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On The Eve: The President Closes All Avenues For MR's Return
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Rajan Philips
Maithripala Sirisena brought life to a lifeless campaign on its last official day. After putting it in writing that he will not appoint Mahinda Rajapaksa even if the UPFA manages to win more than half the number of seats in tomorrow's election, Sirisena went further and fired the twin-secretaries of the SLFP-UPFA alliance so that they are not around to play monkey tricks after the election and in the selection of national list MPs for the UPFA. After berating Rajapaksa for letting the UPFA tails wag the SLFP dog, Sirisena is determined to cut off the nefarious small-party tails to restore his old grand Party. Mr. Sirisena is proving himself to be more ruthless as the Chairman of his Party than he has been as the President of his country. Political parties in times past have been shaken by splits, cross-overs and defections, but there have never been such dramatic expulsions in any political party similar to what we saw on Friday, and that too two days before a parliamentary election. And unlike others the President is not expelling by elimination but by due process and litigation. As the entire political class of the country is divided on the question of the return of Mahinda Rajapaksa – one is either for it, or against it, so too will the pundits be divided – either for or against President Sirisena's actions last week.
But the important question is how will the voters respond to it tomorrow? To ask another way, is President Sirisena, intentionally or otherwise, inviting the voters to support him in cleaning up the SLFP as part of his January 8 mandate. The battle for the SLFP, pitting the MR and non-MR factions, was expected to roll out immediately after the January presidential election. Instead, the battle is unfolding quite unexpectedly in the midst of a parliamentary election seven months later. The odds seem firmly stacked against Mahinda Rajapaksa, and to be in favour of Maithripala Sirisena. MR and the UPFA need to win 113 or more seats in the new parliament to make any credible claim to form the next government and to have Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed as Prime Minister. President Sirisena would welcome a UPFA government, but he has made it clear that he will not appoint Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister under any circumstances.
As I alluded to last week, and as others have argued, the President is on arguably strong legal and constitutional grounds, and unequivocally on strong moral grounds in insisting that he will not appoint MR as PM. But the President's hand will be infinitely strengthened if the voters were to deny Rajapaksa and the UPFA a majority of the seats in tomorrow's election. The President seems confident that the electoral wind is behind him and a majority of surveys and predictions seem to support his confidence. The seat predictions (including the National List appointees), based on opinion surveys, range from 100-110 for the UNF, 85-95 for UPFA, and about 15 each for the TNA and the JVP. Even in favourable scenarios for the UPFA, it is not being seen as getting the largest number of seats.
Anticipating such an outcome, the President has started clearing the SLFP decks even before the election. After firing the two spineless Rajapaksa loyalists, he has appointed his supporter from Anuradhapura, Duminda Dissanayake, as the new SLFP Secretary, and academic and Bandaranaike favourite Wiswa Warnapala as the UPFA Secretary. They will now determine who will fill the UPFA's national list slots. Whatever opinion one might have on the propriety, or impropriety, of the President's actions, few will question the good riddance of bad national-list rubbish that has been a burden on parliament and politics for 21 years.
Will the President's actions have any direct effect on tomorrow's vote? It is unlikely to cause major changes among voters who have already made up their minds. But it will create opposing effects on the main supporters of the UNF and UPFA alliances. The UNF and non-Rajapaksa forces are obviously elated by the President's lightning strikes and will work with much enthusiasm in 'getting out the vote' tomorrow. The UPFA and the Rajapaksa loyalists, on the other hand, are thoroughly demoralized by the President's double blows in three days, and are more likely to be deflated and sulking rather than mobilizing voters.
The secret of the Rajapaksa power base has always been in two parts – the people's support being one part, albeit the minor part, and the use of the state muscle being the bigger part. Mahinda Rajapaksa has never won power from the ranks of the opposition. In 2005, he succeeded Chandrika Kumaratunga in government, even though he made it out to be that he was coming from the opposition. Ten years later, even the muscle of state power was not enough to sustain the January presidential campaign over the fatigue that had clearly set in within the regime as well as in the country in relation to the regime. The current campaign to bring back Mahinda just for the sake of bringing him back has not been enough to overcome that fatigue and the lack of state power has not helped the cause either.
To step back from the kerfuffle inside the SLFP-UPFA, and to look at tomorrow's election in its historical perspective, the people will be heading to vote in a second national election in a span of seven months. It will also be the 16th parliamentary election in 68 years. The island polity elected its first parliament in a month long (August 23 – September 20) election in 1947, five months before the country became independent from British colonial rule. Although the two elections this year are totally different – the presidential election in January and parliamentary election in August, the same voters who voted in January will be voting again tomorrow – perhaps in fewer numbers. On the other hand, while the first election in 1947 and the election tomorrow are nominally the same parliamentary elections, the two are totally different in terms of every empirical category that one can think of. They are not just two different elections, but they represent two different countries 68 years apart. And the 14 elections in between are milestones along the long road of changes between then and now. No two elections have been the same, notwithstanding superficial comparisons to the elections of 1960 (March and July) and 1965. The election tomorrow is unique in many respects. The President has made it even more unique.
Every election has had its questions and answers. Quite a few questions have continued unanswered from the time of independence to where we are today. Some of the old questions have been aggravated along the way by wrongheaded answers that were attempted more for reasons of expediency than for genuine resolutions. Several new questions have arisen in recent years, corresponding to wholesale changes in the country's internal affairs and external relationships. When people cast their votes tomorrow, they will be voting on lists of candidates in different districts, but they will not be carrying for guidance lists of political questions that concern academics and commentators. Even those who are familiar with and are exercised over the 'grand questions' of economy, national security/sovereignty, the unitary/federalist dichotomy, war crimes and UNHRC reports, and the relative importance of Sri Lanka's relationships with India, China and the West – will not have much of an answer to any or all of these questions when they cast their votes simply for a party and to indicate their preferences among the candidates in a district.
It will be up to the new parliament that the people will elect tomorrow to deal with those questions and find answers. To ask a question about 'questions', will the new parliament deal with them in a 'transformatively' different way, or will it be bogged down by the shenanigans of the old parliament that was dissolved in July. From that standpoint, the President's actions over the last few days can be seen as a challenge across the political spectrum, to every political party, to get rid of the corrupt deadwood and bring in new blood into the country's political veins. The UNP, more than others, now seemingly smug in anticipation of a favourable outcome tomorrow, must not try to avoid or delay dealing with that challenge inside its own organization, just as President Sirisena is provoking it within the SLFP.
The moral premises of that challenge must spill over into the organization of cabinet government in the new parliament. The people deserve that the new government is qualitatively different from not only the rots of the Rajapaksa regime, but also from the disappointments of the yahapalanya government. And it would be up to President Sirisena to show that he could be just as assertive in ensuring good governance as he is being assertive in cleaning up the SLFP.
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Home > Vol 4, No 3 (2012) >	Yavorskiy
THz Scanner Based on Planar Antenna-Supplied Silicon Field-Effect Transistors
D. Yavorskiy, J. Marczewski, K. Kucharski, P. Kopyt, W. Gwarek, M. Ratajczyk, W. Knap, B. Piętka, J. Łusakowski
A scanning device for imaging at THz frequencies was designed and constructed. The device comprised a 335~GHz source of radiation, an x-y-z translation stages, a number of optical elements and a detector. The detector was a silicon field-effect transistor supplied with a resonant antenna and a low-noise preamplifier. With a detector response of 10~V/W and a source power of 10~mW we could generate images in a DC mode with a speed limited only by the velocity of the stages movement.
W. Knap et al. "Plasma wave detection of sub-terahertz and terahertz radiation by silicon field-effect transistors", Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 675 (2004). CrossRef
R. Tauk et al. "Plasma wave detection of terahertz radiation by silicon field effects transistors: Responsivity and noise equivalent power", Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 253511 (2006). CrossRef
N. Oda et al. "Development of Terahertz focal plane arrays and handy camera", Proc. SPIE 8012 CrossRef
E. Ojefors, U. Pfeiffer, A. Lisauskas, and H. Roskos, "A 0.65 THz Focal-Plane Array in a Quarter-Micron CMOS Process Technology", IEEE J. Solid-state Circuits 44, 1968 (2009). CrossRef
M. Dyakonov and M. Shur, "Detection, mixing, and frequency multiplication of terahertz radiation by two-dimensional electronic fluid", IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices 43, 380 (1996). CrossRef
P. Kopyt, J. Marczewski, K. Kucharski, J. Łusakowski, and W. Gwarek, "Planar antennas for THz radiation detector based on a MOSFET ", Proc. 36th Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, Huston, CrossRef
M. Sakowicz et al. "Terahertz responsivity of field effect transistors versus their static channel conductivity and loading effects", J. Appl. Phys. 110, 054512 (2011). CrossRef

