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CLASSIC REVIEW: Ariel Pink- The Doldrums
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BEST TRACKS: Let's Build a Campfire, For Kate I Wait, Among Dreams, Don't Think Twice (Love)
When first listening to The Doldrums, you might find yourself asking, "is this a joke". And to answer your question, dearest reader, yeah. Or maybe not. But how could it not be? If it is a joke it's a really good one in the sense that it's really funny, but an absolutely moronic one when taking into account how much Ariel Pink put into its setup. So as of now, we'll look at it as something in the middle, a comment, if you will on, say, society. Even then I'm probably giving it more of a serious analysis than it deserves, but at the end of the day, it's an album. A really fucking good album, one that makes you question why you even like music.
So it's 1999 at CalArts. One Mr. Ariel Pink is disillusioned with the entire concept of art school, is heavily in the midst of a drug binge, and has his Senior Project coming up. So what does he turn in? Well, his debut album of course. Well, we should call it what it really is: an anti-album. Concocted deep within the infamous, denatured Pink brain, The Doldrums sounds like an assortment of samples taken from daytime television that Ariel recorded him singing on a whim after returning home shitfaced. But the instrumentation is his. Placed far behind his vocals, Ariel reverbs and generally distorts his self-made backing tracks to shellac over them an air of dissociation and lethargy akin to when you watch too much TV in the middle of the day. But at the end of the day, the compositions sound good and are written well. So when Ariel cries over them in a mocking falsetto it's confusing: who is he making fun of if not himself and music itself? In all honesty, it's probably both. And in case you were wondering, Ariel set up a booth that he sold his CD out of for his senior project. There's no word on well he did academically, but the CD eventually made its way to Animal Collective, who subsequently signed him.
It's really difficult to actually analyze the songs on this album. First of all, the "mixing" melts together synths, guitars, knee-drums, random chirps, TV samples all into a honey-lacquered stew that doesn't quite sit still within the belly. Secondly, The Doldrums goads you to take a deeper look into it, only to eventually point and laugh at you once you've already spent hours dazed in its taunting sweetness. That's the most infuriating part of this album. It's really clear that Ariel is making fun of saccharine stock music, cheesy love songs, and just popular music as a whole. But he does it with really amazing melodies. "Among Dreams" and "For Kate I Wait" strike me as the easiest examples of this, though not the best. I mean this in that they benefit from a mix which favors Ariel's vocals so my point is most readily available. Both live in a rounded synth line that blankets everything but Ariel's falsetto delivering some of the catchiest melodies I've ever heard. Occasionally, the listener may get confused into thinking they were just listening to a lo-fi pop song, but then there's something up there in the corner of your ear. What is it? Well, it's a three-stringed guitar of course, or maybe some knee slap drums. Ariel Pink does not give a fuck about this music, it just springs forth effortlessly. Songs such as "The Ballad of Bobby Pyn" only suffer in that Ariel draws them out too much, stringing along a drowsy atmosphere for over ten minutes while occasionally delivering some half-sung half-line. And just as you go to get mad that you've been listening too long, you realize that that's the point. You've been duped.
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Watch Ellen DeGeneres and Kristen Wiig Completely Butcher 'Let It Go' in the Best Way Possible
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There's this song you might have heard of, from a movie you might have heard of. It's called "Let It Go" and it's from the movie Frozen. Sound familiar? Well, it seems there are exactly two people left on Earth who may not be familiar with this tune: Kristen Wiig and Ellen DeGeneres.
On The Ellen Show this week, the comedians both claimed that they weren't acquainted with the song and then decided to tackle it in a blissfully ignorant performance which mostly consisted of them fumbling through the lyrics, waving their arms and gesticulating in unison. The best part is when Wiig briefly breaks character to assert, "Kids don't what fractals are."
It seems pretty much impossible that they really had never heard (or sung) the song before, but we're willing to overlook it. For the sake of comedy.
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Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill. It is perhaps the worst display of national selfishness in modern history, writes Nanjala Nyabola for the Nation [1].
In March 2021, Kenya announced its plan to vaccinate its 48 million residents against Covid-19. The government, according to its own documents, aims to inoculate just 30 percent of the population: citizens over 50, those that work in health and in hospitality (tourism is a major earner for the country), and those with comorbidities. The authorities have made it clear: There is no proposal for the rest of us—no aspiration even to achieve herd immunity through vaccination.
All of this would be egregious enough if it weren't happening against the backdrop of perhaps the worst display of national selfishness in modern history. The European Union, United States, and Canada have hoarded the vaccine, prepurchasing doses for up to six times their population in some cases. Moreover, because of national agreements with the pharmaceutical companies, they are buying the vaccines at preferential prices. The European Union, for example, is paying $2.15 for each dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, while South Africa is spending $5.25 for the same drug. Poor countries are paying more [2] for the scraps that remain after rich countries have had their fill.
Wealthy countries are using their control over lifesaving interventions to play diplomacy. The United States, for example, has ordered 300 million doses [3] of the AstraZeneca vaccine, nearly enough for every person in the country—but the FDA hasn't approved the drug yet. At least 7 million doses have been delivered [4] and remain in storage, with another 20 million expected by the end of April. The United States has already reserved enough of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for every American, but, instead of freeing up the AstraZeneca doses, has pledged to send just 4 million to Canada and Mexico and stayed mum about what will happen to the rest of the oversupply.
Meanwhile, the COVAX [5] initiative led by the World Health Organization is designed to oversee the distribution of vaccines to poor countries. But rich countries have been slow to support COVAX, and Canada is even actively undermining it by joining the initiative [6], thereby making whatever scarce doses it acquires through the program even scarcer. Right now, the two most effective vaccines are made by Moderna and Pfizer. Moderna has declined to join the COVAX initiative and is charging the United States [7]$30 for the required two shots and the European Union $36, resulting in billions for a company that is only 11 years old and had not made a profit until this year. Pfizer, on the other hand, has only committed 40 million doses of its vaccine to COVAX.
Countries like China and Russia are also producing vaccines. They may be less effective, but scientists say they are effective enough. UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, however, said he would prefer that African countries not get help from China or Russia and instead "wait [8]" until Western countries were done needing their vaccines. No word from Raab on what those under threat are supposed to do while a third wave hits and more contagious variants take root across the continent. Even worse, India and South Africa asked the World Trade Organization to waive intellectual property rights [9] so manufacturers in those counties could fill the gap in production capacity, and were denied. Profits over people.
I'm not sure how to describe what it feels like to be one of the millions—perhaps billions—of people for whom there is no plan. "Abandonment" only scratches the surface of being condemned to the detritus of international greed and human folly. Here, at the intersection of cruel profiteering and woefully mediocre national and international governance, is human life. We are not abstract figures or statistics. We are people, with families and hopes for our futures that are being deliberately endangered by Western governments playing politics with our lives.
