RJD Partners, the UK private equity investor with funds totalling over £250 million, has undergone a management buyout of Burgess Marine Limited, one of the largest independent providers of marine engineering services in the UK and responsible for the launch of Shemara in 2014. RJD has committed up to £11m to fund the buyout and provide funds for future national growth.
Dover-based Burgess has been run by Nicholas Warren since 2008, since the retirement of his father David. With RJD's support, Nicholas will take the business forward, supported by other members of the existing Burgess management team. The transaction represents an exit for David.
The company employs 130 people, with annual turnover in excess of £25m in the year to 31 March 2014.The company plans to enhance and expand its geographic footprint and service offering, both organically and through selective acquisition and Alex Hay, partner at RJD Partners, said, "We are delighted to have completed the investment in Burgess and we very much look forward to working with Nicholas and his team to further develop Burgess into the national leader in its field.
"RJD has a successful track record of being the first institutional investor within family businesses and we look forward to leveraging our experience in this area to support the company's exciting growth prospects".
Shemara (right) alongside military and commercial Burgess projects.


What a remarkable lens setup. I love it. Thanks for posting!
I want to add that your video is exceptionally well done.
Thanks, hopin' to get more c mounts soon.
Found myself with some play money and decided to buy this lens... and now it's just about one of my favorites. Granted, it's useless without ETC or for stills, it has ugly square bokeh, is the absolute inverse of parfocal, distorts images wildly at the wide end, can't really be called sharp, and is fiddly at best to focus and manipulate... but simply having a ridiculously fast wide-angle macro zoom lens? Definitely worth $100!
I added in a 2x extender to make it somewhat useable for stills or ETC-less, albeit two stops slower... which is still somewhat useable.
Here's a mildly dippy, far less polished example of the lens in real-world, uncontrolled, extremely rushed and unfacilitated use. Used nothing but this lens, and didn't grade the footage aside from some color correction for some fiercely YELLOW fluoro lights in a pavilion. Whee!
Also wanted to add that it took me all of 5 minutes to "modify" the lens to fit the c-mount adapter using a dremel tool on the plastic lens collar... I put some gaffer tape over the lens barrel ends to protect the glass, all worked out fine.
What a fun video Kevin. What is sad is that I just ordered a 8mm fisheye that at over twice the price that will be twice as slow!
Lens is cool. You clearly had a good time with it. Nice family. The baby gave me the evil eye. I'll have nightmares for a week.


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What Happened to Star Wars?
Date: January 9, 2020Author: James K. Wight 0 Comments
I've stated before that I've had a weird relationship with all things Star Wars. I grew up with the prequel trilogy and the first movie I saw in cinema was Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones … twice! I was seven, and didn't care about the dialogue, senate hearings, or whatever. But it'd sit through it for the spaceships, lightsaber fights, and the action.
Thankfully, there was plenty of merchandise, toys, and a Clone Wars TV series (which was honestly more adult than the live-action stuff). Only later did I see what the issues were. How the dialogue can be painful, and the story issues in this trilogy.
Remember though, the economy and consumer behaviour was vastly different back in 2002. There was no online media, there was no digital disruption, and – most importantly – Star Wars still had relevance. Perhaps it boils down to the story structure, but this episodes (flawed as they were) fundamentally fit into a larger narrative.
I remember Star Wars when it was this; commercials that sell cool toys … with absolutely no talk of space taxes.
I bring up reason. I never had nostalgia for the original trilogy. Sure, I watched them as I did with other classic blockbusters. But I never had that emotional connection with Luke, Han, and Leia.
I would also go on record saying I'm not a Star Wars fan. Which is admittedly weird as I know so much about its history – not so much the details about the storyworld, but more to do with the production and story structure. I think it's one of those things that needs to be studied if you're doing anything related to franchises, marketing, branding, film etc.
That's why the new trilogy is so weird to me. This is the first one not helmed by George Lucas, and naturally has a more corporate approach to it. The franchise was acquired as a strategic investment by Disney, rather than a personal story by Lucas.
Since then the trilogy has have very polarising responses. The most unanimously enjoyed is The Force Awakens but then you have Last Jedi greatly dividing the fan base, and now Rise of Skywalker which has now received a lot of criticism and fans re-evaluating the story engine.
Without further delay, here's my post-mortem of what happened with Disney's Star Wars trilogy.
Disney's Star Wars … What happened?
Back when it was first announced Disney would be acquiring Star Wars and producing their new trilogy many welcomed the idea. The prequels were so different to the original films that anything new would be welcomed.
But that wasn't the case. Instead we had a flawed execution going in to create a flawed story engine. Each film can be broken down into the boxes it ticks.
Force Awakens: Re-introduce Franchise
Last Jedi: Expand Universe and Characters
Rise of Skywalker: Damage control
There never felt like there was a consistent plan. This is made most apparent with Last Jedi that rejected much of what made Star Wars popular, angering the fanbase.
But the biggest issue boils down to a lack of vision. Instead the overdependence on nostalgia robs this trilogy from feeling unique in the complete story. It is impossible to enjoy this trilogy's story and aesthetics without constantly being reminded of the original films.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker teaser – drawing upon the nostalgia of the original trilogy
Compare this to the prequels. The spaceships, droids, and worlds were entirely new. They've been argued as being too reliant on CGI but I think that actually works given the subject matter – watching a clinical, almost utopian society devolve to the level of grit and realism of the original trilogy.
Moreover, it gives the prequels their own place in the story and established a world that could be developed and expanded in other mediums; namely animation and television. This current trilogy doesn't even have that and everything feels so old.
Rise of Skywalker is simply a microcosm of these issues, with Rey's heritage is defined as a Palpatine, Kylo Ren's sudden redemption arc, and Finn and Poe destroying a bunch of planet destroyers. There was nothing challenging about this film, and the term "fanfic" has been used to describe it.
Most evident for me is the fundamental difference between Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker: the difference between "Let the past die; kill it if you have to." and "Nobody's ever really gone." That dissonance
The Fallout …
Star Wars hasn't been doing well as of late. Firstly, it failed to resonate with the Chinese audience – the largest film market in the world. Secondly, it's struggled with its merchandising; with a plummet in sales following Last Jedi, and now Rise of Skywalker has seen an 81% drop in its second weekend – it just hasn't "clicked" the way previous films did.
This is why vision and direction is important. Even with the issues the prequels had, there was still a clear premise – following the journey of Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader and seeing how a democratic senate devolves into a totalitarian empire. Flawed execution, but the plot was there and successfully explored in spinoff material and TV series.
As for this trilogy … I can't really say what it was about. A villain just appears and the character's choices and struggles are then rewritten – Kylo Ren sought to forge his own identity after destroying his helmet, before painstakingly gluing it back together for this film. Rey was never a nobody, and her identity is intrinsically linked to established characters.
Even actor John Boyega tweeted about the ludicrousness of Kylo and Ren getting together on Twitter, with further reports saying that J. J. Abrams wasn't satisfied with the conclusion due to studio meddling – and it does feel like there was a massive push to create a serviceable product to please everybody.
Ultimately, there wasn't focus, there wasn't a vision, and that's why it didn't win people over.
Future of the Franchise
One of my favourite online reviewers described kids playing Star Wars like playing "Cowboys and Indians," – just so outdated. It's now 2020 and younger audiences crave a more meaningful relationship than just going out to buy toys and games.
Lucas successfully drew upon Eastern Samurai films and Western cowboy films, merged with a love of Science Fiction. He built a world with a unique religion, mythos, culture, aesthetics, everything. It's truly amazing and he should be commended for it.
The Mandalorian is something that I can't write about yet officially, due to Disney+ not yet being released in the UK. Most importantly it evolves the philosophy of what makes Star Wars great; taking elements from different stories and cultures and blending them together. Unlike the last trilogy, it looks to evolve the philosophy of the filmmaking and conceptualisation instead of purely pushing the nostalgia. So far, it's got stellar reviews.
In the end, there's no philosophy, message, moral or new idea. It just felt like stuff that happened to sell toys. Ultimately it wasn't satisfying for audiences as a result. But I'm optimistic.
Star Wars looks to be incorporating and evolving their concepts to a new media model – namely Marvel. Bringing chief story-crafter Kevin Feige on board to help expand the brand beyond the films.
Honestly, the question is really whether the trilogy model is obsolete. Are we at a stage now where a cinematic universe, spherical storytelling, and multi-platform networks have become the pure focus for studios? Sometimes you may get a Fox Searchlight film or smaller budget studio release, but the fact remains … I think the trilogy is over.
People are responding more to experiences, and although merchandising still exists; it needs a story to go with it – there's a reason "Baby Yoda" was better received than the Porgs.
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According to the expectations of the members of the International Association of Industry standards tin tin industry in the world will increase due to the new branch code. Association of a preliminary analysis of the sector was carried out. After that, representatives of ITRI said that the association is ready to establish a strong position of industry in the short term. The Association plans to organize and hold an international forum tin industry. According to preliminary data, it will be held in Shanghai in late May 2015.
Not so long ago it was announced the appointment of a new director general of the corporation, which has become Yunnan Tin. In recent years, support from the China Association of greatly increased. As for the coordination of the activities of ITRI, the concerns about this will fall on the Beijing office. The Association continues to expand. Last year, it joined the Malaysian «Rahman tin», Australian «Bluestone Mines Tasmania» and Brazilian «Mineraçao Taboca». At the same time a large percentage of companies do not belong to the Association. According to ITRI believes a close-knit team has enabled the organization to prepare for the confrontation of the problems encountered in the industry.
It is expected that members of the Association will jointly develop an industry code. Its main purpose is to help both consumers and producers of tin. It is also calculated to delineate responsibilities of suppliers for making the most correct decisions. This will enable the creation of new standards in the industry with the involvement of a larger number of producers of tin. ITRI representatives believe that the Code of improvement processes will begin in the near future.
Meanwhile, experts believe that in 2015 the sector expects the decrease in the volume of Indonesian exports. According to their assumptions of the amount taken out of the metal will reach 61 000 tonnes. This is 20% less than earlier forecast, when the Ministry of Trade of Indonesia counted on export volumes of 76 000 tonnes. The volume of exported tin can be reduced even more, given the tightened control of mining operations. Also reducing the amount of exported tin and can affect the proposal made by the Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries. It concerns the cessation of work on marine extraction of metal. This ore output can be significantly reduced.


