Rigby & Rigby is delighted to announce that we have won Best High-End Residential Development Company, UK, in the Construction & Engineering Build Awards.
The fourth annual Construction & Engineering Awards, incorporates various types of enterprises across the construction and engineering disciplines, from civil, commercial, energy, residential, to industrial and infrastructure projects.
Rigby & Rigby is an award-winning, international super-prime design consultancy, developing unrivalled residences and stunning commercial spaces, in some of the world's most exclusive locations. We have a broad and talented team offering unparalleled expertise in interior architecture, marine and residential interior design, project management, construction, quantity surveying and property aftercare– providing the client with an exclusive concept to completion service.
Rigby & Rigby's construction team has a reputation for utilising innovative methods of construction, meeting the client's programme and delivering each project within budget.
• Fully-designed contracts - typically a Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) contract or similar, working with/on behalf of the client's design team.
• Two stage tendering - when time is particularly critical and the client requires a contractor on board before the final design is completed.
• Detail and build - some design, perhaps a concept, has been carried out by an external party on behalf of the client.
• Full design and build – Rigby & Rigby's design team will take a full brief, produce detailed drawings and then Rigby and Rigby's construction company will build to this exacting specification.
From understanding a client's needs and obtaining planning permission, through to the construction and interior design phases, to delivering a home ready for occupation, Rigby & Rigby utilises the diverse skills of its' multi-talented and diverse team to deliver each project to the same exacting high standards.
Almost uniquely amongst London's leading developers, our clients benefit from a highly-skilled and diverse in-house team which includes architects, designers, quantity surveyors and procurement professionals. This allows us to monitor and coordinate every stage across the disciplines, delivering to the highest standards and consistently exceeding client expectations.
Rigby & Rigby have been recognised, through the Considerate Contractors Scheme, with the industry's highest awards for the impeccable and respectful manner in which our team operates on site.


Are you in need of a little inspiration? Well look no further! The Backyard Room is a great source for backyard inspiration. We focus on backyards big and small, layouts of every angle and the latest backyard trends.
The dictionary defines inspiration as "the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative". Inspiration can be found pretty much anywhere. In fact, simply looking through beautiful photos could spike an interest in a new design project for your backyard room.
Photos alone won't do the whole trick though. What happens if you find something you are interested in making a part of your backyard room but you don't know where or how to get it? Sources like Pinterest come in handy especially in these instances. In fact, Pinterest was designed with that specific purpose in mind!
Sounds an awful lot like inspiration and for good reason. Pinterest is an excellent source when browsing new ideas for anything from health and fitness to home. Even better, when you find something you are interested in 9 times out of 10 someone attached a link with information on where or how to get it. This website is very user friendly and will come in handy if you are itching for a creative change in your backyard room.
Another source we utilize pretty regularly to keep up to speed on all things design trends is houzz. In a nutshell this website is amazing. It's a one-stop shop for all things home improvement. They have sections of the website dedicated to the houzz shop, beautiful photos of real home designs and stories with tips for improving your space. The backyard room isn't entirely a focus on their website but we are still always able to find beautiful and creative ideas for backyard room design.
You may not even realize you are interested in a backyard addition until you see a beautiful photo about what could be in your backyard room. This above ground pool is a perfect example of beauty and modern design. While you may not have space for a swimming pool, if you like the look of this above ground pool you may think about incorporating a hot tub into your backyard room instead.
Backyard rooms come in many shapes, sizes and styles, and should be a reflection of who you are. After all, the opportunity to find inspiration is everywhere you just have to know where to look.


do you remember the movies i made last friday? i've been fooling around with 'em in imovie and must say that this app is quite straight-forward (as soon as you figure out how to import the sound from non-standard-mpegs which my camera produces).
i know there are much fancier products which are also free, but with imovie i was able to make a nice little movie with soundtrack, a little transition and stuff like that in a matter of some dozen minutes without even thinking about reading the manual.


Tiziana Fabi/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAmanda Knox last year in an Italian courtroom.
Four months after being freed from an Italian prison and cleared of charges that she murdered her roommate, Amanda Knox has sold her memoir to HarperCollins, the publishing house announced Thursday. She will receive close to $4 million, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
The announcement came after several days of heated bidding among some of the industry's biggest publishers, driving up the price for what is expected to be a gripping account of her experiences in Italy.
It is scheduled for publication in early 2013, a representative for HarperCollins said.
In 2007, Ms. Knox was arrested along with her onetime boyfriend and charged in the death of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, who was found stabbed in her bedroom in the central Italian city of Perugia. Ms. Knox spent four years in prison until her initial conviction, in 2009, was overturned on appeal in October.
During her time in prison, Ms. Knox, now 24, kept regular diaries that will help shape the book, she told publishers in meetings this month.
Some people in publishing have questioned the prospects of a book written by Ms. Knox, who is not viewed sympathetically by some members of the public. But others were convinced that it would be a huge best seller, and the opportunity to release the memoir set off an intense competition among large New York publishing houses.
People in the industry with knowledge of the process said that seven publishers had submitted bids, including Crown, part of Random House; St. Martin's Press, an imprint of Macmillan; Atria, part of Simon & Schuster; and Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group USA.
Robert B. Barnett, the Washington lawyer who is known for representing blockbuster authors, brokered the deal. In 2009, Harper published the best-selling book "Going Rogue," by Sarah Palin, who is another prominent client of Mr. Barnett.
Ms. Knox's legal troubles flared up again this week when Italian prosecutors filed an appeal for a new trial for Ms. Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, saying they were convinced that the pair was guilty of killing Ms. Kercher.
Mr. Sollecito, who was also freed in October and is living in Italy, is planning to market his own memoir, possibly later this month.


100 year old wood floors. I love how wide the wood is.
The landing/playroom area in between the two attic bedrooms upstairs. I painted the floors light blue.
I will post more soon. It has been exciting watching this house become our home, if that makes sense. As much as I want to rush and get things done, I try to slow down and take it all in. We will live here for a long long time, it will be fun to see it transform over time.


First, let's define what this will mean to you.
Example: Bottom of this website. The round icons are automatically linked to various social profiles we have around the internet.
Make sure "Area is Active" is set to Yes. Default is No.
Area position, icons position, dotted borders is just personal preference – go ahead and play with it, you won't break anything.
Notice in the example above in "Social h1" I put the phone number; it's simply a good place for it. The default may be "get connected", but you can dish out some attitude like "hook it up", show a phone like we did, even include a link to some page, or omit it altogether as you see fit.
Icon style is just personal preference. If you need some other style we don't yet have, contact us and we can probably accommodate.
For the options below that, an icon will show if there is anything other than blank, but what should be in each field is a link to your profile. This is where you drop in your facebook fan page URL (ours is http://Facebook.com/swiftmarketing), your twitter URL, etc.
Option 2: Same, but in the Header, not the Footer.
Reviews: (Yelp, Google Maps / Hotspot, etc.) – new system in process, requires upgrade – contact us to beta test.


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Jessica Fellowes
The Mitford Murders: A Mystery (Mitford Murders #1)
"A real murder, a real family and a brand new crime fiction heroine are woven together to make a fascinating, and highly enjoyable, read. I loved it."
—Julian Fellowes, creator and writer of Downton Abbey and Belgravia
Set amid the legendary Mitford household, a thrilling Golden Age-style mystery, based on a real unsolved murder, by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey books.
It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But then a nurse—Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake—is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret...
Based on an unsolved crime and written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the New York Times bestselling Downton Abbey companion books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of classic murder mysteries.

