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Voitures Extravert is Converting Vintage Porsche 911s into All-Electric Cars
By Digital Trends Staff	 March 1, 2018
Restoring and upgrading old Porsche 911s has become a cottage industry, but no one does it like Voitures Extravert. The Dutch company was founded to keep these classic sports cars on the road even if internal combustion is one day banned from European city centers. So Voitures Extravert takes out the stock flat-six engines, and replaces them with electric powertrains.
The company calls its electric 911 the Quintessenza, and it's available in two configurations. The Quintessenza SE is styled to look like a 1960s 911, while the Quintessenza TE borrows styling features from later 1980s models. Voitures Extravert uses original 911s that would be uneconomic to restore otherwise; its car-enthusiast bosses don't want to rip up pristine cars.
Both Quintessenza models sport a 60-kilowatt-hour pack that provides a claimed range of 400 kilometers (250 miles). Voitures Extravert also claims a 0 to 100 kph (0 to 62 mph) time of 6.0 seconds, and a top speed of 200 kph (124 mph). That isn't lightning fast by modern standards, but it's appropriate for the era these cars hail from, and pretty good considering the added weight of the batteries.
Speaking of batteries, Voitures Extravert distributes the cells throughout the car, allowing for a claimed 50/50 front/rear weight distribution. That's a major achievement for a 911, as these cars are very tail-heavy in stock form due to their rear-mounted engines. Voiture Extravert also fits its cars with upgraded brakes and adjustable dampers, as well as convenience items like power steering and air conditioning.
One of Voitures Extravert's electric 911s will set you back 300,000 euros, or about $370,000 at current exchange rates. That price does include the cost of the donor car, which Voitures Extravert sources. The finished product comes with a five-year, 62,000-mile warranty.
Voitures Extravert plans to build just five cars this year, all of which are sold out. The company is taking orders for next year's production run of 12 cars. By 2020, Voitures Extravert hopes to be building three cars per month. The company isn't alone in its effort to electrify classics: companies like Austria's Kreisel Electric specialize in electric-car conversions and, if you're prepared for a little trial and error, it's even something you can do at home.
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Philippines' SEC Proposes Draft ICO Regulations
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Draft rules were formed based on international experience and published for public discussion before adoption. The SEC of the Philippines invites banks, investment funds, crypto community and other sides that want to get involved to submit remarks on suggested regulation until August 31.
Based on the document, new rules will consider all tokens issued via ICO as securities, unless otherwise proven. It also determines the rules for filing an application at least 90 days before the ICO launch. The SEC proposes to evaluate ICO in two stages: initial assessment and registration.
The first stage will provide an opportunity for ICO supporters to argue against labeling tokens as securities. The preliminary assessment will last for 20 days during which the commission has to determine the status of coins offered for placement. If it finds that the proposed ICO tokens should be classified as securities, the initiator is required to proceed with the registration.
When registering, ICO holder will have to provide personal data: name, address, contact details and a CV describing his professional background for the last 5 years. The document will also include campaign schedule, target market, and potential risks of undergoing an ICO.
The issuer will still need to produce an audit report performed by an independent expert. It should include, in particular, results of source code testing, technological risks and security protocols.
The ICOs held by fewer than twenty private investors can skip the procedure. Large institutional participants are also not obliged to fill in the forms.
1. The rules presented are still a project. The main goal of the document is to clear the industry from scammers.
2. The SEC of the Philippines is consistently fulfilling its promise to adopt regulatory framework given at the beginning of the year. This year, the Philippines central bank recognized Bitcoin as a legal payment instrument. In January, the SEC urged investors to be cautious about participating in ICO. A few months later, the country decided to license 10 crypto companies that will be allowed to work in a special economic zone with a preferential tax regime, an amount now raised to 25.
3. In April, the regulator recognized contracts for cloud-based mining as securities
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Hyperconnectivity and (Im)Mobility: Uber and Surveillance Capitalism by the Global South
Firmino, Rodrigo José, Bruno de Vasconcelos Cardoso, and Rafael Evangelista. 2019. Hyperconnectivity and (Im)mobility: Uber and Surveillance Capitalism by the Global South. Surveillance & Society 17(1/2): 205-212.
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Rodrigo Firmino, BRUNO CARDOSO and Rafael Evangelista
PUCPR, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Labjor
Surveillance Capitalism, Surveillance Platform, Urban Mobility, Uberization
Urban Beings or City Dwellers? The Complementary Concepts of 'Urban' and 'City'
City & Time 4 (3): 3, 2010
Clovis Ultramari and Rodrigo Firmino
Pontifical Catholic University of Parana and PUCPR
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Eyes of Glass: Watching the Watchers in the Monitoring of Public Places in Curitiba, Brazil
Surveillance & Society Vol 10(1): 28-41, 2012
Rodrigo Firmino and Elisa Trevisan
PUCPR and Pontifical Catholic University of Parana
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The Spatial Bonds of WikiLeaks
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Rodrigo Firmino, Lucas Melgaço and Dariusz Kloza
PUCPR, Free University of Brussels (VUB)-Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Institute for European Studies, Students and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Private Video Monitoring of Public Spaces: The Construction of New Invisible Territories
Firmino, R., & Duarte, F. (2016). Private video monitoring of public spaces: The construction of new invisible territories. Urban Studies, 53(4), 741–754. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098014567064
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Council's dementia care under review
Services in a care home in Macclesfield could be affected as the council looks to transfer its dementia care to the private sector.
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Coun Janet Clowes, Cheshire East Council cabinet member in charge of health and care in the community
Hollins View, on Clarke Terrace, Macclesfield, currently offers 40 beds as respite and intermediary care for dementia sufferers and vulnerable adults.
Currently run by Cheshire East Council, it gives carers a break by taking on dementia patients for respite care, as well as looking after patients for a short period after are discharged from hospital.
But under the council's proposals to privatise care, those services provided by Hollins View may be affected.
Coun Janet Clowes, Cheshire East Council cabinet member in charge of health and care in the community, said: "This council believes in putting residents first – and, above all, our concern and responsibility is to protect the welfare of our most vulnerable citizens, both young and old.
"Existing support must be continually reviewed to ensure we deliver the best way of meeting needs. This is the role of commissioning.
"As part of that continual review, the proposal is that dementia respite should be provided in the independent sector. This strategy, if confirmed after the scrutiny process is completed, may result in services at Hollins View being affected.
"However, the assessed social care needs of users and carers at Hollins View will continue to be met."
Before any decision is made the council says it will hold a consultation with users and carers at the home.
Coun Laura Jeuda, who speaks for the labour group on health matters, said the home is a 'vital' service.
She said: "If this service was withdrawn, for whatever reason, it would cause severe hardship for the carers and those they care for."
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. and ATLANTA, Jan. 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ruby Tuesday, Inc. (the "Company"), and NRD Capital ("NRD" or the "Firm"), an Atlanta-based private equity firm that specializes in franchised and multi-unit business investments, announced today that Ray Blanchette, a seasoned restaurant executive and turnaround expert with over 25 years of industry experience, has been named as the Company's Chief Executive Officer ("CEO"), effective January 8th, 2018. Mr. Blanchette is the permanent successor to the Company's former CEO and President, Jim Hyatt, and succeeds NRD's Founder and Managing Partner Aziz Hashim, who had served in the role of interim CEO since the Firm acquired Ruby Tuesday in a go-private transaction on December 21, 2017.
Mr. Blanchette joins Ruby Tuesday from Au Bon Pain (ABP), where he served as the company's President and CEO since June 2016, including through the acquisition of the company by Panera Bread in December 2017. Prior to ABP, from 2007-2015, he served as President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Ignite Restaurant Group, Inc. ("IRG"), the parent company of the Joe's Crab Shack and Brick House Tap & Tavern brands. Mr. Blanchette is credited with the historic turnaround of the Joe's Crab Shack brand, the successful launch of the Brick House Tap & Tavern concept and bundling the brands into IRG, which he eventually took public through a successful initial public offering on NASDAQ in 2012.
In addition to his tenure at IRG, Mr. Blanchette served in numerous senior leadership roles at Carlson Restaurants, the former parent of TGI Friday's and Pick Up Stix. Mr. Blanchette's business achievements have received many accolades, including twice being nominated for the prestigious Carlson Fellows Award, as well as Division of the Year, for his work at T.G.I. Friday's, and in 2013, Nation's Restaurant News awarded him with their prestigious Golden Chain Award for his work at IRG, where he was also named Operator of the Year. He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Southern Methodist University.
Ruby Tuesday, Inc. owns and franchises Ruby Tuesday brand restaurants. As of December 1, 2017, there were 596 Ruby Tuesday restaurants in 41 states, 14 foreign countries, and Guam. Of those restaurants, the company owns and operates 541 Ruby Tuesday restaurants and franchises 55 Ruby Tuesday restaurants. The company-owned and operated restaurants are concentrated primarily in the Southeast, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest of the United States, which are considered to be the company's core markets. Ruby Tuesday was acquired and officially taken-private by NRD Capital on December 21, 2017. For more information about Ruby Tuesday, please visit www.rubytuesday.com.
NRD Capital Management, LLC, founded by Aziz Hashim, invests in brands that offer superior products or services and compelling unit-level economics in order to help them strategically grow through the power of franchising. The fund invests primarily in franchisors and franchise-related technologies, infusing capital and applying operating expertise to grow brands. NRD has thus far acquired three US-based multi-location franchise brands, Ruby Tuesday, Frisch's Big Boy and Fuzzy's Taco Shop, which generate $1.4+ billion in annual system revenues from over 850 locations. NRD made its first international investment in May 2017 when the firm acquired South Africa-based Mike's Kitchen. The fund has also made a significant growth capital investment in FundRx, an early stage venture capital firm focused on healthcare and life sciences with a portfolio of 15 startup companies and, ARKE, a results-oriented experience design agency focused on technology strategy for leading brands. Through its international philanthropic arm, the NRD Capital Foundation, the firm makes investments in both for-profit and non-profit organizations and initiatives that create entrepreneurs, promote the centrality of unit-economics in franchising and develop creative uses of franchising for the improvement of the quality of life. NRD made its first investment out of this vehicle with Jibu in November 2017. For more information please visit www.nrdcapital.com.