The stock of Botswana Telecom Corporation (BTCL) is currently trading at 0.90 BWP per share on the Botswana Stock Exchange. BTCL began the year with a share price of 0.95 BWP but has since lost 5.26% of that price valuation, ranking it 36th on the BSE in terms of year-to-date performance. The table below details the last 10 trading days of activity of Botswana Telecom Corporation on the Botswana Stock Exchange.
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Writing as: Edward S. Aarons, Paul Ayres, William Dale, Jeff Deischer, Tom Fugate, E. J. McDevitt, Richard Powell (1), Rick Robison, Edward Ronns, John Sneeden
Mr. Aarons began his series about highly skilled but enjoyably imperfect Sam Durrell when he was 40 and continued them until his death. He also wrote under pennames of Paul Ayres and Edward Ronns where his books were detective/crime novels. See Wikipedia for more info, where someone was kind enough to borrow my descriptions of each book, albeit disagreeing with the order.
Sam Durell Assignment To Disaster (1955)
Assignment - Suicide (1956)
Assignment - Treason (1956)
Assignment - Stella Marni (1957)
Assignment - Budapest (1957)
Assignment - Angelina (1958)
Assignment - Madeleine (1958)
Assignment - Carlotta Cortez (1959)
Assignment - Lili Lamaris (1959)
Assignment - Helene (1959)
Assignment - Zoraya (1960)
Assignment - Mara Tirana (1960)
Assignment - Lowlands (1961)
Assignment - Burma Girl (1961)
Assignment - Ankara (1961)
Assignment - Unicorn (1961)
Assignment - Karachi (1962)
Assignment - Manchurian Doll (1963)
Assignment - Sorrento Siren (1963)
Assignment - The Girl In The Gondola (1964)
Assignment - Sulu Sea (1964)
Assignment - The Cairo Dancers (1965)
Assignment - Cong Hai Kill (1966)
Assignment - Palermo (1966)
Assignment - School For Spies (1966)
Assignment - Black Viking (1967)
Assignment - Moon Girl (1967)
Assignment - Nuclear Nude (1968)
Assignment - Peking (1969)
Assignment - White Rajah (1970)
Assignment - Star Stealers (1970)
Assignment - Golden Girl (1971)
Assignment - Tokyo (1971)
Assignment - Bangkok (1972)
Assignment - Maltese Maiden (1972)
Assignment - Silver Scorpion (1973)
Assignment - Ceylon (1973)
Assignment - Amazon Queen (1974)
Assignment - Sumatra (1974)
Assignment - Quayle Question (1975)
Assignment - Black Gold (1975)
Assignment - Afghan Dragon (1976)
Other Nightmare (1948)
Escape To Love (1952)
Come Back, My Love (1953)
Passport To Peril (1953)
The Sinners (1953)
Girl On The Run (1954)
The Defenders (1961)
Paul Ayres
Other Dead Heat (1950)
William Dale
Other Outside the Law (1938)
John Doe-Murderer aka Murder Has No Name (1946)
Corpse, Hands Off! aka The Terror of the Handless Corpse (1955)
Jeff Deischer
Tom Fugate
Lee Thomas Spy Dreams (2013)
Sand Traps (2013)
Cigarettes For Two (2015)
Port In A Desert Storm (2017)
Unscheduled Delivery (ss) (2017)
unFriendly Persuasion (2018)
A Walk In The Woods (ss) (2019)
E. J. McDevitt
Danny Quigley The Quigley Alchemy (2012)
The Quigley Mission (2012)
The Quigley Rescue (2012)
The Quigley Challenge (2013)
The Jihadists' Return (2013)
Richard Powell (1)
Arab and Andy Blake Don't Catch Me (1943)
All Over But The Shooting (1944)
Lay That Pistol Down (1945)
Shoot If You Must (1946)
And Hope To Die (1947)
Rick Robison
Hanna & Ram The Plutonium Project (2014)
Mark Of The Crescent (2014)
Edward Ronns
Other Murder Money aka $1,000,000 In Corpses (1938)
Death In A Lighthouse aka The Cowl Of Doom (1938)
The Corpse Hangs High (1939)
State Department Murders (1950)
Catspaw Ordeal (1950)
Dark Memory (1950)
Million Dollar Murder (1950)
I Can't Stop Running (1951)
The Decoy (1951)
Don't Cry, Beloved (1952)
Passage To Terror (1952)
Dark Destiny (1953)
Say It With Murder (1954)
Death Is My Shadow (1957)
Pickup Alley (1957)
Gang Rumble (1958)
The Lady Takes A Flyer (1958)
The Big Bedroom (1959)
The Black Orchid (1959)
But Not For Me (1959)
The Glass Cage (1962)
John Sneeden
Zane Watson The Signal (2014)
The Portal (2015)
The Hades Conspiracy (2016)
Betrayal (ss) (2017)
The Island (2019)


