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EIT Climate-KIC's ConnectedClusters launches at EUROCITIES
In The News 28 Nov 2018
EIT Climate-KIC's ConnectedClusters project—which aims to accelerate innovation clusters to create thriving and prosperous low carbon cities—formally launches today (Wednesday, 28 November, 2018) with a presence at the EUROCITIES 2018 conference in Edinburgh.
The project is sponsoring the annual event, which, this year, brings together the elected local and municipal governments of major European cities at the Scottish capital's high-profile Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
ConnectedClusters is a collaboration between EIT Climate-KIC partners in Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Frankfurt and Valencia. Between now and 2020, the cities will share, replicate and scale what works in developing innovation ecosystems for delivering effective climate action.
Helen Dunk, ConnectedClusters project lead for the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI)—EIT Climate-KIC's partner in Scotland—said:
"We're all familiar with the way in which clusters of complementary start-ups and skilled workers can drive commercial growth—Silicon Valley is a classic example. EIT Climate-KIC believes the emergence of broader city region-based innovation clusters focused specifically on climate could be key to meeting our emissions targets and delivering local economic benefits. Our aim is to explore how best to accelerate these wider ecosystems—that bring together businesses, academics, communities and governments to deliver on low carbon solutions—in our own city regions and others across Europe."
ConnectedClusters will develop new collaborative approaches to technology, procurement, investment and training. It's mapping each of the five participating clusters in depth to reveal the strengths and opportunities that the project can build on. It will develop a comprehensive training programme to support city region clusters to become more effective in accessing capital, working collaboratively across sectors and providing low carbon leadership.
It will also support interaction between supply and demand-side organisations through networking and industry matchmaking events. And a series of foresighting studies will shed light on key structural challenges to delivering low carbon solutions.
The project aims to engage a wide range of city and regional actors at EUROCITIES 2018 with the project's aims and forthcoming opportunities.
Jon Bloomfield, Systems Innovation Manager for Climate-KIC's Urban Transitions work, said:
"Cities are facing huge challenges—social, economic and democratic. But the threat of climate breakdown will affect and compound all of these. Cities and regions can't tackle these challenges alone. They need to bring people together across sectors and industries—from start-ups to big business, researchers, municipal authorities and communities themselves.
How can the emergence of these clusters best be developed and—crucially—accelerated? What can be shared for others to build on? That's what we're exploring in ConnectedClusters—and we're looking forward to having that conversation with city leaders from across Europe at EUROCITIES 2018."
For more information visit climate-kic.org/connectedclusters
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Virginia Tech is investing $30 million into football salaries, support roles, recruiting and more...
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After a trying 5-6 campaign last season where the Hokies missed a bowl game, there was some chatter about the future of Justin Fuente before athletic director Whit Babcock came out in mid-December to throw some cold water on those whispers, where he reaffirmed his confidence in Fuente.
Taking over for the legendary Frank Beamer heading into the 2016 season, Fuente got a fast start out of the gate as he led the Hokies to a 19-8 mark in his first two seasons and captured ACC Coach of the Year honors after a 10-win debut season in 2016.
However, high expectations have been a constant in Blacksburg since the transition of Beamer to Fuente and wins for the program have dipped to six, eight, and five wins the last three years, respectively.
"I believe in Justin," Babcock shared during a December Zoom meeting with media. "It's not always the fashionable thing to keep somebody when everybody is yelling, but he's our guy and I believe he gives us the best chance to be successful."
Around the time of that statement a few months ago, Fuente's buyout dropped from $12.5 million to $10 million, and in the midst of the COVID pandemic where budget cuts were made, Babcock acknowledged the school and athletic department being a tough financial spot.
"Yes, we are in a bind financially, yes there's buyouts, but we were determined to make the right decision either way because I cannot imagine a working relationship that you have somebody around that you don't believe in that you just keep for money," Babcock went on to share during that aforementioned Zoom call.
"You can lose or risk money no matter which way you go, so make the right decision and the rest will take care of itself."
Today, Virginia Tech announced a monster Reach for Excellence campaign aimed at raising $400 million for Hokie sports to help propel them to the front of the ACC.
In the school's announcement, Whit Babcock made it clear that mediocrity is not the Hokie way.
"We can either invest in a program that competes for championships across the board, or we can be average. Our collective answer is clear: Our investment in athletics should match our aspirations."
Included among that monster $400 million figure is $30 million for Fuente and the football program that will allot them money for "recruiting, assistant coaches' salaries, quality-control coaches, player development, and capital needs."
The fundraising effort will also focus on facility improvements, as well as nutritional and strength and conditioning programs that will impact the football program.
Fuente provided the following comment in the school's release of the campaign:
"Achieving and sustaining success as a football team begins with attracting the right type of student-athletes, coaches, and support staff to Virginia Tech," Fuente said. "Then it's our job to provide all the resources necessary to develop these young men athletically, academically and spiritually to reach their full potential. When those individuals and your entire team trust that you have their best interests at heart, you can push them to achieve goals that can exceed even their own expectations."
Fuente continued: "We have a responsibility to this university and to this football team to give these young men the resources and support that their peers across the ACC and other Power Five programs currently receive. Our staff is dedicated to helping Virginia Tech reach its objectives on the football field. In turn, we need the investment in this program and its student-athletes to reflect the lofty expectations placed on them. Thank you for your support, and Go Hokies!"
Head here to read VT's full release.
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John Bentley (* 2. Dezember 1916 in Sparkhill, Birmingham; † 13. August 2009 in Petworth, Sussex) war ein britischer Schauspieler.

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Bentley war zunächst Bühnendarsteller und Radiosprecher (für Radio Luxemburg vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg) und gelangte 1946 zum Film, wo er recht schnell in preisgünstigen Kriminal-Melodramen eingesetzt wurde – zunächst in einer Paul-Temple-Reihe, dann als The Toff in zwei Filmen. Gelegentlich erhielt er neben diesen Hauptrollen in B-Filmen auch Rollen in größeren Produktionen. 1958 erzielte er großen Erfolg mit der Fernsehserie African Patrol, in der er als Chief Inspector Paul Derek 38 mal ermittelte. 1960 sah man ihn auch in dem deutschen Heimatfilm An heiligen Wassern in einer Nebenrolle.

Von 1965 bis 1977 spielte er in der erfolgreichen Fernseh-Soap Crossroads; danach kehrte er zur Bühnenarbeit zurück, bis er sich 1990 zurückzog.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1948: Wer ist Rex? (Calling Paul Temple)
 1950: Das doppelte College (The Happiest Days of Your Life)
 1950: Jagd auf "Z" (Paul Temple's Triumph)
 1952: Paul Temple und der Fall Marquis (Paul Temple Returns)
 1954: Die Jagd begann im Hafen (River Beat)
 1955: In den Schlingen von Scotland Yard (Confession)
 1956: Faustrecht in Kenia (Escape in the Sun)
 1960: An heiligen Wassern
 1961: The Sinister Man
 1961: Sommer der Verfluchten (The Singer Not the Song)

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There is so much information and misinformation out there about the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. Jennifer Kavanagh, who wrote the RAND book Truth Decay about the diminishing role that facts play in making important public policy decisions, calls the current situation a worst-case scenario.
