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Acquisition of UOG Holdings Plc
The Board of Senterra Energy is pleased to announce that a prospectus has been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority in connection with the Company's acquisition of UOG Holdings Plc, the placing of 120,000,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each at 2.5 pence per share and the readmission of 200,935,001 ordinary shares of £0.01 each to the Official List (by way of Standard Listing under Chapter 14 of the Listing Rules) and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's Main Market for listed securities ("Readmission"). The prospectus has been published in electronic form and will shortly be available on the Company's website http://www.senterraenergy.com/ and from the Company's registered office at 6 New Street Square, New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 3BF. A copy of this prospectus has also been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morning star.co.uk/uk/NSM
In accordance with the Listing Rules, the listing of the existing issued ordinary shares in the Company will be cancelled by 08.00 on 31 July 2017, and Readmission and trading in the enlarged issued share capital, under the name of United Oil & Gas Plc, is expected to occur at 08.00 on 31 July 2017.
Effective from Readmission, the Company's name will be changed to United Oil & Gas Plc, the registered office will be changed to 200 Strand, London WC2R 1DJ and the website address will change to www.uogplc.com
A further announcement will be made at Readmission.
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SEDOL: BYX0MB9
TIDM (prior to change of name): SEN
TIDM (on Readmission and following change of name): UOG

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Ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie (hiszp. Embajada del Ecuador en Varsovia) – misja dyplomatyczna Republiki Ekwadoru, funkcjonująca w latach 1961, 1974-1977, 1979-1983, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1998-2002, 2003-2006 i 2010-2014.

Historia
Stosunki dyplomatyczne pomiędzy Polską i Ekwadorem nawiązano w 1935. Do 1939 Ekwador nie otworzył swojej placówki w Warszawie. W latach 1932–1939 funkcjonował jedynie konsulat w Gdańsku, m.in. przy Hopfengasse 93 (obecnie ul. Chmielna) (1935–1939)

Chronologia
 1946 – reaktywowanie stosunków dyplomatycznych
 1961 – poselstwo Ekwadoru w Warszawie, Grand Hotel, ul. Krucza 28
 1962 – zerwanie przez Ekwador stosunków dyplomatycznych z Polską
 1969 – reaktywowanie stosunków dyplomatycznych
 1972–1974 – ambasada Ekwadoru akredytowana w Warszawie z siedzibą w Moskwie
 1974–1977 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Starościńska 1
 1977–1978 – ambasada Ekwadoru z siedzibą w Moskwie
 1979–1983 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Starościńska 1
 1986–1993 – ambasada Ekwadoru z siedzibą w Moskwie
 1988 – Biuro Misji Dyplomatycznej Ekwadoru w Warszawie
 1991 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Marconich 11 (gł. siedziba w Moskwie)
 1993 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Starościńska 1b
 1995–1998 – ambasada Ekwadoru z siedzibą w Wiedniu
 1998–2002 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Rejtana 15 (2001-2002)
 2002–2003 – przedstawicielstwo dyplomatyczne z siedzibą w Konsulacie Generalnym w Hamburgu
 2003–2006 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Rejtana 15
 2006–2010 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Berlinie, Joachimsthaler Straße 12
 2010–2014 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Warszawie, ul. Rejtana 15
 od 2014 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Berlinie, Joachimsthaler Straße 12
 w 2022 – ambasada Ekwadoru w Wiedniu, Goldschmiedgasse 10/205.

Bibliografia
 Stosunki dyplomatyczne Polski. Informator. Tom II. Ameryka Północna i Południowa 1918-2007, Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych, Archiwum/Wydawnictwo Askon, Warszawa 2008, s. 224,