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Work-from-home space opens at NEMA Chicago
NEMA Chicago's 16th floor coworking facility
While it feels like it's been a work-from-home year for most of us, this week is officially National Work From Home Week. The timing coincides perfectly with the introduction of six executive WFH boardrooms as part of the 48th amenity floor of the Skyline Collection at NEMA Chicago.
McHugh Construction Co. recently delivered this new dedicated workspace for developer Crescent Heights as well as the remaining two- to four-bedroom residences on floors 49 through 76 at NEMA, which marks the completion of Chicago's tallest rental building.
Interestingly, the new 48th floor WFH space was intentionally left as a "white box" amenity space until most of the building was complete. As tastes, trends and tenant preferences can change drastically between groundbreaking and first move-ins, the 48th floor amenity space was designed in real time to more accurately reflect the needs of today's residents. In the early stages of the project, the space was tentatively earmarked for a yoga studio, but that was changed given residents' WFH needs.
By leaving this space purposely vacant until the last possible moment in the construction schedule, McHugh Construction was able to work closely with Crescent Heights and architects Rafael Viñoly and Rockwell Group to change course and create additional workspace, especially after observing the popularity of NEMA's expansive 16th floor coworking area.
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Lakers Nation Week In Review: Dec. 29 – Jan. 5
Lakers Rumors & News Recap: Dwight Howard Unhappy In L.A.?
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The Los Angeles Lakers opened the new year with a two game week and they did not begin 2013 on the right note as they lost both of their games. The Lakers had a very disappointing end to 2012, and everyone was hoping the turn of the calendar would help the Lakers get back on track.
It was another hectic week for the Lakers as they faltered against the Philadelphia 76ers on Jan. 1, and could not beat the Clippers in a much anticipated Battle of Los Angeles on Saturday night. The Lakers are now two games under .500 and things are not looking good.
The team is not playing up to expectations and fans are beyond frustrated with the way the Lakers are playing. It was an upsetting past seven days for the Lakers and here is a week-in-review.
Lakers Nation Game Recaps:
In the Lakers' first game of the new year, the faced off with the young Philadelphia 76ers team in Los Angeles. The game remained close throughout, but the veteran Lakers team made many mistakes down the stretch which cost them the game. Sixers' point Jrue Holiday has a magnificent performance and Philadelphia walked off the court winners, 103-99.
In Saturday night's Battle of Los Angeles, the Lakers faced a double-digit deficit for most of the game, but relied on a fourth quarter rally to get back in striking distance. However, the hole was too deep for the Lakers to crawl out of and their efforts proved to be too little. The Clippers pulled through in the final minutes and sent the Lakers to two games below. 500.
Lakers Nation News:
Kobe Bryant created a Twitter account during the past week.
Bryant told reporters before the Clippers game that he believes Jamal Crawford should be Sixth Man of the Year.
The third All-Star ballot returns have Bryant as the top-vote getter, something that surprised him.
Phil Jackson and Jeanie Buss are engaged to be married.
Jodie Meeks views Kobe Bryant has a mentor.
New York Knicks' Amar'e Stoudemire indirectly criticized Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni.
Robert Sacre explained his unique dance moves.
Jodie Meeks has no hard feelings for the Philadelphia 76ers.
Kobe Bryant's dieting has helped extend his elite career.
Dwight Howard wants Kobe to push him to the next level.
Kobe Bryant called the Lakers "old" and "slow."
Sixers coach Doug Collins called Kobe Bryant a "basketball genius."
Kobe Bryant believes this is the best basketball he has played in a while.
Antawn Jamison regrets the comments he made about his benching.
Game Recap: Lakers Reach New Low On New Year's Eve
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When I rang the doorbell of a nondescript suburban home in Menlo Park, back in January 1999, I had to laugh: "Google World Headquarters," said a handwritten sign next to the entrance. Inside were a handful of programmers, sitting in the kitchen, their PCs towering over the toaster and microwave oven. The garage, Silicon Valley's perennial symbol of entrepreneurship, was overflowing with mountain bikes, knick-knack, and empty computer boxes. The two Stanford PhD students I came to interview for an article about Silicon Valley's unique startup culture were a bit late to the game, given that search engines like Excite, AltaVista and Yahoo already dominated the scene. But Larry Page and Sergey Brin were confident that they would be able to catch up and, perhaps, even overtake the front runners.
In-between low-level programming, schmoozing their investors, and taking out the garbage, the Google founders took some time for me to talk about providing a service to the world, making money with helpful advertising, and wanting to be on par with Yahoo and Amazon. Below are some edited excerpts from our conversation. I first looked back at this interview when Google turned 10 in September 2008. Almost five more years have raced by, and Google is now an ever-present digital media giant with more than $50 billion in annual revenue, rather than just a search engine. Yet, strangely, much of what these two Silicon Valley revolutionaries told me back then seems as timely as ever. Well, except for some details – I doubt Larry and Sergey still take out the garbage (even if they may have to take care of the trash in other ways).
Larry: Basically I started doing my PhD research on the link structure of the Web, about 3 ½ years ago. And then I got other people interested; Sergey started working on this soon after.
Sergey: I was at the time working on data mining.
Larry: We're both PhD students at Stanford, computer science. We're taking a leave-of-absence. It just seemed like this was a really good opportunity. Craig [Silverstein, Google employee no. 1] and I have very little left to do, but the world doesn't wait.
Was it difficult to find funding?
Larry: To be fair: We told these guys what we wanted to do and they asked us good questions and they know enough to know what we're doing.
Sergey: This is based on three years of research. We have a running prototype.
Sergey: Everybody who we talked to wanted to invest. No exceptions. Now, we get probably 5 to 10 e-mails every day [from potential investors]. We collect their names. We'll have to decide [at some point] what we want to do. It's not necessarily that sensible to have hundreds of smaller investors rather than a few big ones.
Aren't you rather late to the game?
Larry: It's possible to do a much better job on search, and it's the main application that people use on the Internet. So there's a big opportunity, because if you do a better job really matters to people. People make decisions based on information they find on the Web. So companies that are in-between people and their information are in a very powerful position. There's clearly space there for other players.
Sergey: Our experience has been that users are very sensitive to the quality of the search responsiveness. When we make minor changes to our system that we think nobody will notice, there's a very clear response in our traffic. Users may not even realize, but subconsciously they end up using your search engine because it works better for them. Users end up going where the search is best. As we watched our traffic grow time and time again to beyond capacity we're really not concerned about [being late to the game].
Larry: There's also lots of big companies that might want to buy a search engine. It's not an easy technology to develop, and we've done a pretty good job. We think we have the best search.
Where do you see yourselves in, say, five years from now?
Sergey: That's a long way down the sea. There are a lot of benefits for us, aside from potential financial success. The experience, for example. If we want to start another company at some point, that would be fairly easy because we have all the contacts in the industry. Also, it's been very exciting. I really enjoyed being a PhD at Stanford, but at Google, we do lots of really different things involved in setting up a company. We take care of very many things you don't get to see if you're just purely focused on creating technology. There's one more important thing, and that's to bring what we've done to the world. That's very exciting, too, of course. And we think this does have a potential to really change things forever.
Larry: That's one of my personal goals. Search engines play a really important role in people's lives, determining what information they get to look at. You really want to trust the people that are doing that for you. For both of us, that's been a strong reason why we started the company, is to say: We think we can do a better job doing this, and that's an important thing to do for the world.
Do you ever consider the risks?
Larry: Silicon Valley is a little bit different. There's not so much risk to us. If you fail in starting your company, you're actually more fundable. You may have failed for some reason not involving yourself at all, just [due to] some random factors.
Sergey: The main risk is really our time. We're working much, much harder than we would in a normal job. It's not a 40 hour a week job. We've been trying to cut down. When we started we'd be working upwards of 12 hours a day, six days a week. But we have been trying to cut down, because we think this isn't necessarily most productive. We try hard to take at least one of the weekend days off, and at times both or at least portions of both.
Larry: Web companies especially are like 24 hour businesses. You just have to keep things running. When something breaks it needs to be fixed right away. So there are demands, I think, even beyond normal start-ups.
Sergey: Anyway, we're trying to push it down below 60 hours.
What's the main part of your work?
Sergey: There are more main parts than we care to have. We try to offload as much as we can to our employees [but] we still do a lot of lower-level programming. Then, we spend a lot of time talking to people in other companies and to VCs, any kind of strategic contact. And we need to do some kind of high-level strategic planning for the company. The other thing we do, by the way, is, taking out the garbage, bringing food for people, making sure we have the phone lines, ordering computers, taking care of the "everything else" category. Starting Monday, we'll have 6 full-time employees. This week we have 5, last week we had 4. I think it's going to keep growing at that pace for a while.
At some point, the goal is the IPO …?
Sergey: There are several possible places where we can take Google. One is to get bought out. After that, we'd still continue to work on it. The other possibility is the IPO. I think it would be much more exciting for us to make Google stand on its own. But both are possibilities.
Do your investors talk about a day when they expect to earn their money back?
Sergey: Not really. I mean, they talk about schedules to IPO. That's when they can cash out. But in terms of actually becoming a profitable company and eventually paying dividends or something like that – people don't bother talking about that, that's very far down the line. It certainly doesn't make sense to try to become profitable tomorrow and stay small, rather than keep spending the money and capture ten times as much market share.
Larry: Clearly, if you're providing a service to the whole world, you have to have a fairly big company.
Do you generate any revenue at the moment?
Sergey: You caught us at an interesting time. Right now, we're thinking about generating some revenue. We have a number of ways to doing that. One thing is we can put up some advertising. The key there is to put up advertising that will be really useful to our users and not slow down our site. That way we won't push people away from our site, but we'll still take in some revenue. Another way would be co-branding. Provide the back-end search engine to other sites.
How do you see Google develop? At some point, do you see yourselves on par with AltaVista, Excite, all these other established search engines?
Sergey: I would say no. We want to be on par with Yahoo, or Amazon, AOL. AltaVista, Excite and [the others] are by no means viewed as the winners. There's no question, we want to be number one in market share in terms of search. And I think we can do that in not so long. Past that, it's really hard to predict. There's really no reason to set our sights low. If you do things right you can make a big jump over everybody else.