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For information about the Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government, see Augusta, Georgia.
Richmond County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 200,549. It is one of the original counties of Georgia, created February 5, 1777.
Following an election in 1995, the city of Augusta (the county seat) consolidated governments with Richmond County. The consolidated entity is known as Augusta-Richmond County, or simply Augusta. Exempt are the cities of Hephzibah and Blythe, in southern Richmond County, which voted to remain separate.
The county is named for Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, a British politician and office-holder sympathetic to the cause of the American colonies. Richmond was also a first cousin to King George III.
Richmond County was established in 1777 by the first Constitution of the (newly independent) State of Georgia. As such, it is one of the original counties of the state. It was formed out of a portion of the colonial Parish of St. Paul, after the Revolution disestablished the Church of England in the (former) Royal Province of Georgia.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 329 square miles (850 km2), of which 324 square miles (840 km2) is land and 4.3 square miles (11 km2) (1.3%) is water.
The vast majority of Richmond County is located in the Middle Savannah River sub-basin of the Savannah River basin, with just the southwestern corner of the county, from a line running north from Blythe through the middle of Fort Gordon, located in the Brier Creek sub-basin of the Savannah River basin.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 200,549 people, 76,924 households, and 48,641 families residing in the county. The population density was 618.4 inhabitants per square mile (238.8/km2). There were 86,331 housing units at an average density of 266.2 per square mile (102.8/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 54.2% black or African American, 39.7% white, 1.7% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.2% Pacific islander, 1.3% from other races, and 2.6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 4.1% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 8.0% were American, 7.0% were Irish, 6.7% were German, and 5.3% were English.
Of the 76,924 households, 33.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.6% were married couples living together, 22.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 36.8% were non-families, and 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.09. The median age was 33.2 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $37,882 and the median income for a family was $45,220. Males had a median income of $37,368 versus $29,313 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,604. About 19.4% of families and 23.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 36.5% of those under age 18 and 12.1% of those age 65 or over.
Similar to most urban counties in the state with majority African American populations, Richmond County has backed the Democratic Party candidate by increasing margins since 1992. However in every presidential election from 1948 to 1988 which did not have Georgian Jimmy Carter on the ballot, the county backed the Republican candidate for president. Prior to 1948, the county voted like a typical Solid South county, voting for Democratic presidential candidates by landslide margins. 1928 was an exception to this rule with Herbert Hoover beating Al Smith handily due to anti-Catholic sentiment.
^ "Richmond County". New Georgia Encyclopedia.
A. Ray Rowland (ed.), Historical Markers of Richmond County, Georgia. Augusta, GA: Richmond County Historical Society, 1966.
Richmond County History. Augusta, GA: Richmond County Historical Society, 1969-date. —Journal, established Winter 1969.