Przypisy

Ekwador
Dawne misje dyplomatyczne i konsularne w Polsce

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The multimillion dollar rabbit
Find out more about Dick Bruna and his creation, Miffy — the cartoon rabbit that has sold over 85 million books!
Miffy the cartoon rabbit
Who would have thought that such a simple design would prove to be so popular for so long?
Miffy is a rabbit – that is clear from immediately looking at her. But you might not realise that she is the world's most successful rabbit, at the head of a US$250 million empire.
And that fortune has come about despite (or, perhaps, because of) a sterile simplicity.
Dick Bruna created her with just a few shapes and one colour. There's no intricate detail or deep expression in her face but Miffy has managed to capture the hearts of children across the world.
The cartoon character was created by Dutch artist Dick Bruna, who has made about 30 books based on Miffy's adventures. (If you can call going to school or going to the doctor an 'adventure'.)
Together they have been translated into 40 different languages and have sold more than 85 million copies. The books have bred even faster than a real rabbit could!
Even though the result looks simple, there's a very precise and special technique used to make the images in the books. Dick Bruna spends about a day on each full page picture and will try different colours and shapes until he is completely happy.
Sometimes he will revisit the result and make small changes – taking away a single tear from a crying Miffy, for instance.
Each book has only sixteen pages, so making each one perfect is important.
Dick Bruna House, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Dick Bruna is from Utrecht and the people of the Dutch city are proud of their son.
The city's main museum, Centraal Museum, has turned a whole building opposite the main exhibitions into what they've named 'the Dick Bruna House'.
It's a collection of his work that tells the story of Miffy's birth and life – along with some of the other characters he's created.
At the age of 85, he still works at his studio in Utrecht, albeit much slower than he once did. There hasn't been a new Miffy book since 2008. But the routine he's kept for decades hasn't changed too much.
He still wakes up early – by six o'clock – and cycles to his favourite café for a coffee and then on to the studio. He works on his drawings before cycling home for lunch and then back to the office for administrative work.
It's a simple life for a man who has created a global multimillion dollar publishing company… but it's fitting for the drawings and the characters that have helped him to this point.
But it also probably reflects, in some part, this city he has called home for his whole life.
Utrecht is a beautiful city based around canals and small friendly streets. It has a lot more visual noise to it than a Miffy book but it shares a humble and unassuming attitude.
The city's son now seems more like its grandfather and the people are rightly proud of Dick Bruna and the rabbit that has made them known around the world.
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Time Travel Turtle was a guest of Visit Utrecht but the opinions, over-written descriptions and bad jokes are his own.
17 thoughts on "The multimillion dollar rabbit"
Jeremy Branham
Wow, that's pretty crazy! Such a simple rabbit and yet he made all that money from it. I guess when your passion inspires you and you work hard, anything is possible.
It's also wonderful to see how much success you can have from a simple idea that people fall in love with. Dick Bruna obviously worked very hard for everything, but it was never a complicated story that he was sharing.
OCDemon
I totally had a few Miffy books as a kid. But I always thought it was called Bruna Miffy, because the author's last name (Bruna) was on the spine, without much to let a 5 year old know you weren't supposed to stick the Miffy on the end. For some reason it's still Bruna Miffy in my head, somewhat.
That's so cute! I think it would be easy to make that mistake. I seem to vaguely remember doing the same thing when I was younger 🙂
MIFFY!! …Didn't know Miffy was Dutch. She was somehow part of my childhood, but in a very vague way. A rabbit that always seemed strangely familiar. And I only learned her name when I was in my Twenties – but that sold it, man, that sold it. How is 'Miffy' not the best name EVER?! …And I would know because I can also tell you the crappiest name ever: Tiffy. Tiffy was a pink bird-thing in the German version of Sesame Street. She had potential but the name just killed it. I mean: TIFFY! What do you expect? Then again: Tiffy the Turtle would work. And you know why? Because a turtle is round and Tiffy sounds pointy, and it balances out. But a bird is pointy and Tiffy sounds pointy, and the pink colour can't save this disaster. And that is my opinion on that. …There seems to be money in children books. I can draw a pretty good pig, but it's a copy from a cartoon I saw somewhere. Should I write more? Probably not. Just don't decide to nickname yourself 'Tiffy the turtle' now because you found it was brilliant as I will still just imagine the bloody pink bird and not the turtle. The name is totally spoiled. Sorry, Michael. But you could secretly call yourself 'Tiffy the turtle', of course. That's up to you.
I think you could be on to something here, Vera! Perhaps you could start a series of books called Tiffy the Turtle but draw it like a pig. That would confuse people enough that they would look twice and by then they will want to buy the book because they'll see how wonderfully the pig is drawn and want to know more about why it's also a turtle. Genius!!
Matthew Karsten
Fascinating story! Miffy may be a simple character, but like most creative endeavors, there's always more work involved than we think.
It was really interesting learning more about it. Although I knew about Miffy from my childhood, I certainly didn't know anything about Dick Bruna. And you're right – there's a lot of work in making something look simple! Just ask any modern designer! 🙂
Laura @Travelocafe
I love rabbits. I would love to see this exhibition.
They had a temporary exhibit there as well with all sorts of other famous rabbits – Peter, Bugs, etc. That was pretty cool.
T.W. Anderson @ Marginal Boundaries
Never heard of Miffy before!
It's never too late!! 🙂
Mellisa Turner
Success stories behind the creation of such characters never fail to fascinate me. Whether it is the most famous cartoon character Mickey Mouse or the book character of Sherlock holmes, the stories behind their creation are as appealing as are the characters themselves.
You're so right. The people that come up with these things have to be pretty interesting in their own right… or at least have an interesting story. The characters are an extension of them in some ways.
I had no idea Miffy was Dutch! I had Miffy stuff as a kid and I would have loved to visit this exhibit had I known about it. That explains why I saw Miffy all over the airport in Amsterdam.
The whole country has adopted Miffy, it seems. And why not? She's pretty cute!
Amazing story.