She spoke with RAND's media relations director, Jeffrey Hiday. Following is an edited version of their conversation.
To what extent is Truth Decay at work here during the coronavirus pandemic?
This is exactly the worst-case scenario that I imagined when I was writing the book.
This is the type of environment in which false and misleading information thrives and spreads quickly. People are vulnerable. People are afraid. People don't know what to believe. Trust in basically every organization or position that we would turn to is pretty low. There's higher trust in the medical community than in, say, media or government, but it's still not all that high.
The combination of low trust and high volume of information coming from people who are not experts—but purport to be experts—creates the perfect storm for the average person. I am a well-informed person who knows where to go for good information, but even I am struggling to figure out what's true and what's not. So you can imagine how, how hard it would be for the average person who hasn't spent the past three years studying disinformation.
Today people were sending around this message that the president is about to invoke the Stafford Act and that this is going to lead to a two-week national quarantine. It was also rapidly debunked—but is this an example of what you're talking about?
Exactly. There are people who are trying to do their jobs by providing what they think is right and just messing up. But there are other actors intentionally contributing to the problem. We also have foreign actors who are actively spreading false information about the source of the virus—for example, saying it is a bioweapon developed by the U.S. military.
There are people who are trying to do their jobs by providing what they think is right and just messing up. But there are other actors intentionally contributing to the problem.
Plus we have an internal partisan conflict over which sources are accurate and disagreements about the level of severity and how concerned we should be.
And then you have the media. There are many actors in the media who are working really hard to get the facts out there. But the fact that the media is at its heart a business trying to make money, means outlets may keep fueling that fire of fear. The 24-hour-a-day coverage, the constant panicked headlines? That's not good for anyone. The online sources are no better: social media, Twitter, Facebook. These places can fill people with fear, false information, and confusion.
People always ask what ended Truth Decay in previous periods. Michael Rich and I did some historical comparisons. The answer seems to be some kind of serious incident: a catastrophe, the Great Depression, a war, a moment when people realized the consequences of making decisions based on what they want to be true or what they hope will be true and ignoring the actual evidence. Is COVID-19 enough to cause that snapback? I certainly hope so. But it's just something that we have to watch for now.
Or could the panic make distrust, and therefore Truth Decay, worse?
A period of economic and social dislocation is going to hurt trust in the near term, but there's an opportunity to build trust in the long run if it's handled properly. One of the reasons the Great Depression was so long and so severe is that in the early period, policymakers ignored the data they had and made decisions based on other things. That just made it worse and undermined trust even more. Learning from that example, the next couple of weeks are critical in terms of the decisions our policymakers make to try to rebuild public confidence.
Evidence and facts should drive all of our decisions every day. If we don't make our decisions that way, we can end up with serious and unwanted consequences.
They have to show they have the situation under control, but also that they use data to send a consistent message from all the players who are providing us information. That isn't what's happening right now.
Bottom line: Individuals have to realize that facts and data matter, that there are experts who have information, and that those experts should be looked to as sources of information about health. There has to be the change at the policy level as well as the community level. Evidence and facts should drive all of our decisions every day. If we don't make our decisions that way, we can end up with serious and unwanted consequences.
What's your own research agenda at the moment?
I'm really interested in tracking public opinion. We have the perfect opportunity here to track how events like this change people's attitudes about the government, about the media, about their community. How it affects their attitudes towards each other, how it affects their attitudes towards things like vaccines. Does it drive people away from them? Does it convince them that they do matter?
I'm interested in the effect on partisanship. Does this event bring people together, as we've seen in past national crises? Or will the health effects or economic impacts worsen the economic and social polarization that we already have in this country?
More generally, I'm interested in the effect at the global level in terms of things like trade conflict and border and travel restrictions. We saw some movement towards these restrictions even before the virus, driven by concerns over immigration and refugees. And so my question is: How do those things interact when this is over? Do those restrictions go away, or is this used as a reason to keep those restrictions and those border controls in place?
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Distributed Operating Systems Assignment Although distributed operating system have been said to enable the implementation of powerful resource-sharing schemes, enhance performance, increase reliability and ensure better communication, evidence shows that these systems to do not actually offer all these benefits. These systems do however offer some of these benefits, but only to a small degree. The process of developing and using distributed systems actually erodes these benefits.
First, evidence shows that distributed operating systems pose major security risks to the system. This is because they have multiple components and therefore it becomes easy for one of the elements in the system to be compromised. For instance, the design of distributed systems is such that a malicious program can easily be replicated across a large number of machines, and this can result in major damage (Moffett, 2004). To this extent, although distributed operating systems might attempt to enhance high reliability through fault tolerance, it is however clear that fault tolerance is hard to achieve.
Secondly, the distributed operating systems are designed with the aim of enhancing performance. Evidence however shows that this is particularly a challenging concept since as these systems attempt to enhance performance; they actually end up conflicting with other properties, especially the reliability and security of the system. For example, in Amoeba distributed operating system, there are many applications that are replicated, an example being the databases (Tanenbaum, et al, 1990). These replications help this operating system to support fault tolerance, there enhancing its performance and reliability. However, it should be noted that as the software and hardware components are increased to enhance fault tolerance, this may end up negatively affecting the security and overall performance of the system.
Third, there is evidence to show that indeed distributed operating systems helps to enhance communication. In many of these systems, communication is mainly through messages. This allows for communication in distributed operating system easy and efficient. In many cases, the communication needs in distributed operating systems are of the request/response type (Mullender, 1988). This allows for message passing to be embedded in protocols for the remote operations. In this case, a process sends a request to another process and the request is carried out and the response returned to the initial process. Through such a mechanism, the communication process in a distributed operating system is easy. Unfortunately, in order to ensure effective communication, a number of issues need to be considered. These may include the connection strategies and the routing strategies. These may have a negative effective in the system in that it may become complex to develop and operate (Kuz, et al, 2008). For example, the components of a distributed system are located in different address spaces on totally different nodes, and therefore the mechanism for the inter-node communication needs to be different. This makes the system complex.
Despite the much publicized advantages of distributed operating systems, evidence suggests that these advantages are not fully realized when such systems are put to use. This is attributed to the weaknesses associated with distributed systems. In particular, this is due to the many components associated with distributed systems, which not only make the system complex, but also prone to attacks and other performance issues. Therefore, the benefits associated with these systems are neutralized by these limitations.
Kuz, I., Chakravarty, M & Heiser, G (2008). Distributed systems. Pp. 1-20. Retrieved from http://webapps.cse.unsw.edu.au/webcms2/course/showfile.php?cid=2338&color=colour0	&addr=Lectures/intro-notes.pdf
Moffett, J D (2004). Security & Distributed Systems. Pp. 1-20. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.2312&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Mullender, S (1988).Distributed Operating Systems State-of-the-Art and Future Directions. Pp. 53-60. Proc. of the EUTECO 88 Conf. (R. Speth, ed.), North-Holland, Vienna, Austria. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.38.5221&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Tanenbaum, A. S et al (1990).Experiences with the Amoeba Distributed Operating System. Retrieved from http://www.scs.stanford.edu/nyu/03sp/sched/amoeba.pdf Read More
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A round-up of the opening day's action from the 2016 Formula 1 Emirates Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka...