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What I learnt from making our new connectivity testing video
Posted: 2nd June, 2020
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After overseeing the development our new video series, Zenzic's Tristan Bacon reflects on connectivity in a broad sense and on what it will bring to the connected and self-driving future.
In these challenging times of a global pandemic, with much separation and restriction, the role technology has played in allowing us to stay connected is evident.
High network speeds, low-latency connections and device accessibility we have today would have been technological fantasies to generations past. The idea of jumping from video call to video call with family, friends and colleagues, whilst streaming endless videos, music and podcasts with hundreds of others in the same neighbourhood simultaneously would've been a complete anathema rewinding merely 15 years.
Even in this time of isolation and solitude, we're still connected, very connected, and in many senses that's a great thing. Many organisations can continue to operate in some capacity or another, while family, friends and communities are able to stay in touch and huge swathes of commerce continues online, allowing people to receive deliveries and continue with their lives in many respects. In addition, as technology has become more affordable, intuitive and easy to set up, those who previously weren't connected, perhaps on lower incomes, older or with accessibility requirements, can now benefit.
All these examples bring into focus how the effective operation of any organisation, group or system, relies heavily on the connectivity and communication that underlies it.
It's no different with the future of connected and automated mobility (CAM).
Delivering on safety, inclusivity and efficiency
Connectivity is a foundational element for the realisation of CAM benefits such as increased safety, inclusivity and efficiency for our transport networks. Already today we have a vast array of connectivity applications and systems for vehicles that are transforming the way we travel. It's only set to mature and grow.
However, continuing to realise such benefits is not inevitable and this is where diverse and thorough testing comes in.
Connectivity will benefit us in a variety of different ways, which means the testing approaches need to be similarly broad. Comprising a comprehensive and integrated set of testing facilities, CAM Testbed UK is equipped to explore and implement these approaches safely and robustly. With extensive variation in road environments and world-leading connectivity and communications technologies, the sites are collectively, perfectly poised to develop and test the countless connectivity applications that will transform the future of mobility.
The UK's diverse connectivity testing capabilities
Over the last few months, I have had the privilege of coordinating a video project, CAM Testbed UK: Connected, that showcases these facilities. We've taken a regular electric van around the sites, performing a variety of tests to demonstrate the individual and collective connectivity capabilities of CAM Testbed UK.
For me, the distinctive feature of the series is the diversity of capabilities the UK has to offer. The tests provide a variety of insights across a spectrum of road environments from controlled through to the real roads, as well as those related to data exchange, analysis and simulation. This variety is important as it indicates the effectiveness of CAM Testbed UK to tackle a multitude of different connectivity questions and challenges:
How can data be exchanged and analysed to provide insight for our future transport systems?
How can interaction between physical and simulated environments improve CAM operation?
How can real-time rapid data transfer and reporting optimise CAM performance?
How can we share road context information direct to vehicles safely and robustly?
How does connectivity support trials and benefit safety case development for future CAM?
Realising substantial deployment of CAM on our roads will depend on our ability to tackle these questions, as well as many others. Comprehensive and integrated testing facilities, such as those in CAM Testbed UK, are fundamental to this.
What have I learnt from making CAM Testbed UK: Connected?
The UK can be confident in realising widespread connectivity benefits for our transport networks because our test facilities are truly comprehensive and integrated. We are in a strong position to lead the way internationally and set the standard for excellence in developing and deploying CAM at scale.
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SCOTUS hears Indiana case
Michael W. Hoskins
KEYWORDS Felony / U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana / District Courts / Supreme Court of the United States / Oral arguments / Courts / neglect
SCOTUS rules on Indiana 'crime of violence' case
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Indiana Federal Community Defender Bill Marsh made his debut appearance before the nation's highest court on Jan. 12, arguing an Indiana case that questions whether vehicular flight from police is considered "violent" and warrants a higher sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
The case is Marcus Sykes v. U.S.A., No. 09-11311, and it comes from the Southern District of Indiana with the potential to impact many other pending cases inside and outside the state.
U.S. Judge Larry McKinney rejected Sykes' argument that fleeing police in a vehicle wasn't "violent," and the judge applied an enhancement to reach a 188-month prison sentence. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling affirmed the enhancement decision in March 2010, finding that it is considered a "violent felony" as it had previously decided on other cases and was dictated by SCOTUS precedent.
Representing Sykes, Marsh is arguing that the ACCA-applied conviction for vehicular flight was inconsistent with the SCOTUS ruling in U.S. v. Chambers, 555 U.S. 129 S. Ct. 687 (2009), which held that failing to report for parole was separate and distinct from escaping from a penal institution, and therefore falls outside of the category of violent felonies listed in the ACCA. Marsh is relying on a distinction the court made in Chambers, that fleeing from police is a distinct category of flight under Indiana Code § 35-44-3.
Transcripts of the arguments show the justices expressed some hesitation in finding this offense falls under the ACCA use of "violent" felony. Justices questioned both sides about various types of police chases and whether the degree of a chase dictates whether it's considered "violent," and several of the jurists pointed to examples from Indiana cases and hypothetical scenarios.
Justice Antonin Scalia noted that he doesn't think fast fleeing is such a violent activity, saying at one point to U.S. Assistant Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall: "Do words mean nothing? I mean, we're talking about a violent felony. That's what the federal law requires. And you want us to hold that failing to stop when a police officer tells you to stop is a violent felony. That seems to me a big leap."
He wondered whether speeding might be considered a "violent felony" under this statute, and Justice Elena Kagan asked whether drag racing or running away on foot might meet that definition.
Chief Justice John Roberts also noted that a person's simple "running away" isn't aggressive, though it may be considered "purposeful" and could even be considered "violent" if it causes injury or death that isn't intended.
"Certainly the other option is to turn and confront, and he doesn't want to," the chief justice said. "There's nothing aggressive about running away. Those are the three words, 'purposeful, violent, and aggressive.' I'll give you purposeful, I'll give you violent, but aggressive?"
The SCOTUS is likely to rule on this case by the time its term ends this summer, but it could also delay a decision until after it hears McNeill v. U.S.A., No. 10-5258, a case that also involves ACCA.
Rehearing "Crime of violence?" IL Dec. 8-21, 2010
Michael Hoskins joined Indiana Lawyer in May 2006 and mostly covers the state and federal court systems. He's received awards from the Indiana Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for his work covering the state's juvenile justice system, the federal immigration court system, wrongful conviction issues, and long-running lawsuits regarding prison conditions.
He came from the Daily Journal in Johnson County, where he was a general assignment reporter covering courts and legal issues. Before moving to Indiana in 2004 from southeast Michigan, Hoskins freelanced for the Detroit Free Press and worked for the Spinal Column Newsweekly after graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Oakland University in 2001. He currently lives in Greenwood with his wife, Susanne, and volunteers with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Recent Articles by Michael Hoskins
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Justice Frank Sullivan leaving bench to teach
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We are delighted to announce that we are now working with Strada Music agency. This is a great moment for us and we're really looking forward to many future gigs once the country has opened up again. CHECK THEM OUT
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From our local newspaper, The Craven Herald & Pioneer - a lovely article about our November release 'The Highwayman' and our collaboration with Grassington actor and poet John Anderson. READ ARTICLE:
https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/18903488.grassington-actor-band-unite-performance-nations-favourite-poem-highwayman/
Last years tour was such a roller coaster, we loved finally getting to London and playing for such wonderful supportive audiences. Just before the tour started we performed on the ALTERNATIVE STAGE at LEEDS FESTIVAL 2019 which was incredible. You can see our performance by clicking the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcgqYjn4FLM
We decided we would like to do something active about climate change, so we got involved with Global climate movement Extinction Rebellion. We worked for them at Leeds Festival, programmed and performed at the Leeds Global strike and are still performing and supporting XR actions. You can see our work with them on our Instagram story.
Thank you to our friend Elle Hartley Smith, author of The Forge Zine, a quarterly York-based zine that celebrates writing, art and all things creative, for this page on our single release 'Elise'. You can find out more:
Download - https://issuu.com/forgezine
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We're on Radio Free Matlock 16/01/19 at 7pm
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Listen again - https://radiofreematlock.co.uk/listen/
We're delighted to let you all know we've been featured on The Mike Harding Folk Show this December along with a bunch of other fantastic folk and acoustic artists! Head on over to http://www.mikehardingfolkshow.com/category/podcasts/ to give it a listen, we pop up at about 31 minutes.
Here's a bit of what Mike had to say about us; "...I think the band, who are all very young, are well on their way to achieving..."


Tasks: We do the Blood Grouping (ABO & Rh Type) of the patients coming to NITOR. Then we do the grouping, selection of the Donor and collection of the blood from the donor. Ultimately we supply the blood to the donor after the screening process of the donor's blood is done.
The test will be rechecked by the in charge of the department if any difficulties arise. If the blood collected is in store (freeze) for more than 10 days, then during supply time we do check the blood to see if there is any haemolysis present or not. Blood coming from outside like Red Crescent, Quantum, Sandhani, Badhon, Bangladesh Blood Bank, Famous Blood Bank are also rechecked by us.


This handsome, hand crafted wood board features a chess board on one side and backgammon on the other. Comes complete with chess pieces, dice and backgammon chips. Handmade in the Tatra Mountain region of Poland.