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Professor Mark Lautens receives the 2016 Faculty Award
March 11, 2016 | Volunteer & Awards
Professor Mark Lautens of the Department of Chemistry is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Faculty Award for combining intriguing research, innovative teaching methods and creative service to the University.
With a limited budget for hosting international guest lecturers, the Department of Chemistry nevertheless still welcomes many visiting scholars on a regular basis through a program launched in 1990 by Professor Lautens, who is also a University Professor and the J. Bryan Jones Distinguished Professor. What's his secret? Outsourcing the costs. "I had the idea to contact pharmaceutical companies and ask them if they would be willing to give us unrestricted funds to bring over speakers," he says. "We typically name the lecture after the company, and tailor our selection (e.g. young emerging star, senior leader, multidisciplinary, etc). Our students get to hear the best research from around the world!"
The named lectureships are just one example of Professor Lautens' creativity in fundraising, and showcase one of his key priorities – ensuring a top-quality experience for students. For example, he was also a principal consultant during the building of the state-of-the-art Davenport Laboratories and was instrumental in landing a $5.4 million CFI grant that allowed the department to buy three new NMR spectrometers. Both projects have made the University far more attractive to young scholars interested in pursuing chemistry. He has also raised funds for three graduate scholarships and has served on dozens of administrative positions since joining the University of Toronto in 1987.
Beyond these activities Professor Lautens also contributes to the department's international reputation through his own groundbreaking research. As an organic chemist, he finds ways to improve the process of making new medicinal agents. By inventing new molecules and chemical reactions his work has helped industrial labs around the world reduce the environmental impact of producing medical drugs and agricultural chemicals.
"We try to improve efficiency," he says. "So there's less toxic waste, less time, less energy." Just as biochemical reactions in living cells begin with all the "ingredients" present and carry on in a cascade one after another, so Professor Lautens and his co-workers attempt to combine many catalysts in one vessel and achieve many chemical steps all at once.
"Over the years," he says, "we've made antidepressants, key components of cholesterol lowering agents, potential anticancer agents. And now, we're trying to invent new chemical structures. It has a very practical impact on the way people think about making drugs."
This work has been acknowledged by more than 30 grants and awards, including a Steacie Fellowship, a Chemical Institute of Canada Medal and a Killam Research Fellowship. Professor Lautens is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Royal Society of Canada. He founded the journal Synfacts, has published widely and presents frequently at conferences around the world. In 2014, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Professor Lautens' enthusiasm for the possibilities of chemistry shines through in the classroom, say his students. Most of all, they enjoy the way he finds time to provide personalized attention, even in large classes. His oral examinations, which replace the traditional mid-term exam for second-, third- and fourth-years, are legendary.
The idea came about, he says, because multiple choice exams sometimes only find out what a student doesn't know. Instead, Professor Lautens asks students to pick a reaction that hasn't been covered in lectures or labs and gives them 20 minutes to explain it to him. "You find out what they do know," he says. "It's personal, and it's fun. And although it's a lot of work – one time there were 82 students – it's a lot better than sitting in a dark office grading assignment after assignment."
Colleagues praise his mentoring of young researchers, especially his twice-weekly group problem-solving sessions. He has also coordinated the department's grant application efforts, improving the success rates for young scholars. Over 25 years, he has trained more than 165 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in his lab. The students he has mentored over the years now work in universities around the world and hold senior positions in the pharmaceutical industry.
His innovative named lectureships have been an integral part of this success. The visiting professors come and are impressed by Toronto students and faculty, he says. They then encourage their own students to apply for postdoctoral fellowships in Toronto, or even return themselves for sabbatical years. They also invite U of T faculty to give talks at their own universities.
"Toronto was always a super-strong chemistry department," he says, "but it wasn't as well known in organic synthesis. Now it is, because these visiting faculty came and met our dynamic group and had such a positive experience, they talked up Toronto." The global research network is richer and deeper, and the University of Toronto is at the hub.
The Faculty Award honouring excellence in research and teaching is presented each year under the banner of the Awards of Excellence, a program recognizing the outstanding members of the University of Toronto community who have made rich and meaningful contributions to the University, their communities and to the world.
Alumni Relations within the Division of University Advancement is the steward of the Awards of Excellence program on behalf of the University of Toronto Alumni Association, and co-ordinates the vital contributions of other University stakeholder groups toward this prestigious award program.
Professor Mark Lautens and the other 2016 Awards of Excellence recipients will be honoured at a recognition event on May 4.
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Teenager Saves Father's life
Story/Photography by Michael Seguin
Many of us remember larking our way through our high school CPR lessons. The exercise mats. The pale, featureless training dummies that reminded us of amputated mannequins. Our earnest, beleaguered physical education teacher. Many of us treated the assignment as one big joke. 'And why shouldn't we?' we told ourselves. We'll never need this information.
We'll never have to save someone's life.
However, one student at Catholic Central High School did need this information. His name is Turki Ayash, a 17-year-old high school student from Syria.
When you meet Turki, he doesn't seem any different from your average teenager. He's tall, handsome, a little shy, kind of serious and unfailingly polite. His favourite subject is math and he enjoys playing soccer with his friends. He likes reading and one of his favourite novels is Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. However, Turki has experienced more trials and tribulations in his young life than many of us will in several.
Born in 2002, Turki grew up in Syria. "I was young when I left Syria," Turki explains. "It was terrible there, because of the war. There was a lot of gunfire. It was scary."
Turki and his family fled the upheaval for Jordan when he was in the third grade. "We stayed in Jordan for three years," Turki states. "But it wasn't safe there, either. So we decided to come here, to Canada."
At twelve years old, Turki and his family came to Canada as refugees. Canada presented Turki's family with a welcome sense of security. "It's safer here than back home," Turki states. "There, you never know if you're going to live long enough to see tomorrow. You're free here in Canada."
Turki and his family settled in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. However, travelling across an ocean left Turki feeling like a fish out of water. "When we first came here, none of us could speak English, except my Dad, because he's an engineer," Turki states. "Me and my brother started school. The first five months were really hard because we weren't able to speak English. We used a phone translator from English to Arabic. It took us a while to learn the language."
Learning a new language is a momentously difficult hurdle for anyone to master. However, after two years, Turki has become fluent.
After a few years in Lunenburg, Turki's family decided it was time for another change of scenery. "It was a really nice city, Lunenburg," Turki recalls. "But, there wasn't a lot of work there. That's why we moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario."
Turki and his family relocated to Windsor four months ago. Since settling into his new routine at Catholic Central High School, Turki has begun to thrive. "Back in Nova Scotia, everyone spoke English," Turki explains. "Me, my brother and two of our friends were the only ones who spoke a different language. But, when we came here, we made a lot of Arabic friends. We started to hang out more. Suddenly, we had people to play soccer with on the weekends."
Shortly after enrolling at CCH, Turki had his fateful CPR class, taught by Jalil Khoury, his Physical Education Teacher. "We took the class on the Thursday," Turki explains. "We learned how to do compressions. How to do mouth-to-mouth. What to do if someone has a heart attack or a stroke. I never thought something like that would ever happen to me. Or my parents."
Two days later, Turki was awoken by one of his brothers. "I woke up at nine o'clock in the morning to the sound of my little brother crying," Turki recalls. "He told me that our Dad was having a problem."
When Turki checked on his father, the 49-year-old Ahmed Ayash, he found him unresponsive. "He was just lying on the bed," Turki states. "He wasn't moving. He wasn't breathing. His eyes were open. He'd lost his heartbeat."
Thanks to his CPR lessons, just two days prior, Turki was able to identify the signs of a heart attack. "I remembered everything I learned in class," Turki explains. "I started doing compressions. It was terrible, seeing him like that. I would have done anything to save his life."
Turki was able to maintain his father's blood flow until first responders arrived on the scene. "When we got to the hospital, the doctors told me that what I did was really helpful," Turki states. "They told me that what I did saved his life. The last two minutes, he had no breath. After four to six minutes, your brain cells start to die."
Thanks to Turki's intervention, his father survived the heart attack. After 22 days in recovery, Ahmed was transferred to London, where he had a pacemaker installed. "Dad told me he was proud of me," Turki explains. "He said, 'If you hadn't done this for me, I wouldn't be here.' It was this big emotional moment. Me and my Dad are always together. We do everything together. We're like friends. When he was working in Saudi Arabia, he would bring me home gifts all the time."
And Ahmed isn't the only one who's grateful for Turki's courage. After the story broke, the community recognized Turki as a hero.
On December 18th, Turki was presented with a certificate from Chief Bruce Krauter, Essex Windsor EMS. And, strange as it sounds, Turki is profoundly grateful for the opportunity to save someone's life. "It's not a joke," Turki states. "It could happen at any moment. You. Your family. Your friends. People on the street. With the right knowledge, you can help them."
And now that he has a taste for it, helping people seems to be Turki's newest passion. After high school, Turki plans on becoming a paramedic.
And Windsor couldn't be happier to welcome another hero into their ranks. "I had a lot of friends and family back in Syria," Turki states. "Aunts. Uncles. A grandmother. I really miss it there, sometimes. I hope that we can go back one day. But I really like it here in Canada."
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A female mason building toilets in Kanpur, India. A former hunter who now protects wildlife around Lake Hong in China. A volunteer citizen scientist who gathers data on freshwater quality in London, UK.
Since 2011, photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz captured these images and more as he travelled to eight countries for his long-term photographic project highlighting the global water crisis.
Water Stories, his first UK solo exhibition, will include nearly 70 large-scale photographs documenting the widespread global water challenge and the ongoing work to tackle it. This exhibition has been put together in collaboration with the HSBC Water Program, a partnership between WWF, WaterAid, Earthwatch, and HSBC, and features WWF's freshwater work in Brazil, China, and India.
The powerful images have been made over the course of three years covering Brazil, China, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the UK. Abdulaziz has captured individuals and the landscapes whose stories are intertwined with, and impacted by water—including portraits of individuals working to improve their local environment.
Collectively, the photographs chart the diverse and far reaching effects of urbanization, poor sanitation, pollution, water scarcity, and the side effects of expanding industry and population. Previously unexhibited works include landscapes scarred by deforestation in Brazil and barriers to development such as conflict and inaccessibility in Nigeria.
The outdoor exhibition will open on the banks of the River Thames in London on March 22, 2016 to mark UN World Water Day until April 10, and will come to New York this fall.