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Mediafax Group is moving its headquarters in One Victoriei Center, the office building near Piața Victoriei
Mediafax Group is moving its headquarters in One Victoriei Center, the office building located near Piața Victoriei, where it has leased a surface of 2,235 sqm. The transaction was intermediated by Regatta Real Estate.
The new headquarters will host the editorial offices of the Mediafax news agency and publications (Ziarul Financiar, Business Magazin, Gândul, Ce se întâmplă, doctore?, Descoperă, Go4IT, Monitorul apărării și securității etc.) as well as the new TV, online and VOD stations developed by Aleph Media, including Smart TV and Smart FM.
"The interest of the tenants for downtown remains high, and this is due not only to the good infrastructure, which connects the area with all the neighborhoods of Bucharest, but also due to the lifestyle component, that tenants find here: parties, exhibitions, fairs and launches, new concepts for restaurants and coffee shops",
said Ionuț Dumitrescu, Co-founder One Office, the office division of One United Properties.
The office building One Victoriei Center recently underwent a refurbishment process, approaching a new design concept for the lobby, signed by the office division of Lemon Interior Design. On the inauguration of the new lobby, the owner organizes between June 18th and July 3rd the art exhibition "Workspaces for each of us", with works telling the story of the most spectacular office buildings in Bucharest.
One Victoriei Center has a gross lettable area of 12,000 sqm and its tenants include Food Panda, BRD, S&T, Embryo's Fertility Clinic, Irem Spa and Ownzones Entertainment Technologies.
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BULGARIA, TURKEY PLAN SOFIA-EDIRNE BULLET TRAIN
Topics: Infrastructure
Bulgaria and Turkey are planning the launch of a bullet train between Sofia and Edirne, according to Suleyman Karaman, Director General and Chairman of the Board of the Turkish State Railways. Karaman told the Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, transport ministers of the two countries recently held talks on the project, saying Turkey is ready with the project and is waiting for the Bulgarian side. "Bulgarians are applying effort according to their possibilities. We insist on the realization...
BULGARIA SET TO PRIVATIZE DIPLOMATIC REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Topics: Economy Real Estate
Bulgaria plans to privatize the ADIS real estate agency that manages the properties of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the country. This was announced Sunday by Bulgarian Privatization Agency chief Emil Karanikolov for the Bulgarian National Radio. "We are planning to restructure ADIS and privatize it," said Karanikolov, adding that other state companies are also planned for privatization, without naming them. The ADIS real estate agency rents out the many diplomatic properties...
RYANIAR CARRIES OUT FIRST MILANO-PLOVDIV FLIGHT
Topics: Business
As Ryaniar's first flight from Milano to the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv arrived on Saturday, its 140 passengers were welcomed with bread and salt, according to an old Bulgarian tradition. The company will carry out regular twice-weekly flights from Milan Bergano to Plovdiv, from now on. Until now, Ryanair performed flights from Plovdiv Airport to Stansted Airport in London twice a week - on Tuesday and on Saturday. One-way fares start from GBP 32.99 including taxes. The flights provide...
NABUCCO PIPELINE DELAYED FOR 2 YEARS OVER NATURAL GAS SUPPLIES
Topics: Economy
The much-anticipated EU-sponsored Nabucco gas transit pipeline will be delayed by two years, the Nabucco consortium has announced raised doubts of increasing uncertainty about the project. Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH has pushed back the start of construction of its EUR 7.9 B pipeline to carry Caspian natural gas to Europe to 2013; thus, Nabucco is now expected to start operations in 2017 instead of 2015, as previously expected, the company said in a statement. "The timeline...
UN CHIEF FASCINATED WITH BULGARIA'S PLOVDIV OLD TOWN
Topics: Politics Tourism
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has completed his two-day Bulgarian visit in the southern city of Plovdiv where he was amazed at the history and architecture of the Old Town. Ban was the guest of a formal lunch given by Plovdiv District Governor Ivan Totev in his honor on behalf of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. The UN head was fascinated with the cultural heritage of Plovdiv from Antiquity to modernity such as the amphitheater, the churches, and a number of the 19th century Bulgarian...
BULGARIAN BUSINESS COMMITS TO UN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PACT
Representatives of Bulgarian business made Friday social commitments to the UN, in the presence of the organization's Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon. The memorandum for cooperation was signed by Ban Ki-moon and the Chair of the Bulgarian network for the so-called UN Global Compact, Sasho Donchev. The UN Secretary General, who is on a historic official 2-day visit to Bulgaria pointed out the memorandum is a serious step forward in achieving global values of stable development and...
BULGARIA TO USE EU DANUBE MONEY FOR METRO EXPANSION
A part of the money within EU's Operational Program Transport intended for the enhancement of Danube's shipping, will be used for the expansion of Bulgarian capital Sofia's first metro line. Some of the BGN 138 M intended for the strengthening of Bulgaria's Danube coast will be used for the construction of the metro stretch between the Tsarigradsko Shose boulevard and Sofia's international airport, Ivaylo Moskovski, the country's Deputy Transport Minister, clarified Thursday. The sum...
AYALA'S IMI BUYS OUT EPIQ ASSETS IN BULGARIA, MEXICO, CZECH REPUBLIC
Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI), the electronics manufacturing services unit of Philippines-based company Ayala, is buying out EPIQ NV's assets in Bulgaria, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. Ayala's IMI is buying the three EPIQ facilities for an estimated EUR 43 M in total. In a statement, cited by ABS-CBN News, IMI said it would pay in cash and 200 million new common shares representing approximately 12% of the company after the transaction. IMI said the acquisition, which is...
BULGARIA'S NATIONAL PALACE OF CULTURE TO BECOME PUBLIC COMPANY
Topics: Real Estate Real Estate
The Bulgarian National Palace of Culture (NDK) in downtown Sofia is to become a public company, the country's Council of Ministers decided Wednesday. NDK will be a state company, initially within the Ministry of Finance, Finance Minister Simeon Djankov has explained. It will stay within the Ministry until a financial audit covering its last 10 years is carried out. NDK is the largest multifunctional congress, conference, convention and exhibition center in Southeastern Europe. It was...
BULGARIAN GOVT TO PRIVATIZE RAILWAY FREIGHT SERVICES
Bulgaria's Cabinet is taking steps in order to privatize the freight services of the state railway company BDZ, according to Vladimir Vladimirov, chair of the Board of Directors of the BDZ Holding. Speaking at a railway transport forum in Sofia Wednesday, Vladimirov said the privatization of the freight and cargo services is part of the plan to restructure the notoriously troubled state railways, and will allow for improvements by private investors that the state can hardly ever carry...
BULGARIAN STATE RAILWAYS' LOSS DECLINES IN 2011 Q1
The losses generated by the Bulgarian State Railways BDZ in the first quarter of 2011 declined substantially, BDZ executives announced. The company, which is notorious for its passenger services and low efficiency, reminds that in 2010 it reduced its annual loss by BGN 17 M; i.e. it ended 2010 with a loss of BGN 47 M compared with a loss of BGN 64 M in 2009. The upward trend of reducing losses is said to be continuing in 2011 as in the first quarter the losses of BDZ declined by BGN 7 M...
FINANCE MINISTRY HOPEFUL MOODY'S WILL UP BULGARIA'S RATING
Topics: Financial
Moody's Investors Service is currently reviewing Bulgaria's credit rating and is likely to boost it, the credit agency says in a regular report cited by the Bulgarian Finance Ministry. Bulgaria currently has a Moody's credit rating of Baa3, the same as Romania, Hungary, Croatia, and Latvia; on April 5, Moody's placed Bulgaria's Baa3 sovereign rating "on review for possible upgrade". The Bulgarian Finance Ministry stresses that this grade "reflects Bulgaria's stable state finances and the...
BULGARIA'S KING'S TOBACCO CONFIRMS INTEREST IN BULGARTABAK
Topics: Investments
Bulgarian cigarette maker King's Tobacco has confirmed its interest in the privatization of the country's state tobacco giant Bulgartabac Holding. "Provided that we meet the requirements, we will join the competition. The requirements are pretty high because the state wants to protect the interests of tobacco producers," Boyko Kachulev, CEO of the company, commented. The factory was part of Bulgartabac holding prior to its privatization in 2008 According to its data during the first three...
SHOCKED INVESTORS: NEW LAW SHATTERS BULGARIA'S RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR
Topics: Economy Renewable Energy
Bulgaria's newly adopted Renewable Energy Act contradicts the Constitution and EU law, and will shatter the country's energy future, according to the Bulgarian Wind Energy Association. The Bulgarian Wind Energy Association issued Wednesday a devastatingly critical statement on the highly controversial law, whose adoption had been anticipated eagerly by hundreds of local and foreign investors only to see their hopes for facilitated investments dampened. "We are highly disappointed with the...
'TAX FREEDOM' DAY ARRIVES IN BULGARIA ON MAY 4
Bulgarians will work to pay their taxes until May 4, 2011, according to a publication of the Institute for Market Economy. The so-called "Tax Freedom Day" is a symbolic date when employees stop working for the State treasury and begin earning for themselves. In Bulgaria, this day traditionally falls in May, and its earlier arrival in the last three years is attributed to the economic crisis and the wider budget gap i.e. the State seemingly takes less, but continues to spent as before by...
BULGARIAN-CHINESE CAR MODELS DEBUT IN VELIKO TARNOVO
Two of the cars of the Chinese motor company Great Wall to be made in the Bulgarian city of Lovech made their debut, the site "Automedia.bg" informs. The models Hover and Steed were shown for the first time over the weekend during the first round of the Bulgarian close-circuit race "Pista Litex." They were used as official automobiles of the race. The site reports the two vehicles have generated very strong interest among the audience. This has also been the first time when the company...
DEAL FOR BULGARIA STOCK EXCHANGE SWEETENED UP - HEAD
The decision of Bulgaria's government to pack together its stakes at the stock exchange and the depository has sweetened the deal for the bourse, its executive director argues. "Such bundling will sweeten the deal and will ensure that the new owner will have the freedom to define its own policy on both trading and post-trading level," Ivan Takev, CEO of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange – Sofia, said in an interview for Novinite.com. Takev voiced confidence that Bulgaria's stock exchange,...
10 RICHEST BULGARIANS PAY BGN 4.5 M IN TAXES AT DEADLINE
The ten Bulgarians who have declared the highest income for 2010 will pay BGN 4.5 M in taxes, the National Revenue Agency, NRA, announced Monday. The data comes from the already processed personal income tax declarations across the entire country. The amount of the income of the top 10 earners, after deductions, is BGN 46.4 M. The 10 wealthiest Bulgarians work in the area of financial trading, consulting and legal services. Most of them have used the 5% rebate offered by NRA to...
RUSSIA HALTS OIL EXPORT, BULGARIA DEMANDS GUARANTEES
Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister, Traicho Traikov, has asked for guarantees from Russia for enough fuels for the country's market amidst reports that the Federation is halting oil export. On Sunday, on the grounds of an unprecedented global fuels crisis, Russia stopped exporting oil products with Russian media reporting that fuels export tax has gone up on May 1 by 44% to reach USD 408 per ton. With the measure, the Russian government aims at making oil products export less...
BULGARIA'S AGRICULTURE SECTOR WITH IMPRESSIVE EXPORT GROWTH IN 2010
Topics: Business Agriculture
Bulgaria's agriculture sector appears to be taking off, according to data presented by the Agriculture Ministry and the National Statistical Institute. Agriculture is one of the few sectors of the Bulgarian economy with positive trade balance, according to the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Foods. In 2010, Bulgaria's agriculture trade balance was positive USD 944 M, up from a positive USD 385 M in 2009. The Agriculture Ministry boasts that what it describes as "proactive export...
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Congress, BJP condole 17 deaths in Delhi fire
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Former Delhi chief minister and Congress city chief Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday met the kin of the victims of the devastating fire in a city hotel that claimed 17 lives, and demanded the setting up of a committee to probe its causes.
After meeting the family members of the dead at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital Dikshit said, "The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi should form a committee to find out how did a huge fire break out in such a big hotel?"
Expressing deep shock and sorrow at the tragedy, Dikshit said that she had given her suggestions, and the committee, to be formed, must look into whether there were any procedural lapses and why so many people died in the fire?
The former Delhi chief minister reiterated that the guilty must be punished, but added that the government's immediate task must be to console the families that have lost their near and dear ones.
Delhi BJP Chief Manoj Tiwari also visited the site of the fire and condoled the deaths.
"I am deeply shocked by the death of 17 people and I pray for the speedy recovery of all those injured," Tiwari tweeted in Hindi.
The fire at Arpit Palace Hotel in central Delhi's Karol Bagh claimed 17 lives, including a woman and a child.
Three people jumped off from the building even as 25 fire tenders tried controlling the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The fire was first reported from the third and fourth floors, but the blaze soon spiralled down, engulfing the ground floor and the basement as well.
Some 35 people were rescued from the five-storeyed hotel.
--IANS aks/rtp/bg