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Statement of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO
Lianyungang port, China on May 9, 2022. STR / AFP
Within the framework of the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO adopted the statement below inviting the members of the WTO to make every effort to achieve concrete results during the negotiations of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12).
The Parliamentary Conference on the WTO is a joint initiative of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the European Parliament and serves as a forum for the exchange of opinions, information and experience, as well as the promotion of common action on topics relating to the role of parliaments in addressing trade issues. The Steering Committee is its supporting body and responsible for all matters relating to the organization of the Conference.
13 June 2022 Geneva
We, members of the Steering Committee of the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO, reaffirm our commitment to ensuring an open, transparent, inclusive, rules-based, non-discriminatory and predictable multilateral trading system with special and differential treatment for developing countries and the WTO at its core, and remain certain that free and fair trade is among the most powerful engines for growth, supporting millions of jobs, contributing to human development and prosperity, and advancing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
We are convinced that, at a time when it is coming increasingly under pressure, multilateralism remains the best approach available. We are further convinced of the importance of restoring trust in the WTO, as a multilateral organization, by bringing it closer to the citizens and their concerns. The continued involvement of parliamentarians will be crucial in this regard, especially in reforming, harmonizing and implementing laws, policies and regulatory frameworks for economic growth. We call on WTO Members to strengthen the parliamentary dimension of the WTO and to establish a formal working relationship with the Parliamentary Conference on the WTO.
We believe that MC12 can offer a great opportunity to reinstate trust in the multilateral trading system and should be the starting point for modernizing and reforming the WTO to ensure it can play a role in addressing the challenges of the twenty-first century, including issues such as climate change and sustainability and in particular today, global food security.
In light of the post-COVID recovery and the necessity to build a resilient society, we urge all Members to step up efforts on ensuring tangible outcomes that show that the WTO can address current challenges and create a more resilient, sustainable and inclusive trading system for an inclusive recovery. We value the key features of the dispute settlement system that support rules-based trade. We therefore ask Members, as a minimum, to reach multilateral agreements on prohibiting unsustainable fisheries subsidies and on pandemic response, including on its TRIPS dimension, to establish a limited package on agriculture, and to launch work towards necessary institutional reform, including a process that would lead to a well-functioning, binding and two-tier dispute settlement system by MC13 at the latest.
We believe that MC12 should renew the WTO Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions. We also acknowledge the role of plurilateral initiatives and negotiations to support the WTO. We call on the WTO to work towards achieving meaningful results on e-commerce by MC13.
As we are committed to the respect of international law, the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states, we are also gravely concerned about the situation in Ukraine, including its local, regional and global impacts on food security, hunger and all forms of malnutrition, adding to the already severe situation caused by COVID-19, and on world socio-political stability. Therefore, we are asking the members concerned to take necessary actions to restore peace and Ukrainian territorial integrity through diplomacy and dialogue.
First UN resolution on role of parliaments in the SDGs
In a historic first, the UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution highlighting the critical role of parliaments in implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The resolution demonstrates a United Nations growing more open to cooperation with parliaments to
Here's how African parliaments are addressing the climate crisis
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Parliamentary leaders call on G20 to actively engage with parliaments
The Parliament of Indonesia, in cooperation with the IPU, brought together parliamentary leaders from the world's 20 major economies at the Parliamentary Forum and the Eighth G20 Parliamentary Speakers' Summit, the 'P20', which took place from 5-7 October in Jakarta
Asia-Pacific parliamentarians call on carbon polluters to reduce emissions
Dozens of parliamentarians from the Asia-Pacific region have called on the big carbon polluters to shoulder more responsibility for climate change and to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement. The parliamentarians met in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 13-14 September, for
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Democratization is under pressure across the globe. Here are five major threats to democracy, and how to mitigate them. Democracy is as precarious as it is precious. Some 25 years after the IPU issued its Universal Declaration on Democracy, its
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Two teams address Harvard planning and development
University Library receives grant
By Lauren Marshall Harvard News Office
Date February 2, 2006
To meet the increased physical planning and development needs of the faculties and departments on Harvard's existing campus while simultaneously preparing for first-phase development in Allston, the Harvard Planning + Allston Initiative (HPAI) – the team that coordinated University-wide physical planning – has been reconfigured into two University organizations.
"The Allston Initiative has advanced in scope, scale, and pace over the last few years, bringing Harvard much closer to programmatic priorities and master planning concepts for its 21st century campus," said Sally Zeckhauser, vice president for administration. "As this trend continues, we need to have the capacity to translate Allston plans into actual buildings and related infrastructure while also continuing to accommodate the planning needs across the entire University. We have divided into two exceptional teams to help Harvard meet future planning and development needs in all areas of its campus."
The University Planning Office will continue to provide assistance in physical planning, design, and regulatory approvals to Harvard organizations and departments in Cambridge, Boston, and Watertown. Tanya Iatridis, a 16-year veteran of Harvard's planning team, will serve as the University Planning Office's acting director, reporting to the vice president for administration.
The Harvard University Allston Development Group, under the direction of Chief Operating Officer Chris Gordon, has been established to manage all aspects of the Allston Initiative, including master planning, project planning and approvals, urban and building design, and, ultimately, construction. Kathy Spiegelman, chief planner for the Allston Initiative, will lead the Allston Development Group's planning and approvals work.
"Harvard's Allston properties afford us the singular opportunity to create the university of the 21st century," said Gordon. "I feel very fortunate to lead a truly exceptional planning and development team as Harvard's Allston opportunity evolves into a vibrant campus."


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The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 is an act of parliament which legally requires anyone proposing to carry out certain types of work to their property to formally notify (by way of a notice) the owners of the neighbouring properties before commencement.
There are three types of work that are notifable under the Act.
1) Alterations to existing shared walls or structures called party walls or party structures (these are usually walls but may also be floors)
2) The construction of new walls upto the boundary or astride the boundary with the neighbours consent.
3) Excavation close to neighbouring properties.
Below are some typical examples of work that is likely to be covered by the Act:
Cutting beams in to a party wall or party structure
Underpinning, thickening or raising a party wall.
Removing chimney breasts that are attached to a party wall or party structure
Excavating for the foundations to a new extension within 3m of a neighbouring wall or a shared wall / structure.
Where work falls within the scope of the Act it is necessary for the Building Owner(s) or their authorised representives to serve the correct notice(s) and obtain written consent from Adjoining Owner's effected by the proposed works, if that consent is not forthcoming for what ever reason then the parties are deemed to be 'in dispute' under the Act and at this point both the Building Owners and the Adjoining Owners have to appoint a Party Wall Surveyor to proceed with resolving the dispute. This could be their own separate surveyors or, by agreeing to a single surveyor, called the Agreed Surveyor. Once the Party Wall surveyor(s) are appointed the dispute can be resolved by way of a Party Wall Award or sometimes called a Party Wall Agreement this is the framework provided by the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 which enables a resolution so that the Building Owners can undertake the proposed works whilst providing protection to both parties.
SECTION 1 - Line of Junction Notice
Construction of a new wall either up to or astride (with consent) the boundary .
SECTION 3 - Party Structure Notice
Inserting a beam, removal of a chimney breast, underpinning or raising a party wall.
SECTION 6 - 3 Meter Notice
Excavation for new foundations within 3 meters.
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Landslides around Sarajevo and Tuzla caused by torrential rain have destroyed dozens of homes, while other towns remain flooded, leaving people in need of help with food and water.
Several persons were reported injured when a landslide near Sarajevo destroyed eight houses. Dozens of landslides have occurred in areas round the capital.
The situation is worst in Doboj, northern Bosnia, where the river Bosna has overflowed, leaving the town centre under water. Hundreds of locals remained trapped in their homes on Thursday night.
Civil protection crews heading to Maglaj, another badly afflicted town, were delayed on the road from Zenica after the roads became blocked.
Many roads leading from Zenica towards Doboj were blocked by flood water.
In Banja Luka, in the north-west, the river Vrbas also burst its banks on Thursday, blocking a number of roads in that part of the country.
In Bijeljina, in the north-east, the Drina also overflowed, flooding a number of towns and villages on the riverbanks.
While the Bosnian Armed Forces are already engaged in helping the worst affected citizens, help has also been announced from the EU rapid reaction force, EUFOR, and neighbouring Croatia.