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Chairman Costa Opening Statement at Hearing on the State of the Livestock and Poultry Economy
WASHINGTON (July 16, 2019) – House Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California delivered the following remarks at Tuesday's hearing on the state of the livestock and poultry economy.
"Good Morning and welcome to today's hearing of the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture on the state of the livestock and poultry economy.
"Livestock and poultry producers have big impacts on rural economies. In my district alone, sales of livestock, poultry, and related products added up to over 2 billion dollars a year. Nationwide, that number is nearly 200 billion dollars annually.
"Today's hearing builds on the previous work of this subcommittee, including a hearing we had two months ago with USDA Under Secretary Greg Ibach on our ability to prevent and respond to animal pests and diseases, including the implementation of a new suite of animal health programs that was enacted as part of the 2018 Farm Bill. Effective administration of animal pest and disease prevention, mitigation, and eradication is crucial, especially now as threats of Virulent Newcastle Disease, Cattle Fever Ticks, and African Swine Fever threaten farmers and ranchers across the country.
"It's hard to talk about the state of the livestock and poultry economies without talking about trade. Access to foreign markets and fluctuations in foreign demand continue to be a major concern as livestock and poultry farmers need export markets. The Administration's tariff-first attitude hasn't been helping and longstanding issues for poultry access into places like China need to be addressed.
"We also know you need access to workable immigration system. For all the rhetoric and emotion that surrounds the immigration debate, livestock and poultry producers know that they depend on a reliable, year-round labor workforce to keep both farms and packing plants running smoothly.
"Other issues including federal meat inspection, food safety, meat and poultry labeling, access to new technologies, and Packers and Stockyards Act functions are all major issues of concern before this subcommittee.
"Today's hearing is just one more step in an ongoing conversation on these important issues. The new Farm Bill requires USDA to complete several studies that will provide Congress with necessary information on important issues including an analysis of a possible Livestock Dealer Trust and effectiveness of Food Safety Inspection Service outreach to small livestock processors. That information is going to help guide our work on these important issues moving forward. We look forward to getting these studies back on time and discussing their results with you.
"And as Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting expires in 2020, this subcommittee is interested in learning farmer priorities in advance of reauthorization. Thank you all for being here today and I look forward to your testimony."