But ours are not demands for pity. We are demanding justice. For one, the science affirms that without a global vaccination strategy, it doesn't matter how many doses rich Western countries hide away. This disease will not go away, and many will die. A study by the Global Vaccines Alliance [10] found that if an 80 percent effective vaccine were distributed equitably based on the population size of each country, 61 percent of global deaths would be prevented. But if nationalistic stockpiling continues, only 33 percent of global deaths will be averted. And this trend of preventing more global deaths simply by making vaccines equitably available holds for less effective vaccines like the Sinovac vaccines, where a vaccine with only 65 percent efficacy will prevent 57 percent of global deaths if distributed equitably, versus 30 percent if hoarded by rich countries. The best way to save millions of lives around the world is to distribute vaccines fairly.
It's also worth pointing out that many of these vaccines exist only because of public funding. Operation Warp Speed [11] in the United States, which accelerated the development of the Moderna vaccine, was a tax-funded initiative. The product of such investments should therefore theoretically be available in the public interest rather than for private profit. Moreover, the reason why these companies were able to develop these mRNA-based vaccines [12] so quickly was because publicly funded research sequenced the coronavirus genome and made those findings available in peer-reviewed academic publications. There was not a eureka moment in some corporate lab. It was the culmination of years of scientific inquiry supported by taxes.
To stem a global emergency, poor countries that have the capacity to develop these vaccines are asking for man-made rules on intellectual property to be set aside. Dr. John Nkengasong, the head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the US House Foreign Affairs Committee [13] that about six institutions across Africa have the capacity to manufacture these vaccines. Even though medicines are sequences of chemicals that are often made public, international rules on intellectual property prohibit producing the generic drug unless the company or person who licensed it offers a waiver at the request of the country where they are registered. The World Trade Organization has an agreement called the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property [14] that penalizes manufacturing that violates the intellectual property rights of patent holders. Poor countries are asking governments that are party to this agreement to suspend its provisions to allow more factories around the world to make the drugs without fear of punishment. So far, Western governments have refused to permit such a waiver.
At the WTO, the South African delegation reminded participants that "developing countries have advanced scientific and technical capacities…and that the shortage of production and supply [of vaccines] is caused by the rights holders themselves who enter into restrictive agreements that serve their own narrow monopolistic purposes putting profits before life."
It is that simple, and this isn't the first time this has happened. The same fight occurred during the last pandemic [15], when rich countries refused to allow the production of lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs to stop the mass deaths of HIV-positive people in poor countries. In 1996, one in 10 Kenyans [16] were living with HIV/AIDS. At the same time as pharmaceutical giants fought to secure their bottom line, I remember it felt like every family had lost a loved one to HIV/AIDS. It is a reminder that something can be legal and still be unjust. In the end, poor countries like Brazil, India, and South Africa ignored the intellectual property claims of Western companies [15] and started to manufacture generics. They came under tremendous political pressure, especially from the United States, which filed a complaint at the WTO that it eventually withdrew because of public criticism.
Promises to donate doses of vaccines once all people in rich countries have been inoculated do not undo the injustice of this moment. There is a perverse logic embedded in the international order that needs poor countries to be on their knees to validate the feelings—or perhaps even the existence—of rich countries. It also reveals a comprador class [17] within poor countries allied with foreign capital. While the regional coordination within Africa has been stellar, it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge the role that some governments have played in the current situation. The Kenyan government's plan, for example, is disgracefully insufficient. Instead of focusing on managing this pandemic, the country continues to borrow heavily [18] to fund legacy infrastructure projects that we do not want or need.
At this stage, I could offer an elaborate argument about how the West is jeopardizing its soft power in the developing world by acting in such a brazenly selfish way. But I believe that we are living with the consequences of trying to make arguments for justice through the lens of geopolitical ambition. If people structure their arguments by the rules of the game, then they validate those rules—even if those rules are inherently unjust. The idea that the only reason to help people in a crisis is to consolidate a country's power is part of the reason conflicts in places that have little geostrategic value like the Central African Republic are ignored. It is inhumane and counterproductive for people who want the world to change to succumb to this fallacy. One likely reason rich countries are hoarding vaccines is that they hope to play politics with them. Instead, we should make value-based arguments for doing the right thing—for doing the just thing—because values must still matter. Help people because they are people, not because it might help you. And while I have no idea what is going to happen to me or my peers across this continent, we will continue to live, because we must—and continue to speak up, because all we can do is demand justice in this morally bankrupt system.
Original source: The Nation [1]
Image credit: Neequaye S [19], WHO
Poverty and hunger [20], Inequality [21], Corporate power [22]
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[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/world/coronavirus-vaccine-justice/
[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n281
[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-idUSKBN22X0J9
[4] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/reuters-us-canada-mexico-vaccine-1.5954871
[5] https://www.who.int/news/item/18-12-2020-covax-announces-additional-deals-to-access-promising-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-plans-global-rollout-starting-q1-2021
[6] https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-stephen-lewis-covax-1.5930344
[7] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/from-pfizer-to-moderna-whos-making-billions-from-covid-vaccines/ar-BB1eiHqP
[8] https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-ivory-coast-824ac282d9b26bea6d1664797470551e
[9] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32581-2/fulltext
[10] https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/equitable-covid-19-vaccine-distribution-will-lead-biggest-reduction-deaths
[11] https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/17/crash-landing-of-operation-warp-speed-459892
[12] https://news.mit.edu/2020/rna-vaccines-explained-covid-19-1211
[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw_89_xGb8
[14] https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/trips_e.htm
[15] https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/84/5/news10506/en/
[16] https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-saharan-africa/kenya
[17] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comprador_bourgeoisie
[18] https://businesstoday.co.ke/kenyas-public-debt-january-2020-government-to-borrow-jubilees-borrowing-appetite-how-much-has-uhuru-borrowed-how-much-the-jubilee-government-has-borrowed/
[19] https://www.afro.who.int/news/first-covid-19-covax-vaccine-doses-administered-africa
[20] https://sharing.org/topic/poverty-and-hunger
[21] https://sharing.org/topic/inequality
[22] https://sharing.org/topic/corporate-power