Middle Eastern carrier installing Inmarsat's GX Aviation communications equipment.
Qatar Airways' maintenance organization has begun performing retrofits of Inmarsat's GX Aviation global, high-throughput satellite (HTS) communications equipment on the carrier's fleets of Boeing 777-300ERs and 777-200LRs.
Permission for the retrofits follows the award to Inmarsat of a supplemental type certificate from the European Aviation Safety Agency to retrofit the GX Aviation terminal to Qatar Airways' Boeing 777s, along with the associated wiring and placement of wireless access points and servers.
Qatar Airways' latest Airbus A350-900s have already had GX Aviation installations equipped on a linefit basis and the system is awaiting activation on these aircraft.
Retrofit installations have already begun on several of the airline's Boeing 777s in advance of the service activation of GX Aviation on Qatar Airways widebody aircraft later this year, following an inflight test campaign throughout the carrier's global route network.
Qatar Airways' maintenance teams will perform the retrofit installations on the rest of the airline's 777s during each 777's next scheduled maintenance interval.
In June, Inmarsat announced that Qatar Airways would be the first Middle Eastern carrier to offer GX Aviation HTS communications services to passengers. The airline plans to install GX Aviation on more than 130 of its widebody aircraft.
Each installation includes Inmarsat's Advanced Integrated Services Manager (AISM); Honeywell Aerospace's high-speed JetWave terminals, which allow aircraft to connect to the GX Aviation network; and EAD Aerospace's unique SUMS (SATCOM Universal Mounting System) installation and the associated engineering package.
"This is the first STC to be attained and managed solely by our team at Inmarsat, and taking this momentous step with one of the world's leading carriers has strengthened our position as a key player in the inflight connectivity market," says Leo Mondale, president of Inmarsat Aviation.
"With GX Aviation already equipped on Qatar Airways' latest Airbus A350s, the first Boeing 777 retrofit installation already complete and several more underway, we are now gearing up to launch GX Aviation across the flagship fleet," adds Mondale. "We're looking forward to seeing Qatar Airways' passengers experience consistent, reliable and high-speed Wi-Fi in the sky when the service goes live later this year."


I spent a good part of a year working on Shadow of Mordor as a Designer. During my time there I got to work on some of the areas in Udun and script a few Power Snuggle missions.
Much of my time was devoted to working on Uruk's Hollow. I worked on the initial layout and prototyping of the area, and helped several teams to develop it during my time there. The work that everyone put into the area is crazy and its amazing to see people playing around in it now. The player is free to infiltrate and eliminate their target in a variety of methods, and able to adapt their strategy to changing scenarios, such as an alarm being sounded or a captain you weren't expecting showing up. I had a lot of fun looking to give the player lots of ways to cause chaos, and layering them on top of one another.
I can finally tell what game i worked on for almost a year: Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor! I worked as a Level Designer, laying out and greyboxing environments, designing and implementing missions, and other scripting and bug fixing tasks. It was a lot of fun and i got to learn a ridiculous amount. Hopefully one day i'll be able to show off what i worked on in a little more detail. Until then, check out the December issue of Game Informer for more info on the badass work everyone is doing over at Monolith!
Toxologic is a game I worked on over the course of 6 months. I focused primarily on the game's shaders, design and effects, and I think it turned out pretty sweet. Now its up on Kickstarter. Follow the link and check it out!


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Love Reunited - Commonwealth Bluegrass Band
Bluegrass	/ Americana
AMERICA NORTH: USA:Virginia (VA)
Self Release - (unsigned artist)
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Love Reunited
These Old Pictures
Beautiful Brown Eyes
I Wanted to Say
Dreaming of A Dream
My Maker
Hangman's Hill
Loving You So Long Now
Have I Stayed Away Too Long
Genre: Bluegrass
Band leader Randy Cook lives in Hanover County, Virginia with his wife and two grown daughters. He plays mandolin and sings lead and harmony vocals. Randy started playing guitar in high school and became interested in Bluegrass music while in college. After graduating from Virginia Tech Randy returned to the Richmond area and helped form the well-known country-rock band, Second Helping, playing a stint on the pedal steel guitar, which he continues to play today when he has time. Randy's love of Bluegrass music kept him interested in playing acoustic guitar and mandolin, and in the late 1990's he joined with banjo great James Bailey (formerly with The Country Gentlemen) to form James Bailey & Company. The group released two CD's that introduced Randy to Bluegrass music at the national level.
Malcolm Pulley resides in Charlottesville, VA. Malcolm plays Banjo in the Commonwealth bluegrass band and wrote four of the twelve songs on the both Commonwealth Bluegrass Band CD's, contributing to the originality of the Virginia based band. He wrote the well-known bluegrass standard "In The Gravel Yard" recorded by Blue Highway, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, and many others. The song was nominated for IBMA song of the year in 1996. He also wrote the title song to James King's first Rounder project "These Old Pictures". Malcolm has continued to have songs recorded by other groups such as, Tina Adair, Paul Adkins, Mill Run, and Michelle Nixon and Drive and many other bluegrass and Americana bands.
Mike Bailiff, Guitar, Lead and Harmony Vocals, is a new resident of Virginia after making a work realted mover from North Carolina where he was well known for his singing and guitar playing. He has a beautiful old Martin guitar that he has restored. Mike and his wife now make their home in Chesterfield. He is a converted classic rock listener after being turned on the the Seldom Scene. When he is not playing music, he enjoys classic cars.
Joe Currence, Bass and Vocals, has been playing bluegrass in Central Virginia most of his life. He is well known for founding and leading the Willis River band, playing guitar and singing lead. Joe now plays bass and handles some singing duties with the Commonwealth Bluegrass Band. His guitar playing and singing influences include Tony and Wyatt Rice, Josh Williams, and Rickey Wasson. Joe makes his home in Powhatan, VA. Joe is also an excellent song writer and contributed one song, Dreaming of a Dream, to the new CD - Love Reunited.
Fiddle/Dobro player, Wally Hughes, is an excellent singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from Delaware, now residing in Northern Virginia. Wally started playing Dobro with his parent's family band when he was 11 and then moved on to the fiddle and other instruments. For a number of years he fronted his own band in Delaware while recording and playing with other groups from the area as well. He recorded and played in a band with Steve Huber in the early 80s and has performed with Valery Smith and Liberty Pike, Mike Auldridge, Bill Emerson, Mike Munford and many other top DC bluegrass musicians since moving to Northern Virginia.
Randy Cook - Mandolin, Malcolm Pulley - banjo, Mike Bailiff - Guitar, Joe Currence - Bass, Wally Huges Fiddle/Dobro
Traditional BLuegrass / Progressive Bluegrass
Blue Highway, Del McCoury, Lonesome River Band, Boxcars