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Consumers wanting to take advantage of a promotional offer from Sainsburys Insurance will need to act quickly, according to the firm.
This is because the £50 shopping vouchers offered to Nectar customers who apply for buildings and contents cover will only be available until October 4th 2010.
The firm also pointed out that the associated double Nectar points deal - which is available to people new to the Nectar scheme - could be particularly useful.
It noted that a person who spends £50 each week while on this programme would be rewarded with about £52 in Nectar vouchers throughout the year.
The promotion gives consumers new to the loyalty card double points for two years.
Sainsburys Insurance described the £50 shopping voucher deal as "one of the best home insurance offers currently available".
This month, the same organisation highlighted the importance of travel insurance, after it found the average cost of hospital treatment abroad has reached £2,040.


First things first. New blog design. I think I'm in love!
Second, aren't these girls just the cutest? I like them a lot.
Now what I wish to write about is a little bit on the tender side. It is in regards to THIS ARTICLE, which crushed my heart. This hit home hard and it is a tough thing for me to write about since it hit so close to home. I have been trying to figure out how to write about this and have failed to figure out the best way to do it, so I decided that I would just share with you my journal entry from yesterday morning because I think it accurately portrays how I feel.
Last night I was scrolling through twitter when I came across a news article about a man who had murdered his wife only two days before. It stuck out to me because the city was the same city I live in. When I opened the article I was surprised to see a photo of a familiar face. 4 year old Arraya, who is one of the couple's 3 children, was staring with tear filled eyes back at the camera. This image pierced my soul and my eyes immediately filled with tears. I coach darling little Arraya. She is one of the sweetest, most obedient children I have ever had the privilege of coaching. It pains me to know how much her little innocent life is going to be changed. She will forever be a name to my prayers. Until yesterday I thought the news was only for people I didn't know, but I now realize that the world I live in is becoming more wicked. In this tumultuous world men's hearts fail them. If we want to be in the world, but not of the world, we must look to God with an eternal perspective. Precious Arraya will see her mother again. We are amongst much wickedness, trial, and heartache and we must turn to the Lord for strength.
I have read this news article many times in the last few days. It has caused me to reflect on many other pains that come from living in this world.
Meg Johnson, who is an LDS motivational speaker came to our school last year and said, pointing to her own body which requires a wheelchair, "Bad days don't look like this..." and pointing to the student body said, "bad days look like this."
This world we live in does not spare a single one of us of trial and heartache. Every single ride is going to have turbulence, and some might even crash, but we must remember why we are here in the first place.
"We are living, and have chosen to live in a fallen world where for divine purposes, our pursuit of Godliness, will be tested and tried again and again... never lose faith in your Father in Heaven"
I do not mean to preach to others to tell them what they should believe, I only mean to write for the comfort of my own soul. I strongly believe that we were sent here for a purpose. We were sent here to be tried. We were sent here to grow. And when faith and trial comes, acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
When faced with trial deeper than we think we can bear we must remember that the Lord passed through trials for us more terrible than we can imagine. He suffered for every pain and every heartache of the entire world. It was the greatest love letter every written, and it was sealed with his blood when he died for us on the cross. He knows exactly how we feel and he wants to help us through it. We just have to let him.
I have a strong testimony of the Atonement the Savior suffered for us. He suffered for every sin, and every heartache. He knows the source of ever tear we have ever shed. He knows the exact feeling that caused them to fall. He knows us and he loves us more dearly than we could ever comprehend. I am so thankful that I don't have to wander my way through this life without Him.
p.s. Who shared there #DiscoverTheBook photos? I DID! Here is mine! If you haven't yet there is still time. Share a picture of yourself similar to mine below along with your testimony on any social media sites. Don't forget to use the hashtags #DiscoverTheBook and #CalledToShare. This was started by a group of LDS missionaries! Check out the official instructions HERE!
The Church is true and the good book is blue!
This breaks my heart! It is such a comfort to know about the Plan of Salvation and our Savior's love when terrible things like this happen!
Ps- I am LOVING your new design! Maybe you could do a tutorial about how did it! I know this was there before, but I love how your different blog pages are at the top of the screen and your color scheme is adorable!


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Conflicted. Choosing to live near her man or near her grandchildren and daughter. Should she stay?
By Tom P Blake of Finding Love After 50
A 71-year-old widow has a dilemma. She has had a relationship with a man of 85 for five years. Four years ago, he decided to move to another state and wanted her to move there also. She agreed. He bought two houses and she moved into one of them.
She said, "I moved because I wanted to get back into a house, and he offered to buy the house and allow me to buy it from him as I was financially able to. We preferred to have separate living conditions. Rent payments also go toward the purchase of the home."
She says they are both very active and healthy; they enjoy doing things together and share many of the same interests while still maintaining individual activities.
She said, "In the process, my feelings for him have grown, and the importance of owning a home has diminished. I love him in a deep friendship way because I can't imagine anyone taking my husband's place (40 years) in my heart."
She described her dilemma: "My daughter and her husband live in the place I moved from. A little over a year ago they had a wonderful baby girl, my one and only grandchild. I make the 4 to 4-1/2 hour drive to see them every two weeks (sometimes more). Besides being able to visit them, I also do work in that area and sometimes spend several days there.
"The drive is beginning to wear on me. I'm rolling the dice every time I make it. I am also missing my old 'home,' (which was only an apartment), the convenience of being close to the work I do, and mostly my daughter and granddaughter.
"My daughter is pregnant again. I feel I should be closer to help out. They don't intend for me to become the grandmother that raises their children, nor do I intend to. I have a life."
But what about her gentleman friend, who will be 86 soon?
She said, "I would have to leave him; I know he loves me and would miss me. He says he would not want a long-distance relationship; he doesn't have the time. I don't want to hurt him, I love him too much.
"His eyesight is failing, which he won't admit. Many other things I do for him-happily-but he has become somewhat dependent on me. He is a survivor and would do well without me."
And what about her investment, the home she has been paying on for four years?
She added, "He has willed this house to me, I would lose that. He has other family that would inherit his estate. I suppose I am conflicted as to whether I am staying with him for him or for the house.
"I have paid a good sum of money toward the house, which he has said he would give back to me if I decide to leave. I would never be able to afford a house in the city where my daughter lives.
"I also know that he may not live too much longer, although he seems healthy and active. It bothers me that I even think about inheriting the house when he dies. I don't want to be like that."
I reminded her that the house is why she moved in the first place, that it is not wrong for her to be concerned about losing it. After all, it was an investment. Is she certain he will return the money she invested? He might change his mind and keep the money, figuring she had free rent for four years.
And then there's the possibility that she would have to become a caregiver to him. What was their original agreement on that?
She concluded, "Here I am, wanting to move back to be with my daughter and her family, but knowing I would miss the life I have here--a lovely home that is paid for, a loving and generous companion, and many activities and interests I enjoy.
"This is really tearing me up. Do you have any thoughts on this?"
I suggested she fly between the cities instead of driving. She said she tried that once, but has to have a car where her work is. Maybe she could leave her car at her daughter's. Sounds like her gentleman friend would be happy to pick her up at his airport.
I also suggested she live away from him for a month or more to see how she feels about leaving permanently, that the decision might become clear during that time. She should think long and hard before giving up on him and the home she has worked four years toward. There must be a compromise in there somewhere.
"That's a pretty good idea," she said.
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FREMONT, Calif., May 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Aerkomm Inc. (OTCQX: AKOM) ("Aerkomm" or the "Company"), today announced that it has sold 588,236 shares of its common stock at $8.50 per share or $5,000,006 in gross proceeds before expenses and underwriting commissions in the first round of its $60 million registered offering.
As previously disclosed, the Company announced an offering of between $5 million and $69 million (including an over-subscription allotment of $9,000,000; collectively, the "Offering") of its common stock. Boustead Securities, LLC is sole underwriter for this "best efforts" offering. Aerkomm, through its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Aircom Pacific, Inc., is a development stage service provider of in-flight entertainment and connectivity solutions for the airline industry.
AKOM Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Wun said, "We are very pleased with the demand for our shares and look forward to closing additional rounds in the near term. We have a strong business plan in place that is being fueled with capital to take the Company to new heights."
Aerkomm's common stock is currently quoted on the OTCQX under the symbol "AKOM." The Company, as disclosed in its prospectus, expects to apply to have its common stock uplisted for trading on a national stock exchange.