No real problems here, though Ericsson felt unlucky with yellow flags in FP2. It's down to the number-crunching tonight to see how well they can go tomorrow.
Marcus Ericsson - FP1: 1:36.294, P18; FP2: 1:36.318, P22
"It has been a decent day. In the morning we tried different configurations on the aerodynamic side, which we have to evaluate more in-depth. Later on in FP2, I was a bit unlucky with the yellow flags, so it was difficult to get a feeling for the car on low fuel. The long run on medium tyres felt ok, but we need to have a closer look at the data."
Felipe Nasr - FP1: 1:35.967, P15; FP2: 1:34.824, P19
"It has been a productive day here in Suzuka. FP1 was mainly about testing different set-ups in order to get a better read for the balance of the car. In the afternoon we concentrated on short and long runs on different tyre compounds for qualifying as well as race preparation. Now we have to analyse the data collected, so that we can find improvements for the rest of the weekend."
Marcus Ericsson (SWE) Sauber C35 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Felipe Nasr (BRA) Sauber signs autographs for the fans at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Preparations, Suzuka, Japan, Thursday 6 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Sainz said he was happy with the STR11's Friday performance, but unsure how quick they would be tomorrow. Kvyat had gearbox problems at the end of FP1which required the unit to be changed for FP2, and also had issues with an 'octopus' - a strand of rubber which wrapped itself around the aerial ahead of him on his car's scuttle and flapped around irritatingly.
Carlos Sainz - FP1: 1:35.672, P12; FP2: 1:34.086, P10
"A challenging day - obviously a track like Suzuka is always defiant regarding the set-up and driver, but I've definitely enjoyed it a lot out there today. Driving here is one of the most exciting weekends of the year for me - I really enjoy every single lap, it doesn't matter if it's during a short run or a long run, it's just fantastic! I'm happy with today. We've been able to complete plenty of laps without any problems and, from a performance point of view, I think it's looking very similar to Malaysia: we look good on Friday, but we know it won't be easy to do the same all weekend long - finishing today in the top ten is very nice and we'll do our best to maximize the potential of the car during the rest of the weekend."
Daniil Kvyat - FP1: 1:35.446, P11; FP2: 1:34.305, P14
"It was a decent Friday, we did a good job. My running was slightly compromised in FP2, but we know that in tomorrow's FP3 we will be back to normal and we will see where we are compared to the others. We've collected plenty of data regarding the tyres, which is what we wanted, and we now have enough information to analyse tonight. Considering what happened today…I will definitely go for some octopus sushi for dinner tonight!"
Phil Charles, Chief Race Engineer
"I am quite pleased as we have ticked off most, if not all, of our program targets today. Some aero work first thing in the morning and some decent tyre data on long runs this afternoon. In terms of our performance I think we are ok - it is a very tight midfield here and we know our now customary straight line speed deficit is a hindrance. However, the first sector is complementary to our package as we enjoy high-speed, sweepy cornering. We do have a little bit more work to do in sector 2 tonight though. Daniil had a gearbox issue on his car at the end of FP1. The mechanics managed to change the gearbox in time, but we were not able to maximize the set up for FP2. Hopefully, we can uncover a bit more performance in the setup and drivers in sector 2 tomorrow. Other highlights of the weekend so far for me have been how passionate and creative the Japanese fans are here and secondly the return of Daniil's 'octopus' that you might have heard him talking about on the radio in P1. This is actually something which has visited him before in a race in 2014. It gave quite a high level of confusion back then when he said there is an octopus on the front of the car. It was only after the race that we truly understood what he was talking about - a collection of long and thin tyre rubber marbles had gathered on the aerial on top of the cockpit in front of him."
Carlos Sainz jr (ESP) Scuderia Toro Rosso STR11 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Daniil Kvyat (RUS) Scuderia Toro Rosso at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Both drivers reported that it was a normal Friday, and said they were happy with the balance of the car. The real work now lies in maximising performance on the soft tyre.
Valtteri Bottas - FP1: 1:35.381, P10; FP2: 1:34.028, P9
"I think it was a pretty straightforward Friday. We got everything done that we had planned and there were no big issues. Balance-wise, I'm already pleased with the car but we still need to focus on tyre performance. I think getting more performance out of the soft tyre over one lap is the key, and then on the long runs we need to get both of the compounds working at 100 percent."
Felipe Massa - FP1: 1:36.169, P16; FP2: 1:34.127, P11
"It was a normal Friday. We were mostly just trying to understand the tyres, the different aspects of the car and doing the long runs. I think we need to analyse where we are compared to our competitors tonight because this weekend is going to be another fight, but I hope we can have a good one."
Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering
"It was a fairly normal Friday for us and we completed most of the work that we needed to in FP1 and FP2. We tested different suspension geometries and aerodynamic components, which we'll have to analyse tonight, but everything looked reasonably good. In the afternoon we concentrated on the balance of the car and tyre performance, and it all went smoothly. Everything looks good on both low and high fuel runs so I think we are in our normal position, maybe a little bit further forward. The weekend has started quite well."
Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Williams FW38 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Felipe Massa (BRA) Williams FW38 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Force India found a good balance early on, and both drivers said they had solid, problem-free days.
Nico Hulkenberg - FP1: 1:34.530, P7 FP2: 1:33.873, P7
"There's not a huge amount to say really because it was a routine, standard day of practice. We just worked through the run plan with no dramas and collected all the information on the different tyre compounds. We looked competitive, but it's only practice, so I would expect much tighter margins tomorrow when we get to qualifying. I'm feeling positive, though, because we've started well and I'm already pretty happy with the car balance."
Sergio Perez - FP1: 1:34.767, P8; FP2: 1:33.570, P6
"It's looking like a promising weekend based on our performance today. Of course, the track conditions were very good and you never know what the rest of the weekend will bring, but today everything was working well. We looked quite competitive in most conditions - on high and low fuel - and on all the tyre compounds. The set-up of the car was very good from the start of the day and we've not moved far away from this."
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal
"It's been a pretty straightforward and satisfying day of practice. The team achieved the objectives of the run plan, which included some test items split between the two cars. It was encouraging to see that our baseline set-up was not too far away from ideal and both drivers were pretty content with the feel of their cars by the end of the afternoon. Track conditions were very good today with relatively consistent track temperatures and very little wind to upset the cars. The programme included the usual combination of performance runs and long runs across the three tyre compounds, which means we have plenty of information to help our decisions overnight."
Nico Hulkenberg (GER) Force India VJM09 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Sergio Perez (MEX) Force India VJM09 with halo at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Ferrari had a tricky day. Raikkonen had a couple of offs in the hairpin and a sensor issue in FP2, and Vettel ran wide in the Degners in FP1, spoiling his best lap in that session. Both said that the balance needs further work.