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A virtual spin in Aston's crucial new hyper hero
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I'm about to have an exclusive first experience of the world's fastest production car, but it's fair to say glamour is lacking.
Milton Keynes was a new town put onto green fields in the England midlands in the 1960s. The industrial estate where Red Bull Racing has its HQ is so generic it could be anywhere in the world. But this is where the Aston Martin Valkyrie is undergoing advanced testing, despite the fact it doesn't physically exist yet.
The Valkyrie is best thought of as Adrian Newey's fever dream: realisation of the Red Bull F1 designer's long-held desire to build a road-legal car with performance to rival a full-fat endurance racer. One hundred and fifty are going to be made, and despite a pricetag of USD$3.2m, all have already been sold. We've already told you about its Cosworth-developed atmo V12 engine, the contribution that the hybrid system will add, and even reported Aston is planning to bring a very small number to Australia and New Zealand. N
ow I've been invited to see both how it is being developed, and how ridiculously fast it is going to be.
Like all Formula 1 outfits, Red Bull Racing does a huge amount of simulator work, with restrictions on real-world testing meaning most development work is virtual. Mark Webber once admitted he spent far longer in a digital Red Bull than a real one back when he was pedalling for the team – he also used to leave his 911 parked right next to the main entrance. But now RBR's huge expertise has been put to use on a road car project with the Valkyrie, allowing work to start on it well ahead of the creation of the first physical prototype.
My guide for the day is Chris Goodwin, Aston's chief test pilot. Having spent most of his working life at McLaren, Goodwin defected in 2017 to head up development of AM's three mid-engined cars. With the Valkyrie barely more than a set of performance targets at the time, that meant a huge amount of early work was done on the simulators. Goodwin has driven 8500km in the virtual Valkyrie since starting, with the software model steadily evolving and becoming more advanced as he's done so.
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"I've been using simulators for 19-odd years and thought that I'd been at the cutting edge," he says, "but what hit me here is the rate of development we've been able to drive forward using what are outwardly the same tools."
Because this isn't just pretend. Simulator data is harvested – RBR has extracted around 700GB so far – and this is both analysed and shared with suppliers. So Goodwin's laps of a virtual Silverstone track have been used for the dyno test sessions of the Cosworth V12, with the real behaviour of the engine then sent back to update the software model's map.
The Valkyrie's Bosch stability-control system will soon be running from live data, getting the same sensor inputs it would from a real Valkyrie and then outputting directly into the sim. It means that a huge amount of basic work has been done, but also that the team has been able to check for conflicts between the Valkyrie's active aero and chassis systems.
"Without simulation, you wouldn't be able to do a project like this given all the time in the world," says Goodwin. "It would just be unaffordable; it would take years and years."
Simulators are expensive so productivity has to be high. For each session, a series of different scenarios have been created to test for certain things. Goodwin will then go through these back-to-back – he says he can spend up to five hours at a time in the simulator – but without the need to physically change settings or parts, it is up to 10 times more productive than real-world testing.
"We still have to do that later on, of course," he says, "but this process means we will hit the ground running with a car we just need to tune. The functionality of all those complex systems will already be proven."
Goodwin admits the sim work has dramatically cut down on his travel to testing venues. "Gianfranco in the Rive Del Sole hotel in Nardo hasn't seen me for months, he probably thinks I'm dead," he jokes. "It's the first winter for years I've spent in England."
Right, it's my turn. The dynamic simulator being used for Valkyrie work started out doing race testing, as proved by the use of an F1 car tub wearing a slightly battered Red Bull livery. This is mounted to a raised platform, so I need to climb a ladder to get in. I also need to take my shoes off, Goodwin saying they won't fit in the tight confines of the footwell.
Getting in is a squeeze – let's say I'm not F1-driver shaped – but once installed, I'm looking at a wraparound screen with three projectors beaming images onto it, including a pair of Michelin-branded tyres and a single-seat perspective. I'm also holding a full-on F1-grade steering wheel of brain-melting complexity.
Fortunately, I can ignore most of the controls. The gear-change paddles work and there's a push-to-talk button to communicate with the control room behind; there's also an F1-style clutch paddle, but Goodwin says I don't need to use it.
I'm going to be driving around Spa, and before experiencing the Valkyrie, I'm being sent out in what's meant to be a generic supercar to represent where the segment is. "It's a bit McLaren, a bit Ferrari," Goodwin says. It will give a feel for both track and simulator, with my start position just after Blanchimont and pointing towards the chicane. There's a vibration as the simulator becomes live, and a voice in my ear from the control technician tells me I can start.
I've spent too much of my life playing various racing games, but the big-boy simulator feels deeply strange. There's a sense of acceleration and cornering loads, but it isn't the motion of a real car: short, sharp motions rather than sustained loads. The brake pedal has little resistance and anything more than gentle pressure has the front wheels locking – there's no ABS or stability control running yet.
The engine note is entirely generic, and despite the huge amount of processing power I know is driving everything, the graphics are surprisingly average, and some way off the crisply rendered look of Forza 7.
I find it really hard to judge speed and distance, braking far too early but then carrying over-optimistic velocities into corners. On my second lap, I attempt Eau Rouge at such a ridiculous pace that I somehow manage to break through the track at Raidillon and end up hanging in space. "You've crashed the programme," says the voice in my ear, "it's going to take a couple of minutes to reset it."
Eventually I cobble together a cautious lap without any egregious mistakes, although I'm still certain I'm braking far too cautiously. Goodwin climbs onto the platform for a pep talk and I admit that it doesn't feel like a real car to me.
"That's because it's a tool, not a game," he says. "It's a motion platform, but the movement is only enough to inform an experienced simulator driver. It feels completely different to the way a finished car will, all simulators do to be honest, but there's a parallel universe of simulator behaviour and real car behaviour. Recognising the translation between them is what comes from experience."
Round two, and I'm in the Valkyrie – although facing an unchanged F1-style viewpoint. Goodwin has said I'm driving a model that's already a fair bit out of date, the newer version being quicker and more accurate. As before, there's no ABS or stability control, but there is now a V12 engine note that is sounding much angrier by the time the gear-change lights come on.
It's also massively quicker, but it also seems considerably easier to drive. Spa's straights feel immediately shorter and – although I'm still finding it hard to judge braking – cornering forces are also much higher. The system is modelling aero downforce, and as speed increases this starts to add its contribution. In slower corners I need to be gentle with the throttle given the lack of stability control, but as speeds rise, the Valkyrie starts to feel unstickable.
It's not, of course. I leave the track several times – another Eau Rouge incident deserves a place on the sim team's blooper reel – but I do manage one almost clean lap and confirm that this virtual Valkyrie can be driven flat from Stavelot to and through the very fast Blanchimont left-hander without undue drama; something even full-on GT3 race cars struggle to do.
If reality matches the simulation – as Red Bull insists it will – the biggest limiting factor for the Valkyrie's performance is going to be bravery and neck muscles.
I'm not given any times, as Aston doesn't want me to try and extrapolate Valkyrie performance even at my pace. But I do get one number from Goodwin, who says my fastest lap in the Valkyrie was 25 seconds quicker than the best one in the generic model. Obviously I improved slightly over time, but that still seems an impossible difference. Goodwin insists it's not.
"I talk to customers who have paid good money for this car, and they don't know what they've got," he says.
"There will only be an upside to it, because I don't think people can really have any idea what the performance level of this car will be until they actually experience it, nor will they be understanding quite how user-friendly it's going to be."
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Larry Woiwode
Larry Woiwode's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, Harpers, GQ, The New York Times, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and others, along with two dozen stories in The New Yorker. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and is included in four volumes of Best American Short Stories. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Lannan Fellow, a U. S. State Department Traveling Artist, and in 1995 was awarded the Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts & Letters for "distinction in the art of the short story." He is poet laureate of North Dakota.
"Finding the Right Words," An Interview with Larry Woiwode
This interview was conducted via email by Interview Editor Erin Regan. Of the process she said, "Larry's impressive body of work spans decades, and each piece I encountered was full of richly-crafted scenes and characters that had been constructed with great empathy and love. His responses in this interview demonstrate the same generosity with words." In this interview, he discusses the importance of place, his devotion to truth, and fidelity to his characters.
Superstition Review: In Beyond the Bedroom Wall, you seamlessly shift between different points of view and time periods to tell the Neumiller family's saga. How did you approach writing a novel that encompasses so many distinct narrators and eras?
Larry Woiwode: Slowly. Pieces of the novel appeared over a ten-year period and I was working on parts of it before that. I had a college fascination in the unaccountable grotesque, call it metafiction, laboring under the influence of Beckett (especially Watt), Borges, Nabokov, Kafka, William Gass and the like. I believed this was the truth of my time, and to represent what is called reality in any other form would be a lie. I was living in a room on St. Marks Place before it became gentrified for a rent of nine dollars a week—not an aesthetic setting—and on a sunny fall afternoon it came to me that if I wanted to be absolutely honest, not lie an iota, I would have to admit the most significant influence in my life was my maternal grandmother. She guided me out of the speechlessness of grief after my mother's death, when I was nine.
I sat and drafted a quick sketch of a scene centered on her. With a bit of work the sketch became more general, as the addition of specific details has the power to do, and an ending came that set my hair on end. I had been showing William Maxwell, whom I met the year before at an Arts Conference at the University of Illinois, some of my metafiction, and this sketch, now a story, I thought, I sent by mail, as I remember, rather than carrying it up to his office, as I'd done. I heard in a week that The New Yorker was taking it, my first real publication, and it set the direction for the rest of my work. The story falls at almost the exact center of Beyond the Bedroom Wall. The shifting points of view in the novel are meant to give as many characters as possible a voice in the story, the leaps in time to save the reader time. All interstitial material—call it transitional or descriptive material—went.
SR: That is such a compelling description of literary inspiration. Do you often begin a piece by writing a specific scene?
LW: I usually see the end of a story or novel in a cinematic scene a projector in my head casts on an inner screen. Sometimes I try to find words for it but most of the time I head the writing toward that scene, which I can call up at will, or so it seems. When I saw the father at the end of Beyond the Bedroom Wall sitting in a chair, talking to his son, the novel took direction. When I was riding in a subway under New York City the inner movie of an older man walking into a bank and kneeling at a teller's window appeared on that inner screen. Seventeen years later that was the scene that Poppa John, once I figured out who the character was, headed toward.
SR: You also combine diverse techniques in Beyond the Bedroom Wall, including prose, poetry, diary entries, and even descriptions of specific photos. What inspired you to use such varied methods of storytelling?
LW: Certain of the techniques, along with the shifts in point of view and time, derived I suspect from the diversity of techniques and time-bending in the authors I once admired. I believe it was my wife who said at some point that the novel resembled a family album—that became its subtitle—and I believe I saw the several modes as further ways of getting a truer texture of the Neumiller's story. At a juncture when I was ready to send off the manuscript in despair my wife said, "What about those earlier generations you always talked about?" So I started over, thanks to her, additional stories started falling in place, and at a certain point I saw I had in hand five books. So far three have appeared and I'm finishing the fourth. It's in an entirely different mode, as Born Brothers largely is.
SR: Would you expand on what it's like to return to the same family again and again in your fiction? What is the premise of your newest Neumiller narrative?
LW: My first novel was not concerned with them, the second was, the third was not, the fourth was, the fifth was not, so it looks like I do refer to them every other novel, and then The Neumiller Stories appeared after Indian Affairs. Again and again? It doesn't feel that way to me and from the start I wanted to avoid—whether recurrence or obsession—I saw in Salinger's Glass family chronicles. Silent Passengers, my last book of fiction, stories again, deals with entirely different people.
SR: I was so moved by your short story "Silent Passengers," in which you manage to capture, in only 17 pages, the fragility of life, the heartache of parenthood, and the quiet joy of returning home. How do you approach telling such complex personal stories, especially in a short form?
LW: You've nearly brought on tears by the generosity of your question, and to be honest, I'm not sure. I tried several times to tell the story, based on a similar incident in my own family, and it was nearly ten years later that I finally got the story down by forcing myself to finish it from beginning to end. A new editor I was working with at The New Yorker helped smooth out some infelicities at the edges and an incident at a hospital a pool that was overwritten. How do I accomplish, when I do, your wonderfully generous description? By grace.
SR: Weather plays an important role in both your fiction and your memoir—it acts as an element of setting, a metaphor, and a plot catalyst. How do you craft weather and how does it develop in your writing process?
LW: It's there, as it always is on every side of us, all around, every day. I tend to spend as much time outdoors as I can. I always have, since I was a child, when it wasn't unusual to walk fifteen or twenty miles when I thought of a place I wanted to visit. My love for the natural world was enhanced when I had to deal with it one to one, as it were, as a farmer and rancher, as I've been for thirty years. The love originated in my long early walks and found its fruition when I worked on a ranch in western North Dakota—I was thirteen—and later on two farms. In those occupations the weather is the major player and antagonist, so one keeps an eye on it from morning to night. I hope I allow weather to happen in my writing as it happens in day-to-day existence. I don't think I've ever consciously set it in place as an objective correlative, that term T. S. Eliot resurrected.
SR: What is your relationship with nature like today?
LW: The same—daily, consistent. I'm on our place in the southwestern corner of the state nearly every weekend. I tend to shrubs and trees and pastures and haying and horses and keep an eye on the wildlife and bird species passing through. I love the smell of turned earth but I've resisted breaking up a piece of virgin prairie sod that remains on our place. We've kept the land organic for thirty-five years. I get out in tree rows and woodlots during the fall and winter to cut wood for an outdoor wood-burning furnace. I'm conscious of the daily weather and the position of the moon and stars.
SR: In your memoir What I Think I Did, you write about your early career at The New Yorker and your survival of North Dakota's most brutal winter. What connections do you see between these two experiences? What was your process in choosing these for the book?
LW: Both were seasons of survival, as the book's subtitle puts it, or so I saw them. Until I began placing pieces at The New Yorker I was essentially a part-time collator of PR mailings and a delivery boy. I don't think the memoir makes much of a point of not eating for long stretches, sending my weight down to 110 from a probably perfect 135 in those days. I can cut to the chase of the aura of a fourth-floor walkup that rented for nine dollars a month by saying somebody on a fixed income or drugs died in his or her room at a rate of about once a month. I was threatened with a revolver and a knife. Death was pervasive and I'm sure a side of consciousness suggested to fail at writing would be to die, internally, if not actually. And when you must deal with necessities in minus forty-degree weather with an added forty-mile-an-hour wind, in the coldest winter in North Dakota's history, you realize you're at the outer edge of survival, or I did. A few years after that winter the book started falling in place as clearly as the formations of dominos I used to stand on end and, no matter the wicked patterns or curves, once the first was flicked, all went in a whoosh. The essence of the work then, as with most books, was merely finding the right words.
SR: In What I Think I Did, you describe writing a memoir as "an attempt to tame memory's takeovers into paths we tiptoe down toward truth." What truths have you found while writing your memoirs?
LW: That my memory, at certain points or on certain topics, is not reliable, as different members of my family pointed out when I asked them to check the accuracy of incidents in which one or another was involved. I also learned, as if I didn't know, that the grief over the death of a parent when one is young, or disorder and early sorrow, is endless. It doesn't seem quite resolved until one's own end. I also learned, working with memoirs, that my identity is formed by the language I'm able to find to define it. The essence of identity, as is true of all original thought, is formed with words.
SR: In the introduction to your newest collection Words for Readers and Writers, you say the essays "deal with the act of writing, with a reader's response to writing, and the ways we all use words, including Facebook entries, to fashion meaning for our lives—even identities." How has your relationship with words influenced your identity as a writer? Did writing this book change how you understand your own identity?
LW: Every book and in a way every sentence, depending on the adjudication of honesty involved, is a plunge into the morass commonly called identity. I'm not sure anybody knows his or her exact identity, ever. I know my memory is flawed, I know my moods change and at times subtle shifts in identity occur over a day, measured by what has come up or I get down in words. I question myself about my identity and resonate with Borges' parable 'Borges and I.' I know that no aspect of thought, no facet of identity exists until it's defined in words. Anything other is a daydream or empty fantasy.
SR: Your latest memoir A Step from Death is addressed specifically to your son, Joseph. Did you write any of your other works with someone specific in mind? How does writing for such a specific and intimate audience influence your process?
LW: Every piece of writing should be directed to one person alone, or that's the advice I give young writers. Why? A dear friend or trusted colleague or confidante whose intelligence exceeds yours will help hold you true to course—you won't fudge or write up or down for an "audience," one of the worst words directed at writers, with its origin in marketing. A single auditor, besides holding you true to your course, tends to establish a consistent tone. Beyond the Bedroom Wall was addressed to my father, as if he were across the table from me. I often tell stories to William Maxwell—that is, he's the person across the table—or my wife, my most unsparing critic, since she's seen me from all sides and inside out.
SR: You've said that you could never write about a place you hadn't been. What is the impact of rooting stories in familiar settings
LW: A setting is the place any character has to have to merely set down his or her feet. It's the locus of the story and the ground the story is going to travel across. It is, in a real sense, endemic to a character's identity, an additional dimension to that person, which is why I want to know to a certain extent the territory I set a character down in. In too many recent stories it seems a blur or fuzz and that removes a certain dimension from both the character and the story itself. Notable exceptions occur in Jane Smiley, Louise Erdrich, Thomas McGuane and others, and I'm grateful for those exceptions. On another level—and this is the "odd" one I mentioned before—the greater the particularized detail in a short story, novel, drama, whatever the genre, the more enduring its story will tend to be, as in the outstanding examples of Tolstoy and Shakespeare, not necessarily in that order, although Tolstoy would see it as exactly right, I'm sure, given his life-long animus against his major competitor, Will from the farm-country Stratford, a farmer himself, later in life, as Tolstoy was. Chekov and Joyce and Proust also come to mind in the matter of particular, precisely detailed place.
SR: In an interview with John Wilson about your new collection of essays Words for Readers and Writers, you talk about "fidelity to the real" and the importance of capturing ordinary moments that impart meaningful messages about life. Your works demonstrate a mastery of this technique. What is your approach to writing about ordinary events in a way that gives them such meaning?
LW: I'm not sure I have an approach, and searching backward through the ages of my mind for an answer, I would have to say I consider not when I'm drafting but as I'm rewriting, the writers I admire, such as Cather, Colette, Tolstoy, who are rooted in place, generous to characters of all kinds, and couch all this in a prose Daniel Menaker has described as clear and strong and grain alcohol, referring to Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow.
SR: Many of your works include Christian characters and themes, including a commentary on the Book of Acts as part of an anthology on the New Testament. Which Christian narratives have most influenced you and your fictional work?
LW: I would suggest that all of my work, from the first novel onward, contains Christian outlooks and characters. Yes, the commentary on the Book of Acts, written for inclusion in an anthology at the invitation of the poet, Alfred Corn, kept exerting pressure to grow until it became a book itself, published by HarperSanFrancisco. I was primarily interested in the narrative techniques, conjunctions, and power of that particular text, the most narrative of the New Testament. I would say the work of Cather and Tolstoy—see "Master and Man"—sensitized me at an early state to the essential Christian doctrine, Love Your Neighbor. The major characters in every one of their books and most of their stories do this, and both writers are able to love their characters, good or bad, as one should a neighbor—characters closer even than a neighbor in their habitation of an entire portion of consciousness.
The other influence, when I began reading it front to back, as few critics do, was the Bible. The concurrences and dovetailing in its narratives and poetry and teachings written centuries apart (even four hundred years, if you tend toward modernism) were so uncanny to a person who had read and written and edited millions of pages of prose and poetry that it could only be called, as it was by a computer that was fed the entire text with a series of questions about its probability, Supernatural.
LW: The entrance was once an old pump house struck by a flying tree in a tornado. My son and I straightened that, got it square, super-insulated it, and to the left is a workbench and to the left of that an inverter that regulates electricity from solar panels and wind chargers. To the right is a greenhouse, self-designed and built, where I raised tomatoes and habanero peppers one winter. A hall ahead lined with books leads to the setting where I spend most of my time writing—a twelve-by-twenty-two room, wide open, with windows south and a counter along most of its left or north wall where a couple of computers sit. My son and I built this and installed a floor of three-quarter-inch oak flooring .The back of the counter is lined with books on Auden, fifteen feet of his books and critical responses and the like, for a mini-biography of Auden I was once contracted to write and still may. A huge painting of our early family by our oldest daughter forms a partial wall ahead. Another computer sits on an oak desk here—a Mac I once tried and seldom use now. Grandchildren like to play games on it. A couple of comfortable office chairs stand ready at the counter and it's here that I work.
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Skelton Knocked Out in Missouri
By Tricia Miller
Posted November 3, 2010 at 10:58pm
A second powerful House Democrat was toppled tonight as Rep. Ike Skelton (D) was defeated in Missouri's 4th district. Skelton, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, lost to former state Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R) after 17 terms in the House Skelton's loss followed the defeat of Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.), chairman of the Budget Committee.
The last time he had a competitive election was in 1982, when redistricting placed him in a district with another incumbent.
Hartzler won't be the only new Representative from Missouri. Republican auctioneer Billy Long will represent the seat Rep. Roy Blunt currently holds. The race for Rep. Russ Carnahan's seat in the St. Louis area is still too close to call against Republican Ed Martin. The other six members of the Missouri House delegation were re-elected.
Earlier tonight, Blunt was elected to the Senate to replace retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R).