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Golfers who want to take their game to the next level will find our Lee Trevino signature course is everything they expect…and more. This 18-hole, par 72 course spans 7,102 yards from the back tees: 6,712 from the member tees. With three other tee placements available, the course accommodates players of all skill levels.
Trevino's design displays a masterful use of the contours of the land, creating a challenging, yet highly playable course that reveals more of its subtle nuances each time you play.
Each hole offers marvelous views of the rolling woodlands, the stands of old oaks and beech trees, the sun's reflection of the quiet waters of the Tar River and tributaries meandering through the course.
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The wynding drive to the plantation style club house, which sits overlooking the wooded back 9 on one of the uncharacteristic hills in Greenville, puts you in a relaxed, comfortable mood that eastern North Carolina is known for. They wanted a very cozy, warm, family oriented neighborhood and they wanted the same for their golf course. They met with several course designers and the unanimous choice was for Lee Trevino.
Ironwood was the first Lee Trevino Signature golf course east of the Mississippi. Lee Trevino was a great professional golfer who won 29 PGA events including 6 Majors, extended his career on the Senior PGA with 29 more victories and now has signature courses that span from NC to Vietnam. During the peak of his career his greatest competitors were Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.
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Maschen Rangierbahnhof (kurz Maschen Rbf) bei Maschen südlich von Hamburg an der Bahnstrecke Hannover–Hamburg ist der größte Rangierbahnhof Europas und nach dem Rangierbahnhof Bailey Yard im US-Bundesstaat Nebraska der zweitgrößte Rangierbahnhof der Welt.

Planung
Bereits vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg gab es Pläne zur Umgestaltung der Hamburger Güterverkehrsanlagen. Vorgesehen war unter anderem der Bau eines Rangierbahnhofs in Meckelfeld nördlich von Maschen, der in den 1920er Jahren zum Teil verwirklicht wurde und überwiegend der Entlastung der Rangierbahnhöfe in Harburg und Wilhelmsburg diente. Infolge des Zweiten Weltkriegs unterblieb der weitere Ausbau des Meckelfelder Rangierbahnhofs ebenso wie der Bau des südlichen Teils der Hamburger Güterumgehungsbahn, die in Meckelfeld enden sollte.

In den 1960er Jahren bestanden in Hamburg fünf Rangierbahnhöfe, die alle mehr als 40 Jahre alt und in ihrer technischen Ausstattung veraltet waren. Insgesamt wurden in Hamburg 11.000 Güterwagen pro Tag umgestellt. Da die Zugbildung auf mehrere Rangierbahnhöfe verteilt war, mussten täglich 2.500 Güterwagen mehrfach umgestellt werden. Ende der 1950er Jahre durchgeführte Untersuchungen ergaben, dass der Neubau zweier Rangiersysteme für die Nord-Süd- und die Süd-Nord-Richtung wirtschaftlicher als die Modernisierung der vorhandenen Rangieranlagen war. Dabei erwies sich die Gegend südlich von Harburg als günstigster Standort des neuen Rangierbahnhofs. Als problematisch wurden die hohen Kosten des Neubaus und die zusätzliche Belastung des Nordkopfs des Bahnhofs Hamburg-Harburg angesehen, in dem sich die Strecken nach Cuxhaven und Hamburg höhengleich verzweigen. Deshalb war bis 1966 vorgesehen, in Maschen einen einseitigen Rangierbahnhof für die Nord-Süd-Richtung zu bauen, nach dessen Inbetriebnahme der zweiseitige Rangierbahnhof in Wilhelmsburg zu einer einseitigen Anlage für die Süd-Nord-Richtung umgebaut werden sollte.

Nach weiteren Untersuchungen ab 1968 wurde ein zweiseitiger Rangierbahnhof in Maschen als die wirtschaftlichste Lösung angesehen. Prognostiziert wurde, dass sich der Rangieraufwand nahezu halbiere; zudem würden sich 382 Betriebspersonale einsparen lassen. Die zusätzliche Belastung des Harburger Bahnhofs wurde nach Elektrifizierung der Strecken und Modernisierung des Signalsystems für vertretbar gehalten.

Der Verwaltungsrat der Deutschen Bundesbahn stimmte dem Bau des Rangierbahnhofs im August 1969 zu; das Bundesverkehrsministerium genehmigte das Vorhaben im Oktober 1969. Die Kosten für den Rangierbahnhof einschließlich der erforderlichen Zulaufstrecken wurden mit rund 375 Millionen DM (Preisstand 1969) vorhergesagt.

Bau

Baubeginn für den Rangierbahnhof Maschen war am 7. Juni 1970. Der Baugrund am Standort beiderseits der Bahnstrecke Hamburg–Hannover bestand aus einer ein bis vier Meter dicken Torfschicht, die im Spülverfahren abgetragen und durch Sand ersetzt wurde. Insgesamt wurden drei Millionen Kubikmeter Torf und zehn Millionen Kubikmeter Sand bewegt; dabei entstanden drei Baggerseen, die heute der Naherholung dienen. Um das Baufeld freizumachen, wurde die Bahnstrecke Hamburg–Hannover zwischen Meckelfeld und Stelle nach Osten verlegt; dieser Streckenabschnitt mit der neuen Haltestelle Maschen ging am 10. April 1975 in Betrieb.

Bereits im April 1972 war eine Neubaustrecke von Maschen nach Jesteburg eröffnet worden, die die ins Ruhrgebiet führende Bahnstrecke Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg an den Rangierbahnhof anbindet. Die Zufahrtsstrecke nutzt im weiteren Verlauf zwischen Jesteburg und Buchholz die Bahnstrecke Buchholz–Lüneburg, die in diesem Abschnitt zweigleisig ausgebaut und elektrifiziert wurde. Die Strecke ins Ruhrgebiet erhielt zwischen Buchholz und Rotenburg ein drittes Gleis.

Der Rangierbahnhof Maschen ging schrittweise zwischen Mai 1977 und Oktober 1980 in Betrieb; die offizielle Eröffnung war am 7. Juli 1977. Mit der Inbetriebnahme verloren fünf Rangierbahnhöfe im Hamburger Stadtgebiet einen Teil ihrer Aufgaben – Eidelstedt, Harburg, Rothenburgsort, Wilhelmsburg und Hauptgüterbahnhof; zum Teil wurden sie zu Knotenbahnhöfen herabgestuft, die die weitere Verteilung der Güterwagen übernahmen. Bei der Inbetriebnahme kam es zu erheblichen Anlaufschwierigkeiten, so dass die Eilgüterzugbildung für ein halbes Jahr in den Harburger Rangierbahnhof zurückverlagert wurde.

1996 ging der südliche Teil der Hamburger Güterumgehungsbahn, auch als Ausbaustrecke Hamburg-Harburg–Hamburg-Rothenburgsort bezeichnet, in vereinfachter Form in Betrieb. Bei der Planung für Maschen war noch von einer eigenständigen Trasse nach Hamburg-Billwerder über den Südosten der Elbinsel ausgegangen worden.