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Young R&B trailblazer August Alsina has spent much of 2015 growing his already-massive fan base by hitting stages around the world to perform music from his 2014 debut album Testimony and now he's ready to follow up with a brand new project.
Earlier this summer to the pleasure of his fans, August confirmed that his sophomore album will be titled This Thing Called Life and also revealed that he's been hard at work in the studio putting together a body of work that accurately reflects his growth both as an artist and as a young Black man living in today's society.
August has consistently been dropping hints that new music was on the way sooner than later and today, he kept good on his promise to deliver new sounds in 2015 by announcing the second single off of his upcoming album through his social media accounts.
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2013 Newcomer Of The Year: Savages
The London based all-female post-punk band Savages, arrived on the scene in 2013 with a fury. The ladies released their much-anticipated full-length debut Silence Yourself to critical acclaim. The band's vibe has been compared to and influenced by the likes of Joy Division, Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and The Banshees. Their no-nonsense, intense, in your face approach, is as fresh as anything the post-punk revival has to offer today.
The four-piece has written a series of Manifestos that appear in the Words page on their official website. The group's intentions are summed up below:
SAVAGES MANIFESTO #1
SAVAGES' INTENTION IS TO CREATE A SOUND, INDESTRUCTIBLE, MUSICALLY SOLID, WRITTEN FOR THE STAGE AND DESIGNED WITH ENOUGH NUANCES TO PROVIDE A WIDE RANGE OF EMOTIONS. SAVAGES ARE A SELF-AFFIRMING VOICE TO HELP EXPERIENCE OUR GIRLFRIENDS DIFFERENTLY, OUR HUSBANDS, OUR JOBS, OUR EROTIC LIFE, AND THE PLACE MUSIC OCCUPIES INTO OUR LIVES. SAVAGES' SONGS AIM TO REMIND US THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVEN'T EVOLVED SO MUCH, THAT MUSIC CAN STILL BE STRAIGHT TO THE POINT, EFFICIENT AND EXCITING.
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2013 Band Of The Year: FOALS
English indie rockers FOALS are my pick for 2013 Band Of The Year. Two K Thirteen saw Yannis & Co. solidify themselves as one of THE best live acts in the world. The band is already headlining European Music Festivals and selling out moderately sized U.S. venues, just three albums deep into their career.
I know this selection comes as a surprise to some… based on the comments Mr. Philippakis made about my beloved Stone Roses, but I've honestly moved past that. I've actually embraced the comment and taken the phase "Heritage Act" to an entirely new level. Thank you Yannis!
I named their third studio album Holy Fire my number 3 album of the year, and the track "Inhaler" received the ultimate INDEEP prize, being named Track Of The Year.
My own selfishness hopes that the America doesn't accept FOALS in a way that they truly deserve….so I can continue to see them perform in venues no larger than the House Of Blues.
The only negative thing I have to say about these dudes is that they have fallen into this annoying and completely unnecessary trend of releasing NSFW videos. Enough already.
We can now contact FOALS with ALL of the good news!
As we officially put closure to 2013, I would like to thank everyone that have contributed to this site. I hope I have provided knowledge, fun, and a few giggles for those that enjoy my take on the world of indie rock.
I look forward to being one of your daily resources for relevant music in 2014.
Enjoy "The Yannis Balcony Jump" again:
2013 Heritage Act Of The Year: My Bloody Valentine
Irish shoegazers My Bloody Valentine began the new year by self-releasing their third studio album MBV. The band reunited in 2007 and had been hinting that new music was on the horizon. The new album didn't disappoint, being well-received worldwide. On the night the band launched the album on their website, the site crashed due to apparently "high traffic." That sounds like a problem we could use…
The follow-up to 1991′s Loveless, is just that. The band didn't miss a beat, producing something that would have nicely blown out our ears in 1992. The Kevin Shields lead band claims that some of the album was recorded prior to breaking up in 1997, and more of it was written prior to taking the stage at the 2007 Coachella Festival. Now that was a show for the ages…to this day I think I can still hear the Wall Of Sound, especially when I fire up the microwave oven.
MBV has turned up on nearly every reputable Top Albums of 2013 list, including mine, coming in at number 14, I also ranked the track "Only Tomorrow" as the 39th best track of the year.
Frontman Kevin Shields says the band's intentions are to release an EP of new material soon, and then follow that up with their fourth studio album. How fun, more hearing damage!
Listen to "New You" here:
2013 Reunion Of The Year: The Replacements
2013 saw the unlikely reformation of alternative rock legends The Replacements. Original members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson reunited and played their first show in nearly 22 years. The band headlined a series of three Riot Fest dates: Toronto, Chicago, and Denver. Paul and Tommy appointed drummer Josh Freeze and guitarist Dave Minehan to replace drummer Chris Mars and guitarist Slim Dunlap.
Earlier in the year Westerberg and Stinson cut a 5-song EP entitled Songs For Slim. The purpose of the record was to raise money for Slim Dunlap's medical expenses. Mr. Dunlap suffered a severe stroked in February 2012.
The Minneapolis legends were also nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame this year, however they were passed over for other least deserving candidates. Better luck next time Mats!
One can only hope Goldenvoice is working very diligently to procure The Mats for a line two spot at the 2014 Coachella Music Festival.
Watch The Replacement perform "Left Of The Dial" @ Chicago Riot Fest:
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"The Bones Of What You Believe"
Released = September 24
Key Tracks = The Mother We Share, Recover, Gun, We Sink, Lies
Is this really a surprise? I've been singing the praises of this Scottish three-piece since the time "The Mother We Share" began to makes its way around the indie blogosphere in mid 2012. The band released "Recover" and "Gun" as singles and shared "Lies" prior to the release of the full-length. Hard to imagine it could get any better than that, but amazingly it does.
Ladies and Gentleman The Bones Of What You Believe is truly electopop at its absolute finest. The entire album is solid, each familiar track is front-loaded between equally impressive tracks. "We Sink" could be the best track on the album. Frontwoman Lauren Mayberry takes a break on the track "Under The Tide" and the male vocals remind me of a tune that would fit perfect on a M83 album. This is a remarkable album that I've listened to countless times over the last four months. The test will come with album number two…..can't envision that it will be possible to make something equally spectacular. Can't Wait!
Watch "The Mother We Share" here:
Download "The Bones Of What You Believe" here:
Numbers 10 – 2
"Sistrionix"
Released = October 8
Key Tracks = Gonna Make My Own Money, End Of The World, Lies, Walk Of Shame
Watch "Baby I Call Hell" here:
Download "Sistrionix" here:
Key Tracks = R U Mine?, Do I Wanna Know?, Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
Watch "R U Mine?" here:
Download "AM" here:
"Light Up Gold"
Released = January 15
Key Tracks = Borrowed Time, Stoned and Starving, Donuts Only, Yr No Stoner
Listen To "Master Of My Craft" here:
Download "Light Up Gold" here:
"180″
Released = March 12
Key Tracks = Best Of Friends, Step Up For Cool Cats, We Found Love, Rattlesnake Highway
Watch "Step Up For Cool Cats" here:
Download "180″ here:
Key Tracks = Breakers, Heavy Feet, Colombia, Ceilings, Mt. Washington
Watch "Ceilings" here:
Download "Hummingbird" here:
Jagwar Ma
Released = June 11
Key Tracks = The Throw, Come Save Me, Man I Need, Uncertainty
Watch "The Throw" here:
Download "Howlin" here:
Released = May 21
Key Tracks = Demons, Don't Swallow The Cap, Sea Of Love, Graceless
Watch "Demons" here:
Download "Trouble Will Find Me" here:
Released = February 12
Key Tracks = Inhaler, My Number, Bad Habit, Milk & Black Spiders, Late Night
Watch "Out Of The Woods" here:
Download "Holy Fire" here:
"Silence Yourself"
Released = May 7
Key Tracks = Flying To Berlin, Husbands, She Will, Shut Up
Watch "Shut Up" here:
Download "Silence Yourself" here:
Numbers 19 – 11
Over the next three days, I will reflect upon nineteen of my favorite albums that I had in heavy rotation in my compact disc player in 2013.
Key Tracks = Childhood's End, Bugs Don't Buzz, Mister
Watch "Childhood's End" here:
Download "Impersonator" here:
"Glow and Behold"
Key Tracks = Rebirth, Middle Sea, Lose My Breath
Watch "Rebirth" here:
Download "Glow and Behold" here:
"We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace and Magic"
Key Tracks = Shuggie, No Destruction, San Francisco
Watch "No Destruction" here:
Download "We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic" here:
Cut Copy
Released = November 5
Key Tracks = We Are Explorers, Free Your Mind, Let Me Show You Love
Watch "Let Me Show You Love" here:
Download "Free Your Mind" here:
"Modern Vampires Of The City"
Key Tracks = Step, Ya Hey, Unbelievers, Hannah Hunt
Watch "Diane Young" here:
Download "Modern Vampires Of The City" here:
Released = February 2
Key Tracks = Only Tomorrow, New You, Nothing Is
Listen to "Nothing Is" here:
Download "MBV" here:
"In Love" (US Version)
Key Tracks = Bloodshake, Follow Baby, Wraith, California Daze, Lovesick
Watch "Bloodshake" here:
Download "In Love" (US Version) here:
"Where The Heaven Are We"
Released = August 6
Key Tracks = King City, Honey, She Changes The Weather, Francisco
Watch "She Changes The Weather" here:
Download "Where The Heaven Are We" here:
"Days Are Gone"
Key Tracks = Forever, Don't Save Me, Falling, The Wire
Watch "Forever" here:
Download "Days Are Gone" here:
Top 10 Tracks 2013 by Present Tense
13/12/27 at 8.55pm / by present-tense / 0 Comment
These are my Top 10 Tracks 2013. I wanted to get this list in before the end of year but after Davers post (which was awesome btw). If you ask me in like three weeks what my Top 10 Tracks 2013 edition were, it could be totally different, but in the moment right now..these are the 10 best tracks.
2013 TRACK OF THE YEAR: FOALS "Inhaler"
The track "Inhaler" is off FOALS third studio album Holy Fire. The tune overlaps late 2012 and early 2013, first surfacing in early November 2012. "Inhaler" was released as a single in mid December 2012 and provided quite an appetizer leading up to the much-anticipated release of Holy Fire on February 12. I've not only included it on my 2013 list, but named it the track of the year, my list my rules.
The funky bass, dueling guitars, and Yannis' powerful vocals all gradually buildup to an epic indie rock explosion of sound, unlike anything FOALS had to offer up until that point.
This was fun, albums next.
Top 57 Tracks of 2013
Numbers 5 – 2
"Come Save Me"
"Stoned and Starving"
"Do I Wanna Know?"
"Bugs Don't Buzz"
The Dodos
"Say That"
"Dead In Your Head"
"My Number"
"2013″
"Don't Swallow The Cap"
'Falling"
"Shelter Song"
"Black Out Days"