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Home » Business » Hacker returns over $330K after selling fake Banksy NFT to investor
Hacker returns over $330K after selling fake Banksy NFT to investor
Business 3 September 2021
Gavin Lucas
A British NFT collector is thanking his lucky stars after a hacker returned £244,000 (~US$336,000) they stole by selling him a fake Banksy NFT. The incident took place on NFT marketplace OpenSea and even involved a link from Banksy's official website.
How did this happen, and what do we know?
The NFT was advertised on the artist's official website.
The page on Banksy.co.uk led to an auction for the NFT.
The winning bidder paid 90% more than anyone else at £244k.
The hacker returned the cash minus the £5,000 transaction fee.
The funds were sent to the scammer in Ethereum. Quelle surprise!
The victim says he believes the hacker got spooked and returned the cash for fear of repercussions. This is the second time in as many months that digital currency thieves have lost their nerve and returned their ill-gotten gains. Last month, the Poly Network was attacked, and the hacker returned hundreds of millions in stolen funds.
How did the victim fall for the scam? He spoke anonymously and said he only bid because the auction was listed on Banksy's official website. He believes it was a hack as the webpage leading to the auction has since been deleted, and Banksy's team has informed the public it was not an official auction.
Sadly, he'll never recover the £5,000 transaction fee he paid to send Ethereum to the hacker. One could argue that the transaction fee is criminal in itself!
NFTs are booming, and it's going to end badly
NFT-mania kicked off in 2021 and made mainstream headlines when the artist Beeple sold an art collection for $69.3 million. Since then, things have only gotten crazier. Recently, a picture of a rock sold for $1.3 million, and a 12-year-old kid banked almost $400,000 selling simple JPEGs of whales. The digital currency industry's very own P.T. Barnum, Justin Sun, boasted of spending half a million on a digital rock on Twitter.
Just spent half million dollars on a rock 😂 pic.twitter.com/4zDmDgzERz
— H.E. Justin Sun 🅣🌞🇬🇩 (@justinsuntron) August 22, 2021
Astute investors will recognize that this sort of mania has all the hallmarks of a massive bubble. Like 2001, when dot coms without a single penny in revenue were selling for billions, the NFT bubble will eventually burst, and a lot of people will scratch their heads and wonder how anyone ever paid these prices for digital pictures in the first place.
What do NFTs actually get their buyers?
There's been much debate about how valuable NFTs are and what rights the owners really have. They don't necessarily give the owner any rights to the underlying art. For example, NBA Top Shot sells multiple NFTs linked to the same video highlights. So, who owns the underlying video, and if multiple NFTs can be created linked to one clip, why can't more be created?
Looking deeper, the license terms often expressly prohibit the owners from commercializing, modifying, or displaying the underlying art in other forms of media. So, what has the owner really bought? Like with most things in the digital asset space, the future is likely to be littered with lawsuits as the buyers of NFTs realize they were misled by marketing hype and buzzwords.
Do NFTs have any real value or use cases?
It's important not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. While the current NFT-mania is unsustainable and will likely end with a huge crash, NFTs themselves do have some legitimate use-cases, and they'll be around for a long time to come.
For example, players of the BSV-based play-to-earn game CryptoFights can win NFTs such as weapons within the game. These can then be used in the game and can be sold on a legit marketplace to other players.
NFTs will also allow artists to sell their wares to buyers directly, cutting out many of the middlemen who profit from their work. They could also help weed out counterfeits and provide immutable ownership logs detailing the history of each NFT on the blockchain. This is what Bitcoin was always supposed to be about, and when the buzz dies down, some real and world-changing use-cases will come out of all this.
However, before we get there, the people who pay $1.3 million for digital rocks will have to pay dearly, regulators will have to ensure that these sales aren't linked to money laundering and the blockchains that host many NFTs will have to scale or die.
It's going to be a long and messy road, but in the end, NFTs will remain in some form. For a neutral overview of their potential and pitfalls, watch this conversation between skeptic David Gerard and Twetch-CEO Josh Petty.
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This picture was taken a little while after the incident with the lederhosen and the pitchfork. What? I'm trying to make this picture interesting…Ok, he's napping soon after completing his descent from the warmth of mom's womb.