Anlagen und Aufgaben
Der Rangierbahnhof nimmt bei einer Länge von 7.000 Metern und einer maximalen Breite von 700 Metern eine Fläche von 280 Hektar (2,8 km²) ein. Bei der Eröffnung betrug die Gesamtgleislänge 300 Kilometer; es waren sechs Stellwerke, 825 Weicheneinheiten, 100 Haupt-, 115 Vor- und 688 Rangiersignale vorhanden. Als zweiseitiger Rangierbahnhof verfügt Maschen über zwei Zugbildungsanlagen. Im Nord-Süd-System wurden eine Richtungsgruppe mit 48 Gleisen und eine Einfahrgruppe mit 16 Gleisen erbaut; das Süd-Nord-System bekam eine Richtungsgruppe mit 64 Gleisen und eine Einfahrtsgruppe mit 17 Gleisen. Beide Systeme werden durch Abstell- und Ordnungsgruppen ergänzt. Zudem sind eine achtgleisige Wagenausbesserungshalle zur Reparatur von Güterwagen und ein Bahnbetriebswerk zur Instandhaltung von elektrischen und dieselgetriebenen Güterzuglokomotiven mit einer zweigleisigen Untersuchungshalle und zahlreichen Abstellgleisen im Freien vorhanden.
Für jedes System sind zwei Stellwerke zuständig, die Stellwerke für die Ordnungsgruppe wurden schon 1983 wieder stillgelegt.

2002 ersetzte eine zentrale Dispostelle die bisher für jede Richtung getrennten Dispostellen.
2004 wurde die Güterwageninstandhaltung zum Kombiwerk erweitert; gegenwärtig ist sie auch für die Instandhaltung von Lokomotiven zuständig.

Um die angestrebte Kapazität von 11.000 Güterwagen pro Tag zu erreichen, erhielt Maschen die modernste in den 1970er Jahren verfügbare Rangiertechnik. Die Zusammensetzung eingehender Güterzüge wurde nun schon vor deren Ankunft nach Maschen übermittelt, so dass die zuvor übliche Aufnahme der Züge in der Einfahrgruppe entfiel. Anhand der Daten entstanden Zerlegelisten, die Arbeitsgrundlage der Ablaufsteuerrechner (ASR) waren. Die ASR steuerten per Funk die Rangierlokomotiven an den Ablaufbergen, gaben die Abdrückgeschwindigkeit vor, stellten die Fahrwege der ablaufenden Güterwagen ein und regelten deren Geschwindigkeit mit Gleisbremsen, davon 26 Balken- und 112 Gummigleisbremsen. 112 Beidrückanlagen stellten die abgelaufenen Güterwagen innerhalb der Richtungsgleise kuppelreif zusammen.

Der Rangierbahnhof Maschen übernimmt die Zugbildung sowohl regionaler als auch nationaler und internationaler Güterzüge. Er bildet insbesondere die Drehscheibe für den Hinterlandverkehr der Seehäfen Hamburg und Bremerhaven sowie für den Verkehr von und nach Skandinavien. Gegenwärtig betreibt DB Cargo Deutschland, Cargo Zentrum Hamburg die Anlage.

Im Rangierbahnhof Maschen wurden von 1977 bis 2007 rund 1,18 Millionen Züge mit insgesamt 35,5 Millionen Wagen gebildet und abgefahren. In den 1980er Jahren wurden im Nord-Süd-System 75 und im Süd-Nord-System 125 Züge pro Tag gebildet. Die Höchstzahl ausgehender Wagen wurde am 11. Dezember 1985 mit 8400 Wagen erreicht. Anfang der 1990er Jahre betrug die Zahl etwa 8000; 2009 waren es 4000 Güterwagen. Damit hat Maschen bislang nicht den Planungswert von 11.000 Güterwagen pro Tag erreicht; als Grund wird unter anderem die in den letzten 40 Jahren erheblich gestiegene Länge von Güterwagen genannt.

Der Bahnhof wird von der 735 m langen Decatur-Brücke – benannt nach der Partnerstadt Seevetals Decatur (Illinois) – überspannt; sie wurde von der Bundesbahn im Rahmen der Errichtung des Rangierbahnhofes 1972–1974 gebaut, 1977 aber an die Gemeinde Seevetal abgegeben, einschließlich einer Zahlung von 3,5 Millionen DM für Erhaltung und eventuell notwendigem Neubau. Die Brücke ist die Hauptzufahrt zum Rangierbahnhof und gilt aufgrund der vom Bundesverkehrsministerium herausgegebenen sog. Nachrechnungsrichtlinie als marode; im Dezember 2016 sperrte die Gemeinde Seevetal die Brücke daher voll. Die Deutsche Bahn AG erreichte im einstweiligen Rechtsschutz nach ablehnender Entscheidung des Verwaltungsgerichts Lüneburg in zweiter Instanz durch das Niedersächsische Oberverwaltungsgericht eine vorläufige Öffnung unter Auflagen zumindest für den Anliegerverkehr zum Rangierbahnhof. Die Brücke ist marode, die Abstandszahlung der Bahn für den Erhalt/Ersatz hat die Gemeinde Seevetal jedoch einer anderweitigen Verwendung zugeführt.

Erneuerung und Modernisierung
Da die nunmehr 30 Jahre alten Anlagen sanierungsbedürftig waren, wurde der Rangierbahnhof zwischen 2009 und 2014 erneuert und teilweise umgebaut. Am 7. Juli 2014 wurde der modernisierte Rangierbahnhof feierlich in Betrieb genommen. Hierbei wurden 120 km Gleis, 230 Weichen, 200.000 Schwellen und 200.000 m³ Schotter ersetzt. Auch die Gleisbremsen wurden erneuert. Damit sollte auch der zunehmenden Bedeutung des Containerverkehrs der Seehäfen entsprochen werden. Im Zuge der Erneuerung wurde ein Nebenablaufberg mit kurzen Richtungs- und Nachordnungsgleisen zugunsten längerer Richtungsgleise für die Bildung von Fernzügen aufgegeben. Außerdem wurden die Richtungsgruppen verkleinert, und zwar in Richtung Norden auf 48 und in Richtung Süden auf 40 Gleise. Trotz geringerer Gleiszahl soll die modernere Rangiertechnik eine höhere Leistung des Bahnhofs ermöglichen. Einfahr- und Richtungsgleise und die dazugehörigen Weichen werden bündelweise erneuert und die Ablauftechnik bei Aufrechterhaltung des Rangierbetriebs auf den neuesten Stand der Technik gebracht. Insgesamt sind hierfür 230 Millionen Euro investiert worden.

Das bisherige Ablaufsystem mit Abbremsung wurde auf eine feste Laufgeschwindigkeit mit anschließendem Beidrücken per Förderanlage und Laufzielbremsung umgestellt. Alle Bremsen wurden hierbei ausgetauscht (2 Berg-, 8 Tal- sowie 88 Richtungsgleisbremsen). Ebenso wurde die Beidrückanlage ersetzt. In den Richtungsgleisen wurden zudem Bremsprobeanlagen installiert, sowie die Einfahrgeschwindigkeit von 40 auf 60 km/h erhöht. 33 Einfahr- und 88 Richtungsgleise wurden erneuert.

Die beiden ersten Bauphasen mit der Gleiserneuerung beider Einfahrgruppen sind abgeschlossen. Die dritte Bauphase diente dem Anschluss der neuen Ablaufsteuertechnik an die vorhandenen Rangieranlagen. In den letzten Bauphasen wurden die Gleise der Richtungsgruppen in Bündeln zu je acht Gleisen neu gebaut.

Literatur
 Deutsche Bundesbahn, Bundesbahndirektion Hamburg (Hrsg.): Der Rangierbahnhof Maschen. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg 1975 (mit einem Lageplan vom 30. Dezember 1974 im Maßstab 1:5000).
 Wolfgang Klee: Eisenbahnen in Hamburg (= Eisenbahn-Journal, Special-Ausgabe, Nr. 5, 1997). Merker, Fürstenfeldbruck 1997, ISBN 3-89610-020-3.
 Railion Deutschland AG (heute DB Cargo Deutschland), Cargo Zentrum Hamburg-Maschen, Planung, Hesse, Dezember 2007.
 Manfred Unbehagen: Die großen Anlagen des Reisefern- und Güterverkehrs in Hamburg. In: Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, Band 19, 1970, S. 349–368.
 Benno Wiesmüller, Dierk Lawrenz: Die Hamburger Rangier- und Güterbahnhöfe. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-303-1.