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WPTavern: AMP Project Turns 2, Automattic Partners with Google to Improve WordPress Plugin
Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project is two years old today and the company published data demonstrating its growing adoption across the web. More than 4 billion AMP pages have been published by 25 million domains. AMP performance has also increased and Google reports that the median time for loading AMP pages from its search engine is less than half a second.
The AMP team also cited several examples of success for sites that have integrated AMP, along with an as yet unpublished Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact
study that linked AMP to a 10% increase in website traffic and a 2X increase in time spent on the page. The study, which was commissioned by Google, also showed that AMP pages on e-commerce sites have a 20% increase in sales conversions as compared to non-AMP pages.
Google credited AMP's 400+ code contributors and the 10,500 others who have engaged on GiHub, along with Automattic, one of the earliest publishing partners on the project:
We're also seeing other organizations take an increasingly proactive role in supporting AMP. Automattic, for example, has been working with us to improve the quality of the WordPress plug-in over the past several months. In addition to strong adoption across the community, WordPress.com VIP clients like The New York Post and PMC have seen great results with their implementations.
WordPress.com's VIP team also published specific instances where their clients have benefited from AMPing up their articles.
"Across Automattic (including WordPress.com and VIP) hundreds of millions of client page views per month are delivered through AMP today," WordPress.com VIP Strategic Partnerships director Tamara Sanderson said. "Over the last two years, many of our clients and partner agencies have customized and optimized the AMP experience for their particular needs, with impressive results."
AMP WordPress Plugin Updated after 10 Months
Automattic updated its AMP WordPress plugin two months ago, but the average WordPress site owner doesn't have the budget to customize and tweak it to achieve success. Users haven't fared well with the open source plugin, which went for approximately 10 months without any updates. Many have encountered difficulties ranging from activation errors to incompatibilities with other plugins, problems with analytics, and validation errors. Users also cannot get support on the WordPress.org forums and 0/39 support issues have been resolved in the past two months.
Although there are several alternative plugins in the directory for implementing AMP on WordPress sites, Automattic, as a partner with Google on the AMP initiative, seems to the best positioned to author the official plugin with the company's experience AMPing up pages at scale. Automattic is still committed to improving the plugin but users may need to hire a professional developer for AMP-related plugin support.
Version 0.5, released in August 2017, included just a handful of updates for having been 10 months in development. The release brought the plugin closer to the AMP spec, replaced fastimage with fasterimage for PHP 5.4+, and added support for new embed handlers, including Vimeo, SoundCloud, and Pinterest.
Automattic Aims to Work with Google to Push AMP to be more Open
Throughout the past year, AMP has come under fire from critics who believe that it is harmful to the open web. By default AMP forces users to load JavaScript from the AMP project site, loads the cached content from its own servers, and uses a subset of HTML that optimizes pages to benefit Google and Google search users.
Many critics take issue with the fact that Google is incentivizing AMP's use by prioritizing AMP pages in search results. It's easy to forget that Google Search, with its overwhelmingly dominant market share among search engines, is not a public service to the world. It's a company that seeks to make a profit. Can the AMP project be open enough to stay immune to Google's drive for profit?
WordPress.com was one of the first publishers to partner with Google on this initiative to speed up the mobile web. While attending WordCamp Europe 2017, I asked Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg how AMP can be good for the open web, despite how much control publishers are required to yield when it comes to their mobile content. Mullenweg said that he sees pluses and minuses in what AMP currently provides to users.
"The things I like about AMP is it removes a lot of cruft and it's ultra-fast," he said. "Now if I see an AMP link I'm more likely to click on that than other things. I know I'm not going to get some weird popup that redirects my browser to the app store or anything like that. I think that is good and necessary." He also said he disliked a few of the downsides that critics bring up but thinks that those can be worked out in time.
"WordPress was very early in adopting responsive pages," Mullenweg said. "Also some plugins, including Jetpack, that do a mobile version of a site, do create a better experience and are a big reason why people have adopted WordPress in the past.
"AMP is the next version of that. It is more open and standard than what we've done in the past and I could see it becoming a much more inclusive thing than it is. Given that that is one of Automattic's core principles as well, we're going to work with Google to try to push it that direction and try to bring a lot of the web along with it.
"The alternatives out there, like say Facebook's proprietary Instant Articles format, are not necessarily better, especially if they tie you into one form of monetization, like Facebook's ads. So I do believe that AMP has the potential to be much more open and in line with WordPress' ideal version of that, but it is imperfect as it stands today."
For now it seems Google considers AMP to be a success, as adoption has increased and the project is undoubtedly achieving its goal of improving performance for mobile pages. The company is working on delivering better, faster ads to users, as many publishers have experienced decreased revenues associated with ads loading much slower than the actual content.
The project is still young and Google has a fine line to walk in order to deliver value without overstepping its reach. It may not be long before AMP support becomes Google's the next official ranking signal. Site speed is already one of the search engine's considerations in delivering traffic, so AMPed pages already influence which sites are featured in search results, which in turn affects ad performance and site monetization.
For the average WordPress site owner, adding AMP support still requires overcoming a number of technical hurdles. With Automattic committed to supporting and improving the AMP experience for its VIP clients, it should not be long before the larger publishers and their agency partners are able to iron out more of the difficulties that have kept AMP integration from being seamless for all WordPress users.
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Govt 'failing' to take account of sick workers in pension age increase plan
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By Sonia Rach
Unite the union has said the government is not recording the amount of workers being forced to leave their jobs early due to ill health and injury, as it prepares to increase the state pension age.
A Freedom of Information request by Unite to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) asked the government for the records of workers who are being forced to, or choosing to leave their profession early.
However, the DWP replied: "Following a search of our paper and electronic records, we have established that the information you requested is not held by this department."
Last year in chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Budget, it was announced that a review of the state pension age would be published in early 2023.
The review, which was announced in December 2021, will look at whether the rules around pensionable age are appropriate, based on the latest life expectancy data and other evidence.
Life expectancy in the UK has been falling, which has led to some to call for a rethink in planned state pension age increases.
At present it is not possible to receive the state pension before the state pension age, if a person is in ill health.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "This revelation will send a shudder through the UK workforce. The message being given out by the government is don't get sick or injured.
"Too many workers in highly physically demanding jobs are already being forced out of work before the state pension age. Extending the date when workers become eligible for their pension will make the situation even worse.
"Even more workers will find themselves in a cruel limbo world where they are too sick to work but too young to receive their pension."
Unite said the lack of research will be "particularly alarming" to workers in sectors of the economy including construction, lorry driving and healthcare where due to the nature of their work they are frequently forced to leave the industry prior to the existing state retirement age, due to ill health and injury.
The state pension age is currently 66 and two further increases are already set out in legislation, including a gradual rise to 67 for those born on or after April 1960; and a gradual rise to 68 between 2044 and 2046 for those born on or after April 1977.
Unite said it is thought the review could bring these dates forward and/or increase the state pension age beyond 68 for younger workers.
But a DWP spokesperson told FTAdviser that no decision has been taken on changes to the state pension age.
"The government is required by law to regularly review the state pension age and the second state pension age review is currently considering, based on a wide range of evidence including latest life expectancy data and two independent reports, whether the rules around state pension age remain appropriate," the spokesperson said.
"The review will be published early this year.
"As set out at the Autumn Statement, the Department for Work and Pensions will separately be thoroughly reviewing workforce participation to understand what action should be taken on increased economic inactivity."
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July 5: Happy 75th Birthday Robbie Robertson
Posted on July 5, 2018 July 5, 2018 by Egil Mosbron
When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock, everybody referred to us as the band. He called us the band, our friends called us the band, our neighbors called us the band.
~Robbie Robertson (from "The Last Waltz")
Eric Clapton inducts the Band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994:
The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Last Waltz):
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July 5, 1943 (age 75), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Rock, country rock, rhythm and blues
Musician, songwriter, producer, creative executive, actor
Guitar, vocals, piano, bass, harmonica, autoharp, melodica
Capitol, Geffen, Warner, 429
Associated acts
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Robbie Robertson, OC (born Jaime Robert Klegerman; July 5, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. The Band has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. As a songwriter Robertson is responsible for such classics as "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up On Cripple Creek", "Broken Arrow" and "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Once in the midsummer madness [late 60's after the motorcycle accident] I was riding in a car with Robbie Robertson, the guitar player in what later was to be called The Band. I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. He says to me, "Where do you think you're gonna take it?"
I said, "Take what?"
"You know, the whole music scene." The whole music scene! The car window was rolled down about an inch. I rolled it clown the rest of the way, felt a gust of wind blow into my face and waited for what he said to die away—it was like dealing with a conspiracy. No place was far enough away. I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. That would have been nice. That was my deepest dream.
~Bob Dylan (Chronicles Volume One)
Robbie Robertson – Somewhere down the crazy river (official video):
Check out this great interview:
Robbie Robertson on Bob Dylan and Songwriting (taxi.com)
Albums with The Band
1968 Music from Big Pink
1969 The Band
1970 Stage Fright
1971 Cahoots
1972 Rock of Ages
1973 Moondog Matinee
1975 Northern Lights – Southern Cross
1977 Islands
1978 The Last Waltz
1995 Live at Watkins Glen
Albums with Bob Dylan and The Band
1966 Blonde on Blonde
1970 Self Portrait
1974 Planet Waves
1974 Before the Flood
1975 The Basement Tapes
1998 The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Solo recordings
1987 Robbie Robertson
1994 Music for The Native Americans
1998 Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
2011 How to Become Clairvoyant (US No. 13, UK #56)
Here is a real gem from youtube – The Band, performing live at The Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PA, recorded on November 1st, 1970.
Performing: Time to Kill, The Weight, This Wheel's on Fire, Up on Cripple Creek
Album of the day:
The Band (1969)
..it was The Band's sound that stood out the most, from Helm's (and occasionally Manuel's) propulsive drumming to Robertson's distinctive guitar fills and the endlessly inventive keyboard textures of Garth Hudson, all topped by the rough, expressive singing of Manuel, Helm, and Rick Danko that mixed leads with harmonies. The arrangements were simultaneously loose and assured, giving the songs a timeless appeal, while the lyrics continued to paint portraits of 19th century rural life (especially Southern life, as references to Tennessee and Virginia made clear), its sometimes less savory aspects treated with warmth and humor.
~William Ruhlmann (allmusic.com)
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Nig Richards has been with Laugh and Let Die since the very early days, first appearing in our third ever show, Most Spooked, upstairs at the Unicorn pub on Halloween night.
Nig is a regular background artiste in TV and film, and the eagle eyed will spot him soon in Darkest Hour with Gary Oldman, Gunpowder with Kit Harrington and American Assassin with Michael Keaton. He also treads the boards, and performed Shakespeare for the first time at the end of 2016, playing Antonio in Merchant of Venice.
Nig's first love is rock and roll though, and with his band, The Primates, he has been a fixture on the north west pub gig scene for many years.