An ice cream shop located in Falkirk, Scotland, is the creator of this strange concoction, but do you think you'd be brave enough to try it?
Are you ready to give up your hard copies of movies and music? You may not have a choice soon.
With so many weekly outdoor events and so many food choices to choose from, it is time to vote for Casper's Favorite food truck.


Parents Vashikaran Specialist - Acharya Ji is an eminent astrologer and vashikaran specialist with years of experience. Acharya Ji by performing a unique kind of Vashikaran ritual can convince your parents to accept your love marriage. If you tried everything to convince your parents for love marriage or if you are afraid of telling the truth to your parents then don't worry because Acharya Ji's powerful Vashikaran Mantra will convince your parents by which they will have no objection for your love marriage. Many couple keep their relation hidden and find it difficult to disclose their relationship with parents because sometimes they are in fear that once the parents got to know about their relationship then they will ban them to meet or will start putting curtain between their relationship.
In that case Acharya Ji's years of experience in Vashikaran rituals and mantras will help you in convincing your parents completely with no objection. They will be happily ready to accept your relationship. Not only this, Vashikaran Ritual will assure you that both of the parents will remain happy with the relationship. This Vashikaran ritual will be effective for life time therefore their is no need for the ritual to be re-performed in lifetime.
Acharya Ji understand that you love both your parents and lover and don't want to hurt any of the side therefore vashikaran can really be a great way to convince your parents without forcing or hurting them. Love sees no caste or religion and that thing every parent should understand. Love is a meeting of two hearts without the barrier of any caste or religion but in a country like India the couple with diferent caste and religion have to face so much difficluties and protest in love marriages. This is the moment when Vashikaran methods works as a last resort. Your parents will start doing exactly what you want them to do. You can even mould their decisions and thinking. Vashikaran mantras are not only to convince your parents but it will also be effective in convincing other members of family such as Chacha, Mama and other elders in family.