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UFU deputy president, Victor Chestnutt, with AANI Head of Fundraising, Kerry Anderson, unveil the 2018 centenary calendar. Each calendar costs �10 with at least �5 going to AANI. UFU are aiming to raise �100,000 in its centenary year for the charity.
The Ulster Farmers' Union is pleased to announce the launch of its 2018 charity calendar, which has been produced to help mark the 100th anniversary of the organisation.
At least £5 from each calendar sold will go towards helping the UFU reach its goal to raise £100,000 for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland.
UFU president Barclay Bell says the photos in the calendar were taken by and voted for by members.
Kerry Anderson, Air Ambulance NI Head of Fundraising said: "We are so grateful to Ulster Farmers' Union for all of their support. The Air Ambulance NI service, which is a charity, has been tasked no less than 75 times since our first incident in July; and a number of these have been farming related.
Calendars are available to buy in local group offices, at UFU events and also online www.ufuni.org. The calendar is priced at £10 with at least £5 from each calendar sale going to the Air Ambulance NI.


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mGallery allows you to directly upload images to either your personal gallery, or Nikonians.org galleries. The biggest change comes in the form of home screen, now divided into three configurable panels. There are three types of galleries, which can be assigned to these grids: your gallery, The Winners Gallery and Random Images.
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TRI COUNTY REPORT FOR APRIL 15TH, 2021
More doses of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines are on their way to Pennsylvania next week. This comes after the state decided to follow the CDC's suggestion to pause the administration of all Johnson and Johnson vaccines while officials investigate six rare cases of blood clots possibly associated with it. The incoming allotments are the second largest from each provider so far, as about 26-thousand more doses than the state received last week are expected.
Despite pleas from state education officials to the U.S. Department of Education to waive testing requirements this school year, statewide testing is resuming. This poses a problem as not every district in the state has returned to in-person learning. As of now, the U.S. Department of Education recommends that states extend the testing window, administer the federally required exams remotely or shorten the state assessment. The state Department of Education is planning to allow districts to delay the PSSA and Keystone exams to the fall.
State officials are considering bringing back some requirements for unemployment benefits. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but officials are thinking about reinstating the work search requirement for unemployment claimants, which has been suspended due to the pandemic. It could be brought back in June when the new unemployment compensation system launches. Officials are also considering having unemployment claimants register for a website that connects them to employers in September.
State Police in Beaver County are investigating a two vehicle accident in Center Township. Police said the accident took place on Interstate 376 near the Monaca Exit. One of the drivers, a 24 year old female from Pittsburgh was taken into custody for suspicion of driving under the influence. During transport the woman had a suspected seizure and was taken to Beaver Valley Medical Center. Police are still looking for the other driver in the accident.
The entire Pine-Richland High School football coaching staff will not be returning next season after an investigation into locker room misconduct. School officials sent an email to head coach Eric Kasperowicz (CASS-PEAR-OH-WITZ) yesterday, telling him they would be advertising his position. Several current and former players say they were recently interviewed about allegations of locker room hazing. Kasperowicz led the high school football team to four W-P-I-A-L titles and two state championships.
COVID-19 cases are continuing to rise throughout the state. Health officials say yesterday, the state total saw an increase of more than 57-hundred new cases, pushing it over one-million-87-thousand. About 50 new deaths related to the virus were added to the death toll, which is at 25-thousand-522. Lawrence County has 6,946 cases and 199 deaths. Mercer County has 8,810 cases and 250 fatalities.
A Latrobe man convicted Wednesday of attempted rape is facing a maximum of 50 years in prison. A jury in Westmoreland County took one hour to find Luke Hoover guilty of attempted rape, aggravated assault, strangulation and simple assault in a 2017 case involving a Saint Vincent College student. At the time of the incident, Hoover was living in a home for juvenile sex offenders but was out on a home pass. Sentencing is expected to take place this summer.
Pennsylvanians who get veteran's benefits are expected to receive Economic Impact Payments of up to 14-hundred-dollars starting this week. Pennsylvania Congressman Matt Cartwright says veterans and their beneficiaries who receive Compensation and Pension benefit payments and who do not normally file a tax return can expect this money. Most payments are automatic, and those waiting on checks through the mail can expect them within the next several days.
Pennsylvania's Departments of Health and Education are urging all state college and university students to get vaccinated from COVID-19 before the summer. Officials say the vaccine will allow postsecondary institutions to provide more in-person learning and improve the safety of our campus communities for our students, faculty and staff. They added that students do not have to be state residents to get vaccinated. State colleges and universities will be working with providers to offer vaccination opportunities for its students.


