the sponsorship of the City Council of Cehegín and the Department of Sports of the City Council of Cehegín.


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Q: Google Actions Builder and Google Assistant - Looking for @sys.any equivalent intent I have created a project for Google Assistant through Google Actions Builder (not the SDK). I successfully connect with my webhook (fulfilment), but find there is no intent similar to @sys.any as found in Dialogflow to allow any user response to be sent back to my webhook. Each time it triggers the NO_MATCH intent, then eventually ends the conversation.
I have designed my fulfilment robust to accommodate a range of answers, and want Actions on Google to keep sending ANY answer back to my fulfillment however I cant find an intent that allows ANY answer to trigger my webhook. Is there a simple intent (scene) to invoke each response?
Or is it a better direction to connect to Google Assistant to using Dialogflow, as I see Dialogflow uses @sys.any intents to capture any words for my fulfilment?

A: To be clear - @sys.any in Dialogflow is an Entity Type, not an Intent.
While you can make a Dialogflow Intent that uses @sys.any by itself, you usually shouldn't - using a Context-limited Fallback Intent is a better way to handle that.
Actions Builder has a similar concept, although not identical.
While there is no built-in @sys.any Type, you can create your own Type that works exactly the same way:

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*In the left navigation, expand the Types section and click on the + icon at the bottom of the expanded area.

*Give it a name - I tend to use "Any".

*In the Type definition, select the "Free form text" option.

You can now create Intents or Slots that use this "Any" Type.

A: Thanks Prisoner for pointing me in the right direction.  The Free form text Type did the trick once I assigned to an intent and then scene.
My information to then assign to an intent was tricky and also used this a good resource:  https://support.google.com/actions-console/answer/9802296?hl=en
After creating the "Any" type, I then created an intent called "UserProvidesAnything" and added the "Any" type as a slot. I added a training phrase such as: blah blah blah (any text really) and assigned my "Any" free form type to this phrase.
The "UserProvidesAnything" Intent was added to a Scene's Custom Intent Handling and my webhook is successfully called. Each webhook response re-activates this Scene and any text is passed back.  Thanking you

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