Kimi Raikkonen - FP1: 1:33.817, P4; FP2: 1:32.573, P3
"It was one of those days that seem a bit tricky but in the end go for better. My feeling with the car was not very nice, I suffered a lot with understeer and I was struggling with the balance through the first sector, but the lap time was ok. In the end we got a bit better, but we are not still where we want to be. In the second session I had a small electric issue, likely with a sensor, but we changed it and it was ok. Tomorrow is another day, we'll try to work on small things to try to improve. If we get the car where we want and with a better feeling for sure we can go quite a bit faster."
Sebastian Vettel - FP1: 1:33.525, P3; FP2: 1:33.103, P5
"Overall, l I am not entirely happy with the balance of the car today, but I am sure this is something we can work on. I didn't try the medium compound, we focused more on the soft tyre in the morning, and on the very hard tyre in the afternoon. We tried to do our homework, but the balance is not there yet. We will now need to look at the data and see where we are, also compared to the others. Ideally you would always love to have more grip around here, because it feels fantastic if you do, but I am sure we can tune the balance and distribute the grip a bit better, so that we will be in a better shape tomorrow. As for race expectations, a podium finish is always possible, there might even be rain at some point. It sure doesn't help if you start further at the back (because of the grid penalty), but overtaking is possible, even if it is not so easy."
Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari SF16-H at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Sebastian Vettel (GER) Ferrari SF16-H at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Verstappen said his car's upshifts were "like a handbrake" in FP1, but ended the day feeling that the team was in very good shape. Neither he nor Ricciardo really got the best on their short runs because of the Virtual Safety Car that was triggered by Gutierrez's problems, so they think they can get close to the Mercedes and ahead of Ferrari on short-run pace. Both drivers are praying for rain in qualifying.
Max Verstappen - FP1: 1:34.379, P6; FP2: 1:33.061, P4
"I think this has been one of the strongest Fridays so far. Everything seemed to work quite well, car set-up was good and we looked quick on both tyres today, even on the Hard. We were hampered by the Virtual Safety Car on our short runs so the tyres lost a bit of temperature, this meant we didn't show our full potential. After Malaysia we are looking for another good result, this track should suit us and we are close to the top guys at the moment. Ferrari are in the mix, short runs look ok but I'm not sure how their long ones are going, I'm hoping we can handle them though. There are talks of rain for later in the weekend which for us I think will play into our hands, we can't be sure but if it comes I think we can be even stronger in qualifying and the race."
Daniel Ricciardo - FP1: 1:34.112, P5; FP2: 1:34.150, P12
"It's good to be back at this circuit, I really like this place. We had a pretty good day today and a positive afternoon. We made some improvements from this morning and the lap we had to abort because of the Virtual Safety Car looked to be in the 32s which was close to Kimi's time. Our long run pace towards the end of FP2 on the hard tyre looked pretty solid as well. If we can hook the car up for quali, we can be close to Mercedes and probably be ahead of the Ferraris, we can definitely squeeze a bit more out of the car tomorrow. There have been improvements from our side and the Ferraris so we expect the rest of the season to be tighter. If it rains for quali, it won't hurt us and we might even be able to get on the front row. I'm ready either way, this place is fun in both wet and dry conditions."
Max Verstappen (NED) Red Bull Racing at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) Red Bull Racing RB12 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Grosjean had yet another brake drama at the Degner curves in FP1, which saw him nose into the tyre wall and damage his front wing. In the afternoon it was Gutierrez's turn for problems as he rolled to a halt on the approach to the same section with a turbo problem.
Romain Grosjean - FP1: 1:35.688, P14; FP2: 1:34.241, P13
"First off, this is always a great track to drive. We have a lot of fun around here. Clearly, we had some issues with the brakes today, which didn't make our life easy, but eventually we worked our way around it. We still have a lot of work to do tonight trying to balance the car. It's one of those tracks where the timing is very tight. Two-tenths of a second can make a big difference. Let's hope we find those."
Esteban Gutierrez - FP1: 1:36.219, P17; FP2: 1:34.643, P17
"It was quite a tricky day. We've been trying to experiment a little bit, trying to find the best compromise in every area of the car. We now have a pretty good idea. We tested a few things so we can get ready for tomorrow. Unfortunately, we ended up with a failure in the afternoon, but this will not harm us in continuing our program for Saturday and our focus on qualifying."
Guenther Steiner, team principal
"In general we had a good testing session. In FP1 though, Romain had an issue with his brakes. He went long and into the barrier and broke his front wing. Nothing else was damaged, so that was a straightforward fix with a change of front wing. We obviously lost a bit of time. In FP2, Romain's car was flawless but Esteban had a problem. We had an issue with the turbocharger, which we're still investigating why and where it came from. We had to stop his session as he was stranded out on the track. With the rest we learned quite a bit. We still have to work on the setup for tomorrow and the balance of the car, but we're not looking too bad."
Romain Grosjean (FRA) Haas VF-16 locks up and takes a trip through the gravel in FP1 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Esteban Gutierrez (MEX) Haas VF-16 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Both drivers felt that they had arrived at a decent set-up for today's track conditions, with decent direction for the rest of the weekend.
Pascal Wehrlein - FP1: 1:37.966, P21; FP2: 1:35.292, P20
"I've been really looking forward to getting out on track here. It's not an easy circuit to master but I'm quite happy so far and I have a much better feeling with the car than the last race. We seem to have made some progress, which is good. It's an awesome track to drive; a fantastic challenge and some fun corners. I'm feeling pretty positive about it, even though it's not one of the most well-suited for our car.
"The most important thing is that we've found a good set-up and we've improved step-by-step through the two sessions. I'm also certain that we can squeeze a few drops more from the car in FP3 and be better for qualifying. So with a good run at tomorrow morning, it can go well for us here, I hope."
Esteban Ocon - FP1: 1:37.797, P20; FP2: 1:35.400, P21
"I love everything about the fans, the track and Japan in general. I thought I might, but now I'm here I can't get enough of the place. I really enjoyed my first day of practice here; it's a really technical and demanding track. I love chicanes in general and these are pretty quick, so I'm really enjoying driving them.
"We've tried a few different things on set-up and I think we've ended up in a good place as far as direction for tomorrow goes. Our long pace looks promising. There's still some work to do on our qualifying pace, but I'm optimistic that we can have a good fight on Sunday."
Dave Ryan, Racing Director
"A reasonably good start to our weekend here in Suzuka. Pascal and Esteban seem to have got to grips with this track quite well and are enjoying it, plus they're responding well to the steps we've taken to improve the car since Sepang. It wasn't all plain sailing today; there are a few things we need to work on. But looking at the big picture, we seem to have made some progress since Malaysia and that's good to see."
Pascal Wehrlein (GER) Manor Racing MRT05 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Esteban Ocon (FRA) Manor Racing MRT05 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Rosberg worked to reduce "monster understeer" in FP1 and later reported some engine cutting-out, but said he was otherwise happy. Hamilton said he'd had a really good day, despite complaining early on of low power. The W07 Hybrid seems better here on the soft tyre compounds, but not as strong as it was in Malaysia on the harder rubber.