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High Court OKs International Process Service by Mail
May 22, 2017 May 22, 2017 KEVIN LESSMILLER
Canada, mail, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court
(CN) – Settling a question that has divided state and federal courts for decades, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Hague Service Convention allows the service of process by mail in legal disputes involving international parties.
The case in question, Water Splash, Inc. v. Menon, came to the court from Texas.
Tara Menon, a Canadian residing in Quebec, was employed by Water Splash Inc., of Galveston, Texas, as a regional sales representative.
In 2012, the company says it discovered that she was also working as a sales manager for South Pool, a competitor, and had used some of Water Splash's designs and drawings on its behalf in bidding on a municipal project at two Galveston city parks.
In 2013, Water Splash sued South Pool and Menon in a Texas court for unfair competition, conversion, tortious interference with business relations, and conspiracy.
To carry out service of the lawsuit to Menon, Water Splash asked the trial court to order service on Menon in Canada, by "first class mail, certified mail, and Federal Express to Menon's address" and "by email to each of Menon's known email addresses." The trial court granted the motion.
As recounted in court documents, Menon did not answer the complaint, and the trial court granted a default judgment in favor of Water Splash, awarding the company actual and exemplary damages and attorney's fees.
Menon then filed a motion for a new trial seeking to set aside the judgment on the grounds that it was not carried out to the terms of the Hague Service Convention. The court denied Menon's motion for new trial.
Menon then turned to the Texas 14th District Court of Appeals, which overturned the trial court's ruling and remanded the case for further proceedings.
But in a dissent, Justice Tracy Christopher said the majority failed to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's directions on the construction of treaties and the Texas Supreme Court's instructions on the correct approach to decisions of the federal courts.
"Because Texas intermediate appellate courts are bound by these authorities, I instead would follow their precepts, which lead to the conclusion that service by mail to a litigant in Canada is permitted under Article 10(a) of the Service Convention," Christopher wrote. "I accordingly would affirm."
Water Splash appealed the 14th District Court of Appeals' ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in its favor on Monday.
"The traditional tools of treaty interpretation unmistakably demonstrate that Article 10(a) encompasses service by mail. To be clear, this does not mean that the Convention affirmatively authorizes service by mail. Article 10(a) simply provides that, as long as the receiving state does not object, the Convention does not 'interfere with . . . the freedom' to serve documents through postal channels," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court. (Emphasis in original.)
The nation's high court vacated the Texas appeals court's decision and remanded the case.
"In cases governed by the Hague Service Convention, service by mail is permissible if two conditions are met: first, the receiving state has not objected to service by mail; and second, service by mail is authorized under otherwise-applicable law," Alito wrote. "Because the Court of Appeals concluded that the Convention prohibited service by mail outright, it had no occasion to consider whether Texas law authorizes the methods of service used by Water Splash."
All other justices joined Alito's opinion except for newcomer Justice Neil Gorsuch, who took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
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Research suggests 'less than a quarter' of UK SMEs plan to expand overseas
Research carried out by DocuSign has found that just 22% of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) plan to expand their business beyond the UK.
SMEs stated that the most significant barriers to growth include a lack of available finance, a lack of inexperience and large amounts of red tape.
The survey of 1,000 small business owners also suggested that a 'perceived deficiency' in skills is 'holding them back'. The skills owners most regret not having are accounting and finance skills (22%) and IT and digital skills (19%).
Furthermore, the research revealed that confidence levels amongst SMEs have 'plummeted' as a result of trade uncertainty facing the UK.
'Growing a business across borders is challenging, particularly in times of macro-economic uncertainty,' said Ronan Copeland, Vice President of Commercial Sales at DocuSign.
'As such, it is perhaps unsurprising that many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are focusing their efforts on the UK. Confidence plays a big part, and this is borne out by the results of our latest survey.'
Fraud 'costing UK businesses £130 billion each year', report suggests
A report published by the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth has suggested that fraud costs UK businesses £130 billion each year.
Wage growth 'accelerates to highest rate since financial crisis'
Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed that UK wage growth increased to 3.6% in the year to May 2019 - representing the highest rate since the financial crisis in 2008.
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HMRC is urging businesses to register for Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTD for VAT) before the 7 August VAT filing date.
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Research carried out by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has suggested that, by the time they come to retire, women have saved just a third of the amount that men have for later life.
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HUNTINGTON WOODS — The Huntington Woods Men's Club once again is looking to raise money for a community project. The Men's Club's 38th annual auction will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Gillham Recreation Center. This year's auction will help pay for shade canopies and trees at Burton Community Park.
FERNDALE — One month after the city of Ferndale selected Geary Park as the location for its skate park, it also has finalized the design of the skate park.
FERNDALE — Back in November, the Ferndale City Council approved a 10-person task force of residents to look at potential upgrades for the Gerry Kulick Community Center. It was the committee's job to recommend to the city what it should do in regard to improvements at the community center, which now is more than 90 years old.


PHOENIX (AP) The Phoenix Suns appeared headed for an ugly home loss to the Atlanta Hawks until the frantic final minutes.
That's when Devin Booker and Marquese Chriss came through.
Booker sank three free throws to put Phoenix ahead with 12.3 seconds to play, Chriss soared to block Taurean Prince's shot at the rim with 7 seconds to go and the Suns rallied to hand the Hawks another road loss, 104-103 on Tuesday night.
Booker scored eight of his 34 points in the final 37 seconds, starting with a 3-pointer that made it 101-99, as the Suns finished with a 15-4 run. T.J. Warren scored 31 and Chriss had 17 points, 11 rebounds and two blocks for Phoenix.
Booker, in his 13th 30-point game of the season, was 14 of 15 at the foul line, 11-for-11 in the second half.
Ersan Ilyasova scored 21 points for Atlanta. Kent Bazemore and Dennis Schroder added 20 apiece.
Bazemore made 7 of 8 shots, including 4 of 5 3-pointers, but he fouled Booker on a 3-point attempt with the Hawks clinging to a two-point lead.
Booker made all three to put the Suns on top 102-101. Prince took a lob from Schroder and was free for what looked to be an open layup, but Chriss came from the other side of the court to soar and block the shot.
Booker made two more at the line with 6.5 seconds remaining to make it 104-101. With the Hawks needing a 3-pointer to tie it, Schroder instead drove for the layup to cut it to one, but by then there was just a half-second to play and the Suns handed Atlanta its seventh straight road loss.
Phoenix interim coach Jay Triano was not pleased with what he saw much of the night.
Atlanta led by as many as 14 in the first half and was up 99-89 after Prince's inside basket with 2:53 to play.
Hawks: The Hawks haven't won in Phoenix since March of 2015. … Atlanta is 3-16 on the road. … The Hawks had won three of four. … Prince has made a 3-pointer in 19 consecutive games. … The Hawks have won two in a row only once this season.
Suns: First-round draft pick Josh Jackson did not play, the first time that's happened this season. … The Suns have won four of six and six of nine. … Booker scored 17 of Phoenix's first 30 points but didn't take a shot in a scoreless third quarter. … The Suns are 21-4 against Atlanta at Talking Stick Resort Arena.
Hawks: At Portland on Friday night.
Suns: At Denver on Wednesday night.