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You know, I don't think I want to even touch the part where he suggests that Banksy should have been murdered at birth.
I've posted here before (and at some length) about graffiti and its artistic potential. Indeed, I was reminded of it just the other day as I was heading back to London on the train, going past a rather fine mural of a shark beside the track (can't find a photo of it online, sadly). London has a fantastic supply of awesome graffiti — this and this are just beautiful, for example, and I love the South Bank combination skate park and graffiti wall.
Now, I can fully appreciate that even though I really like some graffiti work, it isn't to everyone's taste, and some people would rather it be removed. That's an occupational hazard for street artists, and if the people who live in the areas where it's particularly prevalent really don't want to look at it every day, it's hardly my place to tell them that their opinions shouldn't count.
All of which brings us to a news story that caught my eye today, about Bristol City Council planning to let members of the public vote on whether specific bits of street art should be kept or removed. This seems like a great idea, if they can make sure the voting's fair (apparently they're using an online poll, which isn't exactly immune from interference and will naturally skew the vote towards the younger end of the population). And if the public decide that a particular piece isn't worth keeping, more power to them.
"The two words 'graffiti' and 'art' should never be put together," said the art critic Brian Sewell. He added the council were "bonkers". "The public doesn't know good from bad."
"For this city to be guided by the opinion of people who don't know anything about art is lunacy. It doesn't matter if they [the public] like it. It will result in a proliferation of entirely random decoration, for want of a better word," he said.
Oh dear. Who let Brian Sewell out of his crypt? I'm sure he knows a lot about art — at least I hope he does, given that that's his job — but he's committing the cardinal sin of a critic, that of thinking that only certain people are permitted to be critics.
That isn't to say that everyone's viewpoint is equally correct, or even equally worth listening to. If you can't back up an opinion with at least some kind of reasoning, no-one's very likely to listen to it. But that's a very long way from suggesting that only those who offer these opinions professionally should ever be heard, or indeed that people without the "proper" education are necessarily incapable of forming a reasoned judgement. I know practically nothing about art or its history, for example, and yet when I look at any particular bit of artwork I can generally come up with something specific that I like or dislike about it.
Sewell may have a grain of truth in his objections — after all, this is the country that has repeatedly voted on Big Brother enough to keep it on our screens (although not any more), so there isn't any guarantee that the people involved in the vote will choose a course of action that will improve Bristol. However, the main reason he's wrong in this case (quite apart from a breathtaking degree of arrogance — and I know arrogance, given that I apparently think enough of myself that I write a bunch of stuff on a semi-regular basis and assume that a lot of strangers on the Internet might care about it at some point) is that this particular bit of artwork doesn't exist in a vacuum. Because it's street art, it's very much part of the city — and it's a city which enjoys a general lack of Brian Sewell, given that he lives in London.
That means that although Sewell may be perfectly within his rights to criticise street art in the context of art, his opinions as to its place in the city have no weight at all. And, more to the point, the people who do live in Bristol automatically have something of a right to decide what goes on there. Sewell's thesis, that the public shouldn't be allowed to decide what their city looks like because they don't necessarily know what a city "should" look like, is therefore flawed on two fronts. Not only does being part of a city give you at least some rights in shaping it, opinions are not necessarily exclusive to those who can back them up most effectively.


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Business should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle Eight
undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle Nine
encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
The Origin of the Environment Principles
Internationally co-ordinated work on the environment has been led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), since its inception in 1973. UNEP has provided leadership and encouraged partnerships to care for the environment, for example, through Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) which have addressed issues such as species loss and the need for conservation at a global and regional level. UNEP has created much of the international environmental law in use today.
The three environmental principles of the Global Compact are drawn from a Declaration of Principles and an International Action Plan (Agenda 21) that emerged from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janerio in 1992. Chapter 30 of Agenda 21, identified that the policies and operations of business and industry can play a major role in reducing impacts on resource use and the environment. In particular, business can contribute through the promotion of cleaner production and responsible entrepreneurship.
The Rio Declaration – a statement of 27 principles upon which nations agreed to base their actions in dealing with environmental and development issues. The Rio Declaration built on the previous Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment which was adopted in Stockholm in 1972. The Stockholm conference was the first global environmental meeting of governments, which stated that long-term economic progress needs to be linked with environmental protection.
Agenda 21 – a 40 chapter, action blueprint on specific issues relating to sustainable development that emerged from the Rio Summit. Agenda 21 explained that population, consumption and technology were the primary driving forces of environmental change and for the first time, at an international level, explicitly linked the need for development and poverty eradication with progress towards sustainable development
The 'Brundtland Report', 'Our Common Future' which was produced in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development, also laid the foundations for the Environment Principles. This landmark document highlighted that people needed to change the way they lived and did business or face unacceptable levels of human suffering and environmental damage.
The environmental principles of the Global Compact provide an entry point for business to address the key environmental challenges. In particular, the principles direct activity to areas such as research, innovation, co-operation, education, and self-regulation that can positively address the significant environmental degradation, and damage to the planet's life support systems, brought by human activity.
Key Environmental Challenges
loss of biodiversity and long-term damage to ecosystems
pollution of the atmosphere and the consequences of climate change
damage to aquatic ecosystems
the impacts of chemicals use and disposal
waste production
depletion of non-renewable resources
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides one entry point to the UN's work on the environment – www.unenvironment.org/
UNEP's Division of Technology Industry and Economics (DTIE) develops voluntary initiatives and partnerships with business leaders and a range of organisations focused on environmental protections, efficient resources use and innovation – http://www.uneptie.org
A full text version of Agenda 21 may be viewed at – www.unenvironment.org/
The Principles of the Rio Declaration are available at – www.unenvironment.org/
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is an international business network developing links between business, government and non-governmental organisations on sustainable development issues – www.wbcsd.org/
Business for Social Responsibility is an international business network, embracing companies of all sizes, working across a broad range of issues that include environmentally sustainable development – www.bsr.org/en/
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is a think tank that also promotes practical ways to protect the earth – www.wri.org
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) is a international body founded in 1948 to influence, encourage and assist societies in the goal of nature conservation – www.iucn.org
The Coalition of Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) is a non-profit membership organisation of investors, and various interest groups that developed 10 principles of environmentally responsible behaviour – www.ceres.org
The Greening of Industry is an international network of academic research and policy analysis focused on the relationship between industry, society and the environment – http://www.greeningofindustry.org


An atheist tries to demonstrate "evolutionary psychology."
Five members the Bolingbrook chapter of American Atheists were arrested following a Darwin Day demonstration at The Promenade Bolingbrook.
Cunningham claims the group's wanted to perform a live demonstration of evolutionary psychology on the Promenade.
Bolingbrook police officers, who asked not to be identified, accused the group of harassing females. Officers then showed pictures of group members hold up signs with vulgar comments. The officers also played an audio tape of an alleged member of the group mentioning to women that American Atheists was offering a million dollar prize to any woman who would sleep with a member.
Cunningham admitted that there was a prize.
Becky, 16, claims that she was accosted by one of the atheists.
Donna, 20, said one of atheists drove her to tears.
After resisting Promenade security. Bolingbrook police finally arrested the activists, and charged them with several counts of lewd conduct, solicitation, and violating the 1969 Bolingbrook riot ordinance.
"We will fight these charges, and keep bringing the atheist attitude to the streets of Bolingbrook!" Exclaimed Cunningham.
Dennis L. Thomposon, spokesperson for the national American Atheists office denied that they have a Bolingbrook chapter.
He also added. "I think this shows that need to provide a events where single men and single girls can mingle without bothering the prudes."


The other day I spent some time attempting to track down a video of two fifth grade boys performing my poem about Brussels sprouts to a group of kindergartners. I never found it but while looking through YouTube videos I discovered a number of people young and old performing my work. I had a fine time! Here are a few samples.
This first poem, "I'd Rather Not," came from SOMEBODY CATCH MY HOMEWORK, published by Boyds Mills Press in 1993.
The picture book, WAKE UP, SUN!, was published in 1986 by Random House. It has sold more than 1.2 million copies and is in its 73rd printing.
THE BOOK OF GIANT STORIES was published in 1972 by McGraw Hill/American Heritage Press and won a Christopher Medal. It was later picked up by Boyds Mills Press and enjoyed an extended life. Total sales were just under 1 million copies.
A MONSTER IS COMING is another Random House book. It was published in 2011.
Here's WAKE UP, SUN! again. I included it because the reader seems to be alternating English with Japanese.
This was another surprise. I don't know who made this one but it's the poem, "Cookie," from PIRATES, published by Boyds Mills Press in 2008. The book was chosen by Missouri Center for the Book to represent Missouri that year at The National Book Fair in Washington D.C. It was an NCTE Notable Book of Poetry and chosen by VOYA for its Nonfiction Honor List, and was on some state reading lists.
This last one I chose is one of the four CLIFFORD books I adapted from television scripts for Scholastic. DOGS AND CATS was published in 2001.