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Now the second fashion video I have done on my YouTube channel was about swimming wear ideas on budget. In this video I tried 4 different types of swimming costumes, from high waisted bikini to one-piece swimming wear, all these clothes being purchased from eBay and each one of them didn't cost more than 10£.
I love shopping from eBay, is very easy and most of the time you can find very trendy clothes for a bargain price and here I want to add something really important which will enlight many of you guys.
These eBay clothes are sold by Instagram shops for higher prices and sometimes they try to make these clothes look expensive and glamorous, thanks to the editing skills of many fashion Instagrammers.
Before you purchase clothes from Instagram brands make your research and you will find exactly the same clothes for half price or less on shopping platforms like Ebay, Amazon, Aliexpress and many others.
Why I choose eBay, is because they offer cashback through Nectar card. Nectar card is by far the best cashback platform I have ever try, you can use it in many other shops, to buy petrol, food, clothes and many others, just type Nectar Card on google and discover all benefits about it. I only know it works in UK, so I have no idea if is available international.
When I buy clothes online, I'm a bit anxious because every time I order something it happens to receive the wrong size, or size doesn't matches, quality is low, but most of the time, I did receive very good items and I will write an article to show all items I have purchased from eBay fashion.
Swimwear that I featured on my youtube video is totally bought from eBay, I couldn't be happier when I saw the quality of those items, shipping was fast and on top of everything I got cashback too.
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The McNair Mynah is a single seat single bay biplane microlight aircraft from New Zealand. There was also a two-seat version built, possibly about 1990.

Description
The Mynah was built in Auckland by Wallace McNair. It is designed to be reminiscent of the 1920s Lincoln Sports biplane that was popular in New Zealand. The Mynah has a 'fuselage' of two welded tubes designed to fold for transport.

At least six Mynahs were built.  As of 2013, three were still flying in New Zealand. The Mynahs were powered by various engines included Rotax 447 and 503. Those powered by a Kornatsu Zenoah 40 hp cruised at 50 mph and had a stall speed of 20 mph.

Registration numbers
The registration numbers known are:

Single seat
 ZK-FKI - MAANZ 303 - registered December 1984 - crashed at Taupiri 30 August 1986
 ZK-FOA - MAANZ 382 - registered May 1987 -
 ZK-FSR - 002 - was based at Rotorua - deregistered 4 June 2013
 ZK-FQU - 003 - MAANZ 403 - registered April 1988 - was based at Taupiri
 ZK-FQV - 002 - MAANZ 404 - registered April 1988

Two seater
 ZK-FWT - 001 - MAANZ 450 - registered October 1990 - Skyflight Mynah 2

References

External links
McNair Mynah in flight
McNair Mynah @ Aeropedia

Aircraft manufactured in New Zealand

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Mitch McConnell says he will bring Trump's DREAMers-for-wall shutdown proposal up for a vote this week
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Democrats have rejected President Trump's offer to trade temporary protections for DREAMers and longtime legal immigrants who escaped war and natural disasters in exchange for $5.7 billion to start his proposed border wall. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he will bring Trump's proposal up for a vote this week anyway. No details have been announced. "When we have (a plan) we will be sure to let everyone know," McConnell spokesman David Popp said Sunday.
"If [Trump] opens the government, we'll discuss whatever he offers, but hostage taking should not work," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday, stating the unified Democratic position. Democrats also say they are unwilling to trade a permanent wall for a temporary fix to a problem Trump himself created. The bill has also been derided as "amnesty" by some on the right, and without Democrats, it has almost no chance to pass in the Senate and it would be dead on arrival in the House.
This week, House Democrats are expected to pass their latest bill to reopen parts of the government closed in the 31-day-long partial shutdown. McConnell has not allowed votes on any of those measures, having "said for weeks that he has no interest in 'show votes' aimed only at forcing members to take sides after Trump rejected the Senate's earlier bipartisan bill to avert the shutdown," The Associated Press notes.
Most Senate Republicans are publicly united in opposing any bill Trump won't say he'll sign, but privately, "White House officials and GOP leaders would accept virtually any offer from Democrats to end the impasse, hoping they sell it to Trump as a 'victory' and move forward," The Washington Post reports, citing one Republican with close ties to both the administration and congressional leaders. "There is extreme consternation about how poorly the shutdown was playing out and how polling shows many Americans heaping blame on Trump." Peter Weber