Winter sun and a tall glass of orange and carrot juice! H've you noticed how most of the beautiful fruits and veggies belong to winter season – apples, carrots, orange, beetroot, radish. You might argue that these days we get all fruits and vegetables round the year, but then you have not really tasted how fresh and real these fruits are in the season they belong. You must have the seasonal fruits in winters, most of them filled with the natural immunity boosters to protect us from the harsh weather.
I often make fresh juice at home during this season. Eating fruits directly is a better option but chewing so much fruits can take forever. However, a glass of juice takes seconds to get drained down my esophagus and reaches stomach quicker than I blink, and if you are into making juice you would know the superabundant amount of fruits that go in the juicer to get just one glass. The only downside being the residue pulp that remains. If not any vitamins and minerals, the residue surely has all the fiber that the fruit contains. Below are few ways in which I use that fiber power house. Most of these ideas I have learnt from my mom, rest are Pinterest inspired.
Put it in outdoor plants – The easiest one. Take some soil from the planter, mix it thoroughly with the pulp in a mug, and then put that compost mixture in the planter. Putting the fruit/vegetable pulp directly might attract flies and other worms at home. So mix it with soil before you do it. However, I have tried putting ginger outer peel directly (without mixing it with soil first) in the planter and didn't have any flies or worms. So next time when you make that ginger tea, don't throw that outer peel in trash rather put that in your plant.
Make facial cubes – My favourite one for sure and tbh many a times I make juice just to make these facial cubes. Whisk the residual pulp of the juice thoroughly, add some lemon if not already, turmeric and curd. Put this mixture in the ice tray and freeze. These cubes are so-so good and instantly brighten the face. You can just whisk the mixture directly too , without adding anything else. You have to try this one!
Make veggie patties – To the residue pulp, add some gram flour, salt and spices to taste. Make patties and shallow fry. Isn't this super easy? Next time when you make carrot juice, make carrot patties. So freaking fiber rich patties !
Add that fiber in the smoothie – You can store the pulp (up to 2-3 days in fridge) and add it in your smoothie. That fiber should go in your body not dustbin.
There are many other creative uses of the juice residue pulp. You can also make dehydrated pulp crackers, although I haven't tried myself yet. But that's certainly on my list.
I hope this article was useful, if so, please leave comments. Nothing gives more joy than efforts being appreciated. Next time you make juice, put that fiber rich residue to a good use.


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A console-oriented spin-off of the Battlefield series, focusing on squad gameplay and destructible environments
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5.56mm Round
The standard NATO ammunition.
The 7.62x51mm round is a powerful rifle round employed by NATO countries.
Russian compact assault rifle chambered for special high caliber ammunition.
9M133 Kornet
The Korenet is a Russian anti-tank missile system designed to defeat current and future explosive reactive armor (ERA) equipped tanks.
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, better known as the Warthog, is the premier United States Air Force ground attack aircraft.
ACOG Scope
The Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (abbreviated ACOG) is a series of telescopic reflex sights manufactured by Trijicon.
AEK-971
A Russian fully automatic assault rifle, the AEK-971 has a recoil dampener .
The AH-64 is an Attack Helicopter specializing in the destruction of enemy vehicles and infantry. It appears in a number of games.
An airplane is a heavier-than-air craft whose lift is generated by airflow over the wings creating a strong pressure difference. In video games, airplanes are used for travel and as a type of weaponry.
As prolific in video games as it is in real life, this iconic Russian workhorse is a mainstay of virtual firepower.
A refinement of the AK-47, The AK-74 was released in 1974. It uses smaller 5.45mm rounds instead of the 7.62mm rounds that the AK-47 uses.
AKS-74u
A modified, compact version of the AK-74.
Many games have ammo. In some, you can design your own. Ammo is put in a weapon and fired as a projectile.
A container that is often used to supply players with a certain amount of ammunition.
AN-225 Mriya
A Russian Airplane. It's the world's largest fixed-wing aircraft.
The AN-94 Abakan is a modern Russian assault rifle currently used only by the Russian special forces and police forces.
Anti-Aircraft Gun
An emplacement gun used to shoot down enemy aircraft.
Anti-Personnel Mine
An anti-personnel mine is a type of mine specifically made to use against humans.
Anti-Tank Mine
An anti-tank mine is a special mine made specifically to destroy tanks or war vehicles.
Armored Car
A wheeled vehicle with light armor and often with a turret mounted autocannon, tank gun and/or machine gun. Not intended for heavy combat, armored cars are generally used for transport or reconnaissance.
The APC lends protection from small-arms fire to infantry units in transit. An element of 20th and 21st century warfare, it is often depicted in futuristic settings.
Assault Rifle refers to a basic design of a weapon that combines the abilities of older long-range rifles and the rapid fire of sub-machine guns. Common designs include the M-16, M-4, AK47 (and 74), and the L85A1.
The AT-4 is a single shot anti-tank weapon built by Saab Bofor Dynamics in Sweden.
Abbreviation of All Terrain Vehicle.
AUG Para
A SMG variant of the Steyr AUG. Chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum. This version operates as a blowback firearm, without use of the rifle's gas system.
Auto Shotgun
Shotguns that can fire semi or fully automatically
A pack one wears on their back.
Ballistic Vest
Also known as "body armor", ballistic vests are designed to stop various firearm rounds. Commonly worn by soldiers and police. The Nation Institute of Justice rates the protection capability of body from Level I (up to small calibers like .22LR) to Level IV (up to armor-piercing calibers like .30-06 M2)
Barb Wire Fence
A fence that hinders accessibility via the use sharp-edged wire.
A barrel is a hollow cylindrical container, traditionally made of wood staves and bound with iron hoops. In video games, it is used in many ways to fill up a level or even be used in one. They also may explode. Use caution when around barrels.
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While this is a nice example of how a relatively simple model with the right ingredients can yields results that seems difficult to obtain with standard models, this paper is not convincing to me. First, it cannot explain previous jobless recoveries, as I think at least one ingredient is missing in every case. Second, I think we saw plenty of example of downward flexibility in nominal wages during the last recession, for example with furloughs. Third, as Reinhard and Rogoff have shown, recoveries from financial crises are very protracted and few of them have all the ingredients of this model (for example such low interest rates).
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One consultant and former Macquarie director said practitioners should be either "in or out" when advising on SMSFs, expressing concerns about the long-term implications of advisers and accountants only advising a handful of SMSF clients.
Speaking to SMSF Adviser, Sarah Penn, owner of Mayflower Consulting and former division director for SMSFs at Macquarie, said small operators who have fewer than 20 SMSFs are more likely to miss vital steps in setting up or managing an SMSF for the client.
"The main issue with self-managed super is you can't afford to be half pregnant. It's a complicated area; you either need to be in it or out. The group that concerns me are the advisers and accountants who only have a handful of SMSF clients," Ms Penn said.
"What worries me is not that they're going to recommend anything wrong, but more that the clients are going to miss out on opportunities and that there might be longer term ramifications," she added.
"[When] SMSFs are set up in the first place, trust deeds especially, they need to be in tip top shape. They need to be set up and personalised for the client's needs and if you don't do that, then 30 or 40 years later, when one or more of the clients eventually dies, that's when it all tends to go pear-shaped. I think when you're a small operator and you only have 15 or 20 super funds, that's the sort of thing that you're likely to miss," she said.
Ms Penn said those firms that are SMSF specialists, where SMSFs are essentially their "bread and butter", are generally performing well.
"The issue is really people who've only got a handful because I think there's a higher likelihood that their clients are missing out on high-quality advice," she said.


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Characters voiced by guest stars
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Amendment To Be
The Amendment To Be sings a right-wing parody of the 70s Schoolhouse Rock educational song, "I'm Just a Bill". When a boy walks by the Capitol building and notes all the garbage near the steps, the Amendment to Be corrects him and states that he isn't garbage, but the draft of an amendment to legalize police brutality towards liberals who burn American flags, as making a law that does this would be deemed unconstitutional. He also mentions that if people are opposed to his being inserted, he will crush all opposition, including Ted Kennedy, as well as hinting that he'll expose that he's gay if he even attempts to fight back. He luckily doesn't have to, however, as a congressman tells him that he's been ratified. However, he does lead more Amendments-to-be into Congress (with bombs and guns).
Bart and Lisa weren't impressed with this cartoon, especially after it replaced the then-cancelled The Itchy & Scratchy Show (which occurred by accident on their part due to their successfully suing I&S studios for plagiarism on behalf of Chester J. Lampwick, the actual creator of Itchy). Bart also speculates that they could "thin out the Generation-X's numbers" by instigating another Vietnam War. Lisa also remarks that cartoons do inspire violence, striking Bart in her anger at the lame cartoon. Krusty the Clown, right before showing the cartoon, tried to hype up how it would make education fun, before giving up and proceeding to swear there will definitely be good toy commercials after the cartoon, implying even he thought the cartoon was not an adequate replacement for Itchy & Scratchy.
He is voiced by Jack Sheldon, the original voice of the Schoolhouse Rock shorts.
Episode – "The Day the Violence Died"
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