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Tags: EU | Sweden | Toxin
German Is Suspected of Blackmailing Czech Govt with a Toxin
Saturday, 16 April 2016 12:04 PM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor says a 27-year-old German doctoral student is suspected of blackmailing the Czech government by sending an undisclosed toxic substance he had acquired over the Internet.
Prosecutor Henrik Soderman says the unnamed man also traded in toxic substances, like ricin, on the Internet. Soderman says ricin was not used in the blackmail scheme but declined to elaborate.
The man pleaded innocent to the charges but was put in pre-trial detention Saturday until April 29. He was arrested Wednesday at his home in Uppsala where he was a Ph.D. student at the city's university. The suspect's lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Soderman said the investigation, which began in the fall of 2015, involved police in several countries, including the United States and the Czech Republic.
A Swedish prosecutor says a 27-year-old German doctoral student is suspected of blackmailing the Czech government by sending an undisclosed toxic substance he had acquired over the Internet.Prosecutor Henrik Soderman says the unnamed man also traded in toxic substances,...
EU,Sweden,Toxin


A new paper published in Nature suggests that climate change may not have the devastating effect on corals that has been predicted. Scientists documented the regeneration of 21 reefs in the Seychelles that had been largely killed off during the coral beaching episode of 1998. The study shows that by 2011, 12 of the reefs had recovered to pre 1998 levels.
A paper published in Nature's Scientific Reports describes the first freshwater coralline algae. Pneophyllum cetinaensis is a red algae, which are typically a significant component of sea beds in marine environments. In this instance, the new species has been found in the River Cetina in Croatia.


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The long route
How a real-life drama delayed our complex film shoot for National Highways
Our major film campaign project for National Highways faced lengthy hold-ups on its journey to completion.
The government-owned organisation, formerly Highways England, is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving our motorways and major A-roads. We first pitched our idea pre-COVID, proposing a short film to dramatise it's Home Safe and Well initiative.
Lockdown shutdown
After a research trip to speak to Highway Patrol officers on the M25, we created a concept that blended live action with animated effects to illustrate the human connections they make across the country. Pre-production on our film began in earnest. Location scouting, storyboarding and casting was well under way, with a shoot set to take place at the end of March 2020. Then lockdown changed everything.
Although our film team continued to work throughout the crisis, the scale and complexity of this shoot meant it was impossible to carry on.
Finally, in September 2021, we got the green light. A complicated shoot involved 20 cars, a motorbike, a lorry, a Ford Transit, a white MX5 and a smashed-up Jaguar at the MIRA Technology Institution in Warwickshire.
The campaign film will be used to share National Highways' commitment to safety for its employees, contractors and the travelling public.
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ADE é um óleo composto vitamínico lipossolúvel das vitaminas A, D, E., de coloração amarelo-alaranjada, e de uso exclusivamente veterinário, injetável.

A função principal do óleo é suprir necessidades de carência de vitaminas lipossolúveis diretamente e prevenir infecções nos animais., ainda assim com uso restrito a alguns grupos de animais (permitido para bovinos, equinos, suínos, caprinos, ovinos e coelhos, e com claras recomendações para não se usar em cães e gatos)

Porém o ADE adquiriu uma nova utilidade quando foi descoberto que os resultados ao injetá-lo em partes localizadas do corpo, conhecido como "hipertrofia local", sendo similares ao óleo Synthol, outro óleo injetável, bastante popular no mercado americano, utilizado para inchar o músculo, dando uma falsa aparência de músculo malhado.

O uso do Synthol/ADE e outros óleos localizados apenas traz o inchaço instantâneo pelo acúmulo de óleo na região, e não aumenta de forma alguma fibras musculares e/ou força. Pelo contrário, já houve até casos em que o uso contínuo de ADE causou a redução da massa magra.

O uso do ADE entre todos os óleos de crescimento local (que por conceito já são seriamente contra-indicados) é considerado o mais danoso e mais doloroso, por não ser um produto especializado em crescimento local como os outros óleos (e sim um produto veterinário), não contém analgésico em sua fórmula.

O ADE por si só pode causar abscessos no local injetado e proximidades, infecções, embolia e necrose do membro, o que causa uma futura amputação. As consequências da injeção do ADE são: paralisia (caso na hora da injeção seja atingido um nervo), parada respiratória, infarto e parada cardíaca.. Em caso de complicações gerais, não é raro chegar a casos fatais.

Ver também
Anabolizante
Bioquímica

Medicina veterinária
Óleos
Bioquímica

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MYSTIC PROPHECY's 'Fireangel' Lands On German Chart
"Fireangel", the sixth album from the German power metal band MYSTIC PROPHECY, has entered the Media Control chart in the group's home country at position No. 77.
"Fireangel" was released on May 22 via Massacre Records. The follow-up to 2007's "Satanic Curses" was recorded at Prophecy Studios and was mixed in Sweden under the direction of Fredrik Nordström (DIMMU BORGIR, ARCH ENEMY, IN FLAMES) and R.D. Liapakis (FIREWIND, CHASTAIN, ELDRITCH). According to the band, the new CD "[is] a step between 'Regressus' [2003] and 'Savage Souls' [2006]."
"Fireangel" track listing:
01. Across The Gates Of Hell
02. Demons Blood
03. We Kill You Die
04. Father Save Me
05. To The Devil I Pray
06. Fireangel
07. Fight Back The Light
08. Death Under Control
09. Revolution Evil
10. Gods Of War
11. Forever Betrayed
Watch a trailer for the CD below.
MYSTIC PROPHECY last year announced the addition of DESCENDING/ex-NIGHTRAGE guitarist Constantine to the group's ranks.
GHOST And VOLBEAT Commemorate Co-Headlining Tour With Single Featuring METALLICA Covers
SAXON Pays Tribute To People Who Have Died Of COVID-19 In New Song 'Remember The Fallen'
MEGADETH And LAMB OF GOD Announce Second Leg Of 'The Metal Tour Of The Year' With TRIVIUM And IN FLAMES
Watch TOOL Play First Concert In Nearly Two Years
METALLICA's LARS ULRICH Pays Tribute To BUDGIE's BURKE SHELLEY


A balanced-budget amendment would deprive policymakers of the flexibility they need to address national security and economic emergencies.
Does this look like the record of policymakers making sensible decisions, running surpluses in good year and deficits when they have to "address national security and economic emergencies"? Of course not. Once Keynesianism gave policymakers permission to run deficits, they spent with abandon year after year. And that's why it makes sense to impose rules on them, even rules that leave less flexibility than would be ideal if you had ideal statesmen. Indeed, the debt ceiling itself should be that kind of rule, one that limits the amount of debt policymakers can run up. But it has obviously failed.
We've become so used to these stunning, incomprehensible, unfathomable levels of deficits and debt — and to the once-rare concept of trillions of dollars — that we forget how new all this debt is. In 1980, after 190 years of federal spending, the national debt was "only" $1 trillion. Now, just 30 years later, it's sailing past $14 trillion.
There have always been two reasons for adding to the national debt. One is to fight wars. The second is to counteract recessions. But while the national debt in 1982 was 35% of GDP, after a quarter century of nearly uninterrupted economic growth and the end of the Cold War the debt-to-GDP ratio has more than doubled.
Annual federal spending rose by a trillion dollars when Republicans controlled the government from 2001 to 2007. It has risen another trillion during the Bush-Obama response to the financial crisis. So spending every year is now twice what it was when Bill Clinton left office. Republicans and Democrats alike should be able to find wasteful, extravagant, and unnecessary programs to cut back or eliminate. They could find some of them here in this report by Chris Edwards.
In the Kentucky Resolutions, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Just so. When it becomes clear that Congress as a body cannot be trusted with the management of the public fisc, then bind them down with the chains of the Constitution, even — or especially — chains that deny them the flexibility they have heretofore abused.