Nico Rosberg - FP1: 1:32.431, P1; FP2: 1:32.250, P1
"It's been a case of finding my way today. It began with quite a lot of under-steer and we had to work through the setup in order to find a better balance on the car. In the afternoon, the medium tyre didn't seem as strong as the hard as we saw in Malaysia. However, on the soft tyre we showed strong one-lap pace, the balance felt good and the track was really exciting to drive. It looks like we're ahead of the Ferraris but it remains to be seen as to where we are compared to the Red Bulls."
Lewis Hamilton - FP1: 1:32.646, P2; FP2: 1:32.322, P2
"It's been a really good day with no problems on the car which is great. We managed to get plenty of laps in but there's still some work to be done overnight in order to find more pace. That's a work in progress and hopefully we'll be going into Sunday in good shape. It's great to be here in Japan and I'm excited to get out on track again for qualifying tomorrow."
Paddy Lowe, Executive Director (Technical)
"It's great to be back here at this fantastic circuit with all the amazing and enthusiastic fans at every turn. It was nice to get some dry weather which we didn't get last year and it allowed us to run through our programme and execute to plan, looking at all three tyres on both single and long-run pace. At this stage, our strategy for Sunday still remains wide open and we need to go through all the data overnight in order to start making plans for the race."
Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes-Benz F1 W07 Hybrid at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Magnussen was happy with his car in both sessions, and cautiously optimistic for the rest of the weekend. Palmer's learning process was hampered by a wiring loom failure in FP1, but he completed 40 laps in the afternoon and likewise felt he'd reached a reasonable set-up by the end of FP2.
Kevin Magnussen - FP1: 1:36.822, P19; FP2: 1:34.339, P15
"We completed a lot of running today and it went pretty well. I ended the day 15th fastest, which is always nice to see but it's only Friday and a bit too early to draw any conclusions. The car feels good; we have a bit of work to do now to get ready for tomorrow's qualifying but things so far are encouraging."
Jolyon Palmer - FP1: 1:37.992, P22; FP2: 1:34.760, P18
"It was a shame to lose time in Free Practice 1 this morning as I'd never properly driven here before. In contrast, everything was good in the afternoon and there's more pace in the car than my lap time showed. It's quite a technical circuit so I need to get the sequences just right, which is something to work on tomorrow. Otherwise, it feels as though we have a similar pace to that we had in Malaysia at this point. It bodes well for the rest of the weekend."
Bob Bell, Chief Technical Officer
"We got through most of the programme today despite losing time on Jolyon's car with an electrical problem. It cut his session short during FP1 and lost us time normally used for information-gathering, but we recovered well in the afternoon and got what we needed in terms of data for qualifying and the race. It wasn't the best start to the weekend but we have a good idea on what we need to do over the next two days. The balance of the car is reasonably strong and I think that we will be able to maintain the level of progress we have seen in the last few races."
Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Renault Sport F1 Team RS16 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Jolyon Palmer (GBR) Renault Sport F1 Team at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Alonso ran the new-spec engine that he tried on Friday in Malaysia. The Spaniard spun backwards into the tyre wall in the Spoon Curve in FP1, possibly because of an aero problem with the rear wing. Damage was light, however, but he said his set-up still needs plenty of work and is worried that if it rains tomorrow they will not be able to assess any changes they make. Button said his one-lap pace wasn't too bad but that work is needed for the long runs.
Fernando Alonso - FP1: 1:35.003, P9; FP2: 1:33.985, P8
"It's been a tough day, generally. Our most important objective for this afternoon was to understand the compounds across the length of a long-run, and we did that. Nonetheless, we're not yet happy with the set-up and we need to do some more work this evening.
"We're still investigating the cause of this morning's spin - it looks like there were some aerodynamic issues with the rear wing. Luckily, we didn't damage the car and could continue running until the end of FP1.
"We need to find something extra tonight - let's just hope it doesn't rain in FP3 tomorrow as we need to understand the changes we make tonight ahead of qualifying and the race.
"Getting into Q3 could be quite difficult now."
Jenson Button - FP1: 1:35.677, P13; FP2: 1:34.398, P16
"On single-lap pace, the car doesn't actually look too bad - I just didn't get a great lap this afternoon. But if we can get a good lap together - which we'll hopefully do tomorrow - we may be able to get into the top 10.
"However, our long-run pace is more of an issue - and that's something we need to solve as it's usually a forte of mine, and it wasn't today. The degradation is significant, we're some way off, and we're looking into the reasons why. I think there's something not quite right, as opposed to there being a set-up issue; but hopefully we can fix it by tomorrow.
"I'd love it to rain - that would help us have a chance of a good result here."
Eric Boullier, Racing Director
"It's always fantastic to arrive at Suzuka: the colour, the fans, the banners, the gifts, they all add up to making the experience special every single time. This year is no different, and it's been extremely encouraging to see the rising number of people wearing McLaren-Honda caps and T-shirts in the grandstands today.
"Turning our attention to the racetrack itself, Fernando suffered a small 'off' during the morning's session - an unexpected lack of grip between the two Spoon corners caused him to lose the rear end and skim the barriers. Fortunately, the damage was minimal - just a broken rear-wing end-plate - and caused minimal delay.
"In the afternoon, both drivers worked hard to improve balance and driveability. While not completely successful, the changes enabled us to make progress, and we go into the evening looking to improve our cars' set-up further ahead of tomorrow's qualifying session."
Yusuke Hasegawa, Honda R&D Co Ltd Head of F1 Project & Executive Chief Engineer
"The fans here at Suzuka have given us such a warm welcome, and I am very happy to be back at our home race in Japan.
"As usual, it's tricky to know where we stand after Friday running because of the changeable track conditions during the weekend, and the testing of various set-ups on both cars.
"Fernando was happier with his balance and we were able to run stable lap times, so we can say that he had a fairly decent Friday's running. Jenson was less satisfied, especially with the tyre conditions, but his time gap to Fernando was not so off, so we are expecting him to improve during tomorrow's running."
Fernando Alonso (ESP) McLaren MP4-31 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Jenson Button (GBR) McLaren MP4-31 at Formula One World Championship, Rd17, Japanese Grand Prix, Practice, Suzuka, Japan, Friday 7 October 2016. © Sutton Images
Paul Hembery, motorsport director
"The drivers experienced quite slippery conditions at the beginning of free practice. This improved as more rubber was laid on the surface. Continuing the pattern that we have seen frequently this season, last year's pole time was already beaten in FP1, but with rain due tomorrow, we are likely to see a different type of challenge in qualifying. Today there was a lot of work on the hard compound, which seems to be a very good race tyre in these conditions. However if we experience cooler conditions on Sunday, then the track could swing back towards the medium compound."
FP2 - Hamilton closes the gap, but Rosberg stays in front


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Why Are Most of the Atlantic Cover Stories Written By Women About Marriage and Babies?