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The Welsh Economy IV: The Primary Sector & Utilities
October 29, 2018 October 29, 2018 - by Owen - 2 Comments.
The next five parts will look in more detail at specific sectors of the Welsh economy. They'll all follow a familiar template – an explanation of what each sector does, an analysis of what the sector does for the Welsh economy, putting things into an all-Wales context and an analysis looking at 3 key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for each sector.
Introduction to the Primary Sector
The primary sector is focused on the extraction of raw materials. It's usually the first economic sector that develops because it's essential to survival at an individual, family and community level. The primary sector supports the rest of the economy by providing it with the raw materials needed to produce more advanced goods and services.
This means that in developing countries, the primary sector is usually the largest economic sector. As the economy develops, workers become more productive and the raw materials are readily exploited by industry and capital which leads to industrialisation.
The primary sector includes agriculture/farming, fishing, mining/quarrying, forestry and other forms of extraction such as the oil industry.
Historically, primary industries have been very important to the Welsh economy – farming in rural, upland areas; slate quarrying in the north-west; mining in the industrialised south – but like the rest of the developed world, the Welsh economy is now dominated by services (Part VI, Part VIII).
Utilities (gas, water and electricity generation) realistically fit within the secondary sector (Part V) because it's making use of raw materials rather than directly extracting them, but I decided to include them here.
Sectoral Analysis
Dwr Cymru was Wales' fifth largest company by turnover in 2017. (Pic: Wales Online)
Agriculture – According to Welsh Government statistics (xls), in 2016 there were 37,282 farms in Wales covering a total land area of 1.68million hectares – about 81% of all land. 42.3% (15,942) of farms were dedicated to livestock, 4.7% to dairy and just 1.4% to crops, with the rest dedicated to horticulture, mixed operations or various specialist tasks such as grasses/feed, horses and other domesticated animals like goats.
Livestock consisted of (xls):
9.81million sheep and lambs
7.83million poultry birds (of which about 97% were chickens)
1.13million cattle
298,000 dairy cows
23,204 pigs
Welsh farmers also produced 140,000 tonnes of wheat, 26,800 tonnes of barley and 91,000 tonnes of potatoes – gradually increasing year on year. Crop production was worth £12.3million in 2016, while egg sales brought in £41.2million, lamb/sheep £267.1million, cattle/beef £358.5million and wool £5.8million; total £684.9million.
The total farming labour force in 2016 (xls) was 53,524 (74.6% of whom were farmers or directors) – a decline on a peak of 59,621 in 2014. The average farm income in 2017-18 (xls) was £31,000, with dairy farmers (£65,000) making almost three times as much as lowland cattle and sheep farmers (£24,400). These figures don't include income from non-farming sources (like holiday lets)
Fishing – According to fishing statistics for 2016 (pdf), there were 451 boats (of which only 31 were longer than 10 meters) registered at Welsh ports, supporting 753 fishers. Fishing is a devolved responsibility, but the industry and Welsh maritime waters are both tiny, with catches focused on shellfish. Total catches landed at Welsh ports were worth £16.6million in 2016 (xls) the majority of which were whelks (£7million), scallops (£2.7million), lobsters (£2million) and crabs (£676,000) – the vast majority of which, up to 90%, are exported.
Forestry – Woodland and foresty covers 306,000 hectares of Wales (about 14.7% of Wales' land) split roughly equally between broadleaf and conifer trees. The forestry industry is estimated to be worth just under £529million to the Welsh economy and supports up to 11,300 jobs. Natural Resources Wales is the agency responsible for managing Welsh forestry and offer 850,000 cubic metres of over-bark timber each year. The rate of planting of new forestry and under-development of the Welsh timber industry has been subject to criticisms from the Senedd's Environment Committee.
Mining & Minerals – The days of deep mining are long-over and coal is now far more likely to be extracted via opencast mining, alongside aggregate and other minerals mined in quarries.
According to UK Government figures (pdf -2016), in 2014, 3,273 people employed in Wales extracted:
14.8million tonnes of crushed rock
11.3million tonnes of limestone and dolomite
2.5million tonnes of sandstone
2.2million tonnes of igneous industrial stone
1.1million tonnes of sand
378,000 tonnes of gravel
In 2014 (pdf), Welsh opencast mines produced 2.49million tonnes of coal across 8 sites, with an estimated 12.9million tonnes still extractable. At 2014 prices the extracted coal would be worth around $232million (£148million) and the reserves worth just over $1billion (£657million). With the winding down of a number of opencast sites (and a presumption against licensing new ones), the phased shutdown of Aberthaw power station, cheaper and cleaner sources of energy (like gas), concerns over greenhouse gas emissions and cheaper imports it's likely coal mining in Wales will end by the mid-2020s (if not sooner).
Water – The water and sewerage industry in Wales is served by three companies – the not-for-profit Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water) which is headquartered in Nelson, Caerphilly county; Hafren Dyfrdwy/Seven Dee (a subsidiary of Severn Trent which serves Wrexham and Flintshire) and Severn Trent Water itself which provides water to some areas of northern Powys. These geographical anomalies are primarily because the water companies were established around drainage basins of major rivers, meaning an English company controls a proportion of water supplies from Wales to key English markets.
Dwr Cymru's turnover in the 2017-18 year (pdf) was £757million with an operating profit of £77.2 million – once finances and tax are included there was a loss of £39.4million. It's the fifth largest company in Wales by turnover and employs around 3,000 people.
It supplies 800million litres of water to customers daily and according to its 2014-2019 resource plan (pdf), areas under its control are expected to have water surpluses until at least 2050 – the only long-term worry being Pembrokeshire.
Gas & Electricity – Wales is a net exporter of electricity, producing 38.8TWh and using 16.1TWh in 2016; 6.9TWh (17.8%) of all the electricity generated in Wales came from renewable sources. The Welsh Government has set a target for 70% of Welsh electricity demand (~11.2TWh) to be produced from renewables by 2030.
Aside from community-scale projects, most electricity in Wales is generated by non-Welsh companies (including RWE nPower, Innogy, Falck Renewables, General Electric, Uniper, Centrica), though Newport-based Calon Energy (Turnover 2017: £471.7million) run three gas-fired power stations in Wales and England.
The only "Welsh" energy supplier, SWALEC, is a subsidiary of Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) and headquartered in Perth, Scotland. It's unclear how much SSE's Welsh operations are worth. Western Power Distribution is responsible for maintaining electricity infrastructure in south Wales (Turnover 2017: £251.1million) and Scottish Power is responsible for most of mid and north Wales.
Newport-based Wales & West Utilities (Turnover 2017: £433.9million) are responsible for the gas distribution network in Wales and south-west England, while British Gas has a major regional office in Cardiff.
All-Wales Context
As is the case in most developed countries, the primary sector is a small part of the Welsh economy.
In 2016, agriculture, forestry and fishing made up just 0.7% of the economy while mining and quarrying just 0.2% ( which is remarkable given Wales' past). Utilities, on the other hand, were more significant, with electricity generation, water service and related industries making up around 3.8% of the Welsh economy.
Compared to the rest of the UK – and in spite of popular stereotypes about Wales – agriculture, forestry and fishing made up a smaller proportion of the Welsh economy than Scotland (1.4% of GVA) and Northern Ireland (1.4%) but slightly more than England (0.5%).
It's also no surprise that rural parts of Wales are more economically reliant on agriculture and utilities than urban parts. This means that while the all-Wales figures are relatively small, in some parts of Wales – like Gwynedd, Powys, Carmarthenshire, Anglesey and Pembrokeshire – the primary sector is a major contributor to the local economy and may well act as a key foundation industry that supports everything else in some counties.
There's no better way to demonstrate that than jobs. Agriculture, forestry and fishing is a major employer in northern, central and western Wales, even if (in terms of GVA) those areas aren't particularly reliant on any of those industries economically. Flintshire, for example, has one of the highest proportions of workers in agriculture, forestry or fishing, yet as a proportion of GVA, the primary sector's contribution to the local economy is relatively low.