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Q: arraylists and polymorphism I am working on a project and it contains a main, a parent class, and 3 subclasses. Right now I have it set up to when the program runs. I store each of the values for each subsclass in three seperate arrayliats. I need to make it so I use only one arraylist and polymorphism. How would I go about doing this?

A: Just use a List<ParentClass> instead of your 3 array lists.
public class ParentClass {...}
public class ChildClass1 : ParentClass {...}
public class ChildClass2 : ParentClass {...}
public class ChildClass3 : ParentClass {...}

var list = new List<ParentClass>();
var child1 = new ChildClass1();
var child2 = new ChildClass2();
var child3 = new ChildClass3();
list.Add(child1);
list.Add(child2);
list.Add(child3);

When you'll read your children from the list, you can determine their type using either 'is' or 'as'.
if (list[0] is ChildClass1)
{
}

ChildClass1 child1 = list[0] as ChildClass1;
// child1 will be null if list[0] is not a ChildClass1

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Grinning Skull Studios: Singularity Adventure Module GSAM02 Out Now!
Back again with a new release, Grinning Skull Studios present SINGULARITY Adventure Module GSAM02, our latest System-free Sci-fi module.
Have you ever woken up dead, but just never realized it? Well, that's exactly what happens to the crew of the Scientific Research Vessel, Clausius.
When the player characters awake from cryostasis, their brains, addled by the cryogenic mind fog of hypersleep drugs, are in no fit state to realize there is anything out of the ordinary happening – other than the proximity alarms blaring, and the crew of an unknown vessel about to board their ship.
As they scramble to save their ship, the player characters realize there is more going on than meets the eye. Not only has the ship's distress beacon has been activated, but when they discover the withered husks of the rest of the crew, they realize their last memories of leaving Earth don't match with what they are seeing. Except for one crew member, that is. He has distinct memories of events long after they left Earth behind.
As the player characters desperately try to keep control of their ship and get to grips with the mysterious events that have happened around them, they realize the external threat is nothing compared to the existential threat that lurks within.
Complete with pre-generated characters, this one-shot sci-fi adventure throws the player characters straight into the action, and if they survive, they might just begin to question what it means to be human.
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A LOOK AT THE
DELAWARE RIVER BASIN
Our Shared Waters
A Sail on the Delaware, a Field Lesson about Protecting Our Shared Waters
Peter Eschbach is the former Director of External Affairs and Communications for the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) and directed the Our Shared Waters program during his tenure.
📷 Delaware River Basin Commission
When it comes to understanding environmental and sustainability concerns surrounding the Delaware River, there's no better way to learn than to actually get out on the water and gain first-hand experience. That's exactly what the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) offered to legislators in our region over the course of tours and sails this summer aboard the Kalmar Nyckel tall ship.
As I prepare to retire from the DRBC at the end of October, I wanted to share more about this rewarding experience leading the Our Shared Waters project and how these boating events exemplified the goals of our project to educate the public and decision-makers about the importance of protecting the Delaware River.
Our first event in August for legislators included a ship tour and conversations with Kalmar Nyckel's captain in Wilmington, Delaware. As we learned, extreme heat and humidity can make sailing a challenge, and health concerns prevailed to keep us dockside. With climate change contributing to rising temperatures, it's a stress upon the Delaware River that we all came to appreciate that day.
In September, though, conditions were just right to take Pennsylvania state Senators and Representatives, community members and local business leaders aboard the ship for a two-hour sail out of Bristol, Pennsylvania.
There's nothing like being out on the Delaware while you're learning about the Delaware. All aboard were able to see and experience its power and beauty while simultaneously learning from experts about the reasons why we must protect it. There's something about that message that resonates more deeply than it ever could in a conference room or during a press conference.
For example, Rep. K.C. Tomlinson (PA-18) shared with us that she grew up on the Delaware River, boating with her dad, Sen. Tommy Tomlinson (PA-6). The Delaware River is central to her district for recreation, commerce, and sought-after waterfront residential neighborhoods.
Rep. Perry Warren (PA-31) who sailed with us knows well the beauty and power of the Delaware River. As I write this, a Nor'easter is passing through his district and flood warnings have been issued.
Our attendees got to experience hauling the sails while feeling the wind on their face, hearing the water lapping the ship and taking in breathtaking river views. Then they visited onboard stations to hear about the value of clean water. At each station, a few of our partners shared diverse perspectives about the benefit of a healthy Delaware River. These included a local brewer, a director of water quality and environmental compliance from a water utility company, a watershed director from Audubon, and they were joined by a DRBC water resource scientist and the DRBC's deputy executive director.
Clean safe drinking water also is a priority for Sen. Art Haywood (PA-4), as parts of his Philadelphia district have been impacted by PFOA and PFOS contamination. Sen. Haywood has sponsored legislation to reduce the levels of these contaminants in our drinking water to protect the health of his constituents and says, "we all need to drink clean water."
This unique sail experience served as not only a learning experience, but a bonding one for everyone aboard.
Rep. Mary Isaacson (PA-175) remarked during the sail that gathering with colleagues in experiential opportunities is rare and helps to find areas of common importance and value.
And really, that's what it's all about, connecting people to their local waterway and helping them realize they're part of something bigger. The DRBC has been working for decades to clean up the Delaware River and get it to where it is today. But we need everyone to realize it will take a team effort to continue improving it.
While I'm proud of many initiatives from my time leading the Our Shared Waters project, these sails stand out among our successes demonstrating the role we all play in protecting our water supply. And I know that each of these sails leaves a lasting impression on everyone aboard.
I am grateful to have been one of the Delaware River Basin's stewards over the years. Thank you for being part of our community.
Kalmar Nyckel
Delaware River


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Since first appearing back in 1994, the PlayStation has made Sony one of the most successful gaming manufacturers ever. The PlayStation 2 and original PlayStation are the two best-selling home consoles of all time; the former might even be the biggest selling console of any type.
Today, Sony announced a very special milestone: they have now sold 500 million PlayStations. By comparison, only Nintendo have sold more, with more than 700 million in console sales, and they have been in the game more than a decade longer than Sony.
Such a momentous number deserves celebrating, and that's exactly what Sony are doing, by announcing a new PS4 Pro. This limited edition model won't do much to boost their sales figures – only 50,000 are being put into production – but it has some nice touches that are certain to make it a popular piece of hardware.
In fact, we'd go so far as to say this is one of the nicest special edition PS4s we've seen this generation. We've noted before that Sony have been criticised for some less-than-inspired special editions. However, this Pro is extremely nice.
With a dark blue shell, what immediately stands out about the 500 Million Limited Edition model is the fact it's transparent. This harks back to an era when this was all the rage, and is a nice nod to the past.
Another nice touch is a small gold plaque, which will record each unit's unique serial number. The bundle comes with a controller and, curiously, the PlayStation Camera, both in the same transparent blue.
This Pro is also unique in that it has a 2TB hard-drive. So far, we've only ever seen Pro consoles with a 1TB capacity.
The bundle will be available from August 24th, with an RRP €499. We expect this will probably translate to £450.