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Q: Here Map shows same map for traffic and terrain map scheme I am working on here map and having problem with traffic and terrain scheme. It always shows the traffic even in terrain.
My code is
map.setMapScheme(Map.Scheme.TERRAIN_DAY);
map.setMapScheme(Map.Scheme.NORMAL_TRAFFIC_DAY);
both result is same. does any one face the same issue?
Thanks

A: The Map.Scheme you use is actually independent of the Map traffic setting. The NORMAL_TRAFFIC_DAY scheme is simply optimized for displaying traffic on the Map.
To control traffic on the Map use the Map#isTrafficInfoVisible and Map#setTrafficInfoVisible(boolean visible) APIs.

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Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), a non-profit arts organization founded in 1963 by Jasper Johns and John Cage that provides grants to artists and arts organizations, announces its 13th benefit exhibition opening December 9, 2010.
Artists include: Lynda Benglis, Gary Simmons, Lawrence Weiner, and Terry Winters. Simmons is an MFA Art Practice Faculty member. Benglis, Weiner, and Winters are visiting artists for the program.


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We are looking for another trainee from the region to join the North East Endocrine Network website (endocrinenortheast.co.uk) editorial team.
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I thought you might be interested in this clip which is on the australianscreen website (https://aso.gov.au/). The Squatter's Daughter 1933 http://aso.gov.au/titles/features/squatters-daughter/clip1/
Shearing and plotting clip 1
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Clip description
As the shearing reaches full speed at Waratah Station, the overseer Fletcher (Les Warton) tells Clive Sherrington (John Warwick) to deliver a package from the car when he goes to see Morgan. He jokes that it contains 'baby food' for the lambs at Enderby, the station they are plotting to get control of. In fact, it contains poison that Morgan will use to kill Enderby sheep.
by Paul Byrnes
Some beautiful shots of a real shearing shed in full swing. These are most likely to be the shearing sheds at Goonoo Goonoo, an historic station near Tamworth which, Hall wrote, gave him wonderful cooperation when filming. The cameraman was most likely Frank Hurley although there appear to be two sources of film used in this sequence – suggesting some of the footage may have been actually filmed at another time and/or place.
The scene may well be influenced by the paintings of Tom Roberts – specifically 'Shearing the Rams' from 1890, which depicts an almost identical shearing shed architecture (the painting was modelled on Brockleby Station, near Corowa, NSW). The final shot of a wool wagon pulled by a team of horses bears a strong resemblance to another famous Australian painting, 'Across the Black Soil Plains', by George W Lambert. Both paintings were part of a nationalist trend in art and political life in Australia in the 1890s. There is a similarly strong nationalist sentiment in The Squatters Daughter , a film which begins with a message from then Prime Minister Joseph Lyons: 'The picture breathes the spirit of the country's great open space and the romance, adventure and opportunity in the lives of those who in the past pioneered, and are today building up our great primary industries.' Roberts' painting is also a likely influence on the 1975 film Sunday Too Far Away (see clip two for that film).
Teacher's notes
This clip shows a real shearing operation taking place at a large sheep station in New South Wales as a backdrop for the 1933 feature film The Squatter's Daughter . Dogs help herd a large mob of sheep into a holding yard, then to pens inside a large woolshed. While a team of shearers and helpers attend to the sheep, two actors (the overseer and the owner's villainous son) discuss a plot to poison sheep at the neighbouring Enderby Station. Shorn sheep are moved from the shed, and a team of horses pulls away with a cart loaded with wool bales.
Educational value points
The clip features the central role of the shearer in the Australian merino wool industry. The wool industry quickly became one of the country's major primary industries, leading to the expression that Australia 'rode on the sheep's back'. The shearing process is served by itinerant teams comprised of shearers, shed hands (called rouseabouts), wool classers, wool pressers and a cook, most of whom can be seen in this clip.
The clip reflects the different working roles of a shearing team. An overseer is in charge of making sure the operation runs smoothly and handles any disputes. Rouseabouts with dogs yard and pen the sheep, keep up a constant supply of sheep to the dozen or so shearers in each stand and sweep the boards. Wool-handlers toss the fleece to remove any second-cut wool, then a wool classer classifies it according to its strength, fineness, length and whiteness.
The sheep are shorn using mechanical shears, an invention from the mid-1880s that revolutionised the wool industry and led to the first unionised strike action by shearers. Previously, shearing by manual hand shears took about 20 min per sheep. Mechanical shears are faster and less tiring to use with shearing times of less than 5 min. The shearer's skill lies in making a continuous cut of the wool without making a second cut.
The clip shows the wool bales being transported to market by a team of 16 horses. After the wool is classed it is placed in bins, then pressed into a bale by the wool presser. The bales are stencilled with codes to describe the wool. A bale shown here is labelled 'Waratah Supercomb 68', a fictional prop to suit the story. Although transport would largely have been by truck in the 1930s, the filmmakers chose the more romantic and historical image of a horse team.
The feature film The Squatter's Daughter , produced in 1933, was a landmark Australian film that was hugely successful at the time. Produced and directed by Ken G Hall (1901-94), the storyline is about a woman's battle to save her family's sheep station. While The Squatter's Daughter is a fictional dramatised story, it was set on a real station. Beautiful landscape shots by cinematographer Frank Hurley (1885-1962) created a sense of realism.
The Squatter's Daughter reflects the iconic Australian pioneering spirit that formed part of the Australian identity in the 1890s. The term 'squatter' means a settler who laid claim to bushland and turned it into farming land. A romanticised bush ethos is widely reflected by Australian writers and painters. One of the shots here mirrors Tom Roberts's painting Shearing the rams (1890), and the title of the film reflects George W Lambert's painting The squatter's daughter (1923-24).
Farmers and their dogs are rounding up a herd of sheep for shearing. A herd of sheep enter the shearing shed. Outside, a sheep dog jumps on the backs of the herd to get them moving. A sack labelled 'Waratah Supercomb 68' is moved, revealing the sheep in pens. As the sheep are sheared, armfuls of wool are carried away. Fletcher and Clive Sherrington walk away from the shearing. Fletcher holds some wool in his hands.
Clive Sherrington Well, we'll be shearing in Enderby next season too.
Fletcher Maybe this year. By the time we're cut out here, that lease will be nearly up. Oh, there's a parcel in the car you might drive over and give it to Morgan.
Clive What is it?
Fletcher Oh, babies' food for Enderby lambs.
They walk away. The freshly shorn sheep skip and jump as they return to the farm from the shearing shed. The men load the wool onto a large wagon and the horses struggle with pulling the heavy load of wool.
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Felix Salmon has a good post about the Warhol auction racket, if you can parse the Warhols. According to Salmon, seven same-sized large self-portraits exist, each painted in 1986. Christie's claims "[a]ll the other versions are in museums or in foundations open to the public", but only four are easily traced to such institutions: one in the Guggenheim, one in Fort Worth, and two in Pittsburgh. Remaining is the one Christie's will auction May 11, and one sold at Sotheby's last year, and another, which was described by Sotheby's last year as part of a private collection.