By Jessica Grose
Oct 13, 201112:58 PM
Kate Bolick's Atlantic cover story "All the Single Ladies," an essay about the growing number of proud, never-married women, is getting tons of (well-deserved) attention: Bolick was on the Today Show on Monday, her story has 9,000 likes on Facebook and the blogs (including this one) are all over it. Bolick appears on the cover of The Atlantic to illustrate her story—it's a rarity for the magazine to put its writers on the cover, FishbowlNY points out—and Atlantic deputy editor Scott Stossel explains the decision thusly: Bolick "is very much a protagonist in the story; the narrative of her romantic life is the thread that ties the piece together."
The more I thought about it, the more this bothered me.
Yes, the cover is lovely, and yes, it's an adequate representation of the story within. But when The Atlantic gives a woman writer a cover story, she's almost always writing about topics that are considered female ones: marriage, romance, feminism, and babies.
I took a look back through the covers of the Atlantic since July, 1998, which is the oldest cover I could find on their website. I'm leaving out the fiction issue, because those covers usually refer to several different writers, and the fictional topics are impossible to discern from the cover art. I also left out covers where there wasn't a clear writer for the cover story (for example, this cover from May 2011). This leaves about 130 covers. Of those 130 covers, by my unscientific count (which may be off by one or two), 12 of the cover stories were written by women, which is not a great statistic in and of itself. Of those 12 covers, six of them were about "women problems"—Bolick's "All the Single Ladies," Lori Gottlieb's piece on finding love on the Internet, "How Do I Love Thee?" our own Hanna Rosin's "The End of Men," Caitlin Flanagan's "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement" (about the nanny wars), Christina Hoff Sommers' "The War Against Boys." I could only find one cover story written by a man about topics that could be considered "women's" topics, one from 1998 about rape laws.
The quest for byline equality has been much covered, by DoubleX and others—check out the VIDA project's tallies of female bylines in major magazines. I don't know how to fix this problem, considering I'm a big part of it—I run a women's section; the articles I write and assign are about stereotypically female topics, and those also happen to be the articles I want to write and the articles I most like to read. Slate's byline ratio isn't nearly where it should be. I suppose I feel like the only way to address it is to keep talking about it, and to keep trying to work out where the problem lies.


I always had a general interest in keeping fit but nothing too serious. In 2014 I decided to start pushing myself more, I wanted to expand beyond the 5km and 10km runs, and when I completed my first adventure race I was hooked on these events. I train with Go-Tri in Clare and the support to push and train beyond your comfort zone and to train with similar minded athletes is terrific.
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HomeMarketsCastellum makes four strategic acquisitions of logistics in the Öresund region
Castellum makes four strategic acquisitions of logistics in the Öresund region
Category:	Markets
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —
In a short period of time Castellum Region Öresund has completed a series of acquisitions in Malmö and Helsingborg, at a total acquisition price of approximately SEK 190 million.
In total, it's a four-leaf clover of strategically interesting deals that verifies Castellum as a proactive player in Swedish logistics.
At the end of December, Castellum communicated its sale of fully developed warehousing and logistics to Blackstone, a deal that in no way means reduced involvement in the segment. The current acquisitions in the Öresund region signal continued investment in an area that generates good cash flows. By acquiring these four properties in prime locations and with the possibility of continued expansion, Castellum's position in logistics is strengthened, not least in the dynamic Öresund region.
With increasing e-commerce as the prime mover the logistics industry continues to grow at a high pace. The Öresund region, with Malmö and Helsingborg in the lead, is experiencing a boom in properties adapted to the increasing demand, and Castellum is highly involved in the dynamic development of the region.
"I am very happy that we may enter the new year with these four strategic acquisitions in logistics. We see great potential in all these deals, and regard them as supplementary purchases with development opportunities for the existing portfolio," says Ola Orsmark, CEO of Castellum Region Öresund.
The four acquisitions in brief:
Drevet 1, Långeberga, Helsingborg
Helsingborg is a fast-growing logistics hub and a focus area where we see opportunities for continued growth. With a location close to communications along the E4/E6 roads, acquisitions of land for warehousing and logistics were made on 23 November, with the possibility of constructing two buildings with a total of approximately 41,000 sqm of lettable area.
Seller: SMEBAB Holding Ångermanland AB / Skanska Mark och Exploatering Bygg AB
Land area: approximately 51,000 sqm
Buildable area: approximately 41,000 sqm
Acquisition price including overheads: SEK 28 million
Sälen 4, Nyhamnen, Malmö
Nyhamnen is Malmö's large development area for mixed urban development. Through the acquisition, which takes place via a company and includes the plot right Sälen 4, we are consolidating our presence in the area where Castellum already has several commitments. With its location close to the city and customers active in logistics, this is a strategically important acquisition in an interesting development area.
Seller: Five privately owned smaller companies
Land area: 5,129 sqm
Total lettable area: 1,889 sqm
Economical occupancy rate: 100%
Rental value: approximately SEK 1 million on an annual basis
Closing date: 1 December 2020
Eggegrund 7, Östra hamnen, Malmö
This attractive logistics property in Malmö's East Harbour is leased in its entirety by Edström Logistics, who together with Castellum plans to further develop and expand its operations with additional premises. The acquisition takes place via a company and includes the plot right to Eggegrund 7.
Seller: S. Edström Logistics Malmö AB
Land area: 42,432 sqm
Total lettable area: 14,902 sqm
Economic occupancy rate: 100%
Rental value: approximately SEK 75 million on an annual basis
Acquisition price including overheads: approximately SEK 115 million
Flintkärnan 5, Fosie, Malmö
Fosieby industrial area in Malmö is well established in logistics and warehousing, with operations since 1970. Today, more than 300 companies are established with workplaces for more than 10,000 people. For Castellum, Fosie is a priority sub-market for interesting property acquisitions. In this case, several customer relationships in the B2B sector within the Skanska sphere are also added.
Seller: Nöddesta Holding AB/Skanska
Economic occupancy rate: 89%
For information please contact:
Henrik Saxborn, CEO Castellum AB, +46 706 94 74 50
Ulrika Danielsson, CFO Castellum AB, +46 706 47 12 61
About Castellum:
Castellum is one of Sweden's largest listed real estate companies with a property value of SEK 98 billion. We are active in 17 Swedish growth regions as well as in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Every day, 250,000 people go to work in our premises. We develop flexible workplaces and logistics solutions in close proximity to city centres and with a lettable area of 4.3 million square meters. One of our sustainability goals is to be completely climate neutral by 2030. Castellum is the only Nordic real estate company selected by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI). The Castellum share is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap.
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Twitter is an online information network that allows anyone with an account to post 140 character messages, called tweets. It is free to sign up. Users then follow other accounts which they are interested in, and view the tweets of everyone they follow in their "timeline." Most Twitter accounts are public, where one does not need to approve a request to follow, or need to follow back. This makes Twitter a powerful "one to many" broadcast platform where individuals, companies or organizations can reach millions of followers with a single message. Twitter is accessible from Twitter.com, our mobile website, SMS, our mobile apps for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, our iPad application, or 3rd party clients built by outside developers using our API. Twitter accounts can also be private, where the owner must approve follower requests.
Where did the idea for Twitter come from?