WannaCry is estimated to have affected over 300.000 computers worldwide. In the UK the NHS was the worst hit but worldwide major companies such as Telefonica in Spain, Deutsche Bahn in Germany and Fed-EX the international shipper were all affected. The immediate problems caused by cyber-attack have now abated but what can business do to protect themselves from future similar ransomware attacks?
In simple terms ransomware attacks are commonly delivered by emails which trick recipients into opening attachments which then launch the attack. On gaining access to your computer the criminals then lock and encrypt your files and demand payment (usually by Bitcoin). Whether or not the victim pays up is entirely a matter of choice but if you do there is absolutely no guarantee that the criminals will release your files. They may simply demand further payments or even delete the files.
turn off the affected computer and disconnect it from your network.
Always install updates and patches issued by your software suppliers.
Make sure your anti-virus protection software is up to date.
Never download software or apps from unofficial sources.
Always make sure you have available a full back up of your files which is stored outside of your network and so will still be accessible if a cyber-attack occurs.
Educate your staff about the risks of opening attachments to emails if there is anything at all suspicious about the address from which the email has been sent. Do not just look at the name of the sender – check the email address too.
Businesses can also sign up to Cyber Essentials the government endorsed standard on cyber security. If you supply, or you aspire to be a supplier, under a government contract then Cyber Essentials certification is now mandatory.
The National Cyber Security Service in the UK has issued new guidance for businesses and home owners.
It is reported that 1 in 4 UK businesses reported a cyber breach or attack in the last 12 months. Everyone should take steps as a matter of course to protect their systems. If you would like more information please talk to Tollers on 01604 258558 and ask to speak to Liz Appleyard in our Commercial Team.


Phillips was due to leave the chain in March, but left the business earlier than expected saying the end of the financial year was an "appropriate time to relinquish his responsibilities". Potts arrival means there will be now three former Tesco directors running operations at Morrisons.
Chief financial officer Trevor Strain, a former Tesco man, had taken on the role on the until a replacement was found, aided by new chairman Andrew Higginson, also ex-Tesco, who joined the company in October.
Potts spent nearly 40 at rival Tesco, working his way from shelf-stacker to heading up the company's Asian business. He left the business in December 2011.
Analyst Clive Black of Shore Capital said Potts' appointment was no surprise, and he was a highly experienced and effective retail operator. Black said he would bring focus and pace to Morrisons, and his experience of working alongside Higginson and Strain at Tesco would be very important.
He said the supermarket's current strategy was unlikely to see material change, but operational adjustments were likely, including the "wholesale evolution" of the non-executive team that he said had "overseen some dreadful decision-making".
"The insights and emphasis that a very fit and sharp eyed Mr. Potts will bring should create a firmer basis for an improvement in sales at the company, and we know that the market is particularly sensitive to sales momentum in retail at this time," he said.
Kate Latham, managing director, retail, leisure and consumer at executive search firm, Norman Broadbent, said: "Morrisons has been struggling with the structural changes in grocery retailing for a number of years. David Potts, who was considered an inspirational leader at Tesco, known and respected by every store manager, will bring a wealth of experience to the table. David was also on the Tesco board when its market value tripled and helped move the business internationally and online.
"David has a strong track record of investing, nurturing and promoting talent. At a time when Morrisons' employees may be feeling a little unsure, David will motivate and galvanise a large group of people and in turn earn their trust."
Morrisons saw like-for-like sales fall 3.1% in the key Christmas trading period to January 4, the worst performing of the big four supermarkets.


I am working in a school who has purchased 20 Net books running Win7 Pro. They came with a load of rubbish trials and programs installed so i uninstalled them right at the start.
BING being one of them it was installed as a program. I also installed all Microsoft Updates.
We have IE Settings (Proxy, Proxy bypass, Homepage, Favorites, Searchbar URL) and all of them are applied to all clients in school fine but on the net books we still get BING popping up stating "do you want this as your homepage" so i press no and it becomes the homepage overiding the GP settings.
I have tried a few things to sort this.
I took away the Homepage setting and created a new GPO just for the Homepage did GPUPDATE / FORCE on all Net Books and this worked on one of the Net Books for one user. It looks like the option to have BING is because IE9 has been installed but each user is prompted for BING to be the Homepage and each user presses no but it becomes the homepage - its driving me mad.
I have looked into automatic Browser Configuration and was going to set the interval to every 60 seconds but i could not give a URL for the CAB file and it seemed to technical anyway when GP should just push these settings out.
the GPO is set to Enforced in AD at Domain Level all the IE settings are applied fine and there are no errors in Event Log.
Its like the GPO pushes out the info and then Bing changes afterwards.
Did the machines come with the Office Starter/Bing Bar "freebie"?
In Programs and Features BING was listed but it did not explain what it was exactly so i removed it (I know its Microsofts Search Engine but didnt know why it would be installed as a program) it took 5 minutes to remove from a new net book which suggested it was a big program.
I am unsure why they would do this, i'm guessing Microsoft are attempting to compete with Chrome.
The machines did come with Office 2010 starter and i removed that too.
I have used Trend Hijack This but i never thought i would have to go to each machine and spend time on this - not that i am unwilling or lazy but i struggle to comprehend why MS have created such a messy embedded search engine.
Some people on forums i found while google researching suggested i should move to Firefox as its much more simpler. The children using these machines are between 6 - 10.
Would you suggest this as a possible solution \ workaround?
If you desire an alternative browser, I recommend Google Chrome, but the mose secure (and therefore safest) browser currently is IE9!
Also, what you removed was probably the "Bing Toolbar," not Bing itself! I also recommend that ALL toolbar add-ins be removed from browsers (unless absolutely necessary) as they impact performance and interfere with normal operation. Most are installed inadvertently, anyway!