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The starting point of the poem was the lived experience of patients themselves. Insights were drawn from The Terrence Higgins 'Uncharted Territory' report and from discussions with Positively UK. From their insights, we determined some of the most important changes over the last three decades.
Some things remained the same – most notably thinking about those we've lost along the way. The next step was to work these ideas into a poem that would work in both directions.
We needed to give a lot of thought to the emotional truths of living with HIV, rather than the factual circumstances to grip the reader and put them in the patient's shoes. The first (and last) lines had to be pretty impactful on both readings, and we hope we achieved that in the poem.
The HIV Reflections Poem is a rare treat to see such artistry in med comms. A clever piece demonstrating time and effort in crafting, while delivering the message clearly.


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Multiple Explosive Devices Found In Spain
Multiple explosive boxes and letters have been sent via mail to various embassies and government offices in Spain. Packages were sent to the Ukrainian Embassy in Spain, the U.S. Embassy in Spain, Spain's Defense Ministry, a Spanish Air Force base outside of Madrid, a weapons factory that manufactures grenades and even one was addressed to the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Defense Minister Margarita Robles emphasized these incidents would not affect Spain's full support of Ukraine. Spanish authorities have not identified who was responsible for the parcels nor a definitive connection to the Ukrainian war.


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Ramamurti Shankar (born April 28, 1947) is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Education
He received his B. Tech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1974).

Career
His research is in theoretical condensed matter physics, although he is also known for his earlier work in theoretical particle physics. In 2009, Shankar was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society for "innovative applications of field theoretic techniques to quantum condensed matter systems". After three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he joined the Yale physics department, which he chaired between 2001-2007. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the second Indian after S. Chandrasekhar to be a member of Harvard Society of Fellows.
His Youtube lectures have been viewed by over 20 million people. In 2004 he was appointed the John Randolph Huffman Professor of Physics and in 2019 the Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics.

Selected publications
Principles of Quantum Mechanics, Plenum, 1994.
Basic Training in Mathematics, Plenum, 1995.
Fundamentals of Physics, Yale Press, 2014.
Fundamentals of Physics II, Yale Press, 2016.
Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

References

External links
 Ramamurti Shankar webpage at Yale University
 Fundamentals of Physics Lectures on YouTube.

1947 births
Living people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
21st-century American physicists
Yale University faculty
20th-century Indian physicists
IIT Madras alumni
Indian condensed matter physicists
Tamil scientists
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences