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Project for the support for improving living environment and disaster prevention capacity in Cambodia – Completed
During the 2018 monsoon season, tropical storm SON-TINH caused heavy flooding from the Sepa-Nam Noi in Attapeu province in Laos PDR. The floods affected 62,317 households in five provinces of Cambodia downstream along the Mekong river and caused the death of 16 people, and at the height of the floods, some 5,398 households were forced to evacuate their homes. In Cambodia, the most affected area in terms of the number of families evacuated was Tbong Khmom District (2,148 households) and none of the evacuees had received shelter kits in the aftermath of the hazard. Against this backdrop, UN-Habitat hand-in-hand with the Royal Government of Cambodia launched the "Project for the Support for Improving Living Environment and Prevention Capacity in Cambodia" in April 2019 with the fund from the Government of Japan.
The 12-month project aimed to achieve recovery and strengthened resilience of the flood affected population by ensuring access to safe and resilient shelter to people in displacement areas and/or to households with destroyed shelter, including disaster preparedness measures, in Cambodia. Based on UN-Habitat's expertise and experience in post-disaster recovery in Asia and the Pacific region, the project was implemented taking the People's Process approach, a community-driven rebuilding approach which trains members of households whose homes were destroyed to rebuild their homes and communities.
The project was broken down into the following 10 activities:
Conduct a field recovery assessment, select community organizations and involve all relevant actors
Conduct detailed mapping of shelter needs and safe areas (flood maps) in target communes
Reach consensus with communities and flood-affected families on which households to be assisted
Identify low-cost and local materials that can be used to construct resilient houses
Select construction workers and train them on disaster resilient construction methods
Community mobilization for housing construction and repair
Design and construct resilient houses using low-cost and local materials
Integrate DRR elements into local plans
Conduct a workshop on lessons learned and disseminate the results at national level
The project supported the following direct and indirect beneficiaries through its activities:
A total of 202 households with 1,098 people have been supported with core shelters (i.e., houses reconstructed for 104 households with 614 people and houses repaired for 98 households with 484 people). Climate resilience was adapted in housing design and construction methods in rural settings, particularly targeting a disaster-prone area in Cambodia.
Approximately 10,000 people have received benefit from a wide range of the project activities related to reinforcement of disaster preparedness (e.g., creation of the hazard maps, community development support, livelihood assistance, WASH training, skills development training).
172 carpenters and construction workers in the flood-affected area have been trained on resilient construction methods and have acquired new skills and knowledge about building resilient and affordable houses which is useful for replicating good practices in the future.
70 national and subnational government officials have received benefit from a series of the capacity building opportunities on policy development, disaster preparedness, and disaster management and learned how to integrate DRR elements into local planning, i.e. a Commune Investment Plan (CIP).
Aside from 202 households as direct beneficiaries, additional 14 households with 86 people in 5 communities have received benefits of installing new 14 latrines in their existing houses.
Government of Japan
The General Department of Housing (GDH), the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction (MLMUPC); Tbong Khmom Province; Tbong Khmom District; Relevant Communes and Villages to which the target communities belong
Video: Project for Improving Living Environment and Disaster Prevention Capacity in Cambodia
Photobook: Resilient Housing for All: Project for the support for improving living environment and disaster prevention capacity in Cambodia
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Do you find that turkey is a dry and plain meat? I certainly have had some plain turkey in my lifetime. I always reach for the ham over turkey at Thanksgiving. Until I found this Wild Turkey Breast recipe I didn't realize how incredible turkey can taste!
We got these turkey breasts from one of my dad's hunting friends, Tony Z. Tony actually killed the turkeys this season in South Carolina. There's nothing more Paleo than wild game. We based our wild turkey breast recipe off of one from the NWTF, National Wild Turkey Federation. Dad ate it for dinner, and I ate it for lunch the next day. It's GREAT leftover, and we loved it so much we took out another turkey breast to make it again a few days later! Serve this dish with Faux-Tatoes on the side.
In a large cast iron skillet add bacon and top with Cajun seasoning. Fry until crisp.
Drain, discard grease and set aside.
Add 1 tablespoon of butter and chopped onion to the skillet.
Saute onion until tender. Then remove onion and set aside.
In a bowl, combine the turkey breast, 2 tablespoons coconut oil, coconut aminos and seasoning.
In the skillet, heat remaining butter and coconut oil until sizzling.
Add turkey, cooked bacon, and onion.
Cook on medium-high until turkey is brown and tender (around 15 minutes).
Be careful buying bacon. Look for antibiotic, hormone, & nitrate free. Try to find bacon that was not cured in sugar, if possible. Bacon is something you will want to spend a little bit more money to get good quality.
This is the second "paleo" turkey recipe I have ran across. It is not paleo if you are using butter. Even if it is "natural" it is still derived from dairy and the paleolithic people did not ingest dairy products.
If my recipe is completely Paleo it will say it in the title. Yes my blog is titled Paleo, but I still do consume raw pastured butter and will include it in my recipes.