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Garmin vs Fitbit: choose the right fitness watch for you
By Michael Sawh , Cat Ellis published 27 December 21
Which watch deserves a place on your wrist? We're here to help
(Image credit: Garmin / Fitbit)
Fitbit and Garmin are two of the biggest names in the fitness tracker and smartwatch business. Especially if you care about keeping a closer eye on your health and fitness.
Garmin has been around longer, making sports watches that over time have evolved to behave more like smartwatches in recent years. So you can start paying your way or listening to music without having your phone nearby.
Fitbit arrived on the scene after Garmin and started with fitness trackers before adding smartwatches to its collection of wearables. Fitness tracking remains at the core of what it does, but it's now exploring how it can better monitor your health and activities like running and swimming.
Both offer a variety of different models and options, making it hard to work out which one is actually the best fit for you. That's why we've pulled together this guide to help make that decision an easier one, picking out the biggest differences in the hardware, software and features that these two wearable heavyweights have to offer.
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Garmin launched its first Forerunner watch back in the early 2000s and since then it's added a range of lines including its Vivoactive and Fenix watches. All have sports tracking at the core, offering a range of different designs and mix of features.
Some of the most popular models are:
One of the staples of Garmin's fitness trackers and watches is the promise to deliver big battery life. Whether you go for something cheap like the Vivofit fitness tracker or something high end like the Forerunner 945, Garmin will generally offer close to a week of battery life and in many instances longer.
It also takes into great consideration that using features like GPS or heart rate monitoring while tracking an activity can greatly reduce battery. So watches like its outdoor-centric Fenix series include an UltraTrac battery mode to give you more tracking time while reducing the rate it records data like GPS. You'll also find new power saving and battery modes that switch off power hungry features you don't regularly use to retain battery for the features you do use.
On the Venu, Garmin's most smartwatch-like device, it's the only device in its collection that features a colour AMOLED display that can be used in an always-on mode. It still manages multiple days of battery life, despite using a more power-hungry display technology than the transflective display technology Garmin uses on the majority of its other watches.
Fitness features
We think it's fair to say that when it comes to what Garmin's watches and fitness trackers can actually monitor, there is a lot. Those feature sets vary across devices and ranges, but many of the core features run across the ranges to offer a more consistent and familiar experience.
So from Vivosmart to Fenix, you're going to get 24/7 activity tracking, continuous heart rate monitoring and sleep monitoring. You'll also get some of Garmin's more motivational fitness tracking features like Move IQ and adaptive step counts that are designed to keep you moving during the day in subtle but very meaningful ways. You can also find features like stress monitoring, guided breathing exercises, women's health tracking and Garmin's Body Battery monitor. This looks at metrics like sleep and heart rate to determine the energy levels you have for the day.
When it comes to sports tracking, this is really where Garmin's devices excel. It covers core sports like running, cycling and swimming (pool and open water), offering a host of rich metrics you can delve into during or after activities.
When you're willing to spend more on watches like the Fenix or Forerunner 945, you'll also start to see sports profiles for more outdoor activities like hiking, skiing, climbing or even paddleboarding. These more niche pursuits still offer a rich set of activity-specific metrics. You'll also find features like mapping and navigation to make them more useful when you're out exploring.
Heart rate drives many of Garmin's features that seek to get you thinking more about your training and recovery as well as measure effort levels during exercise. In most instances, Garmin will let you pair up an external chest strap, if you question the reliability and accuracy of the sensor baked into its wrist-worn devices.
Smartwatch features
While Garmin's watches and trackers are predominantly designed for sport and fitness, they do now behave better as smartwatches.
Most if not all work with both Android devices and iPhones, and will offer core features like being able to view notifications, check the time and weather and sync data to Garmin's Connect app.
When you decide to pay more for something like the Forerunner 245 or Fenix, you'll get more in the way of smartwatch features. That includes payments, and a built-in music player. The latter lets you pile on your own music or playlists from the likes of Spotify and Deezer. That includes storing them offline so you don't need to be connected to your phone to listen to them.
If you care about apps, most of Garmin's watches with the right amount of storage also have access to the Connect IQ store. This is where you can find apps, watch faces, data fields and widgets. That Connect IQ support can vary. So the Forerunner 45 is compatible, but will only let you download watch faces. Pricier Forerunners though will give you full access.
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Fitbit's first wearable was a pedometer-style device that centred on counting steps and tracking your sleep.
Since then, it's added new sensors, designs and moved into the smartwatch space to rival Apple, Samsung and Google's legion of Wear OS watches.
It still cares about tracking your fitness, but it can now do a better impression as a watch and offers a rich array of connected features that make it worthy of a place on your wrist.
The key members of the Fitbit family are:
Even from its early tracker days, Fitbit has sought to promise close to a week's worth of battery life. Years later, that hasn't changed and it has even made good progress dealing with the fact that full fat smartwatches still have a battery problem.
Its latest Versa 3 and Sense watches promise up to 6+ days, which is impressive when you consider the kind of display and features the watches have to power. Its Inspire 2 and Charge 4 fitness trackers also promise to comfortably last a week between charges. The Inspire 2 actually promises to go for 10 days, which is the longest battery life a Fitbit wearable has been capable of.
Adding always-on display modes to its latest smartwatches will impact on battery life just like it does on Apple and Samsung's watches. It might be a big reason why Fitbit is introducing a new fast charging feature that gives you a day battery from a 12-minute charge.
Fitness tracking is really how Fitbit made its name and it underpins every device it's launched or is in the process of launching.
Every Fitbit will track your steps, monitor your heart rate 24/7, monitor sleep and buzz you with inactivity alerts during the day. Those sleep features are some of the richest available on a wearable platform digging deep into insights and offering additional metrics fuelled by monitoring heart rate during the night.
More recently, it's added menstrual health tracking with some data viewable on its smartwatches. You'll get guided breathing exercises and its new Sense watch can even indicate your body's response to stress.
When you want to look beyond steps and sleep, most Fitbits are equipped to track a range of sports. It offers automatic activity recognition when you don't want to manually tell your device you're about to go running and swimming.
The Charge 4, Versa and Sense now offer built-in GPS to make mapping outdoor activities easier to do and you have Fitbit's PurePulse heart rate sensor to unlock training in heart rate zones and features like Active Zone Minutes and Intensity Maps. Fitbit's watches and Charge 4 flagship tracker also track your swimming, though currently only works for pool swimming only.
Fitbit users also have access to its Premium platform, where you can find programs and workouts you can follow and gain deeper data insights from the sensors on board their watch and tracker.
On Fitbit's fitness trackers, it did its best to offer smartwatch-style features. Given the screen and design limitations, it was always going to be difficult to go beyond things like basic notification support.
That has changed significantly since it entered the smartwatch space and the likes of the Versa and Sense can do more when you're not sweating it out in the gym.
Fitbit's wearables work with Android and iPhones giving you features like notifications, payments, apps, watch faces and built-in music players. Its latest smartwatches also add smart assistant support for Amazon's Alexa with Google Assistant support to follow.
The experience using a Fitbit with an Android phone or iPhone is largely consistent, though features like responding to notifications for example is an Android-only feature.
Like Garmin, you have access to an app store here too. Fitbit's App Gallery is still growing as a platform, but does include some high profile names like MySwimPro and Spotify. The latter though will only let you control the streaming service, not pile on offline playlists like you can on the Garmin. If you like watch faces, Fitbit offers plenty of variety here too and you can keep up to 5 faces on its smartwatches at one time.
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Garmin or Fitbit?
So, do you go with Fitbit or Garmin? As we've said, there are a lot of different devices to choose from on both sides and all offer varying features and looks.
The decision between the two platforms we think comes down to a few areas that might sway you one way over the other.
If you care largely about fitness tracking as opposed to recording runs or hikes, Fitbit still feels like it offers a better experience here. Its devices and companion app are easy to use and it still offers the richest most useful sleep tracking you can find on a wearable. For beginners, it's a much better fit. Fitbit also offers more cutting-edge sensors geared towards serious health monitoring with its ECG and skin temperature sensor that now appears on its new Sense watch.
If you spend more time tracking sport and yearn for masses of data and battery life when you're on the move, Garmin's watches and trackers in general will serve you better. They offer reliable tracking and the ability to add external sensors means you can improve accuracy and the amount of metrics you can record.
Outside of tracking, both offer plenty. Garmin has some desirable features that you won't find on a Fitbit. Like proper Spotify support and useful safety and assistance features. Fitbit though has that smart assistant support if that's something you value having on a watch.
The decision between these two big names in the wearable world really comes down to what you value most. They both now offer very accomplished devices that impress on both hardware and software fronts. It's clear though that they excel in different departments and we hope we've helped you establish just what those are to help guide your decision.
This article is part of TechRadar's Get Fit in 2022 series – a collection of ideas and guides to help get your new year's health goals off to the right start, whatever your current level of fitness.
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Michael Sawh
Michael is a freelance journalist who has covered consumer technology for over a decade and specialises in wearable and fitness tech. Previously editor of Wareable, he has written for publications including Wired UK, GQ, Men's Fitness, BBC Science Focus, Metro and Stuff. Michael is a keen runner and swimmer and is also the co-founder of YouTube channel The Run Testers.
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