As demonstrated earlier, the business activity of farms is often higher than the value it adds to the economy, which suggests the primary sector's contribution to the economy in Wales may be underestimated because we're not processing enough food, timber and fish into end products within Welsh borders.
SWOT Analysis: Welsh Primary Sector
(Pic: via Mabon ap Gwynfor)
The good reputation of Welsh produce at home and abroad – Welsh meat, but particularly Welsh lamb, is regarded as a premium product. A report on the "Value of Welshness" by Food & Drink Wales (pdf) found that Welsh produce was associated more with "freshness" than British-branded produce. There's also, generally, a higher demand for Welsh produce within Wales – but shoppers in the rest of the UK also hold Welsh produce in a relatively high regard, with around a fifth willing to choose Welsh butter, cheese and water over others.
Secure water and electricity supplies; the potential for renewables – Wales is a net exporter of both water (around 1 billion litres a day) and electricity (8,419 Gwh), primarily to England. Secure water and energy supplies are essential not only for industry but for food processing and agriculture. In 2010, it was estimated Wales had the potential to generate twice our annual domestic consumption from renewables; as of 2018, Wales produces around 48% of our domestic energy from renewables.
Low food miles – If Welsh shoppers purchased Welsh produce it's likely to have travelled less and been processed much closer to home that imports, whether from the rest of the UK or abroad. The fact Welsh produce often has much shorter supply chains is good for both the environment and the local economy. Though it's worth being cautious with this, as there are suggestions that New Zealand lamb, for example, is actually more sustainable than Welsh lamb because it's produced more efficiently.
(Pic: Wales Online)
Lack of high-quality arable (crop-growing) land – As highlighted earlier, the majority of Welsh farmers are pastoral or dairy farmers mainly because of a lack of high-grade (Grades 1 & 2) agricultural land across Wales (due to topography and underlying geology). Pastoral and dairy farming is often more resource intensive than arable farming and more things can go wrong. While dairy farming often generates the highest incomes, the inability to grow large quantities of staple crops in Wales makes us more reliant on imports of feed and basic staple foods, while pastoral farming and meat consumption have a more negative effect on the environment.
Poor deals for Welsh suppliers – This is particularly evident in the dairy sector, where fluctuating milk prices and (you could certainly argue) exploitative contracts with supermarkets often mean many farmers make a loss on production and actually survive on agricultural subsidies. This was subject to a BBC Wales documentary in 2017. There have also been complaints from lamb farmers that they don't get a fair share of profits for what is, as said, a premium product.
Lack of investment in renewable energy – We have all the renewables potential in the world, but the investment isn't there; the latest example being the cancellation of the Swansea Tidal Lagoon. Scotland has hoovered up a lot of this and has been far bolder in pursuing and supporting renewables than the Welsh Government. In 2016, only 18% of all Welsh electricity was generated from renewables compared to 54% in Scotland (which has since risen to 68.1% in 2018).
(Pic: Natural Resources Wales)
Reforestation of upland areas – By this I don't mean the green-lifer "rewilding", which would pretty much end upland farming, but a carefully-managed reforestation of relatively unproductive areas with native trees. Not only would this provide a locally-sourced supply of wood, but it could also aid tourism, provide additional outdoor recreational areas for little cost, allow the reintroduction of long-absent wildlife and help prevent flooding. The most productive upland areas for sheep farming could be retained and new types of farming and land management would provide highly-skilled jobs that would secure the future of the rural economy for generations to come.
Full control over natural resources (via independence) – Based on the metered price of water from Dwr Cymru, Severn Trent and United Utilities (£1.35-£1.78 per m3), the commercial value of water "abstractions" (~366million m3 annually) from Wales could be anything between £500million and £600million a year. Dwr Cymru currently gets paid £2.5million for it and is locked into a contract until the 2070s (pdf) to continue doing so. Commercial charges for electricity exports (18.419billion Kwh at ~12.4p per kWh) would be at least £2.28billion a year. It would make practical sense for all water and electricity generated or stored in Wales to be supplied by Welsh companies (i.e. the English West Midlands served from the Severn river basin coming under Dwr Cymru).
Diversification and carving out niches in food – Diversification of farms is already supported by the Welsh Government, helping farmers to make money from something other than food production (in particular tourism). There's no reason why there couldn't be further diversification in food production too, such as wines, goat produce, increasing pig farming and making much more domestically of the shellfish caught off the Welsh coast.
How are the Swedish government building energy projects in Wales? (Pic: businessgreen.com)
The future of farming subsidies and long-term economic sustainability of farming – This is probably the biggest short-term threat to farming; what happens to agricultural policy and subsidies after Brexit. The initial signs are that the Welsh Government's future schemes will be broader and focus just as much on land management as farming, as well as a greater focus on quality. This may mean some traditional smallholders may be at risk, but it may also present more opportunities for farmers to become custodians as much as producers which might put them on a more secure long-term footing.
Negative impacts of climate change – There may well be some positive knock-on impacts from climate change, such as making more land suitable for growing crops, but there are likely to be outweighed by the negative impacts, such as longer, drier summers, more extreme winter weather and – even in Wales – the possibilities of droughts (we came close to one in 2018). The biggest barrier to reforestation (as mentioned earlier) is the increased risk of deliberately-started wildfires, as we've seen this summer and summers past.
Private foreign ownership of Welsh natural resources – Foreign ownership of Welsh energy, water and other natural resources means jobs, money and economic growth leeching out of the country for absolutely no reason. It's something of a national embarrassment that state-owned foreign companies like Vattenfall are building and maintaining wind farms in Wales, with pitiful efforts made to bring local control back to the domestic utilities market (including Welsh water and electricity "abstraction").
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The Welsh Economy (XVI)….and Independence
The Welsh Economy XV: Where's Wales Going Wrong?
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More than 2,000 internal researchers and a dozen expert collaborators across academic and industry sectors worldwide work together in workflow management, data management, data mining, decision support, visualization and cloud computing. To streamline workflows and keep pace with data-intensive discovery demands, CCS has integrated its High Performance Computing (HPC) environment with data capture and analytics capabilities so that data can move transparently between research steps.
To simplify data capture and analysis, CCS relies on DDN's powerful and versatile GS12K storage to handle bandwidth-driven workloads while serving very high IOPS demand resulting from intense user interaction. As a result, the center now captures, stores and distributes massive amounts of data generated from multiple scientific models running different simulations on 15 Illumina HiSeq sequencers simultaneously on DDN storage. Thanks to DDN, the center has reduced its number-crunching time for genome mapping and SNP calling from 72 to 17 hours.
In addition to providing significant storage processing power to meet both high I/O and interactive processing requirements, CCS needed a flexible file system that could support large parallel and short serial jobs. Additionally, the center had to address "data in flight" challenges resulting from major data surges during analysis, which often caused a 10x spike in storage. DDN's ability to adapt easily to all of CCS' requirements enabled the center to leverage one centralized storage platform for all its needs while scaling seamlessly without adding a layer of complexity.
Moreover, DDN's best-in-class performance for genomics assembly, alignment and mapping enables CCS to support all its application needs easily, including the use of BWA and Bowtie for initial mapping as well as SamTools and GATK for variant analysis and SNP calling.