Twitter started as an internal project within the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, and engineer, had long been interested in status updates. Jack developed the idea, along with Biz Stone, and the first prototype was built in two weeks in March 2006 and launched publicly in August of 2006. The service grew popular very quickly and it soon made sense for Twitter to move outside of Odea. In May 2007, Twitter Inc was founded.
How is Twitter built?
Our engineering team works with a web application framework called Ruby on Rails. We all work on Apple computers except for testing purposes.
We built Twitter using Ruby on Rails because it allows us to work quickly and easily--our team likes to deploy features and changes multiple times per day. Rails provides skeleton code frameworks so we don't have to re-invent the wheel every time we want to add something simple like a sign in form or a picture upload feature.
How do you make money from Twitter?
There are a few ways that Twitter makes money. We have licensing deals in place with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft's Bing to give them access to the "firehose" - a stream of tweets so that they can more easily incorporate those tweets into their search results.
In Summer 2010, we launched our Promoted Tweets product. Promoted Tweets are a special kind of tweet which appear at the top of search results within Twitter.com, if a company has bid on that keyword. Unlike search results in search engines, Promoted Tweets are normal tweets from a business, so they are as interactive as any other tweet - you can @reply, favorite or retweet a Promoted Tweet.
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With what appeared to be a record number of photographers attending, the first RAF Northolt Night Shoot of the season took place at the west London airfield as well as swelling the coffers of the restoration fund for Building 26, the Battle of Britain Sector Control Room in the process. In keeping with the Battle of Britain theme, and through a surcharge on the photographers to pay for its attendance, the Historic Aircraft Collection's Hurricane from Duxford arrived at sunset for an excellent aerobatics display by Charlie Brown for a group of World War Two Polish veterans who were attending a reunion at the Officers Mess. It then became part of the night shoot.
There were five new or 'star' items for the event. The aforementioned Hurricane, which turned out to be the only aircraft that had props turning that evening, the London Air Ambulance MD900 helicopter,the BAe 146 QC, the French Super Puma helicopter and the Swedish Air Force Sabreliner. Although first flown in September 1958, two North American/Rockwell Sabreliner's didn't join the Swedish Air Force until 1981 as the Tp86 and used by the Swedish AF Test Centre on a variety of testing tasks and 861 is the last of the two flying and hasn't been seen in the UK since 1982.
RAF Northolt Night Photoshoot XIV
Camera Used: Sony Alpha A57 SLT + Sony16-105mm/f3.5-5.6 Lens
Along with an Alpha Jet E, the French Air Force also sent a Eurocopter AS332M-1 Super Puma. Based on a civilian stretched version of the standard Puma this helicopter, from EH.03.067 "Parisis" based at Villicoublay, is configured as a VIP transport and a type not seen very often in British airspace let alone up close.
The largest aircraft parked under the floodlights was a new(ish) all grey BAE 146 C3 of No 32(TR) Squadron. Originally flown as a BAE 146 QC (Quick Change) this was one of two aircraft purchased from TNT for use in Afghanistan in both a passenger or cargo carrying capacity hence the Quick Change name and had only recently been accepted into service by the RAF.
The London Air Ambulance attended for the first time with their new MD900 helicopter that arrived and touched down on a portable platform just behind the Hurricane as it was doing its ground run. The MD900 was whisked away into one of the hangars to emerge a short time later all spick and span having had a wash and brush up. The Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit EC145 arrived just after the start of the event but didn't stay long as it got called out on a 'shout' and had to scramble.
An excellent evening out although I was a bit out of my comfort zone as I wasn't hand holding my camera but using a tripod which I found a bit restrictive, especially as I got boxed in during the Hurricane ground run, in the type and angle of shot I would have liked. Even the weather played ball.
A very big thanks to Phil, Lee, RAF Northolt Station Commander, Flight Ops, SERCO, visiting air crew and everyone else at Northolt who help make this event possible.
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Rockwell TP-86 Sabreliner 40A/86-001/861 - Swedish Air Force
Hawker Hurricane XIIa Z5140/HA-C/(G-HURI)
Agusta-Westland AW139 277 - Irish Air Corp
Eurocopter AS332M-1 Super Puma 2377/FU - Armée de l'Air
Dassault Alpha Jet E 705-RU/E153 - Armée de l'Air
Eurocopter EC145 G-MPSB - Metropolitan Police Air Support Unit
MD900 Explorer G-EHMS - London Air Ambulance
BAe 146 C3/ZE707 - No 32(TR)Squadron, RAF Northolt
BAe 125 CC3/ZD703 - No 32(TR)Squadron, RAF Northolt
AgustaWestland A109E Power/ZR323 - No 32(TR)Squadron, RAF Northolt


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DTR Medical needed assistance in developing a sharp cutting jaw for a new single-use Cervical Rotating Biopsy Punch for healthcare providers to use when testing for cervical cancer. The new instrument would replace traditionally used Tischler Biopsy Punches sourced from the Far East, which came with high costs and unreliable lead times. Such conditions were not suitable for work of such importance.
CMG's Metal Injection Moulding (MIM) technology is the perfect platform for innovation. CMG used this process to help develop the new instrument using Stainless Steel 17-4; the strength of this type of metal allowed the jaws produced to secure a clean cut of tissue from first use. By reducing error and waste, the mass-produced instrument CMG and DTR Medical designed was both high-quality and low-cost.
MIM allows for the creation of intricate products which require a high level of detail in design. In the case of DTR Medical, ensuring the instrument was efficient and safe was imperative due to the importance of the work it was intended for.
The product was introduced to bring manufacturing of this crucial product to the UK to provide a reliable supply with faster lead times, proving that CMG assisted in solvingan issue within the UK healthcare sector. 88% of clinicians are prepared to recommend the award-winning collaboratively designed device to colleagues.
What is CMG's input?
CMG's material of choice, Stainless Steel 17-4, is renowned for its combination of supreme strength and sound mechanical properties at temperatures of up to 600°F.
Using this material, CMG adjusted the mix of metal to develop the rotating instrument, creating top and bottom jaws with a tight tolerance that allowed for a clean cut of tissue at the first attempt. This efficiency benefitted both the gynaecologist and the patient in hand.
DTR Medical's new product was quickly recognised within the medical industry for its high quality and cost-effectiveness. The company has experienced a 77% increase in its global customer base of this instrument in the last three years and received the MediWales Innovation Award for the instrument.
Rachel Garrett, Managing Director of CMG Technologies, said:
"CMG Technologies is delighted that the MIM process has helped DTR Medical to develop an innovative product that has benefitted healthcare providers across the UK and overseas, resulting in company growth and an industry award.
Working with DTR Medical has been an absolute pleasure. Pairing their vast experience in the healthcare industry with our application of pioneering technology led to a very effective partnership."
We are passionate about working with companies who seek to bring about life-changing impacts with their work. The positive effect of our problem-solving during this project has been enormous."
A spokesperson at DTR Medical, said:
"I am extremely grateful to CMG Technologies for all their input and hard work into developing the cervical biopsy punch - a market leading product that helped us to win the MediWales Innovation Award 2012, by ensuring we are able to provide consistent high clinical value to all our customers at affordable costs.