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Int J Mol Cell Med 2018, 7(1): 1-7 Back to browse issues page
Association between Long Noncoding RNA ANRIL Expression Variants and Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Disease
Mohsen Yari1, Sara Bitarafan1, Mohammad Ali Broumand2, Zahra Fazeli1, Mahnoosh Rahimi1, Sayyed Mohammad Hossein Ghaderian1, Reza Mirfakhraie1, Mir Davood Omrani 3
1- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2- Department of Molecular Pathology, Tehran Heart Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3- Department of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , davood_omrani@sbmu.ac.ir
Animal cells possess thousands of long non-coding (lnc) RNAs, such as antisense noncoding RNA in the INK4 locus (ANRIL) , which have regulatory roles in the cells' molecular mechanisms, including X-chromosome inactivation, and developmental processes. These lnc RNAs are known to influence the extensive spectrum of age-related disorders. Accordingly, there is evidence for the role of these lnc RNAs in cardiovascular diseases, particularly coronary artery diseases (CAD). The aim of this study was to assess whether the expression of the lnc RNA ANRIL was associated with a susceptibility to CAD by evaluating the expression level of the two transcripts of ANRIL. Peripheral blood was taken from fifty patients affected by CAD and relative expression of ANRIL was determined by Real-Time PCR assay. The obtained data indicated that the EU741058 transcript expression level was significantly decreased in CAD patients in comparison with the healthy individuals (P= 0.001). Furthermore, there was no significant association between the NR_003529 transcript expression, and CAD risk in Iranian patients (P= 0.751). Our results suggest that the expression level of the EU741058 transcript of ANRIL may be implicated in CAD development, creating a predictive biomarker for CAD patients in future.
Keywords: Coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, long noncoding RNA, ANRIL, chromosome 9p21
Type of Study: Original Article | Subject: Genetics & Disease
Received: 2017/09/15 | Accepted: 2018/01/6 | Published: 2018/02/10
DOI: 10.22088/IJMCM.BUMS.7.1.1
Yari M, Bitarafan S, Broumand M A, Fazeli Z, Rahimi M, Ghaderian S M H, et al . Association between Long Noncoding RNA ANRIL Expression Variants and Susceptibility to Coronary Artery Disease. Int J Mol Cell Med. 2018; 7 (1) :1-7
URL: http://ijmcmed.org/article-1-739-en.html
Volume 7, Issue 1 (Int J Mol Cell Med 2018) Back to browse issues page


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Utility of Lung Ultrasound B-Lines in Volume Assessment of ESRD Patients on Hemodialysis
Saleem, Muhammad Omar, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Muhammad Omar Saleem,
Chae, Jung Hee, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Jung Hee Chae,
Kabbani, Ahmad A, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Ahmad A Kabbani,
Waller, Jennifer L., Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
Jennifer L. Waller,
White, John Jason, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
John Jason White,
Nahman, N. Stanley, Augusta University, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, United States
N. Stanley Nahman,
Volume assessment in end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on hemodialysis (HD) can be sometimes challenging. Lung ultrasound to look for B-lines, which indicate interstitial edema, is an emerging tool in assessing bedside volume status, and may assist in setting ultrafiltration (UF) goals for dialysis. We performed a quality assurance project to assess the utility of lung ultrasound in determining UF goals.
ESRD patients were studied before and after HD. Clinical parameters of volume status including systolic blood pressure (SBP) and presence of edema were recorded pre-dialysis, and target UF was set accordingly. We counted the number of B-lines pre and post HD using two portable ultrasound machines, GE V-scan and GE Sonosite. For each patient, the ultrasound probe was placed at the same mid-axillary or mid-clavicular intercostal space to visualize B-lines pre and post HD. Linear regression or ANOVA was used to examine the association between the number of B-lines and fluid removed by UF.
24 ESRD patients were studied for the number of lung B-lines pre and post HD. B-lines were categorized as 0, 1-2, and 3 or more. For all patients, UF removed trended with the number of B-lines, but there was no significant association. There was a non-significant decrease in the number of B-lines with UF from 3.4±2.1 to 0.7±1.0 (p=0.53). Patients with ≥3 B-lines tended to get more volume removal with mean UF volume of 2.4±0.9L. Mean UF removal in patients with 1-2 B-lines was 1.3±0.9L, and with 0 B-lines was 1.4±0.6L. Interestingly, four patients who did not have any B-lines could not tolerate target UF set pre-HD on the basis of SBP and edema.
Lung ultrasound may be a useful tool for bedside volume assessment of hemodialysis patients and help in deciding UF goals to achieve dry weight. Our pilot project shows a trend that higher number of B-lines may correlate with higher UF tolerance but the data is non-significant. A larger sample size and more sophisticated portable ultrasound machines may give a better idea of any association between B-lines and the determination of UF goals in HD.


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Amazon planning drive-through grocery stores?
Amazon is a dominant force on the internet, selling pretty much everything under the sun. But it appears the e-commerce site now has plans to pedal stuff in the real world too.
We say 'stuff', but what we really mean is groceries. According to a newreportby the Silicon Valley Business Journal, Amazon wants to set up a drive-through grocery store.
The concept is rather neat: you order your greens online, book a pick-up time and then collect your shopping en route home. Simple as that.
And the first location Amazon apparently wants to set up shop is Sunnyvale, California. It's reported that a real estate developer has already submitted plans for a 11,600-square-foot building and 'grocery pick-up area' at 777 Sunnyvale Saratoga Road.
It's currently unclear whether Amazon plans to bring its grocery stores this side of the pond too, we'll have to see how it does Stateside first.
This wouldn't be the first time that we've seen Amazon sell groceries either, believe it or not. The company has offered online grocery shopping since 2007 with AmazonFresh. The service has become so popular that it's being tipped for an imminent UK launch.