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REVIEW: The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
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The Mitchells vs. The Machines is one of the most ambitious computer games of the last decade. I say that because the game was developed by a team of 8 people, and it has a very ambitious story that is delivered in a very ambitious medium. The medium in question is an episodic delivery system, with each episode requiring 5 to 10 hours to complete. In addition, the first episode has more dialogue than most free-to-play games, and the entire thing is in English (with Japanese subtitles).
When The Mitchells vs. The Machines was first announced, I, like many in the gaming community, was mildly intrigued. When I found out it would be a historical RPG, I was slightly intrigued. When the trailer dropped, I was excited, and waiting for the game to be released.
Friday the 30th. In April, Netflix released the latest film in Sony Pictures Animation's Mitchells vs Machines series. The film, produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, 21 Jump Street, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), tells the story of a dysfunctional family that goes on a trip and gets into trouble. I remember hearing about this movie when it was still called Connect and it was going to be in theaters before anyone knew what was going on. I had completely forgotten about this movie because there were so many other things going on. I recognized the characters immediately when I saw the film in a new title on Netflix and couldn't resist the curiosity. The talent involved in Mitchells vs. Machines is just great; I love everything Lord and Miller touched except Solo, which I don't blame them for. I was surprised to see that Gravity Falls writers Michael Riana and Jeff Rowe wrote and directed the film. Creator of the series Alex Hirsch also lent his voice to one of the characters and acted as a creative consultant. In a normal year, without Pandemic, this movie would have been big news for animation fans. As before, Mitchells vs Machines is a pleasant surprise that deserves to be discussed. Let's see.
Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson) is an awkward young girl with a love of movies and filmmaking. Katie gets along well with her brother Aaron (Michael Rianda), who is obsessed with dinosaurs. However, she feels that her parents Rick (Danny McBride) and Linda (Maya Rudolph) don't understand her. Rick is quite skeptical of this technology and feels that Katie needs a backup in case she can't make it to the movie. Linda does her best to support the family and keep them together, but she doesn't exactly share Katie's interests either. When Rick breaks Katie's laptop, he decides to make it up to her by taking the whole family on a trip to take her to college. At first this irritates Katie, but soon the whole family is having fun. …. Until the robot apocalypse arrives via a sloppy technical director. Will Katie be able to save the world, fulfill her cinematic dreams and reunite with her family before it's too late?
Not knowing all these impressive names and having only seen last year's poster, I had no idea what to expect from Mitchells vs. the Machines. Sony has made some excellent films, like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and In the World of Spiders, but it's also the studio that made the Emoji movie. They'll never recover. I prefer quirky films, because great products can come out of unconventional ideas. Of course, the animation style quickly caught my attention when I turned on the film. This movie is absolutely, mind-blowingly awesome! While I look forward to seeing the film for free on my streaming service, it's a shame that Mitchells vs. Machines will not be released in theaters. The character designs remind me of hypercarded shows like Close Enough and Bob's Burgers, but the textures, colors, and backgrounds are very similar to Into the Spider-Verse. The contrast between the exaggerated characters and the somewhat realistic setting reminded me of the movie The Good Dinosaur. However, the concept is much better executed here. At first I found the bulging eyes and oddly shaped faces distracting, but soon I learned to love them, especially Rick and Katie. It's a nice change to see cartoon characters where creativity and personality are more important than pure beauty in their design. The sets in the film are great, and I love the way Katie's drawings cover the landscape in some places. You can see and feel the love that goes into every frame of Mitchells vs. Machines has stopped, and I think the characters are the best evidence of that.
In addition to the design, the personalities and interests of the Mitchells are varied and very believable. I immediately liked Katie because of her quirky personality and love of movies. Instead of painting in broad strokes, Mitchells vs. Machines the characters more sympathetic to the audience by going into the details. Aaron's fascination with dinosaurs and his lack of socialization reminded me of my autistic children. Whether that's the intent of the film or not, it's just well written. Katie's strained relationship with her father was also very realistic. Most American cartoons dealing with this subject have toned it down considerably. For example, Elinor is all wrong in Brave when she forces Merida to marry her, Ariel's father is domineering and racist, etc. This is not always the case, but in many cases the battle between parents and children is oversimplified to save time. In Mitchells vs Machines, Rick and Linda are the same characters as Katie and Aaron. We even learn that Rick had a passion in his life that he gave up to support his family, which gives context to what appear to be cruel comments about his children. I've had conversations like this with my parents, it's just creepy. Rick wants to bond with his children, but he struggles to understand their interests and tries too hard to protect Katie from the harsh realities of adult life. I also really like Linda; she's hilarious, endlessly loving and supportive of her family. As for biological and nuclear families, I don't like those kinds of families in movies since The Incredibles. And I think that's easy to understand because Mitchells vs Machines, like The Incredibles, takes its characters and their problems very seriously, despite the increasingly bizarre circumstances they find themselves in. My only complaint is that I would have liked to see more of Rick and Linda's relationship with each other, not just as parents of their children. But like I said, I agree that this is a technical issue and a more personal issue for everyone. All too often the media paints the picture of couples hating each other and being absolutely miserable, and I'm always happy to hear counter examples. It's a stupid trend and I personally hate it.
The characters are brought to life by impressive actors. The Mitchells are played by Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph, and directed by Michael Rianda and Abby Jacobson. I don't like Rianda as Aaron, especially since it's obvious he's an adult playing a little boy. Adults playing little kids in cartoons is my favorite subject and always catches my attention. He doesn't do a bad job, but he wasn't right for the role in the first place. Eric Andre and Olivia Coleman play CEO Mark Bowman and PAL, his invented smartphone and harbinger of the robot apocalypse. Jacobson and Andre are also the voices of the characters in Disenchantment on Netflix. Husband and wife John Ledgend and Chrissy Teigen play the Poses in real life, the Mitchells' seemingly perfect neighbors of whom Linda is jealous. Interestingly, while Katie uses technology productively to make movies that will help her get into college, Linda only admires people who succeed on social media. You have to listen closely, but Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch plays Dirk, Katie's boyfriend. Mitchells vs Cars is also a very funny film, with excellent use of visual comedy and quirky dialogue. I have to say that I didn't really like the jokes with the two defective robots; they weren't terrible or disturbing, but just not very funny. Mark Mothersbaugh did the music for the film, and it's a decent score. The song selection is also very good, but I'll leave that aside for now. This film deserves to be seen live.
Mitchells vs Cars is a great and pleasant surprise. Imaginative images, witty dialogues and engaging characters make this film a success. Comedy that doesn't directly involve the central family fails at times, and I'd like to see more of Rick and Linda's story. Nevertheless, Mitchells vs. Machinery is delicious and too good to publish. Give it a shot if you have Netflix and a few hours to spare.
Location – 8
Actor – 10
Control/Assembly – 8
Music/Sound – 8
Animation – 10
Imaginative images, witty dialogues and engaging characters make this film a success. Mitchell's film against the machines is delightful and too good to be broadcast live. Give it a shot if you have Netflix and a few hours to spare.
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PLoS One. 2014 Apr 23;9(4):e96071. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096071. eCollection 2014.
Seasonal variation in the voluntary food intake of domesticated cats (Felis catus).
Serisier S1, Feugier A1, Delmotte S2, Biourge V1, German AJ3.
Royal Canin Research Center, BP 4, Aimargues, France.
MAD-Environnement Ltd, Nailloux, France.
Department of Obesity and Endocrinology, University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus, Neston, United Kingdom.
There are numerous reports about seasonal cycles on food intake in animals but information is limited in dogs and cats. A 4-year prospective, observational, cohort study was conducted to assess differences in food intake in 38 ad-libitum-fed adult colony cats, of various breeds, ages and genders. Individual food intake was recorded on a daily basis, and the mean daily intake for each calendar month was calculated. These data were compared with climatic data (temperature and daylight length) for the region in the South of France where the study was performed. Data were analysed using both conventional statistical methods and by modelling using artificial neural networks (ANN). Irrespective of year, an effect of month was evident on food intake (P<0.001), with three periods of broadly differing intake. Food intake was least in the summer months (e.g. June, to August), and greatest during the months of late autumn and winter (e.g. October to February), with intermediate intake in the spring (e.g. March to May) and early autumn (e.g. September). A seasonal effect on bodyweight was not recorded. Periods of peak and trough food intake coincided with peaks and troughs in both temperature and daylight length. In conclusion, average food intake in summer is approximately 15% less than food intake during the winter months, and is likely to be due to the effects of outside temperatures and differences in daylight length. This seasonal effect in food intake should be properly considered when estimating daily maintenance energy requirements in cats.
Environmental (e.g. ambient temperature and daylight length) and physiological (e.g. body weight and food intake from the study cats) parameters during the course of the study.
Bodyweight (in kg) is expressed as median (black circles) and range (error bars) kg); daylight length (in min/day) is expressed as mean (open circles) and standard error (error bars) for each month; daily temperature (in Celsius) is expressed as mean (solid line and black circles) and minimum and maximum (dashed lines and open circles above and below the mean line); and food intake (in grams/day) is expressed as mean (white columns) and standard deviation (error bars) intake. Daylight length, temperature and food intake showed a seasonal pattern (P<0.001 for all). In contrast no seasonal pattern was observed for body weight, which increased steadily during the course of the study.
Seasonal Variation in the Voluntary Food Intake of Domesticated Cats (Felis Catus)
PLoS One. 2014;9(4):e96071.
Determination of the best multi-layers perceptron (MLP) architecture (i.e optimal number of hidden neurons).
The curves show mean squared errors in function of the number of hidden neurons for the training (MSEt, black triangles) and the validation phase (MSEv, open circles) of the modelling process. MSEt and MSEv were averaged over the 1000 simulations carried at each level of hidden neurons, with the following predictive variables: year, temperature, daylight length, temperature x daylight length, body weight. As the number of neurons increased, training performance improved (decreasing MSEt), whilst validation performance firstly improved (decreasing MSEv) but then worsened (MSEv increasing) at 8 hidden neurons. Thus, the optimal state was reached at 7 neurons.
Measured and predicted average food intake, over the 4-year study by using artificial neural network (ANN) so-called multi-layers perceptron (MLP).
Open circles and dashed lines represent the measured intake. The thick solid line represents the MLP average, the solid thin line represents the best MLP, Finally, the area shaded in grey represents the 95% CI for the MLP prediction. As the number of neurons was increased, the training performance improved (decreasing MSEt). The best input variables to predict food intake were year, temperature, daylight length, temperature×daylight length and body weight.
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Hola. Tengo instalado antergos en el ordenador de mi padre con KDE. Está todo en castellano, tanto kde como libreoffice (he entrado a configuración-idiomas y está puesto en español). Y los menús de libreoffice y todo aparece en castellano sin problemas. Sin embargo cuando le das al botón guardar y se abre una pantalla con carpetas para seleccionar en la que quieres guardar aparecen tanto los nombres de las carpetas como las opciones en inglés. ¿Alguien sabe como podría poner eso en castellano?
SI fuera para mí no tendría problemas, pero mi padre claro, no se aclara.
@SpoliatoR I have connected the pendrive before turning on the computer, and despite at first it didn't recognised it, when I have unplugged it and then pluged in again it worked, it recognised the pendrive.
However, when I have copied a file, it started with 100MB/sg aprox but it dropped down continously until 20MB/sg aprox.
Later I have rebooted with the pendrive unplugged and it came bag to not recognise it I fear. How could I make it to be recogniseble even if it's not plugged from the begining? any way to improve the writing speed?
Hi. Hi have installed Antergos recently. SInce I have installed it my USB 3.0 port doesn't works with USB 3 devices. If I connect a USB 2.0 device in the USB 3.0 port it works, the same as if I connect the USB 3.0 device in the USB 2.0 port. But USB 3.0 devices in the USB 3.0 port it doesn't gets recognized by the PC, so I can't take advantage of the 3.0 tecnology.
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Una Locomotora de maniobras, tractor de maniobras, pilota o locotractora es una pequeña locomotora ferroviaria la cual no está destinada a mover trenes por largas distancias, sino para armar trenes que luego serán arrastrados por las locomotoras principales, desarmar un tren recientemente ingresado, y realizar movimientos de vagones en general, en un proceso conocido como maniobras. Esto se realiza en la playa de maniobras. Las locomotoras de maniobras también pueden llevar trenes por recorridos cortos e incluso ser la máquina principal en líneas secundarias y en estaciones terminales.