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Home Privacy Kids & Family Safety Bark Review: Protect Your Children's Online Privacy
Bark Review: Protect Your Children's Online Privacy
Jose Grabowski
A new service named Bark launched recently, and it is designed for parents who are concerned about internet safety of their children. Different from conventional net nanny-variety regulatory applications or other software designed for parental control, Bark strives to maintain a balance between respect for children's rights for privacy and providing protection from cyberbullying and online predators.
The issue is that, currently, parents have to resort to installing spyware-variety applications that track everything their child does online, or they frequently have to get a hold of their children's phones and look at their texts, use their kids' passwords to sign into their accounts, and overall make an enormous physical effort to keep track of the communications and online activity of their kids.
This isn't an ideal process for kids either, but Bark makes a difference.
How does Bark work?
To enroll in the service, parents have to go online to Bark's website and sign up, add their children, then collaborate with the kids in connecting their social accounts. The accounts are accessed using OAuth, which means you give the software permission to view and read data from specific accounts. However, it doesn't mean you authorize Bark to keep the social data in its own servers forever.
At its release, Bark supports the leading social apps and networks, including Instagram, Vine, Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, GroupMe, YouTube, and Google+, along with email accounts on Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail. Additionally, in contrast to other parental control products, it also supports MMS and SMS messages on Android and iOS.
Once installed and configured, the service utilizes machine learning methods to search for cases of dangerous activity, such as sexting, cyberbullying, interaction with older strangers who may be grooming the child (like predators online will do) or even signs that there could be concerns regarding mental health like suicidal thoughts or depression.
The technology allows parents to be selective about the alerts they choose to receive and which method they'd like to receive them in, both text and email alerts are offered.
If Bark discovers something that may be questionable, an alert is sent to the parent that contains not only the pertinent conversation, but also where and when it happened as well as recommendations for dealing with the issue in an appropriate way.
Bark is created for children's safety
Included on Bark's board of advisors are child psychologists and leading researchers, along with law enforcement authorities who investigate internet cases that involve children. In combination with research conducted by the NIH as well as other sources, Bark tries to steer parents in the right direction for dealing with these concerns.
The system is intelligent also, with the ability to take the context of a conversation into consideration, not just specific keywords. For example, it can differentiate between someone teasingly saying "ugh, I hate you" (for instance, if a child just got a cool new game) and when someone genuinely means it.
What's also great is Bark is reasonably priced at $9 per month, or $99 yearly, no matter how many children you have.
Would you use Bark? Tell us in the comments and check out how children can compromise computer safety and 5 tips to help you keep your kids safe online.
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Q: Adding Sub Title to AppBar in Scaffold In my flutter app I have page with search functionality. It brings me some data from API server with bloc pattern implementation.
Now I need to add sub title with text "Recent Searches". While trying to add it overlays my "Enter text to search" text. I can't add it below appbar on top and left side of my screen
This is my current stage:

That what I want to add:

AppBar _appBar() {
  return AppBar(
   iconTheme: IconThemeData(
    color: Colors.white.withOpacity(0.8),
  ),
  title: TextField(
    onChanged: _textInputListener.add,
    autofocus: true,
    controller: _textInputController,
    key: Key('searchscreen_input_tf_id'),
    keyboardType: TextInputType.text,
    decoration: InputDecoration(
      hintText: AppTranslations.of(context).text("enter_text_to_search"),
      border: InputBorder.none,
    ),
  ),
  actions: <Widget>[
    IconButton(
      key: Key('searchscreen_clear_ib_id'),
      icon: const Icon(
        Icons.clear,
      ),
      onPressed: () {
        if (_textInputController.text.isNotEmpty) {
          _textInputController.clear();
          _textInputListener.add("");
        }
      },
    )
  ],
);
}

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
 return Container(
  color: Color(0xFF131E42),
  child: SafeArea(
    child: Scaffold(
      resizeToAvoidBottomPadding: false,
      appBar: _appBar(),
      body: BlocBuilder(
        bloc: _searchScreenBloc,
        builder: (_, SearchScreenState state) {
          if (state is InitialSearchScreenState) {
            _searchScreenBloc.add(LoadRecent());
            return _containerWithPaddings(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
          }
          if (state is SearchScreenRecentState) {
            return _recentList(state.securities);
          }
          if (state is SearchScreenLoadingDataState) {
            return _containerWithPaddings(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
          }
          if (state is SearchScreenLoadedDataState) {
            return _loadedList(state.securities);
          }
          if (state is SearchScreenErrorState) {
            _searchScreenBloc.add(LoadSearchResult(securityName: _textInputController.text));
            return _containerWithPaddings(child: CircularProgressIndicator());
          }
          if (state is SearchScreenNoResultsState) {
            return _containerWithPaddings(
                child: Text(
              AppTranslations.of(context).text("no_results"),
              style: TextStyle(
                fontSize: 18.0,
                color: Colors.white,
              ),
            ));
          }

          throw ArgumentError('$state not in cases');
        },
      ),
    ),
  ),
);
}

A: You could use the bottom property of AppBar.
Code Sample
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Title'),
          bottom: PreferredSize(
              child: Align(
                alignment: Alignment.centerLeft,
                child: Text('Bottom text'),
              ),
              preferredSize: Size.fromHeight(12.0)),
        ),
        body: Center(
          child: MyWidget(),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Try it on DartPad
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Q: Is it possible to add performance monitor metrics to AppInsights with an ASP .NET Core app? We are running an ASP .NET core app and have it configured to send telemetry to AppInsights. I'd also like to collect perf mon counters on the servers supporting the app in AppInsights, like memory and CPU usage. Is this possible? I have perf mon counters configured with our standard .NET apps in AppInsights, but can't see how to configure it with .NET Core.

A: If you ASP.NET Core app is compiled under full framework NET 4.5.1 (and above) then it should be possible by adding counters in the code like:
Type perfModuleType = typeof(PerformanceCollectorModule);

PerformanceCollectorModule perfModule = (PerformanceCollectorModule)server.ApplicationServices.GetServices<ITelemetryModule>()
.FirstOrDefault(m => m.GetType() == perfModuleType);

perfModule.Counters.Add(
      new PerformanceCounterCollectionRequest(
          @"\.NET CLR Memory(??APP_CLR_PROC??)\# GC Handles", "GC Handles"));

If it's compiled as a pure netcoreapp then currently it's not supported.