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Wining the Potomac
Published on October 9, 2011 October 9, 2011 by Tricia Traugott
It's Harvest time in Virginia and there are loads of fun things to do, see and taste! I loved the idea in the following article combining a unique venue, education and excellent wines! A win-win for wine lovers! Check it out if you would like to enjoy a unique Happy Hour on the Potomac! It looks like it would be fun and a beautiful time of year to be on the river in D.C. Somebody please go and let me know how it was!
By the way, this photo has nothing to do with the cruise below, but my friend Paulette Musselman shot this during harvest at Glass House Winery in Free Union and I loved it! Thanks, Paulette for sharing!
Set Sail for Virginia Wine Month With Washington Wine Academy Cruises
http://w w w .ontaponline.com/2011/10/03/set-sail-for-virginia-w ine-month-w ith-w ashington-w ine-academy-cruises-2/ October 9, 2011
The Washington Wine Academy is celebrating Virginia Wine Month by bringing vino from ten vineyards a little closer to DC.
The Academy is hosting a series of cruises featuring 25 wines — about a dozen will be served during each cruise — from Rappahannock Cellars, Boxwood Winery, Breaux Vineyards, Pearmund Cellars, Linden Vineyards, Winery at La Grange, Barboursville Vineyard, Ingleside, Vint Hill Craft Winery and Whitehall Vineyard. Cheese from Cabot Creamery, as well as artisan Virginia snacks such as ham and peanuts, will also be served.
The Friday cruises will leave from Gangplank Marina in Washington DC on 700 Water St. SW, and spend 90 minutes on the Potomac River. Each trip will be capped at about 140 guests, and organizers expect a number of sell-outs.
"We really enjoy the wine from the vineyards we invited. Education is key. Virginia wine isn't the same now as it was even a few years ago, and we're happy to be able to demonstrate that to the attendees," Washington Wine Academy's Kellie Shevlin said.
The opportunity is a welcome one for wineries looking to forge a stronger presence inside the Beltway. John Delmare, owner of Rappahannock Cellars, located more than an hour outside of DC in Huntly, VA said the biggest draw was being able to showcase his wine to consumers in the core of his target region: DC.
"We don't have that opportunity often," Delmare said.
"We are seeing amazing growth in the recognition of Virginia wines as a real "player" in the national wine landscape," said Chris Pearmund, Executive Winemaker at three of the featured wineries — Vint Hill, The Winery at La Grange and Pearmund Cellars.
"The cruises are a great way to bring Virginia wine to DC, so those that might not venture out to the wine country can get a taste of the amazing wine our industry is producing," he added.
Vint Hill co-owner Lance Heflin said his craft winery plans to feature products made by its amateur vintners as well as bottles from its professional portfolio including Enigma, a red blend whose name reflects the roots of Vint Hill's Warrenton location. The barn where its wine is made was once home to the original NSA.
Back-to-back warm summers precipitated bumper crops for many Virginia vineyards, although the heavy rains of early September may knock those numbers down in some locations. Delamare said the sunny summer boosted Rappahannock's Merlot yield, which will be released as a single varietal next year alongside a "fizzy" rosé made from a blend of red grape varieties.
For other winemakers, the draw is the cruises' unique venue.
"I sincerely think that when wine is enjoyed in the right surrounding, atmosphere, landscape and with friends, it is elevated to a much higher purpose and is greatly appreciated," said Barboursvillewinemaker Luca Paschina. "I believe that is going to happen on these cruises. That is why I chose to participate."
Boxwood's Rachel Martin said that her vineyard jumped at the opportunity to get in front of more local wine consumers.
"Our wines are not cheap, but the vineyard has a rich history," she said. Boxwood, whose winemaking operation is a National Historic Landmark in Middleburg, VA will be featuring its dry rosé and Topiary Red, which is a Cabernet Franc-heavy blend.
"It's important to get people on board with regional products, and that includes wine. As long as the quality is there, you should enjoy it."
The cruises will be held October 7, 14, 21 and 28 departing at at 6:30 and 8:30 pm from the Gangplank Marina in DC. Tickets are $55.00 per person. Register online at http://www.WashingtonWineAcademy.org.
Inaugural DC Wine Week
In September, wine blog the Daily Sip reported that DC led the nation in wine consumption in 2009 at 6.6 gallons per capita. This month, local oenophiles will gather to show why DC is number one in vino.
DCeventjunkie & Pivot Point Communications are planning a celebration of all things wine — from restaurant and bar specials, wine-pairing menus to wine-themed events — to be held October 15 to 22. Education seminars and events around the DMV region will also feature selections from local wineries. Updates can be found on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/dcwineweek and the DC Wine Week website.
DC Wine Week: Oct. 15 -22; http://www.dcwineweek.com; Twitter @DCWineWeek.
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Will Forte Teases the Hopeful 'MacGruber' TV Series with a Perfectly Inappropriate Scene
Posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2019 by Ethan Anderton
Last week, we got the tantalizing news that Jorma Taccaone and Will Forte had been pitching the idea for a MacGruber TV series. That was a change of pace from the sequel talks we heard about not too long ago, but we'll take more adventures with MacGruber in any way we can get them. So we're happy to see Will Forte confirm the possibility of a MacGruber TV series on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, complete with a tease of a perfectly inappropriate scene as only MacGruber can deliver.
Obviously the MacGruber TV series hasn't been shot yet, because no one has picked it up. So during an appearance on The Tonight Show last night, Will Forte wrote down a few lines from a scene involving MacGruber and Kristen Wiig's character Vicki celebrating after foiling an evil plot. Jimmy Fallon steps in to take Kristen Wiig's role, and then pure magic happens.
MacGruber TV Series Scene on The Tonight Show
The sexual tension between MacGruber and Vicki has always been palpable. The two have already shared plenty of intimate times together, but that somehow doesn't diminish the hormones raging through them whenever they're near each other. So it should come as no surprise that after stopping a sinister plan, MacGruber wants to partake in a little R&R. No, it's not rest and relaxation, but rather some good old-fashioned ramming and rimming. Classic MacGruber.
Even without real footage from the hopeful MacGruber TV series, this quick moment has me so excited at the prospect of seeing this happen. MacGruber is such a ludicrously inappropriate and insane character, and the movie let Will Forte take his craziness to the max in a way that we'd never seen on Saturday Night Live before. It's just a shame that audiences didn't give MacGruber a chance when it theaters back in 2010. But the film has since become a cult classic.
So the question is, where will this possible MacGruber series end up? For my money, Netflix is where this series should be. They've fully embraced the raunchiness of shows like Big Mouth, and that's exactly what MacGruber needs: a total lack of restraint. If the MacGruber TV series doesn't land somewhere, it will be a real shame. Because Will Forte, Jorma Taccone, Ryan Phillippe and Kristen Wiig are fucking great guys. And that would make for a fucking asshole of a day. KFBR293.
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A 28-YEAR-OLD Zambian woman's dream of running a successful business of supplying 'Brazilian hair' to the local market has turned into a nightmare after she was arrested in Ethiopia for allegedly carrying half a kilogramme of cocaine in her stomach.
Now she faces the possibility of languishing in prison for 10 years.
Esther Banda was arrested by immigration authorities at Bole International Airport on March 29, 2014, although the Zambian mission in Addis Ababa was only informed about the development six weeks later.
Ms Banda had allegedly swallowed the cocaine to elude detection but she was not successful as vigilant officers apprehended her when they suspected her of carrying some prohibited articles.
Secretary for press and tourism at the Zambian mission in Addis Ababa, Dorcas Chileshe, said in a statement yesterday that Ms Banda was arrested on arrival from Brazil enroute to Lilongwe, Malawi, where the consignment was allegedly destined.
According to Ms Banda, her Nigerian boyfriend, based in Brazil, promised to pay her US$3,200 so that she could start a business of supplying Brazilian hair once she delivered the cocaine to his clients in Malawi.
"Ms Banda told an embassy official who visited her that she agreed to travel to Brazil after a male friend promised to help her start doing the business of supplying Brazilian hair but was later forced to swallow cocaine," Ms Chileshe said.
She said Banda is detained at Kality Prison and is scheduled to appear in court on May 29, 2014 for judgement.
A drug trafficking offence in Ethiopia carries a minimum jail sentence of 10 years.
Four years ago, another Zambian woman aged 32 was arrested for the same offence in the same country after immigration authorities detected cocaine in her stomach at Bole International Airport.
And Zambian ambassador to Ethiopia Susan Sikaneta has appealed to the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) to work with the Ministry of Gender and Child Development as well as the Church in sensitising women to beware of men, especially foreigners, who disguise themselves as 'saviours'.
She said a number of Zambian women have ended up in jail in foreign countries after being used by men who promise to help them become rich through the business of trading.
Ms Sikaneta also appealed to DEC to travel to Ethiopia to dialogue with immigration authorities and other relevant authorities on how best they can co-operate to ensure all persons involved in the drug trafficking chain are brought to book.
Zacharia,do u mean whoever does foreign trading is poverty stricken.To me,this w/man wanted 2 amass at a fasta rate than normal.she had gud busness in hair styles,but why getng invovd in drugs?


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