La típica pilota está optimizada para su trabajo, con relativa baja potencia, pero con una alta fuerza de tracción en el arranque para rápidamente manejar pesados vagones. Las locomotoras de maniobras tienen un alto par motor, pero están restringidas por su baja velocidad y tienen ruedas motrices de pequeño diámetro. Las locomotoras de maniobra son el equivalente ferroviario de los remolcadores.

La actividad de las pilotas es un trabajo duro, y el excesivo uso del motor principal hace que se desgaste rápidamente, debido al abuso del constante contacto con los vagones y las frecuentes paradas y arranques.

Tipos

Diésel
Las pilotas diésel-eléctrica suelen tener una cabina alta y a menudo un capó bajo y/o angosto, conteniendo el motor o los motores diésel, para tener buena visibilidad hacia todos lados. La configuración mexicana se usa a menudo debido a que otorga gran fuerza de tracción. Casi siempre que se usa esta configuración, la locomotora "slug" es de capó bajo y sin cabina. Una buena visibilidad en ambas direcciones es crítica, debido a que una pilota debe poder moverse en ambas direcciones; dar vuelta la locomotora insume tiempo. Algunas de las primeras locomotoras de maniobra se usaban de a pares, manejadas desde una sola cabina, para obtener mayor potencia.

Eléctrica
La mayoría de las modernas locomotoras de maniobra son diésel, pero países cuya red ferroviaria está casi totalmente electrificada, como Suiza, usan locomotoras de maniobras eléctricas. Pequeñas pilotas eléctricas son a menudo del tipo a batería.

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Is this a fashion faux-pas or a deliberate marketing ploy from the outspoken rapper?
KANYE West is no stranger to making headlines for his controversial behaviour, including his friendship with Donald Trump or his feud with Taylor Swift.
However, on Saturday he had everyone talking about him for another reason; his fashion choices.
The Ultralight Beam and rapper attended pal 2 Chainz, real name Tauheed Epps', but it was his footwear that had everyone talking.
His wife Kim Kardashian-West looked stunning in a neon green dress.
But for reasons known only to Kanye, he teamed his pale green suit with Yeezy sliders that were much too small for him and pastel blue socks.
The questionable choice has sent Twitter users crazy.
The £490 sliders are available in a variety but the grey pair Kanye donned for the wedding have now sold out.
His choices might be weird, but we don't doubt for a second that they're deliberate.
Yeezus knows exactly what he's doing when he comes to promoting his brand and it's very entertaining for us onlookers.
This isn't the first time Kanye West has taken an unique approach to promoting his shoes, as earlier this year he used a NAKED Kim Kardashin lookalike to promote his trainers.
His previous batch of Yeezy sliders were also subject to a battering of criticisms.
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 List of current foreign ministers
 List of current permanent representatives to the United Nations

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Home > News > Lookers chief flies high to take military charity aid to more than £100,000
Lookers chief flies high to take military charity aid to more than £100,000
LOOKERS chief operating officer Nigel McMinn has taken the ultimate leap of faith with a 14,500ft charity skydive.
He and elite sports car driver Johnny Mowlem, who is a Lookers ambassador, took to the skies with the Red Devils Parachute Display Team as part of Lookers' support of the military charity 353.
The organisation, which provides support to members of the military community and their families, was set up in memory of Private Conrad Lewis, who in February 2011 became the 353rd British soldier to lose his life in Afghanistan.
Lookers got involved with 353 as McMinn had a long-standing working relationship with Conrad's father, Tony, and wanted to offer his support following Conrad's death. Tony was previously sales director at Nissan Motor (GB) before becoming the managing director of West Way Group.
After a pre-flight induction, McMinn and Mowlem donned the iconic red jumpsuits before taking off from Langar Airport in Nottingham for their epic ascent – and plunge – over the countryside.
Nigel McMinn (front and centre) prepares to plummet into the clouds
It was the first time that McMinn had done a skydive, and he said: 'The whole experience was absolutely breathtaking, from the professionalism of the instructors at the Red Devils and preparing for take-off right through to the actual jump itself, which was exhilarating.
'Of course, there were nerves during the ascent, but they soon disappeared as soon as we jumped out of the plane and the adrenalin kicked in. It was a clear-blue-sky day, so the view we were presented with once we burst through the clouds was spectacular.
'It's an experience that will live long in the memory, and the fact that we were able to do it in support of such a worthy cause made it a fantastic day all round.'
Mowlem said: 'I'm used to getting my adrenalin pumping in the motoring world, but skydiving is something else altogether. It was a fantastic day, which was made extra special by the fact that Nigel was able to join me for the ride. Lookers have done so much for 353, so to be able to help Nigel and everyone at Lookers in this way was the icing on the cake.'
The skydive helped increase the amount that Lookers, which operates from 153 franchised dealerships nationally, has raised for 353 to more than £100,000.
Pictured at top: Nigel McMinn (centre below) flying high with instructors from the Red Devils
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Nebulized influenza was coughed into the examination room and Bioaerosol samplers collected size-fractionated aerosols (<1 µM, 1–4 µM, and >4 µM aerodynamic diameters) adjacent to the breathing manikin's mouth and also at other locations within the room. At constant temperature, the RH was varied from 7–73% and infectivity was assessed by the viral plaque assay.
Total virus collected for 60 minutes retained 70.6–77.3% infectivity at relative humidity ≤23% but only 14.6–22.2% at relative humidity ≥43%. Analysis of the individual aerosol fractions showed a similar loss in infectivity among the fractions. Time interval analysis showed that most of the loss in infectivity within each aerosol fraction occurred 0–15 minutes after coughing. Thereafter, losses in infectivity continued up to 5 hours after coughing, however, the rate of decline at 45% relative humidity was not statistically different than that at 20% regardless of the aerosol fraction analyzed.
At low relative humidity, influenza retains maximal infectivity. Inactivation of the virus at higher relative humidity occurs rapidly after coughing. Although virus carried on aerosol particles <4 µM have the potential for remaining suspended in air currents longer and traveling further distances than those on larger particles, their rapid inactivation at high humidity tempers this concern. Maintaining indoor relative humidity >40% will significantly reduce the infectivity of aerosolized virus.
This recent study showed that humidity in the range of 40 -60%RH had a detrimental effect on the airborne influenza virus, rapidly rendering it harmless.
It reinforces the lower level of humidity in public and commercial premises ought to be maintained at above 40%RH to reduce airborne infection.
This is particularly true in environments like doctor's surgeries, hospitals and health care facilities where there are a greater number of infected individuals and others who are especially vulnerable.
The critical humidity level of 40 to 45%RH as lower limit has been reinforced over decades of research in countless studies.