Fertilizers or nutrients are required in most crop production systems in Florida. While all soils in Florida can supply nutrients for crop production, nutrients may not be always available in adequate amounts for economical crop production. Supplying needed nutrients for crop production involves attention to four major fertilization factors (the 4Rs): right rate, right source, right placement, and right timing. Attention to these factors will provide adequate nutrition for crop production while minimizing the risk of loss of nutrients to the environment. The 4Rs (terminology promoted by the International Plant Nutrition Institute ) are important components of nutrient best management practices, and university Extension specialists have been promoting these components of nutrient management for many decades. In this publication each factor is described, as well as how the information can be provided from a soil test report to help farmers make efficient use of their investment in fertilizer for crop production and for environmental protection. These factors are often interrelated; for example, placement and timing of fertilizer may need to be addressed together, such as the right placement of bands of fertilizer for side-dressing during the appropriate stage (i.e., right timing) of crop growth during the growing season. While not a formal part of the 4Rs, the importance of irrigation to overall nutrient management is stressed in this publication.
What source of nutrient(s) would be the least expensive per unit of delivered nutrient?
Should an organic source (compost or manure) of nutrient be considered?
When is a controlled-release fertilizer the right source?
What sources can simultaneously deliver more than one needed nutrient?
When should a liquid form be used instead of a dry form?
When should the salt index of the fertilizer be considered in selecting the right source?
The right source often involves the ease of application of a nutrient and cost per unit of nutrient. In addition, efficiency of nutrient use may be considered. For example, a controlled-release nitrogen source may be preferred to deliver small amounts of nutrients throughout the growing season, instead of larger amounts of nitrogen delivered in a few side-dressings from a soluble source.
The right source may be manure, if the farmer would like to take advantage of the organic matter supplied along with the plant nutrients. The organic matter may increase the water-holding capacity and nutrient supply of the soil.
Crops require a certain amount of plant nutrients for production of profitable crops. Part of this nutrient quantity can be supplied from the soil, and the remainder must come from fertilizer, either synthetic sources or organic forms (such as livestock wastes composts) or green manure crops. The first key to practicing the right rate concept is soil testing (see EDIS publication SS621, Soil Testing for Plant-Available Nutrients—What Is It and Why Do We Use It?). Before the crop is planted and any fertilizer has been applied, soil testing can help determine the portion of the crop nutrient requirement that is already available from the soil. Using a strong research information base, the recommendation for the right rate of fertilizer can be made from the soil test result.
Sometimes the right rate to apply at any one time is related to the nutrient involved. For example, in plasticulture vegetables, all of the phosphorus may be applied to the soil while the bed is made. Likewise, a portion of the nitrogen and potassium may be applied while the bed is being made and the remainder applied through the drip irrigation system.
The right timing of nutrients takes into consideration the growth pattern of the crop and, therefore, natural changes in nutrient demand during the season. Crop development begins slowing from seed germination or transplanting, then increases through fruiting, and finally slows down at maturation. This pattern for crop development is referred to as sigmoidal growth (Figure 1). Anticipating changes in growth and nutrient demand is important so that fertilizer application can be timed to meet the needs of growth. A good example of timing of nitrogen and potassium fertilization to meet changes in crop development can be seen for drip-irrigated tomato (Figure 2).
A sigmoidal function—for example, slow crop growth at first, then a zone of rapid increase, followed by attenuation of growth.
Recommendations for injecting N and K2O for mulched, drip-irrigated tomatoes in Florida.
The right timing is often interrelated with the right rate and right placement. For example, as the drip-irrigated tomato crop develops, the rate changes with time so that smaller rates are applied later in the growing season. Greater rates of nutrients are applied at or just before the time when the vegetative growth rate is maximal and fruits are being developed.
Rainfall is difficult to predict; however, when possible, fertilizer application should be timed to minimize the chance of leaching of nutrients due to heavy rainfall.
For maximum nutrient efficiency, nutrients need to be placed where the plant will have the best access to the nutrients. For most crops, the right placement is in the root zone or just ahead of the advancing root system. Most nutrient uptake occurs through the root system, so placing the nutrients in the root zone maximizes the likelihood of absorption by the plant.
Banding and broadcasting are two general approaches to nutrient placement. Banding is the placement of fertilizer in concentrated streams or bands in the soil, typically near the developing plant. Broadcasting is the spreading of fertilizer uniformly over the surface of the soil. Whether to use banding or broadcasting often depends on the type of crop and the development or spread of the root system. Broadcasting is usually most effective either later in the season when roots of a row-crop have explored the space between the rows, or for forage crops that cover the entire soil surface. Fertigation of nitrogen through a center-pivot irrigation system for corn may be a type of fertilizer broadcasting system.
Placement and timing interact because as the crop develops, the root system expands. Placement of fertilizer ahead of the advancing root system for unmulched crops, like potato or cotton, avoids damage to the root system by the fertilizer application equipment. Another example of this interaction would be for fertigation with a pivot irrigation system. The first side-dressings of nitrogen early in the growth cycle for corn may be applied by knifing liquid fertilizer to the side of the row, followed later in the season with applications through the irrigation system. These combinations of timing and placement maximize the likelihood of nitrogen uptake by the plant related to the expansion of the root system.
The tillage system may affect the placement of nutrients. For example, incorporating a nutrient may not be possible in certain minimum tillage systems. In no-till corn production, early nitrogen and phosphorus applications can be made by banding near the seeds with the planter, with later applications of nitrogen by the center-pivot irrigation system.
The right placement is also related to the nutrient in question. For example, phosphorus can become fixed in unavailable forms when it is mixed in with some soils. The main reason P is banded is that it is immobile in the soils and therefore has to be placed nearer to the roots (or the roots have to grow towards the P granule). In sandy loams, P applied to the surface will get adsorbed and can accumulate over time. Accumulations also occur in soils applied with P sourced from organic or manure related amendments. In these situations, banding of the fertilizer reduces, at least temporarily, the mixing of the fertilizer with the soil and increases the chance that phosphorus will remain in a soluble form for root uptake. For example, banding starter-phosphorus may be preferable to broadcasting.
The right placement may also relate to the form of the nutrient source, such as urea nitrogen. Nitrogen from urea may be subject to loss by volatilization when the urea is left on the surface of soil with a high pH. Incorporating the urea or applying a small amount of irrigation to move the urea into the soil helps reduce volatilization losses.
In certain situations and for certain nutrients, foliar applications of fertilizer may be preferred. For example, micronutrients may be more efficiently applied to the foliage for iron or manganese when the soil pH is high.
All nutrient management practices are the result of many years of research and field experience at the commercial farm level (Table 1), and these practices are subject to refinement as farmers gain experience and as new research is completed. Optimal nutrient management rarely relies on a single practice, but rather a combination of practices. Selecting the best combination is the goal of all nutrient management that addresses profitable crop production while protecting the environment from nutrient loss.
In the sandy soils of Florida, there is a fifth R: right irrigation practices. Mobile nutrients such as nitrogen and potassium can be leached with the water moving through the soil in the root zone. Excessive irrigation, or irrigation when the soil water-holding capacity is full, will cause nutrients to be leached below the root zone. Farmers should track soil moisture, because coupling knowledge about soil moisture status with crop water requirements is the best way to maximize water-use efficiency and minimize nutrient leaching. UF/IFAS Extension recommends applying 30 lb/acre N after a leaching rainfall of 3 inches in four days or 4 inches in seven days.
In areas where fertigation is possible, the optimal rate, timing, and placement of nutrients can be collectively achieved, especially for N and K. When using fertigation, efficiency in application of fertilizer and irrigation water can be significantly increased, and environmental losses from the production systems can be minimized.
The concept of the 4Rs is important for maximizing fertilizer-use efficiency, promoting profitable crop production, and protecting the environment from pollution due to losses of nutrients from agricultural land. Selecting the right fertilizer rate, right fertilizer source, right fertilizer placement, and right fertilizer timing are important aspects of best management practices. Farmers should consider all the options for each "right" component and select the best combinations for maximizing crop profitability and minimizing negative environmental impacts.
Growers and crop educators and advisors should constantly measure fertilizer use efficiency associated with the 4Rs and make adjustments to improve efficiency. An example of how to measure nutrient use efficiency by crops is presented by Prasad and Hochmuth (2014). The 4Rs is a nutrient management program promoted by the International Plant Nutrition Institute (http://www.ipni.net/4R). We need to develop sets of 4R practices for the growers in Florida based on factors such as location, soils, crops produced, water management system, nutrient sources, and agronomic/horticultural management options. In the long run, real-time weather data can be dynamically linked to these 4R sets to guide real-time modifications of the practices during a growing season.
Hochmuth, G., R. Mylavarapu, and E. Hanlon. 2014. Soil Testing for Plant-Available Nutrients—What Is It and Why Do We Use It? Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss621.
Hochmuth, G., R. Mylavarapu, and E. Hanlon. 2014. Developing a Soil Test Extractant: The Correlation and Calibration Processes. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss622.
Hochmuth, G., R. Mylavarapu, and E. Hanlon. 2014. Fertilizer Recommendation Philosophies. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss623.
International Plant Nutrition Institute. 2014. http://www.ipni.net/4R.
Prasad, R., and G. Hochmuth. 2014. How to Calculate a Partial Nitrogen Mass Budget for Potato. Gainesville: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss614.
Examples of scientific principles behind nutrient management and the associated practices.
This document is SL411, one of a series of the Department of Soil and Water Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2014. Reviewed December 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
George Hochmuth, professor; Rao Mylavarapu, professor; and Ed Hanlon, professor emeritus; Department of Soil and Water Sciences, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.