"This would not have been possible without using the MIM process, which also offers us the potential to improve price and capacity as volume grows, providing greater benefit to healthcare providers with increased demand."
What is MIM?
CMG is one of the only manufacturers in the UK that offers MIM even though the method itself has been around since the 1970s.
It offers a manufacturing capability of producing precise, complex parts in large quantities in metal – and therefore greater design freedom than many other production processes.
It works by mixing metal powders with polymer binders to form a "feedstock". This "feedstock" makes the mixture capable of being handled by plastic processing equipment before the "feedstock" is then burnt away, leaving behind a solid metal component.
This flexibility means you can integrate several elements into a single moulded net shape piece, incorporating texture, knurling, threads, lettering and company logos.
CMG is no stranger to making components for medical products. It manufactures 40,000 scalpels a month for the NHS and has recently been part of the national effort to make critical parts for ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We've often discussed the potential for pigs (and other hosts) to be infected by more than one flu virus, which might create an opportunity for the viruses to swap genetic material – or reassort – resulting in a new, hybrid virus.
While we've known this happens (albeit, rarely) in swine, the evidence for duel influenza `A' infection in humans has been less robust.
Duel infections have been noted, but usually with an `A' and a `B' virus. In 2008, we learned of an Indonesian teenager who tested positive by RT-PCR for both H5N1 and the seasonal flu strain H3N2 as reported by Maryn McKenna on CIDRAP.
Which shows that while rare, co-infection with two influenza `A' viruses can occur.
Today we've a study out of New Zealand that suggests that co-infections in humans by influenza `A' strains may be more common than previously believed.
This from the CDC's EID Journal.
During the opening days and weeks of the pandemic in 2009, clinical samples in New Zealand were first screened for Influenza A, and then if positive, tested for the novel H1N1 virus.
Testing for seasonal H1N1 and seasonal H3N2 were only done if a sample tested positive for influenza A, but negative for the pandemic virus.
Unexpectedly, some viral cultures that tested positive for novel H1N1 also appeared to show resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu).
Further investigation revealed that the pandemic virus was not resistant, that the samples contained both novel H1N1 and a resistant seasonal H1N1 virus.
A serendipitous discovery that led researchers to conduct secondary rRT-PCR testing for seasonal H1N1 on 1,044 clinical samples that had already tested positive for the pandemic virus.
Among those, Eleven co-infections were detected, for a rate of 1.1%.
Two additional samples were believed to represent co-infections, but a definitive determination was not possible.
While gene swapping is possible under a co-infection scenario, it isn't by any means assured. And even should a reassortment take place, the resulting virus might not prove biologically `fit'.
Still, this research suggests that humans, like swine, could be `mixing vessels' for influenza. How often this sort of gene swapping actually occurs in humans remains unknown.


My four year old daughter Jocelyn is a hoarder. She walks around the house with purses and bags loaded with random toys and trinkets that she vehemently declares she cannot do without. It makes leaving the house a big ordeal, as she scurries around, collecting all her "stuff," making us late because she "needs to have it all" for the car ride. I try to reason with her, but she's four! Sometimes it's just easier to give in and help her collect and carry it all, rather than argue with her and end up later than we will already be. It can be so frustrating!
But then I step into my pantry and realize that the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Not only do I have two of everything, I have three – a back up to the back up. If there were any kind of national crisis, just come to my house. I can keep a small village fed, single handedly, for quite a while. Looking at my supply makes me happy; it makes me feel secure.
So when the local grocery store chain went on strike for six weeks over this past summer, I thought I would go into panic mode. I have been a loyal shopper there for years and know it so well, I can write my grocery list in the order of how the store is stocked. The cashiers and baggers know my daughter by name. I had to support them. I couldn't cross the picket line. Although I had no choice but to give in and buy perishables from the super expensive grocery store down the street, I didn't want to blow my kids' college funds on the dry goods there (seriously, this store is that expensive!). So we ate our way through the pantry instead.
That day, for the first time ever, we were bringing the mommy-and-me program I run to the local retirement community to make it inter-generational. As I went back and forth from my car, unloading bucket after bucket of snacks and crafts and toys, the temperature and humidity kept rising. I hadn't watched the weather report. I was dressed for an October day, not the 80 degree day, with extremely high humidity, that the day was turning out to be. I started to sweat and overheat. To further exacerbate things, the temperature in the retirement community was set to the mid-80's, as the elderly's blood runs thin. I was wilting fast.
In addition to the wacky health problems I have, I also have an immense sensitivity to heat and humidity. It is my kryptonite, my achilles heel, whatever term you relate to for my complete undoing. With every passing minute, I could feel the life being sucked out of me. By the time the program ended and I had repacked my car, I felt like I had the flu: I felt weak, nauseous, and extremely exhausted. Those of you who have had miserable first tri-mester pregnancies that kept you couch-bound can probably relate. All I wanted to do was go home, turn my A/C to high, and crawl into bed. But I had a very important meeting scheduled for just an hour later. It was a meeting with someone I greatly admire and had been wanting to meet for a while. Canceling it wasn't an option.
I raced home, changed my clothes, had some lunch, and gulped down Gatoraide, trying to recharge. But the damage was done. I couldn't get beyond the extreme weakness. It was then that it became evident that I couldn't go to that meeting alone. I wasn't capable of it. I had nothing left to get me there.
In the face of my weakness, I had to admit that I truly was a hoarder. I sow and reap and store away my strength, confidence, and self-reliance. I have always been able to burn the candle at both ends, jam a week's worth of work into a day, and still have energy left over. That had become my identity, and I gave myself credit for it all, not God. Now here I was, at the dead opposite end of the spectrum, not able to even drive myself the three miles to the church for this meeting.
But I did have God, and I did have prayer. I had no choice but to rely on both. I was humbled and stripped of all self-reliance. I was just like the birds of the air, trusting that God would gift me with the strength I needed to get to that meeting, and get through it. When I got to the church, I had to double that trust when it was suggested we meet outside, as the other women wanted a change of scenery from the offices they work in every day.
It is still hard for me to come to terms with the fact that I am no longer the self-sufficient person I used to be. That is a huge blow to my ego and my self-confidence. In fact, as a control freak, it shakes me to the core. But I know for sure that this is exactly where God wants me to be. It is the only place where I can learn to truly lean on Him, not on myself anymore. Stocking up on extra cereal and pasta is practical. But stocking up on self-sufficiency and my own ego is self-centered, not God-centered. It's okay for my four year old to be a hoarder; it's part of her developmental journey. But my journey now is to stop clutching on to my own abilities and strength so that my hands are wide open and ready to be filled by God's.
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Middle-Eastern tech site TBreak had a Q & A with AMD's Raymond Dumbeck and Manish Punjabi, you can view it over here.
While discussing the recently released Llano APUs, we also talked a bit about the upcoming Bulldozer high-end processors. There's also a little bit about AMD's vision of their ATI graphics cards, now that they're moving forward to a one chip future.