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Q: Altium error: Nets containing multiple input ports. What does this error mean? I am relatively new to Altium, and I am running into the following errors when compiling my schematic:

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*Net SDI contains multiple Input Ports (Port SDI,Port SDI)

*Net CLK contains multiple Input Ports (Port CLK,Port CLK)

What I am trying to do is connect multiple sheets to the same signals, SDI and CLK. Am I doing something wrong? It is a flat hierarchy, I have set the scope to "Flat (Only ports global)". Below are two sheets of my schematic that uses SDI and CLK signals
Sheet1:

Sheet2:

A: I like the answer by @dext0rb but turning off logical errors/warnings for all ports could cause problems later on.
So just turn off the error on the specific net using "Generic No ERC"

and then

A: With "Flat (Only ports global)" scope selected, "...net labels are local to each sheet; they will not connect across sheets. All ports with the same name will be connected, on all sheets."  - Altium "Multi-Sheet Design"
This seems like it should be OK for what you are trying to do, but I think in this type of design setting, there must be a 1:1 relationship of Input and Output port. In the flat design case, the input ports are connected to each other, hence the "multiple input ports" error. Here are a couple things you could try:

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*Switch to a Hierarchical design
This requires you to use a Top sheet to control the design hierarchy. Review "5.1.3  Constructing the top sheet" in the previously mentioned training module. For what it's worth, all of my designs are of this design setting.

*Change Input ports to Bidirectional

This may make the error go away (due to your project's Connection Matrix), but it might not make sense from a real-world viewpoint. The CLK/SDI lines are most certainly not bidirectional. This might cause problems when you are in a design review and have to explain why you've marked everything as bidirectional.

*Edit the connection matrix
Stick with your flat design setting, but tell Altium to shove it by editing the Error/Warning connection matrix:

Now multiple input ports will only be reported as a warning, not a show-stopping error.

A: I prefered to create the ports as Unspecified in this case. While the directional arrows are still held (plus colour coordination) from their previous Input/Output format.
Unspecified allows the user to create multiple inputs and outputs for these ports.

A: You just need to change electrical type of pads in schematic symbols to passive.

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04/09/18 | In the News
This Home Pregnancy Test Is Fully Biodegradeable
Millions of pounds of used pregnancy tests end up in landfills every year. Lia Diagnostics new test, the winner of the health category of Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards, just melts away.
The moment you're taking a pregnancy test, you're probably not thinking about much besides the result. But while your mind may be elsewhere, it turns out that nearly 2 million pounds of used home pregnancy tests wind up in landfills each year. The plastic diagnostic tools "are only used for a few minutes, but they are made out of things that are not sustainable," says Lia cofounder and CEO Bethany Edwards. "We believe that materials should match up with product life cycles."
Lia, the world's first flushable pregnancy test, stems from a grad school project that Edwards and two classmates embarked on at the University of Pennsylvania's integrated product design program. It's the winner of the health category of Fast Company's 2018 World Changing Ideas Awards. "Nobody had innovated on the form factor of the pregnancy test in over 30 years," she says. The biggest change in that time has been to add an electronic display and mini-battery, adding to the waste footprint of pregnancy tests.
The device uses the same amount of material as six squares of three-ply toilet paper and contains no glue. Its protein-, plant-, and mineral-based fibers biodegrade whether flushed or composted, which means that in addition to their environmental benefits, they offer a revolutionary new measure of privacy. The device is thin enough to go into an envelope and can be placed in a back pocket.
"Pregnancy is personal," says Edwards. "We give women control in a discreet, sanitary, and better-for-the-environment way."
The product offers the same 99% accuracy rate as existing stick-type home tests, according to the company. Users pee in the middle of the device, much as they do. And it has a similar coding system: one line indicates a negative result; two lines means a pregnancy is happening.
Lia, which was founded in 2015, received FDA approval last December and is currently on track to start selling its product in stores and on Amazon this summer. A pack of two is priced at between $13 and $15.
Next, the company plans to expand into additional home diagnostic tests for ovulation and urinary tract infections. Those tests will also be water-dispersible and eco-friendly.
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SAVE condemns imminent demolition of Futurist as 'civic vandalism'
SAVE Britain's Heritage laments the hurried destruction of a fine piece of early cinema architecture, one of the grandest frontages of its kind to survive in England. In the annals of architectural history, this demolition is an arch piece of civic vandalism.
The imminent demolition works following the Court of Appeal decision are in our view a pre-emptive strike designed to prevent any further challenge.
The flanking historic terrace had a varied character typical of many English towns and cities, with lively commercial frontages and Georgian buildings dating back to 1780 which almost anywhere else in England would be retained. A slice of history is being completely truncated leaving two bookends with a wholly unsympathetic replacement.
These buildings on Lime Street in the buffer zone of the World Heritage Site are seen by everybody on their way to and from the station. Liverpool continues to be at risk of losing its World Heritage status – and UNESCO has flagged concern about other large scale, high rise development in the buffer zone. That makes major demolition and development on the street a subject of national and international concern, and SAVE makes no apology for our involvement.
SAVE sought a constructive, swift solution to the Futurist and the Lime Street buildings from the start. We invited the Council to engage in official mediation back in October last year. Unfortunately the Council refused that official mediation offer.
As a small organisation with very limited funds we do not take decisions to go to court lightly. This case has national and international significance, given Liverpool's World Heritage status, and in a city with such a rich architectural heritage we were determined to make sure that the decision making process about such an important gateway site was robustly scrutinised. We pressed ahead with the Court of Appeal on the strength our own legal advice, and the indication from the Court that our case 'had a very real chance of success'.
In granting us permission to appeal in May 2016, Judge Lord Justice Lindblom said "I accept that the appeal has a real prospect of success, and in any event that the matters raised on the interpretation and application of the guidance in paragraph 18A-036 of the Planning Practice Guidance are important enough to afford a compelling reason for the appeal to be heard'.
The basis of our challenge was the consultation notification process to the World Heritage Committee of a major demolition and re-development scheme in the buffer zone. Saving the 1912 Futurist frontage was a central plank of our campaign. It is arguably the most architecturally significant facade in that block and there was considerable public support to save it.
SAVE was seeking a revised proposal which amongst other things would allow the group of frontages along Lime Street between the two magnificent pubs to be retained and restored alongside new development. Various on-line polls since last year showed that there is an overwhelming public desire to see these frontages retained.
We were supported in our campaign by Merseyside Civic Society, the Cinema Theatres Association and the Victorian Society, as well as over 4,000 people who signed a petition calling for the buildings to be saved. We were also supported by Professor John Belchem, the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University, Paula Ridley CBE, former chairman of Civic Voice and former chair of the V&A Museum, British screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce, writer of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, and Liverpool born former Sex in the City star Kim Cattrall.
We argued throughout that the façade of the Futurist could be saved and demolition was not necessary. We paid for our own structural report to investigate the possibility of retaining the façade carried out by leading conservation engineer Edward Morton. It showed how the façade needed only a minimal amount of stabilisation to make it safe without requiring expensive road closures. The Council ignored this advice and shut Lime Street to traffic for weeks.
In the end, far from being in a poor structural condition, an expert independent engineer's report, jointly funded by SAVE and the Council, found the façade of the former cinema on Lime Street to be structurally stable and the road was reopened immediately. There is no reason why the façade of this grand building could not have been incorporated into the new development.
In our view the proposals on offer at Lime Street are monolithic, repetitive, and oversized. The existing buildings on the front site have been left to rot unnecessarily – but with maintenance and repair the frontages could be brought back to use as and provide a revitalised, appropriate setting to the World Heritage site and the listed Victorian pubs at either end of the street. We showed through our alternative scheme how this could happen. We commissioned an architect's scheme to show how hotel, student accommodation and shops – as proposed by the developers wishing to clear the site – could work on the site. SAVE has done this many times before with success, as illustrated in our recently published book 'Big Saves'.
We continue to believe the site has ample scope for new buildings at the rear without destroying the varied historic frontage, which includes the Futurist, Liverpool's oldest cinema. With goodwill, a better solution could have been achieved, which successfully balanced both the respect for Liverpool's world renowned heritage and the need for new development.
We salute the Council's efforts to revitalise many of the historic buildings in Liverpool – and we have given Liverpool credit for this throughout our Lime Street campaign. We note Joe Anderson draws attention to particular buildings that have been saved and brought back into viable use: the Royal Insurance Building and Stanley Dock. SAVE welcomes this - these buildings were highlighted by SAVE back in 2009 as significant buildings under threat in our survey of Liverpool: 'Triumph, Disaster and Decay'. Liverpool City Council knows well through experience that heritage-led regeneration can bring jobs, a boost to the local economy as well as maintaining and enhancing local character.
SAVE has had a long and positive history of involvement in Liverpool's heritage stretching back 40 years. We have campaigned to save and reuse landmarks that were once under threat, such as the Albert Dock, St Francis Xavier's church, the Lyceum, and more recently the Littlewoods Building, Granby and the Welsh Streets. We have invested in buying, renovating and reoccupying the last inhabited house in Madryn Street, and produced four publications on the city's splendid architectural heritage.
In 2009 we staged an exhibition at the RIBA Gallery showcasing the city, and will continue to support Liverpool's buildings at risk, working with Liverpool's City Council where possible, but challenging them robustly where necessary


Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts has responded to criticism by his Bar Association counterpart about the lack of work available for young barristers – saying he sympathises with their plight but that it isn't the fault of solicitors.
Mr Pott's comments came in response to Bar Association president Christopher Hughes QC's claims junior barristers were struggling to gain experience because of the decreasing levels of appropriate work.
"What's happened over the years is the 'nursery' of smaller work that barristers cut their teeth on has been drying up,'' Mr Hughes said.
He said an alternate reason for the lack of work could be fee based.
"There are times when it would appear that young members of the bar overestimate the value they add to a matter, and perhaps price their services inappropriately,'' he said.
Mr Potts said changes in the court could also be attributed on the availability of work.
"Magistrates rarely allow cross-examination at committal hearings any more, despite the fact that it leads to earlier pleas and frees up valuable court resources,'' he said.
"If Magistrates started allowing this again, there would be more work for junior barristers, and much shorter delays in court.
"Of course, it almost goes without saying that if Queensland had sufficient judges, especially in the Federal Circuit and Family Courts, there would be a greater call on the services of all barristers."


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New Apartment Architecture
Michael Webb
The first major survey of contemporary apartment buildings that foster a sense of community while giving every resident an inspiring place to live
Previous Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Next The Sky
Building Community is an in-depth, wide-ranging survey of contemporary apartment buildings, not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The heart of the book features 39 recent or ongoing projects, designed by leading international studios and rising talents. Buildings range from social housing and micro apartments to urban villages, megastructures and innovative high-rises. Each project is considered for the way in which it enriches the lives of residents and the city, and is shown through drawings and photographs, taken from the street and within. The book also includes interviews with such contemporary masters of apartment design as Michael Maltzan, Lorcan O'Herlihy, Édouard François and Bjarke Ingels.
As our cities grow more crowded, it is critical that we produce creative buildings that enhance the lives of their inhabitants, their surroundings and the urban environment as a whole. Building Community offers dozens of proven successes to designers and apartment-dwellers.
'Ambitious in scope and geographical reference'
'A well-judged book, useful, interesting and attractive'
'It's fascinating to see these creative responses to the deceptively simple challenge of fitting a lot of people into a small space'
'In a world of risk-averse, profit-driven developers, creativity has taken a back seat. But Michael Webb celebrates the shining examples in which design has reached the next level'
Contemporary Design Interior Design Lifestyle Architecture Studios Architects
Introduction: Evolution of a Typology
1. Urban Villages
2. Lorcan O'Herlihy: Reaching Out
3. Building Blocks
4. Bjarke Ingels: Exploiting Irregularity
5. Promoting Sociability
6. Michael Maltzan: Housing for All
7. Spirit of Place
8. Stanley Saitowitz: Rigorous Strategies
9. Reaching Skyward
10. Edouard François: Green Towers
11. Looking Ahead
Michael Webb has written more than twenty books on architecture and design, and is a regular contributor to leading journals in the US and Europe. He lives in a classic Richard Neutra apartment in Los Angeles.
Contemporary House India
Rob Gregory, Edmund Sumner
The Iconic American House
White Houses


Over the last year in particular, we have documented the merger between high performance computing and deep learning and its various shared hardware and software ties. This next year promises far more on both horizons and while GPU maker Nvidia might not have seen it coming to this extent when it was outfitting its first GPUs on the former top "Titan" supercomputer, the company sensed a mesh on the horizon when the first hyperscale deep learning shops were deploying CUDA and GPUs to train neural networks.
All of this portends an exciting year ahead and for once, the mighty CPU is not the subject of the keenest interest. Instead, the action is unfolding around the CPU's role alongside accelerators; everything from Intel's approach to integrating the Nervana deep learning chips with Xeons, to Pascal and future Volta GPUs, and other novel architectures that have made waves. While Moore's Law for traditional CPU-based computing is on the decline, Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of GPU maker, Nvidia told The Next Platform at SC16 that we are just on the precipice of a new Moore's Law-like curve of innovation—one that is driven by traditional CPUs with accelerator kickers, mixed precision capabilities, new distributed frameworks for managing both AI and supercomputing applications, and an unprecedented level of data for training.
At the core of this uptick in new applications enabled by a different way of thinking about problems at scale are hardware and software co-design elements. In the room during the chat with Huang was one an IBM lead for the Minsky architecture, which represents a shift in direction for HPC centers as we have seen with the Summit supercomputer (which will integrate deep learning frameworks into traditional simulation workflows), but for enterprises who are under pressure to integrate AI into conventional product design and beyond. The company's own DGX-1 Saturn-V supercomputer, which was listed on the most recent Top 500 supercomputer list, is showing the way for enterprises to adopt AI, Huang says, based on its suitability to handle both computationally and data throughput intensive workloads to speed product development, and it is also being used as an end-to-end development platform for an ambitious cancer research initiative that will support exascale-class deep learning and simulation using new frameworks on intractable problems in medical research.
In short, Huang sees a new golden age of computing ahead and it is one so fast-moving that even our current goals for exascale capabilities might arrive sooner than expected and while this might have a hyperbolic ring to it, after listening to HPC end users and vendors from both hardware and software sides, there is indeed a fortunate merging between AI and supercomputing codes and systems. With their lower precision focus and offloading of traditional simulation results to deep neural networks for large-scale inferencing, there is the possibility of lower power consuming, higher-yielding supercomputers around the corner. Judging from the nodes on the forthcoming Summit supercomputer, which is setting the stage for machines capable of handling mixed precision, mixed HPC/AI workloads, this is all really happening—and fast.
Of course, the AI supercomputing message extends well beyond scientific computing. "We can take these systems into areas where it has always been traditional science. The use of AI for unstructured data can potentially predict and accelerate computations that are largely computational. We can do more than accelerate scientific simulations, think about products. This is a new approach to delivering products to market," Huang says, pointing to manufacturing companies that are largely simulation based for their offerings, including cars, as an example.
"Our strategy is to create and advance AI and to build an end-to-end platform to reach as many as possible. A data throughput machine is a radically different architecture and the Minsky systems are designed for applications that enterprise are looking to. It is one of the first examples of what an AI supercomputer will look like," Huang says, pointing out its viability on both the Summit supercomputer and in future enterprise settings. "We sold out of Minsky in the third quarter already, which is not a bad start for an AI supercomputer," he adds.
"Hundreds of applications are already GPU accelerated, every framework has been accelerated by it, it is used by researchers and developers all over the world—it is the most pervasive accelerator on the planet," says Huang in a way that is, indeed, hyperbolic, but is ringing true now more than ever. It is hard to argue with two clear facts at this point in computing history. First, deep learning is on track to revolutionize the way everything from scientific simulations to search engines work. It will take some footwork on the developer front, for sure, but the hardware will be there to meet those innovations. Second, when it comes to computing, acceleration is the new normal. Frankly, not just because of the ability to offload, but increasingly, because of the capability to do that at lower precision, thus adding more oomph to existing compute infrastructure and applications.
Ultimately, it has been one hell of a year for Nvidia. At the beginning of 2015, we may have seen a few use cases in deep learning worth commenting upon. By the end of 2016, we are now seeing a new path for GPU computing beyond HPC—the enterprise requirements for AI will need specialization but with a solid software base to develop from. While Intel is hedging its bets with Knights Mill and future integration of Nervana technology, this is all roadmap. DGX-1 appliances are on the market, Pascal is shipping, Volta is expected to appear in line with Intel announcements and then, friends, things get even more interesting, don't they?